Actors

Danny Aiello: Singing, Selecting Roles, and Taking On a Musical Al Capone

Jon Chattman | Posted 12.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: American Idol, Musical, Tony Bennett, Spike Lee, Song, Danny Aiello, Broadway, 29th Street, Darin, Moonstruck, Music, Sinatra, Actors, Al Capone, Solo, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

"It's not about vanity," Danny Aiello said sincerely via a phone interview from his New Jersey home. "It wasn't a need to sing. I wanted to sing."

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South Africans Angry Over Casting Of Mandelas

The Guardian | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Actors, Nelson Mandela, Jennifer Hudson, Morgan Freeman, Acting, Winnie Mandela, Hollywood, World News

Leading actors in South Africa have spoken out against Hollywood stars cherrypicking the best roles in films about their country. Members of the Creat...

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LA News Anchors I'd Like to See

Ellen Rapoport | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Weeather Reports, Slidepoll, TV Anchors, Los Angeles, Sports, Ron Burgundy, Actors, Los Angeles News
Ellen Rapoport

Why can't a city with so much hometown talent find any to deliver its news? Even the Valley's porn industry gets more respect than LA's journalists, and for good reason.

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In Praise of the Working Artist

Ben Lee | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Working Artist, Musicians, Actors, Hollywood, Justin Timberlake, Australia, Los Angeles News
Ben Lee

I first came to Los Angeles to make an album in 1996. Having grown up in Australia, I had a very romantic, and probably not uncommon, view of Hollywood as one giant star-making machine.

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New York City's Indian Film Festival: MIAAC

Priyanka Boghani | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Indian-Film-Director, India, Films, Bollywood, Miaac, Film, Women Directors, Actors, Mira Nair, World News
Priyanka Boghani

MIAAC started with an independent Asian American filmmaker focus, but now has broadened to the Indian film industry as well as artists from the wider Indian diaspora.

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When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Campaigns, Elections, Hollywood Politics, Actresses, Hollywood, Dirty Tricks, Actors, Newspapers, New Deal, The Jungle, Pbs, Mgm, Upton Sinclair, Barack Obama, Fdr, Mad Men, Harry Chandlers, Campaign of the Century, Socialist, President Roosevelt, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Will Rogers, HL Mencken, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.

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Henry Gibson Died: Dead At 73

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: British Actors, Henry Gibson Dead, Henry Gibson Life, Laugh-In, Rowan-and-Martin, Henry Gibson Laugh-In, Henry Gibson, Henry Gibson Obituary, Actors, Henry Gibson Died, Henry Gibson Death, Henry Gibson Dies, Henry Gibson Photo, Henry Gibson Poems, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," ha...

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Being a Great Professional

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Peter Drucker, Phony, Leaders, Change, 42nd Street, Executive Educator, Inspiration, Clinton, Behavior, Frances Hesselbein, Broadway, Professional, President, Actors, Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. It doesn't matter if they have a headache. They do whatever it takes to help their organization succeed.

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Jennifer Aniston's FML Moment

Disgrasian | Posted 07.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bounty Hunter Movie, Brad Pitt, Friends, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Actors, Fml, Comedy News
Disgrasian

One minute, I'm on the hottest television show of all time and married to the hottest man in the universe. And the next, I'm forty, single and my ovaries are drying up.

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Can Hollywood Recover From the SAG Strike that Wasn't?

Earnest Harris | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Filmmaking, Amptp, Screen Actors Guild, Earnest Harris, Producers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Actors, Entertainment News
Earnest Harris

The toll of this month's long semi-strike, the 100 day long writer's strike, and the Director's Guild and AFTRA negotiations in 2008, has impacted and hurt not only our wallets, but our hearts as well.

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Q & A: Actors Sienna Miller And Peter Sarsgaard Explore The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Peters Sarsgaard, Actors, Michael Chabon, Mysteries of Pittsburg, Sienna Miller, Novel, Movie-Adaptations, Keira Knightley, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Col. Vershinin, In the Electric Mist, Three Sisters, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Anton Chekhov. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Johnny Lee Miller, Uncle Vanya, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Somewhat like her character in Mysteries In Pittsburgh, Sienna Miller is a compelling, straightforward person who makes no bones about what she's about.

