Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever run out of real-life weirdos for JOHNNY DEPP to play? He has already taken on angoraphile filmmaker Ed Wood and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Now it seems he may consider portraying the original cape man himself, Liberace. Depp's agent confirms only that the actor has read a script based on the flamboyant pianist's life, but a revised version is currently being overseen by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, with whom Depp worked on Ed Wood. The screenwriters, no strangers to eccentricity, have also penned biopics on Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and oddball comic Andy Kaufman...
...sweated as a forklift driver in Dearborn, Mich., for nearly 60 years, often clocking 84 hours a week. He has spent scarcely anything on himself, preferring to invest heavily in the stock of his employer, Ford Motor Co. He could have been one of those millionaires next door you read so much about, living frugally while piling up money for a lavish retirement...
...clear of the Cineplex, especially the whizbang mega-releases. But not a slow learner who adores the very idea of going to the movies and keeps thinking the next one's actually going to be worth the eight bucks. I see ads on buses; I hear the buzz; I read blurbs promising the adventure of a lifetime. They do not tell you that part of the adventure will entail leaving the theater with a bag over your head...
...their movies in the month-long lab, but they shoot dry runs in the hope that they'll one day get the financing to do it for real. (Sundance helps in that process.) And it's not like back home, where you have your roommate or maybe some waiter read for you. Here, Ally Sheedy (St. Elmo's Fire and more recently High Art) plays the role you wrote, or maybe it's Mary Alice (star of the Broadway productions of Having Our Say, Fences and The Shadow Box), or Delroy Lindo (Clockers, Malcolm X and Get Shorty), or Martha...
...experiments performed in test tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these big advances in basic research don't go anywhere at all. So when I read a report in the journal Nature last week about a possible breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, I found myself once again negotiating a tightrope between real promise and false hope. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's is the formation of sticky clumps of protein, called amyloid plaques, in the brains...