The trouble with screen talking is it keeps going on and on until someone finally decides to get back to real life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real life, the Physiological Response to Fear in Unexpected Situations is a feeling that your heart has stopped altogether. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I mean like how you can tell the difference between a dream and real life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In real life, I run a scan to see if anyone is trying to break into my inventory. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Buildings that collapsed in real life also collapsed in the picture. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How he acts in the TV show, not real life.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Now that we were part of each other’s lives—our real lives, not our photonic ones—I didn’t know if I could survive that. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No sir. Just a friend,” I replied, nervous that he’d try to checkmate me in real life. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In real life, he turns and walks away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But here we were in real life, and for all of my smarts and skills I couldn’t think of one single way to get what I wanted, a good job in corporate America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Did I really think that images from a dream I had while passed out drunk would equate with real life? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sit down in the backmost chair, by the window that peers out over the avenue that crosses the street I live on, so close to my real life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought it would be different, seeing my grandfather in real life. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was frankly hard to imagine real life happening there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’m great on stage, and I write great songs. I know I’m not as great in real life. But I’m your momma.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There were no insta-love moments in real life that actually lasted. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They are a relief from my real life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But in the morning, in real life, perhaps half a million, not-yet-dead ants that had fed at the volunteer’s various poisoned banquets were writhing on the smokehouse floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t another tennis game. This is real life. They won.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a second home, this place where everyone speaks my language, and where those who might otherwise be powerless in real life can now be incredibly powerful. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because we aren’t even through this giant electronic gate yet and I feel like my real life is already a million miles away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

All those plans I had—photography courses and cookery classes—when it comes down to it, they feel a hit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in real life, there’s just a click, then silence. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, books are for show, and real life—judging from the quantity of food stains and tossed items of clothing—goes on in the room that houses the large-screen TV. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish all the beans and rice Mama’s been making would give me some type of superpower in real life. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Tonight she would be bound for her new life—her real life. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was tired of making herself bigger and better in her own head when it was clear that she never would or could be in her real life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In real life, there are always more than two doors. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“In real life, I’d be almost seventy now. It’s hard to be sure when you never have a proper birthday.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t look up when I add, “But in real life too.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That boy then has the nerve to say, “How much different could real life be from the video game?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Every meaningful detail about his real life remained hidden away, like the contents of a safety-deposit box that even he had lost the key to. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His feeling was that I could start drawing my ideas and cities since I wouldn’t have the space anymore to build them in real life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And he'd have a way more interesting life than her father in real life, Grandpa Willis—the barber. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“We were not brothers. Not in real life. Just in the OASIS. Do you understand? We only knew each other online. I never actually met him.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In real life, I am typing furiously, pulling back what I’m doing and guarding myself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In real life, Weary was retracing his steps, trying to find out what had happened to Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you act, it’s like you have so many more ways of seeing, and more parts of you are alive than in real life. Everything you are comes out.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like a movie instead of real life. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Honestly, it probably is so much worse in real life. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Money, rent, jobs were not a concern; she did not think about these things in her real life, so they did not appear in her fantasy life either. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Plus nobody on the bus had ever seen anybody kick like that in real life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Only onstage. That has nothing to do with real life.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the message, I added a short postscript: PS—I think you look even more beautiful in real life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I guess this is what happens when you kill someone in real life. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Halliday is dancing, too—something no one ever saw him do in real life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Here at last was the imagined out never fully realized place leaping into real life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Could she dream of a flower if she had never seen one in real life? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But real life is never like the movies. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And it photographed well, actually, maybe better than it had looked in real life. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In real life, Ivy’s hair was strawberry blond, with frizzy curls her mother used to braid into smooth plaits. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Big Rose was constructing an actual building from real life, I realized. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I sneak peeks at my uncle, who is slightly taller than Baba and looks a lot more like him in real life than in pictures. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Behind me, Nancy Bobofit mumbled to a friend, “Like we re going to use this in real life. Like it’s going to say on our job applications, ‘Please explain why Kronos ate his kids.’” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In real life, I go totally silent around cute guys. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My teapot start fussing on the stove, bringing me back to real life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is far from that easy in real life. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like stuff in real life is way scarier. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Somehow this feels worse, because this is real life, this is the heart of me, and I don’t share it with him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Riddick could exist only in real life; he was too fantastical for fiction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad knows him and says he’s not like this in real life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Libby told me that in real life, if the bottle fell off and crashed to the floor, tradition dictated that the village children didn’t get Hanukkah presents for, like, three years or something awful. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was too bad that justice wasn’t as swift or fair in real life as it was on Dog Squad. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I knew floating homes could have more than one story, but it’s different to see it in real life. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In real life, the brick house looks even better than Sabeen’s crayon and sparkly drawing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All I know is I want to be Julie, because she’s so mean. But in real life I’m not mean—at all. Get it?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But in real life, Persepolis was brown and rough and imperfect. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“About real life. And how your studies apply to it.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I want Javier to live, and for the kids to have a real life, I have to sneak us all off the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In support of my personal belief that real life doesn’t live up to writing about it, the members of my family seem to have spent most of their time that year engaged in correspondence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Who, in real life, plops herself down in a totally strange environment—without housing, family connections, or job—and attempts to become a viable resident? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real life she was a little paler and a little smaller than the picture suggested, but of course Basta still recognized her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is Zero, in real life, flesh and blood. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why is everything neater in my head than in real life? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He sounded just like on the phone, except he was here—in real life. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In real life, the day approached, and then the night, and I was still hoping. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No, not like, it was a big lie waiting for me to find out and this is the real life now, running without safety or answer, only moving, only ever moving. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, I had never actually been in one in real life, but I had seen them enough times on TV to know that they're all bedazzled in pink and purple. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He says, “Mostly, I dreamed about being squished. You know how some dreams blend in pieces of real life? And there was something about the belly of a dog. And I think it was Moonie.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I thought meeting you would help him, if he would see that his work has shaped real lives, but... I’m very sorry. It is very, very embarrassing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My other, my real life, takes place at night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learned this the hard way after I made my way into the world, found my target, and tracked him down in real life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was so absorbed in the movie that real life feels slightly unreal; I have the uncanny sense of having stepped out of the screen and onto the street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out the first episode was Erlan and his brothers’ birthday party, so that was fun to watch because I’d been there in real life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Black-and-white farmland gives way to a Technicolor dreamscape, as vivid and unpredictable as Dorothy Gale’s real life is ordinary and familiar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As if his stupid science experiment had anything to do with real life. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That is the way people are taught to make decisions, but in real life it is much too slow. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now he found happiness not just in his mind; he found it in real life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of this is in the playwright’s script; Courtney is writing a backstory based on what she imagines and what she knows of real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just as it’s been every time I’ve spoken to Peeta since the cameras finished filming our happy homecoming and we returned to our real lives. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The color makes everything so saturated, so current, just like real life. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She might have been one of the Evers kids, but she was still the prettiest girl I had ever seen in real life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was her favorite mantra, Mia had learned, in both photography and in real life. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was nineteen years old, and my real life was just beginning. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like you lived in this weird cloudy area between real life and church life, real life and Mont and Dad life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because this definitely doesn’t feel like real life, not mine, anyway. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I never thought I'd feel like that for someone in real life. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To me, ideals don't exist in real life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Laughing with the new kid didn’t feel like real life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was referencing her real life—indirectly, to an extent, though everyone knew the subtext. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On Rose’s side of the bridge, the design was pretty everyday—just like her city was like real life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I know that in real life the bloomers on Mrs. Smeath are an intense indigo blue that took me weeks to get right, a blue that appears to radiate a dark and stifling light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a real life. You know that, right? We’re not going to let you die again.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine actually saying it in real life—unless I was using a Capitol accent and making fun of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

People that in real life wouldn't even be speaking to each other can talk on a train. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real life, no one looks at anyone else very long. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience is so realistic, few people can tell the difference, and many consider Mind’s Eye better than real life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Grandpa used to say that Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole was just like real life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Outside was a wild adventure, stuff full of wonder and excitement when they were bright colors in a drawing, but not the kind Ivy had ever wanted to experience in real life. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Boy, what I wouldn't give to be able to do that in real life right now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours at a time I would admire my looks myself, turning this way and that before the mirror, or assuming a relaxed pose to see what I looked like in real life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Daisy grabbed my arm and whispered, “Is this real life?” and then the zoologist waved his hand dramatically, gesturing for us to walk across the bridge. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But right now, in real life, it feels like we both have blank thought balloons over our heads. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Assume the probability to be one out of 10,000 that a particular dream matches in a few vivid details some sequence of events in real life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, if you look at the things you want, they’ll show up in real life: Blink! The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Alongside my real life I have a career, which may not qualify as exactly real. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen her cry in real life, and it doesn’t look anything like what she was doing in court. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real life I am moderately brave, but plenty of brave people shed their courage in POW camps, and maybe something similar goes on in the infinitely more congenial milieu of the low-wage American workplace. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born into the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her head seemed larger than it did in real life. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hanako had the feeling that she was in a book, that she had stepped off the path of real life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, in real life, things can get considerably more complex. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s features in the picture were rounder and softer than in real life, and his curiously feminine mouth lay like a strange fruit below the nose, which was a little too short and broad. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Piper and Jason were together now, in real life, but their relationship had been founded on an illusion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a play, not real life,” I said, annoyed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Well, Rick thought, in real life no such magic bells exist that make your enemy effortlessly disappear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Classes were about to start, and another day of waiting, waiting for real life to begin, lay ahead. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The harmonic series is not just a useful idea constructed by music theory; it is often found in "real life," in the real-world physics of musical sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What other explanation was there, except that she had once walked through the pyramids in real life? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that this affair should end successfully; such things did not happen in real life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In real life, I reach up to adjust my earphones. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You get to know the real life of a place, working there,” Sam liked to say. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But now it was time to get back to real life. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone thinks I’m a man in real life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I guess that’s the way it is in real life, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

People in movies survived that kind of jump, but that didn’t mean anyone would in real life. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I try to get my mind on real life again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their eyes alighted on the picture, then Dimple’s face in real life, then over Rishi as they passed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That might have been the first combination I had ever landed in real life. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In real life, Brennar will know right away when he’s no longer able to control his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Call. It’s a poem. In real life he is far away, but she thinks about him all the time, so she feels like he’s real close.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly nobody ever talked like that in real life, it was all a fabrication from the beginning. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was giggling so hard, all I could think was, This can’t be real life. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looks cute in her pictures, but not quite like she looks in real life—her picture smile isn't her smile. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was surprised, in real life, by how dark the block was when we walked in around 11 P.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know those times in your life when you feel like you’re watching everything go down in a movie rather than in real life? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My skin prickles in real life knowing that Zero is watching this game right now, perhaps watching it in the same way that I am. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In my dreams I always went in alone, but in real life it seemed selfish. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would blow my face away the way I had blown his away in real life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not really sure what the Old Man House looked like in real life, but I’m improvising. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This can lead to garden paths in real life, too. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But it is my lifeline, my real life. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The characters in the stories she read always seemed to go off without a thought or care, but in real life—well, the world was a dangerous place. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, Lor’ bless you, in real life a wolf is only a low creature, not half so clever or bold as a good dog; and not half a quarter so much fight in ’im. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We would both come to work and leave our real lives at the door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s called poetic license. Something allowed in a story that isn’t so in real life. Like a metaphor or a simile.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Well, on TV she had, but not in real life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He hates when they stand in a straight line across the stage, because nobody does that in real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So, basically, nothing works as well in real life as in theory. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’d asked him once if he looked anything like his avatar in real life, and he’d jokingly replied, “Yes. But in real life, I’m even more handsome.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What are we doing out here, Stella? These lungs are your chance for a real life.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Fur on end, it looked half again as big as it was in real life. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I never saw one in real life and never want to. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In real life, however, you never know where the gun is hanging. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’d seen San Francisco in pictures before, but never in real life. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At first the colors of the picture had been too showy and not as they were in real life, but after a year they faded into softer, lifelike colors. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The other one I did see in real life, in the subway station,” I continue. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I have never seen him wear that expression in real life. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The type of story that everyone loves to see in ballets or books or movies but hates to hear about in real life. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In real life, I can usually tell if I say the wrong thing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Nicole was leaning against an ad box that featured seasonal fare from Whole Foods, the prettiest pumpkins you’ve never seen in real life. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"Well, maybe if he did, you’d have a real life instead of being stuck up here in the ghetto." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wished I could see him in real life. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Most common in drama, by far—and least common in real life—is forcible sex. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And oddly enough, I found it kind of nice in that weird “I’d like to forget about real life and pretend that everything is okay” sort of way. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bob says Westerns are nothing like real life. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I watch daytime soaps on television, where there are more crises and better clothes than in real life. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I realized that “popularity” was just a word and has no meaning in real life! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the collarbones were hers—the little tickle at his memory, from when he’d glanced down in the dream and blushed to see more of female anatomy than he ever had in real life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them larger in the book than in real life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine Baba as a teenager, with his father standing over him ugly-frowning like a Pakistani Mr. T. Only it’s hard to imagine, because I’ve never seen Dada in real life. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean...Insomnia Con’s going to be over then. It’ll be back to real life.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time I wake up, I would only be able to text or call or FaceTime him and I’ll miss hanging out in real life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The minute I leave, real life will begin again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My real life was still waiting for me, and there was plenty of work out there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he thinks that is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“But believe me, in real life when you are eye to eye with the enemy you’d rather shake their hand than shoot them.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I tell myself that in real life, things get messed up, and sometimes they stay that way. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Isn’t it possible I want what you have? I’m ready for a real life. Being a college athlete eats up all of your time and energy.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“If that was real life, you’d be dead,” the sergeant said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Those are just a hobby, Ashish. Kid stuff. This is real life. It’s not high school anymore.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was exactly what they were seeing in real life—the guy staring at himself in the pond. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone’s real life, and for once that someone wasn’t just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him I still haven’t seen one in real life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Wish I could hear his voice in real life instead of just on spinning vinyl. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In real life, however, even in our worst circumstances we have always been a relatively minor interest of the vast microbial world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The connection is rarely made that rounding off and making reasonable estimates have something to do with real life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A movie isn’t as good as real life. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading across from left to right it looked as if my mother was slowly dissolving, from real life into a Babylonian bas-relief shadow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You want fair? How come a kid as streetwise as you seem to be is so naive when it comes to real life?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the play takes place at their pretend kitchen table and sometimes, we're in their pretend living room but in real life we're just in folding chairs, sitting on the Kingdom Hall stage. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only Olive seemed unfazed by it all, perhaps because she was still so young—or part of her was, anyway—and the distance between stories and real life did not yet seem so great. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That isn’t overcoming cowardice! Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life, and in real life, I am not getting pecked to death by crows, Four!” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I looked older than I thought I did in real life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These examples may sound extreme, but real life can be worse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Paper resolve was one thing, the messiness of real life another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know that guys could turn me on—not, like, in real life. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Everything looks beautiful and still, as if it were a photograph and not real life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, you get restored or re-created buildings with plaques and interpretation boards, so it doesn’t have much, or indeed any, real life, but it still has a certain beguiling, polished prettiness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although he saw almost no other hikers in the four months, there was other, real life along the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen it happen in movies, so maybe it happened in real life, too. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So, I know you and I can't really buy each other gifts in real life, but just know that if I could, I would order you all kinds of band T-shirts online. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She had seen her dad cry before, of course, but that had been during movies or really sad TV commercials, not during real life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And even if there’s not, he and I have to be done because I can’t let this bleed over into real life. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He asks, “Are you talking about in real life, or comic books?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I’m laughing because Charlie is as hysterically impatient in death as he was in real life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Creative pursuits had no place in the practicalities of real life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I feel the Cycling starting again—I’m going to get out of here at some point and have to go back into my real life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I know. He was totally right about how to cross the river. I think he’s a Boy Scout or something in real life.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In real life I was afraid of it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I would have to be some kind of monster to do this in real life.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing and believing, as a child, that if you died in your dreams, you would die in real life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was among the first to demonstrate that film didn :t have to reflect real life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like when we play in real life, a combination of rhythm, chemistry, and skill, but the awkwardness in the room is so thick it’s hard to ignore. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It might be something of a temptation to take over my brain, on paper, but I cannot imagine doing so in real life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nightmare Me knows who they are, even though they don’t look like anyone I know in real life. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

