Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OCCUPATION:] Actor [MARRIAGES:] 8 [SHORTEST:] 100 days [LONGEST:] 22 years and counting [ODDEST MATE:] AVA GARDNER, the renowned, and tall, beauty...
DIED. DESMOND LLEWELYN, 85, British actor who played the beleaguered gadget inventor Q in 17 James Bond films; in a car accident; in Firle, England. "In real life I'm allergic to gadgets," Llewelyn said. "They just don't work for me, not even those plastic cards for hotel-room doors...
...Austin Powers movie makes a star of Mini-Me actor Verne Toyer...
...crime writers are killers, all actors are liars--Ripleys for their art and glory. Highsmith's Tom thinks of himself in moments of stress as a consummate actor thrilled by the conviction of his deceit. "If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous," he observes, "you simply had to act those things with every gesture." What is acting if not the forgery of someone else's personality in order to possess and consume...
...look at Alain Delon (the delicate stud of Purple Noon) or Dennis Hopper (who gave Ripley a cowboy swagger in the 1977 The American Friend, Wim Wenders' adaptation of Ripley's Game) and see an actor sharpening his tools: the attentiveness, the useful smile, the waiting for a cue to make his move. Ripley watches Dickie, and an actor prepares. We watch the actor playing Ripley and learn the secrets of his duplicitous craft. It's as if a famous seducer had made a how-to video...