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"Walter Mitty" Definitions
  1. a person who imagines that their life is full of excitement and adventures when it is in fact just ordinary
"Walter Mitty" Synonyms
dreamer idealist visionary utopian daydreamer fantasizer fantast Don Quixote fantasist romancer romantic theoriser(UK) theorizer(US) castle-builder escapist idealizer idealogue ideologue pipe-dreamer romanticist
"Walter Mitty" Antonyms
realist hardnose pragmatist

164 Sentences With "Walter Mitty"

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"He was a bit of a Walter Mitty," Mr. Wood said.
Walter Mitty would have a better grasp of the challenges ahead.
Walter Mitty, in his most realistic version, is a dull, suburban proofreader.
Movies, he said, give you a Walter Mitty portal to step into wondrous worlds.
In seeing himself in these terms, Trump recalls Walter Mitty, the nebbish lead character of James Thurber's classic 1942 story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," who keeps escaping from the everyday drudgeries by imagining himself as a brain surgeon, wartime pilot, and other heroic pursuits.
Advertising THE SCENE was beginning to take shape, a Walter Mitty-like fantasy about a schlub taking out the garbage.
The premise that the setup suggests, a Walter Mitty fantasy story about a sympathetic loser, is also a fake-out.
That's Mr. Popper, a Walter Mitty-like house painter who dreams of going on great adventures, particularly at the South Pole.
A plot point of the 2013 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" involves a photographer tracking snow leopards to the Himalayas.
Part of it is pure Walter Mitty — we envy those who go incognito to steal secrets or meddle in affairs of state.
Probably not.) For one thing, he was the original and best Walter Mitty (in my opinion), with all respect to Ben Stiller.
James Thurber's short story, titled "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," served as the inspiration for a 2013 film of the same name.
"'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' is a big, colorful show and a good one," a 1947 review in The New York Times said.
I couldn't sleep for any of it, and watched Ocean's Eight and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (my favorite!) with headphones my mom and I split.
Each story remixes a classic of the form — Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Gogol's "The Nose," James Joyce's "Araby" — but plops a woman at the center.
There's even a whiff of Walter Mitty in Andrea's fondness for mystery novels, allowing her to try applying what she's read to real-life situations, with predictably awkward results.
By 1972, Mr. Kaye looked much different than the perennially distracted Walter Mitty or the court jester Hubert Hawkins he had played decades ago, but he dazzled the audience with his personality and energy.
Past associates of the man described the Englishman to BuzzFeed News as a "Walter Mitty character" who repeatedly defrauded a company he cofounded despite disciplinary actions that were meant to keep him in check.
And then it sort of dawned on me that I should probably pay attention to the thing that had been the constant thread while I had these Walter Mitty dreams of all these other things.
In that sense, it more closely resembles Ben Stiller's Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, another lumbering but sometimes sublime film about a man lost in his own thoughts, and wandering an indifferent world looking for answers.
Daydreaming in fiction: The secret life of Walter Mitty Flavio Menezes, 25, a Brazilian engineering student who moderates a Facebook forum about maladaptive daydreaming, uses SketchUp software to create 3-D models of his many imaginary worlds.
Instead of consigning himself to Walter Mitty-like reveries while pursuing his vocation as a concrete contractor, Norman soon resolved to seek out adventures of his own — to become a nonfictional version of his death-defying cartoon hero.
Another person who knew him well years ago, and did not want to be quoted by name talking about his shortcomings, said that Mr. Martin had a sort of "Walter Mitty complex" that occasionally led him to dream of being more important than he was or to embellish his achievements.
I do not care for his petty lies — the Walter Mitty world in which he is the scion of a pineapple magnate, the builder of sets for the movie "Titanic," the owner of a fabulous condominium in San Francisco — and, what's worse, I'm starting to lose interest in how he turned into a killer.
Created by Steve Conrad (the writer behind The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Pursuit of Happyness), it's a competently written dark comedy about an off-color intelligence officer with a hot wife and a weird dad who talks about international conspiracy as if he's mulling over buying a new tractor for the family farm.
As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
A comedy writer uses his Walter Mitty-like fantasies as inspiration for his show.
This convinces his father that Thurber has become dangerously insane. Thurber also wrote the story later made into the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, about an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey".Staff. "Review: 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'", Variety (magazine), December 31, 1946. Accessed April 9, 2015.
The town was the filming location for the depictions of Nuuk, Greenland in the 2013 movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 15, 2014 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" - narrated by Fourth Man. This adaptation of Thurber's most famous short story features the characters Walter Mitty (First Man), Mrs. Mitty (First Woman), First Voice (Fifth Man), Lieut. Berg (Fourth Man), Nurse (Third Woman), Dr. Renshaw (Third Man), Dr. Benbow (Fifth Man), Dr. Remington (Fourth Man), Mr. Pritchard-Mitford (Second Man) and The Leader (Second Man).
Hey's playing can also be heard on several major motion pictures including Ocean's Twelve, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Hundred-Foot Journey.
The Employee () is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Puccini. The film is loosely inspired by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Buzkashi is mentioned in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty where it is translated as 'Goat Hockey' and is a clue to the location of 'Sean O'Connell'.
Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (Monstrously Prohibited Dreams) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is loosely inspired by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine asked readers to choose their top 10 Ben Stiller movies. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was rated as Stiller's third-best film.
Wilson dropped out in October 2005 over creative differences. The Hollywood Reporter also speculated that Walter Mitty began to falter after Paramount failed to cast a female lead to star opposite Wilson. Scarlett Johansson had reportedly emerged as the front-runner after screen testing with Wilson earlier in October, but a deal was never signed with the actress. Paramount executives Brad Grey and Gail Berman decided to put Walter Mitty in turnaround in November 2005.
The charges of espionage against him were eventually dropped, but he was discharged from the Army and later committed suicide. He has been described as a Walter Mitty-like figure.
Sean Penn walking The Secret Life of Walter Mitty red carpet at the 51st New York Film Festival The following is a complete list of the filmography of American actor Sean Penn.
The series was inspired by Walter Mitty, the main character in James Thurber's 1939 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". Each episode began with live action footage of Waldo and Felicia, who were usually being bullied by Tyrone. Waldo would then daydream about being a superhero and coming to the rescue of others. The series contained a lot of satire per the request of Filmation and cited television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and magazine Mad as the reason why.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the November 3, 1947 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Kaye and Mayo in their original film roles.
Morton Dean is the only recipient of an honorary degree from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Dean performs occasionally as a Ringling clown. "It's my Walter Mitty side," he told an interviewer.
A Garda sergeant acquainted with her described her as "a Walter Mitty type of person". Bernard McGlinchey died at home, aged 80, on 11 April 2013. At the time of his death his partner was Kathleen Sweeney.
It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2013. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 15, 2014, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The episode was originally titled "The Secret Life of Neelix" and was intended to be a story about when Neelix's daydreams take on a life of their own when aliens become involved. However it was shifted around and rewritten to become a story involving the Doctor. The premise is based on the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber in which Walter Mitty daydreams heroic adventures while running an errand for his wife. The title of this episode is a reference to the 1974 spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.
