His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Vizzini in The Princess Bride ( 1987 ), and Rex the toy dinosaur in the Toy Story animated film series.

His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

* In the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre, Heidegger's theory of " experiencing one's being to the fullest is like experiencing the decay of that being towards one's death, as a part of your experience " is quoted by the actor Wallace Shawn, who plays himself.

* 1981: My Dinner with Andre

In Der Todesking one of the character watches a video of the fictional nazi exploitation film Vera-Todesengel der Gestapo and in Nekromantik 2, the characters go to see a movie called Mon dejeuner avec Vera which is a parody of Lois Malle's My Dinner with André.

* In the 1981 film My Dinner With Andre it is related how fauns befriend and take a mathematician to meet Pan.

Troma provided production support for Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, for which Kaufman served as a production manager.

The film features a cameo from Wallace Shawn as a waiter in a restaurant ; Malle's next film was My Dinner with Andre, where Shawn is waited on as a customer.

When angry she will generally say " apparently ," a habit first noted in the first series episode " Inferno " and shown to be inherited from her mother in " My Dinner in Hell ".

Granius also wrote about Cenae Suae (" My Dinner Parties "), an encyclopedia work that displayed his antiquarian interests in the manner of Aulus Gellius and his Attic Nights.

** My Dinner with Andre

* My Dinner with Jimi ( 2003 )

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.

Just as his earlier films such as The Lovers helped popularize French films in the United States, My Dinner with Andre was at the forefront of the rise of American independent cinema in the 1980s.

* My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 )

* David Pagel, My Dinner with Anderl, Ascent, AAC Press, Golden, CO, 1999, pages 13 – 26.

He was also a distinguished orator and after-dinner speaker ; author: Orations and After Dinner Speeches ( 1890 ), Life and Later Speeches ( 1894 ), Orations, Addresses and Speeches ( eight volumes ) ( 1910 ), Speeches and Addresses on the threshold of Eighty ( 1912 ), Addresses and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-two ( 1916 ), Speeches and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-four ( 1918 ), My Memories of Eighty Years and Marching On ( 1922 ); Miscellaneous Speeches on the Threshold of Ninety-two ( 1925 ); contributed a " My Autobiography " in 1922, and an article to the 50th Anniversary Supplement of the Yale Daily News entitled " An Optimistic Survey " in 1928 ; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut Society of the Society of the Cincinnati, Holland Society, Huguenot Society, New England Society, France-America Society, New York Historical Society, St. Augustine ( Fla .) Historical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, National Horse Show, Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and St. Thomas ' ( Episcopal ) Church, New York ; made life member of Lawyers ' Club of New York in 1918 ; honorary member New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

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The film also stars Wallace Shawn ( alluding to his dinner-philosophy argument in My Dinner with Andre ) as the comic playwright, Larry Pine as the tragedian, and Brooke Smith as Cassie.

McDonald asked Daniel MacIvor to write a My Dinner with Andre-style screenplay that would be a sequel to Hard Core Logo, with Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie playing the roles.

" Kaufman also made a small appearance in Rocky and served as the production manager on Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre.

He has primarily appeared in comedies, and is known for his roles in the films Clueless, The Cider House Rules, Wet Hot American Summer, Anchorman, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Dinner for Schmucks, The Object of My Affection, Role Models, I Love You, Man, and Our Idiot Brother.

Corky has returned to New York, where he has opened a Hollywood-themed novelty shop, which includes such items as Brat Pack bobblehead dolls, My Dinner with Andre action figures, and The Remains of the Day lunch boxes.

On occasion, it is implied that he does have romantic feelings for Elmyra ( at the end of the short " My Dinner with Elmyra ", he admits, " I think I'm in love!

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.

My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink, scented stationery and the unsloped, almost printed configurations of her neat, studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer, so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when ; ;

My camp-made leather wallet, bulky with twisted, raised stitches around the edges, I stuffed with money I had been saving.

My double was made with standard-weight revolver barrels ( before cutting to revolver length ), and although it compares well in other respects, it's considerably heavier than the Deerstalker, which only scales about 6-1/2 pounds.

My friend often breakfasted with Vernon on the morning of the regular tallyho run.

My mother was beside herself with curiosity.

Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

My interviews with teen-agers confirmed this portrait of the weakening of religious and ethnic bonds.

My instructions were that Mr. Nishimo would meet me at the hotel, but instead he and three others were at the station with a very warm welcome.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

`` My experience as public safety commissioner '', Roos said, `` has shown me that the office of sheriff is best filled by a man with law enforcement experience, and preferably one who is a lawyer.

My love for Johnnie was young and clean -- how could I possibly compete with a woman like that, who didn't hesitate to use her sex.

My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" My heart bleeds with the memories of those days ", he wrote, " and even long years, of cheerless anxiety and hopeless dependence.