Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years ago, Robert Downey Jr. enjoyed the Academy Awards from a choice orchestra seat in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, honored as a Best Actor nominee for his acclaimed performance in the biopic Chaplin. During last month's ceremony his vantage point wasn't quite so glamorous: he watched the show on television through steel bars at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail, where he was serving time for violating probation after testing positive for drugs...
...Watching the Oscars from jail was a trip, a real trip," the 33-year-old actor recalled last week in his first face-to-face interview since being released on April 1. "But you know, people are people. I wasn't thinking about my own tragic situation. I was going, 'I didn't expect her to win. Isn't that nice?' I was just another shmuck watching it, you know?" Because of the jail's curfew, TV was shut off before the show ended; he didn't get to see Titanic win the Best Picture award. For a star like...
...contributions to the University, Raines served as the architect of this summer's historic budget bill. In comparison with many of his Washington contemporaries, Raines' efforts have met with relatively little media attention. Yet his quiet toil has produced huge benefits to the nation. As the chief actor in the budget negotiations, he has been pivotal in determining the outcome of the most important of the Federal Government's undertakings...
Even if the posters were created lightheartedly or in jest, these slogans are so obviously contrary to the idea of women's liberation and female empowerment that I am embarrassed as an actor and a woman. I strongly object to being referred to as "Adam's rib," and the idea that women's theater is performed so that guys can drool over us is obscene...
QUENTIN TARANTINO Bad boy actor-director is shish kebabbed by Broadway critics for his thug role in Wait Until Dark...