Sentences with phrase «star than the town»

We pulled into Litchfield, CT on a Sunday in early November and exuded a whiff more rock star than the town might generally endorse.

Not exact matches

Where better to sit out the end of the world than a former five - star boutique hotel in the mountain resort town of Zermatt.

With no five - star orange - clad hero coming to town to save the day, it's understandable why the media pegged the Vols to be better than just one other team in the conference.

After a parade through the town, in scenes more akin to a rock star than a footballer, the striker spent an hour with fans in a the back of a Rolls Royce and then had a street named after him.

Power, pay and prestige: Everyone in the town wants some, and Clarke, star of HBO's massive hit, just happens to have a little more than other actresses

Kristen Stewart stars as Amy Cole, a young woman who joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

Kimberly Peirce's Stop - Loss, an MTV - produced drama about three young grunts returning from the war to their stars - and - stripes Texas town, got a more respectful rollout from Paramount Pictures this past March, but it flopped, grossing less than half its $ 25 million production cost.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

After more than a decade of working in television Down Under, he returns with this quirky comedy starring Nat Wolff («Paper Towns») as a high school student who befriends his next door neighbor (Mickey Rourke), who just happens to be a former CIA assassin.

What follows is another slapstick dose of hard - R ridiculosity with a soft - nougat center, but it also passes the Bechdel test maybe better than any other film this year, and its older generation of stars are too smart not to go to town on their stock roles.

MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a timid sheep farmer who would clearly be more at home in modern day New York than in the small town of Old Stump, Arizona.

The mixed bag that is Gerard Butler's marathon - of - movie - mayhem rolls into town once again with «Playing for Keeps», a dramedy about a soccer star roped into coaching his son's pee - wee soccer team, only to find, er, um, his balls getting more of a work - out than those on the field (thanks to the soccer moms).

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

Get to the city of Cape Town and a lot of activities also await, Cape Town has a little bit of everything from Ratanga Junction for the little ones to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens for adults and nature lovers, learn about the stars and their formation at the Iziko Museum Planetarium; visit the Two Oceans Aquarium, home to more than 3000 species of sea creatures; let your little ones discover their inner Jamie Oliver's at Little Cooks Club, and don't forget to check out the Warrior Toy Museum where vintage toys, such as model cars, miniature dolls, teddy bears and more are kept.

It will allow you to go get the kids from school even after more than a little snowfall, and when Friday night rolls around it will get you and your date to the nicest place in town whether it's the movies or that secluded wooded place where the stars are so bright.

Who Do You Love is a little steamier than most of Weiner's books, which is to be expected in a story about two star - crossed lovers who don't even live in the same town til they're in their 20s.

For all those who wish to stay for more than one day of the Inca Machu Picchu citadel, and the charms of its surroundings, there are some alternatives: In the town of Machu Picchu (formerly called: Aguas Calientes), located in the lower part of the valley, from where the ascent to the citadel of Machu Picchu begins, there are lodging services and hotels from 5 to 2 stars.

Eventually the game evolved into a space story set in the Aries Constelation Star System's Radaxarian town, inspired by Star Wars, as Kōtarō narrates himself on SEGA Japan's AGES interviews, were he also apologizes for the controversial Yanken Pon system (the battle system in which rock, paper or scissors are delivered at random leaving the combats to luck rather than player's skill) a gameplay mechanic he desgined in his attempt to deliver something original.

«We'll Make Out Better than Okay,» The Charlotte Street Foundation la Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO, October 25 — December 20, 2013 «Etched in Collective History,» Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, August 18 — November 17, 2013 «The Spirit of Utopia,» Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, July 4 — September 5, 2013 «Labour and Wait,» Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2 — September 22, 2013; catalogue «Sculpture in the Close,» Jesus College, Cambridge, MA, June 24 — September 22, 2013 «BNKUDRWTR,» Art Basel Unlimited 2013, Basel, Switzerland, June 13 — 16, 2013 «Transforming the Known: Works from The Bert Kreuk Collection,» Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, June 8 — September 24, 2013; catalogue «Prima Materia,» Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy, May 30, 2013 — February 15, 2015; catalogue «Do It,» curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, May 12 — July 7, 2013; traveled to Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, May 12 — August 25, 2013; tranzit, Budapest, Hungary, May 17 — May 19, 2013; MU artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 17 — July 19, 2013; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, July 5 — September 22, 2013; Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, September 23 — December 12, 2013; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY, September 30 — November 1, 2013; Stacion — Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, November 15, 2013 — January 14, 2014; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, January 17 — May 31, 2014; Musée de la danse, Rennes, France, April 1 — May 17, 2014; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, May 1 — July 6, 2014; The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA, September 3, 2014 — April 3, 2015; Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Capt Town, Cape Town, South Africa, September 4 — 13, 2014; The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA, September 13 — December 6, 2014; Denler Art Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, October 16 — November 13, 2014; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia, February 13 — April 24, 2015; KKW Kunst Kraft Werk, Leipzig, Germany, May 22 — July 9, 2015; Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA, June 19 — August 30, 2015; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 4 — August 30, 2015; Numu — El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 8 — October 18, 2015; Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, October 2 — November 29, 2015; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, October 21 — November 19, 2015; Tallina Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, November 24, 2015 — January 10, 2016; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA, January 9 — March 20, 2016; Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada, January 14 — February 20, 2016; Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia, January 30 — December 31, 2016; Frac des pays de la Loire / HAB Galerie, Nantes, France, February 5 — April 17, 2016; Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, March 1 — May 10, 2016; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX, March 3 — May 8, 2016; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, April 23 — August 28, 2016; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 9, 2016 — January 1, 2017; catalogue

In a town built on copyrights and cosmetic surgery, lawyers have done far more than pen the small print in studio contracts or post bail for hollow - eyed stars on the way to and from rehab.