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...where humans interact with other intergalactic species, it just makes sense that live action should consort with puppeteering (Yoda is still voiced and manipulated by Frank Oz) and digital auteurism. So, yes, there must be real actors. It takes a real actor to stand on a bare stage and pretend it's the gigantic Galactic Senate, or to have an argument with an invisible junkman. And it takes a trusting actor to endure the secrecy attending a Star Wars production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow! | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...sudden, it was senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse of going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...sudden, it was senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse for going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Endpaper: Coffee and Pop | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Hmmm. Well, why don't you pretend that you're introducing a video from Neil Diamond," She offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AUDITION | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...writer, you can pretend you are any gender, any sexuality", Tan said...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lesbian, Gay Porn Writers Read Opposite-Sex Erotica | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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