David Rooney of Variety wrote that Cruz " adds a serviceably malevolent edge to Chole's apparent madness.

Late Show with David Letterman has been nominated as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for its entire 16 season run from the 1993-94 season through the 2008-09 season.

Suchet was given a Variety Club Award in 1994 for best actor for portraying John in David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

The band is a five-piece, comprising Anthony Roman ( Vocals / Bass ) ( formerly of Garden Variety ), David Milone ( Vocals / Guitar ) ( who replaced original guitarist / singer Tommy Williams in 2005 ), Gerard Garone ( Keyboards ), Greg Collins ( Drums ), and P. J.

In his review for Variety, David Benedict wrote, " Mead delivers .... is contracted for at least a year.

Variety said he hit " all the right notes in a star-powered performance that will amuse, if not amaze, anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost " while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he " tries bravely to keep a straight face "

In Variety, David Rooney stated, " Original in every sense, this often difficult film about family, relationships, sexual politics, spiritual questing, faith and obsession further explores the director's abiding fascinations in excitingly unconventional terms.

" Her performance in the film was well received: David Germain of the Associated Press wrote, " Gyllenhaal humanizes her so deeply and richly ... that Sherry elicits sympathy even in her darkest and weakest moments ", and Dennis Harvey of Variety called her performance " naturalistic ".

" David Rooney of Variety praised Jolie for being " hotter, faster and more commanding than last time around as the fearless heiress / adventuress, plus a little more human.

David Lascher and Joe Torres were nominated for a 1991 Young Artist Award in the Best Youth Variety or Game Show category for their roles on Hey Dude.

Variety. com reviewer David Rooney writes that the film " provides stimulating evidence of how thoroughly news can be skewed, political agendas served and a climate of fear created by a news net selling itself as an objective information service.

In 2001, Variety reported that Warner Brothers was in negotiations with Miller and Darrow to adapt the comic book into a feature film, David Fincher set to direct and Nicolas Cage to star.

In March 2011, Variety reported that David Slade would direct a Daredevil reboot.

In June 2011 Variety magazine announced that she would star in Glutton, a ' 3D psychological thriller ' directed by David Arquette.

David Stratton, writing in Variety, gave a lukewarm response to the film, saying Bad Eggs is a crime-comedy with more crime than comedy.

" The Variety magazine review was also lukewarm, concluding that after " evincing much laughter over an unexpectedly funny couple living together, Forsyth abruptly switches into a more conventional plot " and that " David and Paterson are terrific together and almost every line between them is a joy.

It had its London premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993, directed by Harold Pinter David Suchet played John ( in a Variety Club Award-winning performance ), and Lia Williams played Carol, in a version that used Mamet's original ending from the Cambridge production.

Variety observed, " In essence, it's a pretty shallow story since the title character, when you get right down to it, is obsessed with a very superficial, egotistical problem beneath her generous, razzmatazz facade.

Thus Blumenbach, in the 3rd edition of his On the Natural Variety of Mankind, recognized that poorer European people ( such as peasants ) whom he observed generally worked outside, often became darker skinned (" browner ") through sun exposure.

Variety observed, " The first half of Thoroughly Modern Mille is quite successful in striking and maintaining a gay spirit and pace.

Variety observed, " Writer Colin Higgins makes a good directorial bow.

Derek Elley of Variety observed that Basu was a miscast as the " idealistic cop ".

In Variety, Emanuel Levy observed, " It's a testament to the nuanced writing of William Nicholson.

In Variety, Todd McCarthy said the film " is well observed in many particulars but is too familiar in its basic trajectory to be fresh or compelling.

Although Glenn Lovell of Variety called the film a " bracing, beautifully shot upstart drama ," he observed, " It's a safe bet ... won't win over the Far and Away date crowd.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Sumptuous Technicolor mounting and a highly exploitable story lend considerable importance to Leave Her to Heaven that it might not have had otherwise ... Tierney and Wilde use their personalities in interpreting their dramatic assignments.