Rogue Wave's song "Lake Michigan" is featured in the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and its soundtrack. In 2017, Rogue Wave's cover of Kim Carnes 1981 song "Bette Davis Eyes" was featured in Season 1, Episode 11 of the TV show Riverdale.
Furthermore, Kent often have equally educational daydreams (much like Walter Mitty) where he is a dashing hero illustrating various writing concepts. Every episode of Write On was five minutes in length. They were written by Ken MacKay and Jed MacKay. Philip Nixon was Producer/Director.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama film directed, co-produced by and starring Ben Stiller and written by Steve Conrad. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, and Sean Penn. This is the second film adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Following its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 5, 2013, the film was theatrically released by 20th Century Fox, Samuel Goldwyn Films and New Line Cinema on December 25, 2013, in North America to generally mixed reception, but was a moderate box office success.
The group wrote a song called "Don't Let It Pass" for the 2013 Ben Stiller film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Their song "Walking Lightly" was featured in the TV series 'Lethal Weapon' at the end of Season 1 Episode 15 "As Good As It Getz".
She made Girls Demand Excitement in 1931 and her final film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in 1947. Even as a seasoned performer in the late 1920s it was remarked that Eddy looked "astonishingly young in appearance to have been in pictures for so many years".
She was a visual effects editor of Game of Thrones, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Divergent, and Godzilla. Chappell was on the team that won a Primetime Emmy Award for the episode "The Children" in the fourth season of Game of Thrones.
Clementine cake played a minor part in the plot of the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and was included in the opening scene of the film and in a couple of additional scenes. British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has devised a recipe for clementine cake.
The film was hugely popular in Britain. The Motion Picture Herald said it was the third most watched film of the year after The Third Man and Johnny Belinda and more than Scott of the Antarctic, Paleface, Easter Parade, Blue Lagoon, Red River, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Hasty Heart. Neagle and Wilding were voted the most popular stars of the year in Britain. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1949 Britain was The Third Man with "runners up" being Johnny Belinda, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Paleface, Scott of the Antarctic, The Blue Lagoon, Maytime in Mayfair, Easter Parade, Red River and You Can't Sleep Here.
And it was upon joining Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines that Muttley gained the ability to fly in brief spurts by spinning his tail like a propeller. Muttley also enjoyed his own short segment in the series Magnificent Muttley, where he would engage in Walter Mitty-style fantasies.
Adrian Martinez (born January 20, 1972) is an American actor and comedian, known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Focus. He also worked in the theatre. He is also known for his role as the "Discount Double Check" guy in a series of State Farm commercials starring Aaron Rodgers.
It showed Beat Takeshi, originally a very popular manzai performer, returning to his comedic roots. The movie features an Airplane!-like assemblage of comedic scenes centering on a Walter Mitty-type character whose obsession is to have sex. The film met with little acclaim in Japan where its release was barely noticed.
"Reggie", as he is known, daydreams in Walter Mitty style. Part of the narrative demonstrates what voices in his head are saying. Although he appears to love his wife, he fantasises about his secretary, Joan Greengross. As his behaviour becomes more erratic, Reggie is unable to dictate letters without uttering words like "breast".
Historic Sportscar Racing, LLC (HSR) is an automobile club and sanctioning body that supports historic racing in the United States. The organization traces its roots to the first running of the Walter Mitty Challenge in 1977 at Road Atlanta. HSR continues to sanction the Mitty, along with six to 10 other events each year.
Grace Mitchell is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in Australia, moved to the United States at age three and raised in Portland, Oregon. She has released two EPs, titled Design and Raceday. She performed the Hall & Oates track "Maneater" for the soundtrack of the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Clementine cake is a cake flavored primarily with clementines. It may be topped with a sweet glaze or sauce, powdered sugar, honey and clementines, or candied clementines. It may originate from an orange cake in Sephardic cuisine. In popular culture, the cake played a minor part in the plot of the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Many Moons by James Thurber, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1943. Princess Lenore becomes ill, and only one thing will make her better: the moon. Unlike much of Thurber's other work, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and his fables, this story shows a crisis between males and females that ends happily for all.
The award- winning café closed on 25 September 2017. Mike Hogan also played bass with Mono Band. Fergal Lawler was a member of the Low Network, whose first album was released in 2007. He has also worked with Walter Mitty and the Realists as well as Last Days of Death Country as both producer and musician.
In October, the group supported The Wonder Years on their headlining US tour. In November and December, the band went on a US tour alongside Knuckle Puck, Crying and Somos with additional support from Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra, Foxing and Hostage Calm on specific dates. In June and July 2015, the group supported Say Anything on their headlining US tour.
Plans to remake The Secret Life of Walter Mitty arose in the early 1990s, with producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. considering actor Jim Carrey for the starring role. After development that spanned over two decades, the film finally came to fruition with Ben Stiller as the lead actor and the director. The film was released in the US on December 25, 2013.
The station was featured in the 1976 film Marathon Man, where the former KK route's emblem is posted on a street entrance of the east side of Sixth Avenue and West 47th Street. The station exit to 1271 Avenue of the Americas (Time and Life Building) was featured in the opening sequence of 2012 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The Blue Lagoon was the seventh most popular film at the British box office in 1949. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1949 Britain was The Third Man with "runners up" being Johnny Belinda, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Paleface, Scott of the Antarctic, The Blue Lagoon, Maytime in Mayfair, Easter Parade, Red River and You Can't Sleep Here.
In some reports, Pearson was described as a "Walter Mitty" character who "[did not have] two cents to his name". In other reports, a family member was quoted as stating that Pearson had worked in a fast food take away and as a barman, and was "living on a shoestring". In August 2009, Pearson was charged with trading without a licence and selling alcohol to underage people.
In 2015 the band released its first studio album, Rock to the Rhythm through Open Door Records. Their writing at the time was largely influenced by pop punk and emo bands like The Motorcycle Industry and Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra. During this time the band embarked on various DIY tours around the US and released a split with Prince Daddy & The Hyena in 2016.
Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S at the 2005 Walter Mitty Classic. American Le Mans Series (ALMS) race at Mid Ohio in 2002. The Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S (sometimes referred to as simply the Panoz LMP-1) was a Le Mans Prototype built for Panoz in 1999. The car was a successor to the Esperante GTR-1 which had competed in the Grand Tourer categories internationally.
John Goldwyn recalled in the spring of 2003 that Spielberg expressed interest in directing the remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) for Paramount Pictures on condition that Jim Carrey play the titular role. However, Paramount put the project in turnaround by the end of 2003. The film was eventually remade in 2013, with Ben Stiller serving as director in addition to playing the titular role.
Protagonist James Hunter (Lance Kerwin) was the son of a college professor (Linden Chiles) who moved his family across the country to take a teaching job, transplanting James from Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.Jerry Buck, Associated Press. "'James at 15' relives youth," The Dallas Morning News, September 2, 1974, page 4. James, who had Walter Mitty-like dreams and dabbled in photography, had a hard time fitting into his new surroundings.
In the United Kingdom, The Third Man was the most popular film at the British box office for 1949. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1949 Britain was The Third Man with "runners up" being Johnny Belinda, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Paleface, Scott of the Antarctic, The Blue Lagoon, Maytime in Mayfair, Easter Parade, Red River and You Can't Sleep Here.
