Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RICK SCHRODER Former kid actor, now rookie on NYPD Blue, steps into big shoes and kicks butt...
...control--in a world with no use for his strengths. No surprise, then, that Affliction, Paul Schrader's film from a Russell Banks novel about family violence in New Hampshire, has placed strongly in the year-end critics' polls, and that Nolte won some Christmas laurels as best actor...
...people spiraling into madness; for him it is their purest, most photogenic state. Affliction dawdles over small-town life: lots of boozy bonhomie and dazed snarling. The raging losers here often seem like sullen stereotypes. We could also have done without Nolte's self-crucifixion scene. But the actor finds truth in Wade's emotional clumsiness, in the despair of a man who hasn't the tools or the cool to survive. There are too many of these men in life, and not enough films that tell their sad tales. That gives Affliction a therapeutic worth...
...point," he confides, "we're going to open with a Don Giovanni starring Bryn." No, Terfel can't sing a high C, but Volpe is betting that won't matter. "Bryn's the one who has all of the goods," he says. "He's the natural successor." A charismatic actor with a voice of bronze, Terfel, 33, also has the popular touch without which no classical singer can become a full-fledged superstar; at his 1996 Carnegie Hall recital debut, he actually led the delighted audience in a sing-along version of Flanders and Swann's Hippopotamus Song...
DIED. NORMAN FELL, 74, character actor; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Fell, who made 35 films, was best known for his role as the interminably cranky landlord, Mr. Roper, on the 1970s TV series Three's Company...