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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
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Sure, Jeff Daniels is unarguably an actor�the blond, 6�3� thespian with the guy-next-door looks has close to fifty films to his credit�but he�s also an accomplished playwright, songwriter, satirist, musician and, according to the scene currently playing out on stage at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan, a bit of a puppeteer.
Daniels� first year of owning the Dolphin may have created grist for his monologue but at the end of the twelve months, he seriously upgraded.
Daniels strums his guitar a bit more, tells some amusing stories about �ultimate tailgate parties� on the bus at his kids� hockey games, jokes about letting his wife drive the bus (�she drove it for half an hour once.
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  Jeff Daniels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Jeff Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor.
The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Bernard Berkman
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeff_Daniels   (377 words)

  
 David Loftus: Jeff Daniels Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jeff Daniels is a bigger, more solid man than his previous roles might have led one to believe.
Daniels also plays a lot of golf, which he said is an excellent game for a film actor whose work requires travel to various locations.
The actor is in the process of building a 125-seat theater in Michigan with the hope of creating a regional theater company that would produce a play a year and showcase new plays by Midwestern writers, perhaps even his own.
www.david-loftus.com /People/daniels.html   (1174 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels Photos - Jeff Daniels News - Jeff Daniels Information
Jeff Daniels Biography The 6'3" low-key leading man with a reserved manner and classic blond hair, blue eyes studied at the University of Central Michigan but his desire to be an actor soon took him to New York where he made a name for himself in the theatre.
Daniels won an Obie Award in 1982 for his one man theatre performance in 'Johnny Got His Gun' but his screen debut was in 1981's...
Jeff and Jim Carrey were nominated for an MTV Movie Award in 1995, for 'Best On-screen Duo', for their roles as Lloyd and Harry, the best friends on Dumb and Dumber.
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 James A. Swan's Articles - Interview With Jeff Daniels
Actor Jeff Daniels has appeared in 30 feature films including "Dumb and Dumber," "The Purple Rose of Cairo," "Speed," "101 Dalmatians," "Pleasantville," "Arachnaphobia," and the recent television mini-series, "The Crossing," where he played George Washington leading his men across the Delaware.
Jeff, however, assures me that ultimately, this is a "heart" picture, that seeks to present a little-seen facet of modern American life.
Jeff says there have been two primary sources of his motivations to write the play: his wife's family, who are ardent hunters and introduced him to their world, and the short stories of John Volker, which appear in his classic collection of Upper Peninsula tales, Johnny and The Boys.
www.jamesswan.com /jeffdaniels.html   (885 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels Sings :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Film Spotlight :: Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
But what makes Daniels more interesting than the typical actor cum musician is that his songs are not affectations at all.
Daniels' songwriting dips into his acting career too -- in songs such as "Dirty Harry Blues," about getting to be killed onscreen by Clint Eastwood -- and his personal passions -- such as "The Lifelong Tiger Fan Blues," about the ups and downs of being one of the Detroit Tiger faithful.
Jeff Daniels will be at the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center on Saturday, August 26th, at 8 p.m.
www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:19030   (277 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels News
Jeff Daniels appears Feb. 3 at the Gordon Center SUSAN C. INGRAM 06.DEC.06 The Gordon Center continues its 2006-07 performing arts schedule with a concert lineup running through March designed to please adults...
As an actor, director, and playwright, Jeff Daniels is committed to the arts.
Jeff Daniels is an actor you can trust even when you don't trust his characters.
www.topix.net /who/jeff-daniels?scoring=d   (637 words)

  
 Michigan Golfer ON-LINE - Actor Jeff Daniels escapes to the golf course - By John Wukovits
Daniels continued throughout high school, but he did not become serious about the game until he left for New York to pursue an acting career.
Daniels is also fascinated by the mental aspect of the game.
Daniels especially loves playing some of the northern Michigan courses, where he tries to determine where the designer wants him to shoot the ball.
www.webgolfer.com /may01/j_danials.html   (795 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jeff Daniels ("Dumb and Dumber," "Terms of Endearment") has signed up for the Columbia Pictures comedy "R.V.," which means he'll join an ensemble consisting of Robin Williams ("Jumanji"), Cheryl Hines ("Along Came Polly"), and Kristen Chenoweth ("Bewitched").
Daniels plays an annoyingly helpful man who is considered the patron saint of the RV world." Barry Sonnenfeld ("Get Shorty," "The Addams Family") is in the director's chair, and he'll be working from a screenplay by Geoff Rodkey ("Daddy Day Care") and the team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("Parenthood," "Fever Pitch").
Jeff Daniels has been in serious films like "The Hours" and "Terms of Endearment," but he says he'll always be remembered as the stupid sidekick in a classic Jim Carrey comedy.
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/jeff_daniels/news.php   (2626 words)

