Word: eckhart
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...feature-film debut, “Thank You For Smoking,” Jason Reitman is on top of the world. The Hollywood buzz surrounding his comical, yet poignant, satire is only appropriate for the son of legendary director/producer Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”). Starring Aaron Eckhart as “Big Tabacco” mogul Nick Naylor, with a supporting cast of Adam Brody, William H. Macy, Robert Duvall and Katie Holmes, “Thank You for Smoking” satirically examines the world of spin culture in the cigarette industry. Reitman doesn?...
...glasses and a mass of curly hair. His voice is soft, but LaBute has been honing his hard edge since the early '80s, when he enrolled in a theater studies course at Utah's Brigham Young University. "I don't know that I ever saw him sleep," says Aaron Eckhart, an old college buddy and near permanent fixture in LaBute's work. "He was inexhaustible. Nobody knows this, but Neil's actually a pretty darn good actor. So if he wasn't writing, we were rehearsing; and if we weren't rehearsing, we were performing." But it wasn't until...
...influence on him, LaBute has dedicated plays to both. It's the acid-tipped everydayness, both devastating and dangerously funny, that translates well, making him as popular in Europe as he is in the U.S. "He's bold, unapologetic and willing to go where others don't dare," says Eckhart. "I read his plays and I laugh and say, 'Neil, you can't say this, and I certainly won't say it myself, because I'll never work again.' Next thing you know, the plays are running in New York and London and they're selling out." And so while...
These divergent opinions were influenced by his style: Bush spoke simply, “not an intellectual, but a good speaker, just like today,” says Eckhart. Some believed that his straightforward style of talking masked a lot of intelligence...
According to Eckhart, Bush had future leadership roles on his mind even then. He remembers one instance in Rudy Winston’s Human Behavior in Organizations class. “Rudy asked about leadership: Did anyone in the class think they would seriously consider running for President of the United States at some point? George was the first person to raise his hand.” Winston confirmed that, although he didn’t remember that specific dialogue, Eckhart’s recollection sounded like the conversations that were often held in his class...