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Times are Tough for Actors, But How Big a Whore Are You?

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Lies, Hmophobia, Media Manipulation, Robbie Rist, Cat-Noel, National Organization for Marriage, Equal Marriage Rights, Michael Des Barres, Equal-Marriage-Rights, False Advertsing, Theocracy, Religious Right, Cat Noel, Gay Marriage, Actors, Media News
Lisa Derrick

These people expressing their ludicrous, poisonous, misguided views about equal marriage rights are actors reading lines.

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Down That Revolutionary Road Towards Many Award Accolades

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Actors, Kate Winslet, Corporate Life, Titanic, Golden Globes, Film, 1950s, Richard Yates, Kathy Bates, Oscars, Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes, Michael Shannon, Love, Rebellion, Kate Winslet Leonardo Dicaprio, Levittown, Leonardo Dicaprio, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

In Revolutionary Road, audiences see the destruction of a relationship never really fated to be, somewhat thrown together by expectations they have for each other but are never realized.

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Why Do Musicians Mistreat Their Pets?

Andy Pemberton | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paris Hilton, Jaws, Beyonce, Mickey Rourke, Musicians, Hollywood, Actors, Chicuahua, Entertainment News
Andy Pemberton

What kind of dog you prefer, they say, speaks volumes. Pit bulls are favoured by the insecure, teacup dogs by the frilly. But how you treat those animals says a lot more.

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Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fascism, Actors, Jason Isaacs, Viggo Mortensen, Nazi Era, Harry Potter, Film, CP Taylor, Good, Germany, Vicente Amorim, Adolf Hitler, Jewish, British Play, Movies, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Viggo Mortensen: There was this... little Hungarian kid about five years old, playing with the little swastika flag on our first day of shooting. [He was] sticking it in the sand castle, really having fun with it.

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Cavemen in Cashmere

Beth Broderick | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Actors, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Beth Broderick

The health of a society can be measured by the vitality of its middle class. This is true of Industry as well. Hollywood has pushed the middle class of artists to the bottom and now they are on the verge of extinction.

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Smells Like Republican Schadenfreude

Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, John McCain, Actors, Election Fraud, Latino Voters, Latino, Breaking Politics News, Obama, Voting With the Stars, Las Vegas, Hispanic, Democrat, Barack Obama, Republican, Independent, Voter Fraud, Politics News
Kamala Lopez

I feel very very ashamed of what we, as Americans, have come to accept as "all's fair" in this craven fight to win.

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Acting Like Change Is at Hand

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 10.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Labor, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Unions, Actors, Entertainment News
Annabelle Gurwitch

Yesterday brought exciting news for many SAG members who voted to elect candidates endorsed by and representing our interests who banded together to form the group Unite for Strength.

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Everyone Has Advice for Obama

Dave Winer | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cnn, John McCain, Celebrities, Actors, Al Pacino, George Clooney, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mccain, Joe Biden, Matt Damon, Claire McCaskill, Steve Gillmor, Baracktv, Politics News
Dave Winer

For Joe Biden, John McCain is not your friend and stop saying he is and stop calling him John. We're really tired of all you guys playing inside baseball with each other.

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Obama Enjoys The 'Spirit Of Upset'

New York Times | David Kocieniewski | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: California Primary, Spirit of Upset, Mitt Romney Super Tuesday, New York Primary, Super Tuesday Primary, New Jersey Primary, Illinois Primary, Barack Obama Super Tuesday, February 5th, Obama Campaign, Clinton Campaign, Mike Huckabee, Republican Primaries, Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday Primaries, John McCain, Hillary Clinton Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday Campaigning, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Huckabee Super Tuesday, Actors, Actors Obama, Democratic Primaries, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, GOP Primaries, Clinton Obama California, Tuesday Primaries, Super Tuesday Polls, Super Tuesday Results, John McCain Super Tuesday, Politics News

Despite the brutal schedule of the pre-Super Tuesday endgame, Senator Barack Obama seemed crisp and inspired this afternoon throughout his 35-minute a...

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