Sentences with phrase «than any actor in»

Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey Boys,» but John Lloyd Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance as Frankie Valli.

More renowned as a Twitterer than an actor in recent years, Kutcher was a change of pace for Portman, who had gravitated to prestige projects beyond fulfilling her duties on George Lucas» trilogy of Star Wars prequels.

Christian Bale captures the eccentric nature of his character perfectly and Ryan Gosling has perfected the art of ego better than any actor in years.

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The show's seemingly quick unraveling came less than a day after a Sunday Buzzfeed article outlined Rapp's claims that a drunken Spacey tried to seduce the then - child actor in 1986.

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

This approach emphasizes the role of states in U.S. security rather than nonstate actors and popular opinion.

The «Modern Family» actress and the «Shadowhunters actor» split in August after more than two years of dating, according to E! News.

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.

For more than a decade and a half, the U.S. has been engaged in an overseas war against non-state actors.

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

Calliet points to a photo shoot Boyega did around Thanksgiving last year for The Hollywood Reporter that shows off the actor looking «leaner and ripper» than he did in the movie.

At worst it lends credence to the argument that, contrary to received wisdom, central banks are in fact political actors rather than neutral custodians.

It's called «Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon» and it refers to the fact that pretty much any actor or actress is most likely just a few roles away (or less) from having worked with Bacon, who has starred in more than 80 films and TV shows.

They also set up the computers on set in such a way that the actors had to actually navigate programs, rather than just tapping any button to trigger an impressive - looking response.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker, was less than amused by the video Pai released last week, in which he dressed up as Santa and explained the «seven things you can still do on the Internet after net neutrality.»

This film, shot in black - and - white and starring French actor Jean Dujardin, was released in fewer than 2,000 theaters.

What happens in Silicon Valley is far more complex than what can be described in a simple game of Prisoners» Dilemma: instead of two actors, there are millions, and «games» are witnessed by even more.

In 2015, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis commissioned actor - writer Dael Orlandersmith — a warm - hearted and gregarious performer whose work I've been watching since her appearance here on «Milly's Orchid Show» more than 20 years ago — to work on...

«Rather than rejoicing that a bad actor has met its just reward, we should recognize that many more Cambridge Analytica - like companies are operating in the conjoined commercial and political marketplace,» Chester said in a statement.

Rep. Geoff Diehl (R - Whitman), who is taking on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) in 2018 for her Senate seat, challenged the progressive senator on Wednesday to return more than $ 10,000 she received from actor Ben Affleck, who admitted to, and later apologized for, groping actress Hilarie Burton.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

The notion of a bureau - inspired plot is in some ways less ridiculous than the «crisis actors» theory — Hogg's dad really was in the FBI, and for all we know, he really does hate Trump — but on another level, it's even crazier.

More than half of organizations around the world were struck by threat actors using cryptocurrency mining tools to steal corporate computing resources last month, a trend that will likely continue in 2018, according to recent research.

Rather than the skinny torsos of 15 - year - olds still going through puberty, the screen shows impossibly fit 20 - something actors standing in for high school students.

I have always loved R.H. Thomson as an actor (shout out to the other «Road to Avonlea» watchers who know him as Jasper Dale) but he can communicate more in a look than most actors in a whole monologue.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

Most fans familiar with the work of the actor are not surprised he has almost single - handily pulled in a fifth - of - a-billion-dollars in less than a month.

This will enable one to see that the Paraiyars are actors in their own ongoing social drama rather than mere spectators.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

The notion that «the economy» is an actor in its own right, disembodied from «the change,» has led some analysts to float the strange argument that Republicans should have won more convincingly than they did.

People who try to go back and do what was done before (like churches to try to return to the «early church days»), are like actors who, when they get to the end of act 4 in they play, rather than start in on improvising act 5, decide that the best thing to do is just repeat act 4.

With more than 79 % of clinics in minority neighborhoods, and more than 1400 black abortions daily, these programs are doing precisely what our actor asked them to do.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Porn actors are portrayed rather like unemployed corporate workers, their choice of career unquestioned, their difficulties blamed on the system in which they work rather than on any internal emptiness.

Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after convincing a parole board that he has repented after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel - room heist.

Twitter and Facebook is exploding, because less than 20 people in the crowd clapped for him after he thanked god for winning best actor

That «secular» literature might have meant something to someone in Solomon's court has been argued from time to time about certain proverbs and wisdom texts, but not about texts where God is the main actor in the story — and certainly not in the manner of Bloom, where J suddenly sounds like a skeptical college professor who is much more «mature and sophisticated» than the believers in his midst and their God.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

He gives voice to the philosophical problem of evil perhaps more clearly and cogently than any other speaker or actor, any other philosopher or theologian, in the whole of world literature.

More than 50 key actors in the Ivorian cocoa sector came together to launch the living income benchmark study for cocoa - producing regions in Côte d'Ivoire.

Disney, now owners of Star Wars producer Lucasfilm, has recently adopted a «legacy pay scale» policy; in layman's terms, veteran actors were paid ludicrously higher wages than their less experienced counterparts, regardless of screen time.

Most umpires were unemployed show people who took work where they could find it — and what better place for an actor or singer than in front of a large, captive audience?

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

For the most outstanding actor in a drama series, Jon Hamm's status as the clear cut favorite can likely be attributed to more to Mad Men's seven season run rather than his performance specifically in the final season.

I mean this all situation is getting comical by the days and we have all the actors we need... Just a bunch of deluded and less than average performers under the guidance of the most delusional man in world football.

Jackie Chan delights but the kid felt much younger than previous actors playing the role, which was emphasized by him often watching Spongebob Squarepants in Chinese.