Word: actressing
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...optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is treading water—the notion...
...phone banks on the ground floor of the building in Van Nuys. Organizers gathered round a fresh-faced teenager, shouting "Let's hear it for Jeff who made 200 calls!" and handing the boy a poster featuring the presidential contender. Nicole Roberts, a 26-year-old African-American actress from Sherman Oaks, stood waiting for a friend to deliver a cell phone, as hers had run out of juice. "This election to me is my civil rights moment," said Roberts, a "Team Barack" necklace gleaming above her Obama T shirt. "My grandmother was active in the civil rights movement...
...shootings, at least one fatal, near Grant Park. This summer witnessed several shootings throughout the city, including one last weekend that saw seven people shot near a West Side nightclub. Just over a week ago, the country was riveted by the slaying of several members of the family of actress Jennifer Hudson in the Englewood section of the city's South Side. - By Steven Gray / Chicago
...would come here,” she added, “but I don’t like the weather. You always get sick. Also, I don’t know if you have talent scouts here—I want to be an actress and I’m very good at it. We don’t have school plays, but if there were to be one I would be the star.” Some students added that it was nice to be at a campus that they had only seen in Hollywood movies...
...psychiatric ward, an LAPD as callous and corrupt as it is lazy, and a mechanic just a tad touched in the head—but we are nonetheless treated to Jolie repetitively screaming with varying degrees of despair, outrage, and panic for her son. Were Jolie an actress of lesser talent, “Changeling” might not be more than a slideshow of extreme human emotions. Nevertheless, close-ups of Jolie manage to make us feel what we ought to feel. In the glitter of her huge doe eyes we recognize the docility of a character...