Word: actorly
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...worked with him a few times now. He was actually my next door neighbor during freshman year at film school, and I was going to school originally to be a writer and director. I actually worked as a second unit director on George Washington, and then an actor dropped out of David's All The Real Girls and I stepped in. Thanks to Foot Fist Way, I ended up swinging by the set to meet Judd Apatow during Knocked Up, and I actually told him that he works on his set a lot like David works and that...
Allen's follow-up, It's Not Me, It's You, isn't nearly as cute, but grownup things rarely are. Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre...
Mickey Rourke is a complex, talented actor [Feb. 9]. The therapeutic benefits of dogs for the rugged Rourke provides proof that canines are man's best friends. Brien Comerford, GLENVIEW...
...Chicago’s Sue Duncan Childrens’ Center is a grainy reprinted photo of a group of boys and young men dated 1977. Of the group, one has become a brain surgeon, another is a top administrator in education, and a third is an Oscar-nominated actor. Three of the others pictured are now dead—victims of violence in the tough neighborhoods of Chicago’s South Side. And finally, one gangly child smiles into the camera with a basketball palmed in his adolescent hand. More than 30 years later...
...trivia game known as “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” the object is to start with a random actor, link to one of that actor’s co-stars, and then—in only five more steps—get to the ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon. In 2007, two Vanderbilt professors set out to find Bacon’s legal scholar analogue: someone famous who collaborates often in a variety of genres and who gives no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The man they selected is today’s most frequently...