Sentences with phrase «failing as a playwright»

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

The English Teacher (Unrated) Julianne Moore handles the titular role as a spinster with a pair of Siamese cats whose life is disrupted by the return to town of a former student (Michael Angarano) after failing as a playwright in the Big Apple.

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Smithee's monologue seems to appropriately inhabit the space that the playwright Samuel Beckett proposed with the dictum «Fail better,» of which Stephen Marche recently wrote, «To fail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as succFail better,» of which Stephen Marche recently wrote, «To fail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as succfail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as succfail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as success.

Playing himself as a series of characters — failed playwright, struggling erotic novelist, or internet sleuth — Fujiwara weds fact and fiction in an art practice rich with storytelling.