Sentences with phrase «boyhood friend»

William Rapfogel, Silver's boyhood friend who sat next to him at synagogue all these years, is in prison, convicted of stealing up to $ 9 million from a Jewish charity for the poor that Silver blessed with millions in state funding.

Spota also said Bellone's efforts were designed to thwart district attorney probes of Bellone aides and Bellone's boyhood friend Robert Stricoff, a former Babylon Democratic leader and town industrial development agency head.

Synopsis: This sweeping drama, based on real historical events, follows American boyhood friends Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett)... [MORE]

Standout Jared Leto also turns in a concentrated performance as Hephaestion Alexander's long - time companion boyhood friend and the person who loves Alexander the best.

The slums of Rio De Janeiro circa 1960 - 1980 are vividly recreated as boyhood friends Benny and Lil Ze rise from petty vandals to become powerful ganglords.

As intoxicatingly stylized as any of Almodóvar's recent films, it forsakes swooning emotion for a cooler, Chinese - box approach as its movie - director protagonist uncovers the backstory of a long - lost boyhood friend and fellow Catholic - school survivor who shows up one day with a dynamite screenplay under his arm.

My two primary characters are boyhood friends from the south side, blue - collar kids and small time criminals; when a robbery goes wrong, one of them lands in Stateville Maximum Security, and the years he spends there warp him.

He brings two boyhood friends with him to D.C.: Jerry (Alex Pettyfer), who wants to make it on his own without any help from his world - famous buddy, and Sonny (Johnny Knoxville), who is more than happy to ride the tails of his friend's cape.

The story becomes even more tragic, though, when the trail of evidence leads him to Dave Boyle, a boyhood friend who was molested as a child and has been acting strangely ever since the recent murder.

My boyhood friends visited them by night to consult with spirits — 86 - proof spirits, as I recall.

A steady diet of rejection and hatred served up by even his boyhood friends eventually plunged the sorry prophet into self - loathing.

The cultural, intellectual, and theological differences between Georges Bernanos and my boyhood friend in Cisco could hardly be greater.

Spota said in his statement that Bellone has an «obvious personal vendetta against me for doing my job; investigating and / or prosecuting a senior administration official of his after he implored me not to, and more recently his boyhood friend, campaign chair and treasurer Robert Stricoff, again after he asked me not to, undermines the credibility of his slanderous attacks.»

The businessmen's access went to the highest levels of the NYPD, including then - Chief of Department Philip Banks, who is also a boyhood friend of Seabrook.

Others on the board include Stirpe, DeMarchi, Beck and Utica attorney Richard Pertz, Beck's boyhood friend.

One day, his friend Michinojo (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) tells him that his boyhood friend Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa), is leaving her thuggish husband and returning home.

But rather than come clean about his plan to reunite with his boyhood friends, he feigns illness and then sneaks out of his bedroom window.

Baer was helped into show business by his boyhood friend John Wells, who brought him onto «China Beach,» and later after Baer earned a medical degree at Harvard, «ER.»

We first meet Messner at the funeral of one of his boyhood friends, killed in action in Korea, and he has to be forced into paying his respects to the deceased's mother, and he then glibly dismisses his dead friend as an idiot for getting drafted in the first place.

Keira Knightley stars in a new stage adaptation of Emile Zola's novel about a woman in a loveless marriage whose life is upended by the arrival of her husband's boyhood friend.

Coogler plants this conflict in the hearts and minds of T'Challa and T'Chaka, his true love Nakia, his spiritual counselor Zuri (the stalwart Forest Whitaker), and his boyhood friend W'Kabi (Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya in a sly hangdog performance).

A star - studded ensemble accompanies, but never overshadows, Depp, led by Joel Edgerton as FBI agent John Connolly, who was boyhood friends with both Jimmy and his brother Billy Bulger, growing - up in tough South Boston.

When my father got together with his boyhood friends, it was not at all unusual for someone to start reciting Shakespeare and for someone else to follow that with some quatrains from the Rubaiyat, which might be followed by bits of Paul Laurence Dunbar or James Weldon Johnson.

342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon.

His artistic interests were developed in Pittsburgh when his boyhood friend, Eugene Bailey, taught him how to draw.

My father was a master salesperson and he and his crowd were just so very cool compared to the conservative fathers of my boyhood friends.