Sentences with phrase «in old musicals»

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That is, in fact, its whole raison d'être — a high - stakes game of musical chairs in which family members and executive are scrambling for a place in 93 - year - old Sumner Redstone's estate plan.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

First, our brother Michael Gungor, one of the most thoughtful musical artists of our time, has been publicly vilified across Christian media — both traditional, online, and social — for openly discussing his belief in an old earth rather than a young earth.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Yet the 38 - year - old British composer of such blockbuster musicals as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Cats, who has written such enormously popular melodies as «I Don't Know How to Love Him,» «Don't Cry for Me, Argentina» and «Memories,» demonstrated in the Requiem that he can also write beautiful serious music in the English choral tradition — while still holding on to his more rock - inspired identity.

I have two rooms full of toys and musical things, like electric keyboard, older computer to learn things on «ABC.com», (a subscription service for 2 + yrs old children), and battery operated toys that are musical, or talk, or walk, or beep, or run, blocks and puzzles, plush toys and soft rubber balls, and when no babies around, I blow up lots of balloons which they throw up in the air and try to catch, or I bring out all the «kitchen stuff» (a collection of plastic dish sets, plastic fake food and utensils, and a big tablecloth I lay it all on and then pick it all up with until next time).

When the musical sensor located in front panel detects moisture in the potty bowl, it will play music - an old favorite - «It's a Small World».

Almost everyone has items throughout the home they're no longer using, such as an unwanted sweater hanging in the wardrobe to an old musical instrument that is gathering dust.

Timothy is more interested in the musical and technical aspects of computers, and - with a little help from Richard - has put together a working computer made from old parts, in his bedroom.

Asked why the county organization is going with Diaz, Garcia said, «It's the same old musical chairs» in the Bronx, where favored elected politicians move between Albany and City Hall, often being selected in a party process for a special election rather than through a primary.

Gaab says, «He also encouraged me to think outside the box and let me follow research ideas like the idea of imaging 5 - year - olds — which, back in 2004, nobody thought would be possible — or looking at the connection between musical training and language processing,» Gaab says.

It's exceedingly difficult to find measurable differences in the tonal quality of the cherished old violins and more ordinary ones, let alone explain what causes them, comments Colin Gough, physicist and expert on musical acoustics at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Gough sees problems with the new study.

Kraus surveyed 44 adults aged 55 to 76 and found that four or more years of musical training in childhood was linked to faster neural responses to speech, even for the older adults who had not picked up an instrument for more than 40 years.

Kraus surveyed 44 adults aged 55 to 76 and found that four or more years of musical training in childhood was linked to faster neural responses to speech, even for the older adults who had not picked up — Simon Makin

25 year old Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer who rose to fame in her teens starring in the High School Musical films.

I'm 42 year old musical and poetic man seeking a friendly out going blonde or brunette friend with green or blue eyes; and who is not afraid of finding true love and faith in God.

You Were Meant for Me is a 1948 musical film, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dan Dailey and Jeanne Crain as a bandleader Dotard definition, a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak - minded or foolish old person.

Whether you are looking for a single cougar dating or you are an old women looking for a toy boy dating, we provide a perfect online platform in UK that helps From the Producers of Yank, Pippin & Little Women we bring you this musical premiere of new British musical based on the bestselling novel The ToyBoy Diaries.

Unable to connect with older or younger viewers, Newsies gained a reputation as a major bomb that cut short an attempt to bring back the live - action musical, though in the intervening years it has gained a small but appreciative cult.

Old friend Buck Jones came to her rescue and Francis made her final three films with him, including Stone of Silver Creek (1935), in which she used her Broadway musical expertise to play a glamorous saloon chanteuse.

While attending Boston University, the 20 - year - old Alexander was cast in the lead of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along, which might have made him an overnight star had it not closed almost as soon as it opened.

Two of Republic's favorite musical stars — Roy Rogers and Estelita Rodriguez — are copacetically teamed in In Old Amarillin In Old AmarillIn Old Amarillo.

In 1993, Short made his Broadway debut, assuming the old Richard Dreyfuss role in a musical adaptation of the 1977 film The Goodbye GirIn 1993, Short made his Broadway debut, assuming the old Richard Dreyfuss role in a musical adaptation of the 1977 film The Goodbye Girin a musical adaptation of the 1977 film The Goodbye Girl.

