At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

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 ".

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

Informal references by the general public and media have used to refer to celebrities as: The stars, sports stars, rock stars, rap stars, supermodels, movie stars, TV stars, radio stars, music stars, superstars, stardom, and media personalities.

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 ).

On August 1, 2007 laws were passed banning health care professionals and public figures such as movie stars or pop singers from appearing in advertisements for drugs or nutritional supplements.

* A 2006 movie about Esther and Ahasuerus, entitled One Night with the King, stars Tiffany Dupont and Luke Goss.

In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

The movie includes seasoned actors such as Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach and such future stars as Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Amateur actors replace their favorite movie stars in popular movies.

The movie garnered mixed reviews, with the Chicago Tribune rating it one out of four stars and describing Dunst's portrayal of a flight attendant as " cloying.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Her final screen appearance was in 1991, with the movie Al Ra ' i We El Nissa.

His only musical output of the year consisted of contributing his cover of Phil Phillips ' " Sea of Love " to the soundtrack of the Al Pacino movie of the same name and contributing vocals to The Replacements song " Date to Church ", which appeared as a B-side to their single " I'll Be You ".

* In the 1980 movie Caddyshack, Al Czervik ( Rodney Dangerfield ) tells D ' Annunzio, the caddy: " You're a funny kid, you know ... Hey, what time we due back in Boys Town?

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

In September, the studio released another Al Jolson part-talking picture, The Singing Fool, which more than doubled The Jazz Singers earnings record for a Warners movie.

The Hollywood Production Code did not allow murderers to get away with their crimes, so Ulmer got through the censors by having Al picked up by a police car at the very end of the movie, after foreseeing his arrest in the earlier narration.

Of the hundreds of roles he played, he is probably most well known as Al Capone in the TV show The Untouchables and again in the movie The George Raft Story.

It is the birthplace or childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Senator Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, football coach Marc Trestman, and American film director Joe Nussbaum.

* The movie Donnie Brasco, which starred Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, was filmed partially in Clifton in 1996.

Prolific author of horror novels, including Devil's Advocate, made into a movie starring Al Pacino.

Calloway made his " first proper Hollywood movie appearance " opposite Al Jolson in The Singing Kid in 1936.

My Sweet Charlie ( 1970 ) with Patty Duke and Al Freeman, Jr. dealt with racial prejudice, and That Certain Summer ( 1972 ), starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen, although controversial, was considered the first TV movie to approach the subject of homosexuality in a non-threatening manner.

In the film Casino Jack, Kevin Spacey plays infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff who is depicted in one scene, while before a senate hearing, repeating Al Pacino's famous words in the movie.

In an episode of the popular sitcom Friends TOW the Butt, Joey, when offered a movie role to play Al Pacino's butt double, references this movie by saying the lines " I'm out of order?

Adam Sandler's 2011 film " Jack & Jill " features Al Pacino reprising his role of Richard III, although the movie scenes are modified as Pacino interacts with the audience in a heavily comedic way.

Around 1910, the East Coast filmmakers began to take advantage of California winters and after Nestor Studios, run by Canadian Al Christie, built the first permanent movie studio in Hollywood a number of the movie companies expanded or relocated to the new Hollywood.

Just 10 days after Al Jolson returned from entertaining troops in Korea, he agreed with RKO producers to star in a new movie, Stars and Stripes for Ever, about a U. S. O.

– Book by Al Morgan and José Ferrer, music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, based on the movie The Captain's Paradise.

At the time of Drucker's arrival, Mad did not regularly feature TV and movie satires ; editor Al Feldstein credited Drucker's style and ability for the decision to start featuring them in every issue.

He also voiced a character in id Software's game RAGE voicing Dan Hagar, and played movie studio chief Al Zimmer in the Academy Award-winning live action film The Artist.

The article was later adapted into a movie The Insider ( 1999 ), which starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.

This can be seen as early as 1989 in the song " Road to the Riches " where he makes a reference to Al Pacino ( who plays mobster Tony Montana in the 1983 crime drama movie Scarface ) – this was long before albums such as Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx … ( 1995 ), and Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt ( 1996 ) made such references popular.

The film represents the second time Pacino was nominated for these awards in a movie in which he acted alongside his famed acting teacher, Lee Strasberg, the other being The Godfather Part II.

FSP was renamed for the movie Frankie and Johnny with Al Pacino.

In 1980, director William Friedkin made the movie Cruising, starring Al Pacino.

An Erector Set was used by Dr. Kevorkian to design his first assisted suicide machine, as seen in the HBO movie, You Don't Know Jack, featuring Al Pacino.

* In the 1992 movie Scent of a Woman, Lt. Col. Frank Slade ( Al Pacino ) and his traveling companion Charles Simms ( Chris O ' Donnell ) stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria.

In 1982, Meyers landed her first major role as the stepdaughter of Al Pacino in the movie Author!

He is portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie, and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.

When it was decided to make the movie about his life called Serpico, Al Pacino invited Serpico to stay with him at a house that Pacino had rented in Montauk, New York.

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is also known for his uncanny impressions of other movie stars, and during his appearance on Inside The Actor's Studio, demonstrated nine of these upon request, including Katharine Hepburn, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

The incident was later dramatized in the movie Serpico, starring Al Pacino in the title role.

Her breakthrough movie was … And Justice for All ( 1979 ) with Al Pacino.

He also appeared in the movie The Adventures of Ford Fairlane with Andrew Dice Clay and in Cruising with Al Pacino.

* Bobby Deerfield, Al Pacino movie

A strong actor, as with Al Pacino in his 1980s Circle in the Square production ( and in 2006, in a Los Angeles production ), or as with the Ken Russell movie Salome's Last Dance, Herod completely dominates the play.

* The ( fictional ) Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department in the Batman series of comic books ; and the agency of the Chicago Police Department in the TV Series Crime Story ; the term recurred again in the movie Heat, as the Unit from which Lt. Vincent Hanna ( Al Pacino ) takes down Neil McCauley ( Robert De Niro ) and his crew

* Gracie Mansion was also seen in the movie City Hall, featuring Al Pacino and John Cusack.