Word: sheen
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Podesta says, “If you asked him who President Bartlet is, or even Martin Sheen for that matter, he probably wouldn’t know...
...authentic" Hispanic portrayal one steeped in Hispanic culture? Is it Ramon Estevez, a.k.a. Martin Sheen, playing Anglo President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing? Does it even have to be played by a Hispanic actor? Spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza, which makes these distinctions every year when it gives out its ALMA awards in film, TV and music, says the answer is not cut and dried. (The group once even recognized non-Latino Nicholas Turturro for playing a Latino cop on NYPD Blue.) "We want [Hispanic] actors to be able to play Shakespeare...
...epic, Apocalypse Now. The film has already achieved legendary status in the cinematic community, but Coppola saw fit to entirely re-edit the film and add 53 minutes worth of footage, which now clocks in at a whopping 3 1/4 hours. The original tale where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent up the Nung river in Vietnam to meet the potentially insane Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) and "terminate with extreme prejudice," has been altered to heighten some of the film's sparse humorous moments, as Coppola has added one scene with Marlon Brando, as well as included scenes with Playboy...
...journey up the Mekong into the jungled heart of Southeast Asia has had a hold on popular imagination since Martin Sheen's nightmarish voyage in Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola's film, shot in the Philippines, probably did as much to inform armchair experience of the Vietnam War and its virgin forest battlegrounds as any travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel...
David Duchovny practices Kundalini yoga; Julia Louis-Dreyfuss prefers Ashtanga. Sabrina the Teenage Witch stars Melissa Joan Hart and Soleil Moon Frye throw yoga parties. Jane Fonda cut out aerobics for it; Angelina Jolie buffed up for Tomb Raider with it. The newly clean Charlie Sheen used yoga and dieting to shed 30 lbs. Add at least two Sex in the City vamps, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis. All three Dixie Chicks. Sports stars from basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Yankee pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez are devotees. And speaking of athletes, who showed up the other...