Sentences with phrase «young singer into»

Not exact matches

Market herself as a fallen child, work her youth for as long as she can, make some money and some «fallen» cred within Christian circles and, after they've been praying a long time for her to return and she drifts into middle age eclipsed by younger singers, return humbled, but stronger than ever.

Initially sent to the mosque to spy for the Vichy immigration minister, the young man befriends a cabaret singer he is ordered to shadow and finds himself drawn into the heroic actions of the underground fighters.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

The younger adults are also well drawn, as both Melissa Benoist («Whiplash») as Jamie and Josh Peck («Drillbit Taylor») as Nicky are starstruck by the presence of Danny, and his coaxing them into a romance is endearing and makes you think you would do the same if a charming, experienced, fabulously rich and famous singer suggested it.

Certainly, the script for Meatballs 2 by first - timer Bruce Singer (The Killing Time, Splash Too) does take things into different directions, but those directions look like they are crammed in from wildly different movies, if not galaxies if you look at the inclusion of an alien who pretends to be one of the young campers.

It was there for all to see in the tomboyish, Sid Vicious T - shirt wearing daughter of Jodie Foster (herself an estimable child star) in David Fincher's Panic Room, and as the teenage singer with a crush on the doomed young adventurer of Into the Wild; and it's there in the first Twilight, where she convincingly conveyed the awkward lust of the 15 - year - old Bella, looking as hungry, frankly, as her vampire beau.

That brought Singer to the attention of studios, but before he went into tentpole territory, he helmed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story «Apt Pupil,» about a young man who finds out his neighbor was a concentration camp guard, for mini-major Phoenix Pictures.

Playing a variation on her charming, flighty, energetic Frances character, Gerwig pulls Kirke into her whirlwind life as an aspiring exercise instructor / singer / fashionista / cooking instructor / hairdresser / tutor / app developer / freelance interior decorator / writer, and tries to encourage the younger girl to embrace life to the fullest.

Five years prior to the game's beginning, a young thirteen year - old girl witnesses her opera singer older sister and an entire audience vanish into thin air, leaving her the sole survivor and forever traumatised by the event.