Word: actorly
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...BANDERAS this time. The Mask of Zorro star, apparently responding to pressure from Greek Americans, has pulled out of a movie about the life of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK, founder of modern Turkey. At least that's the story being told by Tarquin Olivier, a financier and the son of actor Laurence Olivier. Though this is his initial venture in film production, he'd enlisted Bruce Beresford as director and, according to the New York Times, had managed to get a lot of the financing on the strength of Banderas' participation. The star's press rep says he's committed...
With Charlton Heston as its newly elected president [SPECIAL REPORT, July 6], the National Rifle Association hopes to appeal to mainstream America. The plan may backfire. Even an actor who has portrayed Moses can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And though Heston's celebrity attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl...
...Emmy sidelights: Phil Hartman, shot to death by his wife May 28 in a murder-suicide, was nominated as best supporting actor for his work in "NewsRadio." Jerry Seinfeld, however was snubbed (though his show wasn't; it's in the running for best comedy series). Emmy also turned her back on "Friends," though Lisa Kudrow received a supporting actress bid. "Homicide: Life on the Street" again was bypassed for a drama nomination. As for "Ellen," the show may have been canceled, but its star Ellen DeGeneres was nominated...
...Actor Robert Young, a onetime MGM leading man who then starred in his own long-running TV shows, "Father Knows Best" (which he also produced) and "Marcus Welby, M.D.," died of respiratory failure Tuesday night in his Westlake, Calif., home, according to his publicist...
...year-old comic-actor is currently co-starring in Lethal Weapon 4, the latest installment of the cop-action franchise. He nearly steals the show as the voice of a guinea pig in Eddie Murphy's hit comedy Dr. Dolittle. Rock is co-starring in a comedy-fantasy due out early next year called Dogma, which also stars buzzed-about actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and is directed by hot indie filmmaker Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy). On Aug. 21, Rock begins a new season of his critically lauded, superhip HBO talk show, The Chris Rock Show. And Rock recently...