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...DIED. JAMES WONG, 64, lyricist who helped father the sweetly infectious Canto-pop sounds of the 1980s and '90s; after a three-year battle with lung cancer; in Hong Kong. Wong also composed for films, television and advertising, and was also an accomplished actor, director, writer and TV talk-show host. He penned more than 1,000 songs, including the theme to Under the Lion Rock, a hit Hong Kong TV series of the 1970s...
...over Hollywood: you can see whether your stock has gone up or down in the eyes of the parking attendant." Gee: If a top director can feel threatened by a sharp glance from the valet guy at Morton's, either Nichols needs help or the valet should be an actor. (Which he probably is anyway...
Have a good time, Chris. Just know that everybody's gunning for you to mess up. [Laughs.] He's a wonderfully funny cat, and it's a tough gig hosting that show because 99% of the people are tuning in to see if their favorite actor won. Attention wanders in that space, so you've got to keep the audience there and awake and move the show along...
Laurie, a British actor known for playing comic twits, transforms flawlessly into an American jerk. (In both accent and attitude he's a little like Survivor's Richard Hatch.) His brilliant, arrogant lead is buffered by a likable confidant (Robert Sean Leonard) and three young doctors (Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer) who hold patients' hands for him. The show also sports CGI effects that, CSI-style, bring us nose-to-cell with platelets and parasites. But unlike CSI, House is more interested in ideas than technology: Is the human touch overrated? Are concepts like "death with dignity" just...
...both entertains and educates. But that’s somewhat mundane. Frankly, I find performance less rewarding than the actual rehearsal process. That might seem somewhat antithetical to the project’s purpose, but it’s in rehearsal that I feel I develop as a singer, actor, person, whatever. And that’s really...