Sentences with phrase «most storied careers»

In a bombshell announcement that brings the curtain down on one of the most storied careers in Staten Island political history, fifth - term Republican Rep. Vito Fossella will not seek re-election this fall.

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Mr. Buffett slammed the door on one opportunity after another during the most harrowing stretch of his storied career.

Series creator Peter Berg has a knack for bringing working class characters to life (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, Hell or High Water), and Friday Night Lights may be the most authentic work of his storied Hollywood career.

Miles most recently worked as the CEO of the Association of Tennis Professionals in a storied career that has also seen him chair the committee that brought the Super Bowl to Indianapolis in 2012.

Karen is Great Britain's most capped female international hockey player, amassing 355 caps in a storied and successful international career.

Even in a career as storied as director Paul Schrader's, the final half - hour ranks as the most powerful work he's ever produced.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

East of Eden is bleak, brilliant, and, along with Kazan's «lost» Wild River, probably the most misunderstood — and, by extension, underestimated — film in a storied career.

Of course, Schrader has had a storied career as a director, too — his most remembered work is probably American Gigolo, but he's produced many challenging dramas that follow people at the intersection of some powerful, individual crisis.

In that period, NBC's sketch comedy series has plummeted to what appears to be an all - time creative low, but Ferrell has fared much better, developing one of the most successful movie careers among former cast members in «SNL»'s storied, 32 - year history.

Thirty years ago, The Bard's Tale put Brian Fargo and Interplay on the map and launched a storied career crafting some of the most beloved cRPGs in gaming history.

It includes vignettes from such storied authors as Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje, and Val McDermid on the most embarrassing experiences they've ever had during their writing careers.

The most public face of deep value investing is Carl Icahn, known for his «battering - ram personality,» who has had a long, storied career as a discount options broker, arbitrageur and liquidator of closed - end mutual funds, corporate raider, and activist investor.

Rod Ferguson has had a storied career, but is most well known for joining Epic and becoming Cliffy B's right - hand man, working on the entire Gears trilogy, as well as Gears of War: Judgement.

It would be the start of long and storied career for both Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, two of gaming's most lauded graphic adventure game creators who went on to create The Secret of Monkey Island in 1990.

Valdés, famous for depictions of women in all media, has created some of the largest and most expressive three - dimensional portraits of his storied career.

«Finkelstein's helming of one of the most important contract cases in the last 20 years is another feather in the cap of his storied litigation career.»

Born in New Jersey and raised in Washington, Morgan began his storied career in 1993 Washington state at Sound Publishing, one of the industry's most trusted and respected local community newspapers firms.