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Also there are cameo roles by Rudolph Guiliani, Derek Jeter, Roger Clemens, Bobby Knight, and John McEnroe.

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White's performance was edgy and widely praised, and the grandmother with a blue streak finished out 2010 by agreeing to costar in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland, releasing a calendar and popping up in cameo roles on almost every self - respecting comedy in the fall.

They are replaced by Pedro, who will likely take the wide role that Oscar took up in the Champions League, and Eden Hazard, who will be looking to build on his encouraging late cameo against Kiev.

They are also boosted by the return of several key men, with goalkeeper Wojciech Szszcensy playing the full 90 - minutes against Liverpool at the weekend as Alex Song also played a cameo role after a lengthy injury lay - off.

Dejan Lovren — 6 (Allen 63 ′) Not sure you'd trust him to play a full 90 ′ in the ball playing role currently occupied by Emre Can, but is doing OK in these cameos.

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

After making a cameo as herself in The Muppets in 2011, Silverman went a different direction by taking on a dramatic role in Take This Waltz, a film following a married couple whose relationship begins to crumble when one half of the pair forms an emotional bond with a neighbor.

There is also a wacky cameo by a beloved actor playing the biggest role of his life.

By the way, that really is Michael Jackson the pop singer appearing in a cameo role; other guest stars include Stuart Pankin, Evan Marriott, and Colleen Shannon.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

Touches to make «hip» what should be an unabashedly square story — such as the casting of Nick Cannon in a supporting role and an out - of - nowhere cameo by Ja Rule — more jar than gel.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

As directed by Ron Howard, «Rush» stars Chris Hemsworth as Hunt, German «Inglourious Basterds» star Daniel Brühl in what's apparently going to be a star - making role as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, plus Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara («Control») and «Game Of Thrones» actress Natalie Dormer (and maybe a cameo from Russell Crowe, playing Richard Burton).

Comic legend Stan Lee has notched an appearance in pretty much every Marvel movie so far; Deadpool 2, which was produced by Marvel Entertainment, recently notched one of the best cameo moments in superhero history when Brad Pitt showed up for approximately two seconds in a funny, blink - and - you'll - miss - it role.

Some of them are downright clownish (Mary's hyperactive - poodle personal assistant, a scooter - riding Italian with stars in his eyes); other roles are bogged down by distracting cameos (Pollak, Najimy).

It's more of a horror / comedy with an interesting batch of supporting roles played by a fair choice in cameos; Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Moby, Henry Rollins, Malcolm McDowell.

Other smaller roles are inhabited with great effect by Poots (smoking hot intensity), Fischer (surprisingly convincing and dramatic), and Olivia Thirlby (really just a cameo, but a good one).

Directed by Gia Coppola (grand - daughter of Francis, niece of Sofia and Roman, cousin of Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman) and starring Emma Roberts (niece of Julia) and Jack Kilmer (son of Val, who has a small cameo role), this ensemble piece makes you wonder would it ever have gotten off the ground were it to be pitched by an unconnected newcomer.

A rumor has been circling Lucasfilm's Rogue One for over a year and that is a cameo of Han Solo, actor Alden Ehrenreich was recently cast in the role for his own anthology film directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

On the rare occasions that the pirates are left to be the scurvy dogs they are, the movie finds its humor (the brethren court scene is funny as it turns into an all - out brawl and punctuated by a unfortunately forgettable cameo by Keith Richards, Depp's inspiration for the role of Sparrow), but otherwise, two seamen (Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Cook) who have traveled the whole of this voyage provide amusing asides to the proceedings while a monkey steals every scene it's in.

«Big Eyes» is graced by a potentially award - winning performance from Amy Adams, arguably the cutest actress in Hollywood today, in the role of a woman who now, at the age of 87, is alive and well and is shown in a brief cameo as well as in an epilogue.

(My favorite role in the film, however, is a brief cameo by Peter Gallagher as a Dean - Martin - style crooner singing «Memories Are Made of This.»

Slightly jarring is the amount of almost cameo like appearances by the likes of Owen Wilson, Bill Murray et al, who while charming and non-invasive don't have time to sell you on the role they play rather than the fact that they're there.

After a temperamental A-list actress (Winona Ryder, in a delicious cameo role) walks off of his latest project, less - than - successful director Viktor Taransky (Pacino) replaces her with a digitally - created starlet, Simone (played by, as the credits jokingly state, «herself» — though she's largely embodied by model Rachel Roberts).

There are also good performances from supporting characters Miranda Richardson (The Bachelor, Merlin), Lisa Marie (Burton's wife, who has a habit of showing up in small roles in his films), Michael Gough (Alfred from the Batman movies), Ian McDiarmid (Restoration), Christopher Walken (Blast From the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a minimum.

It's a moot question how much more affectionate the filmmakers were toward the 60some senior citizens of the silver screen who creak by in cameo roles: on the one hand, they're exploiting their sagging flesh and quaking voices; on the other, they've provided the opportunity for one last stand under the lights that at least some of the participants must have delighted in.

The film is briefly and improbably stolen by Zac Efron, in an extended cameo as a spaced - out student of life, who takes on the role of a badly hatted spirit guide to Jesse.

Snyder does pay homage to the past somewhat through saluting Smallville, the decade - long TV show that looked at a pre-costume Superman, by casting several cast members in cameo roles.

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

The film has its charms — not the least of which is a cameo appearance by Jim Thompson... as Charlotte Rampling's husband — but Mitchum (who would reprise the role of Marlowe in the truly terrible 1978 version of The Big Sleep) is the one who gives the film its secret force, as if he were confronting the end of both his leading - man identity and the world that formed him as a star with bravery and grace.

Even small cameos by Heather Graham (who has not lit up the screen since her role in «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer «-RRB- and Melissa McCarthy (who should stop starring in drudge like «Identity Thief «-RRB- does nothing for this picture.

Currently giving Freddie Highmore a run for his money as the Cutest Kid on the Planet, Breslin's sweet - natured curiosity is what keeps the movie feeling fresh — despite the fact that her role is almost as limited as Kevin Kline's, who stops by for an extended cameo as the older lover of Weisz» character.

Reprising their roles of Harold and Kumar are John Cho and Kal Penn, but stealing the show is the cameo by Neil Patrick Harris.

Nevertheless, the voice cast is quite impressive, with the legendary Don Knotts claiming the minor role of Sniffer, and nice vocal cameos made by Wallace Shawn and Debra Jo Rupp (as a billy goat and pig, respectively).

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

Streep merely makes a cameo appearance as Pankhurst, a pioneer reduced by advanced age to playing an inspirational role in the movement at that juncture.

Richly layered, emotionally compelling, and peopled by a vivid cast of supporting characters - including Alex Delaware himself in a strong cameo role - this gripping novel represents one of the century's great story - tellers at the top of his form.

Although there's nothing autobiographical about the book (except my maternal grandparents have a brief cameo role), I learned a lot about the disease, both by researching it as much as I could when my mother was first diagnosed, and then by observation.

Bolton is joined by several familiar Aussie faces in cheeky cameo roles such as fitness guru Tia - Clair Toomey as a personal trainer, radio host Brendan «Jonesey» Jones as a security guard and comedian Jordan Raskopoulos as a friend Bolton visits.

According to scans from the upcoming Official Xbox Magazine (acquired by VG24 / 7), Batman: Arkham Origins will feature The Mad Hatter in an expanded role, as opposed to his rather brief cameo in Arkham City.

Did a cameo role in several short films produced and directed by the students as a part of college assignments and final diploma projects