No one woke up, not even Jay, which made me wonder if I’d cried out in real life. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In virtual reality, Asher looks like a standing avatar; in real life, he is paralyzed from the waist down and sits in what must be the world’s most expensive wheelchair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can only do the things I’d be able do in real life, except that apparently what I do in my world is invisible to everyone else. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wasn’t sure about Betsy, but that always made me feel just a little bit better, like I was squashing Darren Ackleman in my head, even if I couldn’t squash him in real life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

None of them anywhere to be found in real life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But I have no desire to experience it in real life. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I need to find out stuff, like, I don’t know...stuff like if there are actually black sheep in real life.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to visit them all in real life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Because it is one hundred percent the opposite of real life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Because the problem is that real life isn’t like a story—I’m not in charge, and it’s usually the good guys who get chomped. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

You don’t see that many angels in real life, though. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But in real life, that wasn’t the case. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And like most successful college graduates, I was ready for real life to start. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It would be funny if only it were a movie and not real life.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would explain why he gave up and retreated from real life and into his head. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In real life you don’t get to make choices. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I did, but if I started another one, I’d want it to be different. Not just the silly stuff, but also real thoughts, real writing, real life. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In real life, the days go on as usual, darkening to winter and heavy with the unspoken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But as far as why we don’t communicate in real life, I’m not really sure.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Others would say that in real life, the ships would never have been as vulnerable as they were in the game. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Being with Jude didn’t used to feel like real life either. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was rare for his real life to be so good that it would displace his imaginary life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And real life, like a good garden, is messy. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When she opened them, Rafik was leaning over her in real life, in Jerusalem, saying worriedly, “Are you okay? Or are you going bonkers, too?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if all the fictional ideas I cooked up were nothing compared to what was going on around me in real life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Lexie’s got a good brain. She just doesn’t always use it in real life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dolls were stick-thin, like the actresses on TV, unlike the people I saw in real life in Rochester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But it was real life, and real life doesn’t always sound like it should. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Adding infinite things to each other seems to work out most of the time, so long as you are dealing with something in real life, like finding the volume of a barrel of wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In real life, I’m typing furiously, trying to find a moment when the man is alone and vulnerable. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I have none of these qualities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He thought they were nice, but no one ran around like that in real life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in real life, animals usually achieve this condition when fleeing for their lives, in the path of an oncoming forest fire or some other catastrophe. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

When Mercury announces his solo plans, Taylor scoffs at the idea, which is ironic given what went down in real life. “Bohemian Rhapsody” called out for inaccuracies, including handling of Mercury’s HIV diagnosis 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

While “The Whirligig” offers treats for fans of in-the-moment acting, its moments fail to cohere, to become a bigger picture that resembles real life. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Soon, there will be new actors to play the Queen and her consort: and soon, in real life, the cast must also change. 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Such surprises can be exciting in fiction, if not in real life, and Campbell eventually realized that a science of prediction, taken to its logical conclusion, led to predictable stories. What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"This kind of scene could have happened in real life in many places," Rodnyansky said of common folks taking potshots at their former leaders. Filmmakers see a bigger message in Russia's 'Leviathan' 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

If life offline is slow, lonely and a little disappointing, this is real music about real life. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

In Tammy, the creature is front and center, and viewers are expected to embrace a character they would flee from in real life. 7 Reasons Nobody Went to the Movies on a Summer Holiday Weekend 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s on a two-dimensional screen. It’s not like it’s really happening in real life,” he said, drinking a kale and spinach cold-pressed juice. Noah Centineo Is Hot. If Only He Could Cool Off. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a face I do in pictures that I don’t do in real life. Edie Campbell: ‘I was told I was too fat to open Milan Fashion Week’ 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

In real life, it looks like there will be a new princess in Buckingham Palace for the British media to heavily scrutinize. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Crown’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Those of us who care passionately about the arts dream that, in real life, works of art offer insight and maybe even some healing in our turbulent times.” Lyric Opera Seeks to Reassure Patrons Over a Work that Mirrors the Terror Out There 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

And not just on screen, but in real life. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

This year, they promise to be more pointed, passionate and omnipresent, just like in real life. Perspective | Oscars 2017: Let ‘La La Land’ win best picture, just don’t let it run the table 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Hollywood can imagine anything it wants, but in real life hackers cannot get to the control rooms of nuclear power stations. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

"We all in our real lives have experienced death," Martin continued. George R.R. Martin on the importance of death in storytelling 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Cassie and her mom stand together in this unreality and share meaningful time in a way they're unable to in real life. "The Flight Attendant" recap: But what about Carol? 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

In real life, Lee didn't storm Omaha Beach, but he did enlist in the Army in 1942 and went on to work in conjunction with Dr. Seuss in the training film division. 20 super facts about the MCU’s "Avengers" movies 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

While grocery shopping in real life takes diligence — shopping lists, budgets, coupons, meal plans — this was a free-for-all. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Supermarket Sweep’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

From The Brady Bunch to The Sopranos, the Huffington Post reveals how much your favorite TV families’ homes would cost in real life. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Graceful and lively, Sangare mimics the actress, whom both men knew in real life; Guare even wrote a play for her. Review: John Guare's '3 Kinds of Exile' affecting 2013-06-12T00:41:08Z

In real life, you have to suppress these feelings. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

Now that diversity is reflected in real life at the gala. How the National Portrait Gallery’s gala tapped A-list celebrities to become a hot ticket 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Put more simply: What is a movie when everything’s a movie, including real life? Oscar nominations try to make sense of a movie year that wasn’t even a year 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Claire is a revolutionary television character, a person we all know in real life but rarely see on a comedy show. Let us praise Claire, the true hero of "Fleabag" 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Or is it an invitation to consider what the horrors and triumphs of real life bring to bear on one’s fiction? In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

In real life, the immortal beloved letter is thought to have been written in 1812. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

Actors, of course, are not their characters, and Strong has tried to explain that, as much as she is awe-struck by self-confident, can-I-speak-to-the-manager types in real life, she isn’t one of them. Cecily Strong Is Starting a New Conversation 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I even have dreams where I am as messed up as I really am — so I’ve found myself trying to play in my dreams, but it’s just like real life.” Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

In Barzun’s eyes, the drama of sport clearly motions towards the arc of the human condition: The rules keep pace with this imaginative creation so rich in allusions to real life. Opening Day: Spring’s other religious holiday 2013-04-01T22:13:00Z

“When you have to read these Excel things and have to balance budgets and work with subsidies from the government — now, I feel like I’ve been plunged into real life. And that’s hard.” Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

“The screens may not be real life,” Newman concludes. ‘To Siri With Love’: The tale of a mother, a son and a phone 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

I suppose that's why I say so much in the music because I don't say much in real life. Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

In real life that prosecution was overturned in convoluted legal proceedings, by Western standards, and Mai’s rapists ultimately acquitted. Pakistani rape survivor Mukhtar Mai comes to L.A. to see justice, if only onstage 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

“That’s the gift and the curse of being an athlete that is so dedicated at an early age, you forget about real life sometimes,” he said. How Kevin Durant Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Start-up 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

And in real life, especially over a few years in the 1960s, the actress who dished it out had to be the woman and mother who could take it. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z

The premise of Red Flag, which is a strong contender in the festival's narrative feature competition, was born out of a real life film tour he was booked to do around the southern states. LA film festival: sweet surprise follows Searching for Sugar Man screening 2012-06-20T17:20:04Z

I try to step in and help out, even in real life. "The last thing we wanted to do was start a fire!": Peter Facinelli on his wildfire survival film 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

My wardrobe in the film was basically my wardrobe in real life, so it wasn’t like I needed to double up. ‘While You Were Sleeping’ turns 25: An oral history of the Sandra Bullock rom-com favorite 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

We might meet alternatives in unsuspecting places in our real lives: at work, at the gym, at school, at the pub. What "Love Island" can teach young people about commitment 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

The eyes were sparkling and moist as they always are in real life. The man who stole the Mona Lisa 2011-08-05T21:55:04Z

In the screening I was at, the biggest reactions from the mainly black audience were the knowing laughs whenever Peele took on tropes people recognised from real life. Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The NFL didn’t like his findings in real life, nor did they like the movie. Pull no punches: how sports movies swapped triumph for truth 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The show's success has seen newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post report on how real life and fiction mix and match in the city. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

Fiction is clearer than what we call real life in this respect — and, in any case, the question of what is real is a question asked but not answered by the novel. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

There’s still vehicular mayhem and some drug use, but, like in real life, they don’t carry the plot so much as divert it. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Method-wise, LaBeouf would seem to have had the advantage in that he has acted like a jerk in real life, and McEnroe’s inner life has been demonstrably and repeatedly expressed on court and off. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The director … let the scenes play in real life, and we were absolutely spellbound.” Blue Is the Warmest Color: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex? 2013-10-24T19:38:46Z

In real life, his name was Kevin, and he had blue eyes. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

Charlotte Moore, BBC One controller, said there was an "appetite for real life stories told through drama". Lenny Henry's 'teen years' TV script 2014-02-28T16:25:15Z

Was this a deliberate decision to center the show around the conflict between Kate and Jeanette's credibility, rather than including a man's perspective, as we often see onscreen and in real life? “Cruel Summer” showrunner talks grooming storyline and finale twists 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

I'd expect the White House to be the next likely target were this to happen in real life. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In real life we may never come in contact with the Davids of the world, but in the classroom our job is to understand them despite their sexual behavior. Perspective | What bad-sex novels can teach us about consent and harassment 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

In real life, as a 17-year-old, the future Mrs. Bush was involved in a car crash that resulted in a friend’s death. Review | A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

These days, everyone I meet in real life is already in a committed relationship. 'Anything that doesn't involve late nights and alcohol is good' – how to get better at dating 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

In real life, while an early draft of "The Raven" was declined by one editor, Poe had no trouble selling the poem, and it was an immediate sensation. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

But should we really be shocked by this or cynical about it in real life? "Guilt" writer discusses the twisty finale, the importance of that enigmatic smile and Season 2 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

As technology advances apace, crime fiction keeping abreast of current developments begins to resemble – as does real life when we stop to consider it – science fiction more and more. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

One thing to note, in that regard: Love and work blur for Stahr, as do movies and real life. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z

But I heard you actually are missing a tooth in real life? Ed Helms on Saying Goodbye to The Office and the Hangover Movies 2013-05-25T09:45:35Z

Eventually he is taken over by the corporate parent of Playtex, which spurred him to comment in real life, “The folks from Planet Tampon landed on Planet Halston.” Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a premise drawn in part from Peet’s real life—she and her husband, Game of Thrones show runner David Benioff, do not celebrate Christmas with their children. Amanda Peet on Her Hanukkah Book and Jon Snow's Fate 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

But that’s just the Old Hollywood version; in real life, the wedding is the beginning of a different story. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

In real life, being defrauded in this way is, one presumes, exhilarating. ‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

He was there with McCarthy to promote “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” but he knew that next to a box office star like her, he’d have to play the supporting role in real life. Who’s Better Suited for Award Season Than Richard E. Grant? 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Central to the movie’s look, and feel, were those tommy guns, which the squad carried, but seldom actually used, in real life. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z

I’m pushed to these moments in people’s lives where real life does become absurd, and I think those are usually moments of grief or moments of extreme boredom or extreme anger. Elizabeth Meriwether Writes Scripts for Stage and Screen 2010-05-08T02:42:00Z

The scenarios, a million miles away from anything I’d ever actually do in real life, flowed with ease. I’m a smut-smith, not a nympho: Stop thinking I’m sex-crazed because I write hot sex scenes 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

The one I loved most was the Catbus from the Japanese anime film “My Neighbor Totoro,” which, sadly, I have never had the pleasure of encountering in real life. A love letter to London’s 139 bus, from an adoring day tripper 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Yvonne's indiscretion beneath the Houses of Parliament grows into a compelling cautionary tale of what happens when fantasy begins to occlude real life. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z

The show’s more telling conversations happened once the daters were back in real life. Analysis | ‘Love Is Blind’ acknowledges that dating is too visual. But it doesn’t offer a real solution. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

As such, the drawings simultaneously refer to real life — they are based on Adler’s location photographs for a film — and an underlying language of abstraction. Amy Adler at play with forms at once concrete and abstract 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The experiences depicted in “Catfish” are extreme and often bizarre; “In Real Life” deals with more quotidian issues, like transitioning a relationship from online to real life. Nev Schulman of “Catfish”: “I’m addicted to social media” 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Buy the DVD In that sense, Breaking Bad is like real life. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z

It does spill over into real life, and our children are going to have to face this on a level we cannot possibly comprehend.” 'It put me on antidepressants': welcome to GOMI, the cruel site for female snark 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s women, online and in real life, who have to deal with the fear and the abuse and the is-it-worth-it-to-say-this, in far greater numbers. Misogynist Online Abuse Is Everyone's Problem--Men Included 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Other highlights include in-depth looks at Alaska, Japan, Patagonia and New Zealand; and Talk to the Animals, which will feature real life Dr Doolittle Lucy Cooke on a mission to understand how animals communicate. BBC orders Blue Planet follow up 2013-09-23T17:07:37Z

The details are just close enough to real life to read Animals as a disillusioned take on the Obama Administration, and just exaggerated enough to read it as just a story. Sexts from “Hillary”: Political Animals’ Bawdy Alternative History 2012-07-12T12:25:31Z

CA: Who is your favourite fictional heroine, and who are your heroines in real life? Nancy Pelosi: We need more women in politics 2013-03-12T15:57:00Z

In real life, you probably shouldn’t tell your female colleague, “That dress is enough to make a good dog break its leash.” Perspective | Love-struck hero or creepy harasser? Suddenly we’re seeing our favorite rom-coms in a new light. 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

There wasn’t any particular life experience there, I just know that when people fight in real life, they fight really awkwardly. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

In real life, as in the movie, it was the somewhat fragile-looking concrete and wood finger from which most of the Dunkirk men were rescued. Christopher Nolan’s 'Dunkirk' Is a Masterpiece 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

"Hereafter" stars Matt Damon and weaves in spectacular scenes of real life events, including the 2004 tsunami and the London 2005 bombings. A Minute with: Clint Eastwood on death, afterlife 2010-10-14T15:27:00Z

That plot is drawn in part from real life: Ms. Donzelli and Mr. Elkaim are the parents of two children, the older of whom, Gabriel, now 8, survived a life-threatening cancer scare as a baby. The Carpetbagger: France's Oscar Hopes Depend on Its Health-Care System 2012-01-17T19:58:32Z

As in real life — with further apologies to Freud — other people’s unconscious imagery is rarely interesting or illuminating. A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

In real life, most people don't speak in fully formed sentences. Reality TV's delightfully awkward new star 2010-11-22T20:30:00Z

It’s a stance that is recognized — and dreaded, in real life — by parents everywhere. In Oslo, Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures capture a Norwegian essence 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

If this were real life, it wouldn't work. Comeback Kids 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z

Witness the excruciating ‘do the accent’ audition scenes endured by Dev in Master of None, or the excruciating ‘do the accent’ audition scenes endured by Kal Penn in real life. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

I like that “force” ... it reminds us that, even in real life, Will plays well as an ordinary guy who finds himself in an extraordinary situation and has to rise to its challenges. Will Smith: just an ordinary guy being forced to run for president 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, in real life, medieval warfare was sedate. Was Ridley Scott's Robin Hood wide of the mark? 2010-09-23T12:53:00Z