Sam Hall, a self proclaimed mercenary hero and "counter-terrorist" who joined the CMA entered Nicaragua with the aim of performing sabotage operations. In 1986, Hall was captured by the Sandinistas, who held him for four months before releasing him under the grounds that he was not a mercenary, but rather a mercenary imposer. John K. Singlaub who worked alongside Hall described him as suffering from a "Walter Mitty type complex".
Miniver (1942), starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon; the Bob Hope comedy, The Princess and the Pirate; and the 1947 classic comedy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. His final screen appearance was in a small, unnamed role in Otto Preminger's Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde; the film was released in October 1947, three months after Billings' death on July 5, 1947.
A Couple of Hamburgers is a 1935 short story by James Thurber, the American writer, considered to be one of his best. It is a thumbnail sketch of a couple in a dysfunctional marriage. It has been suggested that while The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, arguably Thurber's best known short story, is a comical story with a tragic side, this is a tragic story with a comical side.
The only released recording of "Cut Your Breaks" appeared on Fiction Plane's live album Paradiso. "Russian LSD" is based on the 1966 Russian novel The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. The novel tells the story about what happens when the Devil pays a visit to a Soviet Union that is largely composed of atheists. "Humanoid" was inspired by the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", by James Thurber.
The Mitty began in 1977 with a handful of Atlanta-area road racing enthusiasts who were looking for a safe place to exercise their cars at speed. Road Atlanta offered just the venue. The formula was an immediate success. After observing the enthusiasm for that first event, Martha Turner, then editor of the Jaguar Marque, dubbed the proceedings the great Walter Mitty Challenge after the James Thurber short story.
"Dirty Paws" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men for their debut studio album, My Head Is an Animal. It is the opening track and the title of the album comes from a line in the song, and was released as its second single in April 2012 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. It was featured in the trailer and soundtrack to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Paul Fitzgerald (born October 14, 1970) is an American actor, director and writer. Fitzgerald is best known for directing, writing and starring in the film Forgiven and for his roles in the films The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Arbitrage. Fitzgerald is also known for his appearances in the television series Younger, Veep, Treme and Guiding Light, and for playing Garry LeJeune in the Broadway production Noises Off.
Bogdanka Ćopić later became a pediatrician and the two were married in 1950 and remained together until his death. The final ten years of Ćopić's life they spent in the building across the Beograđanka tower in downtown Belgrade. Ćopić was an avid reader, a painting lover and praised film and theatre, even penning several screenplays. He liked Italian neorealism, movies like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Wages of Fear and Disney's animated movies.
The Safnahús Borgarfjarðar is a civilization museum that displays cultural artifacts and historical photos. Safnahús Borgarfjarðar was one of Iceland's first collections to receive the formal recognition of the Saga Council in (2013). View of the town of Borgarnes Borgarnes is also one of the filming locations in the Hollywood film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The Geirabakari Kaffihus, which is featured in the film, was transformed into Papa John's during the filming.
Junip is a Swedish folk rock band. The band is made up of the duo of José González (vocals, guitars) and Tobias Winterkorn (organ, Moog synthesizer) with various accompanying musicians in recordings and in live gigs. Their songs "Far Away" and "Don't Let it Pass" have been used in the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and an acoustic version of "Far Away" has been used in the video game Red Dead Redemption.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the 1939 short story of the same name by James Thurber. The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming proofreader (later associate editor) for a magazine publishing firm and Virginia Mayo as the girl of his dreams. The film was adapted for the screen by Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, and Philip Rapp, and directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
As Rand depicted Keating as a despicable, shallow opportunist and hypocrite, this was no recommendation for the magazine. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, author James Thurber makes a reference to the magazine. In the Alvino Rey song, the female singer teasingly turns down her male caller with a songful of rejections: "I said no, no, no". The song's twist ending is that she is actually saying "no" to a Liberty subscription.
Meanwhile, he helps Lulu prove that her mother, Laura Spencer did not kill Rick Webber, soon developing a crush on Lulu. He has a vivid Walter Mitty-like imagination; his fantasies portray him as a swashbuckling hero who rescues Lulu from danger. In the February 2007 sweeps storyline, Spinelli helps Jason rescue the hostages at the Metro Court Hotel. In August 2007, Spinelli fantasizes of three beautiful blonde women, whom he rejects in favor of Lulu.
The association with K. G Murray continuing for thirty years. In April 1948 K.G. Murray introduced comic strips, drawn by Belbin, based on the latest RKO Pictures, the first of which was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Others included The Bishop's Wife, Fort Apache, The Miracle of the Bells and The Velvet Touch. In April 1949 Belbin produced a new comic strip, The Adventures of Flash Cain (a private detective), with many of the scripts by Ray Heath.
Peter Shore, then head of the Research Department at party headquarters, thought Gaitskell had lost the confidence of party staff and Wilson could restore it. Jennie Lee, Bevan's widow and a fellow Labour MP, led a delegation to Wilson.Andrew Roth, "Sir Harold Wilson: Yorkshire Walter Mitty", Macdonald & Janes, 1977, p. 249. Wilson resisted but his hand was forced when Anthony Greenwood resigned from the Shadow Cabinet saying he would not serve under Gaitskell while he defied conference decisions.
The original 1955 review by Variety was largely positive. Though Hollywood production codes prohibited writer-director Billy Wilder from filming a comedy where adultery takes place, the review expressed disappointment that Sherman remains chaste. Some critics compared Richard Sherman to the fantasizing lead character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 87% based on 30 reviews and an average score of 7.2/10.
Prosecution psychologists studying George concluded that he had several different personality disorders: antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic and possibly paranoid, as well as somatization and factitious disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Turney (2005), 75 He was said to be epileptic and to have an IQ of 75; however, a prior assessment found George to be of average intelligence. George has also been likened to a "lone obsessive, Walter Mitty-type figure" for his desire to impersonate famous figures.
Truenorth is an Icelandic film and TV production service company. It was founded in 2003 has line produced feature films for studios such as Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, DreamWorks, Columbia (Sony), Marvel Studios and Netflix. The company has offered production service in Iceland for Batman Begins, Flags of Our Fathers, Die Another Day, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Prometheus, Oblivion, Noah, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thor: The Dark World and Sense8.
He played Ted Hendricks, Walter Mitty's detestable corporate boss, in the 2013 remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Scott appeared in the films Our Idiot Brother (2011) as Jeremy and Bachelorette. He also starred as Jason Fryman in Friends with Kids (2012). He starred as Caleb Sinclaire in the 2010 film The Vicious Kind, a more dramatic role than his previous comedic endeavors, for which Scott was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor.
Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine who daydreams of adventures and has a crush on a coworker named Cheryl Melhoff. Walter attempts to contact Cheryl via eHarmony but Todd Maher, an eHarmony representative explains his account lacks enough information to do so. Mitty works with legendary photojournalist Sean O'Connell, although they have never met in person. O'Connell has sent Mitty his latest negatives and a wallet as a gift in appreciation of Mitty's work.
