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Dignity and effort are good words to describe how Reeve lived the final nine years of his life, which ended last week with his death from heart failure at age 52. While the actor most famous for playing Superman was never as close to walking again as he perhaps believed, he nonetheless spent his immobile years in constant motion, raising money for paralysis research, speaking out for stem-cell funding, offering hope to other paralysis sufferers, even using his body as a proving ground for new therapies. At least partly through his efforts, paralysis research accelerated in that time--small...
...lady Leigh Zimmerman, "We've all been ready to move up a gear for a couple of weeks but couldn't. Now with the fire Nathan brings to the role, at last we can." So far, no replacement candidates have materialized to play Max after Lane moves on. British actor Henry Goodman, who replaced Lane in New York City before being sacked after just 30 performances, says he loves the show, but the role can crush a star's creativity: "I wasn't allowed to try anything, not one step, that was different. Mel Brooks said...
Right on cue, a rather capricious King Charles II (Rupert Everett) abruptly reverses the law and allows only women to play female roles on stage. From there, the film follows the meteoric decline of Crudup’s Kynston from respected actor to glorified drag queen. Meanwhile, Maria realizes that under the harsh glare of the spotlight, she lacks any theatrical talent (if only Danes had reached the same conclusion prior to filming). She must reassure the enraged and borderline-suicidal Kynston who must now content himself with playing the bawdy drinking houses of working-class London where...
Take a break from studying for your Science B-29 midterm with a trip to the Harvard Film Archive to see Dustin Hoffman’s gender-bending “Tootsie.” The 1982 film classic features Hoffman as a scheming out-of-work actor who becomes a soap star—as a woman. $8 Regular $6 Students, Faculty and Staff, Senior Citizens 7 p.m. Carpenter Center...
...Harvard experiences go, working on Balm in Gilead has definitely been one of the best. The cast is first rate and just about everyone is a leading actor in his/her own right. We were really lucky to get everyone we did. Working with Scott Zigler is also pretty amazing. He’s just remarkably insightful and can communicate exactly what he wants you to do in the perfect way and you’re immediately on the same level with...