Sentences with phrase «characters in their long careers»

Performers such as Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone must know that issue all too well, each having created a coterie of legendary characters in their long careers.

Not exact matches

Studi, a great actor who has a long career playing fearsome warriors in films like Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, is equally stoic but is given even less character shading.

A spectacular piece of virtuoso cinema that impresses not only for its remarkable technical achievement (Lubezki reached heavens with that jaw - dropping «forged» long - take), but also for being an incredibly well - constructed (and hilarious) character study with Michael Keaton in a magnificent career - defining performance.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In the long flashbacks that form the bulk of the film, Jerry's only real sign of dysfunction is his indifference to Elizabeth Hurley's character, an ambitious Englishwoman named Sandra who has her own high - powered television career.

Why his character is dressed like a «Street Fighter» villain is beyond me, but it's great to see that the actor still has a sense of humor, because it'll go a long way in repairing his career.

In the DVD commentary track for The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton makes the brilliant observation that the logical casting for the dapper, taciturn barber would be Clooney while he, himself, would have been the obvious choice for Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguisheIn the DVD commentary track for The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton makes the brilliant observation that the logical casting for the dapper, taciturn barber would be Clooney while he, himself, would have been the obvious choice for Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguishein O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguishein apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguishein the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguished.

In what would prove to be the culmination of a long and celebrated career, the late and legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars as Lucky, a 90 - year - old small - town iconoclast and avowed atheist who, although surprisingly healthy despite his cigarette habit, nevertheless finds himself pondering his own mortality with a certain amount of unease.

The long - running comic book character from Harvey Comics got the big screen treatment in 1994 with Richie Rich, a seemingly perfect starring vehicle for Macaulay Culkin (The Good Son, Home Alone), although at this point of his career, the former red - hot child star had been ice cold.

It's a long shot, but as Mendelsohn's character in the film — like his career itself — reminds us, long shots do pay off once in a while.

Rossum, perhaps buoyed by her time on TV's «Shameless,» conveys a quietly explosive interior life, while Long moves further away from the everyman nice - guy - ness that identified him earlier in his career into depicting a character who is more brittle and thorny.

Simmons has quietly paid his dues, slipping in a commendable character actor's career, and was undeniably long overdue for a role of this magnitude.

In his long, varied career actor William Devane has played more than his share of bad guys, romantic leads and comic characters.

The primary reason comes due to the tongue - in - cheek writing by veteran Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight), a screenwriter that has made a career mixing action with cheeky humor and kooky characters.

Simmons gives an intense performance worthy of an Oscar nod, in what may be his best in a long and distinguished career as a character actor.

Johnny Depp has certainly had one of the most interesting careers in Hollywood, becoming famous for playing unusual characters like Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, and Captain Jack Sparrow in the long - running Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, which recently opened its fifth movie in the series, Dead Men Tell No...

While the alternately tender and brutal allegory Au hasard Balthazar is widely considered Bresson's masterpiece, he had a long, visionary career that began in the forties and ended in the eighties, and was full of consistently fine films — the period drama Les dames du bois de Boulogne, the ascetic character study Diary of a Country Priest, and the minimalist tragedies Pickpocket and Mouchette among them.

Japanese actor Seizo Fukumoto is said to have enacted 50,000 screen deaths in his long career as a kirare - yaku, a minor character whose role is to die extravagantly in a sword fight.

Any parent that thinks college and career success does not depend on social - emotional and character development is simply mistaken and is not thinking about what is best for their child in the long - term.

In his long career as an educator, McGarry has seen the benefits of character education, and he was enthusiastic about its potential to address Upper Darby's challenges.

Character (s): Rufus Qualification: Ranking Points Ranking Points: 310 Bio: EG Justin Wong has a long and storied career in the fighting game community with many games and has been considered the top Street Fighter player in the USA for much of that career.

Paris, moreover, recaptured much of its luster in the 1950s and 60s as the center of a machine art florescence, with both of the leading machine art sculptors Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer having moved there to launch their careers — and which florescence, in light of the technocentric character of modern life, may well have a particularly long lasting influence.

Echo Cave makes spirited selections from Harris's long and diverse career, bringing to our attention the many recycled characters, motifs and symbols that accumulate in his body of work.

Her interest in social emotional development began while working with students with disabilities and realizing that their issues did not begin and end in the classroom, but rather impacted the away they interacted with others and how others interacted with them This led to a career long passion to help all students strengthen their character by teaching them how to develop social and emotional competencies.As an elementary school principal, she and her staff implemented school - wide philosophies that focused on SECD.

For those who have the trust continuum built into their character, a long - term career in real estate is guaranteed.