In Philip Pullman's 1995–2000 fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, Lord Asriel's dæmon is a snow leopard named Stelmaria. Tai Lung, the main antagonist of the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda, is an anthropomorphized snow leopard. In the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, photojournalist Sean O'Connell, played by Sean Penn, is shown photographing snow leopards in Afghanistan. Chak'ku, a snow leopard, is one the main characters in the Pakistani animated film Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor.
The AMX's manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) was US$3,245 (US$ in dollars ), nearly 25% below and over $1,000 less than the Corvette's price tag. The AMX was introduced to the press at the Daytona International Speedway on 15 February 1968; just over four months after the Javelin went on sale. In the demonstrations on the race track, the new AMXs ran at speeds up to . American Motors' group vice president, Vic Raviolo, described the AMX as "the Walter Mitty Ferrari".
Ron Howard entered negotiations to direct the same month, and to cover producing duties with Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment. Howard and Imagine Entertainment eventually left the project in favor of EDtv, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty languished in development hell over the challenges of using a contemporary storyline. In May 1999, New Line hired The Mask director Chuck Russell to rewrite the script and serve as Howard's replacement. Filming was set to begin in early 2000, but was pushed back.
González features prominently on the soundtrack to Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", whether with Junip or by himself, including choir- backed opener "Step Out" and similarly lush John Lennon cover "#9 Dream". His original song "Far Away" appeared in the Western video game Red Dead Redemption by Rockstar Games. The song's Western music feel garnered "Best Song" at Spike Video Game Awards for its featured appearance, the game itself took home the award for "Game of the Year".
The portions of the film set in Nuuk, Greenland, were in fact shot in Stykkishólmur, a village on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland, and Höfn, a village in southeast Iceland. Later sequences set in Stykkishólmur were actually filmed in Seyðisfjörður. The sequences where Walter Mitty follows Sean to Afghanistan were also filmed in Iceland, at the Skogafoss waterfall and in Vatnajökull National Park. During the skateboarding scene in Central Park, pro skater Rodney Mullen served as Ben Stiller's stunt double.
Shayne emigrated to the United States in 1928, travelling as a second-class passenger on board the S/S Berengaria, which arrived at the Port of New York on 14 September 1928. He was listed as Konstantin Schein, an artist residing in Berlin, Germany. As an actor, Shayne performed in movies such as None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Stranger (1946), starring (and directed by) Orson Welles. He performed in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), which featured Danny Kaye in the lead role.
Casey was born in Los Angeles to Burke and Mildred Philips. A talent agent noticed her while she was in high school and began interviewing her at studios. Still a teenager, now known as Sue Casey, she appeared in her first film, Holiday in Mexico (1946). Some of her more famous films include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Neptune's Daughter (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Rear Window (1954), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Camelot (1967) and Paint Your Wagon (1969).
Some individuals who do this also wear privately obtained uniforms or medals which were never officially issued to them. In British military slang, such impostors are called "Walts", based on James Thurber's fictional character, Walter Mitty, who daydreamed of being a war hero. In the United States since the early 2000s, the term "stolen valor" has become popular slang for this kind of behavior, so named for the 1998 book of that name. Other terms include "fake warriors", "military phonies", "medal cheats",and "military posers".
His projects include an adaptation of the Chang-Rae Lee novel Aloft for Scott Rudin; Chad Schmidt, about a talented actor with a resemblance to Brad Pitt and The Expanding Mailman with Jack Black. In 2013, he adapted a James Thurber short story for the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller. In 2015, he developed Patriot for Amazon Studios. Its pilot led to a full series order, and it premiered in its entirety on February 24, 2017.
He made his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout his career he has written, starred in, directed, or produced more than 50 films including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander, The Cable Guy, There's Something About Mary, the Meet the Parents trilogy, DodgeBall, Tropic Thunder, the Madagascar series, and the Night at the Museum trilogy. He has also made numerous cameos in music videos, television shows, and films. Stiller is a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack.
In 2013 Hahn played her first leading role, in the comedy-drama film Afternoon Delight, which was written and directed by Jill Soloway. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. For her role, she was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor. Later that year Hahn appeared opposite Jennifer Aniston (her co-star in Wanderlust) in the box-office hit We're the Millers and co-starred alongside Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Following the screening of the documentary, the NSAP ceased to operate and the name has not been used sinceHill & Bell, p. 291 although the party was publicly mentioned in 1986 when member Graham Paton was convicted of sending propaganda and a concealed razor blade to an anti-apartheid activist.Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, 2002, p. 189 Malski, who was dismissed by many on the far right in Britain as something of a Walter Mitty character,Hill & Bell, pp.
Skaterdater had been made for $17,000 and sold to United Artists for $50,000, winning the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, and being nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film. Turman described the novel as "a hip horror story about today's alienated youth." Black said it was about "a Walter Mitty type who comes up against a teenybopper Lady Macbeth." Turman had just made The Flim Flam Man for 20th Century Fox and obtained finance from the same studio.
The film received polarized reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 51% based on reviews from 193 critics, with an average rating of 5.98/10. The site's consensus reads: "It doesn't lack for ambition, but The Secret Life of Walter Mitty fails to back up its grand designs with enough substance to anchor the spectacle." Metacritic gives the film a normalized score of 54 out of 100 based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
That same year, he was also the executive producer of the Ben Stiller adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He has been announced to produce and direct a remake of the film Clue, based on the board game. His future project will be an adaption of William Monahan's novel Light House: A Trifle, which is a story about an artist running away from the Mafia who hides in a lighthouse, in which kooky characters live. He will also direct Butterfly, a psychological thriller about a man trying to drive his wife insane.
It appears in the movie trailer for the films Delivery Man, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in addition to the TV spots for St. Vincent. A portion of "Best Day of My Life" can also be heard in the animated film Alpha and Omega: The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave and in the 2015 film, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. The song was used in the 2015 film Top Cat Begins, and also plays during the credits. It was also used in the US version of the adult animated film Bad Cat.
In the 2013 movie version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, when Ben Stiller's character lands at Nuuk in Greenland, he asks the man in the airport booth: "Do you have any cars available?" "Yeah, we have a blue one and a red one", the man replies. "I'll take the red one", says Walter. This is also "the final scene in the trailer: a quirky and charming sequence on its own, even before you recognize the built-in riff on the famous "Red/Blue Pill" exchange from The Matrix".
Truman 1973; McCullough 1992, 170. Truman later claimed that the Klan "threatened to kill me, and I went out to one of their meetings and dared them to try", speculating that if Truman's armed friends had shown up earlier, violence might have resulted. However, biographer Alonzo Hamby believes that this story, which is not supported by any recorded facts, was a confabulation based on a meeting with a hostile and menacing group of Democrats that contained many Klansmen, showing Truman's "Walter Mitty-like tendency ... to rewrite his personal history".Hamby 1995.
Fitzgerald and his producing partner, Kelly Miller, formed their company, Pulled Pictures, in 2004 to produce Paul's directorial debut feature, Forgiven. Fitzgerald also wrote and starred in Forgiven, which won the Jury Prize for Best Male Actor (Hornsby), Best Supporting Actress (Grant) and Best Screenplay (Fitzgerald) at the BendFilm Festival, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Fitzgerald is also known for his roles in Arbitage, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Helena from the Wedding, Crazy like a Fox and Jackie Goldberg Private Dick.
