Actor "resting" between gigs? "The meaning of the piece has nothing to do with me," said Swinton, who collaborated on it with artist Cornelia Parker.
It looks at how often an actor rests between two other actors, i.e., calculates how many times an actor sits on the geodesic (the shortest path) linking two other actors together.
There is no shortage of candidates for valet jobs: immigrants trying to get a foothold in American society; students trying to make ends meet; actors "resting" between jobs.
The third argument for a higher stability of balance of power systems with multiple actors rests upon the Richardson model of arms race, which assumes that the conflict behaviour of each of the two parties in a bipolar power system grows at an exponential rate.
A room at a theater where actors rest when not onstage, or a room at a television studio where guests wait before going on-camera.
"From 'Night Music' to 'Phantom,' George has been a director's dream, always quick to incorporate new ideas and never an actor who rests back into the same old performance," Mr. Prince said.
Playing the former child star Elizabeth Taylor in "Liz & Dick" relied at least a little on her public volatility, and at times it has felt as if the whole existence of "The Canyons," the coming film written by Bret Easton Ellis that also stars the porn actor James Deen, rests on her public unreliability as a low-cost marketing tool.
Actors rest and actors wait.
And whereas a lot of actors would rest in between times, possibly spending their money, Franco has been making art.
"He would give actors a page or two to read," Mr. Poitier said, "and in watching that actor, he could see what rested behind the words, which gave him a good measurement of the power that actor had".
