Word: actorly
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...ease, and Will was such a fan of him - they were both really looking forward to working together. And I think you can sense the chemistry in the footage. Danny feels so regional and specific. He never feels pushed into a scene as if he's a Hollywood actor; most of the time he actually seems like a guy who somehow just wandered into the frame. But he's so confident that I think it actually put Will in this great position of being the straight man and setting Danny up. Will didn't have to score every time...
...entire weekends—Friday after dinner until early Monday morning—to problem sets for a particularly difficult course in their junior year. He adds that though the two were very studious, they had interests outside of physics.Greene was active in the Harvard theater scene as an actor. According to Simoncelli, Greene’s interest in the arts may have been inspired by his father—a bass player and vocal coach who had taught Harry Belafonte.Though it always was clear that Greene would be an important physicist, it was this interest in theater, Simoncelli suggested...
...meaningful” life, in Faust’s context, naturally is used in a relatively restricted sense. Tellingly, she contrasted the toilsome life of the financier with the apparently richer and more rewarding lives of the actor, artist, public servant, and journalist. Harvard’s abundant extracurricular interest in those putatively more meaningful pursuits may justify Faust’s presumption that, were money not an obstacle, students would prefer them to the arduous, although handsomely remunerated, tasks of Wall Street...
...fall asleep is lie there and dwell on the consequences of not getting enough sleep.) Participants in her study were asked to keep digital sleep diaries and practice the techniques that were demonstrated onscreen. They were also allowed to download audio clips of a sleep therapist and an actor in a staged one-on-one session and listen to them on their iPods. (See pictures of the iPhone...
...many people know that Charles Dickens was an actor as well as a writer. A workaholic who was haunted by memories of his impoverished childhood, when he worked in a blacking factory, Dickens was never the most emotionally stable of men at the best of times, never mind at the worst. In 1857 his friend Wilkie Collins wrote a play about a failed Arctic expedition. Dickens became obsessed with it and, like a rapper who's tired of the recording studio, volunteered to play the role of the villain. Then he fell in love with his 18-year...