The story of a young boy trying to impress a girl with his musical talents may seem old - hat in 2016, but Carney's ability to engage his audience with every bar of a song found within one of his films is ever - present and, as always, impressive.

The film takes place in 1980s Dublin, and follows 14 - year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who uses his musical talent to try and woo Raphina (Lucy Boynton).

In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012).

Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, the evening kicked off with a musical tribute to old Hollywood, from «Singing in the Rain» to «Star Wars.»

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned iIn hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned iin elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned iin the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned iin which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

Coincidentally not based on the musical «Barnum» that debuted on Broadway in 1980, this is a splashy, shoot - the - works original, an old - fashioned musical extravaganza that evokes quixotic wonder and tingly moments of jubilation like the greatest movie musicals do.

The result is a stylistic and colorful film (using modern music set to the old time theme, and a frustrating jump in time that often skips over major plot points in favor of lining up the next musical number.

Kendrick began her career at 12 years old, playing Dinah Lord in the 1997 Broadway musical production of HIGH SOCIETY, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

Like Ross's own old - meets - new appropriation, the 1981 meta - musical Pennies From Heaven, in which Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken danced and lip - synched to Depression era - standards, Brewer's Footloose is an attempt to get at the heart of contemporary culture via slavish re-creation of an earlier time.

If this film wins an Oscar it won't be an homage to «Old Hollywood Movie Musicals» but a slap in the face!

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4:00 am (13th)-- TCM — In the Good Old Summertime A musical remake of Ernst Lubtisch's The Shop Around the Corner, and understandably not as good, but the story is still solid and it's a decent enough time waster.

Emma Stone's «La La Land» led Monday's Golden Globe nominations, picking up seven nods including Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for the 28 - year - old.

Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turning it into a live action spectacle hoping to make audiences fall in love again with a tale as old as time.

Born in O`ahu, Hawai`i, Settle grew up studying old movie musicals and eventually Shakespeare, and dreamed of becoming a backup singer.

Their singing isn't the modern day musical vibe, where the actors aim for a more pop star beat to draw in a younger crowd (Hugh Jackman in Greatest Showman, Pitch Perfect), but as old - fashioned as they come.

Appropriately, the long takes in the musical sequences aren't there so the audience can «see the dancing,» as the old cliché goes, but to cast a spell: The unbroken camera movements, self - conscious as they may be, make the movie more dreamlike.

It's a good year for women in musicals, in fact: new shows to get excited by include Miss Littlewood, about badass theatre maverick Joan Littlewood, which is by Sam Kenyon at the RSC from 22 June, and Sylvia, a hip - hop telling of Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragette movement by Zoo Nation's Kate Prince, at the Old Vic from 1 September.

This year the 29 - year - old actress has appeared in musical Begin Again and action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

On the other hand, the DD 1.0 mono audio is a major disappointment, given the musical nature of the second half of the film (and the acerbic sound - editing of the first, which recalls Walter Murch's early experiments in noise - as - wallpaper)-- it all sounds like a sausage forced through the eye of a needle, and as sharp - eared observers have pointed out elsewhere, the trademark line «Here's to Old England!»

The 27 - year - old actress won the Globe for her work in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which also picked up the award for Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy.

In an era where the majority of big movie musicals are stodgy adaptations of Broadway shows, Chazelle — who turns 31 years old January 19th — is poised to bring some vitality to a genre desperately in search of somIn an era where the majority of big movie musicals are stodgy adaptations of Broadway shows, Chazelle — who turns 31 years old January 19th — is poised to bring some vitality to a genre desperately in search of somin search of some.

I went back and watched Chazelle's first feature, «Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,» and while it, too, bills itself as an old - school musical, it's more a mumblecore movie with two or three numbers in it.

Damien Chazelle's homage to old Hollywood received a nod for Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy; Stone and Gosling each got recognition in their respective acting categories; and Chazelle was nominated in Best Director and Best Screenplay.

These conflicts are taken more seriously than they might have been in an old - school musical comedy, but then «La La Land» doesn't entirely yoke itself to the format.

This wouldn't be such a glaring issue were there, in fact, much of a plot to start with, but in an attempt to side - step accusations of retreading old ground, screenwriter Kay Cannon opts to stumble from musical comedy to crime caper and back.

Disney is continuing to dig around in their vault for new movies inspired by their old movies with Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the 1964 live - action musical classic Mary Poppins that will have Emily Blunt stepping up to play the titular nanny instead of Julie Andrews.