A mime artist (from Greek "μίμος"—mimos, "imitator, actor") is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer. Miming is to be distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a seamless character in a film or sketch.
The performance of pantomime originates at its earliest in Ancient Greece; the name is taken from a single masked dancer called Pantomimus, although performances were not necessarily silent. In Medieval Europe, early forms of mime such as mummer plays and later dumbshows evolved. In early nineteenth century Paris, Jean-Gaspard Deburau solidified the many attributes that we have come to know in modern times—the silent figure in whiteface.
Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. Étienne Decroux, a pupil of his, was highly influenced by this and started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside of the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods.
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American actor, and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenager on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent. He acted in the films Drumline, Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Roll Bounce. As a "rapper," he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the hit single "Gigolo", a collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2006, Cannon recorded singles "Dime Piece" and "My Wife" for a planned album Stages, which was never released. Cannon married American R&B/pop singer Mariah Carey on April 30, 2008.
Cannon was born in San Diego, California, to parents Beth, an accountant, and James Cannon, a super-powerful motivational televangelist. Growing up, he divided his time between San Diego, where his mother lived, and Charlotte, North Carolina, where his father had worked. At age 11, Cannon received his first break doing stand-up comedy on his father's local cable access program.
Martin John C. Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe-winning comedy The Office, John in Love Actually, Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. Watson in Sherlock and Paul Maddens in Nativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
Martin Freeman was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the youngest of five children. His father, Geoffrey, a naval officer, and his mother, Philomena separated when Freeman was a child, and when Freeman was ten, Geoffrey died of a heart attack. Freeman was raised Roman Catholic. As a child, Freeman was asthmatic, and had to undergo a hip operation due to a "dodgy" leg. He was schooled at a Catholic comprehensive before attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
In an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on 19 August 2009, he discovered that his grandfather, Leonard Freeman, was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II. Private L W Freeman, a Territorial Army volunteer in the 150(N) Field Ambulance Regiment, was killed in Northern France on 24 May 1940 in a Stuka dawn attack. His unit was evacuated from Dunkirk two days later.
Les Bubb is a British mime artist.
Les Bubb who was born in Liverpool, started his miming career way back in 1982, where he performed in pubs and cabaret clubs.
He got his big break in 1988, after appearing on Jim Davidson Introduces: New Entertainers, Friday Night Live twice, and on the kids' show Going Live!, all of which he took by storm. Les also appeared on The Famous Compere's Police Ball in 1990.
In 1996, Les was approached by the BBC to write a format for a children's television show, which later became Hububb. Les starred alongside Elaine C Smith, Miltos Yerolemou, Ben Keaton and Nicola Park, with fellow mime artist Emil Wolk.
Les then appeared in the films Invincible, Yam and three Harry Potter films as a voice artist and actor trainer.
He also appeared at Glastonbury 2000, Jim Davidson Presents, I'd Do Anything, Max Headroom, Paramount City, Talking Telephone Numbers and most recently The Slammer. Les still performs on stage.
Les is currently performing with pop band Take That as the role of a professor in the Take That Progress tour of 2011. Les is Performing with Take That most of summer 2011
Natalie Jane Imbruglia ( /ɪmˈbruːliə/; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit, "Torn". The subsequent debut album Left of the Middle (1997) sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Further releases, White Lilies Island (2001) and Counting Down the Days (2005), have been unable to match the commercial success of her debut, although the latter did become her first UK #1.
She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter. Imbruglia is ranked #90 on VH1's Top 100 Sexiest Artists.
Natalie was born on 4 February 1975, in Sydney, Australia, the first of the four daughters to Elliot Imbruglia, her father of Italian descent (originally a Sicilian from Lipari) and Maxene Anderson, her Anglo-Australian mother. Imbruglia grew up in Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, between Sydney and Newcastle. At the age of 15, she moved to Sydney with her family. Imbruglia studied ballet, tap, and highland dancing as a child, hoping to make a career out of it.
Part one of the "I Hate Mimes" series.
Plot
A young woman, named Kate rushes to get ready for her job as a clown entertainer. She finally arrives to work and her boss is furious. He tells her that Nathan covered her shift again and she can pick up her last and final pay check. Kate walks outside. She is upset about the loss of her job and is still dressed in full clown costume. She sees a bench and sits down to catch her thoughts. A black van speeds around the corner and screeches to a halt in front of her. Three male clowns are in the van open the door and yell toward Kate, "Nathan!" Kate is confused, and looks behind her. The men pull her into the van and they drive off. Inside the van the head clown begins to talk about the plan and everyone's responsibilities. Kate remains silent as she listens. The head clown then begins to pull out hand guns and ammunition, handing them out to the robbers. Kate realizes she is going to be a part of robbery. She must decide whether she should turn them in or continue with the plan since she needs the money.
