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...quick look at Jackson’s activities here—Harvard groups, projects, and productions—shows why she hasn’t been hitting the casting couch. Working with City Step, Jackson choreographs dances for children. She also dances with the Expressions Dance Company, and acts and sings with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club...
...child-like upbringing since his brothers and sister were much older—"I was raised by my sister, her mom, and female babysitters. I’ve always been around women, surrounded by women. I’m more comfortable interacting with women." (Whitman, perched on an adjoining couch, adds pointedly: "Strong women.") Part of his ability to sell to the girls comes from understanding how to talk to them. "They don’t want to feel like they’re being played. It’s not genuine then. I don’t want...
...acceptable public persona--one that emits a few rays of personality while keeping a semblance of privacy--is that Phoenix is rarely anyone's first choice as a leading man. (The studio logic is that if you can't open up for five minutes on a talk-show couch, you probably can't open a movie.) He accepts that without anger. "I never wanted to be a salesman," Phoenix says. "It's not what I do." Luckily for him, there are directors who recognize the difference between an interesting interview and an interesting actor. Gus Van Sant...
When Swedish furniture giant Ikea asked 28 designers to come up with new products, they produced all kinds of ideas, including the ultimate couch-potato pillow, above. Designer Maria Vinka was inspired by the idea of burying her feet in a pile of pillows to keep them warm. Just don't jump up to answer the phone...
...packed full of comedy," Stroman says. "It's a comedy musical more than it is a musical comedy." Much of the Broadway cast returns, although two key roles are taken over by movie stars: Will Ferrell as a neo-Nazi playwright, and Uma Thurman as a Swedish casting-couch cutie. (At 6-ft.-plus, both actors tower over their leading men: Broderick is 5 ft. 8 in., and he's the tall...