Archive for the 'Actors' Category

80 Years of Women in Film

Check out this incredible video collage that morphs the faces of some of the great screen goddesses of the past 80 years. It’s eerie how it feels like we’re looking at just one woman.

The Fifty Greatest Character Actors…Ever!

Dave is putting together a list. He’d better not forget my favourites: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, John Turturro, and the inestimable Jack Kehler.

Celebrity Sighting

I’m in the process of selling a Powerbook to Michael Pitt, star of Bully and Hedwig. He’s in Toronto filming Rhinoceros Eyes, a film I know nothing about. He wants it to edit video. Uh oh. 21 and he already wants to direct.

Update: It’s less than an hour later and now fiddlepunk Ashley MacIsaac has come in and bought something. It’s like Celebrity Jeopardy in here today.

Balaban On Balaban

Liane Balaban, the Natalie Portman-esque (my oblique way of saying gorgeous) actress who starred in New Waterford Girl, is studying journalism at my wife’s alma mater, Ryerson Polytechnic University. This article brings together her acting, her journalism, and, well, her famous non-relative Bob.