Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days BRAD PITT may feel like spending seven years in Tibet, or at least somewhere a little less media-saturated than the U.S. The actor won a court order to prevent Playgirl from distributing any more copies of its August issue, which features two-year-old snapshots of him sunbathing in the nude with then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately the judge did not order Playgirl to collect the 300,000 or so copies that were already in subscribers' mailboxes and on newsstands, thus creating a publicity bonanza for the flesh mag. Pitt is pursuing a lawsuit, despite the fact...
...abandoned child who merely wanted her rightful portion of Cosby's massive fortune. But that defense was dealt a blow when Judge Barbara Jones ruled the issue of paternity was irrelevant to the extortion charge, though the judge allowed the defense to argue that the defendant believed the actor was her father and that she had a legal right to his money. However, the $40 million that Jackson had demanded evidently struck jurors as patently avaricious. Jurors also listened to a tape of a phone conversation recorded by Ms. Jackson in January in which she haggled with Cosby's lawyer...
...space on a federal-court docket crowded with far more serious cases. As Jackson's indictment makes clear, no violence was threatened, no extorted money changed hands. As for any injury Cosby's reputation may have suffered from the press attention that attended Jackson's arrest last January, the actor inflicted far more damage on himself when he subsequently admitted in an interview with Dan Rather not only that he had a "rendezvous" with Jackson's mother more than 20 years ago but also that paternity of Jackson was "a possibility." His lawyer confirms he helped support her while...
...Shakur even recorded a tribute to his mom--but their vulnerability was often drowned in guitar feedback or thumping beats. Many of today's top male performers, like neo-soul crooner Maxwell, Christian-pop singer Bob Carlisle, soft-focus R.-and-B. singer Babyface and PG-13 rated rapper-actor Will Smith, go further; the aggression, the sharp edges, the dangerous sexuality are all gone, leaving almost pure...
...star Tim Robbins when he jumps into Robbins' car, brandishes a pistol and demands money. But, he later explains in a tone of aggrieved dignity, "I don't steal. I just dabble in future used goods." It is the art of the con man--and of the movie actor--to fool others so exquisitely that he may be fooling himself. So admirers of the popular actor-comedian must hope, and detractors will wonder, when Lawrence defends himself against a flurry of criminal and domestic accusations by saying, "I've grown." "I'm cool." "I'm a kind, gentle person...