Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your "Feud Of The Week" item, you described Sylvester Stallone as a "monosyllabic actor" [PEOPLE, Oct. 19]. Look, I'm no defender nor an especially big fan of Stallone's, but you said he was considering an offer to turn his $25 (three syllables) million (two syllables) Miami (three syllables) home into a luxurious 200-room (four syllables) hotel...
...THAT'S ME! Last week, Mike Costanza, a Long Island real estate agent and distant acquaintance of Jerry Seinfeld's, sued the actor and others for $100 million, saying Seinfeld used his name and portrayed him "in a negative light." This isn't the first time someone has seen himself in a character...
Life is Beautiful is a truly rare and unexpected creation: a comedy about the Holocaust. One of several miracles that writer, director and actor Roberto Benigni performs in this film is to convince the audience that this is not a contradiction in terms. And though the humor has some dark undertones, it's as far as can be from a black comedy. Life is Beautiful is a species of film that hasn't quite been categorized yet and that might be difficult for fans of Benigni's extraordinary work to reproduce...
Marital bliss is interrupted a few years later when Guido, Dora and their son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini, a wonderfully precocious little actor) are taken to a Nazi concentration camp three months before the end of the war. One would expect the film to sober up at this point, and it does, but it never sacrifices the lyricism and humor which are integral to both the story and to Guido's personality. There are a few truly harrowing scenes, but the violence and politics are largely external to the story--Benigni assumes that we know all that already, and the film...
...root against the new military (commanded, ironically, by a handful of ridiculously-foppish officers) and cheer when Todd lands a punch. Despite the gory violence, the predictable plot and obvious themes in the film are, in some ways, more painful experiences for the audience. A respectable performance by one actor and the creation of a stunningly vast garbage heap constitute the highlights in a film that cannot last very long in theaters where only the best films survive...