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...Crimson recently sat down with actor Jim True-Frost, whose acclaimed television series “The Wire” recently aired its final episode on HBO. True-Frost, who lives in Cambridge, also starred in the American Repertory Theatre’s production of “Julius Caesar.”The Harvard Crimson: Let’s talk about “The Wire” first. What was it like working in a setting like Baltimore?Jim True-Frost: We got a lot of support in Baltimore. The locals were very happy to see us. They...
...both Bushes; he inadvisedly posed for a photo with a white supremacist leader. He spoke at any conservative function that would have him, and what group wouldn't? At these appearances he showed a thespic vitality absent from his diminishing turns before the movie and TV cameras. The actor's stentorian talents may have been looking for the kind of forum they had lately been denied in films. If screenwriters would no longer write heroic lines for his movie characters, he'd do it himself...
...cranky grandpa. Which hardly flustered Heston; he'd been playing the righteous loner for too long to lose sleep from exile by the reigning Hollywood Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail. In movie terms it was an unfair fight, because Moore had the heavier artillery: not his arguments, necessarily, but his camera...
...those nine months in University Hall’s second floor office, Knowles reprised his role as the Faculty’s leading actor...
...enjoy a challenge. I enjoy trying to do something I have never done before,” said actor Jim Sturgess in an interview with The Crimson. In Robert Luketic’s new film “21,” Sturgess plays Ben Campbell, a nerdy kid from MIT who counts cards as a high-stakes blackjack player in Vegas on the weekends. The actor, who came to the interview in tight dark jeans and snake-skin boots, grew up in Manchester, England. His role in “21” took him out of London, where...