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Some people take it in their stride, like J.J. Abrams who managed to remind us all why we love Star Wars.

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Under the direction of Justin Lin, (taking the reins from J.J. Abrams who directed the previous two «Treks») action scenes are so chaotically edited it's often difficult to figure out who's bashing and crashing into whom.

At the helm of «Star Trek Into Darkness» is director J.J. Abrams who, like the characters in the film, dares to be bold and has enough confidence and respect for his audience that he can take us to places that are unexpected.

«Luckily we have a fantastic storyteller in J.J. Abrams who is going to figure out a way to bring it home in the end, that's going to be satisfying, I know he's going to.

(And that doesn't even include those like Zach Braff and J.J. Abrams who endorse Wiseau's magnum faux - pus in the film's prologue.)

The first Bronx Day celebration was in 1971 and kicked off by Robert Abrams who was Borough President at the time.

Not exact matches

Jackson is one of multiple directors who have publicly backed Parker's Screening Room, including JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese.

Abrams, who could become the country's first - ever black female governor, describes the realities of growing up in a working class household and providing financial support to numerous family members.

The Last Jedi will be directed by Rian Johnson (Looper), while J.J. Abrams (who directed The Force Awakens) is serving as an executive producer.

Abrams, who had the misfortune of taking over just before the financial crisis of 2008 crushed the sales of anything relating to houses, earned praise for running the company leanly during trying times.

Director J.J. Abrams, who directed Cruise in «Mission: Impossible 3» and was in Paramount's good graces after directing the studio's hit «Star Trek Into Darkness,» was also working to get Cruise back in the franchise.

Even some Star Wars fans who were skeptical about J.J. Abrams as the new director have recognized that he is saying all the right things about feeling honored to be entrusted with the next phase of the story.

Dauman and George Abrams, another trustee who was removed last week, filed a complaint in state court in Canton, Massachusetts, on Monday challenging changes made to the trust by a lawyer claiming to represent Redstone.

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

A simmering dispute between Dauman and Redstone, who has so far successfully fought off legal claims about his competency, broke into public view last week when he fired Dauman and Abrams from the trust and told Viacom executives he opposed the company's plan to sell a stake in the Paramount Pictures division.

Harvey Abrams is an experienced family office and investment manager who contributes a wealth of family office knowledge and experience to help improve our Qualified Family Office Professional (QFOP) training program and inform our content and materials.

Abrams raises, as he has done frequently and forcefully, important questions for Jews, but I expect both he and Novick underestimate the impact of the Holocaust on the 90 percent of Americans who say they are Christians.

Few people are more in love with the Star Wars way of doing things than J.J. Abrams, who has fashioned an entire career out of crafting old - fashioned crowd pleasers.

Abrams is a Canadian Orthodox Jew who was last living in Israel.

The network seems to be committed to maintaining the tone of the original series, hiring veteran sci - fi filmmaker Alex Kurtzman — who co-wrote 2009's Star Trek with J.J. Abrams — to produce the show.

Athlete stylist and brand consultant Jen Abrams, who styles Giants» Olivier Vernon and Rashad Jennings among others, talks about OV's unique fashion choices, Cam Newton's confidence and fall trends.

On Sept. 20, it will sponsor a live debate at NYU's Skirball Center in New York with ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams and journalist Hanna Rosin (you may know her from her controversial Atlantic article last year, The End of Men), who will argue for the idea, while feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and Men's Health magazine editor - in - chief David Zinczenko arguing against it.

«I favor mercy rules when league officials find them advisable to help promote player safety in contact and collision sports,» says Abrams, who sees both positives and negatives in the regulation.

In his monthly column on youth sports heroes, Doug Abrams highlights two high school baseball pitchers who refused to follow their coach's instructions to intentionally throw at the head of a batter.

International AIDS Society and 15 other leading organizations, including WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 International Breastfeeding Journal, Thematic issue on HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and ways ahead, reports from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, edited by Dr Karen Marie Moland and Dr Astrid Blystad, Collection published: 26 October 2010 Kuhn L, Reitz C and Abrams EJ, Breastfeeding and AIDS in the developing world.

Because they experience a growth spurt during this period, they should aim to get about 200 milligrams more calcium, or «between 1,000 and 1,100» milligrams, said Dr. Steven A. Abrams, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine who specializes in the calcium intake of children and was one of the panelists who wrote the IOM report.