Their song "Hit It" is featured on EA Sports game, FIFA 14. Their song "Best Day of My Life" was used in an MLB Fan Cave commercial and is the title music of Sky Sports News' My Special Day feature. It has also been featured in a television spot for the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in an episode of the television show The Vampire Diaries and in 2013 Boston Red Sox World Series championships. The song was ranked number one on Billboard's chart of Adult Pop Songs for 2014.
Shot on location in New Hampshire against a picturesque, fall-colored backdrop, 3 Days of Normal follows Bill and Nikki during three magical days as they find themselves relying on one another to face their own personal challenges. The film features a supporting cast including Ajay Naidu (Gods Behaving Badly) as the intrusive entertainment journalist, Alex Anfanger (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) as the meddling kid out to make a quick buck, Lin Shaye (There's Something About Mary) as Bill's aunt and Richard Riehle (Bridesmaids) as Bill's uncle and the town's chief of police.
He again portrayed Greg Focker in the critically panned but financially successful Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet the Parents. He had planned to voice the main character in Megamind, but later dropped out while still remaining a producer and voicing a minor character in the film. In 2011, Stiller starred with Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda in Tower Heist, about a group of maintenance workers planning a heist in a residential skyscraper. He produced, directed, and starred in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which was released in 2013.
In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, the widowed Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940). Bates appeared in more than 60 films over the course of the next 13 years. Among her cinema credits are Kitty Foyle, Love Crazy, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, Heaven Can Wait, Lullaby of Broadway, Mister Big, Since You Went Away, Kismet, Saratoga Trunk, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Winter Meeting, I Remember Mama, Portrait of Jennie, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, and Les Misérables.
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1955). His films were popular, especially for his performances of patter songs and favorites such as "Inchworm" and "The Ugly Duckling".
Billy stars Steve Guttenberg as Billy Fisher, a mortician's clerk with a tendency to daydream. His Walter Mitty-like tendency would have him imagining that he was a famous surgeon, a rock superstar, a disk jockey, a television network executive, or a football star. Each episode of Billy had at least two of his fantasies, which included appearances by Don Adams, Suzanne Somers, Larry Csonka, Merv Griffin, and Lou Ferrigno. Peggy Pope and James Gallery portray Billy's often-frustrated parents (she thought Billy had a vivid imagination; he viewed Billy as a chronic, compulsive liar).
Beals moved to Los Angeles where he continued making commercials as Speedy Alka-Seltzer and also provided voices for other commercials, such as Alka-Seltzer, Oscar Mayer, the Campbell Soup Kids, and Bob's Big Boy. Beals recorded his first Speedy Alka-Seltzer television commercial in 1953, doing a total of 225 in his career. In 1953, Beals was hired to do the voice for his first cartoon character. This was Ralph Phillips, a Walter Mitty-type boy in From A to Z-Z-Z-Z by Warner Brothers.
Eldorado is the first complete ELO concept album; bandleader Jeff Lynne conceived the storyline before he wrote any music. The plot follows a Walter Mitty-like character who journeys into fantasy worlds via dreams, to escape the disillusionment of his mundane reality. Lynne began to write the album in response to criticisms from his father, a classical music lover, who said that Electric Light Orchestra's repertoire "had no tune". The influence of The Beatles is prevalent, especially in the melody of the verse of "Mister Kingdom" which to some degree resembles the Beatles' "Across the Universe".
In everyday life, individuals often find their thoughts "pursue a series of fantasies concerning things they wish they could do or wish they had done ... fantasies of control or of sovereign choice ... daydreams."Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (Middlesex 1973) p. 183 George Eman Vaillant in his study of defence mechanisms took as a central example of "an immature defence ... fantasy — living in a 'Walter Mitty' dream world where you imagine you are successful and popular, instead of making real efforts to make friends and succeed at a job."Robin Skynner/John Cleese, Life and how to survive it (London 1994) pp.
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books. Thurber was one of the most popular humorists of his time and celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. His works have frequently been adapted into films, including The Male Animal (1942), The Battle of the Sexes (1959, based on Thurber's "The Catbird Seat"), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (adapted twice, in 1947 and in 2013).
The last twenty years of Thurber's life were filled with material and professional success in spite of his blindness. He published at least fourteen more books, including The Thurber Carnival (1945), Thurber Country (1953), and the extremely popular account of the life of New Yorker editor Harold Ross, The Years with Ross (1959). A number of his short stories were made into movies, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material, such as "The Whip-Poor-Will", a story of madness and murder.
Malski, who was dismissed by many on the far right in Britain as something of a Walter Mitty character, has occasionally surfaced at meetings, including speeches by David Irving, although the NSAP is defunct. The party's last appearance in the public eye came in 1986 when member Graham Paton was convicted of sending propaganda and a concealed razor blade to an anti-apartheid activist.Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, 2002, p. 189 Most recently he has been found guilty of racially harassing his neighbour, a woman of Pakistani origin.
In the early 1940s, Rutherford left MGM to work without contract with different studios. During this period, she starred in films such as Orchestra Wives (1942) with 20th Century Fox, Two O'Clock Courage (1945) with RKO Radio Pictures, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), also with RKO. In 1950, Rutherford retired from films. Despite Mickey Rooney's pleas, she passed on returning as Polly Benedict in the final Andy Hardy film, Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958), stating that she didn't believe most people married their first sweethearts and that Andy Hardy becoming a judge was implausible.
Lugosi uses the Sonovox to portray the voice of a dead person during a seance. The Sonovox was used in films such as A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Possessed (1947), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Good Humor Man (1950), the voice of Casey Junior the train in Dumbo (1941) and The Reluctant Dragon (1941). It was heard on the piano in Sparky's Magic Piano, and the airplane in Whizzer The Talking Airplane (1947). The Sonovox was also used to give the impression instruments "talking" in the children's album Rusty in Orchestraville (1949).
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey". He is henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth, and her loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold. Walter's escape from their incessant needling is to imagine all sorts of exciting and impossible lives for himself, fueled by the pulp magazines he reads every day as an editor at the Pierce Publishing Company. But his dreams only seem to land him in more trouble.
The song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie plays a significant role throughout the film. Walter Mitty is referred to mockingly as "Major Tom" by his new boss, Hendricks, in reference to the astronaut Major Tom in "Space Oddity", due to his frequent daydreaming: the boss interprets the line "ground control to Major Tom" as akin to "Earth to Walter; come in Walter". Cheryl later tells Walter that Hendricks misunderstands the song, as "it’s about courage and venturing into the unknown". The song is featured in a crucial scene in which Mitty decides to leap onto a helicopter after imagining Cheryl singing the song.
The Optimist is a British television comedy series starring Enn Reitel and produced by Robert Sidaway. Location shoot for pilot Sea Dreams in Cabo San Lucas (1981) Each episode told a separate comic adventure in the life of an everyday man who, whether it turns out a success or a failure, always remains The Optimist. The stories made a feature of fantasy and dream sequences. Citing the influences of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, as well as the character of Walter Mitty, the series was designed as a silent comedy, with original music and enhanced sound effects.
