Sentences with phrase «supporting characters work»

Some supporting characters work, while others miss the mark.

Not exact matches

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Kiesel's takeaways from working with top global restaurant and hospitality brands makes clear that a holistic approach to business — one that keeps talent cultivation, character and efficiency top - of - mind — creates team loyalty and support, and fosters increased market share.

I share his excitement about what he has found, but both of us realize, having seen the erratic and often disappointing pace of educational innovation, that even if this new form of character - based education becomes popular, overburdened and under - supported teachers might have trouble making it work.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Mark - Viverito's spokesman Eric Koch wrote in an email that «the speaker never supported the deal and still doesn't but looks forward to continuing to work with South Bronx United on issues ranging from keeping trucks off residential streets to expanding access to the waterfront to supporting development that respects the character of the community.»

«I will also continue to work towards the protections and rezoning which have broad community support that promote the development of housing and projects that are in line with our values and residential character,» she stated.

«We've tirelessly worked for two years to create Space Wars «vast shipyard, customizable characters and rich universe, but to make single player content a reality we'll need the support of other hardcore strategy fans,» said Rob Simyar, CEO of ToHeroes.

Jenkins and Hedlund do great work here but it's the unnecessary supporting characters who undermine what could've been a strong drama.

Before it gets to that point, however, Ed tv comes off as a fairly affable comedy that benefits substantially from McConaughey's charismatic turn as the central character - with the actor's strong work heightened by an impressive roster of supporting players (including Woody Harrelson, Martin Landau, and Dennis Hopper).

In the sound era he played leads and then later character and supporting roles in many films; he continued working until the late»70s.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

But much of the supporting cast is problematic — either the actors just aren't up to the work or the characters are underwritten.

The film is charming the supporting cast was great to maybe the characters needed some works.

Kapur imbues the film with the historical import and epic sweep missing from Elizabeth, and while Blanchett's firebrand performance is the film's searing centrepiece, strong supporting work from Owen, Abbie Cornish (finally impressive after many try - hard strike - outs), Morton and, especially, Geoffrey Rush as her loyal - to - a-fault servant Francis Walsingham, bring out the shades in her deeply conflicted character.

Great crime comedy from The Coen Brothers, a smart story with very weird and colorful characters, Jeff Bridges puts on a great comedic performance, great work from the supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and many others

The relationship of Downey Jr. and Duvall's characters work so well because the supporting cast adds so much to the dynamic of the overall story.

I really hope this movie works like music biopics where an offhanded comment from a supporting character leads to a Eureka moment.

Co-written by director David Gordon Green (Joe), whose work frequently explores the pitfalls of male culture (and there's nary a woman in sight here, unless she's at a party), the script is best when it stays focused on the relationship between Brad and Brett, sometimes not bothering to fully flesh out the supporting characters.

Stellan Skarsgard, as an intimidating but seemingly earnest Russian crime boss who desperately wants to get his family out of Russia, practically steals the whole film, and top - notch support work is provided by the likes of Naomie Harris as McGregor's loyal wife and reluctant partner - in - espionage, Damian Lewis as a (seemingly) trustworthy British operative, and Jeremy Northam as a shady character who may be playing both sides of the fence.

As Howard, the great John Goodman creates one of the most chilling screen personalities in recent memory; having spent the last decade energising support parts in Argo, The Artist, Flight and Inside Llewellyn Davis, the actor gets to dominate a film with subtle, multi-tiered character work.

Waititi plays most of this as comedy (An encounter with a large, wild pig is a decidedly unnerving exception), and it works in that regard without overwhelming us with the characters» idiosyncrasies (Most of those belong to the supporting characters, who never overstay their welcome, anyway).

These performers work well together and are supported by fantastic actors like Rob Riggle, who recites his lines with enough energy to make his stock character, a clueless gym teacher, feel fresh.

Although all of these characters were revealed in award - worthy performances, they were also shaped by the work of writers, directors, cinematographers, designers and entire crews who supported them.

Even the supporting male roles just seem to work in tandem with the main cast, adding spice and developing them into well - rounded characters.

