Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's what's great about Boorman's stunningly realized black-and-white film and about Gleeson's performance, which, like Irish weather, goes from sunny to stormy without warning. Neither film nor actor tries to resolve Cahill's contradictions or anyone's feelings for him. He just-- monstrously--is, a force of nature, beyond our rational reckoning, but not, perhaps, our irrational fascination...
...playing Yasha the footman in The Cherry Orchard in Sacramento and hired as an intern at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. Soon he was making $50 a week and, best of all, "Boom, I had a card in my wallet that said I am a professional actor." He and his first wife Samantha went to New York City for the requisite starving-actor years; they had a baby and some thin patches. "It was a year and a half of horrible scary days," he recalls...
...MARRIED A COMMUNIST Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, is a prominent radio actor during the late '40s and early '50s whose career collapses when his estranged wife writes a book titled, quite accurately, I Married a Communist. Philip Roth filters the story of Rinn's downfall through the memories of two men who loved and admired him. The mania of the Red-baiting days is recorded with perfect pitch. Roth's look at the past is harrowing and mesmerizing...
JOHN WATERS, actor, director, writer: "Unlike other urban centers where everybody is too cool to have sex, Baltimore is a more erotically spontaneous city, and that can lead to, well, annoying and nationally embarrassing consequences...
DIED. MICHAEL ZASLOW, 54, Emmy award-winning actor; of a heart attack; in New York City. CBS had dismissed Zaslow from Guiding Light when his speech became slurred from the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease. Undeterred, he reprised a former character on ABC's One Life to Live, successfully incorporating the disorder into the role and raising awareness...