Sentences with phrase «veteran stage and screen»

Veteran stage and screen actor Amy Aquino (currently starring in Amazon's «Bosch») reflects on the unpredictability of life as an actor.

In an unprecedented move, Scott announced he was replacing Spacey with veteran stage and screen actor Christopher Plummer in the role of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

Not exact matches

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

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The accidental similarity, plain as day on paper, becomes even plainer on the screen: Minutes into the film, stage and cinema veteran Simon Axler (Al Pacino, himself a veteran of both Broadway and Hollywood) ambles out of his dressing room, the camera following close behind; gets locked out of the back entrance of the theater, and must come in through the front; and dramatically inflicts some violence upon himself before a shocked live audience.

For instance, I sat poker - faced during the first Toronto public screening of Barry Levinson's The Humbling (Grade: C --RRB-, a shrill and rambling Philip Roth adaptation starring Al Pacino as a stage veteran losing his gifts and his marbles.

Based on the popular novel by Patrick Dennis, «Auntie Mame» became a smash stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and was ultimately adapted for the screen by veteran screenwriters Betty Comden and Adoph Green in 1958.

Other key cast members include two veteran Irish actresses of stage and screen, Olwen Fouere and Cathy Belton, as well as hot newcomer Sam Keeley who after being selected at an open casting for The Other Side of Sleep, has gone on to star in RTE series RAW as well as Lenny Abrahamson's forthcoming film What Richard Did.

Unsurprisingly, veteran English stage and screen talent Lesley Manville hits all the right notes as Reynolds» surly sister, Cyril.

While a few of the songs are tuneful enough and the supporting cast features a raft of musical theater veterans including Alexander, James (The Book of Mormon) and Cheyenne Jackson (Damn Yankees, Finian's Rainbow), the musical numbers are staged with an awkwardness not seen on the big screen since the likes of the 1974 film fiasco Mame.

Sure, it helps when your author is a veteran of both stage and screen.