Olsen Twin Signs Up For Acting Lessons!

Teen screen star Ashley Olsen is using university to expand her acting knowledge too - she has signed up for drama classes. Olsen, 18, has been acting with twin sister Mary-Kate since she was a baby and they have both accumulated fortunes totaling $300 million from TV and movie careers. But Ashley, currently studying at New York University, accepts she still has much to learn. A source tells Star magazine, "(She) has secretly been attending a drama class two days a week at the prestigious William Esper Studio on New York's West Side." The class, which costs $295 a month, teaches the Meisner Acting Technique, which centers around students' exploration of spontaneity and improvisation.

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Can I just take this opportunity to say IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME ONE OR BOTH OF THEM LEARNED TO ACT. Standing around and looking cute only works for infants and adult film stars.

good one.

acting is so 17th Century ...

Should we even give a fuck? Acting is a noble craft; my attention goes out to those more deserving, ie. "the struggle", or the REAL art of film/theatre.

Not to sound crass or gross, but unless they show up in a spread in some porn rag, they're NOT WORTHY of my attention, even from an "American Star-Fucker" celebrity point of view.

now that's sarcasm

If it was sarcasm, then yes, I missed it.

It's about time :)

Uh, wouldn't adult film stars be more likely to lay around and look cute? :evilgrin:

Singing sensation Whitney Houston infuriated Burt Bacharach at rehearsals for the 2000 Academy Awards - by singing the wrong song. The singer is currently clean after spending March in rehabilitation for drug addiction, but four years ago she was reportedly not so sober. In Steve Pond's forthcoming book, The Big Show: High Times And Dirty Dealings Backstage At The Academy Awards, which exposes a host of Oscar secrets, Pond reveals Houston's performance technique angered Bacharach. In the tome, Pond writes, "Houston's voice was shaky, she seemed distracted and jittery, and her attitude was casual, almost defiant." Despite Bacharach, the musical director of the 2000 Oscars, playing "Over The Rainbow" on the piano, Houston began singing "The Way We Were." Pond continues, "Finally, Bacharach (at wit's end) slumped over the piano, (putting) his head down on the keys." Producer Lili Zanuck cancelled Houston's appearance at the ceremony, explaining, "We didn't want to work for six months for this to be a show about how f**ked-up Whitney Houston was."