Horror films experienced a decline in popularity after the war, and Karloff found himself working in other genres. For the Danny Kaye comedy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Karloff appeared in a brief but starring role as Dr. Hugo Hollingshead, a psychiatrist. Director Norman Z. McLeod shot a sequence with Karloff in the Frankenstein monster make-up, but it was deleted from the finished film. Karloff appeared in a film noir, Lured (1947), and as an Indian in Unconquered (1947). He had support roles in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947), Tap Roots (1948), and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. WNEW, New York, in 1950.
During sentencing, Judge Price said that Mote, "a truly dishonest man", had executed a "carefully planned scheme of dishonesty" and had taken "a great deal of trouble to cover [his] tracks", adding that "[t]o say that this case has ruined you is an understatement, it is a tragedy." Mote's defence counsel described his client as a Walter Mitty character and admitted that the sentence was a "massive fall from grace". Mote applied for the third time to the CFI for relief against the impending imprisonment, highlighting the urgent nature of his request. This was also rejected by the CFI on 22 November 2007.
Scott of the Antarctic was the third most popular film at the British box office in 1949. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1949 Britain was The Third Man with "runners up" being Johnny Belinda, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Paleface, Scott of the Antarctic, The Blue Lagoon, Maytime in Mayfair, Easter Parade, Red River and You Can't Sleep Here. The film also performed well at the box office in Japan.FILM SCENE ALONG THE BANKS OF THE THAMES: U.S. Industry Winner in Anglo-American Parley--Production Sheet in the Red Tax Takes Profits Freeze in Reverse Tom Brown By STEPHEN WATTS.
Holroyd gave evidence to Mr Justice Henry Barron during his inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17 May 1974. Holroyd stated that "the bombings were part of a pattern of collusion between elements of the security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries."Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, December 2003, p. 179 Barron was asked about a seeming contradiction in Holroyd's input to the report during public hearings: When asked at a public hearing what he meant by "compromise source", Barron replied: > There are many reports on him suggesting that he is a Walter Mitty type.
The interruption began approximately three minutes before halftime of the game, and lasted 17 minutes. CBS showed highlights of the missed action (in which neither team scored) when the network returned to football coverage; nonetheless, the network received approximately 3,000 complaints after the game. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, CBS used a marching band-like instrumental arrangement of the song "Confidence" (from Leon Carr's score for the 1964 off-Broadway musical The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) as the theme for their NFL broadcasts. With 1969 being the final season before the AFL–NFL merger, this was also the final season where both leagues would have Thanksgiving doubleheaders.
Although the original Scarborough production ran to full capacity, the reviews in the national papers were very mixed.Reviews page on Ayckbourn site Martin Hoyle for the Financial Times praised the play for Ayckbourn venturing into new darker territory (citing touches of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Blithe Spirit and The Exorcist) whilst remaining a uniquely Ayckbourn play. Robin Thornber for The Guardian, meanwhile, was particularly positive with about the way Ayckbourn combined the character's ideal fantasy world with her bleak real word. At the other end of the scale, however, Martin Cropper, writing in The Times derided the play for all characters, real or pretend, being Ayckbourn stock characters.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942)."Note on the Texts", James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ) It has since been reprinted in James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ), is available on-line on the New Yorker website, and is one of the most anthologized short stories in American literature. The story is considered one of Thurber's "acknowledged masterpieces".
Everett Freeman (February 2, 1911 – January 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the films 1,000 Dollars a Minute, Married Before Breakfast, The Chaser, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Larceny, Inc., George Washington Slept Here, Thank Your Lucky Stars, The Princess and the Pirate, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Lulu Belle, Miss Grant Takes Richmond, The Lady Takes a Sailor, Pretty Baby, Jim Thorpe – All-American, Too Young to Kiss, Million Dollar Mermaid, Destination Gobi, Kelly and Me, My Man Godfrey, Marjorie Morningstar, The Glass Bottom Boat, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, The Maltese Bippy and How Do I Love Thee?.
The list of artists who have recorded Carr's songs includes a veritable who's who of popular music: Brook Benton, Teresa Brewer, Vikki Carr, Vic Damone, Roy Hamilton, Tom Jones, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell, Patti Page, Gene Pitney, Louis Prima, Buddy Rich, Nina Simone, Mel Tormé and Bobby Vinton. In 1938, Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra recorded Carr's instrumental composition "Frisco Fog", which prefigured Duke Ellington's celebrated 1940 "Ko-Ko". Carr also composed the off-Broadway musical The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on the short story of the same name by James Thurber, which opened at New York's Players Theatre on October 26, 1964, and ran for 96 performances.
He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) on becoming an apprentice at the age of 15. He became an AEU shop steward at Balfour Darwin in 1967"Derek Simpson: A left-wing 'Walter Mitty' prepares for centre stage after beating all the odds" The Independent, 23 June 2003 and held a number of increasingly senior union positions in workplaces where he was employed, learning his politics in what described as "the socialist republic of South Yorkshire". In 1981 he became a full-time union official, becoming the AEU's District Secretary for Sheffield. He was still working for the union in that city when he stood for the position of Joint General Secretary in 2002.
George Plimpton, a writer for Sports Illustrated, has been indulging in a variety of Walter Mitty-like whims and stunts, trying his hand at being a professional athlete (such as briefly pitching in an exhibition game against All-Star baseball players or boxing a round with Sugar Ray Robinson), then writing about the experience. During a game of touch football, his editor gets an idea that Plimpton should try going to a professional football team's training camp as a player. A number of teams say no, but the Detroit Lions agree. Plimpton attempts at first to disguise the fact that he's a total amateur, but soon Lions players can see the truth for themselves.
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty (later called The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty) is an American animated and partially live-action television series, produced by Filmation, which originally aired for one season on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) from September 6 to November 29, 1975. Howard Morris, Jane Webb, and Allan Melvin provided voices for the three main characters on the series. The show follows a cat named Waldo who daydreams of being a superhero and defeating the villainous bulldog Tyrone. It was inspired by James Thurber's 1939 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and his wife Helen Thurber sued Filmation in 1975 for creating the series without the permission of her late husband's estate.
In 2018, the TaxPayers' Alliance conceded that it illegally vilified and sacked the whistleblower Shahmir Sanni, on the BBC and on the website "Brexit Central", for revealing unlawful overspending in the Brexit referendum campaign. Elliott had called Sanni a "Walter Mitty fantasist" and claimed that Sanni was guilty of "completely lying". The Alliance also did not contest the statement that they are responsible for Elliott's Brexit Central website and that they coordinated their actions with Downing Street and with nine "linked" rightwing "thinktanks" that operate in and around offices at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster. The network includes the Adam Smith Institute, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Leave Means Leave.
Ken Englund (May 6, 1914 – August 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter. He wrote the films The Big Broadcast of 1938, Artists and Models Abroad, There's That Woman Again, Good Girls Go to Paris, Slightly Honorable, The Doctor Takes a Wife, No, No, Nanette, This Thing Called Love, Nothing but the Truth, Rings on Her Fingers, Springtime in the Rockies, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Here Come the Waves, The Unseen, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Good Sam, A Millionaire for Christy, Androcles and the Lion, Never Wave at a WAC, The Vagabond King and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. He died on August 10, 1993, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at age 79.
