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Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”
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The stage is set for a new and more difficult phase in the showdown between actors and producers over a contract to replace the current deal, which expires June 30.
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In his new movie, “Iron Man,” Robert Downey Jr. is an imposing presence encased in armor. He wears a different kind of armor off screen.
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The actress and former model talks about going on safari in her backyard, the benefits of the smallest screen and why the sexual habits of insects are glamorous.
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Ms. Court was a British actress who began as a popular ingénue and became a cult figure as a “scream queen” in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A chorus girl in the 1940s and ’50s, Ms. Burton later started a talent agency that represented River and Joaquin Phoenix and Henry Thomas, the boy in “E.T.”
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Morgan Freeman returns to the Broadway stage for the first time in 20 years in the revival of “The Country Girl.”
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Alan Rosenberg said Tuesday he remained angry enough over performer compensation levels to bring the entertainment industry to a halt again.
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As the star and co-writer of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” Jason Segel finds a way to play his real-life embarrassment and humiliation for laughs.
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Mr. Heston appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career, but he is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo.
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