Sentences with phrase «wrestlers whose»

Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) star as L.A. actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

The title stands for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a short - lived 1980s TV show of which I have no memory whatsoever, and it stars Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) as L.A. - based actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

So they followed around a bunch of Sumo wrestlers whose job requires them to maintain enormous stores of body fat.

The move, which Denton confirmed on Monday via Twitter, will temporarily prevent Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, from collecting millions of dollars in damages he was awarded from Denton in an invasion - of - privacy lawsuit in May.

The most celebrated athlete of that period was Milo of Kroton, a wrestler whose achievements and feats of strength became legend.

Chad Gable is a former Olympic wrestler whose last name is a pun that he silk - screened onto a gym towel just to be obnoxious.

He was large, imposing and pumped up like the Michelin man, but could not act, and seemed like yet another wrestler whose ill - advised bid for movie stardom would end in failure.

Foxcatcher Director: Bennett Miller Stars: Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Michael Hall, Steve Carell Synopsis: Based on the true story of Mark Schultz, an Olympic wrestler whose relationship with sponsor John du Pont and brother Dave Schultz would lead to unlikely circumstances.

Based on the true story of Mark Schultz, an Olympic wrestler whose relationship with sponsor John du Pont and brother Dave Schultz would lead to unlikely circumstances.

Not exact matches

The 62 - year - old former professional wrestler, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, told jurors he still is suffering from the humiliation of the sex tape's posting in 2012.

In a widely publicized privacy lawsuit this year, a Florida jury awarded Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, $ 140 million in damages from Gawker for publishing a sex tape in 2013 in which the former wrestler was featured.

Thiel had funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker after it published a video showing the former professional wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in a sexual encounter with the wife of a former friend, radio host Bubba the Love Sponge.

One day late last season, teammate Jonathan Allen ticked off a list of linemen either pinned or forced to tap out by Tomlinson, whose best move is a double - leg takedown but who still loves to experiment with more exotic moves favored by smaller wrestlers.

Maybe the most interesting bet available is for actor and professional wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson whose odds recently creeped all the way to 25/1.

The same applies to athletes whose sports require multiple competitive bouts in one day, such as wrestlers or tennis players in a tournament.

A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

This remarkable true story follows du Pont, who builds a wrestling training facility on his 800 - acre property, but whose relationship with longtime friend and Olympic gold medal - winning wrestler David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo, looking positively Hulk like) takes a sinister turn.

Such is the case with Marisa Tomei, whose wonderful performance in «The Wrestler» has garnered no fewer than three critics» prizes (San Francisco, San Diego and Phoenix) in the past 24 hours — an intriguing new mini-trend in a category that has hitherto been pretty much one - way traffic for Penelope Cruz.

Ruffalo also had a charming, affable leading - man turn in «Begin Again» this year, as a weary record label exec whose passion for music is reignited by a young singer - songwriter, but his turn as real - life Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Bennett Miller's retelling of a bizarre true story is a prime example of an actor at the peak of his powers.

Black Swan is the fifth feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky, whose reputation has grown as he has developed from a maker of acclaimed arthouse fare (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) into someone who can interest and connect with the masses without compromise (The Wrestler).

The screenplay is attributed to virtually unknown former «Saturday Night Live» production coordinator Andres Heinz (whose theatre - set screenplay «The Understudy» was the foundation), Aronofsky's assistant - turned - Wrestler co-producer Mark Heyman, and John McLaughlin, one of the scribes of the Tommy Lee Jones Man of the House.

Yet right now we are seeing people whose names sound like professional wrestlers taking center stage playing a game of poker.

Darren Aronofsky is the kind of artiste director whose films tend to play well with the cineaste crowd and prompt cricket chirps at the cineplex, but he's also got savvy commercial instincts and a gift for casting (Mickey Rourke, whose career was brought back to life thanks to his star turn in Aronofsky's «The Wrestler,» would surely agree).

It doesn't hurt that the film was written by Robert Siegel, whose screenplays for The Wrestler and Big Fan were character studies of unconventional, deeply troubled protagonists.

Darren Aronofsky's gritty tale of a washed - up wrestler returning to the ring provided a comeback role for Mickey Rourke, whose own return from the wilderness it celebrated.

Cinematographer Maryse Alberti (whose credits include The Wrestler) dances nimbly around the fights, capturing one in what looks like a knockout single take, while Tony Bellew's «Pretty» Ricky Conlan (from «Liverpool, England») makes a strong fist of being a genuinely dangerous opponent.

The show's wrestling trainer, Chavo Guerrero Jr., whose uncle trained the original GLOW wrestlers, also became a valuable sounding board.

In this corner, Mickey Rourke: winner of countless critics awards for his performance in The Wrestler, who has apparently pissed off more people than Perez Hilton, who called Perez Hilton a faggot and no one gave a shit, whose Hollywood story mirrors that of his character, who won the Golden Globe and the BAFTA and who doesn't have an Oscar to his name and may never be nominated for another one again, whose fans are fierce but respectful of the other guy's posse.

The Academy's director's branch is known for giving at least one spot here to industry outsiders, assuming you feel folks like Pedro Almodóvar and Paul Greengrass qualify as such, and though Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) fits that criterion quite nicely, so does five - time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh, a surprise Best Director entrant a few years back for Vera Drake and whose Happy - Go - Lucky may be his best work to date.

The Internet continues to resonate after an Aug. 26 crash of a Toyota Supra hot - rod driven by Nick Bollea, 17 - year - old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea.

And if you have some friends who are fans of WWE's brand of «sports entertainment,» then you may even have a blast seeing whose created wrestler is the better grappler.

By choosing Wrestlers, a tour - de-force depiction of young athletes whose limbs are intertwined in combat, Paolini not only provides a contemporary link with the Classical period but also recalls the profound effect Classical, particularly Hellenistic, art had on artists during the Renaissance (Wrestlers was excavated in the late 16th century).

Drexler is a novelist, whose books include I Am the Beautiful Stranger (1965) and the critically acclaimed To Smithereens (1972), based on her experience as a professional wrestler, Rosa Carlo, aka «The Mexican Spitfire» — a book that I reprinted in 2011.

Whereas in this body of work, Schorr is comparing the way men and women pose differently for the artist's gaze, in her photographs of American high - school and collegiate wrestlers, the artist trains her camera on a tribe of young men whose bodies and athletic training homogenize personal differences.

If you're a base jumper, a fan of flying single - engine planes, or a bear wrestler, your chance of a premature death is a bit higher than someone whose hobby is to curl up with a nice book on the couch.