What do you get when you take the ''sur'' out of ''surrealism''? That sounds like a question in search of a punch line. But few laughs emerge from the answers provided by the somber new revival of John Guare's ''House of Blue Leaves,'' which opened on Monday night at the Walter Kerr Theater. As directed by David Cromer -- and enacted by a...
BEN STILLER'S first memory of the theater was tagging along with his mother, the actress Anne Meara, to rehearsals of John Guare's dark comedy ''The House of Blue Leaves'' in 1971, the year it made its Off Broadway debut. Ms. Meara played the loud-mouthed Bunny Flingus, and Bunny's fake fur coat was the boy's earliest cue that this grown-up thing...
''Hurt people hurt people.'' This nugget of therapy talk is passed from one character to another in Noah Baumbach's ''Greenberg,'' offered as an explanation, an excuse and a sort-of apology. While those four words don't quite sum up the whole of the human condition, they might stand as a concise summary of Mr. Baumbach's recent movies. The battling...
Jennifer Jason Leigh (født Jennifer L. Morrow 5. februar 1962 i Hollywood, Californien) er en amerikansk skuespiller.
Hun debuterede som barneskuespiller i 1973 i Tod eines Fremden og har fra 1981 haft roller i adskillige spillefilm, hvoraf gennembruddet Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Short Cuts (1993) og Stephen King-dramaet Dolores Claiborne (1995) vakte opsigt. Leigh og de øvrige medvirkende i Short Cuts fik en special Golden Globe for deres præstation i 1994. I 2001 medvirkede hun i Kristian Levrings dogmefilm, The King is Alive.
Hun er gift med regissøren Noah Baumbach og datter af instruktør Vic Morrow.