Like sex, this suicide business seemed grittier in real life than on the silver screen. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Also, in real life, if somebody says: “Right, you’re going to get up at six in the morning and go parachuting”, I’d say no. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

The feedback loop of social media can seep into real life. Rowan Blanchard: The Unlikely Evolution of a Disney Star 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Rappers are bringing in their real life stories and beliefs to drive the message home,” Platon said. WATCH: There’s a Christian renaissance in hip-hop happening now 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

It’s not that I don’t believe it could be done in real life. I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much 2012-07-18T11:59:44Z

This time, in another story based on real life, Hanks portrays Fred Rogers, a well-known children’s television presenter in America. American hero Matthew Rhys is proud to be Cardiff-born and bred 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

The audience isn’t privy to the heartache or embarrassment or disappointment of real life. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Obviously not everything in the show can have actually occurred in exactly the same way in real life, but that was the rod we made for our backs. Amstell delight 2010-08-06T23:10:00Z

This is not the sort of story that gets much attention in real life, nor in fiction; “Rectify” regularly draws audiences in the low six figures. In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

That last part might be fantasy or real life. Summer of Frank Ocean: 'Crack Rock' 2012-08-29T16:35:58Z

His real life – professional diver turned model turned music video dancer turned black market salesman turned actor – has been far more varied than his film career. Jason Statham: our last action hero (50 million Facebook fans can't be wrong) 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Street photography, mostly black and white, had been king of art’s photographic hill for decades, and claimed to represent photographic truth by casually shooting real life out in the real world. Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Incidentally, though his character Will Shuester is on his second marriage and Morrison was engaged once before, this is the first time the actor has tied the knot in real life. Matthew Morrison of 'Glee' marries Renee Puente on Maui 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Except, she reminds herself, “that life goes on in parallel — real life, good life with all its gifts and graces,” like new tulips and the birds at the bird feeder. Books of The Times: ?How It All Began,? by Penelope Lively 2012-01-23T22:28:10Z

And speaking of what we see in real life, Joe's journey to save a woman's life also quite differs from jarringly high rates of police violence against women. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

"We wanted them to struggle with that throughout the whole film, just like any parent would in real life," he added. "Beautiful Boy" puts rare twist on school shootings 2011-06-02T22:56:01Z

“We are in the 21st century and everyone has different tastes, but I think they look fantastic. . . . In real life, they look even more beautiful.” Melania Trump discusses the opioid epidemic, media coverage and those red Christmas trees 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Why do all your lead actors end up falling for each other in real life? Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal on the Future of ‘Spider-Man’ and the M.C.U. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

We would recoil from such fiends in real life, but in the illicit safety of a novel, the murderer, the thief and the fraud can seem irresistible. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

One penguin asked another penguin that purported to be from Italy if, in real life, the grocery stores were out of pasta. True Tales of Quarantined Socializing 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

In real life, bad people keep the money you paid for a timeshare that doesn't exist. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z

Bacall -- who in real life was a friend of Hepburn's -- played a female newspaper journalist who butts heads with a male colleague. Lauren Bacall dies at 89: Screen legend found success on Broadway 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

That is enough for the show . . . and, I would argue, we should aim to live in a world where it is enough in real life too. "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" lays its sweet, cheeky charm on a world in need of comfort 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

In real life, estate agents work for the seller of a property. TV property porn is out of synch 2011-03-11T13:30:00Z

The narratives were persuasive enough that thousands of viewers began advocating in real life for their exonerations. Wisconsin inmate confesses to the "Making a Murderer" killing of Teresa Halbach 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

“In real life, they look even more beautiful. You’re all very welcome to visit the White House.” Melania Trump brushes off Christmas decoration critics: ‘I think they look fantastic’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

I explained that the script needed to be authentic about the real lives of these musicians in Minneapolis. How “Purple Rain” found its anthem: “We both knew we needed to find just the right song” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

All of those impulses came to a disgusting, deadly head on Wednesday, when the Trump cult took fandom out of the simulacrum and into real life. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Of course, real life is more complicated than the model suggests, but the exercise illustrates potential benefits of both digesta and female hunting. The original "Paleo diet" and archaeologists’ mistaken assumptions about gender roles of ancestors 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The actor, who is nice, not nasty, in real life spoke with Salon about "The Lesson." Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Handmaid’s Tale’ has been called prescient by many,” he wrote, “and right now, in the place where real life and entertainment meet, there’s no higher praise.” Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

He then received a warm welcome into quilters' ranks in real life. Male quilters piece new gender, aesthetic paradigms in 'Man-Made' show 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Tron's Mayfesto season sounds terrific, with some great Scottish talent involved in a season of short plays and pieces of work inspired by real life, conflict and political upheaval. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-05-07T15:09:00Z

I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life. Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z

Despite the verisimilitude of hospital procedure and medical talk, there isn't really anything real life about the personal drama here; people talk in improbable summarising snippets so we know where everyone stands. Tonight's TV highlights: Three In A Bed 2011-03-30T23:05:01Z

It's a scenario that Holofcener, a native New Yorker who now lives in Los Angeles, borrowed from real life. New York realities inspire director Nicole Holofcener 2010-06-16T23:41:00Z

Have you ever seen an octopus with tentacles the size of these in real life? T Magazine: Arms in the Air 2012-05-16T18:05:06Z

In real life newsrooms are tamer these days, even at the tabloids. All the Editors That Are Fit to Spoof 2011-08-10T21:16:38Z

These changes allow the viewers to follow along with Susan as she reads Alan's book and notice the parallels and clues to his real life. Murder, she edited: In PBS' "Magpie Murders," Lesley Manville is a publishing world mystery sleuth 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

I’m a good sleeper and have fantastic dreams – I’m well-behaved in real life, but misbehave atrociously in my dreams. Richard Branson: ‘I’m well-behaved in real life, but misbehave atrociously in dreams’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

TV executives are reluctant to talk about violent content, and when pressed question any link between what they air on television and aggressive behavior in real life. Report shows persistence of TV violence 2013-05-01T13:39:09Z

In real life, he won a $45,000 claim by deliberately slipping over. I Love You Phillip Morris: pure escapism at its best 2012-11-15T10:28:34Z

The futuristic objects he shows at galleries can comprise hundreds or thousands of pieces, like digital drawings rendered in real life. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

“I’m really proud of how self-motivated some people are to really ensure everyone is okay, and be committed to practicing mutual aid in real life in their own communities,” said Nehanda. Social distancing is a must – but many are ready to contribute even more 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Are there women with personalities like this in real life? Perspective | Maria Butina was the ultimate NRA Cool Girl 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

In Field’s defense, movie costuming isn’t the same as choosing fashion for a photo spread or, heaven forbid, for real life: Things that are a little extreme tend to read better on camera. 'I Hate The Devil Wears Prada More Now Than I Did 10 Years Ago' 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

In real life, the German physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs worked at Los Alamos for part of the war and only confessed in 1950 to leaking atomic secrets to Moscow. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Adams was Giselle in “Enchanted,” the 2007 Disney movie about a cartoon princess who springs to real life in New York City. Amy Adams and Donna Murphy in ‘Into the Woods’ 2012-07-26T12:00:00Z

Diaz looks plausibly freaked out at all times as Cruise manhandles her around, and her expression of panicky good-humoured amazement had me wondering if there wasn't the tiniest hint of real life in   this discomposure. Film review: Knight and Day 2010-08-05T21:36:00Z

“The job is great. I like the old-fashioned thing of putting on a costume and sounding different and doing things you would never dream of doing in real life.” Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

It may have been a message in a dream, but it's one Sylvia wishes to follow in real life too. Mad Men recap: season six, episode seven – Man With a Plan 2013-05-15T22:00:00Z

Our lives—our real lives—are made almost wholly of attempts at tenderness. Liner Notes for Jeff Tweedy’s “WARM” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Later when it became a place for activists and organizers, with our encouragement, I noticed that there is a real desire for people to connect in real life. Brewing a "Coffeehouse Resistance": Hopeful activism that's organized and energized 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Her whole career, she explained, has been driven by a belief that “art should be discovered as part of daily life, and that it should have real life consequences.” A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

When I first saw my husband in real life, my first thought was: “Bit short.” How I married a world-champion air guitarist who turned up on my doorstep 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

Unrestricted by the narrative constraints of an individual game’s tedious lore, these films are free to tackle what is most interesting about video games: how they intersect with real life. Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

This section is far more languid, with meditations on azaleas, architecture and “bovarism,” the romantic practice of escaping real life by focusing on impossible dreams. ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

I don't actively plan for characters to change for the better throughout the book, though I think this is very true of real life. Gill Lewis: 'Our own survival depends upon protecting our environment' 2013-05-15T11:39:59Z

"Flood of Fire" teems with the unsettling complexities of real life; giving it a tidy resolution with all loose ends neatly fastened would be false to Ghosh's vision of our perennially surprising world. Amitav Ghosh sails into the Opium War with trilogy finale 'Flood of Fire' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Since such people actually exist — on Twitter, in real life, and everywhere in between — it’s the kind of smug catchphrase that sounds like it’s addressing a problem while it actually does nothing. Time to retire “haters gonna hate”: With Taylor Swift’s apology, the bright new post- “Shake It Off” era is born 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

My tears are for the film but they’re also for something deeper: the sting of loving someone who stopped loving me and the ache of an ending I was never allowed in real life. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

I also agree that Franks utter willingness to have his wife back on any terms is neither true to the book or remotely believable in real life. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s funny, in real life, romantic partners tend to under-talk things until they realize they need therapy. Milo Ventimiglia on the ‘Honest Deception’ of ‘The Company You Keep’ 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Are there any particular real life characters that you’ve included or would fit in well with Ava and her gang from the era? Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

She is also prone to neurotic ramblings and cursed by an inability to remember her lines, or even what she’s just said in real life. Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Returns With Starry Eyes 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

But in real life, doctors, at the request of Gehrig’s wife, soft-pedaled the news, saying he might live. Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

There's more of it than ever, making the choice of what to watch harder than ever, but there's also a higher demand for shows that take away some of that stress of real life. What we can learn from "Drag Race All Stars 7" and the magic of anxiety-free reality competition 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

Much of the grimness and bitterness that you might associate with industrial action is gone, and some of the women themselves are surely more glamorous than was the case in real life. Film review: Made in Dagenham 2010-09-30T10:59:00Z

In real life Heti had just divorced her husband of three years, and was trying to write a play for a feminist theatre company – which instead became . Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z

In real life there are questions and ambiguities to grapple with. Critic?s Notebook: Rihanna and Chris Brown Appear on Each Other?s Songs 2012-02-21T23:10:12Z

The ambiguity extends to the leadership of Meek, whose motives are questioned in the film as they were in real life. Oregon Frontier, From Under a Bonnet 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z

Mediation, in real life and in its many forms, is anything but either of those things. Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

His art consisted of the creation of anthropomorphic characters acting out roles in scenes that seem to echo real life but which, at the same time, are rooted in theatre and fairytales. Len Shelley obituary 2010-11-21T18:55:00Z

Whether or not such a three-way diplomatic deal would ever work in real life is beside the point. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

In its conversation mode, the Ambassador allows one user to interrupt another, as is done in real life, and translates simultaneously to both. The Latest in Translation Devices 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

“That’s not real life,” a parent will say to soothe a child distressed by some frightening thing he’s seen on television, but in the case of the Angulos it was. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry’s personality and sense of humor in real life, she said, are very much as they are on the show. For a Struggling ?Friend,? a New Shot 2011-02-05T03:00:03Z

This story actually comes straight out of my real life. When love and perfume lead to "a side hustle in murder for hire" 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

In real life I get noticed, I get my photos taken, but not to a crazy degree where it's really encroaching on my privacy. James Marsden loves playing his "Jury Duty" alter ego, a narcissistic jerk who's "off his rocker" 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

A naval base in real life, it has a picturesque location on a pier; the show’s Italian title, “Mare Fuori,” translates more literally to “The Sea Outside,” as in the sea outside the prison windows. ‘The Sea Beyond’ Review: Juvenile Detention, Italian-Style 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

We were living in a small flat that was the opposite of our house in Tehran with its rose garden and fruit trees, waiting for real life to recommence. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Doctor! – but he must also be rather brave in real life. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z

Andrea Arnold doesn’t direct concise, compact narratives; she makes big, messy, maximalist movies, firmly anchored in the human condition but faithfully replicating the wild tonal and emotional swings of real life. ‘Flux Gourmet,’ ‘The Meddler’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.” A tribute to artists we lost in 2018, in their own words 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

His question opened our lesson into a world I had never entered with my students; we strayed beyond suitable topics into real life. He Saved His Last Lesson for Me 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

In response to the ever-rising tide of racial animus in this country, Asian America is expressing a renewed interest in martial arts — both in seeing it onscreen, and practicing it in real life. Why onscreen martial arts is important to Asian Americans – even if we don't practice it ourselves 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

And she wishes she was more like that in real life. 2010-01-11T09:12:00Z

Very nicely — she can be as gentle in real life as she is abrasive in her work — Liddell said that she had no interest in playing nice. For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

In real life and on our show, they created collaborative works together, collages, exquisite corpse pieces. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

More and more, restaurants are the carrots that shops are dangling to lure customers offline and back to buying in real life. At Maketto, selling sneakers, dinner and the highly curated life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

“I think there’s a difference between rooting for the Imperium of Man on a tabletop and rooting for their ideology in real life,” Mr. Smillie said. Who’s Up for a Round of Warhammer? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

We’ve seen this before, not only in real life but also, perhaps most of all, in movies and on television. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

But alas, real life does not work out as neatly as our screenplay would suggest. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man texts timeless plot with ex-wife 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

At a time when Hollywood is constantly criticized for avoiding big issues, let alone real life, watching these movies is like truly traveling to a distant land. Oscars 2015: Powerful foreign-language film nominees incite with insight 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Close friends in real life, Scarlett takes advantage of their affinity to whirl them around the stage like leaves in a gale. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

Inevitably, exposure to these kinds of roles will influence real life. 6 harmful media myths about sex and Latinas 2014-02-02T22:00:00Z

“The legacy of the show, I hope, is empathy. That, and a normalizing of diversity, which reflects real life,” said Kohan. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ offers fans a way to give back 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

But many of its users said VRChat supplemented, rather than supplanted, real life. Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

In real life, there's not always a one-liner. “We can't stop”: Dave Franco and Alison Brie make working with your spouse look easy 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s Mr. Young’s take on the complacent “free world” versus real life, and perhaps a song for those who want tweets to suffice as international actions. Music Review: Global Citizen Festival, With Neil Young, to Combat Poverty 2012-09-30T16:23:44Z

And the real life story of Mr. Douglas’s struggle with cancer is paired in these pages with little Telma’s efforts to use her own cancer story to befriend him and other celebrities. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

Whatever form the next poorly plotted episode of real life takes, it’s clear that some need to prepare themselves for further disappointments in this vein. Eagles of Death Metal: wrong place, wrong time, wrong, er, opinions? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Hence the lack of consideration when, against the odds, one meets a Kimberly in real life – as in a person who actually does mean well as opposed to what that phrase connotes in Midwestern terms. "The Sex Lives of College Girls": Here's to the girl who tries our patience, but in the best way 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Now, what I didn't know until I started working on the film is that Paul and the real life Brittany and I all went to college together and we were all at Tisch at NYU. Utkarsh Ambudkar on his "revolutionary" love interest role in "Brittany Runs a Marathon" 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The surrogate family that these characters created was a huddle against the indignities and frustrations of real life—and none of them pretended otherwise. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

