Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Picture Perfect," unlike "My Best Friend's Wedding," plays by the rules of conventional romantic comedy--giving it a generic, by-the-numbers feel. Kate's soul-searching and self-discovery are formulaic, and Aniston's too lightweight an actor for anything more. Kate superficially faces the same sort of work vs. love conflict as Michelle Pfeiffer's character in "One Fine Day." But here the conflict just doesn't seem particularly important or convincing; and her parallel moment of epiphany and instant morality again feels scripted. (Pfeiffer, of course, had the enormous help of an especially cute kid peering...
...pitchees had taken the suicide reports quite seriously and were not amused to learn that someone had been playing with their head. "You should be ashamed of yourself," wrote New York Times technology columnist Denise Caruso. "This is the most unbelievably crass thing I've ever seen." Former Python actor Eric Idle posted a lengthy anti-Dysson manifesto on the Website PythOnline. "This was simply exploitation," he told TIME. "If I came barging in your door threatening you and then told you it was just entertainment, how would you feel...
Usually, celebrities go to court to defend their name. But CARROLL O'CONNOR went because songwriter Harry Perzigian claimed the actor was doing some slandering of his own. After his cocaine-addicted son Hugh shot himself, O'Connor went on a campaign against drug dealers. Perzigian, who spent a year in jail for supplying cocaine to his friend Hugh, sued O'Connor for saying such things about him on TV as "He's a partner in murder, not an accessory." But the jury sided with O'Connor. "It shows L.A. loves celebrities," said Perzigian. Or maybe the city just doesn...
...contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young actor, Ruaidhri Conroy, plays with a convulsive total body limp of hideous and breathtaking precipitousness...
...Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart [APPRECIATION, July 14]. And no imaginary friend seems so real as the invisible rabbit Harvey. Stewart has been my favorite for years, and as you pointed out, his life both on and off the screen has been a reason for high admiration for this actor. I will miss him. MAVIS MOON San Jose, Calif...