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...Every actor is not just the sum of the parts he got, but the subtraction of the ones he didn't. All those what-ifs have to be the most poignant section of an actor's r?sum?. George had been cast in a meaty role in Primary Colors but director Mike Nichols replaced him with Larry Hagman. Then there are parts that could have been bigger than they were. Eager to work with Woody Allen, George signed up for Small Time Crooks, where he was in exactly one scene. (Even there he was hard to spot: viewers got a good...
...Impossibly, I wanted this to be a making-of documentary, where Clint whispers, "Cut!" and George springs sprily out of bed and says cheerfully to the cast and crew, "Let's go out for a nightcap." And it's all happening right now, and forever...
...Blue,” founder of the Blue Puppet Theater. For the past 15 years, it has operated four days a week in front of the Calliope children’s clothing store—well, as long as the weather’s good.The cast of the show has evolved during its existence and now consists of a life-sized human puppet, which Blue stands behind and speaks through, singing his own versions of popular songs and commenting about onlookers as they chance by. “No, I’m not your God,” Newell...
...easy task to make a movie musical resemble real life. But according to Jim Sturgess, star of the Beatles-infused, Julie Taymor-directed film “Across the Universe,” it’s not impossible. In a phone interview with The Crimson, Sturgess said the cast had a unique strategy for avoiding the more over-the-top aspects of the genre: studying other musicals and taking note of what not to do. “They’d be talking and speaking, and then suddenly they would just burst out into song in this fantastical...
...often absent from mainstream histories, Ulrich illuminates the many ways in which women outside the traditional narrative of female empowerment have contributed to that cause. Because history has failed to take notice of women’s heroics in domestic events and small but meaningful battles, they have cast off the characteristics society expects—politeness and docility—in favor of strength, passion, and independence, in favor of simply doing, whether that means creating art, resisting oppression, or proudly taking care of one’s family. For, just as a group of women in Bangor, Maine...