“This is real life; this isn’t a book,” Ana, the show’s heroine, says to her tycoon suitor. Theater Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Like Mitt Romney, he’s learned what he needs to nosh on the upper crust, but no one’s taught him how to survive what for the bottom 47 percent is real life. Don't Tell Anyone, But I Kind of Liked Get Hard 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In real life, Moretz and her father have been estranged since he left the family when she was 12. Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this' 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

She added, “In real life there were girls doing this as young as 8 years old.” Exposing Injustices, the Real-Life Kind 2011-07-29T03:43:03Z

If Barrymore is even half as relentlessly optimistic in real life as in her book, that seems a triumph given the long odds that once faced her. In ‘Wildflower,’ Drew Barrymore is determined to find the silver lining 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

In years to come, as real life picked up its own invasive diseases, it was said that Alien was a metaphor for Aids and the way the body could nurse damaging intrusions. Alien: Story of a scene 2010-10-21T10:51:00Z

It’s easy to see this further depersonalizing us — we’ve already retreated from real life into our cellphone and tablet screens; will we next disappear into our helmets? Virtual Reality Movies Add Dimension to Tribeca Festival 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

We need "Will Trent" to acknowledge that part of Trent's arc – from ashamed of his dyslexia to motivated and energized by it – in the following seasons the way that many dyslexics do, in real life. What popular culture like "Will Trent" gets wrong about dyslexia, and why it matters 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there have been more ransom notes in film and TV than in real life.” We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z

The perceived chemistry that developed over video, but not present in real life, is not uncommon for singles who opted for video dating during the pandemic. Sparks Fly on Virtual Dates, but Not So Much in Real Life 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

And if it is meant to be realistic, in real life, things aren’t tied up in a bow. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

And then I’ll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life. Mark Strong: ‘I’ve seen people I know become very famous. It’s nothing I would recommend’ 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Called the Zip Code tour, the summer jaunt offers the band yet another opportunity to ponder real life issues in song. Rolling Stones open 2015 tour with sold-out gig at San Diego's Petco Park 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

But for both Scott and Kaling, the book’s characters, particularly Neil, felt familiar, they said, like friends or family members they knew in real life. Her Book Is About Belonging. She’s Struggling With the Idea. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Two and a half million people watched it in Holland, and it became a phenomenon because the couples in the show are together in real life. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Is it because stories that bear some sort of resemblance to real life are inevitably going to be more engaging for adults? Where are all the daring women's heroines? 2011-03-08T10:57:47Z

He means to draw a tighter connection between real life and the words and images we use to describe it. Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ chronicles troubles at home and abroad 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The street culture welled up in us 8-year-old kids at the time and we booed his decision, even though most of us would’ve done the same thing in real life. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

In real life, Nash did not give a speech or the traditional lecture on acceptance of the prize, and spoke only briefly during a seminar arranged as an alternative. A Beautiful Mind hides ugly truths 2012-12-19T17:27:18Z

But Bergen also played the first female President in Curtis Bernhardt’s 1964 “Kisses for My President” -- a role that’s far more in line with who the actress was in real life. Polly Bergen, dead at 84, was strong women's rights activist 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

In “The Phantom Alibi,” for example, we learn that Armiston — who resembles a fat Buddha — abandoned writing because one of his complicated thriller plots was copied in real life, “not even eliding the murder.” Looking for a mystery to cozy up with? Michael Dirda has some suggestions. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

This material, too, was inspired by real life. ArtsBeat: Video: Nickolas Butler’s Wintry Place on Earth 2014-04-04T22:15:33Z

I'm pretty sure I live a real life every ye ar. Pass notes No 2,901: Reality 2010-12-20T20:00:00Z

They were encouraged to improvise or talk over each other's lines as would happen in real life. Bernadette Lafont obituary 2013-07-26T16:10:22Z

You don’t hear the curse, of course, and for what it’s worth, the actress who plays the girl didn’t ever swear in real life. Modern Family Watch: What the Bleep Was the Big Deal? 2012-01-19T16:01:00Z

He noticed, in a too-loud little boy voice, that ‘bad guys’ were brown, in real life and on television. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z

In real life, Chun was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court for mutiny, treason charges over the coup and the Gwangju crackdown. Crowdfunding rescues provocative S.Korean film 2012-10-01T12:59:17Z

The danger is that the demons and darkness have a habit of spilling over into real life. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

“They are not portrayed doing anything in the film that they didn’t do in real life,” he points out. Soderbergh on Hollywood: 'It's not crooked – it's the most transparent industry going' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

I try to make them know that it couldn't happen in real life . R.L. Stine reveals how Netflix's bloody "Fear Street" trilogy "loosened me up" 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

In real life, they are often trapped within a cycle of intergenerational poverty whose revolving doors belong to the prison industrial complex. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Fewer than 17% of films depict women in a similar ratio to real life. The conversation: Where are the women in film? 2012-05-18T19:21:27Z

In real life, this kind of person isn’t always a guy. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

In real life, customers stormed Bloomingdale’s to buy Mr. Miller’s fashion collection themed to the show, and the “Dynasty” influence is felt on runways even now. Never Mind the Catfights. What About the Clothes? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

In real life, Hernangómez is a power forward for the Utah Jazz. ‘Hustle’ Review: Put Me In, N.B.A. Executive! 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Most of what might count as her real life — school, work, friends — is either nonexistent or none of our business. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Others have rallied to the film’s defense, saying detractors are in denial about what happens behind closed doors in real life. First Arabic Netflix film tackles taboos, sparks controversy 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Matt: Yeah, there would be fallout from that in real life. "Entourage" recap: 8x2 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z

But in real life — and, ever more frequently, on college campuses — what constitutes consent is wildly more complicated. Campus Sex … With a Syllabus 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Dirty Harry, who excoriates lawyers and judges in those films, their sequels and other Clint cop movies, is big on lawyers and lawsuits in real life. Chris Kyle is a stand-in for Clint: The author of Eastwood’s controversial biography on his new edition, including “American Sniper” and more 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

In real life, sugar is now almost as freely available as the gingerbread on the cottage in “Hansel and Gretel,” yet in our bedtime stories it remains a precious commodity. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

They'd go on to marry and divorce twice in real life and co-star in several movies together; this first on-screen pairing, however, was less than auspicious. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z

In real life the Bhats of Mumbai are a modern family of sorts: Durga, 26, works as a secretary in a real estate company and her husband; Sunil, 32, works in computer technology. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

Wallace and Schraf — partners in real life — share some lovely, unguarded moments that draw you into the Lomans’ struggles, but they are also unflinchingly brusque with the family’s uglier moments. Review | Willy Loman still dreams big in Miller’s ‘Salesman’ at Ford’s 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The Envelope spoke with the now mom-to-be about her changing roles, both on screen and in real life. Keira Knightley ponders acting, feminism and a new role as a mother 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In real life, Blume is a campaigner against censorship, a jolly tweeter, and is peelingly honest about her own imperfections as a mother. Judy Blume helped a generation of young women to grow up 2013-05-05T15:00:01Z

“As in real life the middle class is being squeezed,” he said. Film: It?s the Relationships, Stupid 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z

In real life, Sulzberger said, the instruction came from two members of the palace staff. ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The characters in Watts’s novel are rooted to the exigencies of real lives; they’re not chiffon figures in Fitzgerald’s fantasy. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

On “Armchair Expert,” as in real life, Mr. Shepard is inclined toward self-analysis of his insecurities, motivations and shortcomings. Dax Shepard Is Listening 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Gang life in the movies is like real life only more so. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

One side of it’s occupied by the band, and then the other side of it’s occupied by real life. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

I’m never going to wear that in real life. Introducing Sutton Foster, the 40-Year-Old Ingénue of ‘Younger,’ Again 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

They’re not all good or all bad, just as in real politics and real life. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The paintings in real life are a bit anticlimactic because they’re so small. Seattle’s immersive Van Gogh show is finally open. Does it live up to the hype? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

In real life, Hall, who has delivered many more unforgettable comic performances since, is not as animated when watching her favorite television series, the true-crime show “Forensic Files.” Regina Hall Sees the Bigger Picture With ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Forensic Files’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

“We love that ‘Broad City”s sex positivity carries into real life with these products, and we hope the world enjoys them.” Broad City” is releasing a line of sex toys which is so on-brand for them 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

He explained that Mr. Rodland is a private person, and that, in real life as in his photographs, the stranger aspects of his personality remain just under the surface. Torbjorn Rodland’s Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

On screen, she and Ali have a touching friendship and it’s a delight to find that they do in real life, too: their affection fills the room. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Sherri’s mama bear ferocity is necessary to turn the plot, just as Charlie’s hysteria about Yale is, but in real life both would be subtler. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

It was gratifying to see Tim, always the underdog, get the moment of romantic realisation he’d longed for – like never happens in real life. From Friends to the Office: TV’s 10 best love triangles 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

"However directors such as Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder or Frank Capra treated women in real life, in their films they created independent-thinking women and seemed to understand them." Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The misunderstanding that YouTube fame equaled millions of dollars and therefore meant I was deserving of public scorn was a sharp contrast to my real life of looking through my car for spare quarters. “Life was always a financial hellscape”: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad With Money” wants to break the “secret shame” of money talk 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

But, as she often said, her real life, busy with children, kept her grounded. Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

On the album, he extrapolates further in “Total Entertainment Forever,” envisioning a world where the pleasures of virtual reality have entirely supplanted real life: Father John Misty: The End Is Near, Sing All About It 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

In real life, Kuma is a husky, golden retriever and border collie mix who was rescued from a shelter. TV cameras trained on dogs during summer 2012 2012-05-29T16:11:15Z

The energetically crafted, well-acted movie about characters one would go to considerable extremes to avoid in real life is turning into a veritable indie micro-genre. ‘The Great Pretender’ Review: Tedious Love Affairs in Artsy Brooklyn 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

In real life, the hotel’s staff members — some armed with kitchen utensils or baking trays taped to their chests to shield themselves from gunfire — were extolled for their heroism. Dev Patel Goes for Shock and Awe 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Janácek, in his mid-60s when he composed The Cunning Little Vixen, could live out in his opera what was impossible in real life. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

In real life, she admired all who pushed for human rights and equity. Motherlode Blog: The Last Mother's Day 2012-05-11T14:08:27Z

In real life, she dislocated her elbow, but the GIF is now internet parlance for just totally missing your shot. How the real-life "Cheer" team became fodder for an "SNL" spoof and memes 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, he said, “I want to write books that stand up to real life.” Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

With real lives and history, artworks and ephemera, mining engineering and Marcel Duchamp, this is, quite deliberately, a move away from the biennials we are accustomed to. Manifesta 9: a rich seam of art in a disused mine 2012-08-06T17:37:05Z

In real life, Salim was a heavy consumer of alcohol and opium, though these habits did not start until he was 18. Mughal-e-Azam: royally glossing over history's true colours 2013-02-14T10:17:06Z

Mr. Caine, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in real life, said he had once been seated next to her at a dinner, where she asked him if he knew any jokes. Michael Caine on Elderly Roles and Why He Snubbed Cannes After 'Alfie' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Jauffret cannot put a human face on any of the characters he steals from real life. French author's 'Fritzl' novel branded 'pure filth' by Austrian critics 2012-09-26T11:06:02Z

Stake President Frost even intervenes with Mormons in the police department in ways Linda fears might impede the investigation — something that happened in real life with Elizabeth's Smart's abduction. A Mormon sleuth confronts an LGBT case in 'His Right Hand' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Pratt said overzealous fans have frequently reached out to her in real life, too. A Groundbreaking Cartoon Family Returns, ‘Louder and Prouder’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Jeremy Piven seems to make it a point of pride to play insufferable characters, and to be insufferable in real life, but he's a good actor, and he does the prideful-man-brought-low thing very well. "Entourage" recap: 8x1 2011-07-25T16:40:00Z

Paper Boi’s career ascent tracks in some ways with what you all are going through in real life. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

“People were already crying so much in real life, why should they cry in theaters?” The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z

“In real life, you don’t take off all of your mascara. Well, none of my female friends do, but maybe because they are French.” Skin Deep: Fashion Week Experts Offer Tips on How to Apply Runway Makeup 2014-02-12T23:49:48Z

If you're a modern designer and involved in dressing people for real life, not costumes, the simple truth is fashion is about the zeitgeist. Kors _ with two lifetime awards _ ready for more 2010-06-15T19:30:00Z

How much of real life do we want to see in paintings and art galleries? Review | First Moroni exhibition in North America features one of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

But then Nguyen turns the screw another rotation, and the grotesque scenes of abuse in the Auteur’s movie lead into an extended examination of torture in real life. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

"I think that the ridiculous does happen in real life, and it could happen to any of us, and the horrifying could happen to any of us." "Flowers in the Attic" writer on "The Origin" ending, whose story needs telling and that swan bed 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

We so infrequently see that in real life. The real-life “Modern Love” author whose love life Amazon dramatized speaks out 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

With just Janet and Michael from the beginning, we had this special friendship, which bled over into real life, which again, was just so lucky and special on my end. Ted Danson Made D’Arcy Carden a Better Not-a-Robot 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

But the real revolution has been the normalisation of sizes that were, in real life, already normal. Are women's breasts getting bigger - or is it just our bras? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The latest TV trend involves the idea of real life directly informing TV, but takes things up a notch by centering it around one of the most divisive subjects in US politics: immigration. 'Daca dramas': how immigration became US TV's new obsession 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

But what's much harder is to write an avant-garde novel about real life, a novel whose experimental qualities unshroud something recognisable and genuine about our shared experience that a traditional novel would have missed. My hero: Charlie Kaufman by Ned Beauman 2012-08-17T21:55:11Z

The "Vanderpump Rules" cheating crisis proves that these people's real lives produce plots as captivating as a scripted soap. From #Scandoval to "Love Is Blind," understanding the new reality heyday in this Hot Labor Summer 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

In real life, they married three years later and moved into the White House 17 years after that. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

She also looks 30 years younger than her character, who, like Ms. Fonda in real life, is an outspoken cheerleader for doing whatever it takes to remain young and frisky. Movie Review: Jane Fonda in Stéphane Robelin’s ‘All Together’ 2012-10-19T00:08:53Z

Maybe we don’t want to try so hard in real life, but in our dreams we are glamorous and smiling and on top of the world. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“We could share a lot more than in real life,” Stenfors said. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

But it soon becomes clear he has no intention of going back to real life. New this week: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Kanye and ‘From’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

In real life he was quiet, polite, and rarely swore. Rootkit.com was Hoglund’s website specializing in the latest research on programming tools that gave root access to a computer network. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

"Nobody on our show talks the way people talk in real life," Wayans readily acknowledged. 'Happy Endings': 6 characters in search of funny 2012-10-19T13:13:37Z

Hunt shares some of her father’s chapters in their entirety, annotating and analyzing them for connections to his real life. Mourning Songs for Lives, and Art, That Could Have Been 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the opera, as in real life, Klinghoffer is shot in the head and his body is thrown overboard in his wheelchair. The (controversial) ‘Klinghoffer’ show will go on at The Met 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

In a recent telephone interview, Ralph, a Scot in real life, said the new season finds James “growing into himself, and much more assertive about moving the practice forward with the times.” ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Returns With Even More Creatures 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

It's not much but it's what we've come to expect from a show that never blinks as it stares down the harsh facts of real life. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z

What you see on screen is what it was in real life. When vampires become friends, "Let Me In" 2010-10-01T16:28:00Z

I would say two women whom I have met in real life and hung out with: bell hooks and Fran Lebowitz. Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

"It's real life," the self-made fashionista told the mag's Jonathan Van Meter. Blake Lively defends Paltrow, talks Martha Stewart, Ryan Reynolds 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

He needs to cut loose in other ways, too: His dialogue can have the cadence of real life, but his scenes and situations tend to be canned. Bill Murray Stars in ‘St. Vincent’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

But when they met in real life, things well flat. How 'Textual Chemistry' Is Changing Dating 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

