Sentences with phrase «for vaudeville»

Turkey Mike Donlin, who was the Babe Ruth of his day, literally staged two holdouts (1906 - 07,» 09 - 10), forsaking the New York Giants for vaudeville.

Not exact matches

Now one Alex Rosenberg has gingerly stepped onto this vaudeville stage with The Atheist's Guide to Reality, where scientific reductionism becomes» there is no other term for it» a full - bore reductio ad absurdum.

Since the festival's inception four years ago, they've run the gamut of themes and locales — 2013's «Reigniting the Vaudeville Era in Uptown and Edgewater» was particularly fantastic — and 2016's partnership with Loyola University allows for performance space in the beautiful Mundelein Center for the Arts.

With the rise of burlesque and vaudeville, women's fashion was transforming to be quite risqué and scandalous for the time.

and a vaudeville sequence involving an East European maid, a dominatrix and a guy duct - taped to a chair, and there's an amusing subplot in which Stifler and Finch compete for the attention of Cadence (January Jones), Michelle's adorable younger sister.

Rotund, squeaky - voiced American actor Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929.

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actor in a Play Benedict Cumberbatch — After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton David Suchet — All My Sons at the Apollo Matthew Macfadyen — Private Lives at the Vaudeville Rory Kinnear — Hamlet at the National, Olivier & Measure for Measure at the Almeida Simon Russell Beale — Deathtrap at the Noel Coward & London Assurance at the National, Olivier Toby Stephens — The Real Thing at the Old Vic

The Dude and Sobchak begin as caricatures too, but they're allowed to grow into something deeper, if only because the humanist economy of the Coens» surrealist vaudeville allows for a couple of human beings within the tapestry of freaks.

A former manager for Woolworths, Michael Whalen performed as a radio and vaudeville singer before entering films in 1935.

The film provides a fairly inspired on screen pairing of Mae West and W.C. Fields, two sort of old - timey vaudeville types both with a slightly raunchy (for the time) edge.

Davis started his career in vaudeville as a hoofer at age 3, was bullied in the armed forces, faced death threats for dating white women and worked with MLK during the civil rights movement.

Crawford entered show business by way of vaudeville, joining his parents in working for producer Max Gordon.

No one at the end of 1917 was debating whether the directing debut of John Ford or the first appearance of Vittorio de Sica augured longer careers to come (in fact, both would be making films for the next five - plus decades) or weighing the industry impact of Mary Pickford's box - office smash Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or (to the point of my own research) speculating about the future of slapstick star Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle's new sidekick, a vaudeville refugee named Buster Keaton.

There was a little much toilet humor and vaudeville jokes were just too obscure for 2011.

Keaton was always open to ideas from anyone on his staff, but came up with the central idea for The Playhouse himself: a vaudeville show in which Buster played all the roles.

The standout scene of the brothers» semi-affectionate riff on 1950s Hollywood throws the brunt of their combined talent for writing and deadpan timing into a two - man vaudeville routine of words and manners, in which a sophisticated director (Ralph Fiennes) and a bumpkin - ish actor (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle to get through a single line of dialogue: «Would that it were so simple.»

The Man of 1000 Faces — Boilerplate biopic that only comes alive when James Cagney, a great actor playing another great actor, recreates Lon Chaney's routines both for film and the vaudeville stage.

No, it had to be for those performance scenes, giving Cagney a chance to do some vaudeville, some mime, some crazy physical contortions and what not.

If vaudeville was a ripe feeding ground for comedy teams in the early sound days, the silent film comedians also spawned generations of teams that were not reliant on dialogue.

A shame, then, that for his one Oscar - nominated performance — for best supporting actor as the wary, heartfelt son of 1960s activists still on the run from the FBI in Running On Empty — he lost to Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, the sort of dotty vaudeville turn (see also John Gielgud in Arthur) that can sometimes be the wild card in the supporting categories.

In Vaudeville, straight men made more money than comics because it was rare to find someone who had a comedian's sense of timing but without a hunger for attention.

The theater — which were palaces left over from the vaudeville era — would place permanent marquees out front for the entire run.

It all ends with a gala vaudeville show, complete with Chaplin and Buster Keaton combining for a very funny performance.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.

If Jon Fine, Amazon's Director of Author and Publisher Relations, uses that line — with his vaudeville - caliber timing — in Frankfurt when he appears in the CONTEC town - hall session on «Self - Publishing and Its Implications for the Industry,» it just may get a bigger laugh than it did at Writer's Digest West.

I find it rather condemning that you would call me «too vaudeville» for this position as it appears to me you are a «blogger» with a tendancy for arrogance in your writings.

«Curator and performer Ian M. Colletti, best known for heading the Vaudeville Park space, stages an ambitious daylong fest, featuring art - pop luminaries...» — «Moving Forward» Time Out New York 5/22/2013

The Miss Rockaway Armada has been recognized for its mobile constructions, museum installations, performances, and Vaudeville - style theater.

Please join us at MFTA for the opening reception Thursday, March 29, 6 - 9 pm, featuring a performance by Ian M. Colletti of Vaudeville Park.

Materials for the Arts Gallery presents WasteDiversions: Sculpture and Collage from New York's Waste Stream, an exhibition of new work by artists from MFTA recipient groups Culture Push and Vaudeville Park, as well as participants in Friends of MFTA's open studio program.

Still on the UT Austin campus, the group will visit the Harry Ransom Center for a private tour of the current exhibition, «Vaudeville.»

Thematically, the iconography of Norling's work includes an eclectic mix, from vaudeville - type images and a present - day fetishization of luxury goods to the imagery of the Black Panthers — «particularly important to his upbringing in the Bay, an area where the Panthers were most successful in bringing forth their message of uplift for African Americans.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.

For the durational performances, the choreography of bodies in this re-imagined theatrical space will be influenced by silent film, vaudeville and early musical theatre.

In less than a century, cinema has evolved past its roots in theater and vaudeville, to become the predominant vehicle for communicating information, fantasy, and collective reality.

North America / Global About Blog Puppet Slamwich celebrates puppetry for adult audiences in all of its forms, from traditional to experimental, as well as related genres, such as vaudeville, cabaret, toy and Object Theater.