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...essence of film acting is demanding to be loved; Stern, with an occasional puppy-dog mope onscreen, shows himself willing to grovel for his new medium. "I was full of bravado when I first got into this," says Stern, who had never acted before, at least in the Stella Adler sense. "I was going, 'Oh, these actors are a______s, and it's so easy." Nevertheless, he panicked on the first day of shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally settling down and finding that he actually enjoyed memorizing lines and hitting marks...
DIED. SANFORD MEISNER, 91, master acting teacher; in Sherman Oaks, California. An original member of the seminal 1930s Group Theatre--which also nurtured teaching greats Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis--Meisner coached actors to interact convincingly and to project emotional believability. Among his many students: Gregory Peck, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, and directors Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack...
...Prudence Adler, the assistant executive director for external relations of the Association of Research Libraries, turned the discussion into a question of what is actually being accessed...
...people who aren't on the grassroots level are the people who already care about what's going on," says Debbie Adler, a first-year at Brandeis. "Grass-roots is how you can get to the people who can vote, but don't get to do it on a regular basis...
...Things like establishing AmeriCorps, his education policies and his policies on environmental protection--Republicans don't have policies on environmental protection," Adler says...