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With money bummed from family friends, Spacey attended the Juilliard School's drama division in Manhattan. He left after two years and began living the actor-gypsy life. He appeared in regional theaters around the country, frequently returning to New York broke and sometimes homeless. Eventually he found work on Broadway, including his 1991 Tony Award-winning role in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. There also came television roles like bad guy Mel Profitt on Wiseguy and small parts in such movies as Heartburn and Working Girl...
Looks like the Queen of Soul wants more respect for her piano playing. Aretha Franklin has been accepted at the Juilliard School's division of adult studies to study classical piano. Details are not final, but Juilliard has offered to customize a program for her, since she hardly keeps the hours of its regular adult students--mostly doctors, accountants and lawyers. She's not the first celeb musician to seek higher learning there: John Tesh was also a student...
Born in Los Angeles on the last day of the '50s, Kilmer fast-tracked his way into movies. The youngest actor ever accepted at Manhattan's famed Juilliard School, he co-wrote and starred in a play at Joseph Papp's Public Theater when he was 21. Two years later he landed the lead role in his first big-screen picture, the 1984 spy spoof Top Secret! As a U.S. pop star in East Germany, Kilmer did his own expert vocalizing of the film's tunes, fought off bad guys in an underwater saloon, played an entire scene backward...
...Guest artists The Brentano String Quartet with violist Samuel Rhodes of the Juilliard String Quartet. Program to include Quartet in G Minor...
...Theater Festival, to which he has returned virtually every summer since, in spite of his film career. (He has a home in Williamstown as well as in Bedford Hills, New York, both perched on hills with picture-book views.) After graduating from Cornell in 1974, he studied acting at Juilliard with John Houseman. He made his first Broadway appearance with Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity, an odd play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically...