Sentences with phrase «by wealthy friend»

Once fully dressed, she and her husband, Dr. Bill Harford (Cruise) make their way to a swank party thrown by wealthy friend Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack, in a role once meant for Harvey Keitel).

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer issued a statement on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to crack down on «tax avoidance schemes used by his wealthy friends.»

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Eight years of a bumbling religious fundamentalist, driven by a naïve ideology in foreign affairs and an outmoded attachment to markets (and to wealthy friends) in domestic affairs, were enough.

His plush townhouse at Park Newport in Newport Beach, Calif. is paid for by Gerson Bakar, a wealthy developer and close friend.

Saget is standing on a makeshift platform inside the high - end steakhouse alongside millionaire restaurateur and Hunt & Fish Club co-founder Eytan Sugarman, former Yankees star Jorge Posada and his wife Laura, and other wealthy friends who helped make this event — a fundraiser co-hosted by the Posadas in support of The Foundation for Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria Relief Fund — happen on short notice.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

As Hitler's army invades Austria, Victor Kaufmann — the ostentatious son of a wealthy Jewish Viennese art dealer — is betrayed by lifelong friend Rudi Smekal, now a Third Reich stooge.

Chandler's novels explore that same ambiguity whenever Philip Marlowe is buffeted back and forth among cops, crooks, and wealthy clients, but Benton and Russo investigate it even further by making a wealthy retired cop — beautifully played by James Garner — Ross's friend, former crony, and veritable doppelgŠnger.

While continuing to irritate Rushmore's principal, Dr. Guggenheim (Brian Cox), with his eccentric behavior, Max becomes friends with Herman Blume (Bill Murray), a wealthy Rushmore alumnus who is impressed by the adolescent's drive and energy.

WHEN WEALTHY PLAYBOY LEONARDO, played by Eugenio Derbez (Instructions not Included, How to be a Latin Lover), falls off his yacht and washes up on shore without any memory; single mom Kate, played by Anna Feris (The House Bunny, Just Friends), decides to get even with him for the things he had done to her.

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

There's the CREEPY friend of her brother, Leon Tallis (played by Patrick Kennedy), a wealthy owner of a Chocolate factory, Paul Marshall (Benedict Cumberbatch) who turns out to be a pedophile.

Times are tough for Andie in school, where she and her friends are tormented by the wealthy students who make... read more

Rocky, a young woman wanting to start a better life for her and her sister, agrees to take part in the robbery of a house owned by a wealthy blind man with her boyfriend Money and their friend Alex. But when the blind man turns out to be a serial killer, the group must find a way to escape his home before they become his newest victims.

Directed by Andrew Renzi the film follows Gere as a wealthy, ageing eccentric who finds a new lease on life by working his way into the life of his late friend's daughter (Fanning) and her husband, played by Theo James.

A desperate group led by wealthy Ignacy and Pauline Chiger (Herbert Knaup, Maria Schrader) and their two young children and friends escape underground, where they're discovered by a contemptuous sewer inspector / petty thief, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz).

Re-titled «Love & Friendship,» the fast - paced period piece follows the crafty Lady Susan (a delightful, ruthless Kate Beckinsale) who seeks to manipulate all around her (with the help of her friend Alicia Johnson, played by Chloë Sevigny), including her daughter, her in - laws, and a goofy, wealthy suitor named Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett, in scene - stealing mode).

Friends and family in New Orleans have long expressed the view that the drug problem in town was exacerbated by the wealthy as a way to do a land grab.

Short term money problems are relatively easily solved by marrying a wealthy but acerbic woman; influential friends to sponsor him are more difficult to come by as such friends expect favors in return, and Cicero is, apparently, a man of deeply held principles.

Wealthy people can pay for reviews (now forbidden by Amazon, but people find ways around it) or people with thousands of friends on social media can exchange favors for reviews.

He doesn't own the house but works as a kind of glorified janitor for his wealthy half - brother He runs it well, and it's much appreciated by the lodgers including the attractive taxidermist Rowley Green, who gradually becomes a closer and closer friend.

In her well - researched and captivating book, Denise Kiernan tells the fascinating story of how a phenomenally wealthy Vanderbilt scion transformed a rural North Carolina town by building the ultimate rich man's folly and reveals the eccentricities, heartaches, and even money problems of these Social Register denizens and their friends and employees.»

For those of us who are not lucky enough to have wealthy Bitcoin - owning friends or jobs paying in BTC, they provide a valuable service by making it possible for Bitcoin users to buy and sell bitcoins without finding someone to trade with on their own.

Windyhill, in Kilmacolm, 29 miles from Glasgow, is a sprawling property commissioned by Mackintosh's friend and patron, wealthy merchant William Davidson in 1900.