Word: actorly
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After doing a few Web searches and trolling men's health chat rooms, Prince, an actor in Los Angeles, decided that his problem had less to do with a mental trap he was in than a physical flap he was missing: his foreskin. That is, he felt that the routine circumcision he had undergone as a baby had left him, now at age 47, desensitized from the years of exposure. The solution: for the past five months, he's been growing his foreskin back using a device he bought online called the TLC Tugger. "The changes!" he says, going...
Director. Actor. Key Grip. Foley Mixer. Driver for Mr. Damon. Special-effects supervisor ... Can't stay in your seat till the end of the credits? That's because moviemaking is an extreme team art form, requiring a throng of people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
...obstacle Teatro faced was casting. “Automatically, you limit your talent pool,” said Hanley. “There is a good third of the cast for whom Spanish is an absolute second language. Their progress and talent have been amazing.” The actors said that it is challenging to play a role in a foreign language. “The process of how you think about forming a character is totally different because you’re doing it through a completely different artistic lens,” said actor Matt S. Blumenthal...
...Arroyo was supposed to be a refreshing change from Estrada, a former movie actor. A U.S.-educated economist, and the daughter of a former Philippine President, Arroyo presented the image of a competent, if comparatively uncharismatic, technocrat. Indeed, the Philippines has made considerable economic strides under her stewardship, posting 7.5% GDP growth last quarter - the highest in 20 years - and paying down a massive government deficit. Arroyo's government has attracted millions of dollars in foreign investment - no small beer for a country where political instability and a crushing debt load have often made investors wary. Arroyo has also made...
...songs by at least 14 bands. "The last thing I would listen to is rap," Paul says. "But there's something going on when there's a rap song about the Fed." On Tuesday, both Paul and Tom Cruise were guests on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The actor went to Paul's dressing room to thank him for his work on a bill fighting the forced mental screening of grade-school kids. "Go. Go. Go. Go hard," Cruise said. Paul turned to an aide and asked, "What movies has he been...