Online review sites like Yelp can be really helpful, but one always has to remember to take it from the source. I remember reading one that gave a hotel a poor review because the lobby chairs weren’t comfortable and the hotel TV didn’t have the writer’s favorite channel.
Go back one hundred years and the only options actors had to display their craft were the theater and the still-in-its-infancy movies. Radio and television opened up more opportunities in the following decades, and more recently the internet has allowed actors to show their work instantly on a worldwide scale.
It seems like almost every septuagenarian actor is required to do at least one “grumpy old man” movie role in which its pretty typical for such a character to go from a cranky and surly old coot to a smiling, kindly grandfather with a young heart by the end of the film. Thankfully, in Robot and Frank director Jake Schreier and writer Christopher D. Ford, with a great performance by Frank Langella, find a way around that cliche by sticking the grumpy old man with… a robot pal.
Fiona on the playing the darker side of Jenna: “That’s what has been so much fun for me as an actor”
Ben Feldman recently won an Emmy nomination for his role as Michael Ginsberg on AMC’s Mad Men. It was a lucky break for an actor previously known for his work on Drop Dead Diva.
Dorian on Season Two: “It did not get easier”
Zuckerman: “We’re building to another surprise at the end of the season”
Fellow actors Erin Cronican needs your help with her theater company, The Seeing Place Theater. Check it out below! We’re thrilled to be sharing with you today The Seeing Place’s most ambitious project yet – our Summer Series including Harold Pinter’s The Lover and John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
Anne Hathaway was honored with an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Jonathan Demme’s critically acclaimed drama Rachel Getting Married. For her work in the film, Hathaway also earned Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® nominations, and also won the National Board of Review, Chicago Film Critics Association, and Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Actress.
Despite Christopher Nolan’s insistence to take a more realistic approach to his Batman films (well, as realistic as a man dressing as a bat to fight crime can be), it was inevitable that Batman’s main love interest, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, would show up at some point. She finally appears in The Dark Knight Rises, portrayed by Anne Hathaway.
