He bragged that there are at least 100 objects in the 270-square-foot space, including 40 paintings, 2 bureaus, 5 side tables, 10 fabrics, 2 round folding tables he deploys for dinner parties of up to 8 people (though he has a china service here for 12) and Noah's velour dog bed.
Spacey discussed what he calls his "disruptive" professional behavior in a genial interview in Beverly Hills last week, slipping occasionally into his Jack Lemmon and Bill Clinton impressions and a generic Valley Guy voice he deploys for mocking stupid people ("Like, don't you get bored doing the same thing every night?").
He recently told BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme that the strange chest-walloping noise he deployed for this part was culled from his own habit of thumping himself as he prepares to shoot a scene.
Specifically, Hugh Laurie performed a series of sketches 30 years ago in the same accent he deployed for the arms trader, and so-called "worst man in the world", Dickie Roper in the thriller series that's been gripping Britain these past six weeks.
At first Mr. Romano's deadpan stare does not seem much different from the one he deployed for nine seasons and thousands of laughs on his hit CBS comedy, "Everybody Loves Raymond".
When Patrick tries to blag his way backstage, earnestly announcing himself as a "journalist", he gets a homily from Stillwater's lead guitarist Russell, played by Billy Crudup in the hairy, sloppy early-1970s mode he deployed for playing runner Steve Prefontaine in Without Limits.
And he's been known to carry on his person decks of cards, dice, ropes, pennies, coat hangers, sometimes a Slinky, maybe a miniature toy bicycle, all props he deploys both for explaining ideas and for his own amusement.
It is that he deploys his individualism for the larger good, which is how the movies reconcile the American problem of self and society.
(Isherwood) 'AMERICAN FIESThe Theconomistst, consultant, preacher and playwright Steven Tomlinson makes his New York stage debut with a one-man show about how it was that he came to collect Fiestaware, the colorful china of the Depression years, which he deploys as a metaphor for just about everything.
According to IMDb, the film follows "National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers".
Analysts and Western diplomats said at the time that Mr. Mugabe might lose his grip on power if he were unable to sustain the patronage he had deployed for decades.