So I felt like I was sort of tutored in that from somebody who was very experienced in it both as a real life and as a historical basis. Writing ‘War-Appropriate’ Stories for Kids: A Conversation With Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-19T10:45:16Z

The boiler room girls, on-screen and in real life, remain frustratingly out of focus. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

"To be that fearless young female lead, that's scary to me because I don't see myself as fearless in real life," she said. Amanda Seyfried scared by "Red Riding Hood" 2011-03-10T23:55:31Z

Jal, who plays Paul, was one of the actual Lost Boys recruited by the South Sudanese Army who later escaped to the refugee camp and sneaked into Britain in real life. Reese Witherspoon finds lessons in 'The Good Lie' 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

There’s at least one Remy Martin delivery truck that rolls through the streets of the District displaying Robin Thicke’s handsome face, blown up 15 times larger than real life, a static photograph that winks. Robin Thicke ignites discussion with ‘Paula,’ but these songs aren’t worth talking about

“My job,” he says, “is to put the closest thing to real life on the stage and to dupe you to think that it’s all really happening.” Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

An important question for me is how do we put the phone down and participate in our real lives as movers, as embodied people? A Graveyard? She’s Danced There. Just Check Instagram. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But good artists are attracted to it because it ensnares art in real life. Is ready-made art more powerful than painting? 2013-02-28T16:14:23Z

In real life, however, this pile got the green light. Woody Allen’s “Crisis” debacle: When the filmmaker said Amazon would regret this deal, he wasn’t joking 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“I wanted more beautiful things, but I couldn’t afford them. In Korean dramas, everyone wears colorful, expensive clothes and changes often, but in real life, it wasn’t like that at all.” Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

I really liked how the author noted some real life problems like illegal hunting and burning trees to grow palm trees in place of them for palm oil. Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo - review 2012-07-01T14:00:00Z

Natasha and I are friends in real life, so I thought it would be really fun to play opposite her. Aubrey Plaza on Life After 'Parks' and Hating the Word 'Deadpan' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In this video, the reporter Ginger Thompson talks with Stephen Gaghan, the screenwriter who won an Academy Award for “Traffic,” about the ways in which the movie verged on real life. ArtsBeat: Video: A Conversation With ‘Traffic’ Screenwriter Stephen Gaghan 2013-04-29T13:43:35Z

But, he said: “You get to see people making these things and wearing them in real life. And creatively, it’s very fulfilling.” Sewing for the Instagram Generation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Still, history isn’t the same as real life on the streets of New York, which gets up in your face and hassles you. Stan Mack’s Occupy-the-Fourth-of-July funnies 2012-07-10T00:00:00Z

But that’s what’s wonderful about festivals; they compel you to travel to them, with real life temporarily suspended, except as it manifests onstage. Montpellier Danse Offers Globe-Trotting Via Choreography 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Contrary to the truism that holds that all first novels are autobiographical, Sweeney says that nothing apart from scenes set in New York is taken from her real life. Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney reflects on family, her midlife turn to fiction and the bidding war over her first novel, 'The Nest' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

I think people assume that's really how I am in real life. Paris Hilton promises tears, "fights" in new series 2011-01-14T18:04:29Z

On the Internet, it didn’t matter I was a loser in real life. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

In real life, both she and Trotsky did pull back from the affair – but she left for Paris, and allowed him to stay in the house. Frida: raises an eyebrow 2010-06-17T09:09:00Z

In the end, I said: "Are you this horrible in real life or are you putting it on?" From Rhys Ifans to Madonna: writers on their worst celebrity interviews 2013-06-07T17:06:35Z

It's too bad, because there is real kindliness in the story; and kindliness is a quality even rarer in novels than in "real life, with all its disappointments". The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-20T10:30:01Z

In the show’s present, plot lines appear that may or may not have a basis in real life. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

At the time, he told the Guardian that in real life he was more pleasant, more self-deprecating and more intelligent than this personage. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z

Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!” Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Despite a successful sojourn into fictional politics, Streep said she harbored no desire to pursue elected office in real life. Meryl Streep for President 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Any resemblance to real life is strictly coincidental and completely intentional. Review: In Angelina Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea,’ an Unhappy Ménage and Tear-Streaked Mascara 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The Translation: If it seems a little too radical for real life, try a subtler version of mismatching, one that will jolt some energy into your current accessories without overpowering the rest of your outfit. Push It: 5 Style Challenges 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Local lads and lasses from Blackburn they were equally as warm and friendly as Mani and after exchanging contact details we had promised we were going to go for a drink in real life. Beat-Herder Festival diary: Nile Rodgers rocks the Ribble valley 2013-07-17T12:24:23Z

Among the more avant-garde looks shown on the runways of New York, London, Paris and Milan was one that seems ho-hum in real life: gray hair. Model shift: Could older be the new black? 2010-04-14T20:35:00Z

In real life, Coogan's career in Hollywood is faring much better, with his work on drama "Philomena" earning him two Oscar nominations, for best original script and best picture. Coogan, Brydon embark on culinary odyssey in 'The Trip to Italy' 2014-01-26T00:08:02Z

When people ask me for relationship advice, I remind them that I am much better at solving relationship problems in books than in real life. Danielle Steel: ‘My books are more than a beach read’ 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

This is real life in all its dull randomness. Have you been watching ? Him & Her? 2010-09-28T09:25:00Z

Then "House of Cards" kind of became irrelevant with the new crazy in real life. "The Comey Rule" will likely trigger Trump, and series star Michael Kelly couldn't be happier 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, but it wasn't a Burger King, it was a McDonald's in real life. Randall Park plays "the closest thing to me" in "Always Be My Maybe" 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Six weeks later, though, came a jolt of real life. It Was ‘Like We Were in Love in Another Life’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Nobody can really recall what Marie Antoinette looked like in real life, so he could have made his cake look like anything and the judges would be none the wiser. 'It looks like a haunted waxwork': The Great British Bake Off bust cakes – ranked! 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

To truly understand what’s happening at the Joker Stairs, it’s important to think about the role they play — both in the film and in real life. "Joker" fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

The novel is part fact, part fiction, based on the real life of one woman, Anne-Marie Walters, with whose story Mawer and his family are familiar. 'Trapeze': Walking a high wire of danger in World War II France 2012-05-30T21:41:11Z

"In real life I got a DUI once," Handler said. NBC says they weren't afraid of Chelsea's vodka 2012-01-07T03:03:39Z

This is purely a documentary series about real life. ‘Cops,’ Spike TV Call Themselves a Happy Match 2013-11-20T21:49:20Z

"It's quite a strange thing, being in a performance arena, but actually being more honest about myself than I am in real life," she says. Artist-activist Liz Crow's 'bed-out' for disabled rights 2013-04-09T18:00:01Z

Even if Harrigan clips a bit off the wings of Lincoln’s better angels, he also offers us a powerful glimpse into what the great man liked to call his “real life.” ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

With a sense of humor, he presents big worries alongside little triumphs — often in the same sentence, just as the two tend to appear in real life. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

With real life horrors happening in the world, are there benefits to exploring fictional horrors? The Shyamalan Secret to Being Scary? It’s in the Blood 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

I just saw that in the real lives I know — both older and younger people coming up — I just saw that it was not as good as what it had once been. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z

It’s real life that has the poetry and the creativity to make a comedy. Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z

For the most part writing about politics, as in real life, has been a man's job. Kay Burley's book betrays a venerable tradition 2011-03-29T16:10:10Z

Perhaps this explains why Hollywood has jumped forward to acceptance, greenlighting films which use 9/11 as a dramatic device in fictional narratives capable of having the happy ending real life can't always provide. Is Hollywood finally over 9/11? 2010-03-30T09:02:00Z

But she was uncomfortable with fame and, in real life, struggled with illness and depression. Anne Kirkbride: A life of drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the film, set in the near future, Detroit is portrayed as a place that has suffered decay and decline; in real life, that is also true, though the city is regenerating. Kickstarter: the crowdfunding site that wants to spark a creative revolution in the UK 2012-11-14T20:00:02Z

In one scene in the film, drawn directly from real life, U.S. immigration officials question the young Javed as he arrives in New Jersey to visit Springsteen’s hometown. Finding Salvation in Springsteen From a London Suburb 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

“There’s so much magic in just browsing and trying on pieces in real life,” Ms. Plantan, 31, said. Secondhand Shoppers Worry About Their Favorite Local Spots 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

In real life contemporary Tampico, some 300 miles south of the Texas border, is a stronghold of the notoriously violent Gulf Cartel and a battleground in Mexico’s drug war. Books Of The Times: Noir in Sunny Mexico, Mart?n Solares?s ?Black Minutes? 2010-05-31T23:37:00Z

In the end, those gaps in the plot are distracting and keep Franklin at arm’s length, rendering her as elusive on the screen as she was in public in real life. Aretha Franklin and the Futility of Trying to Portray Her Onscreen 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Alternative history, a genre of speculative fiction where certain historical events happen differently from how they did in real life, is an evocative place to set a story. With an Elon Musk-like villain, “For All Mankind” launches a new season into orbit 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

As seen on the news, real life right now is heartbreaking, terrifying, depressing and exhausting. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

But now, after using up all his spare paint, he is keen to get back to real life. Locked out of galleries, Londoners find Caravaggio street art 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

In real life she often chose powerful older men as partners, overlooking their domineering ways in her quest for a father. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z

In Hansol Jung’s play, a North Korean defector and a South Korean father separated from his family, try to connect, first online and then, with emotions rather than emojis, in real life. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“It works because they liked each other in real life.” ‘Liaison’: Vincent Cassel and Eva Green Simmer as Global Tensions Boil 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

That the poems were actually written by the actor playing the guard, Shen Shaoqiu, and that Mr. Shen in real life is a policeman as well as a radical poet, only adds to the strangeness. | 'The High LIfe': Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry 2011-06-19T22:17:09Z

I stayed so long because real life at the time wasn't so terrific. Doctor Who 'better than real life' 2013-11-04T00:22:47Z

Instead, the bells in a Yeat song chime the same way that bells in cathedral towers peal across the commons in real life. Review | Yeat redefines what it means for a rapper to rock the bells 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

In real life, Mr. Haggerty lived on a small ranch in Malibu Canyon with an assortment of wild animals that he had tamed at birth or rescued from injury. Dan Haggerty, Who Played Grizzly Adams, Dies at 73 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

In real life, it's more likely to be the result of a mental breakdown than a quest for truth, justice and the American way. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-29T23:09:46Z

Somebody knows somebody to whom it really happened, somebody whose love of Twilight and the version of romance it presents got in the way of real life. Does Twilight Really Ruin Real-Life Romance? 2012-11-16T10:45:09Z

The good news is that real life includes some exciting new TV shows this weekend — time to turn our brains toward the television future and embrace what comes next. What You Should Watch This Weekend: Amazon Pilots and ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But historians have recently pointed out an extremely interesting relationship that goes in the other direction, from fiction to real life. Jack the Ripper’s long shadow: From Sherlock Holmes to “Jekyll & Hyde” 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

The day felt like a wonderful dream, bolstered by the legions of inspired voters I was keeping track of online and in real life. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Much like in real life, the conflict surrounding the fictional Mama Fina’s restaurant escalates into a protest – one that showrunner Monica Macer said drew support from unaware passers-by when they filmed in the neighborhood. Foodie tourism and protests: LA’s gentrification battles play out in Netflix's Gentefied 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

“With the royal weddings they get to see both together, in real life,” Ms. Spivak said, “and many want to recreate it for themselves.” You, Too, Can Marry Like a Royal 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Sean is dragged into court after two young players of Trace Italian allow the game to bleed disastrously into their real lives in a field in Kansas. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

But the line between television and real life blurred in one fatal moment when Gandee's vehicle got stuck in a deep mudpit. TV or reality? Lines blur after death of show star 2013-04-03T10:31:05Z

The clutch of highly visible biographical pictures has turned the festival into a sampler of the many ways that filmmakers take that most precious narrative commodity, a real life, in hand. Roman Polanski and Graham Chapman Biopics at Toronto 2012-09-11T22:01:26Z

The transitions, though, are sometimes quicker than they would be in real life — a result of one of Franklin’s more counterintuitive decisions. Tig Notaro’s ‘Drawn’ Explores Strange New Worlds: Animated Ones 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

“They are blindingly rare in real life,” said Simon Bull, a clock specialist in Taunton, England. They Look Like the Emperors’ Clocks. But Are They Real? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Like a dating show in reverse, “Catfish” brings together two young people who have never met in real life but who nevertheless have an intense, codependent, virtual relationship with one another. Consider the “Catfish” 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“In real life, good things are allowed to be easy,” she said. An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Gold then softens the transition from real life to drama by having Michael Patrick Thornton, who otherwise plays Lennox and one of the assassins, deliver an amusingly potted prologue like a Catskills tummler. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

For me, the imaginary world is so much more powerful than real life, and I don’t really want to be bothered by real life. M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: Pure Bedroom Pop 2011-10-18T17:40:47Z

We make ourselves wildly available online – dangerously available, some would say – and in real life, we are way more defended. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z

Such high-level fraudulence is probably more common in fiction than in real life. TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, Russell's escape plans were both spectacular and disarmingly simple. You review: I Love You Phillip Morris 2010-03-22T13:14:00Z

It worked just like real life, not at all like those joke answering machine messages where the recording pretends to talk to you and you respond back like an idiot. Hologram Tupac: not a good sign for humanity 2012-04-19T20:04:48Z

Somebody once said I write women who I wished existed in real life, so I could spend time with them. Simon Stephens: Stockport state of mind 2013-01-23T20:00:01Z

I assume that was based on a really similar case in real life, right? Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

Opera about incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II staged in Washington Hall, where they were sent to register in real life. ‘An American Dream’ tells powerful story in historic setting 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Similarly, many of the shows that Berg has written for, notably “Seinfeld,” harvested story lines from real life. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

In real life, getting there took nine hours. Modern Love: Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us 2011-04-28T23:32:19Z

This was just George Jones in real life and real time. ArtsBeat: An Appraisal: George Jones in Real Life and Real Time 2013-04-26T20:47:51Z

Similarly, in real life, Mel Gibson hopes that, by alluding to the messes of his life through the medium of a vaguely autobiographical film, The Beaver will help him achieve something similar. Mel Gibson leaves it to The Beaver 2010-12-08T11:44:00Z

My husband said this to me: "If the whole idea is that this is not real life and they can shoot whoever they want, why make the robots so real life in the first place?" ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

His “The Producers” — about the making of a deliberately offensive musical about Hitler — was about that kind of trust backfiring, and it generated backlash in real life. Review: ‘History of the World’ Repeats, as Farce 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

He has played a lot of gangsters in his career, but his real life today looks nothing like that. ‘Gentefied’ Asks, Can a Show About Gentrification Be Funny? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It's becoming too much the other way around in real life. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

“He’s even a better version of who he seems, in real life,” Neville said. Perspective | My family knew Mister Rogers. And yes, he was like that in real life. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Some of us, Ma suggests, may never find what we’re searching for and have to settle for ill-fitting real life. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The grand, theatrical Surrealist hosts them at a magical fisherman’s shack where she and Claude never did visit him in real life. Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a mission statement that motivates him in real life, too. Jeremy Pope Is Telling Himself ‘Yes’ 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

But when Rex joins Jordan’s Meet Cute Club, the two square off, grow to respect one another, then discover that happily-ever-afters exist in real life, too. Perspective | Need to laugh out loud? These hilarious romance novels will do the trick. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

She also acknowledges the buzz around the segment by saying "LOL" to another Twitter user who described it as "twitter kanye in real life." Kim Kardashian 'proud' of hubby Kanye West's 'Ellen' rant 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Rivera takes up most of the room — as, tall and bulky, he did in real life — but Kahlo emerges in the final galleries as the stronger, more personal and more original artist. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Soderbergh seems to understand that many women fantasize about scenarios they do not want in real life. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

