Motion picture actors and actresses Archives

Motion picture actors and actresses

Striking Out

From “Hollywood on the Line,” which appeared in the January 1984 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. Union politics…

The Life and Death of Hollywood

by Daniel Bessner,

Film and television writers face an existential threat

Notion Picture Industry

by Patton Oswalt,

By Patton Oswalt, from Silver Screen Fiend, to be published next month by Scribner. In memory of Sherman Torgan, an L.A. theater owner, Oswalt imagined “a month’s worth of titles…

The Longest Days

by Richard Burton,

From actor Richard Burton’s diary entries recording a trip with his wife Elizabeth Taylor to visit Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in preparation for The Battle of Sutjeska, a 1973…

David Carradine is not washed up

by Harper’s Staff,

Mr. Modesty

by Larry Grobel,

The diva in decline

by Daniel Harris,

John Candy’s Biggest Fan Says Farewell

by Harper’s Staff,

From “A Final Farewell: A Personal Meeting with John Candy,” by Lyle, in the June/July issue of Big-Ad, a magazine “for full-framed men,” published in San Francisco. Friday, March 4,…

A River runs through him

by Joel Hoffman,

When actors think really, really hard

by Eric Stoltz, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Modine,

Trading places

by Harper’s Staff,

Motion picture actors and actresses

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Striking Out

The Life and Death of Hollywood

Notion Picture Industry

The Longest Days

David Carradine is not washed up

Mr. Modesty

The diva in decline

John Candy’s Biggest Fan Says Farewell

A River runs through him

When actors think really, really hard

Trading places

July 1993

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