Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...striking change of mood, actor Tom Key presented selections from C.S. Lewis and the Revelation of John in a moving performance...
...done it and the curse of having to compare everything I see to that standard of writing." Indeed, it seems that Neeson hasn't quite let go of Schindler's List, the making of which must have been a deeply emotional experience. Ever since the film's release, the actor has immersed himself almost obsessively in the history of the Holocaust. He keeps a hoard of related memoirs by his bedside but continues to comb bookshops for that "survivor's story I may have not read." He claims he needed to make Nell, the 1994 film in which...
...major films of his career seem to herald happily dramatic life changes for him. Following Schindler's List, Neeson, a fabled ladies' man, married actress Natasha Richardson. They have since had two children: Michael, 2, and Daniel, born last August, only a week before Neeson won the Best Actor award for Michael Collins at the Venice Film Festival...
...Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Hollywood has been in love with the image of imperiled Good staring down incarcerated Evil. Just Cause, Copycat and Dead Man Walking all exploit a dramatic tension that is both elemental and cost-efficient; it requires only a bare room and an actor able to summon some malefic grandeur...
...rough humor, mostly inarticulate idealism and, perhaps, a certain unspoken regret about that "talent for mayhem" (as he puts it), which is as much burden as gift. And he is embodied by Liam Neeson, who is near perfect in the role. There is an old-fashioned romanticism to the actor, a mysterious darkness beneath the dashing surface of this performance. Something behind Neeson's eyes hints at an authentic sadness about the center's failure to hold, real rue about the violence with which things are falling apart--and about Collins' complicity in loosing "mere anarchy" upon the world...