Sentences with phrase «with central casting»

Registered with Central Casting as an infant, 18 - month - old Gigi played Eve Curie as a baby in 1942's Madame Curie, and at two played young Fanny (who grew up to be Bette Davis) in Mrs. Skeffington.

There are some interviews with the central cast and some trailers also.

Not exact matches

«I believe policymakers should have been much more aggressive in tightening policy and rejecting the fiscal impropriety associated with this most recent tax cut... The die has been cast by the Fed and other central banks and future policy prescriptions are predictable.»

I have had the experience of the pious Catholic lady from central casting, with the Irish or Italian or Polish name, the daily Mass - going, novena - saying, rosary - collecting woman of stereotype who will suddenly say, «Evangelicals know their Bible!»

A little bit of this, a little bit of that... There are dozens of older religions that deal with the same central - casting characters.

But with precisely the same cast of argument, the judges will need to settle their answer to the question of just what is their principled ground for turning back these other demands that spring from the very reasoning they bring forward as they detach marriage from that central notion of begetting.

With my brown corduroy jacket, oxford shirt and media credential, I was dressed like I walked out of Sportswriter Central Casting.

The central lynchpin of the Invincible team had been cast aside with no replacement seemingly on the way.

Parent volunteers are needed for the production of the November play at Marian Central High School, 1001 McHenry Ave. Help will be needed with costumes, makeup, set building and the cast - crew dinner.

Parent volunteers are needed for the November play at Marian Central High School, 1001 McHenry Ave. Help will be needed with costumes, makeup, set building and the cast - crew dinner.

Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 15, approved the 2018 - 19 school budget, with 1,186 casting votes in favor of the $ 84.2 million spending plan and 525 opposed.

Bus purchase approved, Jaquith and Zhao elected to the Board of Education Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opposed.

In 2008, for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, he cast a doughnut - shaped 8.4 - metre mirror with a 5 - metre mirror in the central hole.

Rather than writing himself the heroic role that central casting - traditionally obsessed with looks - will always deny him, Buscemi has identified with another loser.

Her lovers, Moore and Umbers, are both TV studmuffins from the UK, and they resemble each other physically, which might have sounded good on paper, but onscreen they seem too generic: handsome, rich playboys with situational ethics from Central Casting.

Though central to the plot, the Windermeres are dreadfully dull characters, and one suspects that here, as in Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003), Scarlett Johansson has been cast principally for her picturesque qualities.

That fall, she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live but exited before the conclusion of the season, publicly disheartened by the show's increasing drop - off in quality.After signing on as a correspondent on Michael Moore's news magazine TV Nation and hosting Comedy Product, a standup showcase on the Comedy Central cable network, Garofalo began work on her breakthrough role, co-starring with Uma Thurman in the 1996 romantic comedy hit The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

«Insurgent» also has one of the most diverse casts seen in a blockbuster film, with women and people of color playing roles both central and peripheral.

O'Hanlon made the rounds in summer stock and burlesque, then registered with Hollywood's Central Casting as a film extra in the early»30s.

Lowery has assembled a great cast here, with the likes of Keith Carradine, Rami Malek and Nate Parker backing up the central trio.

It stands to reason that the central cast from the first film (including, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Taraja P. Henson, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Romany Malco, Gabrielle Union, and Chris Bown) will likewise be brought back, as could also be the case with director Tim Story.

In between making blockbusters for the Jurassic and Star Wars franchises, Trevorrow invests this unconventional drama - cum - thriller with plenty of heart, eliciting terrific performances from his central cast.

Coogler (who penned the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole) smooths over the central absurdity with a quicksilver wit and a boisterous supporting, largely female cast.

Which isn't to say that the film doesn't boast plenty of powerful and often disturbing sequences (it does), nor that its mostly - female cast don't deliver a forceful ensemble performance, with Natalie Portman exceptional as the traumatised but driven central character, biologist Lena.

At the bar, we meet his beer - swilling family, played with sometimes - too - broad Boston accents and personalities by Miranda Richardson as Jeff's mom and Clancy Brown as his dad, along with famous Boston comic Lenny Clarke as another relative, and others who sometimes feel straight out of Boston central casting — love the Sox, drink before noon, yell over each other, etc..

With this central focus, a lot of the well - casted supporting characters are put on the back burner development-wise compared to Zamperini and «The Bird.»

