Sentences with phrase «former private eye»

A former private eye, Morris built his reputation as a documentary filmmaker on the pursuit of Truth, with an obsessive, somewhat cranky personality.

«Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan — and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets.

Not exact matches

Of course, it was more than looks that helped her get the part of the former superhero turned private - eye.

wo former corporate private eyes have accused GlaxoSmithKline of hiring them under false pretenses to investigate a whistleblower in China and that the move led to their imprisonment, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

Through its requests for discovery, Alphabet dragged Uber's reputation through the mud, forcing private messages and emails between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and others, as well as letters about the company's questionable surveillance tactics, into the public eye.

Former executive and a private eye used by the tabloid will not be charged over allegations of computer hacking after Scotland Yard began investigation too late

Former reality TV private eye Vincent Parco says the Brooklyn District Attorney's office smeared him to grab sexy headlines when locking him up in connection to a honeypot blackmail operation, allegedly set up to kill a sex crimes case.

Writer - director Keenan Ivory Wayans also stars as Los Angeles private eye Arthur Shame, a former cop whose troubled past resurfaces when a one - time colleague asks for help in a narcotic case.

Wide - eyed and whacked out on the funny weed, Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mind - fried private eye from sunny Southern California trying to make sense of a series of incidents involving, in no particular order: a spacey former girlfriend (Katherine Waterston); a missing real - estate mogul (Eric Roberts); a deceased saxophonist who apparently is not, in fact, deceased (Owen Wilson); a coke - snorting dentist with a libido in overdrive (Martin Short); a porno - parlor proprietress (Hong Chau); a bullying cop with hair cropped in a fearsome flattop (Josh Brolin); a cultlike rehab center; risqué neckties; a big, fat heroin stash; a mysterious sailboat and a torture chamber.

As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision — in this case, a small - time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), who'd like to think he's Sam Spade — it would make a great double bill with «Chinatown,» released the previous year.

That's all fairly standard «Proud Family» material, but what takes this story out of the ordinary is the other plot line: Oscar's invented a new peanut - based snack that catches the eye of Dr. Carver (former TV host Arsenio Hall), a demented, peanut - obsessed scientist who invites the Proud family to his private island, where he and his squad of peanut clones are prepared to use any means necessary to capture Oscar's snack formula for their own means.

Instead of coming out with his annual fall thriller, he's publishing two — Simple Genius, the third adventure of former Secret Service agents - turned - private eyes Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, and Stone Cold, a follow - up to 2005's Camel Club.

For this event Sutherland will read from his new work in progress called «Jenkins, Moore and Bird», a metrical proposal for managing the full disclosure of the hidden relationships between the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, sanity, the former Chief Executive of Barclays Capital's Private Equity Group, the suspended general secretary of UKIP, art, and the dream analogues of the Monte Carlo - based ex-star of «For Your Eyes Only».