Word: wizardly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your freshman year of college ("The Real World"), or be confronted by "Cops" (we all know somebody), or be stranded with the cast of "Survivor" (can you say "Family Vacation"?)? True imagination is that a children's book might have Bob the Lawyer seeing himself as be a famous wizard...
Fangmeier, like Petersen, hails from Germany and both speak with hefty accents, but the director didn't hire the f/x (Hollywood parlance for special effects) wizard out of Teutonic solidarity. Petersen tapped Fangmeier because of his impressive, all-digital work on Twister. Still, there were no guarantees; while water has been digitally drawn before (notably in Titanic and Waterworld), The Perfect Storm would require a level of simulation that had never been attempted. On Warner Bros. soundstage No. 16, a shipping vessel doubling for the Andrea Gail was harbored in a large tank 22-ft. deep (the same tank where...
...rock to read." Parents pleaded to have their children placed in her classes. Colleagues copied her methods. For hundreds of schoolkids in San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Dillon embodied some of their favorite fictional characters--Miss Rumphius, Ms. Frizzle and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, all rolled into one. She was a wizard with a delicious sense of fun who turned everything she touched into a teaching tool. So it seemed entirely in character that when she was struck with a catastrophic neuromuscular disease, she would use her tragedy as yet another lesson...
This superb production of The Secret Garden is hampered only slightly by technical problems such as microphones that would randomly turn on and off and noisy scenery changes during quiet moments of the show. As in The Wizard of Oz, color and lighting enhance mood. Like Dorothy opening the door of her black-and-white house to enter a world full of color, the inhabitants of Misselthwaite Manor witness a change from gray gloom to vibrant whites, reds, yellows, and blues when Mary tends Lilly's dormant garden and nurtures it back to life. This transition, however, does not take...
...There's no place like home. And there's really no pair of shoes like the 6B ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz." The shoes, worth estimated at $750,000, are up for sale at Christie's East's sale of Hollywood and television memorabilia...