big screen
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He then did stints on soap opera "All My Children" and the NBC football drama "Friday Night Lights" before moving on to the big screen with a role in 2012's "Red Tails," about the Tuskegee Airmen, a crew of Black pilots during World War II.
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For Cannes director Thierry Fremaux, the prize recognises Streisand's contribution as the "legendary synthesis between Broadway and Hollywood, between the music hall stage and the big screen".
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The big screen at the stadium shows the Phanatic playing peek-a-boo with a cute little kid.
From Literature
He follows the title characters onto the floor of the Armory’s rooms beyond the drill hall, and eventually up its staircases to capture, secluded in a corner of one of the hall’s galleries, their passionate kiss and embrace—seen on the big screen as it takes place as a speck in a faraway niche.
After some small television roles, an appearance in a Madonna music video and a few big screen appearances, his major breakthrough came in 1995 with "The Usual Suspects."
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