Word: actorly
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Well, he's not a superhero. He has no superpowers--he's just a master crime fighter. But what makes me qualified to play one? I don't know. I've acted in movies before. I am an actor. I guess that instantly makes me qualified. I read a lot of comic books, so I think that helps. Man, Claudio really has an attitude problem...
...China's most gifted movie martial artist and Yeoh the preeminent fighting femme. They played together in only one previous picture: Tai Chi Master in 1993, the busiest year of the Hong Kong Renaissance, when the colony's robust movies enthralled action fans around the globe, and the leading actors were worked as hard as pre-teen seamstresses in a Guangzhou garment factory. (Li and Yeoh each made five other films that year.) Now both 45, they have lost little of their agility and none of their screen luster. Their duel atop the Great Wall of China is a reunion...
...movies: a good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners. Their character motivation is sketchy, their verbal wit scant; at times a scene revs to its climax and, instead of issuing some clever deflating retort, the actor will gaze dumbly into the camera, as if this were a rough cut, with the punch line to be edited in later. To camouflage the dearth of smart dialogue, Fraser and Bello indulge in sheepish smiling and sweet preening; the film's working title might have been Indiana's Clones...
...Warlords - the big winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April. In fact, no filmmaker aiming for a significantly larger audience or budget can afford to ignore China, whether they're making epics or otherwise. This year's family hit CJ7, a sci-fi flick from hometown actor-director Stephen Chow, scored with expensive computer animation - and a ton of cross-border finance...
...dancer and actor, Barbara Ann Teer quickly landed roles in 1960s Broadway shows like Kwamina and Where's Daddy? after she arrived in New York City. But she yearned for parts that would celebrate her heritage instead of further perpetuating stereotypes. So in 1968, Teer founded the National Black Theatre in Harlem, where she became a staunch advocate for African and African-American artists. Under Teer's stewardship, the institution evolved into a cornerstone of black culture...