Sentences with phrase «who upstages»

Another New York School artist ripe for rediscovery — like Fritz Bultman whose reputation made a comeback last year, or Hedda Sterne, who upstages her contemporaries at the Whitney — Walinska presents an art history lesson of tremendous value.

See Modern Family, the show is ripe with children and the adorable mischievous frenchie Stella, who upstages Sofia Vergara, much to her character's dismay.

The most entertaining performance in the movie, consistently funny, is by Ustinov, who upstages everybody when he is onscreen (he won an Oscar).

The only person who upstages Gere is Cedar himself, who makes Norman an unexpectedly stylish drama full of flair, with some real creative split screens and an inspired dreamlike central sequence.

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

Hunnam is a tad on the generic, nondescript side, especially compared to King Arthur's nemesis, played by the emphatically non-generic Jude Law, who upstages the putative star of the movie at every turn.

Not exact matches

When Robert Herjavec lasted eight out of ten weeks on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, he didn't just upstage his Shark Tank co-star Mark Cuban, who was eliminated during week five in 2007.

Even without the cut, Sorrell would have been upstaged in the U.K.'s pay stakes by Jeff Fairburn, CEO of homebuilder Persimmons, who is set for a total bonus award of around 100 million pounds, with 40 million pounds due this year.

They are largely incompetent at what they do, and are quickly upstaged by Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear)-- this guy is a genuine superhero, who arrives just in time to save the day and completely upstages the «wannabe» heroes, who are treated as a joke by the police officers, villains, civilians on the scene, and Captain Amazing himself.

«I won the damn thing, and [being upstaged by Woods] really doesn't matter to me,» said Furyk, who closed with a 69.

Holle Organic Goat Milk Growing Upstage 3 is suitable for infants from 10 months» of age who are already taking one solid meal a day.

Or be upstaged by a professional prankster, who delved into his pocket at point blank range to hand her a p45 in full view of armed protection officers.

Word of Bratton's surprise resignation leaked out shortly before the formal announcement, and Hizzoner was upstaged by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who issued a statement to thank Bratton «for his years of service to New York City and commend him for working hard to keep crime low and our city safe.»

When Cuomo was attorney general, he upstaged and undercut governors Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in scandal, and David Paterson, who aborted his 2010 re-election bid (also amid scandal).

Cuomo, who convened a cabinet meeting at the exact time de Blasio was providing budget testimony to a legislative panel, scoffed at the notion that he would seek to upstage a man whom he has repeatedly referred to as a good friend, saying: «Only a really twisted mind would come up with that.»

Some within the party have turned themselves into kingmakers who will do all in their power to upstage the party structure and operate the party from their homes.

Despite his enormous financial and political resources, Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign has been upstaged by candidates to the left and right, especially Zephyr Teachout, who performed far better than expected in the democratic primary, winning 35 percent of the vote.

And he has upstaged his Republican rival for the nomination, Carl Paladino, who is pledging to use eminent domain to stop the mosque and make the entire surrounding district a war memorial.

Those of you who follow this column know that, although it's an advice column, issues and events can upstage Q&A when events and issues are interesting and the questions I receive are boring.

Ariana Grande (born Ariana Grande - Butera,) Ariana Grande Ariana Grande's new boyfriend got upstaged by her tongue — which got dangerously close to some powdered donuts pissing off the people who

In any case, the film, directed with bounce and snap by Mark Waters, stands as a comeback of sorts for Jim Carrey, who mugs and prances and does funny voices and manages not to be upstaged by a half - dozen flightless birds.

No actress could fail to be upstaged by the stunningly fanciful costumes (with matching tresses), the blaring choir music (so distracting it could make a fundamentalist swear - off religion), and production design by a craftsmen who worked on the cartoon - inspired flicks X 2 and Superman Returns.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

Snake Eyes sports some of the most breathtaking filmmaking of De Palma's career — and Nicolas Cage is the one actor who can not be upstaged by it.

Far more involving — and upstaging the central action — is a subplot following the unlikely but inevitable romance between Preston's acerbic best friend (the delightful Lauren Ambrose) and white homeboy Kenny (a hilarious Seth Green), who find themselves locked in a bathroom together.

He relishes every sweet, honey - accented line delivery, but he too, is even upstaged, by the SuperCroc, who makes possibly the most memorable entrance of the year.

The sparky Jones actually manages to upstage Nighy, which is no mean feat, while convincing us as both a skilled athlete and a girl who might capture a rich, attached hunk.

