Sentences with phrase «infamous figure»

Part of that complexity involved enhancing Lara's infamous figure.

Craig Gillespie's rollicking retelling of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall might take several dramatic liberties (peep the new trailer for a bloody - faced Margot Robbie mugging for the camera in one shot while brandishing a shotgun in pursuit of Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, in another), but, at its core, I, Tonya is a film rooted in the rich, real - life story of a deeply troubled athlete fighting for her place in the world.

«I, Tonya,» a riff on the Tonya Harding saga starring Margot Robbie as the infamous figure skater the whole world decided it loved to hate, is a fresh, chancy, and wickedly enjoyable movie.

The Hollywood Reporter retraces his moves in Queens and Buffalo and interviews dozens of former friends and associates to examine the formative years of Hollywood's most infamous figure.»

The game is already fairly easy even on harder difficulty settings and adding the infamous figures into the mix only makes things easier.

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In recent years, Bettencourt became a household name in France as the central figure in an infamous trial in which judges examined whether the billionaire was taken advantage of by those close to her.

This reminds me of something the infamous Madalyn Murray O'Hair (the one who was murdered by one of the members of her hate organization... go figure).

Chadli — who alongside Eriksen and Lamela — remains the only of Spurs» infamous seven signed by Andre Villas - Boas to still be at the club, finished the 2014/15 campaign with 11 goals from 35 appearances in the Premier League, hitting double figures and being beaten on the score - charts by Harry Kane alone.

Hooton, for one, wasn't suprised by the University of Minnesota study's findings: «We identified this high rate of steroid usage over 5 years ago,» he says, noting, that he used the same 5 - 6 % figure that the U of M confirmed in their study as far back as 2005, when he testified at the now - infamous Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball.

It is curious that - in a world verging on the infamous reality «simulacrum», where facts and representations merge into one seamless flow of sensory stimulation - media - literacy does not figure yet in the school curriculum.

The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.

And then there were the infamous «scissors diagrams» (e.g., 7) showing that, from roughly gender - balanced undergraduate numbers, attrition began straightaway: 40 % of Ph.D. students, 32 % of postdocs, 21 % of assistant professors, 8 % of associate professors, and 5 % of full professors were female amongst scientific personnel in the Netherlands (1998 figures).

In the presentation to the public — see the figure in the Nature article itself, once again, there is the infamous splice between reconstruction by proxy (up to 1980) and the instrumental record thereafter (once again Jones» CRU record, rather than the satellite record).

The filmmakers successfully integrate snippets from Nixon's infamous, mafia - like audio tapes over the image of a shadowy figure in a White House window.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Winner: Allison Janney in I, Tonya (MPAA: R) This movie is based on the life of the infamous US figure skater, Tonya Harding (played by Margot Robbie).

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

We've known for some time that Kathy Bates will be playing historical figure Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who was infamous for the brutal torture of her slaves, and we get a good look at her in these first look images along with a peek at Angela Bassett's voodoo witch character.

Directed by Craig Gillespie (last year's The Finest Hours), the biopic depicts the figure skating career of the infamous -LSB-...]

The event in question is, of course, the infamous attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by Shane Stant on January 6th, 1994, in which he attempted to break her leg with a baton after being hired by Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckhardt.

The bombshell Australian beauty, best known for her work as Naomi in Martin Scorsese's «The Wolf of Wall Street» has been attached to «I, Tonya,» an upcoming biopic about infamous American figure...

Peter Landesman's Parkland looks beyond the assassination and even President Kennedy to examine the surrounding figures on that infamous day...

The film, which has been wildly successful along the festival circuit, stars Margot Robbie as the infamous Olympic figure skater, Tonya Harding.

The new film I, Tonya, which made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, sees Margot Robbie step into the notorious skates of infamous American figure skater Tonya Harding, who in 1994 made the U.S. Olympic team after her rival, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee in a plot masterminded by Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly.

«I, Tonya» documents one of the most infamous scandals in sporting history as it follows the true story of Tonya and her husband when they plotted to attack her rival Nancy Kerrigan before the US Figure Skating Championships in 1994.

«I, Tonya» tackles figure skater Tonya Harding and her infamous rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan.