Speaking of fundraisers, the governor, who has pointedly remained close to home since taking office, is reportedly headed across the country for the first time for a Dec. 2 fundraiser in LA hosted by Hollywood bigwigs like Rob Reiner, Candy Spelling and J.J. Abrams.

Former AG Robert Abrams offers some (unsolicited) advice to those who are putting themselves forward as potential successors to ex-AG Eric Schneiderman.

This time the Assembly majority picked Oliver Koppell over the outgoing third - term governor's choice to fill the unexpired term of Attorney General Robert Abrams, who resigned before his term was up.

Schneiderman picked three honorary co-chairs, including former AG Bob Abrams, who was a key surrogate for Schneiderman during the campaign on the abortion - rights issue (along with NARAL's Kelli Conlin, who's also serving on one of the transition committees).

At 10 a.m., Eleanor's Legacy hosts a political engagement and campaign workshop for women who want to learn the fundamentals of political engagement, offices of Abrams & Fensterman, 1 MetroTech Center, suite 1701, Brooklyn.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose NY Uprising PAC dubbed lawmakers «enemies» of reform if they declined to sign his redistricting, budget and ethics reform pledges last year; former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez López.

Abrams, who eventually won a new term anyway, says what's shocking is that 45 years later, so little has changed, and «the weirdest shapes imaginable», are still being drawn.

My political activism goes back to the days of Charlie Buckley, who I opposed, and I helped elect reformers such as Congressman Jack Bingham and Jim Scheuer, Assemblyman and then Bronx Borough President and Attorney General Bob Abrams, Assemblyman and then Senator and then Congressman Bobby Garcia, Assemblyman and then Congressman Jose Serrano and countless other Reformers who served our City and State.

The commission will have subpoena power and includes, among others, Robert Abrams, the former state attorney general; Cuomo aide Benjamin Lawsky, who heads up the Department of Financial Services; John Dyson, the former NYPA chairman; former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green; Cuomo ally and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice; and Rev. Floyd Flake, the politically powerful pastor of Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Queens.

Abrams, an African - American lawyer from Atlanta, says it's a fool's errand for Democrats to keep trying to win elections in Georgia by going after white voters who've abandoned Democrats in recent decades.

The legal eagle was at the dinner along with newly single Anne Wojcicki — who just split from ex-Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez — Katy Perry, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, director J.J. Abrams, Apple's Jonathan Ive, Jimmy Iovine and Monica Lewinsky.

According to Richard Rifkin, special counsel to the New York State Bar Association who formerly worked under Attorneys General Robert Abrams and Eliot Spitzer, the governor granting power to the AG doesn't tether them together.

Liu initially tapped former state Attorney General Robert Abrams to audit his 2013 campaign account following reports from The New York Times that uncovered donors who either said they did not contribute to Liu's campaign or said their employers forced them to donate and they were later reimbursed.

Cuomo's 10 - member Moreland Commission is chaired by former state Attorney General Robert Abrams and Benjamin Lawsky, a top Cuomo lieutenant who heads the state Department of Financial Services.

In Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers: Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them (Harmony Books, $ 23.95), Michael Abrams chronicles mankind's many attempts to defy gravity's grasp — not in airplanes but with wingsuits, parachutes, and a not - insignificant dose of insanity.

Michael Abrams is a freelancer and former DISCOVER editor who has written for Wired, IEE Spectrum and National Geographic Adventure.

Either drink delivers a sugar shot that increases insulin and insulinlike growth factor, «both of [which] promote inflammation and both lead to cancer cell division,» says Abrams, who is also professor of clinical medicine at U.C.S.F., and chief of hematotology / oncology at San Francisco General Hospital.

«Basically, Jonathan wanted to meet girls,» said Mark Pincus, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who provided Abrams with seed money at the end of 2002.

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While the entertainment value of Cloverfield is highly negotiable, it's clear that Abrams has consciously aligned himself with those filmmakers who have used the template of a grade - B monster / invasion movie — Don Siegel, George Romero, Steven Spielberg — as a stealth vessel for social commentary.

Hell, the celebrity cameos in this picture — Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, J. J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, Kristen Bell, Keegan - Michael Key, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, and Kevin Smith — should tell you all you need to know about just how respected Wiseau, who made a film that will live on for all eternity, is.