Sentences with phrase «shot at fame»

(It was also, apparently, PalTalk's big shot at fame, since nobody knew what it was before this story broke.)

An aging and broke bad - boy rocker from the 1990s gets another shot at fame 25 years later as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.

While later films saw the lovable Philadelphian Rocky Balboa fight Mr. T, conquer the Soviet Union, and own a talking robot, the first movie is a touching character study of a mumbling, distant, sweet - natured guy who gets an unprecedented shot at fame.

is a touching character study of a mumbling, distant, sweet - natured guy who gets an unprecedented shot at fame.

When du Pont offers to bankroll him and the national wrestling team all the way to the 1988 Olympics, offering Mark both a shot at fame and a father figure, saying yes is a no - brainer.

Bobby Bowfinger, a nearly bankrupt aspiring movie producer - director, is about to take one last shot at fame and fortune.

Later in 2004 Maria got another shot at fame.

He says Hes got the facts... I doubt It and im sure the had the standard 24 hour clock format or the ability to account for daylight savings time was a part of everyday culture... I see this is one last shot at fame for an 89 year old FALSE PROPHET

Footage was also shot at the famed Le Mans road course in France with Corvette factory driver Johnny O'Connell.

Not exact matches

Tate shot to fame when he called out David Moyes for being the «biggest fool in Manchester» back in April 2014, but he went viral again earlier this week following United's 1 - 1 home against Everton at Old Trafford.

The goal isn't fame or a shot at the pros — the men fight for respect in the halls, a prime currency at the academy.

The band shot to fame after taking the runners up award at the 2008 X Factor, finishing just behind Alexandra Burke.

Green Bay Packers offensive guard TJ Lang has been known for taking shots at people on Twitter, and rose to fame after the replacement ref incident.

The Shot Heard «Round the World brought the Scottish - born Thomson, who died on Aug. 16 at age 86, fame and countless free drinks — not to mention an engraved watch at the Feast of the Haggis in Chicago the following month — but for years he was flustered at the extent the homer obscured everything else he did.

While Krasic is open to the possibility of heading back to Russia, where he shot to fame with CSKA, he would also jump at the chance of testing himself in the Premier League and Spurs seems the most likely destination.

Hockey Hall of Fame Kids can try their hands at goaltending, shooting and broadcasting while exploring the collection of hockey artifacts.

Bentley would not be one of my favorite names that shot to fame this century due to the fact that it primarily reminds me of the car brand but many parents seem to like it considering it sits pretty at number 100 on the baby name charts.

People who commit mass shootings in America tend to share three traits: rampant depression, social isolation and pathological narcissism, according to a paper presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention that calls on the media to deny such shooters the fame they seek.

Latour, who retired last month from his official duties at Sciences Po, a university for the social sciences here, shot to fame with the 1979 book Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, written with U.K. sociologist Steve Woolgar.

Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, he shot to fashion fame after graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and working at prestigious Maison Martin Margiela and Louis Vuitton.

Given a second shot at football fame, Scott seeks counsel from his longtime mentor, Coach Hand (Kurt Russell), to help him decide whether to let his fate unfold or follow a path that will change his future.

At the height of her fame, Maria is asked to take part in a revival of the movie that shot her to stardom; not in her original role as ingenue, however, but as the story's duped matron.

Daniel Radcliffe has banned himself from drugs and alcohol.The 24 - year - old actor - who shot to fame starring in «Harry Potter» at the age of just 11...

Bobby is set at the real and famed Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (a building with so many stories and legends that it is worthy of its own movie script), where a young Palestinian man shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the eventful day of June 6, 1968.

Nonetheless, director George Tillman, Jr. has crafted a very absorbing, cradle to the grave bio-pic which does vividly recount exactly how a latchkey kid being raised by an immigrant single - mom (Angela Bassett) in the slums of Bed - Stuy could have overcome the odds only to be slain at the height of his fame in a seemingly senseless drive - by shooting in Hollywood.

The film also takes shots at celebrity / fame culture, but pushing aside the earlier predatory male character in favor of a «women eat each other alive, but literally» story makes it fall short for me.

Spurlock shot to fame at the 2004 festival with his feature doc Super Size Me, and has since produced two seasons of the underrated reality cable series 30 Days.

America's leading production - based racing team gets its first shot this weekend at the famed road course during the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen.