After William Hague became Conservative party leader in June 1997, Gardiner rejoined the Conservatives. Two years later, in 1999, he published his autobiography covering mainly his years in politics, named A Bastard's Tale, a reference to Major's remark six years earlier to Michael Brunson, but it touched upon his life before becoming an MP. Gardiner revealed that he cried himself to sleep on the night of Thatcher's resignation and described John Major as 'a walking disaster' and a 'Walter Mitty' with no beliefs. In his autobiography later that year, Major claimed that Gardiner was 'so convoluted he could have featured in a book of knots'. Of Gardiner's deselection in 1997, Major wrote that "the Conservative Party was able to bear his departure with fortitude".
Corden's obituary in the Tampa Bay Times noted, "With his deep voice, jet-black hair and ethnic looks, Corden was frequently tapped to play heavies in films and on television."[2] He can be seen in such live-action films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Black Castle, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion and The Ten Commandments. He also appeared in dozens of TV shows, including Hogan's Heroes (in five episodes), Dragnet, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, McHale's Navy (in five episodes), Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and was a regular on The Jerry Lewis Show. Corden also played landlord Henry Babbitt on The Monkees and Mr. Haskell, the owner of an ice cream parlor, in an episode of The Brady Bunch.
In an interview later done with NFL Films, Gowdy called it the most memorable game he ever called because of its historical significance. While the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, the live telecast was not shown in Miami due to both leagues' unconditional blackout rules at the time. This game is thought to be the earliest surviving Super Bowl game preserved on videotape in its entirety save for a portion of the Baltimore Colts' fourth quarter scoring drive. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, CBS used a marching band- like instrumental arrangement of the song "Confidence" (from Leon Carr's score for the 1964 off-Broadway musical The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) as the theme for their NFL broadcasts.
All characters are depicted as grotesque and ugly, with bulbous noses and bulging eyes. Many of the male characters have physiques that ripple with muscles in unlikely places, an obvious deconstruction of the popularity of the muscle-sculpted weightlifter as male action hero in the 1980s. Hansen likes to elevate the mundane to epic proportions in Ralph Snart; for example Ralph would take terrible risks and great journeys to obtain a case of beer; another example is an alien attempt to dominate humanity in order to brew fermented beverages from human tissues. The title character, Ralph Snart, is a Walter Mitty type who frequently escapes the painful realities of his life by daydreaming himself into incredible and often bizarre adventures.
The first book which will feature Fox, is by NPR personality Charlie Schroeder, titled Man of War, regarding Schroeder's Walter Mitty-like embedded experiences of participating with various re-enactments of warriors of military history to see and experience what it was like to be those historical warriors. Among the many historical impressions in the book, Schroeder spent a day with Fox's Polish Winged Hussar living history group fully suited up in the famous winged armor. In the meantime, The second book, by KISS author Ken Sharp for the New York Times bestseller Nothing to Lose regarding the band KISS in their formative years, of which Fox was an active part. The book features various first-hand historical anecdotes and exclusive early live photos contributed by Fox.
Akin retired from professional racing in 1991 but stayed quite active in the sport. He returned to racing his beloved vintage and historic cars, competed in the Fastmasters racing series, wrote articles for Road & Track magazine, and did on-air commentary for Speedvision, TBS and ESPN television. Following his retirement from Hudson Wire Company, in 1995, Akin also devoted his time to the management of Bob Akin Motorsports (Now Hudson Historics), which specializes in the restoration and race preparation of historic race cars. On April 25, 2002, he was gravely injured in a violent crash while testing a powerful (900-plus horsepower, twin-turbocharged V-6) 1988 Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo for the Walter Mitty Challenge for historic cars at Road Atlanta.
He received his first position on a major film as an unaccredited re-recording mixer and music programmer on the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank. He was credited as scoring consultant. As a programmer he worked on the films K-PAX, Elektra, The Skeleton Key, The Sentinel, Jennifer's Body, Bad News Bears, Wimbledon, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Tropic Thunder, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He was also a digital editor for the films Tropic Thunder, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, You, Me and Dupree, Starsky & Hutch, 13 Going in 30, Along Came Polly, Blades of Glory, and Year One, as well as digital recorder for the films The Devil Wears Prada, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Marley & Me, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Abduction.
The original working title of the show was Stop That Pigeon. The peppy and memorable theme song by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (based on the jazz standard "Tiger Rag") has a chorus that repeats the phrase "Stop the pigeon" seven times in a row. The show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly, the indistinctly heard General and other various characters and Don Messick as Muttley, Klunk, Zilly and other various characters. Each 22-minute episode was broadcast over half an hour on the network, including network breaks, and contained: two Dastardly & Muttley stories, one Magnificent Muttley story (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams), and two or three short Wing Dings (brief gags to break up the longer stories).
Yankovic was always envisioned to be the central character of the film George Newman, written as a straight man with a vivid imagination as to allow the insertion of the parodies into the film's script in a manner similar to the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). As the focus of the film was to be on the parodies, George was not fleshed out beyond enough character development to drive the principal storyline. The name "Newman" was selected as homage to Mad magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, further referenced by the name of "Uncle Nutsy's Clubhouse". The role of Stanley Spadowski was written by Yankovic with Michael Richards in mind; at the time, Yankovic had been impressed with Richards' stand-up comedy and performance on the show Fridays.
The show was hosted by Mick Jagger. The closing celebration of her time on the show included SNL alumni Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Will Forte, and Rachel Dratch, as well as Steve Martin and Jon Hamm. She has since returned to host the program several times. Wiig in Sydney, Australia in 2013 Wiig provided once again her voice for Despicable Me 2, released in June 2013, and for the character of Sexy Kitten in the critically acclaimed sci-fi romantic drama Her (2013). She would have a prominent role as the love interest and co-worker of the titular character in the adventure dramedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (also 2013), alongside Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, which polarized critics and was a moderate box office success.
Dust jacket introduction, James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ) It was made into a 1947 movie of the same name, with Danny Kaye in the title role, though the movie is very different from the original story. It was also adapted into a 2013 film, which is again very different from the original. The name Walter Mitty and the derivative word "Mittyesque" have entered the English language, denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time in heroic daydreams than paying attention to the real world, or more seriously, one who intentionally attempts to mislead or convince others that he is something that he is not. In the United Kingdom a further derived word "Walt" is used to describe a Military imposter or similar fantasist, invariably in derogatory terms.
During pre-production discussions between Paramount and DreamWorks on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (which starred Carrey), Steven Spielberg, head of DreamWorks, rekindled interest in working with Carrey; the duo previously considered Meet the Parents, but the outing fell apart. In May 2003, Spielberg agreed to direct, and brought in DreamWorks to co-finance The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Paramount (which would acquire DreamWorks in 2006). By November 2003, Zach Helm was rewriting the script, but Spielberg and DreamWorks vacated the film in April 2004 in favor of War of the Worlds and Munich. "The goal is to go back to the short story and capture not only the content but the original spirit," producer John Goldwyn (son of Samuel) told The Hollywood Reporter.
