Tag: Acting
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â âRound Midnight,â Revisited: A Feast of Music and Acting
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Donât trust the credits. Just as producer credits are sometimes handed out like bonuses, screenwriter credits often fail to reflect work that directors do on scripts they shoot. But one of the most notable uncredited contributions to a screenplay is that of a performer. The writing credits for the French director Bertrand Tavernierâs 1986 jazz…
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Natalie Portman: Method acting a ‘luxury women can’t afford’
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Natalie Portman just shared her very practical reason for steering away from Method acting. Portman scored an Academy Award for her portrayal of a ballerina who takes commitment to startling lengths in “Black Swan.” In the critically acclaimed “May December,” Portman plays Elizabeth Berry, an actress who dedicates herself to a film role in extreme…
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Gary Oldman Says Acting In Harry Potter Was Mediorce
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Gary Oldman Says Acting In Harry Potter Was Mediorce Gary Oldman is arguably one of the greatest actors of our time. The 65-year-old Academy Award winner has been in over 70 movies, with each role becoming more iconic than the next. But, believe it or not, he’s not the biggest fan of one of his…
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In a surrogacy deal between a rich and poor woman, only one is acting as a free agent | Catherine Bennett
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Considering how quickly “too posh to push” once took off as a way of rebuking mothers who planned to cheat nature with a C-section, current reporting about affluent women who, for reasons seemingly unconnected to fertility, outsource entire pregnancies to poorer women is distinguished by a touching delicacy. So much so that a whole new…
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‘General Hospital’ wins 3 acting honors at 50th annual Daytime Emmys
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LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — “General Hospital” won three trophies for acting at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday night. The late Sonya Eddy won for her 16-year role as no-nonsense head nurse Epiphany Johnson on the venerable ABC show. She died last December at age 55 from an infection after surgery. Robert…
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Videos Of Israeli Soldiers Acting Maliciously Toward Gazans Create New Headache For Israel
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a circle. Several viral videos and…
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‘Worst Acting She’s Ever Done’
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Cheryl Hines’ speech on behalf of husband Robert Kennedy Jr. is being criticized online, with the actress introducing the presidential hopeful at a campaign rally in Philadelphia. Taking to the stage at Independence Hall on October 9, the 58-year-old described RFK Jr. as someone who “stood up for the little guy, for the average person…
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Emily Blunt Says She Is Taking a Break From Acting
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Emily Blunt is taking a break from acting. Blunt, who stars in the upcoming Christopher Nolan film, “Oppenheimer,” said in a recent interview that she is taking a step back to enjoy more time with her young children. Blunt shares two daughters — Hazel, 9, and Violet, 7 — with fellow actor John Krasinski. In the…
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Ali Wong Opens Up About Filming ‘Beef’ Finale & Her Acting Journey
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Ali Wong Opens Up About Filming ‘Beef’ Finale & Her Acting Journey In a recent episode of Variety’s Actors on Actors, Ali Wong sat down with Jason Segel and talked about why she got into acting from comedy and her experience working on Beef — including filming the finale episode and what about the series…
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J. Harrison Ghee, Alex Newell become first openly nonbinary Tony winners for acting
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Tony Awards history was made Sunday when Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first nonbinary people to win Tonys for acting as the Broadway community seized the moment amid a Hollywood writers’ strike that left theater’s biggest night without a script. “Thank you for the humanity. Thank you for my incredible company who…
