Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nick Nolte), a gentle character actor in a career dry spell. Matt must suddenly start raising his troubled six-year-old daughter Jeannie (Whittni Wright), whom he has not seen in two years. He juggles his awkward responsibilities to Jeannie with his new interest in a junior executive (Joely Richardson) at a production company run by a blustery mogul (Albert Brooks), who is attracted to a truth-telling market researcher (Julie Kavner). Will Matt win the big role? Will the love teams stay united? Will the child, in a plot twist that echoes Broadcast News, be able...
...suggest to actors some bit of business that could save a scene or a show. In I'll Do Anything, he gets spot-on performances -- especially from Nolte, who displays all the intensity that somebody who wants to think of himself as a nice guy dares to show, and Richardson, whose gorgeous, frazzled perkiness suggests a cheerleader on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The great turn, through, is from Wright, who plays a tough, often sullen kid -- precariously poised between acting and acting up. On location, setting up a shot where the five- year-old wore a coat, Brooks...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...
...Richardson remains a marvel; we feast on a face that reveals everything with the arch of an eyebrow or the sag of a cheek muscle. His calculated temper tantrums are as believable as the silky menace in his most understated lines ("I couldn't possibly comment"). This is TV's scariest, most alluring villain since J.R. Ewing...