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(As an example of how to do it right, check out «Nashville,» with Ronee Blakley's classic performance as a rehabbed wreck of a star, or «Payday,» with Rip Torn.)

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The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

It was as though we turned a corner in the champions league, turning into the classic Arsenal sort of Champions League Group stage performance with the likes of Alexis, Ozil and Santi flourishing.

Take Mustafi on Thursday, versus his terrible performance against Swansea, as a classic example.

But aside from the improved performance and reliability, one of the big benefits was the glorious sound of that V12 motor, as you can hear in this video of one, taken from this year's Spa Classic.

This splendid redundancy was all that past performance charts had to say about the last three races of Venezuela's Canonero II, who made America's classic contenders look like Percherons as he rounded a jampacked field to score a stunning upset in the Kentucky Derby

Fans were treated to an action - packed programme which saw some record - breaking performances on Saturday as the Prefontaine Classic meeting resumed in Eugene.

As fans continue to lament the dismal performance of Nigerians at the last Lagos International Squash Classics, Seun Peters, a former player, has advocated...

Its presidential performance is about the same as the nation as a whole and so it's a classic swing district.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

Also, while the pages devoted to dissection of classic modern films such as Performance, Alien and Full Metal Jacket make compelling reading, they defeat the utter disposability so crucial to the modern: what can't be instantly forgotten becomes an impediment to what can next be accessed and experienced.

It includes advanced variations of classic core moves, such as the plank, and more advanced hybrid core performance exercises.

Just as Nume products are widely known, the classic wand is equally a product that gives you professional yet classic looking curls, it exhibits performance at its best, and all designs are enhanced to give you nothing but the best.

With engaging performances from Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, the movie, which follows a workaholic (Hanks» Allen Bauer) as he falls for an honest - to - goodness mermaid (Hannah's Madison), is an agreeable romantic comedy that's deservedly become a minor classic of the genre.

Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

On the heels of a mesmerizing lead performance as an aging gambler in director Neil Jordan's The Good Thief (a remake of the Jean - Pierre Melville classic Bob le Flambeur), Nolte's arrest for driving under the influence in September of 2002 made headlines when it was discovered that he was under the influence of GHB.

One of the great Swedish director Jan Troell's finest films, it boasts a classic performance by Maria Heiskanen as a quietly, heroically suffering wife.

An often missed classic and the vehicle for one of my favorite Marilyn Monroe performances, How to Marry a Millionaire is both a somewhat satirical romance as well as a biting comedy, with much of the broad laughs going to Monroe and the stinging one liners to a delightful Lauren Bacall.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

Thanks to some very good casting (though Spader, in his mid-20s, looks far too old to be playing high school age), solid performances, and the insights of John Hughes at the peak of his creative screenwriting talent, Pretty in Pink emerged as an instant teen classic, and remains, to this day, a quintessential film for those who enjoy everything 1980s.

The supporting cast is what makes it watchable after all these years with the likes of Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Gene Hackman, and Marlon f**king Brando giving great performances as classic characters like Lois Lane, Perry White, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor, and Jor - El.

«YOGI BEAR» (2010) Timberlake's voice performance as Boo - Boo was spot - on in this 2010 live - action / animated film adaptation of the classic cartoon.

Although Brando revolutionised acting with his mesmerising performances in classics such as A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, he was known to loathe producers, directors and even acting.

Though the style is rigorously sedate, the plot plays out like an outrageous update of Schrader's classic Taxi Driver script for a world of LiveLeak and climate change, and Hawke gives one of the his finest performances of his career as a soft - spoken man consumed with depression and an «all - consuming knowledge of the emptiness of all things.»

McKellen has also been honored for his extensive television work, from the miniseries The Prisoner to his monumental performance in King Lear: from his reincarnation of Tsar Nicholas II in the telefilm Rasputin, to his classic guesting as himself in HBO's Extras.

The Reader — Sony Classics, 123 mins — Stephen Daldry directs Kate Winslet in a remarkably brave and brilliant performance as a former Nazi SS guard who initiates an illicit affair with a German adolescent.