While his songs painted him as a libertine and rascal, in real life he was religious — he had memorized the Bible, Mr. Bowker said — and rarely drank or did drugs. Clarence Reid, Singer and Songwriter Also Known as Blowfly, Dies at 76 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

We held live meetings, and one of the fans I met online became my partner in real life for five years. 'She saved me from depression': readers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Q. Do you find yourself channeling Justice Scalia in real life? After Scalia’s death, and the election, Edward Gero reflects on his role in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Unlike the conclusions of Agatha Christie novels, real life can make only murky puddles. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Hemingway once said that to capture real life on the page it is necessary to include “the bad and the ugly as well as the beautiful.” Ernest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

In real life, you’d be doing nothing of the sort, he stressed. Review: ‘Children of the New World’ Sees a Future of Bespoke Memories and More 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

She often called soap operas “the form of entertainment closest to real life” because the plots twisted into unexpected shapes and did not reach a neat resolution at the end of each hour. Agnes Nixon, writer who created ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children,’ dies at 93 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Grimm Tales serve as a release for the more violent feelings, feelings that kids don’t get a chance to release in real life. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

The ending is also the beginning – of real life.” Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Just as Vesuvius preserved an uncanny freeze-frame of life in Pompeii, the finds from the Mary Rose reveal the real life of a sailing ship. Mary Rose's Tudor treasures deserve this revelatory new museum 2013-04-09T14:59:45Z

Remember, there’s no editing in real life and you’re going to be the one Googling how to remove Kobe-beef-in-port-reduction-sauce stains from cashmere when someone’s fork “accidentally” flies across the room. Why Gourmet Food and a Table Full of Kids Don't Mix 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

If you saw them in real life, you’d consider calling the police. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It was important to Moselle that she paint a realistic portrait of female friendship, which was easy to do given that the girls were already friends in real life. These new skateboarding movies challenge gender stereotypes in surprising ways 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

For me, social media is pretty integrated with my real life. How Hailey Baldwin Gets Her ‘Glowy’ Look 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Both image and text look askance at the narrative of a typical mermaid; rather than slinky, aquatic male fantasies, these beings are textured with the grit of real life: Mattea Harvey's 'Tabloids' mashes word pictures with imaginative art 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Rap is just a reflection of real life. Lil Baby Might Be Rap’s Most Reluctant New Star 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

After a great deal of loss, grief, frustration and loneliness dealt to these characters, their joys arrive as they would in real life: like gifts we can scarcely believe are happening. One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life’s Challenges and Joys. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Clearly, I thought, I’ve spent too many years as an art critic, inflating art’s importance relative to real lives, real politics. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The mundanity of real life in “First Man” contrasts with the enormity of the mission. 'First Man' shows Armstrong's view after Moon landing, sitting in... 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

But in the online dating world, when the search for a partner is boiled down to quick swipes, a first impression matters even more than it does in real life. Analysis | Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

It may be outlandish, but O’Shea thinks its effects have already been seen in real life. Fashion’s Game of Thrones fans bring the dragon queen onto the catwalk 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Since they don't use the word abortion, let's be clear: Reader, they're talking about whether to have an abortion – something married people do in real life, but we rarely see depicted on TV. "And Just Like That" isn't brave enough to let Lisa Todd Wexley have a real choice with motherhood 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's a beautiful house, by the way, in real life. Jason Diamond on accidentally writing his memoir, 'Searching for John Hughes' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

But in real life, you remember your mother or a friend or somebody being held to the floor and then looking around for something to grab and fight back. A moment with Spectrum dancer Ty Alexander Cheng 2011-10-05T22:50:05Z

I’ve met most of my heroes, not necessarily on the show, but in real life. Wendy Williams Explains What Celebrities Can Learn From Kim Kardashian 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Yes, all this stuff happens in real life, but it has already been exploited repeatedly by television shows and films, so now, crammed into an hourlong “Chicago Fire” episode, it just seems lazy. Television Review: ‘Chicago Fire,’ a Rescue Squad Drama, on NBC 2012-10-09T22:01:18Z

The writer gets no points just because what’s inside the box bears some linear resemblance to ‘real life’ — he can put whatever he wants in there. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

But in real life, sex has incredible variety. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

Hence if you already loved Wong, teaming him up with Patty Guggenheim's Madisynn only increases that affection store, along with helping you to enjoy Madisynn much more than you might in real life. We all love Wongers, who brings the real magic to the MCU 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Spielberg: …I was able to snag one of the greatest living actors to represent the virtues and the principles that this character showed all of us in real life. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg on Bridge of Spies, Racism in Hollywood and Star Wars 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

On screen these domestic wars are fought with screams and cake thrown – in real life they’re fought inside our heads. why its ok to be bad | Eva Wiseman 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The real life Piampaschet is instead in jail, where he has claimed that the similarities between his manuscript and the murder are coincidence. Italian arrested in murder case with echoes of Basic Instinct 2012-08-22T15:51:55Z

“This digital effigy is a careless abomination and disrespectful to real people who face real consequences in real life,” Industry Blackout said in its statement, pointing to Gunna’s case. Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the confusing atmosphere where real life, the play and the play within the play meet, you feel unmoored from the customary gravity of the theater. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

First, it implies that people do not know the difference between a piece of entertainment and real life. Should accessing 'rape pornography' be restricted by law? 2013-07-24T12:02:45Z

We have yet to see a film or show that considers such complexities as why, say, some women fantasize about things they don’t desire in real life. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

These tales of real life are sometimes terribly sad. ‘Truth or Consequences’ Review: Ghost Town at the End of the World 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

But it just seemed better to use my real life as the bones for the show.” Pamela Adlon: how Louis CK's sidekick became the star 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

After all, planning a wedding in real life is mind-numblingly boring, even for the bride. "Bethenny Getting Married": From bridezilla to brand 2010-07-03T23:02:00Z

In real life, Mrs. Wigfield is not a stage mom in the classic overbearing sense. ‘Great News’ Gives a Mother-Daughter Team an Onscreen Moment 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

And Ms. Mitchell works magic of her own on stage, constantly showing the enchantresses Alcina and Morgana alternating between glamorous public personas and their “real life,” older, private selves. Review: Exploring Captivity in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ and Mozart’s ‘Entführung’ at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

But cruises – also a mainstay of Disney, furthering the connection — are another way to escape real life. Never say die: The fantasy that "Succesion's" Roys and Disney's Celebration sells isn't princesses 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

But in terms of these larger plotlines, we follow them through their many machinations and, as in real life, many lead to a climax, while many others lead to frustration or an underwhelming resolution. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

And I’m sure some would argue that these scenes occur regularly in real life, as couples carry their anger and frustrations into bed with alternating dominance. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Of Might and Men 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

What’s missing are the textures and confusion and unfinished business of real life. Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

There are things that come from real life. Dash Shaw on his animated teen movie: 'It was kind of a collage' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

“The appreciation of art can make a sucker out of those who forget the darkness of real life,” Weinman writes. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Murray’s deus ex machina drop-ins are an attempt, in Edwards’s formulation, “to make real life more like the movies.” This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But while researching the project — with the help of a poor actress played by Veronica Lake — Sullivan gets in real trouble and discovers he knows less about real life than he thought. Home entertainment: 'Maps to the Stars' is a showbiz psychodrama 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

The combination of a strong lunar rival and the enlistment of the other half of humanity turbo-boosts the moon race, which in real life fizzled out with the last human landing in 1972. In ‘For All Mankind,’ the Future Is in the Past 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Deen is the sort of performer who is known for routinely making the viewer feel that he has real life chemistry with his scene parter. I watched the “Teen Mom” porno 2013-05-07T20:41:00Z

It's fun for me to play extroverted and all these people that I'm not like in my real life. "I'm not tough": Jennifer Jason Leigh on her career playing challenging roles nothing like herself 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

On stage, Gervais relies on a comic persona that lies somewhere between the characters he plays and the way people imagine he is in real life: smug, misanthropic and a little cowardly. Golden Globes 2011: who'd be an awards show presenter? 2011-01-17T20:30:01Z

You need a real life stage to properly survey and appreciate Clara Son’s polished debut, which featured trained dancers and heavily ruched clothes based on her investigations into the life cycle of the moth. Men’s Wear Hustles to Stay in the Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

“I was just so excited to let him enter my real life and let him see a side of me I often protect,” Jen says. She was hired as a bridesmaid 125 times. Finally, she had her own wedding. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I really like mean games,” Donahue said, “because I’m so nice in real life.” Want to know how Donald Trump views the world? Try playing his ’80s board game. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Le Carré wrote fiction, inside a fictional identity, but it was always anchored in real life. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

In real life the acrimony between Parker and Cattrall is intense to a degree that there was no way the "Sex and the City" catalogue could continue with the actor behind Ms. Jones. Like Samantha, divorce yourself from the "Sex in the City" sequel, which has aged but hasn't matured 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

This is a story, even though it’s based on real life. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

None of this is to say that real life can’t be the stuff of great drama. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

In an interview with The Times in 2002, Mr. Vargas Llosa said that it was the novelist’s obligation to question real life. Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2010-10-07T13:15:00Z

Writing a song is escapism, taking time out of real life to face real problems. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z

Richly well-spoken in real life, Stapleton animated Edith with a musical screech that established her as a one-of-a-kind character from the opening strains of the theme song, “Those Were the Days.” She Who Would Not Be Stifled: RIP Jean Stapleton, All in the Family‘s Edith 2013-06-02T01:35:26Z

While in the United States to promote his new film, Vigalondo phoned in for a conversation about the contradictions and connections between movies and real life. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

But then, cinema isn’t reality, and in a cinematic context, “my thing” shouldn’t have to mean “my thing in real life.” Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Fictionalized shows drawn from real life don’t always satisfy the people depicted. ‘Winning Time’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know Ahead of Season 2 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

The trials and sometime shocking tribulations "Louie" visits on its hero -- much of which Louis presumably has withstood in real life -- are unforgiving, particularly those falling in the show-business realm. Louis CK back for Season 4 of 'Louie' done his way 2014-05-01T15:26:49Z

Everyone here has an example of a rom-com moment that has happened in their real lives. Welcome to Rom Com Fest, a haven for fans who never stopped believing in happily ever after 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Is this real life … or is it just “The Walking Dead”? The parallels are hard to overlook. Danai Gurira Was ‘Amazed’ by Sunday’s ‘The Walking Dead’ 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

His complicated arc dipped and in out of the comedian's real life, such as actual Lenny's struggles with addition. Goodbye to "Mrs. Maisel": You were almost briefly, marvelous 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z

That simulates the way objects that are at different distances in real life appear in slightly different places in each eye's field of view. 3-D means headaches to many, yet companies push on 2011-01-20T13:16:03Z

As in the film, Turner often uses R-rated terms when speaking to Douglas’ character, which never fails to delight her in real life. Fun, foul-mouthed reunion for Turner, Douglas on ‘Kominsky’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Fellow participant Tami, a police officer is real life, fears he is in for a terrible awakening. Could you survive 60 days in prison? Behind bars on the ultimate reality show 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The pair have only just met in real life, but they’ve unknowingly been online best friends for years under their pseudonyms on a fanfic server. Sauce Makers and Scoundrels: Four Hot Romance Novels 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

In the level of heaven reserved for works of the imagination that have saved real lives, “Trevor,” in 10 years, may be holding court on a special and I hope very fabulous cloud. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Have you encountered people in real life who are very focused and intense about their goals, but perhaps need more help in personal situations or don’t fully grasp sarcasm? Idris Elba, Gamer (That’s Why He Was So Keen on ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’) 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The same qualities that he brings to his acting are the qualities that he embodies in real life.” Ron Cephas Jones Has Something to Prove Again 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The scene was based on an incident that occurred in real life. Sofia Coppola’s ‘Bling Ring’ Delves Into Celebrity Obsession 2013-06-05T12:00:01Z

In real life, Sergei and Victor would never sit down together for a conversation, and yet, in Lomasko’s view, they are voices that need to be heard together in order to be fully understood. Listening to Ordinary Russians by Drawing Them One by One 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Movies about real life are not real life. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

It is extraordinary how often that fatuous and insidious line of argument is deployed in real life, incidentally – and interesting to see it attributed to a vampire here. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – review 2012-06-21T20:30:01Z

Other shows, such as "Scrubs" and "Supernatural," also have included numbers that led to customized outgoing messages, but usually fictional phone numbers aren't intended to be dialed in real life. Hold the phone — that fake number works 2011-03-29T21:42:00Z

In real life the couple maintained they did not consummate the relationship until marriage, and the movie panders to this. The real story of grooming that "Priscilla" leaves out 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z

The word Faile is a rearrangement of letters spelling “a life,” but there’s not a lot of real life in the duo’s work. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Now Cage’s real life has collided with a different segment of the same weird world of passionate amateurs, where love and greed drive people to unusual lengths to achieve their dreams. Nic Cage’s dino bones blues: The scientific ethics and international crimes behind the eccentric actor’s latest Hollywood-scale drama 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Surely you have seen a lot of pictures – do you think it’s the same as real life? Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

As in real life, consent is what makes scenes of sexual degradation and endangerment hot. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

The series, which premiered in November of 2015, officially came to an end in 2019, when in real life Zelenskyy ran for president under a new, centrist political party, also called Servant of the People. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s political satire series, "Servant of the People," is back on Netflix 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Bill arrives, in real life, to save her by transfusing her with his blood. "True Blood" recap: Rock bottom 2010-08-02T12:30:00Z

Belonging to the fictional Black woman whose home we are visiting, it makes the rupture between what was and what was denied to its real life inhabitants more stark and stunning. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

And they started adding this thing into the script that they did to each other in real life: one of them would be talking, and they’d all pretend to fall asleep. 'Jennifer Aniston cried in my lap': the inside story of Friends 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

In real life, if I think about my whole life, about everything I have lived through, it has happened to me. Q&A: Freed from a tough past, Anuel AA wants to inspire 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cleese, an original member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, has recently been dealing with a more modern set of problems in his real life as well. John Cleese to Reboot ‘Fawlty Towers’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

“So he feels like a cartoon character, or somebody who doesn’t exist in real life.” Fred Rogers’s Life in 5 Artifacts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

As Bob the Drag Queen explained it to "Vanity Fair," "In real life you would say, 'This outfit is very fierce,' but in drag you would say, 'This outfit is fierce boots.'" 11 drag slang terms you should know 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

I still only appear in period bathing costumes in real life. A Minute With: Emma Thompson on comedy, bathing suits and success 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

“This is TV, this is easy; it’s real life that is difficult,” he tells me when we meet in a Soho hotel the morning after the screening. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

The basic premise here has been a staple of satire since Marie Antoinette got in touch with her inner milkmaid: Spoiled, insulated royalty develops a yen for so-called real life. Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a benefit, she said, in “talking about these things in a controlled or displaced way before they arrive in real life.” Why More Children’s Books Are Tackling Sexual Harassment and Abuse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

He describes his marriage as a digression – his real life was in Malawi, when he was alone. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

In real life, the end result of dip plus carnival ride is as unpleasant as it is inevitable. 20 Things We Learned About The Sandlot After Talking With Scotty Smalls 2013-04-09T16:03:08Z

It’s a problem that concerns Hahn in real life. Kathryn Hahn's X-rated awakening: 'I responded to her sense of hunger' 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

The stories deliberately leave out the messiness of real life, of real emotions, thus allowing the reader to mentally just amble along, mildly intrigued, feeling comfortable and even, yes, cozy. Review | Stilted dialogue, a ludicrous plot: On the pleasures of the vintage whodunit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The two would marry in real life not long after. Chris Pratt enters a new galaxy with his winning brand of acting 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The multi-generational family meals of the Dolmio television ads are presented as the ideal, she says, but how many of us eat like that in real life, except for at Christmas? Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