Producer Lou Morheim originally bought the rights to Seven Samurai, with plans to have Anthony Quinn as lead ; according to Variety Brynner " got the rights away from Quinn " and brought Sturges into the project as director, based on the latter's work on Gunfight at the O. K.

Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.

Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's 1973 film, Scenes from a Marriage, including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen's " most three-dimensional film to date " with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the " contemporary equivalent of ...

India, for example, includes an interpretation of farmers ' rights in its Plant Variety Protection and Farmers ' Rights Act, allowing farmers a restricted right to save and sell seed they have produced on-farm as they always have, even if it contains genes from a protected variety.,

In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, " The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes ; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent ", but he did have praise for the performances: " The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences ".

Variety quotes Optimum Releasing ’ s Will Clarke as saying: " Attack the Block is one of the most inventive and entertaining scripts we have ever read and a great project to kick off the relationship.

Variety credited Hull's performance: " the slightly balmy aunt who wants to have Elwood committed, is immense, socking the comedy for every bit of its worth.

Overall, the show ( capitalized at $ 6 million ) since its opening, according to Variety, " has been doing moderate business, mainly on the strength of theater party advances ," but by mid-June it mostly have been used up.

Another reviewer in Variety noted of a 1995 production starring Tony Randall as Sir Peter Teazle that Sheridan's play was " such a superbly crafted laugh machine, and so timeless in delivering delectable comeuppance to a viper's nest of idle-rich gossipmongers, that you'd practically have to club it to death to stifle its amazing pleasures "-before claiming that this is precisely what the production being reviewed had done.

The New York Shakespeare Festival paid to have an obituary in Variety, where his birth and death dates were accompanied by a Shakespearean quote.

According to the October 6, 1971, edition of Variety, it was the first off-network series to best network competition in the ratings: " The big switch no doubt representing the first time in rating history that indies ( local stations ) have knocked over the network stations in a primetime slot was promoted by WPIX's premiere of the off-web Jeannie reruns back to back from 7 to 8 p. m ."

Variety praised the casting of Dillon, Bacon, Campbell, Richards, Russell, Murray and Snodgress " you have an ensemble that appears to be enjoying the challenge of offbeat roles and unusual material.

Variety magazine called Pure Music " probably Chase's most commercial effort, and their brand of jazz could have a commercial impact.

There have been two Royal Scottish Variety Performances, both attended by Queen Elizabeth, and presented by Howard & Wyndham Ltd in Glasgow ` s Alhambra Theatre, which Sir Alfred Butt had opened, in 1958 and 1963..

There have been a total of 17 theatres that have staged the 81 Royal Variety Performances, and the 1912 Royal Command Performance.

Burbage died before the publication of the First Folio, but Heminges and Condell acted as ostensible co-editors and mentioned in their epistle to " the great Variety of Readers " the " care, and paine " they took to collect the works, since the author had not " liv'd to have set forth, and overseen his owne writings ".

Some periodicals have their own distinctive headline styles, especially Variety and its entertainment-jargon headlines such as " Sticks nix hick pix ".

" Conversely, Leslie Felperin of Variety had a negative opinion of the narrative, called some battle sequences " irritating ", and noted that the last battles have more ferocious antagonists.

In response to Variety < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s criticism of the film, Friedman said, " Herschell and I have often wondered who told the Variety scribe we were taking ourselves seriously.

" Variety Magazine reviewer Jeremy Gerard compared the show to Twin Peaks and was overall positive to the series, but said " I just wish it were a little more fun, that I didn't have this nagging feeling that it wants to hurt me the next time I come around.

The Variety reviewer noted :" His debut foray into his own spotlight comes with ' Songs for a New World ,' a musical revue that shows Brown to be a capable songwriter of the Alan Menken school: commercial show-tune pop with palatable sentiment and easy-to-take melody .... ' Songs for a New World ' seems to contain more cabaret convention and pianobar posing than any one revue should have to withstand.