Article: Arts: You don't have to be mad to work here . . .: Identifying too closely with a part can damage an actor's sanity: drivel, self- glorification or a real occupational hazard? Kevin Jackson examines the history of thespian breakdowns

Article: Film: The demon seed A prequel to The ...xorcist? It sounds ...
The Independent - London;  January 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... producers have, as he puts it, "gone for actors rather than stars". For the part of ... Max von Sydow was the leading Swedish actor of his generation," Schrader observes. "Stellan is the leading Swedish actor of his. It was ideal, obvious casting ...

Article: The Prince of Denmark goes east Taking Shakespeare plays to the ...
The Independent - London;  December 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... So we have the Ritz Carlton virtually to ourselves, and the actors - who are used to spending their tours under canvas, washing ... College. For me, this is a good chance to start connecting actors with roles. There are the three Toms - Tom Mallaburn, who ...

Article: Arts: Murch's sound, Coppola's fury The whump-whump of ...
The Independent - London;  November 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... make the film in the face of typhoons, floods, drug-addled actors, family tensions, a real-life guerrilla war just off-screen ... fatal heart attack, half-way through filming, of his leading actor Martin Sheen. Outside the industry, though, not nearly enough ...

Article: Minimal attraction ; To Martin Scorsese and many other directors, ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... including Tod Browning's Dracula and Cocteau's La Belle et la Bte. He's even appeared, briefly, in one feature as an actor: The Truman Show. Had the triumph of Glass not been carried out over such an extended period of time, we would surely regard ...

Article: Choice: KEVIN JACKSON
The Independent - London;  May 25, 1995 ;     350 words ... ... Chabert, but the chances are they'll leave it talking neither about Gerard nor his leading lady Fanny Ardant, but about an actor they may never have noticed before: Fabrice Luchini, who turns in a hauntingly ambiguous reading of the part of Derville ...

Article: Britain's best film? It might not have seemed likely on its first ...
The Independent on Sunday;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... One: our two heroes, unemployed and possibly unemployable actors, while away their empty days and nights in a once-grand Camden ... but it took a low-budget English film about washed-up actors to capture for good and all the dark side of that protracted ...

Article: There is a class of cinemagoer for whom the sharpest pleasureis ...
The Independent - London;  June 15, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Decree; or the tug steamer that putters behind the longboats in The Vikings; or the wristwatches all too visibly sported by actors in Ben Hur (which also boasts a car in one wide shot) and El Cid; or - a particularly charming case, this - the potatoes ...