Word: actorly
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From the untidy, artist-infested neighborhood of Montparnasse stepped an unlikely savior: Eugène Atget. A failed actor and painter then pushing 40, he had picked up a camera a few years earlier and started a meager trade providing stock photographs to artists. Over the next 30 years, Atget systematically captured what he called "the old Paris" in some 10,000 photos of remarkable intelligence and poignancy. In the process, he helped transform photography into a serious art form, becoming one of its founding giants...
...Olivier, but in the 1950s Gordon Scott, a Las Vegas lifeguard turned actor, re-created a literate Tarzan and won acclaim for sporting the loincloth in one of the series' best films, 1959's sweeping and suspenseful Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Scott, who faded into obscurity in the '60s, was aware that his appeal lay in his beefy pecs. "Tarzan was ideal for me," he said, "because I didn't have too much dialogue...
...unofficial rule of stage and screen: If you need an actor to tap-dance, hire Henry LeTang, fast. Over six decades, the soft-spoken gentle giant of tap ran a world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...Delta Farce, Whitney is taking on the war on terror in a trenchant political drama... Oh, who are we kidding? The fart jokes are back, people. This time Larry and his buds, played by fellow Blue Collar alum Bill Engvall and gangly character actor DJ Qualls, are bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq. "I love what I do and I don't take myself too seriously," says Whitney, 44. "This character is fun. It gives me a chance to take that little bit of me - how I grew up - and magnify it. I could care less about doing a huge...
Just ask comic actor Liam Sullivan. He’s the creator of the aptly-titled “txt msg brkup,” a six and-a-half minute YouTube sensation that provides some much-needed social commentary on the perils of the text message in regards to romance...