Sentences with phrase «as the memoir by»

Offering up an amusing look at the creative process and the day - to - day production of the movie, much of the script was based on actual recordings that were made during the filming of «The Room» as well as the memoir by Wiseau's co-star and friend Greg Sistero (Dave Franco).

Not exact matches

Knox credits Bridge Across My Sorrows, a memoir by Christina Noble with Robert Coram, as being a big source of her personal and professional resilience.

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

The push by Republicans to obtain the memos came after the release this week of Comey's memoir, «A Higher Loyalty,» and interviews in which he portrays the president as a liar and immoral.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

In the finals, as Jackson writes in his new memoir, Eleven Rings, «Michael was reverting to his old habit of trying to win games by himself.»

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

Comey is doing publicity for his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty, which includes explosive details about the runup to his firing as FBI director by Trump.

In his memoir «The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed Presmemoir «The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed PresMemoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed President.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Sifton went to Radcliffe College and the University of Paris before starting a career as an editor at Viking Press, but her memoir is pervaded by a feeling of disappointment.

First, I want to think with you about a matter that requires me not entirely to pass by some parts of the memoir, even though» as I said at the outset» I myself think it hard to find the right way to take them up.

As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....

Their bucolic distillery, as described by a state treasury agent named W. George McMullen in his self - published memoir, Twenty - Eight Years a T - Man, maintained a production capacity of 400 gallons of corn liquor.

By Jillian Lauren As I approach the finish line of this new memoir, my response to the question How are you?

A real reformer of social policy as a minister, her memoir has been very popular in France and this edition has been supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He never kept a diary, there were a few contemporaneous notes on events which he thought were significant, but as he engagingly reveals, this memoir was dictated into a recorder late at night accompanied by a brandy and a cigar.

On the other hand, it can be argued that Quinn is not especially concerned with Thompson, and has in fact been thinking just as much about the soon - to - be candidacy of Anthony Weiner, as demonstrated by her Sharing Tour and upcoming memoir, seemingly tailor - made to trump Weiner's own Oprahtic tale of personal redemption.

Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.

Clinton earned more than $ 5 million in royalties for her 2014 memoir, «Hard Choices,» and roughly $ 1.5 million delivering speeches last year, according to a personal financial disclosure her campaign released hours after Trump said he had filed his own disclosure with the FEC, as required by law.

Introduced by Mr. Samuels as Andrew Cuomo, the former comedian launched into a profane impersonation of the governor, who declared he would soon be publishing a follow - up to the unsuccessful memoir he released last year: his enemies list, featuring everyone in attendance.

If Liu's mayoral campaign goes pear - shaped as a result of the corruption probes, at least he'll be able to stand by the legacy that he made the office of City Comptroller seem worthy of a tell - all memoir for possibly the first time.

By this time, however, as his memoir makes clear, he was more inclined towards the right - wing of the Labour Party.

In this memoir, paleontologists Walker and Shipman splice stories of their adventures excavating the animal with an analysis of its biology — as revealed by current research and by Mary Leakey, who discovered the first Proconsul skull in Kenya in 1948.

LA Singles Examiner reporter, Niki Payne stopped by Singles Day at Tikkun Spa and gave her report of the event as well as her book review of the Internet dating memoir, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online by Julie Spira.

Helmed by seasoned director Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam, A Boy's Life), the film takes a pretty straightforward and linear approach to Hamilton's narrative — a living, breathing memoir — beginning with his childhood days as a towheaded beach rat who chose pro surfer Bill Hamilton to be his dad.

In his memoir, Ben Bradlee, The Post's longtime editor — winningly played by Tom Hanks with macho suavity and an on - and - off Boston accent — devotes four times as much space to Watergate (a story that his paper did break) as to the Pentagon Papers.

Additionally, Bracco is an Academy Award nominee for her performance as a mobster's wife in Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS and the author of a best - selling memoir, ON THE COUCH and a diet and nutrition book, TO THE FULLEST, published by Rodale Books in Winter 2015.

Oscar (R) winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls's best - selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

Based on a memoir by Carolyn Briggs, Higher Ground stars Farmiga as a woman struggling with her faith over the decades.

A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate Strebor Books Paperback, $ 15.00 288 pages ISBN: 978 -1-59309-122-4 Book Review by Kam Williams «The story I must tell in order to be transformed is the story of my coming out — out of Islam, out of my parents» house, out of traditional choices, out of conventional thinking — in a way, out of my mind... This is a story I need to tell as much as the world suddenly needs to know more about Muslim women behind the veil... I began questioning Islam by the time I was twelve, and by the time I was twenty - one I was sure Islam was not for me.

Ebert tweeted this morning that his memoir, «Life Itself,» which was published last year, and recently hit as a paperback, «has been optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams «-RRB- and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer» And Ebert has expanded on the news a little, telling Matt Singer at Criticwire «This dropped out of the blue.

Now she's taking a break from the director's chair and circling a new role, according to Variety, as the lead in «Shoot Like a Girl,» based on the memoir by Purple Heart veteran Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar.

Adapted from the best - selling memoir by Jordan Belfort, the Bronx - born trader whose «pump - and - dump» schemes and penny - stock frauds made him millions - leaving duped investors with busted bank accounts - The Wolf of Wall Street tracks the rise and fall of its merrily debauched antihero, from his brief stint at an old - money brokerage house to his drug - fueled glory days as the CEO of an epic con.

David Haglund of the latter aptly pointed out, «In case you're wondering: No, As I Lay Dying is not a memoir, and it is not by James Franco.

Film critic Roger Ebert announced on Twitter that his memoir, «Life Itself» (which is newly out in paperback, by the way), has been «optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams») and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer.»

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The drama is based on the memoir Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High - Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom and sees Jessica Chastain leading the cast as Bloom alongside Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Brian d'Arcy James, and Chris O'Dowd.

Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the drama stars Matt Damon as a single dad who moves his family to a run - down zoo.

Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo stars Matt Damon as a single dad who moves his family to a dilapidated zoo.

Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom's memoir as the mastermind of the world's most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly's Game is mostly a series of flashy monologues characters spit at each other like they're in a particularly classy rap battle.

This bittersweet memoir is essentially conceived as a play constructed from the notes which Bernard and Luana Knighten exchanged by mail while he was serving his country as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

«True Story,» April 10 Based on the memoir by former top journalist Michael Finkel, «True Story» follows Finkel (Jonah Hill) and murderer Christian Longo (James Franco)-- who lived for years outside the U.S. using Finkel's name — as the journalist dives into the psyche of one of the FBI's most wanted killers and tries to clear his name.

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, adapted by John Ridley from Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, is structured as a peripatetic journey to, and through, hell on earth.

From a bit of research, it appears that Clark's first diary on the experience paints him as anything but innocent or floored by Monroe, while the second memoir, filling in the blanks forty years later, was rather far - fetched.

Life Itself, based upon the 2012 memoir of the same title written by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, was also honored today as Best Documentary by the National Board of Review.

Propelled by the remarkable chemistry of stars Matthau and Glenda Jackson, and dynamically orchestrated by Neame from start to finish, the espionage comedy follows former CIA agent Miles Kendig (Matthau) as he hatches a plot to get back at the agency's top brass by publishing an explosive tell - all memoir.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.