Sentences with phrase «private eye who»

Remarkably, the unpredictable plots and oddball characters (Willard centers around a three - year search for stolen bowling trophies; Dreaming of Babylon, 1977, has a private eye who spends half his time trying to find bullets for his gun) make for books better than the flyweight stuff that made him famous.

It's a measure to try and prevent something from catching up to him, which it of course does, forcing Jeff to recount his past life as a private eye who took the wrong job.

Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a rough private eye who is often hired to threaten and intimidate certain individuals.

2:15 am (25th)-- TCM — Shaft The original black private eye who got all the ladies and faced down black and Italian gangsters, not to mention the NYPD.

He gets shipped to Los Angeles and passed off to Gay Perry (Kilmer), a private eye who specializes in teaching sleuthing skills to actors.

The adventures of hero Ace Hart, a canine private eye who battles the film noir villians of Dog City, and Eliot Shag, a dog, a muppet and an animator who creates and controls Ace Hart.

A kind of secret handshake show for true television aficionados, the series stars Donal Logue and Michael Raymond - James as two anything but by the book private eyes who get in way over their heads while investigating a slew of unsavory miscreants in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California.

Not exact matches

Business owners who start to do it usually find it eye - opening, rewarding, and even addictive, says Brendan Anderson, co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Cleveland.

It is a black - eye for its its three owners, KKR, Bain Capital Partners and real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust, who took the retailer private in 2005 for $ 6.6 billion, leaving it with $ 4.9 billion in debt.

The private eyes, who are married and specialized in probing bribery allegations, claimed that Glaxo officials in China maintained the whistleblower allegations were investigated but unfounded.

Let a man who, by fortunate health and circumstances, escapes the suffering of any great amount of evil in his own person, also close his eyes to it as it exists in the wider universe outside his private experience, and he will be quit of it altogether, and can sail through life happily on a healthy - minded basis.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Prof. Louise Fresco speak, who advised scholars to be a good story teller, to be interdisciplinary, to keep your eye on your long term career goal (s) and that finding balance between private, government, NGO and scientific research in our work will be invaluable.

It is a» perspective on men who live a private life in the public eye.

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl now admits his private - eye firm snooped on Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson and a woman who accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment in 2005 — while continuing to insist he'd never been hired by Roger Ailes to dig up dirt on reporters.

The union is highlighting the role played by private security officers (10 of the 24 32BJ members who perished held that job), who the ad says serve as the public's «eyes and ears» because they're often first on the scene of emergencies.

According to private eye Bo Deitel, who was also on hand, «the whole neighborhood turned out» for Paterson, who remains popular in his Harlem home despite the scandal cloud that continues to hang over his head (remember: Chief Judge Judith Kaye may have cleared the governor of criminal wrongdoing in the David Johnson mess, but hasn't yet issued a report on his Yankees tickets debacle).

The author Donald Schueler in his 1991 book, Incident at Eagle Ranch, presented a rare portrait of a private man who avoids the public eye.

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The site gives you the ability to view all the photographs and make private contact with any member who catches your eye right from day one.

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Browse our member profiles and pictures and send flirts or even private messages to the girls and guys who catch your eye.

Once you build an anonymous profile (which is free), you can make private calls and send private emails with those who catch your wandering eye.

Masterful crime thriller starring Adrien Brody as a private eye hired to solve the mystery behind the suspicious 1959 death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who played Superman on TV.

But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.

And private eye Dwight (Brolin) is spying on the likes of Ray Liotta and Temple, who plays his paramour.

Set in the tough, working class Boston neighborhood of Dorchester (home of Mark Wahlberg), Gone Baby Gone follows local private eyes (and lovers) Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Genarro (Michelle Monaghan) who are hired by the aunt and uncle (Amy Madigan and Titus Welliver, respectively) of missing neighborhood child Amanda McCready.

Starring Ralph Meeker as the cranky Los Angeles private eye Mike Hammer, the film begins with Hammer picking up a lone woman in a trench coat (played by Cloris Leachman), who is frantically hitchhiking down the highway one shadowy night.

According to an official description, Too Late «takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it.»

