Monthly Archives: May 2014

MICHAEL GAMBON ON ACTING: ‘YOU JUST DO IT. THAT’S WHAT ACTING IS’ · May 21st

(Michael Billington’s article appeared the Guardian, 5/20.)

I was glancing at an old National Theatre programme the other day and two names leaped out at me. Among the cast listing for "sailors, servants etc" in a 1965 production of Congreve's Love for Love, I noticed Anthony Hopkins and Mike Gambon (as he then was). Both rose spectacularly from the ranks, became acting heavyweights and achieved knighthoods. But where Hopkins virtually forsook the stage to become a Hollywood star, Gambon has combined theatre, film and television to become one of of our most cherished actors. He's not merely liked; he's loved.

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/20/michael-gambon-interview

 

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LIV ULLMANN AND THE WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISSION · May 9th

 

(Sarah Costa’s article appeared on Huffington Post, 5/9.)

Twenty-five years ago, a small group of women traveled from the United States to Hong Kong to bear witness to atrocities occurring in "closed camps" that were holding refugees who had fled Vietnam.

Actress and director Liv Ullmann was a member of the group. She recalls "barbed wired cities, thousands upon thousands of terrified people…. men, women and children crammed on top of each other, stacked together on shelves often three levels high. Like spoons in a drawer."

Shocked at the barbaric treatment of the refugees – 80% of whom were women and children – these dynamic women brought the situation to the world's attention and returned to the United States with a clear demand: that the humanitarian community listen to, and truly address the needs of, refugee women and children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-costa/displaced-women-children-_b_5281492.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact

 

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