WHEN artists at the National Theater here began creating their World War I drama "War Horse" five years ago, they placed cardboard boxes over the heads of actors to imagine stand-ins for the show's horse puppets, which were still being designed.
CHICAGO — On a film soundstage here, a tense scene was unfolding, with the actor Lou Diamond Phillips, playing a rogue cop, holding a gun aimed at the head of another actor, who stood tall, unflinching, his face and frame thinner than in his glory days, but still handsome, his hair concealed under a tight-fitting black beret.
A video of Temme's field of vision, recorded with a Go-Pro camera fixed to the head of an actor, showed that Yozgat's body would have been visible to the 1.90-metre tall man as he paused to place his payment on the blood-splattered counter.
Seeing John Malkovich Other films won the Oscars, but for months a lot of people's favorite movie has been "Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonzee's film about a puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers that he and his wife and anybody else can crawl into a little door in the wall and take a sloppy slide into the head of the actor.
Before reaching the White House they had extensive careers in public office and, in Reagan's case, in the private sector as an actor, head of the Screen Actor's Guild, and spokesman for General Electric.
"Getting inside the head of key actors in the world and terrorists is the holy grail of intelligence," he said.
Ms. Eisner was referring to MOCA galas like the one directed by the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli and featuring a performance by Lady Gaga, or the one last year at which the performance artist Marina Abramovic used the head of live actors to create "centerpieces" and who startled museum patrons by placing naked women across their tables and draping them with skeletons.
Kunichika often portrayed beautiful women (bijinga), but his finest works are considered to have been bust, half- and three-quarter length, and close-up or "large-head" portraits of actors, and triptychs that presented "wide-screen" views of plays and popular stories.
"And they —— " The head of Terry Crews, the actor and former National Football League player, pops out of the box of Freshmates, as his hand, holding a can of Old Spice body spray, smashes through a wall.
He still has a full head of white hair an actor's crown but his too readily charming grin is just a memory.
