I've never been a particularly patient person. I came from a family of slow-moving people who seemed to think that life was something that just unfold...
Jeff "The Dude" Dowd | Posted 02.28.2010 | Entertainment
There's something about the appeal of Jeff Bridges that goes deeper than his engaging performances, good looks, charm, brains and acting chops. That was the mystery that I may have stumbled into figuring out.
Lola Cohen | Posted 02.22.2010 | Books
Lee Strasberg spent his long life as an acting teacher, director, and performer inspiring generations of pupils with his Method. His techniques remain ever fresh and appealing to young acting and directing students.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 02.08.2010 | Home
Last night, I sat and watched the students in my acting class do some very good work. I've been blessed with a very gifted and unique group this time ...
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 03.19.2010 | Entertainment
I'm hungry, hungry for life, hungry to feel, hungry to do. It just feels right. If you look at your hands, these hands, they were meant to DO things with - to work, to play, to struggle, to fight for it, to care.
The Guardian | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Leading actors in South Africa have spoken out against Hollywood stars cherrypicking the best roles in films about their country. Members of the Creat...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Impact
Actor Patrick Stewart wrote an illuminating column in Friday's Guardian about his childhood as a victim of domestic violence in Yorkshire, England. S...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
Well, it's finally happened. Dr. Mark Greene is back on television this weekend in the NYC Marathon. And while Anthony Edwards is sure this "five hour...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 03.18.2010 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
Lennard Davis | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment
The normal education in the US involves extensive training in speech for deaf people. While not all will end up speaking in ways that might work on stage, so many can.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.18.2010 | Living
When you feel trapped in a negative, ask yourself the positive question, and maybe that will shed light on how to change it or at least change your mind.
2morrowknight | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
Deep in your heart, you know Colbert's got the complete package of comic timing, creativity, audacity, and that indefinable "it" to pull off a portrayal of such a multi-layered villain.
Dori Berinstein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment
Attention all disenfranchised Hollywood writers, actors, producers: Broadway needs you. Broadway, in fact, wants you!
Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment
Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
In my humble opinion, the trick is not to obsess or become phobic about periods of "under-employment," but to realize that (for most of us) they are simply inevitable.
Donna Fish | Posted 08.10.2009 | New York
So while New York offers all these amazing cultural opportunities, I have to battle my feeling of responsibility to offer my kids as much exposure as I can, and that it is my job, come hell or high water, to shove it down their throats
Una LaMarche | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy
I have always wanted to be discovered in a supermarket. Notice I say "discovered"--I have always wanted to be famous but have never wanted to try for it, stuck as I am in an ever-vacillating battle between fear and laziness.
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
"It is better to give than to receive" is a phrase that has become so commonplace, it's easy to take the meaning lightly. Many of us have felt that wo...
Jim Luce | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style
Making a career in acting is a challenging prospect. What makes Anouk Dutruit's ambitions even more invigorating is her other career. By day and international lawyer, by night an actor.
Rob Morrison | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment
One of the beautiful things about being "in between jobs" is you have plenty of time to try new things.
Larkin Clark | Posted 05.17.2009 | Style
If people ask my age, I tell them. We shouldn't feel shame for getting older; we should feel pride for having gotten so far. Living, after all, isn't easy.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
Sinise: "It's a look at military families and military life, the Iraq war and the integrity of the people that I know that are serving that; I responded to positively and wanted to support that."
Josa Young | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment
Victoria Gray, the widow of the playwright Simon Gray, was thinking of creating a website for her late husband, as an online resource for anyone interested in his work. I leapt at the chance.
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 04.19.2009 | Entertainment
I didn't really know Natasha Richardson. But twenty years ago I was in a movie with her, and I'll always remember her at the opening script read-through.
Howard Fine | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
If you looked at Jindal's eyes and listened to his voice in the speech, you can sense the hollowness. True emotions travel. Manufactured emotions remain static.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 03.15.2010 | Home