Word: characterized
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The crew of Cast Away is shooting "the moment." Hanks' emaciated, exposure-ravaged character, Chuck Noland, fleeing the island on which he's been marooned for four years after a plane crash, pounds through the surf and raises the sail: the wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The...
Near the plot of land where he is building a writing cabin, he passes the dirt road where Fay Jones, the 17-year-old main character of his haunting fourth novel, Fay (Algonquin; 484 pages; $24.95), first appears, fleeing her abusive father. She is penniless, poorly educated and the bearer...
EH: What you're saying about "warrants" a production, that's what is so amazing about Shakespeare, the ideas and the themes, they're still so relevant. As a performer what's interesting is to think "if Hamlet were alive today, who would he be?". Let's say he's...
THC: With both somewhat being the introspective artist, what do you think of comparisons between this Hamlet and your character in _Reality Bites_?
Or is it the case that this matter of prurient press intrusion - and of private lives having public consequences - dates back not just to, say, Donna Rice, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business, but to Helen and Paris and the Trojan War? Did King David's behavior with Bathsheba tell...