Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting ringside at the Tyson-Holyfield bout in June apparently gave Christian Slater all the wrong ideas. The toothsome actor turned downright mean at an L.A. party, allegedly punching his girlfriend and biting a man who tried to come to her aid. Facing possible charges of assault, Slater later issued a statement expressing regret about the incident...
...Guard. But from friendship, and to help bankroll his directorial dreams, Penn has made half a dozen films in the past year or so. Friendship with the late writer-director John Cassavetes led to She's So Lovely, directed by Cassavetes' son Nick, for which Penn won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. And because Penn once met Terrence Malick in a bar and told him, "Give me a dollar and point the way," he is now acting in The Thin Red Line, Malick's first film since the 1978 Days of Heaven. This fall Penn will...
...turned to a curious spokesman in its attempt to stop worldwide terrorism. Besides placing macabre, slasher-movie-style newspaper ads in the International Herald Tribune offering up to $2 million for information about assaults on American citizens abroad, the State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case (Sheen admitted spending more than...
EDGARTOWN, Mass: Rumor has it President Clinton will get 51st birthday cheers tonight from actor Ted Danson and his actress wife Mary Steenburgen (like Clinton, an Arkansas native) at their 19th century farmhouse on Martha's Vineyard. The White House is neither confirming nor denying that singer James Taylor, also a Vineyard local, will attend. Best presidential present: The settlement of the UPS strike...
...restrictions. They'd have characters flash back from old age to youth and back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...