" Gwen Ihnat of The A.V. Club gave the episode a good review, giving it a B- overall. In her recap however, she was upset over how they didn't give series regular Sean Maguire more stories for his character in general: "I’m glad for Sean Maguire that his character bit the dust this episode. When Robin Hood, one of the great, rakish heroes of all time, someone who should be swooping up women right alongside Captain Hook, is reduced to being a glorified blanket carrier for episodes, it’s like being on Once Upon a Time had him trapped in his own personal Underworld. When’s the last time Robin had his own plot—better yet, a plot that didn’t involve just traipsing along after Regina... That’s a plot for a hapless type like Walter Mitty, not Robin Hood.
Army intelligence officers determined that there was nothing written in any of the documents that constituted genuine espionage, and that Temish had most likely created his identity as a "spy" out of whole cloth. He was referred to a panel of Army psychiatrists, who determined Temish to be expressing symptoms of histrionic personality disorder and pathological delusion. They concluded that he had been "living in a dream" and that he had built up a "towering, fraudulent persona" as a secret agent to cope with what he saw as an uninteresting and pointless life, in the manner of Walter Mitty – a famous fictional character by James Thurber who imagines himself in various exciting scenarios to combat the boredom of his actual life. During the examination, Temish made a second "confession," this time admitting to fabricating all of the documents.
Kathryn Hahn (born July 23, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, model, singer, and producer. She began her career on television, starring as grief counselor Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan (2001–2007). Hahn went on to appear as a supporting actress in a number of comedy films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Step Brothers (2008), Our Idiot Brother (2011), We're the Millers (2013), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). As a lead actress in film, Hahn starred in the 2013 comedy-drama Afternoon Delight, directed by Jill Soloway, and the 2018 drama Private Life, directed by Tamara Jenkins, receiving critical acclaim. She had a starring role in the comedy film Bad Moms (2016), and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas (2017).
Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director, cartoonist, and writer. McLeod made several successful and influential movies such as Taking A Chance (1928), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), Topper (1937), Pennies from Heaven (1936), There Goes My Heart (1938), Merrily We Live (1938), Topper Takes a Trip (1939), Little Men (1940), Panama Hattie (1942), Jackass Mail (1942), and his last, Alias Jesse James (1959). Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W.C. Fields, the Danny Kaye comedy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), and The Paleface starring Bob Hope (1948). In his later years, McLeod was recruited by writer Rod Serling to direct silent film comedy legend Buster Keaton in the 1961 Richard Matheson- penned Once Upon a Time episode of Serling's classic CBS Television series The Twilight Zone.
His best-known short stories are "The Dog That Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell"; they can be found in My Life and Hard Times, which was his "break-out" book. Among his other classics are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Catbird Seat, A Couple of Hamburgers, The Greatest Man in the World, If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze has several short stories with a tense undercurrent of marital discord. The book was published the year of his divorce and remarriage. His 1941 story "You Could Look It Up","You Could Look It Up", The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1941, pp. 9–11, 114, 116 about a three-foot adult being brought in to take a walk in a baseball game, is said to have inspired Bill Veeck's stunt with Eddie Gaedel with the St. Louis Browns in 1951.
Born John Preston Cheatham on December 28, 1894, in Jackson, Mississippi, he began acting in the 1920s, including two Broadway appearances. In 1928 he would appear in the successful Diamond Lil, written by and starring Mae West. Cheatham entered the film industry with his performance in a featured role in 1931's Shanghaied Love, starring Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, and Sally Blane. Notable films in which Cheatham appeared include: The Whole Town's Talking (1935), starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur; The Petrified Forest (1936), starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, and Bette Davis; Frank Capra's 1936 comedy, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; the classic Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 suspense drama, Saboteur, starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings; the 1946 comedy, The Kid from Brooklyn, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo; and another Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo vehicle, 1947's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The animated series Animaniacs satirized Lewis in several episodes. The voice and boyish, naive cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is partially based on Lewis, with particular inspiration from his film The Bellboy. In 1998, The MTV animated show Celebrity Deathmatch had a clay-animated fight to the death between Dean Martin and Lewis. In a 1975 re- issue of MAD Magazine the contents of Lewis' wallet is satirized in their on- going feature "Celebrities' Wallets". Lewis, and Martin & Lewis, as himself or his films, have been referenced by directors and performers of differing genres spanning decades, including, Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1960), Andy Warhol's Soap Opera (1964), John Frankenheimer's I Walk the Line (1970), Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), Randal Kleiser's Grease (1978), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons (1978), Christopher Lloyd's Back to the Future (1985), Quentin Tarantino's Four Rooms (1995), Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002), Hitchcock (2012), Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Jay Roach's Trumbo (2015), The Comedians (2015), Baskets (2016) and The Marvelous Mrs.
The white mercenaries were portrayed as a heroic adventurers who almost effortlessly defeated vast hordes of black Africans and as a force for order, saving Africa from the Africans. Burke further noted the works celebrating the white mercenaries in Africa tended to be most popular with white working-class men, precisely the social element most threatened by economic turmoil, the rise of the gay rights movement, the rise of feminism, and the rise of the civil rights movement. Through the number of men who actually went to Africa to fight as mercenaries were very small, Burke wrote the popularity of the works celebrating white mercenaries reflected the status anxieties of many white men who felt threatened by social changes in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The publisher of Soldier of Fortune, Robert Brown, himself admitted that the largest buyers of his magazine were what he called "the Walter Mitty market", men who merely fantasized about being mercenaries, of which by judging the sales there were a great many.
Occasionally Jack Pierce would land a job on a major production such as Joan of Arc (1948) or the Danny Kaye version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, for which he made up Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster for a daydream sequence, cut from the film. Primarily, Pierce's post-Universal employment was on low-budget independent westerns and horror films. Notable Pierce creations during this period include the hirsute halfwit in Teenage Monster, played by 40-ish stuntman Gil Perkins, who had doubled Bela Lugosi in Pierce's Monster make-up in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man; Beyond the Time Barrier, with a clutch of bald, scarred atomic mutants and leading man Robert Clarke transforming into a withered ancient; Creation of the Humanoids, crafting a race of bald cyborgs with silver eyes via bald caps and scleral contact lenses; and a reprise of his Wolf Man design for Beauty and the Beast (1962), played by Mark Damon. He did a great many historical, old age and character make-ups in TV anthology series such as Screen Directors Playhouse, You Are There and Telephone Time.
Martinez debuted his acting career with the series America's Most Wanted in 1993, and since then he has acted in several television series. He has also worked in the theater, and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. In 2009, Martinez appeared in Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned as Brian Jeremy, the secondary antagonist, Set in 2008 Johnny Klebitz in The Angels of Death and The Lost MC Brotherhoods. In 2010, Martinez starred in the action comedy Cop Out as Tino, along with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, directed by Kevin Smith, released on February 26, 2010 by Warner Bros. Pictures. He portrayed the role of Ginger Goon in the superhero comedy film Kick-Ass which starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Mark Strong, and Chloë Grace Moretz, directed by Matthew Vaughn and released on April 16, 2010. In 2012, Martinez starred in Spanish- language comedy Casa de Mi Padre as Manuel along with Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, and Diego Luna. The film was directed by Matt Piedmont and was released on March 16, 2012. In 2013, Martinez appeared in the biographical comedy film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Hernando for a supporting role along with Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in the lead.

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