Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, as philanthropy becomes more strategic, the old human-services standbys--like hospitals, homeless shelters and soup kitchens--have had to scramble for support. The Jenjo Foundation, created and run by actor Alan Alda's family, focuses specifically on nonprofits that work with poor women and children. "We tend to fund organizations that will help people get on their feet," says Elizabeth Alda O'Heaney, 38, the family's second daughter, "rather than just give someone a handout for a meal." The family visits prospective grantee's sites, closely vets budgets and interviews local community members. Says O'Heaney: "Whether...
Other luminaries who have spoken out against impeachment at campus rallies include feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Alec Baldwin, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...
...Katzenberg repeats. "I'm trying to enjoy myself," Kilmer answers moodily. The toys that Katzenberg brought to amuse the actor are not working. "You may want to stand up and get in the physical thing of it," Katzenberg says to Kilmer. "He ain't going to stand up," someone in the booth observes. Things go downhill from there, in a session that is something of a metaphor for the gargantuan struggle to make The Prince of Egypt...
These, like the doings of sumo wrestlers and high-class prostitutes, gave a rich subject matter to 18th century graphic artists like Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and the theater caricaturist Toshusai Sharaku, whose image of the actor Otani Oniji III playing a samurai's manservant, all red-rimmed eyes and stylish snarl, is a deliciously succinct expression of fictive bloody-mindedness. Through the medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido...
...gang--to the center of the action. You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance. We can see that it covers loneliness, social ineptitude, even a certain amount of duplicity. His father is not the neurosurgeon he claims he is, but a barber. Yet the actor never once sues us for sympathy, and it comes as a nice surprise when we find it flowing toward him anyway...