Word: thespian
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...boxer in a Garden prelim. Out on 52nd Street with J.J., he pleads, "Stop beating me on the head, let me make a living" - and on the second phrase Curtis rubs his thumbs against his forefingers like a cartoon usurer and glances imploringly to heaven. Sidney: such a thespian he is. For Curtis, the performance may not have been career-making, but it was actor-making. It expanded and forever defined what we mean by "Tony Curtis": the slick shtarker, oily and irresistible...
...foot-three, 180-pound Farrell works his body as hard as his mind as a rower for the varsity heavyweight crew team. He is also a semi-accomplished thespian. For the past two years, Farrell has acted in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, a student-written and student-run production geared toward children. Hee also writes for the Harvard Current, works on the Junior Parents’ Weekend Committee and is involved with both the Institute of Politics and the community service group BASIC. And he is co-chair of the Mather House Council...
...daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing short of rapt attention. He must have been a commanding bull of a thespian...
Kevin H. Meyers, Hasty Pudding thespian, was the loudest audience member with his glass of Kenwood merlot. After informing the crowd that he’d “been having some wine” (get out!), Kevin presented some haikus that, charitably, fell under a loose definition of “haiku.” “This Spring I’ll wear high heels / I make a hideous girl / but that’s OK,” he told he audience. And he was right...
...After this summer, the Screen Actors Guild may worry that its members are no longer needed in Hollywood. But they shouldn't worry-not yet anyway. Flesh-and-blood thespian Sean Hayes blesses Mr. Tinkles-and the audience-with a hilarious effete voice and wicked ad libs, and the movie is better for it. Another promising sign for humans: in Planet of the Apes, opening next month, director Tim Burton creates talking animals the old-fashioned way-by putting actors in monkey suits. As Stanley Kubrick realized more than three decades ago, computers have their place, but so does primitivism...