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And, perhaps most flagrant of all, Cut Bank reflects a pattern that crops up now and again in the televisual realm: the superficial mugging of the eccentricities of brand - name directors whose careers have flourished largely in the cinema.

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Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, whose name has been floated as a potential replacement for Kelly should the general exit, told CBS's Major Garrett on Face the Nation Sunday that questions about Kelly are simply media speculation.

«Sheswept our bets this week,» says the Lactate Guy, whose real name is LarryHerr and whose title is performance database director for USA Swimming.

Bandaloop, whose name is drawn from Tom Robbins's novel Jitterbug Perfume, is based in Oakland and is the brainchild of Amelia Rudolph, 31, the company's director.

He further explained that, Dr. Srofenyoh, the acting Medical Director of the Ridge Hospital, whose name was abbreviated on the posters as «SROF» and referred to as the ideal man for the job, was part of the shortlisted candidates who went through the interview.

Current communications director Paul Rivera is staying on, but he's likely moving into a more limited chief of staff - type role, although there are two people with that title at the moment in Sampson's camp: Michelle Trotman, whose name appeared in a recent Times story on the leader's representation of a shady Queens real estate broker, Edul Ahmad; and Michael Cohen, who I'm told runs things in the senator's Brooklyn district.

«I'm honored to be given an award named for Paul Ramsey, one of the founding figures in the field of bioethics, whose thoughts on many of the issues we face today are still insightful and salient,» said Sulmasy, who is also associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

«After the federal government had given its approval, the state of Florida had to give its approval, so then - Kennedy Space Center director, whose name is Jim Kennedy, and I drove up to Tallahassee one day to see Governor Bush, who was then - governor,» recalled Stern of his road trip on November 22, 2005.

Director Shawn Levy, whose box - office hits give critics meltdowns (Cheaper By the Dozen, The Pink Panther, both Night at the Museum movies), puts frisky energy into the fights, especially when Charlie and son take a junk - pile robot named Atom and build him into a contender.

Director Roger Michell is best known for the fluffy fantasy of «Notting Hill» (1999), targetted directly at an American market and presenting a view of London life whose only link to reality was the place names — but since then he has elaborated a much darker vision of romance in Britain's capital, first in the Hanif Kureshi - scripted taboo - breaker The Mother (2003), and now in «Enduring Love», starring Daniel Craig (who also featured in The Mother) and Rhys Ifans (here a million miles away from the comedy of «Notting Hill»).

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

The director, whose name I can not pronounce, blamed the title on «not being able to come up with one that fit.»

Often confused with another Australian director with the same name, whose films include The Man From Snowy River (1982).

I'm going on a very frail limb with Steve McQueen, considering he's the lone name on the Director longlist whose film isn't among the 15 mentioned in the top race.

Screenwriter Danny Strong and director Lee Daniels (whose name, by the way, is awkwardly attached to the title due to a trivial copyright dispute) understand and even embrace the contradictions of their characters.

Charlie Kaufman — «Synecdoche, New York «Having written some of the defining screenplays of the early noughties (ok fine, «Being John Malkovich» was 1999) Charlie Kaufman became something of a brand - name screenwriter — one whose own input rivalled that of the directors he's most associated with (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze) for authorial ownership over the finished film.

Look deep into the movie listings this January, past the big name awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).

Exhibit A: Trading on both a hit book and an established director whose name is enough to give an entire generation the warm and...

From acclaimed indie director Lynn Shelton comes this charming comedy about a young twenty - something named Megan (played by Keira Knightley) whose own arrested development results in a budding friendship with a teenage girl (Chloe Grace - Moretz) and her beleaguered single dad (Sam Rockwell).

Among the names I'm particularly glad to see on the list are «The Illusionist» animator Sylvain Chomet (seven years after his first nod), offbeat directors Gregg Araki and John Cameron Mitchell and «Another Year» actress Lesley Manville — whose inclusion should come as some consolation for the missing Best Actress nomination many felt she deserved this year.

We won't spoil the surprise, though we will reveal that (a) no film has made better use of Radiohead's «You and Whose Army» and (b) Canadian director Denis Villeneuve just vaulted himself to the country's highest ranks of provocative filmmakers who aren't named Cronenberg.

The Spanish and American actress played director for Agent Provocateur, a renowned and expensive British lingerie company whose name says everything about it.

Sumptuously appointed even while being critical of class hierarchy, these films — all made with the same corps of collaborators, including the charmingly impetuous star Odette Joyeux — endure as a testament to the quick wit and exquisite visual sense of the director whose name they established.

