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 ).

* Prominent socialites, elite aristocrats and royal families, top level professional athletes, chart-topping musicians and pop singers, television and film actors with lead roles on prominently scheduled television shows and hit box office movies, internationally recognized supermodels and models are almost invariably celebrities.

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 ).

The studio system, then at its most entrenched, usually restricted actors to one studio, with occasional loan-outs, and Warner Bros. had no interest in making Bogart a top star.

Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that " in his time ... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment — things that were facing us all.

It was later made into a film featuring a cast of top actors during the time of president Anwar al-Sadat.

He is one of few top Hollywood actors to have also become a critically and commercially successful director.

Bentley overcame competition from top actors under the age of 25 to be cast.

Many of Britain's top actors, including John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Joyce Grenfell, paid tribute at a memorial service, where 90-year-old Sybil Thorndike praised her friend's enormous talent and recalled that Rutherford had " never said anything horrid about anyone ".

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

His acting delighted many audiences and his direction of many of the top actors of the English stage influenced their styles as well.

In 1979, Sam & Dave enjoyed a significant resurgence of interest as a result of Dan Aykroyd's and John Belushi's sketch characters The Blues Brothers, and the comic actors ' 1979 top 40 cover of " Soul Man.

For example, the intense competition for the small number of top jobs in music and movie acting leads many aspiring musicians and actors to make substantial investments in training which are not recouped, because only a fraction become successful.

This new script is dedicated to washed-up actors and actresses who are obsessed by their former glory, by what they used to look like, what kind of an impression they ’ d make, demanding, bribing, ambitious for power, to stay on top, those who can ’ t look down and can't accept that their moment of glory is over and that the world has passed them by ; this script changes Margaret ’ s life.

The Silence of the Lambs swept all five major Academy Awards, but by then, most of its top executives, as well as the actors and producers with whom it had done business, had left the company.

At Warner Brothers, the Dead End Kids made six films with some of the top actors in Hollywood, including James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Pat O ' Brien, and Ronald Reagan, including Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ).

In fall 2007, USI Theatre partnered with The New Harmony Theatre on The Repertory Project, which allows top Theatre students to perform with Equity actors.

The Hollywood Stock Exchange, a virtual market game established in 1996 and now a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, LP, in which players buy and sell prediction shares of movies, actors, directors, and film-related options, correctly predicted 32 of 2006's 39 big-category Oscar nominees and 7 out of 8 top category winners.

There is also a theater in the building, where spectators go to see plays with top Puerto Rican actors.

A typical " Merchant-Ivory film " would be a period piece set in the early 20th century, usually in Edwardian England, featuring lavish sets and top British actors portraying genteel characters who suffer from disillusionment and tragic entanglements.

He has been one of the top paid Bollywood actors in this respect and one the most visible celebrities in television ads.

Enduring progressively worse conditions and terms in this money-grubbing monopoly ( see Restoration spectacular and Restoration comedy ), the top actors walked out in 1695 and set up a cooperative company in Lincoln's Inn Fields under Betterton's leadership.

Mathematics played a large role in the construction of these theaters, as their designers had to be able to create acoustics in them such that the actors ' voices could be heard throughout the theater, including the very top row of seats.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

A miniature guard wielding a handheld crossbow from the top balcony of a model watchtower, made of glazed earthenware during the Han Dynasty | Eastern Han era ( 25 – 220 AD ) of China, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

In the third season of what is now considered the modern era of football, Fulham finished top of the Second Division, with a win-loss-draw record of 24 – 9 – 9 ( identical to that which won them the Third Division South seventeen years previously ).

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s.

Many of their records feature the top session players of the era, and their arrangements, with multiple key changes and complex vocal harmonies, reflected a high level of craftsmanship.

In 1968, commercial pressures and rumors of some amateurs taking money under the table led to the abandonment of this distinction, inaugurating the open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments, and top players were able to make their living from tennis.

In an era when the top pro golfers would be fortunate to make $ 30, 000 a year, Thomas ( who, after a misprint in a New York newspaper, let people think his name was Thompson ) could make that much in a week hustling rich country club players.

* A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts, especially popular for women in Victorian era to combat the aroma from the waste products common in cities

* August 15 – August 18 – The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

Although the earlier Roman era Trajan's Bridge featured segmental arches, they were built of wood on top of stone piers.

Model of ancient Rome in the Roman Empire | Imperial era, showing the Circus Maximus ( foreground ), the Colosseum ( top of picture ) and between them, the Palatine Hill | Palatine

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his " modern era of moviemaking ... because enough self-discovery has gone on .... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top ".

1990 began with a January British Vogue cover presenting five of the top modeling stars of the era hand-picked and photographed by Peter Lindbergh.

Along with contemporaries Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Tony Banks of Genesis, and Rick Wakeman of Yes, Emerson is widely regarded as one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era.

While the show's top prize nearly doubled ( partly to counter the high inflation of the era ) and the new feature allowed more celebrities the chance to participate in the end game, it also eliminated what effectively was Richard Dawson's " spotlight " feature.

Looking at his dismal performance with the top black heavyweights of his era and his inability to best a one-armed Jack Johnson, Battling Jim Johnson cannot be considered a top contender of his era or a worthy opponent when Jack awarded him the sole title shot given to a black heavyweight from 1908 to 1937.

Long before the SPL era, two situations arose in which the top two teams in the table had to share the title as neither goal average nor goal difference had been instituted to break ties.

A few years after its opening Pipeline added the now legendary Combi Pool, the epicenter of many legendary contests that included such skaters as the Alba brothers Steve and Mickey, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Chris Miller and many top skateboarders of the era ... sadly enough due to insurance problems the Hoffmans had to close the Pipeline SkatePark in 1988.

As one of the top players of his era, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, with the support of 94 % of voters.