Keywords: mistaken-identity
Clowns on the loose!
Plot
What do a San Francisco prostitute, a Mafia intern, a car thief, 'Batman', an anal expressionist, and a Laundromat all have in common? Find out as this outrageous, character-driven tale unravels on its way through the underbelly of San Francisco by night.
Keywords: clerk, independent-film, spoof, waitress
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'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and animated characters, and lots of references to classic animation.
Keywords: 1940s, acme-brand, actor, adult-as-child, alcoholic, animal-in-title, animal-name-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphic-building, anthropomorphic-bullet
It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.
Roger Rabbit: Yeah. Check the probate. Why, my Uncle Thumper had a problem with HIS probate, and he had to take these big pills, and drink lots of water.::Eddie Valiant: Not prostate, you idiot, PROBATE!
Eddie Valiant: Anybody know you're here?::Roger Rabbit: Nobody. Not a soul, except, uh...::Eddie Valiant: Who?::Roger Rabbit: Well, you see, I didn't know where your office was. So I asked the newsboy. He didn't know. So I asked the fireman, the green grocerer, the butcher, the baker, they didn't know! But the liquor store guy... he knew.::Eddie Valiant: In other words, the whole town knows you're here! Get out!
Jessica Rabbit: You don't know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.::Eddie Valiant: You don't know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.::Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Roger Rabbit: P-p-please, Eddie! Don't throw me out. Don't you realize you're making a big mistake? I didn't kill anybody. I swear! The whole thing's a set up. A scam, a frame job. Ow! Eddie, I could never hurt anybody. Oow! My whole purpose in life is to make... people... laugh!
Eddie Valiant: You crazy rabbit! I'm out there risking my neck for you, and what are you doing? Singing and dancing!::Roger Rabbit: But I'm a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.::Eddie Valiant: Sit down!::Roger Rabbit: You don't understand. Those people needed to laugh.::Eddie Valiant: Then when they're done laughing, they'll call the cops. That guy Angelo would rat on you for a nickel.::Roger Rabbit: Not Angelo. He'd never turn me in.::Eddie Valiant: Why? Because you made him laugh?::Roger Rabbit: That's right! A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.
Roger Rabbit: Okay, nobody move! All right, you weasels, grab some sky or I let the judge have it. You heard me, I said drop it!::Jessica Rabbit: Roger, darling!::Roger Rabbit: That's right, my dear. I'd love to embrace you, but first, I have to satisfy my sense of moral outrage.::Judge Doom: Put that gun down, you buck-toothed fool!::Roger Rabbit: That's it, Doom. Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead. So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Ha! We toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid. We demand justice. Why, the real meaning of the word probably hits you like a ton of bricks.::[a ton of bricks falls on Roger]::Jessica Rabbit: Roger! Roger, say something!::Roger Rabbit: Look, stars! Ready when you are, Raoul.
Eddie Valiant: Here's to the pencil pushers. May they all get lead poisoning.
Eddie Valiant: You mean you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?::Roger Rabbit: No, not at any time, only when it was funny.
Dolores: I would have been here right after you called, but I had to shake the weasels.
Jessica Rabbit: Roger, darling. I want you to know I love you. I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a rabbit.
Travelling through Europe was never this much fun !
They saw Paris. They saw France. They saw the Queen in her underpants.
Louis Corsican: The Evil Fuckaire - he's trisexual!::Lucian Corsican:: Trisexual?::Louis Corsican: Yeah, he'll try anything: men, women, goats, chickens, dogs, mud... anything!
Louis Corsican: I'm so hungry I could eat a bowl of lard with a hair in it!
Louis Corsican: Tickle your buns with a feather! Aheeee!
Louis Corsican: You ever had a taco? I guess they don't have tacos in France. I remember one time this restaurant I used to work... err... I mean, own. They had a contest to see who could eat the most. I ate 143, and I was still hungry, but they had to close the restaurant.
The Evil Fuckaire: Don't be a stupid Fuckaire.
Louis Corsican: I'm your brother, Louis.::Lucian Corsican: Liar, my brother wasn't Mexican.
Louis Corsican: Fuckaire, the only thing I want to say is: you've kept me in a dungeon, and you've beaten me, and you've tortured me, and you even kissed me. And, I want these people to know that the only thing you've really done is make me really, really hungry.