Shojo manga fans can complement their holidays with the launch of famed creator Arina Tanemura's story of an ordinary office worker that gets a shot at pop stardom in IDOL DREAMS, and as well as the debut of a blood - pounding new series about an unorthodox alliance between a vampire and an exorcist in BLOODY MARY.

That's the bottom line of Shoot Out: Surviving the Fame and (Mis) Fortune of Hollywood, an inside look at the movie - making industry co-authored by Peter Bart and Peter Guber.

Avenged Sevenfold «Critical Acclaim» Ben Harper and Relentless7 «Shimmer & Shine» Brad Paisley «Mud on the Tires» Brooks & Dunn «Hillbillie Deluxe» Coheed and Cambria «A Favor House Atlantic» Coheed and Cambria «The Running Free» Crooked X «Rock & Roll Dream» * Dierks Bentley «Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)» Dixie Chicks «Sin Wagon» The Material «Moving to Seattle» * Maximo Park «Girls Who Play Guitars» Miranda Lambert «Gunpowder & Lead» Motley Crue «Down at the Whisky» The Myriad «A Clean Shot» * Phish «Wilson (live)» Rush «Closer to the Heart» Shinedown «Devour» Shinedown «Junkies for Fame» Shooter Jennings «Steady at the Wheel» Soundgarden «Jesus Christ Pose» Soundgarden «Pretty Noose» TV on the Radio «Wolf Like Me» Them Terribles «Bullets & Guns» * Trapt «Who's Going Home With You Tonight?»

Uninspired articles that state the obvious without delving beneath the skin look like nothing more than cheap shots at getting their website, whether well - known or obscure, its 15 minutes of internet fame.

Among photographs of American artists, it was second in fame only to Hans Namuth's shots, also for Life, of Jackson Pollock at work.

He moved to London in 1998 to study at Central St Martins art school, and soon shot to international fame with his flamboyant, fantastical and labour - intensive paintings.

St. Louis Public Radio covers a selection of new African American art exhibitions on view in the city, including «Hands Up, Don't Shoot,» a direct response to the Michael Brown killing organized by the Alliance of Black Gallery owners and on view at 14 venues; «Other Ways» at Philip Slein Gallery featuring than 60 works from local private collections by artists such as Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Ellen Gallagher, Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley; «Living Like Kings» at the World Chess Hall of Fame explores the intersection of chess and hip hop; and a presentation of Nick Cave «s Sound Suits at the St. Louis Art Museum opening Oct. 31.

Although Pollock shot to fame almost instantly, for many of the movement's other artists, recognition came slowly, if at all.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Still best known for early works that featured fried eggs and a kebab to represent the female body, or poked a pair of oranges and an upright cucumber into a stained saggy mattress, Lucas, at 52, is no longer the artworld enfant terrible who shot to fame in a generation that included Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw and Rachel Whiteread.

He has shot to international fame since representing Lithuania at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, and has exhibited worldwide with solo shows in France, Belgium, Spain, Lithuania and Germany.

An article on Sept. 25 about the Impasse Ronsin, an alleyway in Paris in which a number of famed artists of postwar France lived and worked in the 1950s and 1960s, described incorrectly the career of the artist Niki de Saint Phalle and the artwork she is shown creating by shooting at it with a.22 rifle.

During the later 1960s, Andy Warhol emerged as the Damien Hirst of his day, gaining fame and notoriety in equal amounts for his iconic celebrity screenprints, his conceptualist film work, his increasingly sleek art production methods and his self promotion - at least until he was shot and seriously wounded on June 3, 1968.

In the early 60s it was Girling who chose the colour red — and applied the paint to the sculpture herself — for one of Caro's most important works, «Early One Morning», a key piece in the ground - breaking 1963 show at London's Whitechapel Gallery that shot him to fame.

Shot from the back, Weems» solitary character oozes vulnerability and loneliness articulated by the accompanying text that places her into an imaginary world of sophisticated clamour and fame that is at odds with the pop culture image of female black artists in film and music.

There's a decent 13 - megapixel front - facing camera, but the Xperia XZ Premium's photographic claim to fame rests with its main 19 - megapixel Motion Eye camera, which can shoot slow - motion video at a class - leading 960 fps.

At CES 2017 this week, the famed lens maker is adding a new piece to the puzzle: a clear case that shields your iPhone 7 while you take fancy shots using the ExoLens.