Word: actorly
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...child stars, not child actors. To oversimplify wildly, a star is someone whose personality monopolizes the screen; an actor is someone who slips into another personality. The star says, "Look at me." The actor says, "Look at the me I'm playing." Of course, nobody in movies is all star or all actor. Every star is playing a role, and every actor reveals bits of himself or herself. But so many child stars, including some of the brilliant ones - Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Billy Gray, Patty Duke, Tatum O'Neal - either found it difficult to sustain their appeal...
...Rockit,” won a Grammy for best R&B instrumental and several MTV Awards for its robotics-centered video. Most recently, Hancock was featured in another music video, organized by Black Eyed Peas member Will.I.Am and supporting Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Last year, actor Laurence Fishburne received the Cultural Rhythms Artist of the Year award. The money raised from this year’s annual day-long celebration will benefit the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, according to publicity from the Harvard Foundation. —Staff writer Brittany M. Llewellyn...
...stage. Day-Lewis, upon ascending the stage, knelt before his presenter, Helen Mirren, who'd won last year for playing Elizabeth II in The Queen. "That?s the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood," he said, flashing something we never thought this magnificently intense actor was capable of: a broad, blinding smile...
...Apparently, Hollywood has a big man-crush on the night's honorary chair, Javier Bardem. Wilson, Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel and Dustin Hoffman all copped to it. Hoffman even claimed to have created a love child with Bardem - Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sharing a bed, the good-natured Spanish actor from No Country For Old Men remarked, would be a good way to work on his English...
...Other winners included The Savages, Tamara Jenkins' sibling drama, with Philip Seymour Hoffman taking best actor and Jenkins best screenplay. "A lot of people in this room didn't want to finance this movie," Jenkins noted, enjoying a bit of schadenfreude. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly also got kudos, with Schnabel taking the director award and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, also winning. Kaminski, accustomed to tonier parties as Steven Spielberg's cinematographer, sought to wave off the low-budget crowd. "All of the offers I'm getting to work for $3,000 a week," Kaminski said...