Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor Mike Flaherty, burst out of a telephone booth in a Superman suit and cape. The symbolism might have been unintentional, but it was certainly striking: after announcing two weeks ago that he has been afflicted with Parkinson's Disease for the past seven years, the 37-year-old actor seemed as healthy and funny as ever--and like the real Superman, Christopher Reeve, who has been a vocal activist for the rights of the paralyzed, he was joining a public fight against a disease which has struck him so personally...
...result of the operation and the daily medication he takes, the actor hopes to continue working on his hit show for years to come. Ultimately though, Fox told Walters that he believes that "within the next 10 years, they're going to find a way to flick a switch and this is gone. Maybe one of the reasons I'm more optimistic and happier and more relaxed than people would expect me to be is I won't see 50 with this. I will see 50, but I will not have this...
Most shows at Harvard are student-directed, and so the only opportunities to act in a professionally-directed show are through the Visiting Director's Project (once every four semesters) and the HPT. Actors in Pudding shows interact with professional directors, choreographers, costume designers, music directors, vocal trainers, etc. The Pudding show is also the only long-run production during the year, as well as the only company to gain national attention (for its Actress and Actor-of-the-Year Awards). Actors gain experience, exposure and prestige from being in the show...
Backstage at "Guys and Dolls," I overheard an actress ask, in a clever double-entendre, a current Pudding actor, "Do you like doing it better with men or women?" He answered, offhandedly, "I don't know. Let's give you a professional director and voice coach...
What should the Class of 1999 be looking for? The best advice comes from an unlikely source. Speaking at a commencement ceremony four years ago at Boston University's School of the Arts, Jason Alexander, the actor who played the character George on Seinfeld, told the graduates: "Look beyond the veneer of what you consider success. I would like you to try to focus, now and for the rest of your lives, not on glory but greatness...