Sentences with phrase «audience hecklers»

Boy Culture Crazy story about an audience heckler at a California production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof unfortunately leads to actors departing the show and bad blood with producers.

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Hecklers in the audience hissed and coughed throughout the conversation -LSB-.]

fascinating college audiences and subduing hecklers, and refers to some little - known writings (including a biography of John L. Lewis and a play featuring two towering characters very like Lewis and himself) It records the perennial problem and occasionally decisive effects of funding.

New York City's first mayoral debate ahead of the Nov. 7 election devolved into a circuslike spectacle Tuesday night, with the three leading candidates talking over one another, the audience jeering invectives and Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief bodyguard helping kick one heckler out.

Massey hesitated for an instant, but then continued as other audience members shushed the heckler.

A heckler interrupted Vice President Joe Biden during a speech on Saturday, alleging the VP's son Beau Biden was killed by a tumor caused by radiation from cell phones, which prompted boos from the audience.

Scattered applause followed in the audience of mostly scientists, with one heckler saying, «That's right.

By the end of the first episode of this utterly seductive tale about the comedy - club scene of early - 1970s Los Angeles, it's clear that the lives of these aspiring comedians with all their inexhaustible yearning, their whining, their gratitude for any spot onstage — 2 a.m., before an audience of 15, including drunken hecklers, what could be wrong with that?

The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Presented by Acura was presented to: Burden (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Heckler, Producers: Robbie Brenner, Jincheng, Bill Kenwright)-- After opening a KKK shop, Klansman Michael Burden falls in love with a single mom who forces him to confront his senseless hatred.

After taking on major roles and proving his range in recent titles like «Mudbound» and «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,» Hedlund once again casts a lasting spell in Andrew Heckler's based - on - a-true-story «Burden» (winner of the Audience Award, US Dramatic).

The big Audience Award winners are: Burden, a story about a former Klansman being taken in by a Reverend starring Garrett Hedlund & Forest Whitaker, from director Andrew Heckler; The Sentence, a documentary by Rudy Valdez; and Search, the computer screen film (read my review) directed by Aneesh Chaganty.

Their insights into the process and psychology of making audiences laugh offer a rare glimpse behind the mic — but it's also proof, via hilarious tales of dealing with hecklers, that some people can't help being funny.

Taking the top U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was Desiree Akhavan «s film The Miseducation of Cameron Post while the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Andrew Heckler's film Burden.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

The format is pretty straightforward: Each speaker has a 20 - slide presentation and can only spend 15 seconds per slide, which is a pretty daunting task when you're in front of potential hecklers and audience members who just ran out of wine.

The audience burst into applause when Coral Springs Commissioner Dan Daley, a Stoneman Douglas graduate, replied to a pro-gun heckler.

The protests delayed the event by 20 minutes and cut short a Q&A session featuring Zell, with a heckler telling the audience «I don't respect that man on the stage,» and admonishing Zell «You're displacing people!»