Who Dare Portray Truman Capote?
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toby Jones, and Tom Hollander have dared to portray Truman Capote to varying effect. Capote remains a complicated challenge.
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Marilyn Monroe Really Knew How to Act
Marilyn Monroe’s performative femininity as Sugar in Some Like It Hot is just as artificial as Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon’s drag characters’, only better.
Acting Connects Us All, Which Is ‘Why Acting Matters’
Through memorable, entertaining stories about actors and a brief history of acting in Britain and the United States, David Thomson reveals why acting matters so much to us all.
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Haing Ngor’s finest performance occurred in Cambodia’s actual killing fields, when he convinced the Khmer Rouge that he was a taxi driver, not a doctor.