* 1952 – Honorary Academy Award " in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.

" Rob Reiner said, " He was a completely unique actor ," and went on to say that Falk's work with Alan Arkin in The In-Laws was " one of the most brilliant comedy pairings we've seen on screen.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed the film " is not blindingly brilliant, and is not an example of the very best work of the director who made The Year of Living Dangerously or the actor who starred in Cyrano de Bergerac.

As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a brilliant comic actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair and sublimely agonising over a choice between black or white coffee.

Following her death, British singer Morrissey dedicated a performance of Late Night, Maudlin Street at the Royal Albert Hall to Cartlidge, describing her as ' brilliant person and fantastic actor '.

The Times wrote of " a scathingly brilliant and inventive performance " while Variety noted that the actor " adds comic finesse to his apparently ceaseless repertoire ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a " compelling, intense " performance while The Wall Street Journal felt he was " a brilliant actor " who " grows his character from a bright-eyed social butterfly to a gimlet-eyed interrogator ".

There is some question as to whether Coates believed he was a great actor as he professed to, or if his performances weren't brilliant parody.

Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers, resuscitating the career of a brilliant actor who many felt had lapsed into self-parody.

At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions — first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedore -- and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent.

As an actor, he was conspicuous for his brilliant portrayal of comedy parts.

Joe Don Baker ( born February 12, 1936 ) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice, real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, brute-force-with-a-badge detective Mitchell in Mitchell, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, CIA Agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies and the brilliant and tough NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied in television police drama, Eischied.

Charles Ludlam has written: " John has great instinct and is a brilliant actor.

Gene Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award that year for " his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.

In 2011, Empire ranked him as 31st among the greatest video game characters as " one brilliant bad guy, and one of the most entertaining masterminds ever to scheme an evil scheme ", noting that Kucan " was recently on the receiving end of a Guinness World Record nod for longest-running actor in any video game franchise ".

His brilliant performance in the role of a demotivated and doubtful actor in Juan Antonio Bardem's Cómicos ( 1954 ), while showing him for the first time in a successful lead part, paradoxically, as he saw himself as the real incarnation of the role, plunged him in a professional depression, of which he did not emerge until his collaboration with Luis Buñuel several years later.

Under Laube's careful tuition he developed within three years into an actor of the first order, excelling both in tragedy and comedy ; and in 1882, after twenty-five years of brilliant service at the Court Theatre, he was given a patent of nobility.

It makes awesome and exciting cinema ... Ryan establishes himself as a first-rate actor in this film, demonstrating conclusively that his brilliant performance in Crossfire was no one-shot affair.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

Lime white, hard and brilliant, has a tendency to `` jump '' away from the other colors in drying, and also by its capacity to set, to preclude the use of ready-made gradations, so useful in decorative work.

The Holy Father would die soon, she said to Carla, so she could translate for Sam, although he had a brilliant doctor, a man who did not need the assistance of those doctors offered by the great rulers of the world.

Even so, Emerson noted that Alcott's brilliant conversational ability did not translate into good writing.

In bulk form ( typically as chips or " turnings "), the metal is somewhat difficult to ignite, more so even than magnesium chips ; but, when lit, the metal burns in air with a brilliant high-intensity orange-red light.

According to Strauss and Gustave, Martel fought a brilliant battle, but realized he could not prevail because he was outnumbered so badly, and retreated.

" Patton certainly thought so, claiming that the relief of Bastogne was " the most brilliant operation we have thus far performed, and it is in my opinion the outstanding achievement of the war.

Because he is so brilliant at it.

Sometimes older versions are shown wearing a pair of glasses ; although used to compensate for his poor vision, Capitano will insist that it is so the brilliant or fierce glint in his handsome eyes will not outshine the sun.

One reason he learned so much from Shewhart, Deming remarked in a videotaped interview, was that, while brilliant, Shewhart had an " uncanny ability to make things difficult.

The brilliant Vega in the constellation Lyra is often touted as the best north star ( it fulfilled that role around 12, 000 BC and will do so again around the year 14, 000 ); however, it never comes closer than 5 ° to the pole.

" What a brilliant excuse that's turned out to be, for so many things.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

His reading of ' If only the humans appreciated life as we do, I would not have to kill so many of them ' is brilliant.

A frequently repeated anecdote holds that the 17-year-old Barry at first performed so unskillfully that she was fired from the company several times, but was transformed into a brilliant actress by the coaching of her lover, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

Since the early 20th century, it has been considered so brilliant as to be virtually untranslatable.

Bassist Jay Bentley says, " Seeing The Adolescents live, it was so brilliant.

Vol. 1 1485-1866 by Levy and O ' Connell ), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or strategic themes ( e. g. games featuring brilliant defense, attacking play, endgame technique, and so on ).

As a last resource the body was thrown into a drinking-well ; whereupon, the whole place was filled with so brilliant a light and so sweet an odour that it was clear to everybody that there must be something holy in the well.

The Orléanist monarchy became so thoroughly middle-class that the nation outside of the pays legal ended by regarding the government as a privileged class less offensive, but also a great deal less brilliant, than the aristocracy of the old monarchy.

His management of the Battle of Megiddo in particular, with its brilliant use of aeroplanes, infantry, and mobile cavalry, is considered by many to be a precursor to the Blitzkrieg tactics so widely employed by Germany during the Second World War.