Sentences with phrase «television star turned»

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Amid growing legalization, the reality television star - turned - entrepreneur wants in on the white - hot marijuana industry.

A former star of the hit television show Gladiators - turned evangelist is joining a major evangelism event being led by the Archbishop of York in Merseyside.

A 3 am finish in a student nightclub, hundreds of photos with hundreds of drunken undergraduates, and now a film crew to share your breakfast with: it's just another 24 hours in the baffling and yet rather brilliant life of Deidre Kelly, the latest in a long line of reality television stars who find their lives turned upside down.

Until the FBI raided his office, home and hotel room in April, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was known mostly for his star turns on cable television as his client's most cringe - worthy defender, along with his spectacularly unsuccessful effort to silence a porn...

Until the FBI raided his office, home and hotel room in April, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was known mostly for his star turns on cable television as his client's most cringe - worthy defender, along with his...

Reality - television - star - turned - actress Kristin Cavallari has taken up yet another occupation: shoe designer.

CNET - Oct 20 - YouTube Red is turning Tinder dating into a television show with 2018's «Swipe Right» starring Carly Craig, from «American Housewife».

Basing a television show on a 20 - year - old movie (and one that had already been turned — unsuccessfully — into a TV series in 1990) is an odd decision in itself, but NBC's new «Parenthood» has also been plagued by bad luck, with original star Maura Tierney forced to drop out due to health problems and the show bounced from fall until March.

The actor spent the remainder of the decade turning in solid performances in a number of diverse films: he could be seen as an actor with a troubled past in An Awfully Big Adventure (1994), a very sympathetic Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins (1996), a has - been sci - fi television star in Galaxy Quest (1999), and a grumpy angel in Dogma (1999).

After starring in 1954's The Lovers, Woodward turned to television, appearing in dozens of programs.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

Tomlin has enjoyed a steady stream of quality television work in the past few decades, so she's certainly deserving of another star turn on the big screen.

Hanna, the 2011 thriller starring Saoirse Ronan, is the latest movie to get turned into a television show.

Valverde — like Boliveira, a television star before this screen turn — charms me with her metaphorical ways of describing her character.

Later, after Cimber calls Perkins «an actress of some standing in Hollywood» and the star of «one of the biggest films of the decade» (probably in reference to her turn in The Diary of Anne Frank), Gersh segues into a clip where Molly says, «It was on television!

The ever - growing reliance on home and mobile streaming entertainment thankfully do not neglect auteur content and MIFF is proud to support the work, less so the medium with Top of the Lake: China Girl; straight from a standing ovation in Cannes, this special Australian premiere of the entire second season, directed by Jane Campion and starring Nicole Kidman will show all six episodes in three concurrent two - hour sessions — a unique opportunity to see the series before its television premiere, turning this binge experience into an outright event.

In 1988 the know - it - alls in Hollywood laughed when it was learned that 20th Century Fox had given $ 5 million to a television actor to star in a film whose lead character had already been offered to, and turned down by, such stars as Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson and Richard Gere.

The late Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel provides the groundwork for this dramedy adaptation starring Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus, The Nanny Diaries) as the titular Montreal television producer Barney Panofsky, a man who has suffered through one tragic marriage with a free - spirited young woman in Italy (Lefevre, Twilight) who turns up carrying another man's child only to get himself into another loveless one with a well - to - do Jewish - American princess (Driver, Ella Enchanted), while he only has eyes for a woman he barely knows in another part of the country (Pike, Surrogates).

When a no - nonsense LAPD detective (Robert De Niro) is forced to star in a reality - based television show with a frustrated actor - turned - LAPD - patrolman (Eddie Murphy), they find their lives turned upside down by a powerhouse producer (Rene Russo) and her very intrusive camera crew.

Kill Bill star Uma Thurman recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her role in the television series Imposters, but was also asked about the specifics regarding turning down the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings.

Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell, in a star - making turn) produces and hosts anti-television television shows «The Gong Show», «The Dating Game», and «The Newlywed Game», and, accordingly, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is an anti-filmic film that is as much about our meta - knowledge of pop culture as it is about Barris.

Air Mater (2011)(5:12) Pixar has done a lot to make me question my love of Cars, by turning the lovable supporting character Mater into the star of his own shorts series, a mix of theatrical and television premieres, and in the so very underwhelming Cars 2.

«Ten Days in the Valley» stars Kyra Sedgwick as Jane Sadler, an overworked television producer and single mother in the middle of a separation whose life is turned upside down

Since then, the classic novel has been turned into a 1983 film starring Christopher Walken and 2002 television series.

His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)

Politics aside, these opening moments ensure one thing: writers David Simon and William F. Zorzi (ex-Baltimore Sun journalists and masterminds behind the greatest TV show of the century thus far, The Wire), director Paul Haggis (Crash, Third Person), and star Oscar Isaac (sizzling like a comet towards the A-list after his unforgettable turn in Inside Llewyn Davis) are going to make Show Me A Hero one of the most talked - about television events of the year through sheer artistic integrity.

The film stars Aaron Poole (Small Town Murder Songs, Gangster Exchange), with Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings (X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Wrong Turn, Cube), Stephen Eric McIntyre (High Life, Fear X, The Lookout), Genie award winner Charlotte Sullivan (Population 436, Defendor, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster) and cult television icon Mitch Markowitz («The Hilarious House of Frightenstein») rounding out the cast.

Over a year ago we learned that comedian and Punk'd prankster turned actor Dax Shepard was taking on quite the responsibility by writing, directing and starring in a big screen adaptation of the popular NBC television series CHiPs.

Television writer - turned - director Alex Kurtzman co-wrote the film's script with Roberto Orci («Star Trek») and newcomer Jody Lambert.

Scottsdale, Ariz. (December 6, 2006)-- Our Executive Chef Beau MacMillan had a star turn today on network television, introducing a number of holiday recipes on NBC - TV's Today Show.

Federal Villa Beach Resort Langkawi is actually a three - star rated hotel, spread across four acres, which comes under the Holiday Villa brand.This in turn makes it such a great value choice for families, groups and couples travelling on a budget because you can be certain that the same high level of dedicated service form the major brand can be found here.Set side - by - side with its sister resort, the four - star rated Holiday Villa Beach Resort & Spa, along Pantai Tengah, there is a total of 88 guestrooms here.There are five beachfront guestroom classes (Standard, Deluxe, Apartment Suites, Homestay Villas and Chalet Suites) and room perks include individually controlled air con, a colour television with Cable channels, telephone, hot water kettle with coffee and tea sachets supplies and a toilet with shower room and long bathtub.

When I turned the television on, I was treated to various Mario shows and Captain - N: The Game Master, the latter of which starred the likes of Kid Icarus, Simon Belmont, Megaman, and even the iconic Zapper and Power - Glove peripherals.

When you finally get home from work and have some time to relax in front of the television, do you turn on Dancing With the Stars or American Idol or even The Bachelor / Bachelorette?