Sentences with phrase «by writer friends»

I know, I know, the accepted wisdom is that you buy the services of an editor that is recommended by your writer friends and you're done.

Similarly, novelists should be guest blogging on sites their readers read, not on sites hosted by writer friends who serve a different genre.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was remembered by his writer friend Stephen Adly Guirgis on stage at the Steinberg Playwright Awards this week...

Then a colleague arrived, followed by a writer friend.

Not exact matches

Of course, most blogs never get found or read by more than the writer's friends or family.

McDowell directed the other Pine Bros. ads made by the brand's in - house team but decided to recruit his friend Fred Wolf, a comedy writer and director whose work also includes «Grown Ups» and «The Chevy Chase Show.»

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer — an 87 - year - old friend of his — whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033.

Given that the «anonymous» writer keeps harping on how he and his gay friends feel judged and talked down to by many Christians, it's quite pathetic.

And then there's the Reformation 21 website, run by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and featuring our friend and writer Carl Trueman.

My friend didn't spill the beans on any specifics, but perhaps that explains why so many Christian songs sound like they maybe started out as a run - of - the - mill love song before the writer realized that by adding a few references to Heaven, this could work as a pretty decent worship song.

I have been overwhelmed by the generosity and support of so many friends, bloggers, writers, readers, pastors, and churches.

This writer has sometimes puzzled friends and critics alike by expressing a firm, though qualified, admiration for John Dewey.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

Any minister who, like the writer, has heard many «confessions» of sin, made formally or informally by parishioners and friends, will be able to testify to the danger just noted.

I was invited to participate in a review and discussion of the memoir Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman's Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption with several other open adoption writers / bloggers by my friend and colleague Lori Holden.

Although by 2018, our friends and future masters, the robots, may have replaced us all as both readers and writers... I guess that's a chance we'll just have to take.

«We're here to actually put our bodies on the line in support of our friends who are going to be targeted by this regime,» said Clara Mystif, 31, a writer from Florida.

Sadly, these discussions were prompted by another tragedy: Recently we lost a friend and alumnus who was a phenomenal scientist, mentor, activist, writer, and drag performance artist who touched hundreds of lives.

Two years ago, my dear friend Elena Brower saved me from a situation that was sabotaging my light, and she gifted me a journal with an inscription by the beautiful writer Anaïs Nin.

By signing up to the niche dating site, adventurous singles — like the travel writer from Australia — can make friends, join events, and build a relationship based on mutual interests.

In this R - rated comedy, based on the popular book by Bill Bryson, a travel writer (Redford) returns to the U.S. after two decades in England and decides that the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends (Nolte).

Writer / actress Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein 72, Ira & Abby 62) makes her feature directing debut with a romantic comedy about two best friends (played by Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a baby together while maintaining a platonic relationship.

Best friends Alexa (Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May) face their first year in high school and Alexa's cancer treatments in this comedy created by Hannah Montana writer Heather Wordham.

Woody Allen plays a bookseller how helps his friend, played by the film's writer / director John Turturro, raise some extra cash by engaging him in the world's oldest profession.

With less financial risk and more creative freedom, streaming platforms like Hulu are telling new stories like «Resident Advisors,» about dorm room rule enforcers in college, directed by «Friends» writer Ira Ungerleider.

Above all else, though, he's an egotistical prick and a misanthrope, someone who spends the first ten minutes of the movie berating an ex-girlfriend for being late to a meeting and an ex-friend for being a failed writer who didn't want it enough (that friend, by the way, is in a wheelchair), and he only gets worse as the film goes on.

In this iteration, writers Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel have anthropomorphized the gorilla, who is now named George (played by motion - capture actor Jason Liles), the best friend of Davis Okoye (Johnson), a primatologist with a background in the Army Special Forces and anti-poaching activism, naturally.

Some of this is due to the flat, linear storytelling and some of it is due to the writers» decision to try to include a sidetrack into a narrative on the beginning of punk rock by including a storyline on John Holmstron, credited with naming the movement and founding the magazine Punk, and his friend Leggs.

While his group of writer friends attempt to help him, he finds himself falling for «her» played by Michelle Monaghan.

It weaves together audiotapes, rare home movies, diary entries, and interviews with her friends and those inspired by her, including Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Cecily Strong, original Saturday Night Live cast and crew members Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, and Paul Shaffer, as well as SNL creator - producer Lorne Michaels, series writer Alan Zweibel, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, Second City CEO Andrew Alexander, and long - time friend and actor Martin Short.

Interest is also sparked by two other characters — Mark Addy, the portly guy from «The Full Monty,» who plays Jack's keyboardist and best friend, and writer and performance artist Henry Rollins as an overly competitive hockey coach who yells a lot.

Entertainment Weekly got their hands on this kick - ass new movie still featuring Spider - Man in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Check out a brand new promotional photo featuring Spider - Man in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Here's a closeup look at Rhys Ifans as The Lizard in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

There's the just - described opening and then there's the lighter, more comedic and philosophical section in Greece with the people that they are staying with (an invitation from a fellow writer that admires Jesse's novels) and the final act where Jesse and Celine leave the kids behind for a romantic evening in a hotel by themselves — a gift from their friends.

SYNOPSIS: American writer and art - lover James Lord pays a visit to Paris in 1964 and is asked by his friend, artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait.

Marvel just released this killer new TV trailer for the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim and Jeremy are joined by guest Britt Hayes, friend of the hosts and writer for ScreenCrush and BadassDigest, as they talk through their picks of the week and much more.

They are a commentary track by co - writers / co-directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (somewhat funny), a short featurette, «Directing Your Friends,» and a collection of short ads, plus various trailers for other Sony features.

Later, while being consoled in a diner by his best friends, Tommy (Brian D. Phelan) and Dave (Gabriel Tigerman), he announces «I'm not writing anything anymore,» adding «I'll never be a writer, because I'm not good at it.»

Bonuses include a series of short, studio - produced EPKs, and a half - hour series of Q&A s with Haynes, Blanchett, Mara, and writer Nagy (one of them hosted by my friend and colleague Dave Fear).

Director Leo Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves ambitiously contain the entire story to a continuous shot of a glitchy computer monitor where the main character clicks through her iTunes library, her deceased friend's Facebook photos and a group Skype chat infiltrated by the «hacker ghost.»

Gist: Written by Austin Bunn, this explores poet Allen Ginsberg's (Daniel Radcliffe) life through his relationships with fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and how their bond is tested when a friend is murdered.

Derek Luke and Lindsay Sloane have joined the project «Seeking A Friend At The End of the World,» Bryan Singer is producing the unfortunately titled Internet thriller «uwantme2killhim,» «Rabbit Hole» actor Miles Teller will star in «21 And Over,» which will be directed by ««The Hangover» writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «300» writer Kurt Johnstad has been drafted to rework the script for James Mangold «s «The Gunslinger,» and lastly, «Saw» director Darren Bousman is going to helm what is being described as a «The Shining «- style horror tale called «The Barrens.»

Accompanied to Holcomb by friend and fellow writer Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who will soon finish To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote begins forced to attend press conferences held by Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent in charge of the manhunt, but ends up eating Christmas dinner with the Dewey family.

Columbia Pictures released these new movie stills featuring Spider - Man's webslingers from the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Plus: a slew of bonus stories by special guest writers showcasing Deadpool's closest friends and allies!

Marvel Studios released two new promo images for the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Marvel just released the latest official movie still featuring Andrew Garfield in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).