Word: loner
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...DYSTOPIA And when he wasn't at home in the past, he was a voyager into the future. For a while in the late 60s and early 70s, Heston owned the upscale science fiction genre. As the stranded astronaut on the Planet of the Apes, he was the ultimate loner: the only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words...
That stance earned him death threats in punk rock songs and, if not pariah status in Hollywood, then the image of a cranky grandpa. Which hardly flustered Heston; he'd been playing the righteous loner for too long to lose sleep from exile by the reigning Hollywood Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail...
Supposedly, Americans are abandoning shared cultural pursuits for loner entertainments on our iPods and HDTVs. But thanks to technological advances, concert films are starting to envelop audiences in a way nearly as dramatic as live events, at a fraction of the price. And audiences--and the market--are responding. Acts as disparate as U2 and the Metropolitan Opera are appearing this month in multiplexes all over the world. Even Martin Scorsese is giving a nod to the audience's higher sensory appetites, releasing his Rolling Stones film, Shine a Light, in the larger-than-life IMAX format...
Those who knew O’Neal seemed surprised by the characterization of O’Neal as a loner in media reports since his ouster. The New York Times described O’Neal as “an aloof, calculating man who during his 20 years at the firm has made few friends...
...even if you are, there’s always someone to chat or interact with,” says Casagrande.BREAKING THE ‘NERD’ BARRIERBut while the players themselves see the game as social, they are aware of the stereotype that surrounds them: that of the loner who is more comfortable in a virtual world than a real one. Not that they find this to be far from the mark.“You picture this stereotypical archetype of the nerd iconoclast who probably hasn’t seen sun in several days, [who] just puts...