Word: walk-on
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...bunch of junk," he says. During the '70s, while his peers were turning on and dropping out, Isaak -- who neither smokes nor drinks -- was in Japan as a college exchange student grooving to Presley's Sun sessions and trying to break into the movie business. His first credit: a walk-on part in a Japanese World War II film in which he played a lubricious American...
...story isn't of the heartwarming, feel-good variety. She isn't a walk-on athlete who finally hit the big time in college. Back in Stoneham, she could play some ball...
Connolly kept busy in high school, lettering in soccer, hockey and lacrosse at Needham High School. And though he was only recruited to Harvard for lacrosse, the Mather resident made the JV hockey squad as a walk-on his freshman year...
...anecdote ("Getting to the point," observes one, "could spoil the drink and ruin the day"). Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable walk-on, defining the people around him: "The Irish. From so little they glean so much: squeeze the last ounce of joy from a flower with no petals . . . The Irish? You step off a cliff . . . and fall...
...Player has already caused a stir in Hollywood, thanks to its smart tone, its veiled references to industry figures and its imposing cast of walk-on stars (dozens, and big ones). Will this all seem too insidey to the public? Maybe not. The decade-long spotlighting of the movie industry -- on Entertainment Tonight, in newspapers and best sellers -- has taught the mass audience that film production is a spectator sport. Like any other modern sport, it trades in money and celebrity, scandal and sex appeal; it has big winners and losers, all playing for high stakes, which they are happy...