Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here he is plastering rouge on the Old Hollywood corpse. In the heyday of the studio system, few stars were given the chance of controlling their cinematic fate. Lawrence Kasdan, who directed Costner in The Big Chill (where , his substantial role was cut to a few cameo shots as a corpse) and Silverado, compares the actor with Steve McQueen. "Like McQueen," Kasdan notes, "Kevin has a real sense of what he can do. He has always known what's really important for him, rather than what others think is important...
...torpedo his career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even meet with him," Costner says, "because my brother Dan had been in Viet Nam, and I was reluctant to do a film about something that had such impact on his life. In a way, I regret not doing it; it was a wonderful film...
Quayle insists he never distorts Bush's basic themes. His more controversial statements, he argues, are part of the "rhetorical role that a Vice President can have. The Vice President can say and do things the President shouldn...
...conservatives, it has barely helped his national image. His frat-house mien, accentuated by an appearance younger than his 42 years, is compounded by his reliance on ebullient cliches when he lacks a staff-written script. Too often he comes across as a kid struggling gamely with an adult role. While some surveys have shown a modest improvement in the public's general perception of him, he still gets negative marks on the critical question attaching to any Vice President: Is he qualified to assume the presidency? A May Gallup poll reported that 52% of Americans think...
...enduring show-business partnerships, but not until some rules were established. Carson's first Tonight show bandleader, Skitch Henderson, remembers the "many times I watched Johnny trying to get rid of Ed." Then McMahon stopped reaching for his own laughs and settled into the long-running role of Mr. Subservience...