Alan Cumming.Takes his offbeat persona into family films, blockbusters, and art-house fare alike Monopoly, anyone? Surely self-described pansexual pan·sex·u·al adj. Relating to, having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds. n. A pansexual person. pan actor Alan Cumming is up for a round, seeing how he can't seem to be involved with enough movies this year. His delicious ensemble comedy The Anniversary Party, which Cumming coproduced, cowrote, codirected, and costarred in with Jennifer Jason Leigh, is sure to allow the Scot further auteur auteur (ōtör`), in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. opportunities. "It's very exciting and energizing--ultimate artistic expression," he says. And like his uncompromisingly pink, precocious offstage persona, it likely won't stop him from also taking part onscreen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. in big-budget behemoths like last year's Flintstones prequel pre·quel n. A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel. [pre- + (se)quel.] and Get Carter and this year's family fare Spy Kids and Josie and the Pussycats Josie and the Pussycats are a fictitious rock band created by Dan DeCarlo. They have been featured in a number of different media since the 1960s:
"It's nice sometimes to do silly things that are not necessarily taking your clothes off," Cumming admits in a relaxed Scottish brogue. "Also it's great to make films for kids, because they'll be running the studios in 10 years' time." |
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