I've been to the Bluebird Cafe, a famous venue for singer-songwriters, and it looks just as it does in real life. A country music fan on the TV show Nashville 2013-02-26T17:59:01Z

But then I thought something that was real life was TV – I probably just assume everything is. Eye Spy – TV review 2013-06-28T06:00:03Z

Then there was the issue of casting Mr. Ramanujan, who in real life was not traditionally photogenic. A Math Biopic, With Dev Patel, Applies a Different Calculus 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Slaughter’s satirical touches are as deft as her grimmer renditions of real life. The horrific night that changed a family’s life forever 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Jones has portrayed real life figures including Truman Capote and Karl Rove. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z

At work, the voice boosts his career but at the cost of his real life. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's probably in the ways in which kids with make-believe play, test out boundaries, because as you said, I'm very sedate in real life. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Even a brutal brawl between Ria and Lena, at a low point in their relationship, was inspired by real life. In Nida Manzoor’s World, Martial Arts and Jane Austen Belong in the Same Movie 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The three activists – in real life, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, though they are not named in the film – are driving, tailed by several cars. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z

“All these people are struggling with not just kind of becoming superheroes, but becoming these almost mythological beings who wrestle. And that’s being played against their real lives.” How Marc Maron and Alison Brie tag team on “GLOW” 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Two women get apologies and regret speeches from men who wronged them that would play better in Hollywood than real life. Review: Sports guy shows sensitive side in novel 2013-04-03T19:28:11Z

In real life, Trump failed to condemn the Klan when repeatedly asked about it, during a nationally televised interview. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

I think it makes you less present in your real life. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Yes, the oversize quilted puffer vests looked way too unwieldy to be worn in real life. At Louis Vuitton, Michael Jackson Forever 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The actors never got together in real life, although she’s been a staunch advocate for him, despite some of his infamously erratic media interviews. Analysis | From Fred and Ginger to Kate and Leo: When movie couples make fans hope for real-life love 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

"It was so much better than real life," he says. Doctor Who 'better than real life' 2013-11-04T00:22:47Z

Working together and thinking creatively increase players’ chances of success – again, like real life. How “Dungeons & Dragons” saved my autistic son 2014-04-15T11:50:00Z

“I’m blessed that, 30 years a drunk, I’ve managed to live a working actor’s life to be envied. And I’ve lived a great deal of real life while I was at it,” he wrote. ‘Dark Shadows,’ ‘Lethal Weapon’ actor Mitchell Ryan dies 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

They are like, I mean, I get that it’s reality television, but I got to tell you, I think its real life. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The movie led by Mr. Pine had a face-off with the Russian government at a time when, in real life, relations with President Vladimir Putin were increasingly strained. Jack Ryan Still Just Wants to Sit at a Desk 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her onscreen persona is so likable – charismatic but not intimidating, witty but not brittle – that I'd assumed it would translate into real life. Leslie Mann: 'If I don't have a creative outlet, I implode' – interview 2013-02-16T22:00:02Z

Working there would mean hanging out with Joan, wearing narrow ties or skirts and being much better with a biting one-liner than anyone is in real life. Groovy Gigs: Top 10 TV Offices We'd Want to Work In 2012-06-22T10:45:26Z

Fun fact: In real life, the movie called "Argo" in the film began as a screenplay called "Lord of Light," based on a novel by Roger Zelazny. Oscar countdown: 'Argo' 2013-02-13T19:21:28Z

Do people expect you to be big and boisterous in real life because they’ve seen you play those kinds of characters before? Kristen Wiig Would Have Said Yes to One Line in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

“What does happen in real life? What are you doing?” Olivia Benson isn't coming to see me: What I learned about justice from "Law & Order: SVU" 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I have no problem getting matches, it’s more so getting to the stage where I’m like, ‘This seems like a decent person to meet in real life.’” The Women Who Are Giving Dating Apps the Summer Off 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Paramount designer Howard Greer said that in the 1920s, "if a lady in real life wore a train one yard long, her prototype in film wore one three yards long." Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z

Films that tackle a real life, to be sure, but filled with complexities to be teased out, controversies to be explored. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

How can something so true to the rhythms of real life and the zigzags of an individual temperament still hold together as a movie? The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

In real life, as in the film, Jonathan became part of the family, sharing the workload of caring for Stephen with Jane, and helping bring up the children. Jane Hawking: ‘There were four of us in our marriage’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

But in real life, there are a lot of different human beings who show up to the table, speaking truth to power in myriad ways. Sara Ramirez Is Not Che Diaz 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

“If you were animating this in real life, there would be all of these dust particles, and there is a bit of actual dandruff,” Miller told the Times. Here’s How the Animators Made The Lego Movie: Watch 2014-02-20T15:27:07Z

I felt like I was able to have some semblance of a real life. Molly Ringwald Talks About the Most Embarrassing Part of Filming 'The Breakfast Club' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Now that I’ve been away from it, I see how little it affects your real world, your real life, your real career. What comedian Patton Oswalt did on his Twitter-free summer vacation

In real life, Riefenstahl did capture some of Owens’ athletic artistry on film. Review: Jesse Owens Biopic 'Race' Fails Before the Finish Line 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The line between the game and real life is porous at best. Meet the super-obsessed college students making their own low-budget ‘Survivor’ 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

We leave blank spaces for real life and real conversations. How the web series “The Feels” gets oversharing and bisexuality right 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Bisset: Did we think what we were watching was real life? Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Watching the film, Young cried when Davis' character was separated from a white child - she had endured several such partings in real life. For blacks, mix of 'Help' emotions on Oscar night 2012-02-27T22:18:08Z

“No price was too high to be able to keep away intolerable real life.” ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

But being part of the show has made me feel stronger in sisterhood with women in my real life. The Handmaid's Tale stars on playing Janine and Serena Joy: 'I wanted to give Offred a hug' 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

“We all loved him and adored working with him. He was endlessly funny on-screen and and in real life,” she wrote. Beloved ‘Sex and the City’ actor Willie Garson dies at 57 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

In an interview, the actor discussed the appeal of the original “Sex and the City,” viewers’ reactions to Che Diaz and the pressure of coming out on TV before doing so in real life. Sara Ramirez Is Not Che Diaz 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Leaving the theatre, you have to ask yourself how connected these ideas are in real life. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

It's all honest music - everything comes from a real life experience, that's why it has so much depth. BBC Sound Of 2015: Raury 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

What’s strange about this defiantly positive take on divorce is that the taint of a broken marriage hasn’t diminished in real life, at least not as much as we might assume. Riff: The Divorce Delusion 2011-07-08T04:00:45Z

I call myself an action figure in real life and a superhero in fake life. Paul Rudd, Larger Than Life but Still Nice 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

A lot of the lyrical content is very emotional, based on real life. Sounding Out: 'I've rarely met such creative minds' 2012-07-04T11:40:57Z

You're away from real life, and you can run around and see interesting people and order room service. Sofia Coppola looks at Hollywood life in "Somewhere" 2010-12-22T18:35:44Z

It gets at the glorious raconteur Ms. Reynolds clearly was, as well as how ill-suited for real life she might have been, at least according to her daughter. The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

I’m surprised, I tell him, to see these gestures carry over into real life. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Ironically, it was in real life that being ‘regular’ had become unattainable,” the narrator concludes. Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

In real life, though they fought each other in the civil war, De Valera wanted to negotiate with Collins. Michael Collins is 30 seconds from the truth about Irish history 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z

As I sit here this morning hoping I will get a call back from my alcoholic brother, I am grateful you were given another chance at a real life. Learning Humanity From Dogs 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

On the show and in real life, the discovery of valuable natural resources in Greenland could offer a path for ending the country’s dependence on Denmark. A Darker ‘Borgen’ Returns, and Heads to Greenland 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

I spent real life money on #KIMOJI and its malfunctioning so hard. Kim Kardashian Apologizes for 'Breaking' the App Store with Kimojis 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

She described then charge: “When in real life would I get ten messages saying, ‘That guy who you thought was cute, well he thinks you’re cute too’?!!” Bow down to "the Tinder Queen": Dating apps aren't just for hooking up 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

In the final irony, he will hear that perfect scream in real life. Don’t Get What Makes Brian De Palma an Auteur? Try These Two Films 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

And that it teaches people about a better internet and a better way to interact with people both online and in real life. How Reddit’s Ellen Pao survived one of ‘the largest trolling attacks in history’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

As it would turn out, Dickinson — who actually was a talented baker in real life — would not be known widely in her lifetime as a poet. I made the cake from "Dickinson," an underrated feat of domestic labor 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Why aren’t you mourning quietly?” asks Adam, Hannah’s boyfriend, after she reads him a part of her editor’s obituary on Gawker, which in real life has a tag called “And Now They’re Dead.” An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z

The inspiration for it came from an experience I had in real life, but I’ve never had a relationship like the one Bobby and Aaron have in the movie. Billy Eichner Wrote Himself Into the Romance He Wanted With ‘Bros’ 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

She added, “Marty’s character barely cracks a smile in the movie, but in real life he’s an easy audience for a joke.” I’m in ‘Spotlight’, but it’s not really about me. It’s about the power of journalism. 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

"This is a movie about real people, real life," he said. The Carpetbagger: 'Argo' Nods Make Case for Risky Films, Affleck Says 2012-12-13T20:35:08Z

In charting a very different course from Anne Bonny's real life, though, this film runs hopelessly aground. Anne of the Indies forces facts to walk the plank 2012-07-26T07:53:00Z

With a six-year-old pageant queen at its core, and a family more willing to talk to media than police, it was the case that changed everything: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks manifested in real life. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In real life, McCartney told Taylor-Johnson that Lennon didn't hit him. Nowhere Boy is everywhere faithful to John Lennon's teenage years 2012-10-11T09:02:08Z

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires. Ron Livingston Loves to Play the Jerk 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

In real life, it's only in the homes of the rich, or those who pretend to wealth, that surfaces are regularly renewed so that signs of time and conflict are entirely erased. Why the Iranian film industry is like Hollywood before 1969 2013-02-08T15:16:10Z

The pastime has also been revived in real life, though with a less meandering character than in the past. The Wheel Thing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

I want any political or social implications to be as natural a part of the story as they would in a real life, if possible. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

In real life, if you were to meet someone like that, you'd run a mile. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

Being a victim, over and over again, besides being traumatic in real life, is really boring onscreen, and Lee understands that basing a Black story on such an experience is a losing proposition. Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

It's as if the artist needed the fixed certainties of the photographs to anchor his wayward, grotesque figures in real life. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Here are five plot threads from season 4 that have alarmingly similar parallels in real life. The KKK, a brokered convention and cybersecurity — sound familiar?: 5 ways the new “House of Cards” hits close to home 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

It was like the plot of “Network” playing out in real life. This guy changed the world: We won’t see the likes of Jon Stewart again 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Or even better, you can watch Cho in real life Saturday at a staged reading of “Dinner With Friends” at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts. Asian American theater group pushes for the day when it doesn't need #StarringJohnCho 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

There’s a real feeling of high school: the flatness, repetition, claustrophobia, the endless waiting for real life to begin. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

In real life, Mr. Hogancamp lives alone in an overstuffed trailer near Kingston, N.Y., where he busies himself with carpentry and photography, building and documenting a meticulous fantasy world of his own invention. Mark Hogancamp, the Artist as (Imagined) War Hero 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

This kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen in real life. The Jinx: A Real True Detective 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Of course, in real life this plot wouldn’t happen. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Rock stars are meant to seem smaller in real life. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

This week, it is Mr. Waters who is taking on the patron role in real life, announcing the bequest of 372 works by 125 artists, the bulk of his personal collection. John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

But others may respond with impatience to anything that seems too flippant or too unlike real life. Fiction prescription: why libraries make you happy 2013-02-08T18:36:01Z

There is a scene where I pour ceviche on my boyfriend’s head and I did that in real life. After ‘Please Like Me,’ Josh Thomas’s New Show Is All Fiction 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

His hometown, Lincoln, was just as small in real life as it appears in his movie. A Director Returns to the Home He Longed to Leave 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Only the critics and writers who scorn realism imagine that realist writers believe they’re transcribing some “real life” outside the story—of course there’s no possibility of such an “innocent” transcription. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

But no heist movies are like real life. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Robots aren’t leading us on intergalactic sieges in real life, so it’s no surprise that it’s a woman’s voice politely requesting patience on the automated menu at the bank. Alexa, why does the brave new world of AI have all the sexism of the old one? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Well in a weird way it brought a father and son back together in real life and in this movie. When Your Girlfriend Is Your Father 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

In real life, the biggest box-office hit of 1947 was musical comedy Welcome Stranger, starring Bing Crosby as a singing doctor. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

“He and Mark connected in a way that felt like real life, and this was with no camera, this is just me watching the two of them do a scene in Mark’s room,” Green said. Reid Miller brings Jadin Bell’s story to the big screen 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Our art lies in what you have to say in the music, your reactions, the clash of emotions, all heightened 150 or 200 percent above what you see in real life.” Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

In real life, Vicious assaulted NME journalist Nick Kent at a gig at London's 100 Club, though according to Kent he whipped him with a bicycle chain rather than clobbering him with a guitar. Sid and Nancy: an intriguing glimpse into a dysfunctional relationship 2013-03-06T17:50:00Z

In real life, she is smaller than one might think -- tiny, in fact. On the set as "Glee" begins its second season 2010-08-27T05:39:00Z

Frankly, I could care less about having my real life become a video game. 2010-02-03T13:55:00Z

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Now the bystander is suddenly in the spotlight in real life, too. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

It was this intrusion of real life into a fictional world that cemented my relationship with the Three Investigators. On the trail of the Three Investigators 2010-09-23T11:00:00Z

Many listeners find that community in real life, chatting about the show in person and online. On-air drama as radio soap 'The Archers' turns 60 2011-01-04T16:29:08Z

In real life, Schnabel, a Jewish New Yorker who for years avoided engaging in the Palestinian issue - and Jebreal have become a couple. Schnabel movie chronicles Mideast conflict 2010-09-02T16:23:00Z

Personally, I find meeting someone on social media whom you’ve never interacted with in real life quite strange. Selfies, Snapchat and sassy ladies: a teen's guide to social media 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

And so it makes a certain sense, as the fictional world of the Muppets blends with real life, to see them using Twitter. Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Hollywood tries to be a dream factory, but real life inevitably intrudes. In ‘The Earth Dies Streaming,’ Film Criticism That Transcends Raves and Pans 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

To do so, she needs to find her real parents and get them to sign some mysterious form that probably doesn't exist in real life. Spitfire Women 2010-09-18T05:45:00Z

Ms. Chenoweth, who is a practicing Christian in real life, plays the part with arch aplomb that may not mollify viewers sensitive about religion. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z

On paper, he extends the geometric abstraction of Suprematism into real life as a high-minded form of room decoration, while hinting at industrial materials in his paintings. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In real life, fate was not as gentle to Billingsley as it had been to June and her family. Barbara Billingsley, Beaver Cleaver's TV mom, dies 2010-10-16T21:28:00Z

I hate to leave Dillon, Texas, a fly-over fly speck I would never would have even wanted to visit in real life. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z

That same media literacy enables them to be critical viewers, unpacking what they see in the movies and understanding the need for political and legislative change in real life. Will the Stoneman Douglas generation finally call BS on cliched movie gun violence? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Although movies and TV shows depict eager young women joyously jostling to catch the bouquet, I've seldom seen that in real life. Perspective | Miss Manners: Bouquet toss should include only willing, enthusiastic participants 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

This, as well as sounding like the literary-theoretical manifesto for a Nicola Barker novel, is also quite a good description of real life. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z

In real life, were people running after me screaming and crying? Jason Bateman: 'I've got a great deal of dirt on Jenifer Aniston' 2011-07-15T23:09:00Z

