Word: actorly
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...them decided to truly slum it like a college kid by ditching the usual four-star accommodations for a walk-through in Winthrop. Best known for his roles on “L.A. Law” and “Sex and the City,” award-winning actor, producer, director, and humanitarian Blair Underwood spent last week roaming campus as the Office for the Arts’ Artist in Residence, co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation. And though he may have played a hotshot lawyer on “L.A. Law,” this time...
Maguire, in hero roles like Spidey or indie dramas like this, has always been a thoughtful, watchful actor whose giant eyes seem to be monitoring humans from outer space. Sam's eyes see horrible things in Afghanistan, and when he comes home, he sees something even more threatening: two people in love, one of them his wife. As in some science-fiction parable, here it's the children who sense a mutation in their daddy - to them he's now an alien creature - a foreboding that is complicated by their growing affection for Tommy. Sheridan has shown before, especially...
...days like this, remember: I'm the President, but he's the Boss," Obama said in remarks at an East Room ceremony at the White House before the 32nd annual Kennedy Center Honors, where five distinguished artists - comedian Mel Brooks, actor Robert DeNiro, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, opera singer Grace Bumbry and all-American rocker Bruce Springsteen - received lifetime achievement awards. Springsteen, who endorsed Obama for President in April 2008 prior to joining him on the campaign trail, acknowledged Obama's words with a smile. See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...country firing people, was deemed a front runner for the Best Picture Oscar after its premieres at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. The National Board of Review, the first big group to announce its year-end awards, showered Up in the Air with four major laurels: best film, actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay. The picture, which comes to your neighborhood on Christmas Day, nudged two other Clooney movies, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Men Who Stare at Goats...
...riches real estate developer born in Manila's Tondo port area, is placing second. Behind him is ousted former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada. He was convicted on corruption charges in 2007, sentenced to life imprisonment and then pardoned by current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The 72-year-old actor - who is back on the big screen now in a comedy playing a bus driver - still counts the masses as his support base. But it is unlikely that they will vote for him in quite the same numbers as in his win in 1988, and the constitutionality of a former president...