Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will history ever run out of real-life weirdos for JOHNNY DEPP to play? He has already taken on angoraphile filmmaker Ed Wood and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Now it seems he may consider portraying the original cape man himself, Liberace. Depp's agent confirms only that the actor has read a script based on the flamboyant pianist's life, but a revised version is currently being overseen by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, with whom Depp worked on Ed Wood. The screenwriters, no strangers to eccentricity, have also penned biopics on Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and oddball comic...
...totally stoked!"), Donahue, 24, tried out for Blair Witch after answering an ad in the trade paper Backstage. She filmed the mock-documentary with her male co-stars while the real movie's directors stayed out of camera range and passed along notes to the cast. "It was an actor's dream," sighs Donahue...
...source maintains the loss in M*A*S*H money is "tens of millions of dollars," part of it owed to the duo. Gelbart resolved the matter (translation: financial settlement) last month, but Alda is scheduled to go to trial in August. According to his lawyer, the actor has finally declared, "Enough is enough...
...board tends to attract some of Harvard's more famous graduates. The board's membership over the last three years has included actor John A. Lithgow '67, author Michael Crichton '64, possible Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth H. Dole and Vice President Al Gore...
DIED. DEFOREST KELLEY, 79, actor best known for his role as the humane Dr. Leonard ("Bones") McCoy on Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Woodland Hills, Calif. On the cult hit TV series and in six film versions, Dr. McCoy battled Leonard Nimoy's hyperlogical Mr. Spock, whose emotional pulselessness McCoy disdained. Though he could be melodramatic at the prospect of treating aliens--"I'm just a country doctor!"--he never let Captain Kirk down...