You know you're in trouble when the Hollywood Foreign Press threatens to upstage all of the other voting bodies with its diverse choices, when 90 outsiders have their fingers on the pulse of changing American culture better than thousands of insiders who work in the industry.

And who would have thought that Daniel Day - Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard and Penelope Cruz, Oscar winners all, would be upstaged by Kate Hudson?

The Reluctant Debutante — Terrifically charming Vincente Minnelli film about a young girl (Sandra Dee), raised in America, who enters British high society at the insistence of her step - mother (Kay Kendall) to upstage her rival (Angela Lansbury).

A hysterical merging of Rain Man and The Deep End of the Ocean starring the unholy trinity of Griffith, Patrick Swayze, and poor, bewildered Penelope Ann Miller (who now has the strange and notable distinction of being upstaged by both Swayze and Griffith in the same scene), Along for the Ride is one of the most overwritten, overscored, and unintentionally hilarious films since Purple Rain.

Audience members who don't find these characters» potty mouths to be either entertaining or particularly funny will find the tiresome and disappointing dialogue upstages the impressive musical numbers.

But Nyong» o and Nanjiani might have been upstaged by the dynamic duo of Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph, who rejuvenated the show after Jimmy Kimmel dragged a bunch of stars out to give snacks to the regular people across the street, interrupting their preview screening of A Wrinkle In Time in the process.

Not one to be upstaged by a smart - mouthed bird, Paul Rudd stars as Henry Mills, a veterinarian who loses his wife - to - be, Kate (Eva Longoria Parker), in a freak accident on their wedding day.

Hailing from the Lego Ninjago franchise, the irreverent The Master introduces us to Master Wu (Jackie Chan), a warrior who is repeatedly upstaged by a chicken.

Some of the funniest people working in film today, including Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, TJ Miller, Rob Corddry, Jillian Bell, Matt Walsh, Randall Park, and Jason Bateman are in Office Christmas Party, as well as Olivia Munn who is a better actress than she is given credit for but isn't nearly as funny as she thinks she is, and Jennifer Aniston who gets upstaged at her own schtick by Actual Funny Person Jillian Bell.

Thankfully, Belushi is easily upstaged by the coolly charismatic Michael Beach (as a mysterious type who many or may not be an FBI agent), but that doesn't make his bad jokes any more tolerable.

They are easily upstaged by a new character in the form of Jeff Daniels» David, who oversees the genetics bureau and takes a special avuncular - seeming interest in Tris.

The evidence is Swanberg's 2 - year - old son Jude, who handily upstages anything co-stars Melanie Lynskey and Anna Kendrick can come up with to generate interest onscreen, to the extent that one can imagine a greater audience for 80 minutes of «baby Jude does the darnedest things» YouTube videos than might turn out for this sweetly insipid, mostly improvised dramedy, acquired by Magnolia and Paramount together prior to its Sundance premiere.

The evidence is Swanberg's 2 - year - old son Jude, who handily upstages anything co-stars Melanie Lynskey and Anna Kendrick can come up with to generate interest onscreen, to the extent that one can imagine a greater audience -LSB-...]

Everybody, that is, except Natalie Portman, who seemed none too pleased about having to follow Oprah's speech, and made her «here are the all - male nominees» quip look like a petty attempt to upstage the queen.

As strong as Evans is, he's upstaged by young Mckenna Grace, who is just outstanding.

Since then we've seen Sonia Delaunay upstage Robert, Agnes Martin wrenched from the asylum and Barbara Hepworth portrayed as a subtle strategist who carved her own niche.

He's just been upstaged by the unlikeliest of competitors, a scatologically challenged troll styled «economart GM» AKA Gary Marshall, who found his muse

He showed a chart suggesting that recent temperature trends were highly correlated to the level of unemployment in Germany (upstaging Steve who later showed a chart relating temperature trends to an index of dot.com stock prices)

Those who think that there is no room for sentiment in the cold, practical, byte - filled world of technology got their comeuppance at MWC this year when a feature phone upstaged some of the most powerful smartphones in the world and hogged the spotlight.

They do not want to bring in someone who will upstage them.

(I had an instance where the new high - end car a client inherited couldn't be driven to work because it might upstage his boss» Chevy, who thought upscale cars were outrageous, meaning no raise that year.

Although I feel a bit upstaged by the commenter who revealed: «I got a tweet from Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp and he retweeted my review of his autobiography.»