Word: actorly
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...play each other?CM: If it were a sitcom no one would watch it!JW: She would get Hugh Laurie to play me.CM: He’s right. Hugh Laurie is best known now for doing “House”, but he used to be a comic actor. One thing that people don’t know about James is that he literally falls up stairs. So a British comic actor with a sense of physical comedy would work well.JW: This is tough. Maybe Julia Davis, 20 years ago?15. FM: Obviously, you two are absurdly talented individuals...
...most personal thoughts and his life’s intimate details through monologues. His work was so inseparable from the man that it is nearly impossible to imagine what his stories would be without the self-deprecating and often profound figure behind the mic. But none of the five actors in “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell,” performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art Thursday through Sunday, were Spalding Gray. A middle-aged woman, a man with a foreign accent, and the colorful ex-mayor of Providence Vincent A. “Buddy?...
...performance groups are.Cultural Rhythms, an annual event organized by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations which took place Saturday afternoon, proved that there is no better manifestation of the talent and diversity of Harvard College than cultural music and dance.Artist of the Year, Dan Aykroyd, the distinguished actor, musician, and screenwriter, expressed admiration for these enormously different performing groups and their well-rehearsed presentations. “I’ll never forget this day,” Aykroyd claimed. “This was just great.” “Great” barely scratches...
...said. Only some sort of cinematic deity could’ve saved him, he says, from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous scenes—a heart-stopping car chase in which protagonist Jimmy Doyle (played by that year’s Best Actor Gene Hackman) rockets through Brooklyn traffic tailing a criminal who has hijacked the West End’s elevated train. Lacking the funds to block off the street or film the chase on a closed set, Friedkin had simply sat in the passenger’s seat with his camera...
...commie, homo-loving sons of guns.' SEAN PENN, accepting the Best Actor Oscar for his role as gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk...