Word: thespians
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...movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city. To help whip her charges into shape, she recruits a shy, oversize over achiever and A student, played by Thacker. The 6-ft. 5-in., 410-lb. thespian tried not to be thrown by his lines but had no trouble throwing around the 5-ft. 6-in., 117-lb. Hawn. "She's a whole lot easier to lift than some of those 300-lb. wrestlers," he says. Now put the coach down gently, please...
...eager thespian also found himself on the executive committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club as well as starring in productions put on by the Leverett House Opera and Adams House Drama Society...
With a hip soundtrack and a cast packed with attractive members of Harvard’s thespian elite, Ivory Tower is developing a burgeoning undergrad fan base. The latest episode of the Harvard sitcom, which claims to be “redefining America’s soap opera,” features rule-breaking romance and sinisterly flirtatious freshmen. But will the back-stabbing, scandals, and sexscapades of the Harvardian specimen ever rival the creme de la creme of self-indulgent, mindless programming—that is, The OC? FM investigates...
...Spielberg lost-kids plot rendered in Japanese and in slow motion. And they can feast on the child actors, all of them unaffected and adorable. Yagira, with the smooth androgyny of an anime hero, is a real eye magnet; the camera, puppylike, practically licks his face. Yet this precocious thespian is a real kid. When he was finally handed his Best Actor trophy, he asked, "Can I take it home?" --By Richard Corliss
...Desdemona by her employer, London’s “leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors ardent aspirations for thespian glory of her own. The filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to exploit the subtle human side of a fascinating historical moment, creating an unconvincing hodgepodge of hackneyed aphorisms...