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