  
 GO >> AirTran Airways Inflight Magazine» Blog Archive » Jeff Daniels
Daniels’ ability to switch between comedy and drama with such apparent ease has served him well this past year.
It’s comedy, sure, but it’s smart comedy, and it was fun.” Daniels tells a story about acting opposite Keaton—when they were doing a scene that had them returning to her home after their fi rst date, he ad-libbed a line and Keaton burst out laughing and fell to her knees.
The good news in taking on the role, says Daniels, was that playing a guitar player was a no-brainer for the accomplished musician and something he could do sighted or not.
airtranmagazine.com /contents/2006/10/jeff-daniels   (1101 words)

  
 Actor Jeff Daniels Visits Oak Park May 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Everyone has a favorite Jeff Daniels movie - whether it's the wild comedy of Dumb and Dumber or the action thriller Speed - the list of his film credits is long and includes 101 Dalmatians, Pleasantville, Terms of Endearment, The Butcher's Wife, Arachnophobia and Gettysburg - to mention only a few.
Daniels is the executive director of The Purple Rose Theatre Company, a professional theater company in Michigan that features midwestern actors, directors, designers and playwrights.
Daniels, who had a filming commitment at the time Miss Firecracker was performed, rescheduled to attend the all-school assembly for the charity presentations.
www.nkcsd.k12.mo.us /news/2002/050802jeffdaniels.htm   (372 words)

  
 Actor Jeff Daniels is a singer-songwriter too   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jeff Daniels sure knows how to head them off at the pass, how to confound expectations.
Daniels finally revealed his musical side at the goading of playwright Lanford Wilson, at benefit shows for the Purple Rose Theatre Company, a pet project in Daniels' home base of Chelsea, Mich., where he serves as unpaid executive director and sometime playwright-in-residence.
On the entertaining CD he recorded at these shows ('Jeff Daniels Live and Unplugged'), the actor/singer/songwriter deftly balances sincere, semi-autobiographical songs (evocative in tone of Jim Croce's best work), with self-mocking comical turns that instantly deflate his 'status' in the entertainment community.
www.topix.net /content/kri/0613192962344620747309733191080426128948   (1085 words)

  
 GOLFONLINE - Actor Jeff Daniels once took golf too seriously. Not anymore!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Daniels, 49, lives nearby in his childhood hometown of Chelsea, where he founded the nonprofit Purple Rose Theatre Company.
Actors and volunteers created themes at each hole to entertain and distract players, who were urged to do things that will get you tossed off most courses, from teeing off in sand traps to putting with a hockey stick.
Host Jeff Daniels, sporting a bushy beard, jeans and a purple sweatshirt, grabs a driver from the first group that reaches the 18th tee.
www.golfonline.com /golfonline/print/0,18068,700188,00.html   (1021 words)

  
 Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: Jeff Daniels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There was an attempt at differentiating among Daniels and Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman, and discussion of that other Jeff, the Bridges one, and even a vague allusion to Uncle Joey from Full House.
Daniels does, however, fail to show up on either the movie poster or the TV ads, which does not reflect well on Jeff Daniels's current fame level.
Daniels definitely has what it takes to be the next Bill Murray, if he wants to be -- he's another actor commonly associated with goofball comedy roles, but, well into middle age, has the ability to surprise us with earnest, emotionally complex performances.
www.fametracker.com /fame_audit/daniels_jeff.php   (796 words)

  
 Interview: Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Daniels: I don't know I mean a part of it's what they do know about me and it's that there is a family and three kids.
Daniels: The interest came while I was in college in the seventies and I really kind of enjoyed Detroit Redwings.
Daniels: Well professional sports are business and I don't know enough about the position of both sides and what money was truly being lost and what money wasn't and whether the, the salary cap was good or bad, I don't know enough about it.
www.movie-fever.com /content/view/1158/75   (1424 words)

  
 eHistory.com: An Interview with Jeff Daniels Writer, Director, Actor…and Student of the Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Now, Jeff Daniels reprises his role in Gods and Generals, the prequel to Killer Angels—the novel upon which the film Gettysburg was based.
Jeff Daniels: There was a sense of ownership of the role.
Daniels: C. Thomas Howell (Tom Chamberlain) and I are the only actors who have a chance to play the same roles in all three films.
ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=47   (966 words)

  
 Home Is Far From Hollywood, Actor Jeff Daniels Lives Life To The Fullest In Michigan Hometown - CBS News
Jeff Daniels on his role in "The Squid and the Whale."
But then, Jeff Daniels has always taken the long view of Hollywood, for the last 20 years, from about 2000 miles away, in the little town of Chelsea, Michigan, where he and his wife Kathleen both grew up and where they chose to raise their family, learns CBS News correspondent Mika Brzezinski.
From his early successes in "Terms of Endearment" and "Purple Rose of Cairo" to heart warming tales like "Fly Away Home to "The Hours," with Meryl Streep, Jeff Daniels is known as one of the most versatile actors around, and one of the most respected.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/26/sunday/main1439591.shtml   (443 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels no longer ‘vanilla’ - MOVIE OPINIONS - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jeff Daniels on 'The Squid and the Whale'
Daniels, who turned 50 this year and recently started directing his own movies, has been building to it for a long time.
Daniels also plays the actor who plays the character; he also falls for Farrow when he visits her New Jersey home.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10561531   (927 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels Gets a Crash Course in Saddling Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Daniels found that legend and myth aside, Washington was a complicated man, from his quiet reserve to his volcanic temper.
Daniels went to Chelsea's veteran horseback-riding expert, Linda Nimke of Evergreen Stables, and told her he had to become an expert horseman in two weeks.
But Daniels rode over the pain for two weeks, working with her 1½ hours a day in high winds and cold, galloping and cantering over plains, up and down hills.
www.trussel.com /hf/daniels.htm   (490 words)

