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What also makes Bears a Linklater film is the naturalness of most of the actors. "He gets these honest performances out of these kids," says the film's co-writer Glenn Ficarra, "not this Broadway, arms-akimbo stuff." Linklater casts people whose personality already matches the part and lets them be themselves. For the two biggest non-adult roles he used kids who had never acted before, but played ball. "You can't teach a kid to throw in three weeks," he says. "You get a baseball player who can be herself...
Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...never been able to sing very well. My pitch is, you know, off. But I've always enjoyed hearing composers sing their stuff. Some songwriters like Harold Arlen have great voices. But others--they may not be quite as off-pitch as I, but the important thing is the enthusiasm. And what I like about listening to the stuff was the enthusiasm of the young writer. It's genuine energy and joy in both the voice and the piano...
Frankly, not that many of my songs get played to death. But I don't listen to records of my own stuff. A friend of mine sent me statistics of the number of recordings of some of my songs. And I can't remember the number of recordings of Send in the Clowns, but I swear I've heard fewer than a tenth of them...
...sense of Tom Arnold other than being a kid and hearing about drunken stuff with Roseanne. I guess I was a little wary but curious. We grew this sort of sprout of affection for each other. He was so gentle...