Sentences with phrase «first dramatic act»

Just as the first dramatic act gains momentum, the breaks are firmly slammed on to an almost halt, as we enter act two.

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There was the initial act of terror at the Boston marathon, the heroism of first - responders, the dramatic press conference in which the FBI released blurry images of two suspects, the ensuing manhunt, the police shootout — the list goes on.

But she also loved the dramatic arts, and by the time of her first communion, she had already been signed by talent scouts, and appeared in commercials and on television, alongside acting legends such as David Niven, Richard Burton and Sir Lawrence Olivier.

Sometimes the first act of commitment is more dramatic than any others which follow, and the believer looks back to it in gratitude as a turning point in his life.

Robert Englund began his acting training at age 12, taking drama courses at the University of Oakland, U.C.L.A., California State - Northridge, the Michigan Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Rochester, NY, branch of R.A.D.A. Englund made his first professional appearance in a Cleveland production of Godspell.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

Yan caught Warner Bros. / DC's attention with her first feature film, Dead Pigs, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

The first half of the film, charting our heroine's domestic problems, are mostly just depressing, And the film's third act seems to have been stuck on just to give the story a dramatic conclusion.

But Michôd also sandbags himself with a charisma - free hero, whose most dramatic act in the first two - thirds of the film is scraping the burned bits off his toast.

Eventually it gets to some kind of dramatic point in the first act.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»

Still, if it skimps on character depth and somewhat dawdles during its first two acts, in which a pair of taut centerpieces helps prop up dramatic filler (including a subplot involving Olivia Wilde's single mom), The Next Three Days refuses to puff up its action with message - movie sermonizing.

Wiig's already gotten a head - start with Hateship Loveship and Bridesmaids (to a lesser extent), but Hader is taking his first stab at dramatic acting with The Skeleton Twins.

And this month, he's putting his Southern stoner act on hold in two leading roles: First up is Crown Heights, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance and hits theaters on August 18th, which finds him playing Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant unjustly accused of murder in 1980.

Once Forman stages his first recreation of bits from Kaufman's standup act, the film sets into cruise control, offering reenactment after reenactment of keystone events and performances in Kaufman's career (including his infamous «feud» with wrestler Jerry Lawler), with few moments of downtime in between and even less dramatic momentum to string it all together.

Since then I learned some techniques from an experienced Hollywood script development exec, like starting with a one - sentence log line (the first sentence of my description of Vaccine Nation above is one, a bit long at 36 words) that captures the story, and then build the outline, including key dramatic steps, in three acts from there.

The rationale and importance of this focus evolves from the understanding that workers» compensation legislation - from the first modern act passed in Ontario in 1915 to the dramatic changes of the 1990s - would not have taken the forms that it did without the concerted efforts, protests, and the successes achieved by injured workers and their organizations.

The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, S. 1926, passed by the Senate this afternoon is the time - out Realtors ® first advocated when dramatic flood insurance premium increases went into effect on October 1, 2013.