  
 Playbill News: Actor Jeff Daniels Makes NYC Playwriting Debut, May 21 w/Thy Kingdom's Coming
Hollywood actor Daniels ("The Purple Rose of Cairo," "Dumb and Dumber," "Terms of Endearment," "Pleasantville") pokes Hollywood images and prods Washington intolerance in his play, which had a 1994 debut by the Purple Rose Theatre Company, an Equity troupe Daniels founded in his hometown of Chelsea, MI., where he still lives.
Audiences roared at Daniels' quartet of Hollywood dealmakers rewriting the New Testament to make it more audience-appealing (Jesus has an affair) and tailoring the Bible to fit the lunkhead star (the Sermon on the Mount is reduced to four lines, ending with "OK, who wants some fish?").
Daniels has yet to perform at his own theatre, where his title is executive director.
www.playbill.com /news/article/45626.html   (704 words)

  
 Special Event - An Evening with Jeff Daniels
Anniversary Season will open with a taste of Hollywood, as Jeff Daniels, the star of movies like “Good Night and Good Luck”, “Terms of Endearment”, “Dumb and Dumber”, “The Purple Rose of Cairo”, and “101 Dalmatians”, brings his one-man performance to the intimate stage at The Grand.
Daniels, as a live performer, truly understands that in order to have a successful time onstage, the addition of his own dry sense of humor is a necessary part of the act.
Peppered among his laugh-out-loud funny numbers are some tender blues songs, such as "Grandfather's Hat" and a love ballad that carries his wife's name, "Kathy." But, for the most part, Daniels offers an array of comedy songs that come out of real life and cover subjects ranging from road rage to aging.
www.grandoperahouse.org /events/special/jeffdaniels.html   (299 words)

  
 Crazy for Cinema | Actor Info
If your favorite actor is missing, I apologize, but I'm only including thespians I believe have talent...or enough credits to warrent their inclusion.
Actors are listed alphabetically by their last name.
On the individual actor pages, films marked with a (*) are ones you definitely should see.
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 Jeff Daniels Videos - Jeff Daniels Video Clips
Actor Jeff Daniels recieved his third Golden Globe nomination for his role in The Squid and the Whale.
Jeff Daniels performing at the Grand, Ellsworth, ME on October 13, 2006.Song is about getting killed by Clint Eastwood in a movie.
Snugradio was featured on BBC Wales prior to the airing of the Jeff Daniels interview.
www.searchforvideo.com /entertainment/actors/jeff-daniels   (350 words)

  
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There are no costs, and the only requirements to join a fanlisting are your name and country.
Simply because Jeff Daniels is a truly talented actor.
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 Sound And Vision Magazine - Backtalk: Jeff Daniels
Actors read reviews because they need that validation, but suddenly I had all the validation I needed from Woody.
When I moved back to Michigan and started my theater company, that film was such a turning point in my career that I decided to name the theater after it.
I used the New York theater to get better as an actor, but it was a launching pad because working in movies was my goal.
www.soundandvisionmag.com /interviews/1322/backtalk-jeff-daniels.html   (633 words)

  
 Jeff Daniels | Actor | Biography | Pictures | American Superstar Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Woody Allen made use of Daniels' restrained persona and clean-cut good looks by casting him as the movie star who steps out of the screen to help lonely Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985); it was a breakthrough part for Daniels (who actually replaced Michael Keaton after production had begun).
Daniels has been hard at work on several more films of late including Infamous, Mama's Boy, The Lookout and The Three Stooges, which he is slated to play the role of Larry.
Daniels currently resides in Chelsea, Michigan, where he is Founder and Executive director of the regionally-acclaimed Purple Rose Theatre Company, a not-for-profit professional theatre company.
www.americansuperstarmag.com /celebrity/Jeff_Daniels.php   (474 words)

  
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There was a time when actor Jeff Daniels was at the very top of the Hollywood game.
Absent from the screen to raise a family and escape the Hollywood limelight, Daniels is back as Clint Eastwood’s often wry sidekick in Blood Work.
Daniels made his screen debut playing PC O’Donnell in Milos Forman’s "Ragtime" (1981).
www.lycos.com /info/jeff-daniels--terms-of-endearment.html   (217 words)

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