Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazines, and having been interviewed almost as much himself since his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was published in 1984, McInerney knows how generic the whole experience is. The main character in Model Behavior just hits a button on his keypad to produce a paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What, me sexy?) for the magazine profiles he writes. But McInerney's characters haven't grown up since Bright Lights: instead of going dancing at the Studio 54 successor Limelight, they...
...even someone who resists Frasier's charm can find attributes that make it distinct and admirable. First of all, unlike Roseanne or Seinfeld or Home Improvement or Mad About You or so many other sitcoms of recent years, it does not star a stand-up comedian. Grammer is an actor playing a part, not a comic who has had a show built around him. As a result, Frasier has a presence as a character that is rare on TV today. He is not just a comic's alter ego, but a creation who seems to have a life...
...producers of Waking Ned Devine are hoping so. The movie is the story of what happens when someone in a tiny town in Ireland wins a big lottery. It doesn't sound too racy a plot line, but it's the most dangerous one that Irish actor DAVID KELLY, 69, has taken on. "Right up to the second we shot the scene, I had never, ever sat on a motorbike, and I didn't realize one has to balance," says the 112-lb. or so Kelly. "All worry about the nudity went out the window as the fear, terror...
DIED. LEO PENN, 77, actor who survived a decade on the Hollywood blacklist to become an award-winning television director and raise show-biz progeny Sean, Chris and Michael; in Los Angeles. After appearances on Broadway and a studio contract in the 1940s, Penn was blacklisted for supporting the Hollywood 10. He found work behind the camera, directing more than 400 hours of prime-time programming, including episodes of Kojak, St. Elsewhere and Columbo, for which he won a 1973 Emmy...
...Warner Brothers movie Contact, actor Jodie Foster plays an astronomer who searches for extraterrestrial life on a thousand nearby, sun-like stars...