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...young daughter Katya from succumbing to the same fate. Sofia is a tragic heroine and Richardson is absolutely luminous in the role, both mesmerizingly beautiful and heartbreakingly pitiable. Fiennes is equally heartrending as a man looking for redemption in a world he can’t see. The British actor has a fine American accent and his captivating facial expressions, especially when he regards Sofia, are worth sitting through this sometimes tedious two-and-a-half hour film. Throughout the film he seems unsure whether or not the beautiful Russian returns his feelings, as he hesitates with both speech...
...quest for Hollywood success, actor Steve J. Sandvoss ’02 is turning to a source of ideas that the film industry often ignores: college screenwriters. With his brother Peter, Sandvoss has started a unique production company called Beep Box Productions. They have started a campaign to recruit scripts from college students by visiting college campuses and taking submissions at their website, “getmymoviemade.com.” “Things are changing here [in Hollywood],” Sandvoss says. “It’s not gonna be only the big studio bosses...
...Angeles - The actor who walked into the Los Angeles office of David Grand complaining of feeling low and having trouble with his wife was suffering from what, in Hollywood, is an occupational hazard. Grand, a therapist and acting coach, discovered after a little probing that six months earlier his patient had played the part of a man trapped in a cave, slowly starving to death. Although he wasn't aware of it, the actor was still stuck in the role. Grand decided he had to work with both the actor and his alter ego to help them...
...cruel paradox of Hollywood actors is that they work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry in which reputations rise and fall overnight, yet success in the business comes from being sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors...
...even success in Hollywood brings perils, given that it often comes in a flash, from one big hit rather than from building gradually. Suddenly the actor or actress is hot. Everyone wants to be seen with him or her. Clubs and restaurants fling open their doors. Life becomes a celebrity-magazine fantasy, divorced from reality. "It is very hard for someone like that to connect with how they became successful," says Solomon. "You aren't what everyone thinks you are, so you don't believe in yourself. Or you do believe it, and then you have a whole load...