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...DIED. JAMES DOOHAN, 85, Canadian-born actor forever known, to his later dismay, as Montgomery Scott, level-headed chief engineer of Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Redmond, Washington. With his exasperated Scottish burr ("We've got nuh powrrr, Cap'n!"), he repeatedly saved the ship from disasters, but the famous line "Beam me up, Scotty" was actually never spoken exactly that way on the original show...
...world away from Apia, the capital, Sima recalls "chasing after cars, because it was such an unusual sight. And kids are still chasing after cars." These days, Urale does her chasing with the camera. In 1992, after realizing the world wasn't going to come to her as an actor, Urale enrolled at Melbourne's renowned Swinburne film school (now the Victorian College of the Arts). To help raise funds for her studies, friends and family pulled together to organize a "Cyclone Sima" appeal, and their faith in the fledgling filmmaker proved prophetic...
Lucas says he became an actor because his parents, who organized campaigns against nuclear power plants, moved him 30 times before he was 13. "I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before," he says. As he sits next to a poster of The Hustler in his trailer, having successfully campaigned for hybrid vehicles and recycling bins on the Poseidon set, it's pretty clear who Lucas wants to be right...
DIED. JAMES DOOHAN, 85, Canadian-born actor forever known, to his later dismay, as Montgomery Scott, level-headed chief engineer of Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Redmond, Wash. With his exasperated Scottish burr ("We've got nuh powrrr, Cap'n!"), he saved the ship from repeated disasters, but the famous line "Beam me up, Scotty" was actually never spoken exactly that way on the original show...
...mistaken identity, no quest. Matt and Lisa are not really people, in the multiplex-movie sense. They are performers, like the band members, working in public for our pleasure. The only drama is that, omigod, they're doing it! And one of them, O'Brien, is a professional actor. (Stilley, who has done modeling work, got the full Brit tabloid treatment when the movie came out in Britain. Her mom in North Carolina was quoted as saying, "I pray for Margo every...