Sentences with phrase «vaudeville acts»

if climate science really was junk, why is it necessary to oppose it with vaudeville acts, personal attacks, stealing email and clear and obvious lies?

Drexler had considerable exposure to the performing arts as a child, attending vaudeville acts with her friends and family.

Vaudeville acts also were filmed as talkies and could perhaps be considered the first music videos.

News reels were early talkies and appeared in theaters along with silent movies and vaudeville acts.

Lively and inventive, this mystery shows glimpses of vaudeville acts, challenges facing immigrants, Prohibition, Hoover's presidential campaign, and the stock - market crash.

In addition to music, one can also find vaudeville acts and dialogues.

But just as the early days of radio (say, the late 1920s to early 1930s) consisted mostly of performances by old vaudeville acts and could be heard only within about 5 miles of the transmitter, the great days of the podcast lie ahead.

Traveling entertainers: orphaned Vaudeville acts live on, decades later, in an early sound film technology

Regardless, Fracture is, indeed, a fractured feature which establishes itself as a taut psychological thriller early on only to undercut an intriguing premise with comical 11th hour courtroom antics comparable to the vaudeville act of Pigmeat Markham.

Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine shot to fame in the»30s and»40s as vaudeville act The Three Stooges.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

Thinking back over those poor actors — speaking the unspeakable while stuffed and mounted on blue screens absent Creatures To Be Computerized Later — makes me appreciate Naomi Watts» little vaudeville act (and her tears) opposite what must have been a bunch of pulleys manned by hairy, leering Kiwis.

It sounds like a vaudeville act... Say in 2013, on a bench in a train station, you came upon a page torn from an ExxonMobil financial statement that a time traveler from 2016 had inadvertently left behind.

In this era of talking dogs — from the animated creatures in Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» to those so easily found «conversing» on the Internet — it might behoove us to remember the first «real» one, the star of a vaudeville act known as Don the Talking Dog.

presents itself as a Vaudeville act, in which the titular frog is performing to entertain an audience: perhaps you and the child you're trading turns with...

Detail: The Vaudeville Act, c. 1902 - 1903, oil on canvas, by Everett Shinn (American, 1876 - 1953).

Not exact matches

Though the most memorable laughs come from Coogan and Brydon's hilarious double act, Winterbottom's film eases back on the vaudeville of it all by judiciously returning to Sterne (Stephen Fry's Parson Yorick notes, «Life is chaotic... amorphous»).

His act consisted of answering a series of questions served up by his regular straight man and interpreter, a vaudeville veteran known as Loney Haskell.

In this appropriation of a flagrantly racist caricature from America's vaudevillian past, Thomas highlights the entertainment value of a vaudeville performer; however, Biggers» minstrel is not presented in the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflection.

Maybe this act, this work, this thing (2016) observes vaudeville performers mimicking the mechanics of the projector, representing the moment when cinema replaced theatre as the popular site of entertainment.