Actors and Actresses: News, Information and Reviews
Perhaps lulled by the absence of any ominous drums, executives at the television networks seem eerily calm right now about the prospect of a strike by their actors.
The Screen Actors Guild, now embroiled in negotiations with film and television producers over a new contract, has made the plight of the middle-income actor the centerpiece of its campaign for more lucrative terms.
Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.
Miss Goodman combined a dancer’s grace, a strawberry blond mane and exquisitely timed scatter-brained humor to create television legends.
How Matthew Weiner turned early-’60s advertising culture into the smartest show on television.
Mr. Persson was a movie and theater producer best known for a controversial racial drama, “Dutchman,” and a charming children’s musical, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
The dispute increases the likelihood of new labor strife in an entertainment industry still recovering from a writers’ strike that ended just four months ago.
Mr. Ferrer disliked acting in films as much as he loved directing them but nevertheless made his name acting in movies like “The Brave Bulls,” “Lili” and “War and Peace.”
Everywhere actors and audiences gather, it seems, awards are handed out. And the fallout, much like that after the Tonys, is not always pretty.
Daniel Evans, currently in the running for a Tony Award for his performance in “Sunday in the Park With George,” is a student of philosophy in the real, cram-for-the-exam sense.
At the closing ceremony of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet was overrun by teenagers when the French film “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”) won the Palme d’Or.
An 18-year-old actor with a small role in the forthcoming film “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was fatally stabbed in a brawl outside a London bar.
Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”
Filming took place in an abandoned storefront. The script was unintelligible. Then came the night the director pulled out the very real handgun her co-star was to use.
After three fruitless weeks of talks, actors and producers remained far apart on compensation for programming delivered via new media like the Internet.