Word: owen
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Such anxiety may result from the fact that Wilson drifted into acting by accident. In his early 20s, he was, by his own description, "floundering," when he was drafted into the profession by his older brother Owen, who needed cheap labor for a movie he was working on with his friend Wes Anderson. "Acting came at the right time," says Luke. "It gave me something to focus on." The movie, Bottle Rocket, was little seen by audiences but admired enough by the industry that the trio reteamed for the successively higher-budget and higher-profile films Rushmore and The Royal...
...Luke, Owen and their eldest brother Andrew have all relocated to Los Angeles, although in coming months they will visit Texas to work on a film written by Luke that he will co-direct with Andrew. Luke will play the lead, a fast-talking huckster trying to go straight. But as close as the brothers are, Luke expresses some impatience about the frequency with which people ask about his relationship with his flashier brother Owen. "What can I say but I love the guy?" he says. "I hold him above me, as a writer and an actor." Then he adds...
...History of Science Emeritus, “came to Harvard at a critical time…when the natural science courses wanted to use a case study approach which intimately involved the history of science,” said Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich...
...none of these jobs did he find quite the same madcap fraternity which had made him so happy at the Lampoon. Meyer told Owen in 2000 that his job at “Saturday Night Live” had been “just a mismatch, although I didn’t realize it at the time...
...Owen says the house belonged to Professor Harvey Cox, who lived at the time on Frost Street...