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...years since, they have been in a play, starred in three more features and done two cameos together. Now they are back in Tough Guys, which finished filming last week in California, and the more things change the more they play the same. The toothy twosome portray--you guessed it--jailbirds who get out of the slammer and decide to do one more job, on a train called the Golden Flyer. "It's a love story of affection between two men," explains Douglas. "The emphasis is on the importance of friendship." Speaking of friends, how did it feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...sitcom. And you can't help tearing up when you see a little girl ask for an operation so she can do gymnastics again. While these shows do a social good, not just by helping but also by telling viewers they have the power to help others, they portray a particular kind of social contract as well. There is a great deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You Wish Upon TV | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...Speaking of which, Mos has played the best friend, the sidekick, the neighbor-when is he going to get the girl? "When the time is right, it will come," he says. "You know, intimacy on screen is awkward. I think sex is the one thing you cannot successfully portray on camera." Instead, Mos's next role is as an autistic man opposite Bruce Willis in the action thriller 16 Blocks. But don't ask him to talk too much about himself to sell it. "I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inevitability of Def | 5/12/2005 | See Source »

...dropping like flies. I’m starting to wonder if “Ivory Tower” is secretly initiating an intensive boot camp. I’m picturing a drill sergeant screaming in Old Colby’s face:“You did not accurately portray sexual confusion in that last scene! You disgust me, maggot! What is this jelly donut doing in your foot locker...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivory Tower Saga Retold | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...diversity of life experience among the “Sweet Birds” cast members has been a unique asset in the production, not only because the actors could portray roles closer to their true age. Indeed, Andreadis points out that the co-inclusion of, and interaction between, youthful undergraduate and more mature graduate students in the production further introduced a unique layer of truth into the production, due to the May-December relationship between Chance and Alexandra. “Because of the diversity of the group, the relationships have developed in such a way that the true...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sweet Southern Birds Fly to Dudley | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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