Leonard Stone, a familiar character actor on television and in films who had a memorable turn as an overindulgent father in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," died on Wednesday at his home in San Diego.
Twitter becomes a familiar child actor we watch playing with the kids while we talk politics and sports with cigars and brandy.
In New York, van Hove established almost an alternate company: a coterie of familiar actors, many of whom he has now been working with for years.
The scathingly funny "In the Loop" stars a clutch of familiar and somewhat familiar actors, including a very good James Gandolfini and a barely recognizable Steve Coogan, in a political satire about the behind-the-scene power plays in Washington and in London that preceded the Iraq war.
Isaach De Bankolé, the black French actor from the Ivory Coast making his fourth film with Jarmusch, travels around Spain encountering a dozen people played by familiar actors from a dozen countries ranging from Japan to Palestine, none of whom appears to know of the others' existence.
The show, which begins on Thursday with a report on a fleet of "sex vans," stars Mr. Zickel, 42, as La Fonda and features a team of equally clueless correspondents investigating inane subjects and interviewing a rotating cast of familiar actors, comics and others.
It gives all these great, familiar actors a place to rest their heads, unpack their bags and take some time to actually read those scripts their agents are sending over, without my having to worry about whom they're hanging out with in the meantime.
Just turn on your Sitcom-o-Matic and sit back while its microchips randomly choose a familiar premise and throw familiar actors into familiar roles.
This condemnation of international Islamic powers and predilection to negotiate with familiar actors smacks of a nationalist agenda.
