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Arena Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
It’s tough being Zoe Tapper right now. Not only is she one of the last remaining members of humanity in the BBC’s Survivors, condemned to a bleak dystopian future of building chicken runs and being leered at by Max Beesley, but in January she’ll be turning into a vampire in [...]
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Metroblogging NYC (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Photo from broadwayworld.com I went to see Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. A long-time fan of the play, I’d never seen it on the stage and was excited for this London-born (Royal Court Theatre) version to come to Broadway. After dinner at good old Don Giovanni’s, we headed over to the theater a few [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
The moment Gemma Arterton heard she'd be the new Bond girl is ingrained on her mind for ever. She was on a boat, just off the coast of Gibraltar, filming the comedy Three and Out with Mackenzie Crook. Dressed in full scuba-diving gear – what else would a prospective Bond girl be wearing? – Arterton answered her mobile phone to her agent, who immediately began humming the James Bond theme down the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
A by-the-numbers fantasy adventure for teens
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This is London (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
For all the rich production values and well-known cast, City of Ember falters because of both a very ordinary screenplay and dramatic detail.
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
When Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” first opened in St. Petersburg, in October, 1896, the hubbub of catcalls was so loud that the actors had trouble hearing themselves. Recounting the play’s sensational failure--the humiliated author stopped writing plays for a few years--Chekhov wrote to a friend, “The theatre breathed . . .
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
KRISTIN Scott Thomas is an actor who doesn't act. Rather, she moves into a character, breathing the same air as a human reality. It's a style heaven-sent for the plays and people of Anton Chekhov, as she's now demonstrating as Arkadina, the...
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The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
NEW YORK (AP) - Peter Sarsgaard wants to meet in a coffee bar in Brooklyn, but balks when he gets there. It's crowded with 30-somethings in carefully rumpled hair, funky glasses, sleek laptops, expensive jeans and oh-so-cool graphic T-shirts. The flavor of the day seems to be smug.
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Although Peter Sarsgaard and his wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal take turns on acting jobs, and she just so happens to be filming Crazy Heart , he could not pass up the opportunity to be underpaid on stage and portray Trigorin in an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.