Actors and Actresses: News, Information and Reviews
Mr. DeLuise had an affable nature that made him a popular character actor for decades with movie and TV audiences.
They came, we saw, they conquered. Seven originals who were never the same after Cannes.
A former high school actor takes a seat to help choose this year’s winners in New Jersey’s Rising Star competition.
After a hiatus of 20 years, the director David Sullivan has teamed up again with David Hyde Pierce, who stars in “Accent on Youth.”
Ms. Arthur’s commanding stature and flair for the comic jab made her a star in the shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls.”
Thomas Sadoski, who has earned award nominations for his roles as clueless boyfriends, has emerged as a classic New York theater success story.
Hope they saved some money in the budget for soundproofing: Variety reported that the actor Christian Bale, top right, and the director David O. Russell, bottom, two Hollywood stars who are not exactly known for their verbal restraint, will soon be working together on a new film called, of all things, “The Fighter.” The movie, to be directed by Mr. Russell, is to star Mark Wahlberg as the boxer Mickey Ward, known as Irish, and Mr. Bale as his troubled half-brother Dicky Eklund. In 2007 Mr. Russ...
Members of the Screen Actors Guild will now have their say on a proposed new contract that is little changed from what the major Hollywood studios offered 10 months ago.
Hanging out with Colin Hanks, who opened on Broadway last month in Mois�s Kaufman’s “33 Variations.”
People close to the talks said the agreement would provide the actors with no substantial financial gains over contracts previously signed by other show-business guilds.
Hollywood’s pool of leading men is getting larger and not necessarily in a good way.
Carla Gugino is coming to Broadway in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms.”
Mr. Wrangler, born John Stillman, who appeared in gay and straight sex films, and later wrote and directed cabarets, was a role model for the gay liberation movement.
With layoffs rising in New York, casting agencies are seeing much bigger responses to their calls for “background talent” than just a few months ago.
Mr. Hallett made his mark playing the green-skinned, good-guy demon Lorne on the TV series “Angel.”