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Category Archives: Actors
Kevin Kline: Lear and Cyrano
King Lear and Cyrano: a comparative study of the performances. It’s also an appreciation of his long and singular career. It’s the observations about what it is that makes certain performances work – while others do not quite work. A … Continue reading
All That Jazz: Remembering and Loving Erzebet Foldi
First of all: A great post about the opening sequence. He really breaks it down, why it’s so damn good. I love All That Jazz. I saw it when I was a kid, at Edwards Hall up on campus – … Continue reading
3 Similar Actor Stories
Three different actors, three different acting styles and “methods” – but it’s basically the same story. 1. Clark Gable Arthur Miller had written the part of the aging cowboy who falls in love with the girl in The Misfits for … Continue reading
Tallulah In Pictures
Her life in pictures. I like the one of her opening at The Sands with the star-studded audience – and I like her toasting what looks like the paparazzi in a cavernous hotel room – but I think my favorite … Continue reading
A Tribute to Phoebe Cates
A really lovely tribute to her. Surprisingly moving. Amazing how sometimes people become important to us … maybe not the major stars of the day, or the Oscar winners … but someone who, when we look back, we can see … Continue reading
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Life-size icon in a white dress
Marilyn Monroe. Nice commentary – also cool photo, huh? I love that weird hand-chair right next to her. Relevant clip from Seven Year Itch below:
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent “Away From Her” Julie Christie won Best Actress for Away From Her in the New York Film Critics Circle awards. I just saw the film recently at Allison’s DEMAND (wrote about it here) … so I’m … Continue reading
Luis Guzman’s Essential Presence
Go read.. Like the character actors of yore, Luis Guzman makes a movie better just by being in it. I am particularly in love with his turn in Punch Drunk Love (one of the un-mentioned moments in the script, a … Continue reading
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Speaking of Cagney:
George M. Cohan overlooks the chaos and color of Times Square. He is, as of now, surrounded by construction – which makes him seem even more mythological.