Sentences with phrase «second act happened»

Movie stardom had long been considered the holy grail for a TV star to aspire to, and actors on the rise would agitate to get out of their small - screen contracts — or schedule their blossoming big - screen gigs around those infernal commitments — in order to make that second act happen.»

Not exact matches

Ultimately, second acts can and do happen — and they come when one least expects them.

Second, I haven't read the BNA Act recently, but I'm almost positive that the people who comprise «official Ottawa» report to and take their marching orders from certain men and women who just so happen to be in charge.

It was always going to be a balancing act for Arsenal in the second Europa League quarter - final against CSKA Moscow, with a 4 - 1 lead almost securing progress but the other midweek games offering a telling reminder of what can happen in football.

A second kind happens when a single gigantic star nears the end of its life, and its core can no longer withstand the gravitational forces acting on it.

Second - act problems plague «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» but that's what happens when the entire movie is a seconSecond - act problems plague «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» but that's what happens when the entire movie is a secondsecond act.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

I personally happen to like Speed Racer quite a bit but I wouldn't argue with anyone who walks out of the screening and says, «man I just don't think I could've taken one more second of Susan Sarandon's one dimensional character and her campy acting!»

In this case, it just so happens that the 3D is necessary to save the second act, and so most people will end up with a film that has two good bookends and a disappointing middle.

Calling this sequence one scene is a bit of a misnomer, as it unfurls over much of the film's transition from its second act to its third, but there's no way to pare down the joy of everything that happens here to into one moment.

«And if men are there, they disrupt whatever's happening,» adds Gerwig, whose acting oeuvre thus far is filled with roles that depict a truly layered feminine experience, from drifting - apart friendships to sisterly bonds to hairbrained alliances (in Maggie's Plan, she plays a college professor's second wife who secretly teams up with his first wife in a mischievous scheme to sway his affections).

This is the second year in a row in which all 20 acting nominees have been white — particularly notable because the last time it happened was in 1996.

and then you're ready to watch the second act, eager to see what happens next.

First, you will have the stress of dealing with what has happened to your loved one, and second, you might have to act legally for them if they do not have the ability to do so themselves.

As for the example though in your second paragraph, I doubt that would happen - public outcry and politics would almost guarantee that, and judicial officials are supposed to act in the public interest.