Word: actorly
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Other winners in the poll included Helen Hunt as best lead female actor and Jack Nicholson as best lead male actor in As Good As It Gets; James Cameron as best actor for Titanic, and Matt Damon as most promising performer...
...wonderful actor...
Travolta and Bill Clinton both know about perseverance and the uses of charisma. As the actor spreads his seductiveness on a movie screen like jelly on toast, so does Clinton work a room or a country, avidly selling his policies and himself, in love with being loved--and with his need to be loved. No wonder that when Travolta met Klein, he said, "I've been waiting my whole life to play this role...
...British stars, innocent of the intricacies of U.S. politics (imagine an American actor cast as Prime Minister Tony Blair or Northern Ireland firebrand Ian Paisley), had a few all-night cram sessions. Lester studied the career of the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, an early black supporter of Clinton's, and read The Power Game: How Washington Works by Hedrick Smith. Says Thompson: "The areas of my ignorance are vast and arid. I read Politics for Dummies; I saw the documentary The War Room; and I learned a wee bit about women in American politics. It's impressive what women...
Unfortunately, the role of Harry Roat calls for an actor (I could stop the sentence right there) who can combine the unflappablecool of John Travolta with the chilly, proteanmalevolence of Richard III. Tarantino's Roatis...well, rote. He smirks. He grimaces as ifsomeone left a Royale With Cheese rottingbackstage. He "disguises" his voice using accentsso inauthentic, they make your high school dramaclub look like the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hegleefully brandishes a long, serrated knife withall the panache of a gawky video store clerk. Ifnothing else, you can tell he's having a goodtime...