Word: walk-on
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...unfortunately stuck in a role that strongly recalls her earlier, more interesting work in "Frances" and "Music Box." One thing an audience should not feel in a drama this malignant is a niggling deja vu. Leigh, for once, drops the mannerisms, but her brisk performance is essentially a protracted walk-on. The husbands and other secondary characters barely register, serving a structural purpose in Jones' script that affords them little vitality...
...same belief that led the producers of Dave to cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing...
...GORE Clumsy walk-on at TV-ratings talks ends dialogue and earns him a P, for Putting His Foot...
...home foundation." In high school he starred at football, but coaches at Ohio State told him that at 5 ft. 10 in. and 180 lbs. he was too small for the Big 10. Glenn disagreed, so he showed up at practice one day and earned a spot as a walk-on. That led to a starting position, then stardom, and in 1996 the Patriots made him their pick in the first round of the N.F.L. draft...
...years ago in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and though its authority lent crucial coloration to the American-led defense of South Korea in the 1950s and the ejection of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as this decade opened, the list of disputes negotiated with only a walk-on part, if any, for the supposed supercop is impressive: a historic handshake across the Rhine between West Germany and France; the start of the Common Market and today's European Union; nuclear treaties between Washington and Moscow; America's rapprochement with China; the Camp David accords between Israel...