Hugh Dancy's new movie "Adam" is getting good reviews. So how might nifty-looking fancy Dancy gear up to play one suffering with Asperger's syndrome, the neuro logical disorder similar to autism?
"I actually only had limited time, six weeks, in which to prep," he said. "So you just put your head down and go. I first did all the reading about it I could find. Then I researched it on the Internet. When I thought I knew enough I sat down with those afflicted, and there's an infinity of different types. Many...
"I actually only had limited time, six weeks, in which to prep," he said. "So you just put your head down and go. I first did all the reading about it I could find. Then I researched it on the Internet. When I thought I knew enough I sat down with those afflicted, and there's an infinity of different types. Many...
- 7/30/2009
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters -- Brothers & Sisters lost the services of its creator, award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz, as a result of the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, which provided the producers with a contractual loophole allowing them to dismiss him. Since then, the show has had an ever-increasing scent of soap about it, reaching a nadir with ludicrous simultaneous plot twists involving Rebecca, the illegitimate daughter of the deceased Walker family patriarch, who conveniently turned out not to be his daughter after all (so that she can have a romantic relationship with his son Justin), and another illegitimate child, a son this time, suddenly discovered (and by yet another mother).The redoubtable Sally Field has had to navigate this slippery terrain in her role as Nora Walker, and she has done so with her customary grace and authority. Revisiting the emotions Nora felt when betrayed by her husband's infidelity and dishonesty,...
- 1/15/2009
- backstage.com
New Show Not A Kramer Clone
SEINFELD star Michael Richards says he wasn't sure if there was life after Kramer. After earning a reported $13 million in one season on the hit "show about nothing, " Richards took it easy. He travelled, restored his home, read classic books by authors like Herman Melville and did little acting, outside of a role in the TNT version of David Copperfield (2000) (TV) He reveals, "At first I didn't really want to work. There wasn't anything that was really exciting me. So I thought I was going to retire." Next month he returns in "The Michael Richards Show" (2000), playing a befuddled detective. Some of the mannerisms are the same, but Richards insists "I'm not the Kramer character."...
- 9/25/2000
- WENN
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