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.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

BBC film critic Jane Crowther said that " Cruz is wonderfully ditzy as the innocent abroad " but remarked that " it's Harold Perrineau Jr as Monica who pockets the movie.

** Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress ( b. 1890 )

Crawford starred as Blanche Hudson, an old, wheelchair-bound former A-list movie star in conflict with her psychotic sister, in the highly successful psychological thriller What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

Thursday ( 1998 film ) is a movie starring Thomas Jane about the day of a drug dealer gone straight, who gets pulled back into his old lifestyle.

In an uncredited role ( he reportedly did not want his name to appear ), Rayburn played a TV interviewer in the 1959 movie, It Happened to Jane starring Doris Day.

In 2001, the movie 61 *, produced by Yankee fan Billy Crystal, chronicled Mantle ( played by Thomas Jane ) and Maris ( played by Barry Pepper ) chasing Babe Ruth's single season home run record.

Johnson's story is the basis of the play and subsequent 1970 movie The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones as Johnson ( known as Jack Jefferson in the movie ), and Jane Alexander as his love interest.

The emotional and comedic turmoil among Jane, Tom, and Daria was the centerpiece of the TV movie Is It Fall Yet?

* The town of Keysville was an on location site ( the train station served as a recreated Warm Springs, GA ) for filming during the production of the 1976 TV movie Eleanor & Franklin, starring Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann.

Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, and Dan Duryea.

* Bree Daniels, Jane Fonda's character in the 1971 movie Klute

Roger Vadim updated the setting to modern-day Paris in a movie adaptation by Jean Cau, starring Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli and Peter McEnery in 1966.

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1914 silent movie directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley and Jane Gail

In a 1977 made-for-television movie, Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night, Dey portrayed a disturbed young mother with serious psychological problems, who begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

* A 2011 direct-to-video animated movie The Voyages of Young Doctor Dolittle, starring Jane Seymour, Jason Alexander, and Tim Curry

After several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen by Irving Thalberg to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man, opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller.

In December 2010 Belladonna released Let There Be Light, a single written in collaboration with English composer Michael Nyman and based on his The Heart Asks Pleasure First from the soundtrack of the Jane Campion movie The Piano.

* a British made-for-TV movie ( 1990 ) directed by Jane Howell starring David Jason, Anne Carroll, Rowena Cooper, Con O ' Neill and Lee Ross.

She co-starred with George C. Scott ( as Edward Rochester ) playing the title role in an American television movie of Jane Eyre ( 1970 ).

The play was adapted for a movie in 1985, starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly.

* The cathedral appeared in the 2002 movie Spider-Man, when Spider-Man saves Mary Jane Watson and leaves her on one of the Rockefeller Center roof gardens across the street.

Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-60s including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels.

In spite of the good outcome, Fonda vowed that he would never produce a movie again, fearing that failing as a producer might derail his acting career.

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper.

He called Dennis Hopper, and the two decided to turn that into a movie, The Loners, with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing.

Hopper and Fonda hosted a wrap party for the movie and then realized they had not shot the final campfire scene.

This role was a source for three movie offers, including Warlock with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn.

The American Film Institute named Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda, 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century.

*** Midway ( film ), also known as Battle of Midway and The Battle of Midway, a 1976 movie with Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda about the battle

In the 1943 movie adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often cited as one of his best films, he played a lynching victim.

In the movie, " The Pusher " accompanies a drug deal, and Peter Fonda stuffing dollar bills into his Stars & Stripes-clad fuel tank, after which " Born to Be Wild " is heard in the opening credits, with Fonda and Dennis Hopper riding their Harley choppers through the American West.

In 1939, MCA's headquarters moved from Chicago to Beverly Hills, California, creating a movie division and beginning to acquire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally.

Sullavan and Fonda play a newly married couple and the movie is a cavalcade of insults and quips.

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave the original Nikita three and a half stars out of four, gave Return three stars, saying: " Point of No Return is actually a fairly effective and faithful adaptation and Bridget Fonda manages the wild identity swings of her role with intensity and conviction, although not the same almost poetic sadness that Anne Parillaud brought to the original movie.

The original Lonesome Dove story had been written as a movie script for a 1970s film to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich and star John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda.

She made her film debut at the age of five in the 1969 movie Easy Rider as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across the United States.

And they would really succeed in achieving their common aim if it were not for the eighth juror ( played by Henry Fonda in the 1957 movie adaptation ), who, on second thoughts, considers it his duty to convince his colleagues that the defendant may be innocent after all, and who, by doing so, triggers a lot of discussion, confusion, and anger.

Portions of the movie Little Buddha starring Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda were filmed in the Bhaktapur Durbar Square.

The part of lawyer George Hanson in the Peter Fonda – Dennis Hopper road movie Easy Rider was written for Torn by Terry Southern ( who was a close friend ), but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after he and co-director Dennis Hopper got into a bitter argument in a New York restaurant.

The Depression-era migrants to the San Joaquin Valley from the South and Midwest are one of the more well-known groups in the Central Valley, in large part due to the popularity of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath and the Henry Fonda movie made from it.