Edgerton, though a fine actor who has been in a number of successful movies and is a promising director, is still not an instantly recognizable name or face to most American moviegoers, and even fewer know Negga, a versatile and affecting Ethiopian - Irish actress whose most prominent exposure has been on Season 1 of the AMC series Preacher.

Set to star life - long comics obsessive Nic Cage (whose own son is named Kal - El), Burton's film would have followed in the footsteps of his Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), only for the director to walk away when he became exasperated by studio interference and marketing commitments.

Lucky comes to us from the most recent actor turned director John Carroll Lynch, whose name might not be household, but his face certainly is.

Exhibit A: Trading on both a hit book and an established director whose name is enough to give an entire generation the warm and fuzzies — not to mention the multitude of references to other dopamine - triggering nostalgic properties contained within — Ready Player One got the high score at the domestic box office this weekend with $ 53.2 million.

The excitement even sparked #BlackPantherSoLit (started by @ChadwicksChill) and has been used by everyone from Ava DuVernay (whose name was tossed around as director early on) to @Luvvie.

This «Birth» finds Parker as a writer, director and principal performer, the rare, thoughtful drama describing a rebellion led by the man whose name is indelibly carved into U.S. History.

I'm trying to think of an actress - turned - director whose first film was positioned so favorably and the only name coming to mind is Angelina Jolie.

Ava DuVernay in just a few short years have become a director whose name stirs instant excitement when her name becomes attached to a project.

Most years the Academy selects one director whose film was not nominated for best picture, but this year the directors of all five «best films» were named.

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund Director: Ang Lee Release Date: Nov. 11 What it's about: Based on a novel of the same name, the film follows an Iraq war hero whose victory tour back in the U.S. is interrupted by jarring flashbacks.

Director Luca Guadagnino, whose other movie «I Am Love» is another Italian stunner starring his frequent collaborator Tilda Swinton — and a favorite of mine, wanted «Call Me By Your Name» to be «like a box of chocolates».

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

«The voice was a British actor whose name I don't know, and Benedict — Benedict did the facial capture for it,» director Scott Derrickson told IGN before confirming that the uncredited role was not designed to allow another actor to join the role later, a la Thanos in Avengers.

Named for Bonnie Caputo, the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline, the Bonnie will henceforth be presented to a mid-career female director whose work inspires other women in the field.

Director David Fincher, whose name has often been linked to «Star Wars» films, says he will stay away from the frachise as it comes with a lot of pressure.

The first thing I look for are the names of directors whose work I'm interested in following (or whose work I think I would like to follow).

Plus, I'd planned to see «Suspiria» at some point anyway in preparation for the remake coming out later this year from Luca Guadagnino, the director of «Call Me By Your Name,» «A Bigger Splash» and «I Am Love,» whose work I adore.

Shyamalan remains one of just a few writer - directors whose names are recognized by the general public, but it's recognized today for all the wrong reasons.

Maybe it was a shotgun marriage — Sirk was one of the studio's most important directors, if not the most important, and Hudson was one of the very few stars at the company whose name meant anything at the box office.

«His name is mud» isn't a likely expression for a film to make literal, but writer - director Jeff Nichols — whose previous film, Take Shelter, repeatedly featured the protagonist and his family taking shelter — doesn't shy away from bluntness or directness.

From 1994 — 2001, she was Founding Executive Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future was named one of the most influential reports affecting U.S. education in that decade.

The Temeraire books (named for the dragon whose exploits they follow) have earned praise from such luminaries as Stephen King and director Peter Jackson, who has optioned the series for a possible film adaptation.

In their biggest splash so far, Kirshbaum and Amazon paid an advance of more than $ 800,000 for a memoir by actress and director Penny Marshall, whose name hasn't been mentioned so frequently in New York media circles since the days of Laverne & Shirley.

Enter Toys for Bob audio director Dan Neil and his sound designer cohort, Jason (whose last name eludes me; Sorry, Jason).

Probably named after film director James Cameron, a lot of whose early films were partially horror.

Essays by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry, whose own academic and curatorial background involves traditional Islamic arts; Homi Bhabha, the preeminent theorist and scholar of the postcolonial condition; and the Turkish writer and novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the German Book Peace Prize and author of My Name Is Read and Snow.

Intellectual Asset Management magazine (available on newsstands all over Alexandria, Va.) has posted a video of an exclusive interview with Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos (pictured, left, looking like a cross between comedic actor Rob Corddry and that character actor who always plays the hapless corporate or governmental lackey, whose name escapes me right now).