Spacek seemed perfectly cast with a tailor made performance as the kooky, vulnerable and — dare I say it — weird central character.

by Walter Chaw A castration / redemption picture with the most ineffectual central character in any film south of Polanski, direct - to - video thriller Malevolent casts Lou Diamond Phillips as an eternally - framed homicide detective and Kari Wuhrer as an ex-softcore goddess now reduced to acting badly in a variety of scoop - necked blouses.

Constructed around a few locations (including Stevens» own home for Anne's gilded prison) and a cast of four central characters and shot in an economical ten days, it is both a handsome production (shot by veteran, Oscar - nominated DP Ted McCord sometime between Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Sound of Music, and camera operator Conrad Hall) and a visually evocative world taut with palpable tension and he orchestrates the quartet nicely.

Within the huge cast, with co-star Cameron Diaz and supporting players such as Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson and John C. Reilly, Leonardo Di Caprio and Daniel Day - Lewis have the central roles.

With a starry cast, including Elisha Cook Jr, James Mason and a never - better George Dzundza, Hooper's film coherently draws together its various convoluted narrative strands, setting the central supernatural mystery against the backdrop of petty disputes within a fundamentally rotten New England community.

The entire movie was filmed in five days during a huge U.K. music festival, most of the cast had to be convincing as rock musicians — and even perform live — and the basic plot is a pretty standard romantic comedy with a completely contrived central conflict.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

Black Panther excels in presenting a unique central character with a memorable supporting cast.

Along with this central plot, Kay Cannon's script also weaves in a series of side - stories for each of the central cast members involving decisions about the future and romantic entanglements.

And though Howarth is actually quite effective in the central role, the supporting cast is populated almost exclusively by subpar performers (which makes it impossible to sympathize with most of Max's victims).

Filmed entirely in South Africa, with a cast made up of the country's citizens, this powerful, sometimes shocking account of the life of the apartheid martyr, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, frequently benefits from a strong central performance by Thabo Rametsi that helps to hold the story together.

Having said that, Zombie's quirky directorial choices and effective use of»70s rock songs - coupled with some exceedingly effective performances among the central cast members, particularly Haig and Forsythe (this is despite a few really bad choices the latter makes towards the end)- ensure that The Devil's Rejects remains somewhat engaging throughout.

Special Features Learning From Experience: Director Nancy Meyers and the cast discuss bridging the «generation gap» in a humorous way Designs On Life: Learn about the film's runway - ready looks and eye - popping interior design The Three Interns: An exclusive interview with Comedy Central fan faves Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman and newcomer Jason Orley

While one tempted to dismiss Richie Andrusco's excellent central performance as lucky casting (he is always unselfconscious and not at all cloying), you have to wonder if Engel's work with models is responsible for a different perspective to directing actors.

Most movies with all - star casts rarely live up to the collective billing, but «This is the End» manages to divvy up the laughs proportionately amongst the cast's central characters, leaving the cameo and bit parts to be executed perfectly.

Then Ben Stiller signed on as a co-lead and the target of the central heist was changed from Donald Trump to a Bernie Madoff - like swindler, but the cast is still packed with big names, like Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Judd Hirsch, and Alan Alda.

They then tapped Nanjiani's friend and collaborator Michael Showalter to direct (his «Michael & Michael Have Issues» with Michael Ian Black on Comedy Central marked Nanjiani's first TV writing and acting gig in 2009) and cast Zoe Kazan to play Gordon, Ray Romano and Holly Hunter to play her parents, and Bollywood star Anupam Kher to play his father.

Adapting a then - unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable — the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast is rounded out with nonprofessionals — and distills his closely observed take on deeply flawed humanity to its bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.

Despite the relative inexperience of Linklater and his sizable cast, Dazed and Confused still flows by with finesse, despite the loose structure and lack of a central plot.

Marcel the monkey shows up the Central Perk crew by becoming the first cast member of «Friends» to go solo, and we would be remiss if we did not discuss the plucky young helicopter pilot played by Cuba Gooding Jr., who in a few short years would grace the world with such masterworks as «Chill Factor» and «Boat Trip.»

Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 15, approved the 2018 - 19 school budget, with 1,186 casting votes in favor of the $ 84.2 million spending plan and 525 opposed.

Bus purchase approved, Jaquith and Zhao elected to the Board of Education Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opposed.

Dan Gurney Dan Gurney was central casting's idea of an all - American racer — tall, blond, and handsome, with a sunny smile that radiated the optimism of Southern California.

With a smaller cast of central characters than American Gods, Gaiman is in his element with Anansi BWith a smaller cast of central characters than American Gods, Gaiman is in his element with Anansi Bwith Anansi Boys.