With nothing better to do after being roused from eternal slumber, she joins Ned and his private eye partner Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) to solve the murders of recently deceased (who all come briefly to life to provide a few clues to their killer).

John Hawkes takes a rare leading role, playing an alcoholic ex-cop who stumbles across a woman's dead body and haphazardly becomes sort of an amateur private eye to investigate further.

The Nice Guys (R for violence, profanity, sexuality, nudity and brief drug use) Unlikely - buddies crime comedy, set in L.A. in» 77, about a pair of private eyes (Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe) who grudgingly join forces to investigate a fading porn star's apparent suicide.

«Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» (2005) Price: Unknown (but probably very, very little) Synopsis: A criminal is mistaken for an actor who then becomes an amateur private eye alongside a gay detective and his childhood crush.

The movie marks the promising directorial debut of Beantown native Ben Affleck who cast his baby - faced brother Casey in the lead role of Patrick Kenzie and doe - eyed Michelle Monaghan as the private eye's sidekick / girlfriend, Angie Gennaro.

Literally millions of mourners descended on London to pay their last respects, but curiously not among them were the Royal family, who adhered strictly to proper protocol, dealing with the aftermath in private, away from the prying public eye.

«Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan — and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets.

Who: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer and Kim Basinger What: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

He assembles a likable leading pair in Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, who play incompetent private eyes Jackson Healy and Holland March.

Willis» character is a P.I. named Steve Ford, who runs a small agency with a young partner named John, played by Thomas Middleditch, who narrates because somebody's always narrating in a private - eye movie, one assumes the thinking went.

As previously reported, Anderson has been working for a couple of years on his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's quirky, rambling detective story, which concerns a pot - smoking private eye at the tail - end of the psychedelic «60s who gets swept up in a kidnapping case involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization that bears no resemblance to any modern churches, so Anderson's safe there.

Also stirring things up is delightfully sleazy private eye Albert Arnett (Walter Slezak) who's been hired by Laury's friend, Mrs. Kraft (the always - great Esther Howard as the hard - drinking floozy), to investigate the murders.

Jane Wyatt is Powell's sweet bourgeois wife and Raymond Burr is an evil, lecherous private eye, who pulls all of them onto the dark side.

Wide - eyed and whacked out on the funny weed, Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mind - fried private eye from sunny Southern California trying to make sense of a series of incidents involving, in no particular order: a spacey former girlfriend (Katherine Waterston); a missing real - estate mogul (Eric Roberts); a deceased saxophonist who apparently is not, in fact, deceased (Owen Wilson); a coke - snorting dentist with a libido in overdrive (Martin Short); a porno - parlor proprietress (Hong Chau); a bullying cop with hair cropped in a fearsome flattop (Josh Brolin); a cultlike rehab center; risqué neckties; a big, fat heroin stash; a mysterious sailboat and a torture chamber.

Willis plays Steve, a hardboiled private eye in Venice Beach who has a penchant for getting himself into trouble.

As eye - rollingly silly and predictable as one might've anticipated, Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous casts Jessica Simpson as Megan Valentine - a spoiled movie star who impulsively enlists in the Army after losing all of her money and learning that her boyfriend is gay.

Downey gets the part and trains with a private eye, played by Val Kilmer, who is known as «Gay Perry.»

This investigation leads to a less morale and willing - to - beat - you - up private eye, Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), who is paid by Amelia to stop Holland from looking for her.

The police undertake a massive hunt for Amanda, but their efforts are not enough for the little girl's aunt (Amy Madigan), who seeks out private eyes Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) to help with the investigation.

As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision — in this case, a small - time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), who'd like to think he's Sam Spade — it would make a great double bill with «Chinatown,» released the previous year.

That's all fairly standard «Proud Family» material, but what takes this story out of the ordinary is the other plot line: Oscar's invented a new peanut - based snack that catches the eye of Dr. Carver (former TV host Arsenio Hall), a demented, peanut - obsessed scientist who invites the Proud family to his private island, where he and his squad of peanut clones are prepared to use any means necessary to capture Oscar's snack formula for their own means.