Sentences with phrase «child prodigy who»

Especially as he works on his second book, An Abundance of Katherines, to be published in 2006, about a washed - up child prodigy who keeps falling in love with girls who have the same name.

The recordings made by Florence are rare collectibles today, and the film does touch on her time as child prodigy who played piano at The White House during the Rutherford B Hayes administration.

Hiro Hamada is a child prodigy who's well on his way to being accepted into «that geek school» his brother attends, where he hopes to pursue a career in robotics.

On their escape, they discover nine - year - old Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), a child prodigy who is unusually strong in the Force.

Around the State Capitol there is a widely shared belief that Governor Andrew Cuomo's Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker was the real life inspiration for the fictional early 90s television program, «Doogie Howser MD.» For those who don't remember the show, which ran for four seasons on ABC beginning in 1989, Actor Neil Patrick Harris portrayed the child prodigy who graduated from medical school at age 14.

Here's what I meant to leave: a link to the ted talk by a child prodigy who gives a talk on what adults can learn from kids.

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Though Bancroft was stellar in The Miracle Worker, winning a Tony award for best actress, it was the child prodigy Patty Duke who mesmerized audiences playing the blind and deaf Keller.

Stock imagines musical parents turning their children into prodigies, and a parent who «feels so good about his optimism and energy that he may want more of it for his child.»

One of Arsene's long - time targets, if the rumours are to be believed, is the German youngster Julian Draxler, who was considered to be a child prodigy during his time at Schalke.

In my favor was a brother who was a child prodigy in both academics and violin.

Dan Fogler (Good Luck Chuck, Hyper) stars as former child prodigy Randy Daytona, who was once considered one of the world's elite table tennis champions before tragedy would strike (his father expiring) and he'd be humiliated in front of the entire world.

Toni Collette has a field day as Donna, who, together with apparent child prodigy Pete (Rory Culkin) will draw Gabriel out of his comfortable abode and into a dark and somewhat menacing mystery.

All three Tenenbaum children are prodigies of some field in which they've made an esteemed name for themselves, and the father, the Mr. Royal Tenenbaum (a flawless Gene Hackman), is an ill - tempered ex-lawyer and overall downtrodden dad who has less - than - great news to deliver: he has been forcibly evicted from his hotel - home and claims he has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

Donnie (Macy, Mystery Men) is the child prodigy from the show's past, who pissed his life away because he couldn't live up to everyone's expectations.

Stanley (Blackman, Crown Heights) is a child prodigy on the Gator's game show, who feels like a freak due to everyone telling him what to do.

Nick Frost plays Bruce Garrett in CUBAN FURY, the man who was once a child prodigy dancer and has now returned to the fray...

Clark Gregg will direct from his screenplay the noir fable about a loser agent for young actors - and washed - up child star himself - who stumbles upon a brilliant 13 - year - old prodigy (played by newcomer Saxon Sharbino) and then tries to close the mega-deal that will make her a star while managing her drunk volatile father, the poaching attempts of a more successful nemesis and a growing awareness that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.

Who: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, Genesis Rodriguez and T.J. Miller What: Child prodigy Hiro Hamada and his plus - sized inflatable robot Baymax team up with a group of friends to form a band of high - tech heroes.

Over the course of the book, you'll meet the Navy's Top Gun pilots, a violinist so skilled that when a string breaks during a performance he simply completes the piece on the remaining strings, and the eccentric Hungarian psychologist who was so confident in his theory of genius that he sought a wife who would collaborate with him in raising a child to be a chess prodigy (it worked).

Families who are coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple disabilities; families who have transgender children; families whose children are prodigies or who became criminals - each get their own chapter.

Our newest team members include: Suh Min - Jeong, a child prodigy at the age of twelve, who is an expert in the fields of diplomacy and archaeology.

Picasso was a gifted artist who, as a child prodigy, mastered representation in the classic sense.

«I think I was meant to be a musician,» says Schwisberg, who was a violin prodigy as a child before moving on to become a DJ and later make 36 jazz records in the 1980s.

Who knows, maybe Jr.'s the next Marla Olmstead, a child prodigy artist featured in the doc My Kid Could Paint That.