Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron Chayefski (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981), known as Paddy Chayefsky, was an American dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter. He won Academy Awards for his scripts for the films Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971), and Network (1976). Read the rest of this entry »
Laurence Fishburne
I’ve played a lot of bad guys, ’cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went “Oooh.”
— Laurence Fishburne
AT the age of 10, Laurence Fishburne made his New York stage debut; at 11, he was a regular on One Life To Live (he played the son of the first African-American family to be featured in a daytime drama series); at 12, he landed his first film assignment; at 14, he lied about his age and scored a career-forging role in Francis Ford Coppola’s unforgettable Apocalypse Now, the filming of which was to be a life-altering experience for the untrained, underage newcomer. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Buscemi
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there’s the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
— Steve Buscemi
STEVE BUSCEMI has been called [...]
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
George Michael Cohan, played by James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy is one of the most unique that has produced the world of American entertainment. Cohan was an actor, dancer, singer, playwright, musician, entrepreneur and fifty things besides a fancy kind, sentimental, and incredibly boastful worker. His optimism and aggressive visceral [...]
Pop Art
Sean Means
Director–Mary Harron
Starring-Jared Harris, Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor’s in-your-face performance as Valerie Solanas — the ’60s proto-feminist who failed as a playwright, polemicist, prostitute and assassin of Andy Warhol — energizes director Mary Harron’s film. The movie’s re-creation of Warhol’s Factory, complete with artificial attitude and blase hangers-on, is amusingly faithful if a bit sterile.
Vanishing Mother
Director–Rebecca Miller
Starring Miranda Rhyne, Miranda Rhyne
Drama 105 min
Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur Miller) wrote and directed this painfully insightful drama about two young sisters (Miranda Stuart Rhyne and Charlotte Blythe) who witness the gradual mental
Patrick Stewart
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
— Patrick Stewart
IN 1987, the same people who had once picked unheralded and classically trained Canadian actor William Shatner to play Iowa farm boy-cum-intergalactic adventurer Captain James T. Kirk on TV’s Star Trek selected [...]
Sam Shepard
I didn’t go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
— Sam Shepard
THE phrase “Renaissance man” is bandied about so freely these days that it is hard to take the label seriously. But in the case of Sam Shepard, it is truly an apt description; he’s [...]
Geoffrey Rush
Instead of having a midlife crisis, I suddenly got into the movies.
— Geoffrey Rush
IF you watched the Oscars in 1997, you may have been asking yourself who that Australian actor was accepting the award for Best Actor, and you wouldn’t be alone. Before his award-winning turn as the psychologically disturbed pianist David Helfgott turned him [...]
Chazz Palminteri
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I’d rather just refuse, thanks.
— Chazz Palminteri
