Sentences with phrase «aging star whose»

A witty, incisive look at what goes on behind the scenes of show business, All About Eve is renowned for Bette Davis's famed portrayal of actress Margo Channing, an aging star whose career is eclipsed as a result of her association with a...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy.

Not exact matches

These are genres that have traditionally provided fertile ground for metaphysically inclined fiction, but for a long time their presence in the American mass media began with Star Trek and ended with Star Wars — fun but shallow entertainments whose take on religion mixed Daniel Dennett with Deepak Chopra, secular condescension with New Age mumbo - jumbo.

Mentuch analysed 88 remote galaxies whose light was emitted when the universe was between a quarter and half its current age — making them far too remote for their stars to be seen individually.

She used a telescope in Chile to identify one of the oldest stars ever found and calculated its age: more than 13.2 billion years, almost as old as the universe itself, whose age is believed to be 13.7 billion years.

Alex Jones and Clare Balding among the female stars of the BBC who are calling for gender pay equality We all want to go on the record to call upon you to Diane Clare, whose career stretched from Ice - Cold in Alex to the Hammer horror classic The Plague of the Zombies, has died aged 74.

Landline being a zippy and friendly episodic comedy and coming - of - age story from the director Gillian Robespierre, whose well - received 2014 Obvious Child starred Jenny Slate.

In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems....

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

In the post-movie star age, (Cruise) is, with apologies to a certain Austrian bodybuilder whose drawing power is all but terminated, the last action hero

The story centers on Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep, «Into the Woods»), a middle - aged musician whose rock star dreams seduced her away from a husband and three children.

Bruce Dern stars in Alexander Payne's latest as an aging Montana man whose convinced he's won a million dollars and must walk to Nebraska to obtain it.

Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Woody Harrelson star in this coming - of - age comedy - drama about an endearing but self - absorbed teen whose life goes into a tailspin after her older brother starts dating her best friend....

Yet another urban action drama, better than some, worse than most, this stars Bruce Willis as a disillusioned middle - aged detective whose latent sense of justice is triggered when he is asked to accompany a witness (Mos Def) to the courthouse and finds that his fellow corrupt cops want to kill the guy.

While We're Young stars Baumbach vet Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a middle - aged couple whose relationship is tested after they meet a spontaneous couple played by Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver.

Now, 10 years after its release, «The Room» has achieved bona fide cult success, turning its misguided auteur into the unlikeliest of stars: a thickly accented, heavy - browed leading man whose personal history, nation of origin, age and real name remain unknown, as does the source of his considerable wealth.

The pitch: Another period bio, this one starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish as 19th - century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, whose love affair ended tragically with Keats» untimely death at age 25.

The genre - fueled likes of «Wolfen» and «Deadly Blessing» gave James Horner his first real breakthrough at the age of 25 with «Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan» — a seminal sci - fi movie whose nautical feel introduced the themes of friendship, death, resurrection and the joy of flight that would not only distinguish an astonishingly diverse, Oscar - winning career filled with the likes of «Titanic,» «Glory,» «Legends of the Fall,» «Apollo 13,» «The Boy in the Striped Pajamas» and «Jumanji,» but also become motifs for the composer's life itself — one that ended in the jetting into the sky he so much loved at the age of 61.

Plummer, who also starred as the kidnapped young Getty whose ear is cut off in All The Money In The World, has a soulfulness on camera which belies his young age.

Premiering Tuesday night, the new Fox show stars Giovanni Ribisi and Seth Green as two video - game entrepreneurs whose AARP - aged fathers (Martin Mull and Peter Riegert) move in with them.

Premiering Tuesday night, the new Fox show stars Giovanni Ribisi and Seth Green as two video - game entrepreneurs whose AARP - aged fathers...

Marthe Keller stars as an aging, solitary woman whose life is altered when she meets a young musician.

Based on the novel by Rex Pickett and starring an incredible cast, «Sideways» is a darkly comical and courageous journey of two ordinary middle - aged men whose only aspirations are to move forward in life.

Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver, Charles Grodin, Maria Dizzia, and Adam Horovitz star in the story of a middle - aged couple whose career and marriage is overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.

Set in the near future, the film stars Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief whose memory is fading.

Starring Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler and Susan Sarandon, the comedy follows an aging ex-convict (Langella), whose children hire a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to care for him.

His breakthrough turn in 2006's Step Up showcased his history as a free - style street dancer, while his standout work in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints — a Sundance coming - of - age drama from earlier that same year — hinted at an actor whose radiant sweetness was ready to be exploited by the violence indicated by his body (the perfect equation for a contemporary action star).

Cheyenne, winner of NBC's America's Most Talented Kid at age 12, recording artist, and star of her own MTV show, is just one of many high - profile Americans whose educational choice is home schooling.

Doig's latest historical novel set in the fictional Two Medicine Country in northern Montana stars an affable bartender and his precocious 12 - year - old son, whose coming - of - age takes place in a saloon.

The Rising Stars list includes attorneys whose age or practicing time don't qualify them for the Super Lawyers list.