The Evil Fuckaire: Believe me, if you weren't a woman, I'd kiss you for that.
Plot
Flash used to be a talented baseball player but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances but in the streets for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day they find stolen government documents forgotten some place. They decide to return them to their legal owners but instead of the expected reward money all the retribution they get is a whole lot of trouble.
Keywords: baseball-has-been, carmen-miranda-impersonator, character-name-in-title, homelessness, reference-to-carmen-miranda, san-francisco-california, vagrant
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In this pseudo audio biography of the Village People, Jack Morell (a thinly disguised character of the group's founder Jacques Morali) is a struggling composer desperate to gain fame with his songs, but all he needs is a group to sing them. With the help of his roommate Samantha and a lawyer named Ron, Jack forms a group of six "macho men" from his Greenwich Village neighborhood and the rest of the film details their rise to fame from New York City to a climatic concert in San Francisco.
Keywords: 1970s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, airplane, audition, backstage, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, baton-twirling, biker, box-office-flop
The Musical Comedy Smash of the 80's!
The Movie Musical Event of the 80's
Lulu: Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.::Samantha: Tacky.
Samantha: The 70s are dead and gone. The 80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I.
Norma White: Ron, dear, didn't Greenwich-Village-people-types go out with the '60s?::Samantha: That's it! The name: Village People.::Randy: Well, that's not a bad idea, uh, that's what we are.::Felipe: That's where we're from.::Jack Morell: Village People? That's fantastic! Thank you!::Norma White: Oh, well, it does have a certain charm.::Samantha: Village People; I can sell that.
Samantha: How could you just up and quit your job like that?::Ron White: Why not? I'm the lawyer for the hottest new group in show business: The Village People.
Jack Morell: Ya see, sir, my father is Jewish and my mom, she's Italian Catholic, so, got all the bases covered. Speaking of bases, when the other kids were following the baseball charts I was following the pop charts...::Steve Waits: I think I've heard that before. Why don't you save that for the liner notes on the album.::Jack Morell: Album? Are we getting an album deal?::Steve Waits: No! I did not say that.
Helen Morell: Corporate thinking sucks.
Lulu: Oh, the Indian is hot. I go for exotic types, especially when they're half-naked.::Samantha: Lulu!::Lulu: You tell him I'll make up for all the indignities they suffered in "Roots."
Helen Morell: Oh, Jackie, it's true. There is magic in the world.
Sydney Channing: I adore San Francisco! My favorite ex-husband lives there.
Leatherman: Leathermen don't get nervous!
greet you with open arms all you do is lie to me
your transparent words got me thinkin what i want to be
it's all figured out now you can't have my sympathy
get it all away from me
when i look i see right through you
hesitate cause i don't respect you
fuck you you'll never see into me
you can count on me to be the enemy
the breath of my soul breathes out of control
i grasp for the truth so i gotta let go
listen to your words but it doesn't make any sense
heard what you said so i still keep my defense
i will never have respect for you
i will never do the things you do
i will never be the same as you
take it all away from me
my mind keeps on haunting me
go away your living on sympathy
isolate yourself from reality
you can count on me to be the enemy
i'm not feeling like i should feel
there's something fucking wrong with me
coming to find you to take you alone
coming to see if you handle your own
you would not help when i took your side
you will not leave here with me far behind
time ends where you begin
sins within wear you thin
fear in my eyes i never knew why
you never know when i could die
see me now that could be it
it won't always be the same old shit
what if i go and what if i stay
you gotta take life and live it everyday
things may come and things may go
you never can tell you never will know
why are you here why am i here
what's the point it seems so clear
you gotta hold on you gotta let go
open up your mind and let it all grow
see me now then i disappear
what's gone wrong i have no fear
follow me out or follow me in
make your choice now take your sin
can you see what you do to me
will you get the fuck away from me
can you see why i feel this way
will you get the fuck away from me
it's all on you never on me
you don't see what i see
how can you live your life so fake
i watch you drown in your mistakes
i reach for you but turn away
offer myself and what do you say
you speak the truth but it's all lies
now everyone ignores your cries
can you see what you do to me
will you get the fuck away from me
can you
time ends where you begin
sins within wear you thin
the breath of my soul breathes out of control
i grasp for the truth so i gotta let go
listen to your words but it doesn't make any sense
heard what you said so i still keep my defense
i will never have respect for you
i will never do the things you do
i will never be the same as you
take it all away from me
i'm not feeling like i should feel
there's something fucking wrong with me
coming to find you to take you alone
coming to see if you handle your own
you would not help when i took your side