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INTERVIEW WITH A FILM STAR
Answer 1. My father is Italian and my mother is American and my grandfather was Afro-American. So as you see I’m multicultural.
Answer 2. No, I’m a poor kid from New York. When people say that they want to pay me $20 million for a movie, it’s difficult for me to say “no!”.
Answer 3. For many years I did all kinds of jobs. I worked in a night club, sold computers, did other things. My idea was to make enough money to finance my own film. I did it, made the film and played a part in it. Steven Spielberg saw it and offered me a part in his new blockbuster. When the film was shown, I understood that I had become well known.
Answer 4. I think it’s my mother. She is my greatest fan but when she doesn’t like my acting, she always tells me this, rather tactfully though. We have always been good friends. Mum knows all my secrets and I ask her for advice.
Answer 5. Tom Hanks once said to me: “The most difficult thing in business is learning how to say no. ”
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Аудиозапись № 15 к упражнению 1
Parent 1
My son doesn’t spend much time before the screen. He is very much interested in sport but he doesn’t often watch football matches or other games on TV. Instead every weekend he goes to the stadium with his father or his friends. Very often he himself takes part in sports and games. Sometimes he watches matches and games at the stadium. He prefers them to television.
Parent 2
In my opinion television helps our children a lot. It helps them to develop. You can see so much, you can meet so many interesting people, you can get so much important information. Watching different talk shows and other programmes they understand that the world they live in has a lot of problems. Television helps children to understand the modern world. My daughter watches television a lot.
Parent 3
I always let my son watch television if he wants to. First, television keeps him busy and quiet. Then, he doesn’t ask me his endless questions and I can read a book or do some things about the house. There is always something interesting for him to watch with so many channels on TV.
Parent 4
I hate television myself. There is so much aggression and violence on TV. The language used in many films is bad. The colours on the screen are too bright, the speech of news presenters is too fast and then I am sure television badly influences children’s eyes. So I never let my child watch it longer than 2 hours a day. We always choose a programme he is going to see together and in most cases I watch it with him.
Parent 5
My daughter is rather small and I let her watch only cartoons on TV. Sometimes if there is a good children’s film on she may also watch it. But I think that nowadays television does more harm than good. Children can see so much violence and cruelty on the screen. So the less time they spend in front of the screen the better. In fact my daughter watches only those programmes which I let her watch.
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