There are theatrical portraits with pensive actors toying with masks; there's beefcake, including two half-dressed men together in a pre-war Paris gay club by Brassaï.
Rather than trying to get away from his hugely popular persona by portraying, say, an idealistic teacher in a sink school (as his Friends co-star Matthew Perry did in The Ron Clark Story), the actor is toying with public perception.
Mr. Unz was introduced to Mr. Palevsky by the actor Warren Beatty, who toyed last year with running for president on a platform of campaign finance overhaul and flirted with making an advertisement for the measure this week.
Tributes were posted on Twitter by, among others, the actor Peter Fonda, Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, comic and actor Stephen Fry, director Joe Carnahan, and Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood.
The actor may toy with his lines, but you feel a glazing of ennui as he realizes that the whole movie is stuck in toytown, where depth is against the law.
In one corner of the DICE offices, a programmer was toying with the digital face of the actor Michael K. Williams Omarr, from "The Wire"), who plays a member of the team of United States soldiers.
Though Vanda and Thomas' master-slave exchanges are the heart of the play, thematically the theater itself and the relationship between actor and director is toyed.
The actors were drinking coffee under a tree, and Bittrich, away from the others, looking pasty, the way he did when he'd been working too hard, was toying with an enormous German tape player.
The second half is much more focused, and a lot funnier as Stayton, in his priestly garb, homes in on de Niese, and the actors provide toy boy distractions for Janis Kelly's scene-stealing Berta, who sports natty lingerie beneath her tweed twinset.
Celebrity advocates include Mad Men actor January Jones, and Kim Kardashian toyed with the idea.
