Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That hit comedy--which won Murphy the year's Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics and, in a just world, would snag him an Oscar nomination--was like a great date with an old lover fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime to please. Relocating his strength as a mimic, he played seven characters, all brilliantly. The one unattractive figure, Buddy Love, was a wicked stretch of the Eddie Murphy personality that moviegoers had tired of: sleek, preening, abrasive, an overdog in love with itself. The other characters were marvels not just...
DIED. SHELDON LEONARD, 89, versatile entertainer who moved effortlessly from playing lovable rogues, like Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls, to producing popular TV fare, including the groundbreaking series I Spy, the first regular dramatic series to star a black actor, Bill Cosby; in Beverly Hills...
...Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens, New York. Told about the reports in his dressing room, the actor picked up the phone and, through his publicist, David Brokaw, got in touch with the l.a.p.d. On the line was police commander Tim McBride: "I have the worst news to tell you, and I'm very sorry...
With the news and mystery of his son's death, Cosby left the studio, climbed into his Range Rover and headed back to his town house in Manhattan. Mobbed by reporters camped outside his home, the actor refused all comment save one. He turned toward the cameras and microphones and said, "He was my hero...
Ennis William Cosby was born April 15, 1969, the middle child of five and Bill and Camille Cosby's only son. As such, he held a special place in the eyes of his parents--particularly his father. Attorney Johnnie Cochran, a friend of Bill Cosby's, says the actor's face lit up every time Ennis entered the room. Though he kept his family out of the public eye, Cosby would let the subject of Ennis drag out a conversation--with his son becoming a loving punch line to jokes. He was always keen to remind people that Ennis...