Not coincidentally, the Actors Studio functioned for Kazan as a kind of farm for his stage and screen enterprises.

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Director Gore Verbinksi (who also did the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films) recorded the stars acting out their parts together in a studio instead of having the actors read their lines separately.

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Newman continued studying acting at Yale and at New York's Actors' Studio, earning jobs in the growing medium of television.

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The studio distributed missing-person fliers with the actors' faces on them in bookstores, clubs and apparel shops around the country, then created a Web site with faked police reports and news accounts of the disappearances.

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Festival-goers keen to break into this new art form will be able to make their own mini-films in a special studio and editing facility set up in the Forum, where actors and technicians will be on hand to help.

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