There's also a fantastic turn from Metcalf, so consistently underused on screen, who in a just world would be an automatic best supporting actress front - runner for her finely observed character work here.

Daniel Wu as Lu Ren worked as a supporting character to Lara; funny at moments, he facilitates a great character dynamic.

Wright has filled in the rest of supporting cast with actors doing some strong character work.

As much as I love Knocked Up, I don't think Rudd and Mann's characters really stand out, nor would they work in anything other than supporting roles.

Certainly it isn't because it's a fitting ending to the journey of Bilbo, as he's not even involved in the majority of this film, instead taking a back seat to a host of characters that are either greatly beefed up from their small supporting roles in the original Tolkien work, or, as in the case of lovelorn wood elf Tauriel (Lilly, The Long Weekend) and handsome dwarf Kili (Turner, The Mortal Instruments), complete fabrications injected to put in a love story for, presumably, the young female set.

Hawkes is a talented character actor who has been working for years, in many ways the template of a supporting actor nomination (that will certainly lead him to even greener pastures).

Whatever project (s) Guzmán and Garcia work on next, I hope that the stories and supporting characters are more developed than they are here.

For the most part throughout his career, Sam Elliott has thrived as a character actor, best known for supporting work in films such as «Tombstone», «The Big Lebowski» and «Hulk» — and for countless TV roles in the 70s and 80s.

Her and the majority of the other supporting characters are broad characatures, which sometimes work (two large dumb cousins are fun to watch) but often don't.

It is actually much more trickier to control and harder to master compared to the previous games and the new character switching works really well so I never missed the 2 supporting characters as much with the game.

And while Covert (who has appeared in twelve of Sandler's movies) works great as a supporting character, he's no leading man.

Boasting the strong supporting character - acting cast of Marin Ireland, Kelly Lynch, John Douglas Thompson, Brendan Sexton III, Michael Chernus and David Johansen from the New York Dolls, plaudits must also be given to Cuban - American actor Yul Vazquez, another scene - stealer who hilariously shines as one J.J.'s chatty thugs that Bud is force to work with.

There are some subplots involving supporting characters that don't work nearly as well.

At least this was a chance for some supporting characters to show off their talents, such as Rasmus Hardiker (who played Courtney), and again, Justin Theroux, but they could only do so much with what they were given to work with.

Such a mix has worked for Burton in the past, but this time it doesn't blend well seemingly due to the fact that the lead character is not always likable (he goes from making jokes to killing people in various scenes) and the supporting characters are undernourished.

We've got a character who ignores his own responsibilities, cheerfully allows his wife to work endlessly to support their family of four, and spends thousands of dollars to throw himself a party.

Part of the reason that Notting Hill was welcomed by more acceptance than most Julia Roberts rom - coms is that Michell worked the film out of a handful of intriguing characters, from the lead players to the supporting players.

Gyllenhaal's typically strong work as the central character goes a long way towards confirming the movie's success, while the movie's periphery players provide better - than - average support and background color.

Supporting characters are insufficiently developed, serving as a showcase for ideas and humor attempts that fail to work.

I guess this is supposed to be Neal's subsequent work, for it features his daughter and other characters from the movie in supporting roles.

I think they're all underrated, talented performers, and ever since seeing Barinholtz work his magic as a charmingly weird supporting character in The Mindy Project, I've been pulling for him to lock down some more starring roles in big studio comedies.

Like all of Tarantino's best characters, this one owes much to the performance, and Robert Downey Jr. was frankly robbed of a supporting actor nomination for his work here.

Not everything works (a running gag where Bobby's beverage bottles keep on breaking before he can drink is especially lame), but for the most part this section of the film is a demented hoot, galvanized by some great character work by the supporting players.

These complaints are pretty minor, and are mostly just nitpicks; the supporting characters are all vibrant and exciting in their own small ways, and the film works well within its scope.

Excellent locale work, a brilliant adaptation by Egoyan of the book, great supporting characters and a disturbingly haunting accident scene all add up to one of 1997's best hidden gem films.