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New Works Virtual Festival Now Running Through Christmas Day
An article about the New Works Virtual Festival benefiting The Actors Fund and running now through Christmas Day.
An article about the New Works Virtual Festival benefiting The Actors Fund and running now through Christmas Day.
An article about the New Works Virtual Festival being rescheduled for November 2020 and its call for editors.
An interview with actor Kevin Pollack about the New Works Virtual Festival (Oct. 18-24) benefitting The Actors Fund.
An interview with actor/director Danny DeVito about "Curmudgeons" and a presentation of the short film.
LOS ANGELES -- Someday someone is going to write a scholarly book about the films of Clint Eastwood, and go plumbing about down there in the depths of his psyche, looking for clues. There may be some interesting discoveries. It's a tricky business, analyzing the obsessions and longings of most movie stars, because they don't generate their own movies; examine their careers and what you'll really discover is what their directors thought about them. The late Cary Grant, for example, remains an enigma despite all of the words written about him; he buried his original self so deep inside that he was even able to joke about how he became the characters that he played.
“Kramer vs. Kramer,” the drama of a child custody fight, won nine Academy Award nominations on Monday – and so, in a surprise, did "All That Jazz," about a Broadway director’s self-destruction.
“There wasn't any one single horrendous event,” Kim Darby was saying, thinking aloud. “And I never said to myself, all right, I'm going to drop out. It just sort of happened more naturally. I decided to stop running from here to there, and sit down with myself and do a little thinking. You know what I wanted to do? I wanted to wear myself better.”
