"There has probably never been a better time to be Welsh, in terms of the appetite for performers in the profession," said David Bond, head of actor training at the Royal College.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov will head a company of actors in "Forbidden Christmas, or The Doctor and the Patient," a new production by Rezo Gabriadze, whose puppet production "The Battle of Stalingrad" was one of the hits of the 2002 festival.
I always found fault with the fact that they showed three heads of the actors, and that's about all the concept they would use.
He was ill throughout the shooting of the picture and died just ten days after it was finished, and being aware that it was the last picture he would ever make he turned his role into a stunning compendium of the actor's art; it was as if he were saying over our heads to generations of actors not yet born, "Here is how to seem to listen," "Here is how to dominate a scene by walking away from it".
