English television actors

Celebrities on Social Media “Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are where stars go to be made and where dying stars go live again” (Allen). Since the Internet has appeared, the music industry has been majorly impacted. Celebrities are now able to gain exposure and fans, and can also use social media to connect with their fans and stay famous. They are able to get more exposure and promote themselves to help their careers. They also can use their fame for other purposes such as charities. The…

the movie was an actual full sized model. The production designer by the name of “J. Michael Riva” created the realistic pirate ship for where the actors look for the treasure on. Director Richard Donner forbade the actors from seeing the ship at all, the first time they saw the ship was during their final take of filming. Donner wanted to get the actors surprised reaction from their first glimpse to make that moment a more realistic performance for the movie. Towards the end of the movie all…

Singing in the Rain is “backstage” musical filled with comedy, songs and romance that was released in 1951 but set in the late 1920’s. It was one of the last films to be produced during the profitable golden age of the studio system. The film employs the typical characteristics a Hollywood musical by relying on superstar names and contagious dance numbers. The movie incorporates an additional level of parody into its wistful plot that is centered on the disruptive shift from silent movies to…

The artist/designer i have decided to base my work off is Tim Burton, Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is mostly known for his “Burton-esque” style that he has been developed by him as he is such an influential artist with his films and art, it is mainly frame by frame art as he does storyboards for his stop-motion films and also concept arts for his final characters in the films, his work has been produced since 1982 and he is still making work…

Show” was a very great play. Since it was a musical, I knew I would enjoy it. I do not think there was one thing I did not enjoy about the play. The reason I enjoyed the play is because the story about the freaks was very vivid and understanding. The actors, costumes, music, designs were all amazing. The director, casts, and staging were all great. The director of the play is Adriano Cabral and he did a fantastic job. In order for the play to be a play, a director is needed to organize and…

For this discussion board I tried to choose two movies that had a common story line which would create a much more interesting critique between the two. This will more so create a compare and contrast between the two movies I’ve chosen in my opinion just because they are in some ways similar. The Longest Yard and the Gridiron Gang are two movies both based on football being played by athletes who are incarcerated. The Longest Yard is a fiction movie and Gridiron Gang is a nonfiction movie. I was…

Girard believes that Imitation is the basic mechanism of learning and contends that reproducing someone else’s behaviors can have a positive outcome. However, he also posits that when we imitate another’s desire for a given object; conflicts and rivalries may occur. He distinguishes this type of imitation as “mimesis.” He further classifies this potential conflict as “internal mediation.” Sheehan and Jordon place Girard’s theory of mimesis in a choral rehearsal context where the subject…

The Royal Family, written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, is a play about three generations of a wealthy family during the 1920s. I watched the play on December 6, 2015 at the Pierce College Arts Building. The play was directed Anita Adcock, who did great job setting the play as she intended it to be. Everything from the costumes, the lighting, to the typecasting was excellently produced. Particularly, the set design was able to greatly express the theme of the play. The setting mainly…

The film The Wall is directed by Doug Liman which he also directed the film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” The Wall is led by three actors Aaron Taylor- Johnson as Sgt. Allen Isaac, John Cena as Staff Sgt. Shane Matthews, and Laith Nakli the voice of Juba an Iraqi sniper. The film is set in 2007 in Iraq at an oil pipeline where Sgt. Isaac and Staff Sgt. Matthews were called on to secure the area after they were informed there was a shootout. When the soldiers arrived, they encountered a sniper that was…

of the year awards at the Tejano Music Awards in 1987. Her death was a sudden surprise; her fan club leader killed her. She died at the age of twenty-three and did not have a chance to see all that she dreamed of becoming a major star in both the English and Latin community. In an interview with billboard.com Jennifer says, “The fact that she was so young and doing all of these things that people go through that maybe she wasn't ready for. I felt she had a sense to live in the moment, that…