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.

The soundtrack for the movie included " Living in America " by James Brown ; the film's music was composed by Vince DiCola ( who also composed the soundtrack for The Transformers: The Movie that same year ), and also included songs by John Cafferty (" Hearts on Fire ", featuring Vince DiCola ), Survivor, Kenny Loggins, and Robert Tepper.

* Vince Papale, former member of the Philadelphia Eagles and subject of the movie Invincible, was born in Glenolden.

* In the 2005 movie, Wedding Crashers, Jeremy Grey ( Vince Vaughn ) and John Beckwith ( Owen Wilson ) are two bachelors who create appearances to play at different weddings of complete strangers, and a large part of the movie follows them posing as venture capitalists from New Hampshire.

Written by Jon Favreau and directed by Doug Liman, the movie starred Favreau and Vince Vaughn, and also featured performances by Ron Livingston and Heather Graham.

The main shopping strip was used to film the 2003 Australian movie, Take Away, featuring Vince Colosimo and Stephen Curry.

In addition, Chris Rock appears as a pizza delivery driver, Vince Vaughn appears as Bo Laramie's co-star, Matthew McConaughey appears as himself at a movie premiere.

General Reinhardt sends Captain Vince Grant to investigate but the rescue mission fails, and the fate of the SDF-3 and its crew are unknown ( although it is stated at the end of the movie the SDF-3 may not have been destroyed ).

Gortner hosted an early-1980s reality TV series called Speak Up, America, ironically playing a terrorist preacher in a 2nd Season episode of Airwolf, and appeared on Falcon Crest as corrupt psychic-cum-medium " Vince Karlotti " ( 1986 – 87 ) before ending his movie career in 1995 with an appearance as a preacher in the western Wild Bill.

Many scenes from the Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn movie Swingers were filmed inside the Fremont, including their games of blackjack.

Vince McMahon, who financed the movie, more or less broke even because of distribution fees.

During the October 13, 1997 episode of Monday Night Raw, Vince McMahon joked, " Hogan promised me that if the movie lost money he was gonna return his salary.

It was while promoting this movie, on a flight between the U. S. and Australia, where she met future husband Vince Lovegrove.

CBS Films has hired Antoine Fuqua to direct a new movie based on a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill.

Mandy is not, however, removed from the movie and Vince and Mandy re-kindle their former romance.

Vince decides to continue working on the movie with Mandy still attached.

" Rock N ' Roll Junkie " had been featured in the Andrew Dice Clay movie, " The Adventures of Ford Fairlane " which featured a cameo by Vince Neil.

* 2009: Tyrese Gibson, actor ; Peter Cullen, David Kaye, Michael McConnohie and Gregg Berger, voice actors ; " Weird Al " Yankovic, Vince DiCola and Stan Bush, musicians, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, movie writers ; Flint Dille, David Wise and Bryce Malek, Generation 1 writers ; Paul Davids, Generation 1 production coordinator ; Hasbro representatives.

The former Living Enrichment Center building in Wilsonville was used as the setting for the " Maple Glen " rehabilitation center in the 2005 movie Thumbsucker starring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn.

As a result, the tag line of the movie became " The Movie Vince McMahon Didn't Want You to See!

He played the role of the Dick Clark-like dance-show host Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, in the 1978 movie Grease, and Ross Coleman in 1989 in Troop Beverly Hills.

Vermeil's time with the Eagles is featured in the 2006 movie Invincible in which the movie depicts open-tryouts as how 30-year old Vince Papale made the team.

Although some personnel from the original series were involved ( like composer Gerald Fried and director of photography Fred Koenekamp ), the movie was not produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but by Michael Sloan Productions in association with Viacom Productions-Sloan, Vaughn and McCallum are pictured in the Michael Sloan Productions logo at the end of the movie.

Also appearing are Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Larry Hagman, Robert Webber, Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters and, in his last movie appearance, William Holden.

Duren was the inspiration for the character Ricky " Wild Thing " Vaughn in the movie Major League, according to its author and director David S. Ward.

Prince of Bel Air is a 1986 romantic comedy television movie which starred Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, and Robert Vaughn.

Annie pleads with him to use dexamethasone ( colloquially referred to in the movie as " Dex ") to save Tom and herself, but Vaughn declines, unwilling to waste it on a " lost cause ".

A Miss Teen USA in 1990, Wilson holds several acting roles in television and movies, including the role of Veronica Vaughn in the movie Billy Madison, the role of Elsa Shivers in the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the role of Sonya Blade in the movie Mortal Kombat.

In one episode of Hustle, Murray so impressed her co-star Robert Vaughn with her modeling of a Wonder Woman costume that, according to several online sources, he showed it to studio executives in Hollywood ; on the strength of this, Murray was invited to audition for the part of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie.

Jack Vaughn ( a movie star ) claimed that the woman was killed by her sister, Gloria Santiago, who was upset about the relationship ( claiming that Jack was “ no good ” for her sister ), and that all he was trying to do was wrestle the gun away from her.

The movie Wizards of 1977 by Ralph Baksi is largely inspired of Cobalt 60 and other works of Vaughn Bodē, although there is some merit in the critique that Vaughn's son Mark has unsuccessfully created a " Bashki-Bodē " connection in an attempt to promote sales of the comic and potential film release.

* The song " Timebomb " by the Old 97's was also featured in the movie Clay Pigeons, which also starred Vince Vaughn.