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...like state senator Tom Hayden, the aging radical, pointing out that Silicon Valley zillionaires make in 15 minutes on the stock market what they pay their housekeepers in a year. The problem with Democrats moving to the center, says Hayden, is that the equity issue is off the radar screen...
...done inside with crudely laid-out names and notes about old paramours. It camps out a short distance from Mona Hatoum's more elegant but hardly deep creation (despite its title, Deep Throat): a dining table with proper tablecloth and silver, and a plate whose bottom is a video screen showing the travels of an invasive camera down a human gullet...
...most successful filmmaker in history subject himself to these dicta, jotted down in half an hour by a couple of daffy Danes? Why would any director toss away the tools of power and sorcery that the movies have spent a century developing? No 150-person crew, no wide screen, no post-synchronizing of dialogue, no flashbacks, no E.T. or dinosaurs. No tripod for the camera. And no director's credit...
...Before SNL I did extra work on soap operas. I'd be in the restaurant scene in the back, eating and trying to stick my face on the screen. I did commercials for Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice, did lots of cereal commercials, Denny's Breakfast Buffet commercials, and I worked in restaurants while I was doing commercials - all over LA as a waitress and a hostess - and just hustle. I really wanted to act but I wasn't making my full living acting, so I worked in restaurants for years before...
When Peter Fonda made his Broadway debut, did he have any idea he would still be in the business-a screen star almost 40 years later? He says it was no conscious career choice: "I always knew." But perhaps most inspiring was an early high school performance as the Grover's Corner drunk in Our Town. A few audience members found the part more than convincing. "I can't believe it! Peter's drunk! On stage!" Fonda gasps and laughs. "I loved it. I thought, I can do this. This is what I want...