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  • In his acceptance speech, the Canadian-born actor drew laughs for his praise of his co-star, Ewan McGregor, in the comedy-drama, who he referred to as a "scene-stealing swine," and the first tug at the heart-strings of the crowd when he paid tribute to his wife of 43 years, Elaine "whose bravery and beauty haunts me still."

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • Surely by now you've heard the buzz over Margo Martindale's scene-stealing magnificence as frumpy backwoods crime priestess Mags Bennett, who with her unruly brood of weed-peddling bad boys is currently tangling with a sleek princess from the coal company that's trying to buy its way into strip-mining the mountains of Mags' beloved holler.

    Matt's Picks: April 4-7 2011

  • His “real life” eerie-cool-meets-geek is just a notch down from the over-the-top, scene-stealing presence in any film daring enough to cast him.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • Tonight they were seeing Mr. Donohue play a scene-stealing angry maître d 'in OSF's honeyed musical romantic comedy, wherein this sometimes Prince of Denmark gets ass-pinched by a lobster.

    Lauren Gunderson: I Heart Hamlet Lauren Gunderson 2010

  • These 10 movies show that Pitt is a dangerous scene-stealing co-star, especially in quirkier material.

    Top 10 Brad Pitt Supporting Performances » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Lest you think Game of Thrones is all starkness, rejoice in the scene-stealing bravado of Peter Dinklage as the wry "imp" Tyrion Lannister.

    Roush Review: Grim Thrones Is a Crowning Achievement 2011

  • The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • To buy a horse and hire a marshal Rooster Cogburn, played by the scene-stealing Jeff Bridges for the pursuit, she parts with most of her family's money.

    Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit Avital Binshtock 2011

  • There appear to be a few other projects in the "Housewives" pipeline: Stacie Turner is working on a book about finding her birth parents - a key plotline on the show - and scene-stealing Paul Wharton is working on a reality pilot of his own.

    Reality TV, then what? 2011

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