About 1939, he started to collect autographed cards of film stars.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

The film was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

A drag queen may imitate famous female film or pop-music stars.

Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

As a result, she slipped from the list of top box office stars, last appearing in the top ten in 1966 with the hit film The Glass Bottom Boat.

" Leonard Maltin originally rated the film with two stars, but later increased the rating to three stars.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles ' feature film New Jack City, gang leader Odessa ( alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow ) in Ricochet ( 1991 ), gang leader King James in Trespass ( 1992 ), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game ( 1994 ), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic ( 1995 ), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl ( 1995 ).

The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

Denzel Washington and Benicio del Toro had initially been cast, both actors having been paid salaries of $ 20 m and $ 15 m respectively without the film having gone into production.

Waits played the role of " The Engineer " in the film The Book of Eli, opposite Denzel Washington, which opened in January 2010.

* The film Glory ( starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Matthew Broderick ), shows events of 1863, notably the assault on Fort Wagner.

The 1991 film Mississippi Masala starred Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, and profiled a family of displaced Ugandan-Indians living and working in Mississippi.

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. ( born December 28, 1954 ) is an American actor, film director and film producer.

The film follows John Quincy Archibald ( Denzel Washington ), a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it.

During October 2009, several scenes for the Tony Scott film Unstoppable ( with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson ) were filmed in and around Tyrone, mostly at the 14th street crossing and the north end of the rail yard.

The Hurricane is a 1999 film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington.

Actor Denzel Washington and Rubin Carter worked closely in making the film.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, liked the film and the acting, and wrote, " This is one of Denzel Washington's great performances, on a par with his work in Malcolm X .... Washington as Hurricane Carter is spare, focused, filled with anger and pride ....

Training Day is a 2001 American crime drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

* Denzel Washington as Detective Alonzo Harris, the main antagonist of the film

The film received mostly positive reviews upon release, and Denzel Washington's portrayal of Alonzo Harris gathered glowing praise from critics.

Denzel Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001, notably beating out Russell Crowe's performance as John Nash for A Beautiful Mind, and the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 2002 for his performance in Training Day, and Ethan Hawke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2001 for the film.

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon.

Tolson was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the film The Great Debaters.

* The Hurricane ( 1999 film ), a film starring Denzel Washington

* The Norman Jewison 1999 feature film The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington in the lead role about Rubin Carter's accusation, trials, and time spent in prison.

However, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 ( The 26th film in the franchise ) got a private screening in Washington, D. C. in November 2008.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

Although It's a Wonderful Life is his most well-known film, Friedman notes that it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) which most represented the " Capra myth.

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Henry Franzoni reports that " Mrs. Patterson, Roger Patterson's widow, who still lives in Yakima, Washington, has the TV and movie rights to the actual film.

Heironimus was a tall ( 6 ' 2 ), muscular Yakima, Washington, native, age 26, when he says Patterson offered him $ 1000 to wear an ape suit for a Bigfoot film.

** The film 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres in Washington, D. C.

A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC.

Detaching one slug from its host, they seal it in a film canister and bring it back to headquarters in Washington, D. C. By the time they get there though, the remains of the slug are a stinking mess, and they are unable to convince the President that there is an invasion.

* Headless Horseman, a fictional character in the horror film Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ) that was partly based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

" In her review for The Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote that the film " asks us to believe that the drowned return to life, that the comatose come to the rescue, that driven women become doting wives, that Neptune cares about landlubbers.

The Documentary Center is a part of The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, devoted to teaching documentary film production theory and techniques and to creating documentary films for national audiences.

* 2003: Stephen Hunter, Washington Post, " for his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a pleasure to read.

In her review in The Washington Post, Rita Kempley, giving it a mixed review, wrote that the film " isn't as passionate as the title suggests — in fact, it's facile — but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together.

Deep Throat was the name given for the anonymous source in the Washington Post investigation of U. S. President Nixon's 1972 Watergate scandal, and was used in the book All the President's Men and its 1976 film adaptation.

The Director's cut of the film was released on May 29, 2004, in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle International Film Festival and later in New York City and Los Angeles on July 23, 2004.

Rita Kempley in the Washington Post wrote that the film " is at its weakest when it preaches visually or verbally.