Word: deathly
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...umbrella of AAA in 1994, has served as a forum for those underrepresented in theater, including Asian American students. The AAA Players enjoyed initial success: their productions of David Henry Hwang’s “F.O.B.,” Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” and ABBA’s rock musical “Chess” attracted large crowds and received praise for their uncustomary casting decisions and unconventional portrayals of these well-known works.A decade and a half after the creation of the original Players, whose...
...original story in the St. Petersburg Times. That's Peretti's doing. In his hands, the site is particularly adept at what's known as search-engine optimization - making Google love you. How it's done is complicated and mostly secret, but one illuminating example came after the death of actor Heath Ledger. HuffPo fashioned its story so that anyone Googling a variation on the words "Keith Ledger" would see the HuffPo story at the top of the search results, thus snagging people who didn't know the actor's unusual name. The higher up a story appears in Google...
...trailer on the edge of a film set beneath an underpass in downtown Cape Town, Ian McKellen, 69, is musing about fame and death, and what the papers will say when he goes. " 'GANDALF DIES,' I expect," he says. The thought tickles him. Not the dying part. The part about being a classical actor and having billions of fans, most of whom are 12. "When you spend as long as I have doing beautiful work which is only seen by a few thousand people, to be involved in popular entertainment without lessening one's standards ... that's fairly appealing...
...intensified with the arrival at Stratford of a new generation of actors including Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Charles Dance and Sean Bean. By then, the veterans had developed an informal set of rules for themselves: Take the craft seriously (Dench: "deadly"). Don't take yourself seriously (Stewart: "That's death to creativity"). Never think you know it all (Dench: "Absolutely fatal"). And if the part was good and you were mindful that anything you did onscreen came from what you learned on stage, then by all means take a role on television or in film...
...eschewed the recent violence in his home country in a speech at a packed Institute of Politics last night. “The pathway forward is a strong one toward peace and reconciliation,” Adams said. “The story of Ireland was one of death and distress.” Adams last spoke at Harvard in 1994, when Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican Army—were in much different straits. That year, a series of ceasefires were called...