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...professor, Brustein worked with students who have since become famous Hollywood stars. He taught Sigourney Weaver, Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Theater Fixture Brustein Brings Repertoire to Harvard | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

Charmed indeed. Shuttling constantly between plays and movies, Kline has earned two Tonys and an Oscar by finding and playing variations of Hamlet in other men who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He first confounded moviegoers in 1982 as Nathan Landau, Meryl Streep's psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice. A year later, he backflipped effortlessly into the running shoes of Harold Cooper in The Big Chill, a successful entrepreneur at odds with his counterculture roots. Even his dual character in Dave--the story of an ordinary man pretending to be President--reflected a Hamlet-like internal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...unsuccessfully for his services. Another Tony followed for his performance as the Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance in 1981. Movie roles came just as quickly after he landed the highly coveted male lead in Sophie's Choice, opposite eventual Oscar winner Meryl Streep; in 1988 Kline won his own Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in A Fish Called Wanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...continuing part of my life." After filming the action-tinged drama The Negotiator with Samuel L. Jackson this fall, Spacey will head to London next year for a stretch in The Iceman Cometh. Directors say he often applies theater disciplines to film. "He's like Meryl Streep because they both come at a movie script as if it's a play," says L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson. "They make the most out of their lines, while a lot of actors immediately try to change things." Spacey's earnest directorial debut this year, the box-office dud Albino Alligator, even seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Actors are drawn to certain kinds of roles. Meryl Streep likes a part with an accent. Tom Cruise likes a role that calls for him to flash his grin. And as his new movie, Conspiracy Theory, once again confirms, Mel Gibson likes a movie in which he's tortured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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