Sentences with phrase «wire circus performer»

Jeff Bezos» father was a high - wire circus performer, and he initially wanted to call his ecommerce startup «Relentless.»

Not exact matches

He begins practicing his English — a useful device for allowing the film to drop its subtitles — and picks up wire walking tips from circus performer Papa Rudy; a wonderfully restrained performance by Ben Kingsley.

Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.

Tutored in technique and stagecraft by the Czech circus performer called Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), Petit embarks on his first «surprise illegal high - wire walk» in 1971 at Notre - Dame de Paris, the Manhattan towers still beckoning.

But ever resourceful Alex, seeing an opportunity to have the circus tour the states (equaling a free trip home), instructs the performers to liven up their acts and combine almost a Cirque du Soleil treatment with ridiculously complicated trapeze acts (by Gia and Alex), high wire acts (by Gloria and Melman), and cannon shots (lucky Stephano).

Soon after his arrival, in an attempt to earn some money, he made his Cirque Calder, a miniature stage set starring tiny circus performers that he could manipulate with wires and strings to do tricks.