Angela Lansbury as Raymond's malevolent mother is one of many superb performances in this classic film.

As Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal «The Cannibal» Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender dynamics and gives one of the most memorable performances of her career.

If all it took to be a great thriller were edge - of - your - seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure - classic, as the impressively taut direction by Pellington and believable performances by Bridges and Robbins turn up the potboiler of intensity.

Matt writes: With New Year's Eve quickly approaching, movie buffs are already setting their DVRs to record annual broadcasts of Michael Curtiz's 1942 classic, «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» featuring its Oscar - winning performance from James Cagney as George M. Cohan.

So if you're a fan of motorsports, Project Cars 2 really spoils you with the variety of disciplines, the different types of series and the amazing selection of cars that includes classics like the Ferrari 330 P4 to high performance vehicles such as McLaren P1GTR.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic terror tale «Herbert West — Reanimator» and featuring a standout performance from Jeffrey Combs as the deliciously deranged West, «Re-Animator» remains the ground - zero of»80s splatter mayhem and one of the genre's finest hours.

A stunning debut that delivers both laughs and thrills in equal measure, Attack the Block features superb performances from its young cast — led by John Boyega as gang leader Moses — and although it went largely unnoticed in cinemas (banking just under # 2.5 m here in the UK), it will surely go on to become a cult classic.

Curtis» performance is an amusing spoof of classic movie heroism and his own status as a matinee idol.

Hugh Jackman mentioned that there'll be some classic, patented Wolverine «berserker rage» in his final performance as the cigar - smokin» canuck.

Ev en if Journey's End will perhaps not be remembered as a classic of the genre, it is nevertheless a well made war film that with good performances that is worth checking out.

Another actor to win Oscar in his one and only try, Charlton Heston delivered a performance for the ages in William Wyler's classic historical epic as the titular Judah Ben - Hur, a former prince exiled to slavery by a former childhood friend (Stephen Boyd) turned Roman tribune.

Sutherland, who appeared in such classic films as «The Dirty Dozen» and «MASH,» delivers a performance for the ages in Nicolas Roeg's drama «Don't Look Now» (1973).

However, the key to the movies status as a comedy classic is of course, Steve Martin's go - for - broke performance as the oblivious title character, a fool of galactic proportions who greets every triumph and obstacle with misguided enthusiasm, childlike optimism and a mile - wide gormless grin.

Curtis, who now appears on the Fox series «Scream Queens,» broke out as the original Scream Queen, but really made a name for herself with comedy classics «Trading Places» and «A Fish Called Wanda»; Curtis won a BAFTA Award for her role in the former and a Golden Globe nod for the latter, though neither performance struck gold with Oscar.

LMD: The Shameless is like a classic film noir and while watching Kim Nam - gil's performance and the way you capture him, he reminded me a little of a young Robert Mitchum, as he looked in Out of the Past.

Granted, the costumes are extravagant, the settings alternately lush and scenic, the music (by Jonny Greenwood) an often dazzling reinvention of the respectable pop of the 1950s (somewhere between cocktail lounge and light classics), and the performances as finely finished as the couture.

The whole movie is basically a single, solitary performance away from instant classic status, but dang it, Dane Dehaan — for all his obvious talent — is clearly miscast as a charismatic, hunky rogue.

Rathbone, of course, went on to become one of the screen's best villains with his performances in such classics as «A Tale of Two Cities,» «David Copperfield,» «Captain Blood,» «The Adventures of Robin Hood» and «The Mark of Zorro.»

«All the Stars» (the song from over the closing credits) strikes me as a classic Oscar nominee, and Lamar and SZA would light up a staid ceremony with their performance.

In this stylish retelling of the classic tale of horror, Frank Langella gives an electrifying performance as the bloodthirsty Count, with Sir Laurence Olivier as his legendary nemesis, Van Helsing, the renowned and relentless vampire hunter seeking to end the Dark Prince's reign of terror over the citizens of Transylvania!