Word: cameoing
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...dragons, the displaced ape would die in the city; even better, he would die on the just-completed Empire State Building, the ultimate expression of human technical achievement, and he would be killed by airplanes, the ultimate engine of destruction. Cooper and Schoedsack appear in "King Kong" - a cameo as pilot and gunner in one of the biplanes, pumping lead into their own creation...
...House of the Diet scheduled for July 29. If the LDP bombs out as expected, an LDP Prime Minister, who also heads the party, would have to resign to take responsibility. This means whoever succeeds Mori will probably serve as Prime Minister for a very short time, basically a cameo role. Who wants to come on stage just as the wooden clappers are about to sound, ending this play and sending the audience home...
Chocolat won't win the top prize, but it may snag a Best Supporting Actress award for Judi Dench, who has been nominated three of the past four years and won for her cameo as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, especially since the two strongest competitors, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, are from a shared film?as mother and muse, respectively, in the Age of Rock memoir Almost Famous...
...days he had just seen an old buddy, George Harrison, who was apparently in L.A. (though NOT at the EMI party he'd helped finance!). Simon was also tickled by the news that the cult 1978 Pythonesque film spoofing the Beatles, "The Rutles," in which Simon had a memorable cameo, was coming out on DVD with some outtakes of his memorable mock interview. It was interesting that he was more animated talking about a project in which he'd had just a minor part than he was speaking about his own projects...
...entirely. "It can be scary," says Mori. After the photo shoot, Beat hangs around for a few minutes to chat. He starts to talk about his next project, which will be a love story, something romantic that will give more prominent screen time to women, who typically have only cameo roles in his films. Despite being married for 23 years and having two kids, Beat allots little psychic space for women in his public persona. His brother insists that for all of Beat's showbiz bravado, at his core he is a shy man who has trouble forging intimate bonds...