Pablo Escobar was a legendary figure in the Colombian drug trade of the late 1970s and 1980s as the head of the infamous Medellin drug cartel, and «Narcos» tells his story from his perspective as well and that of the DEA agents assigned to take him down.

She is infamous for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

He transforms into the slimy Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's estranged husband and a figure skating villain who served time in prison for his involvement in the infamous attack on Nancy Kerrigan ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Having grown up in Australia, Robbie wasn't aware of the infamous saga of figure skater Tonya Harding.

«I, Tonya» is a dark, redneck, comical marriage of «The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight» and «Blades of Glory,» as it chronicles the tale of figure skater Tonya Harding and the infamous incident — the kneecapping of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan — that rocked ice rinks around the world.

I, Tonya focuses on the life of the infamous American figure skater Tonya Harding, and it does a fine job of being a sort of warts and all look at a controversial figure without shying away from the inherent dark comedy found in her story.

Based on true events, I, Tonya centers around the American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most infamous scandals in sports history.

The infamous former figure skater is the subject of an upcoming Craig Gillespie biopic, set to hit theaters in December, with Margot Robbie playing lead

Director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) takes us back to the infamous»90s rivalry between figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.

On the other hand, the instantly infamous «chicken scene» from Darker: Fifty Shades Darker As Told By Christian has yet to be committed to celluloid, so we're sure they'll figure something out.

The film tracks Harding's entire career, including the infamous incident during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships when her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly hired someone to attack Harding's competitor, Nancy Kerrigan.

Robbins amassed an all - star cast in 1999 to embody the real - life figures behind this infamous stage production and their contemporaries; a title card teasingly informs us this is «A (mostly) true story.»

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

I, Tonya reintroduces us to one of the most infamous athlete - villains of the»90s as Margot Robbie breaks through with a strong performance as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in Craig Gillespie's darkly comic biopic.

As if those figures aren't exciting enough, Alfa also says the Giulia was able to lap the infamous Nurburgring Nordschliefe in just 7 minutes and 39 seconds.

In The Golden House, readers are introduced to Nero Golden, a larger - than - life figure who claims the name of Rome's most infamous emperor for his own.

With Blood & Beauty, she returns to this fascinating era, but this time she's trained her acute storytelling eye on real historical figures: one of Europe's most infamous families, the Borgias.Turning the lives of people who actually inhabit the...

A Prisoner in Malta is populated with lots of personages whose names and reputations have been bequeathed to the annals of British history (The novel contains a helpful appendix of thumbnail biographical sketches of some of the more infamous real - life characters who figure prominently in the story).

London writer Mark Bryant, however, has compiled all sorts of entertaining facts about 200 well - known figures in Private Lives: Curious Facts About the Famous and Infamous (Cassell / Sterling Publications, $ 29.95, 0304343153).

But, on her recent Books in Three Bytes podcast appearance in the AuthorBytes Café, historical fiction, and non-fiction author Leslie Carroll talks about some of the most powerful — and infamous — figures in history... who just happen to have been women.

Thanks to countless pop culture references and notorious 20th - century organized crime figures such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti, the concept of organized crime calls to mind images of bygone eras when speakeasies, Mob - run casinos and infamous M...

While it's too early for any sales figures, Infamous has landed in the number one UK sales chart with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes in second place which pushed Titanfall down to number three.

Just a few of the countless memories I have of Angie include going to Anime Expo in 2009, over the 4th of July weekend, where she met Rocco of the infamous Mega 64 series; when Angie would come over to my house and reenact the whole of Advent Children with my original FFVII action figures, and the hilarity that ensued thereafter; as well as listening to her plan about upcoming summer events, like her graduation party, visiting college campuses, and attending various conferences and conventions in which she would present her latest research for kindred spirits who were just as dedicated to the study all things otaku and / or video - gaming related as she was.

This bizarre franchise merge mixes Tecmo Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series with Nintendo's infamous pocket monsters, as Pikachu and chums interact with historical Japanese figures throughout this overhead strategy adventure.

I can not say what it is specifically about this release that got me back into spending nights when I should be getting rested for school, hunched over my PC trying to figure out how to progress to the next year in the shoes of Manny Calavera, whose job is to sell the recently dead the best (and most expensive, I mean exclusive...) ticket to the Ninth Underworld, the infamous Number Nine.