Sentences with phrase «television writer who»

The book's authors have several quotes from television writers who were inspired to write scenes based on the standing sets.

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Postman also points out how television is paradoxically non-authoritarian because it breaks up «the monopoly of the printed word» as analogously «The printing press broke the knowledge monopoly of those few writers and readers who controlled the manuscript culture» (TCA 68).

We call your attention to the labors of John Vorhaus, a Los Angeles - based television sitcom writer with a specialized computer program and way too much free time, who has extracted what he calls the «secret meaning» of several sports names by turning them into anagrams.

Television's DCTV series, as well as comic book writers and artists from DC Entertainment, who will join invited guests from politics, government service, entertainment, business, academia and more.

McGuigan («Wicker Park») and writer Jason Smilovic (who helped develop the terrific and, sadly, short - lived «Karen Sisco» for television) trust that we're with them on every bend of the plot, enticed by the breadcrumbs of sassy dialogue they drop along the way.

Natasha Leggero is an accomplished actress, writer and stand - up comedian who has garnered attention across film, television and the web.

The film was directed by and stars C.K. as a television writer whose teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) begins dating a filmmaker (John Malkovich), who is much older than she is.

The mission of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film is to celebrate the accomplishments of television and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen toTelevision and Film is to celebrate the accomplishments of television and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen totelevision and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen to be women.

The PGA is working with the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Television Academy to develop a framework to encourage people who experience harassment and discrimination to lodge complaints without fear of reprisal.

But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.

Radcliffe is a magical sidekick to Paul Dano's stranded protagonist in Swiss Army Man, the offbeat feature debut of «Daniels», a pair of unrelated writers - directors who have previously collaborated on a number of shorts, music videos, and television episodes.

At the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour in August, co-creator and writer Steven Moffatt («Dr.. Who») wouldn't divulge details about the special aside from saying that returning the characters to Victorian London was a relatively easy feat, if not «a mistake» they've been «a long time rectifying.»

The move was also a not - at - all - sneaky way for Marnie to be closer to her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne), a writer who is trying to get a television pilot produced.

Strong, who got his start as an actor, has become an accomplished writer of both films and television, scoring two Emmy Awards along the way.

In the same year Steven Moffat replaced Russell T. Davies as showrunner, lead writer and producer of the 2005 revived Doctor Who, he was also launching, with Mark Gatiss, what would become a pop culture phenomenon and sensation for British Television and the world: Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live writer who's won numerous Emmy and Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television which also includes «It's Garry Shandling's Show» (which he co-created and produced), «Late Show With David Letterman,» and «Curb Your Enthusiasm.»

From Sony Pictures Television, the series was created and written by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, who serve as executive producers alongside Emmy - nominated director Anthony Hemingway; Academy Award - winning writer Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road Pictures; Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold of Safehouse Pictures; Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius of Get Lifted Film Co; and Mark Taylor.

John Wells, a longtime writer - producer in series television (ER, The West Wing), makes his feature debut with a compelling story about three executives (Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones) who get canned after long careers with a manufacturing conglomerate called Global Transportation Systems (GTX).

Writer / director Joss Whedon — who, before he became the anchor of the Marvel ship, was mostly known as the successful television showrunner of series such as «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Angel» — starts the story in medias res, as our heroes are closing in on the latest Hydra hideout.

A frequent collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen (who can currently be seen flexing his musical muscles in the awards - laden Les Miserables), Dan Mazer forged his reputation as a producer / writer in both television and film, with his crowning moment to date being his Oscar - nominated work on the screenplay for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, which went down a storm upon its release Stateside.

Amy Glynn is a poet, essayist and fiction writer who really likes that you can multi-task by reviewing television and glasses of Cabernet simultaneously.

That is about the highest conceivable recognition an import can find in Hollywood and it marks the most significant acknowledgement to date for Austrian writer - director Michael Haneke, a man who got his start in television in the 1970s and made the leap to cinema in 1989.

Star and Writer Jason Segel, who wrote the wretched Knocked Up and director Nicholas Stoller (who also directed the upcoming Pineapple Express) have crafted a cute story about a television composer, Peter Breter (Segel) who gets dumped by his television star girlfriend, played by Kristen Bell who is really stretching her acting abilities here.

Australian Chris Lilley's eight - episode television series about high school high jinks features the comic actor (and writer and coproducer) in three roles: a snotty, sullen slab of disruptive id; an insufferably snobbish girl who's transferred from a private school; and the vain, flamboyant drama teacher.

And who better to parody it than the writers of the funniest fake news show on television, Jon Stewart's The Daily Show?

Click here to read a Newsweek essay by Mara Wolynkski, a writer and television personality who attended such a school as a child.

Other writers have had characters that they created taken from them (it's routine in television, movies, and comic books) but if she publishes on Kindle Worlds (and Alloy, who owns the rights doesn't find a way to block them) that could lead to two separate canons, the Smith Vampire Diaries and the Alloy Vampire Diaries.

Currently, he is a professional television animation writer who's worked for Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network.

Like I'm in a big hurry to go see what a television writer — of all people — thinks of writers who dare to meet an audience.

London - based specialist literary agency for film, television and theatre, representing writers (and writers who also direct) with highly distinctive and original voices.

DICK JORDAN is a freelance travel writer who publishes the online travel magazine Tales Told From The Road Since 2013, he has produced over twenty programs, most travel - related, that have been aired on public access television stations across the nation, including a feature - length documentary film, Cuba, Libre?

Travel Channel, when you are ready for a reality show about travel writers, with a pinch of inspiration and comedy, and a host who is what your viewers are (average consumers with realistic budgets and day jobs that they want to escape, plus a bit too healthy of a body to be wearing a bikini on television, ahem) give me a call, and we can talk about Press Trip: The Reality Show.

-- 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

By Carter B. Horsley This auction includes numerous works from the collection of Tom Patchett, a Los Angeles collector who was a writer for «The Carol Burnett Show» and «The Bob Newhart Show» on television and important works by Jeff Koons, Felix Gonzales - Torres, Maurizio Cattelan and good works by Jean - Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel among others.

Writers have compared him to a modern archeologist who uses salvaged materials — television sets, plastic bags, liquor signs, grocery carts, oil barrels and fake luxury goods — to interpret the history and emotions attached to those «recycled» elements.

The Humblebrag is a word and concept created by Harris Wittels, a writer for television shows such as «Parks and Recreation» and «Eastbound and Down,» who also writes for the website Grantland.

Speaking as a music lover and an accomplished resume writer and job search advisor, I firmly believe every job seeker must enter a job search with the same mindset as every contestant who enters one of the myriad of talent contests on television today: «You're In It To Win It!»

David M. Matthews is an Emmy - winning TV Writer / Producer who has worked on some of network television's favorite shows.

A handful of journalists, writers and television producers, who had somehow resisted the climate change narcosis that afflicted their peers, recognized a retreat when they saw one.

So when the Edmonton - born, L.A. - based writer of the bestselling memoir Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar — who's also authored television pilots and movie scripts and appeared in film and on TV with the likes of James Franco and Nicole Richie — moved into a new home with her husband and their three kids, Orlando was the obvious choice to head up its design.