She wrote “Running” for Ms. Brock and Mr. Barrish, who are married in real life and artistic directors of the Barrow Group. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z

"A performance is not real life," he asserts. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

If only real life so consistently rewarded such diligence. Critic’s Notebook: Failure, in Video Games, Has a Sweet, Addictive Allure 2014-03-16T21:50:20Z

Did you visit any real life scientists for research? Rachel Weisz turns action star for new "Bourne" film 2012-08-09T16:40:54Z

In real life, women in tech are undertaking ambitious projects. Down with tech bros! It's time for TV's female nerd revolution 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

And if there’s one thing Gilpin loves, it’s the messiness of real life. How ‘GLOW’ Helped Betty Gilpin Embrace Her Inner Weirdo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

One, Van Le Ngoc, crows: "It's so intense, it looks like we do in real life – only better." 3D dance takes a great leap forward 2010-09-28T21:15:00Z

Alas, that is not the case in real life. A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, of course, no dichotomy is so straightforward. Review | A pianist offers the shape of emotion and brilliance 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Celebrities tend to appear more pedestrian in real life, but Jones seems even more like an alien cyborg who reluctantly came to Earth for a visit. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Presumably, listening to the “Hamilton” tracks in real life sounds a bit more enticing. At the first 'Hamilton' performances, the party is just getting started 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

In real life, I doubt these scientists actually disagree on anything as basic as this question. TV review: Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? and Neighbourhood Watched 2011-03-02T23:30:00Z

In real life, this is a widespread suspicion, sometimes justified, sometimes not. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

It also prompts those who are actually interested in their match to get the ball rolling and meet in real life.” Ghosting busters: why tech companies are trying to stop us blanking each other 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“In record label meetings in real life, am I saying, ‘I’m Kanye but I’m white?’” Lil Dicky on Dave: 'Everything the show says about my penis is true' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

"It's my first time seeing buzkashi in real life, and I'm a little scared," said Fariba, a student from Ghazni province trying to snap photos of the horsemen without getting too close. Silk Road festival, Afghanistan: goat polo, tug-of-war and dreams of peace 2013-07-08T18:03:54Z

He was a famous writer, and she owns a construction company, which is the sort of uncommented-upon oddity you get when you base a script on real life. Review: Looking for Love Among the Older Set in ‘Curvy Widow’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

If superhero fare has made even cosmic catastrophe seem banal, and you want to reconnect to the small-scale vicious potencies of real life, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

In real life, so many women are seeking to get into that profession that colleges are scrambling to keep up with it. Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

But the two-time Academy Award-winner says she can't take it too seriously: "It goes as fast as the walk on the red carpet does, it's over and real life comes back." Fonda not taking Cannes glam attention seriously 2012-06-07T20:09:11Z

Set within the environment of the brother’s housing estate, the film takes an innovative approach to storytelling, dividing the screen between movement and interview, choreography and real life. Brotherhood, love and vulnerability: Lanre Malaolu on filming The Circle 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Obviously, until now, game makers could always rely on the fact that women weren't allowed on the front lines in real life, either. Games likely to follow Pentagon on women in combat 2013-02-01T14:37:22Z

The novel ends in a fantasy sequence, skipping a year ahead of the “real life” time line of Pauline and Charles. How “Younger” Became “Gossip Girl” for the Publishing Industry 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

In real life, I identify with the victim. Louise Bourgeois, Influentual Sculptor, Dies at 98 2010-05-31T21:24:00Z

Sensitive readers will be relieved to know that, in real life, Woodcock abandoned his capitalist heroics the second time round and just let the robbers in. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: surprise – it's not total horse pucky 2013-07-11T11:36:34Z

But while Him & Her does get sick, it does so in the way that real people in real life are sick. Have you been watching ? Him & Her? 2010-09-28T09:25:00Z

Whenever there is a horror situation like the one this novel explores, in real life or in a work of art, the question arises: Do we require the worst details? A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

This freedom was joyful and also a little sad because it would end upon returning to the 24/7 demands of my “real life.” In Portugal, a personal Age of Discovery 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

It not only had to look great on screen, it had to pass muster in real life, as he went around hitting on women at bingo parlors and attending child beauty pageants. The Carpetbagger: Johnny Knoxville’s Makeup Passes the Street Test 2014-01-14T19:58:13Z

I’d gotten one from Professor R. W. Supernius, “A Maker of Wondrous Artifacts,” who in real life was Todd W. Spencer, a Hollywood special effects man. Steampunks at Sea 2014-03-14T15:50:39Z

In real life, the majority of Allied forces in Burma were British, South African, Indian or Chinese. Objective, Burma! – liberating cinema from the truth 2012-11-30T10:56:18Z

In real life, her kids are 5, 7 and 9. Dark but funny turns in new derelict mom books 2013-04-30T16:46:15Z

“Social media and magazines are not real life,” she wrote. Fitness influencer shows how 'before and after' photos are manipulated 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

Someone in real life is getting away with murder as we speak, somewhere in the word. ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan on 'Breaking Bad' and 'the Plumbing of It All' 2012-09-04T17:51:49Z

In real life, experimental data is not so easy to gather. Let’s Not Pretend to Be Who We Aren’t 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Each rewatch was met with a certain amount of parental displeasure, an understandable concern that I would blur the lines between what happened on screen and what was happening in real life … The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

As in that old-studio gem, the story in “Burlesque” unwinds both onstage and off, a twinned perspective that in most backstage musicals helps define the line between ostensible real life and performance. | 'Burlesque': Small-Town Girl Trades Her Na?vet? for Lingerie 2010-11-23T23:03:00Z

They apologized for their unprofessional reactions, but their remorse was immediately negated as they, again, emphasized that this was the largest worm they had ever seen in real life and in textbooks. The parasites inside my mother were both real and spiritual 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

What’s the biggest challenge the two of you have faced in real life over your 10 years of friendship? Friends Forever, Filmmakers for Now 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Understatement: Farming in real life is harder than farming with spreadsheets. How to make Italian mozzarella in the U.S.? Step 1: Learn to milk water buffalo. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Serving justice is for movies and fairytales; real life requires, instead, that you find a path to your own private peace. Why I never tried to find out who murdered my father 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

All three of us are moms, and we kind of balance the creative and the real life. 'Twilight' creator Meyer makes Sundance debut 2013-01-20T20:46:03Z

The hotel has a pretty nice bar, a good place to go when confronted with the truth that real life is generally an unmagical thing. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

The broadcaster said the show would see them interrogate "the nation's best-loved celebrities and some of Britain's quirkiest real life characters". Mel and Sue to host ITV chat show 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

“But I was really hooked on an Ashcan-School-like view of real life, of the messiness and the complexity of it.” Joel Meyerowitz in New Book and at Howard Greenberg Gallery 2012-11-18T03:49:04Z

People are beautiful and heroic in a way they aren’t, usually, in real life. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

It’s very charming, fame, but it’s not real life. Adele on Love, Fame, Ego and ‘25’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

We can share sorrow for those affected by a natural disaster or the loss of a loved one in our very real lives or the passing of the next-door neighbor we never got to know. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z

Since graduating, they say real life has been a bumpy ride. It melts plastic and can kill – so why is club drug GHB on the rise? 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

"They're loosely based on tragedy and things that really shake up human beings in real life." Mastodon explores the heavy side of life in 'Once More Around the Sun' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Apart from Colbert, no one in public life understands better than he how engaging assholism can be, both in real life and in its broadcast simulacra. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z

“This isn’t a soap opera, this is real life,” she says. What do all these stories of vaccine denial deaths do to our sense of empathy? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Of course, in real life, Ms. Rose did not grow up in Queens but on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. My Son, My Daughter: A Mother’s Evolution 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

They just have an amazing and strange imagination, but I couldn’t hurt a mouse in real life. ArtsBeat Blog: A More Perfect Union: Tom Six Discusses 'The Human Centipede II' 2011-09-21T16:04:10Z

In “real life,” the flow of traffic pushes you from one piece to the next, maybe before you’re ready to move on. Review | Miss visiting museums? Engaging with art on a small phone screen can actually be rewarding. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The ever-popular GTA games are set in locales inspired by actual U.S. cities, and you partake in activities that would land you in jail in real life. Can gaming satisfy our pandemic thirst for travel and adventure? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The unfortunate truth is that the Act 3 reversal – where the indifferent person realizes that they are in love and transforms into a wonderful partner – rarely occurs in real life. I'm a gay French man looking for love – but app users just want sex 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

You want to convince him that “bad guys” like Mr. Freeze and the Joker don’t exist in real life while also tackling the idea of what real-life bad guys are really like, right? Perspective | Fictional villains terrify my son. How do I tell him about real-life bad guys? 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Both the Cosplay Is Not Consent movement and Wheton assume that in real life, people are capable of being decent human beings when pushed to do so. The Comic Book World Is Getting Safer for Women, But the Gaming World Isn't 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Sure, it seems cute in the movie, but imagine if a guy did that in real life. 9 Reasons The Notebook Still Sucks 10 Years Later 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In real life, a few of them appear to have taken different views. Erin Brockovich: jury out on the details 2013-02-28T14:49:00Z

But real life is, of course, what science is all about. Is this a golden age for science on TV? 2013-07-25T12:50:51Z

But the idea that any mobster actually used the phrase in real life has been greeted with derision by Hoffa experts. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Then we can use it to examine real life. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z

That’s not the way it is in real life: it goes against emotions, feelings, sex even. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Director Who Likes to Start in the Middle 2012-05-23T12:00:56Z

He is mocking Adolf Hitler, each dopey and villainous character having a Nazi counterpart in real life. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

There’s a crushing amount of news in real life, though. VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Naturally, it helps that Garfield, 31, and Stone, 25, have been quietly dating in real life since meeting on the "Amazing Spider-Man" set three years ago. Spider-Man swings back to big screen, trapped in web of love 2014-05-01T06:44:54Z

A plot-line about Victoria intervening to pardon the Newport Chartists—rebels from the Newport Rising of 1839 who wanted to improve life for the working classes—which did not happen in real life. The Real History Behind PBS’s Historical Drama 'Victoria' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

There I’d be, prancing around the stage in a leotard, fishnet stockings and high heels, singing about the “wages of sin” while in real life I had never even been kissed. Modern Love: He’s Playing Our Song 2012-09-21T22:26:05Z

In real life, there aren’t many parties at the moon towers. Pursuits: Austin’s Moon Towers, Beyond ‘Dazed and Confused’ 2014-02-13T15:08:48Z

In real life, traces of Darius creep into the actor's speech. Lakeith Stanfield, Contemporary Chameleon 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

I doubt that in real life, when the party’s over, anyone surviving will have much opportunity to enjoy a view. ‘How It Ends’ and ‘No Blade of Grass’: Grim Visions of Tomorrow 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

BRITT: My book is an attempt to replicate on the page what it’s like to talk to me in real life when I’m conflating weird opinions about science fiction with random personal anecdotes. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“None of these people need us in their real lives — they all have careers, they’re not going to be ballroom dancers when this is over,” Katz said. ‘Dancing With the Stars’ perfected a formula for kitschy, escapist joy. Can it survive today’s politics? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

The halcyon days are gone; real life is here. Before Midnight: 'what grown-up romantics have instead of lightsabers' 2013-06-17T05:00:00Z

"It's really insulting," she laughs, "as it somehow means they don't think my voice sounds nice in real life." How do I become a … continuity announcer 2012-11-13T11:00:38Z

Although the scenes she stages "would never exist in real life," that is less important than that they "reveal some kind of invisible emotional truth." Veterans' portraits bring war's consequences into sharp focus 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

“It is with deep sadness to inform you today that we lost a true icon, a real life superhero,” the statement read. WWE Star Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer Dead at 45 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It signifies another collective, creative voice crying out to the wilderness and demanding the nuanced approach to all people—those fictionalized and those who exist in real life. 5 Black women who profoundly changed TV in 2015 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

But still, the revolution Godard pursued in his cinema never came to be in real life. Jean-Luc Godard nostalgia: is it time to stop pining for the great director’s past? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

The resulting compositions — of kids skipping rope, a couple screaming at each other, an unhappy sasquatch and pair of purple-skinned professors — capture the awkward authenticity of real life. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Please let the lockdown be over soon, so I can see this amazing work in real life. Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

“This look is more what she loves in real life,” Ms. Hurliman said. Red Carpet Watch: Oprah Winfrey, the Comfort Queen 2014-02-21T22:01:03Z

Not unless our attachment is compulsive and without reward or utility; interferes with participation and success in real life; and causes significant distress or impairment. Internet addiction is just the next evolutionary step 2013-05-31T15:20:00Z

Now Ms. Kloots is processing the sudden end of a new marriage that looked perfect on social media but in real life was real. The Story of a Famous Covid Widow 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

In real life, Mr. Barbieri, who will attend LaGuardia next year, grew up downtown and fell for acting after playing the Grinch in a play at Our Lady of Pompeii School in Manhattan. Breakthrough Performances From the Summer Movies Season 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

We are talking real life problems here: Men who have had a triple bypass or have late onset diabetes or maybe just shoveled too much snow in the afternoon. I Was Misinformed: Was It Fatal for You, Darling? 2014-03-20T21:32:38Z

In real life, the controller’s screen depicts the teacher’s face. Video Games: Deadpool, Company Heroes 2, Game & Wario, Color Zen and the Swapper 2013-07-09T20:36:52Z

Because half the cast is based on historical figures, you can count out anyone who lived past 1931 in real life. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Paying the Price 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Instead, the singers tango, as they might in real life, to a gramophone recording of Weill’s music. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

“I wonder if we almost subconsciously don’t accept this is real life,” he said. Working From Bed Is Actually Great 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

I never wear makeup in my real life. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on why Russia’s meddling in our elections is ‘absolutely fascinating’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

"In real life, we romance and get on each other's nerves and laugh and do all the things that any other race of people do," he told Hello! Where's the love, "You People"? The frustration of Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill's interracial rom-com 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In one moving scene in the new season, BoJack reflects on how there is never going to be a happy ending in real life because the story – and, by extension, our stories – simply keep going. How BoJack Horseman became the most empathetic show on television 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s back to real life in my usual Express outfits. What I Wore: Olivia Munn: What I Wore for Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:04:09Z

But in real life, Wight was a lot like his friend Brian Sinclair, the model for Tristan. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’: Who Was the Real James Herriot? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

While Beavan's clearly delighted to be spending her days immersed in costumes, she cares little for fashion in her real life. 'King's Speech' costume designer Jenny Beavan brings history to life 2011-02-18T22:04:44Z

The only downside was that school buses in real life were less exciting – and that our favourite teachers didn’t even drive them. Five kids' TV shows that should get a Reading Rainbow-style revival 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

In some cases actors die in real life, or their characters are written out of long-running TV shows to create dramatic tension. Death, disputes and disgrace, but the TV show must go on 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I think that’s the goal, politically, for me — not to put it in my music necessarily, just because I feel like I express it more in real life. Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled By Women: The Round-Table Conversation 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

I’m still trying to capture a “real life in the studio” feeling. A Choreographer in Quarantine (the Kind With a Guard in the Hall) 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

“If this were real life, I would say we were dating,” I said. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

At the Akris show, a real life princess was sitting front row. Fashion Review: The Princess Principle: Spring/Summer 2012 in Paris 2011-10-03T18:24:57Z

The real life scramble for Africa was the pillaging of much of the African continent for its resources and its people. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Most mobsters, both in real life and on-screen, are generally capitalists of the black market ilk: business owners who exploit their own workers, and have little compunction for their worker's own rights or freedoms. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

In real life, Dr. Wivel, the curator, said, Raphael’s preoccupations were decidedly more earthly. For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Much of what occurs in that show would not happen so easily in real life, if at all, which is the point. What "Ted Lasso" could help us to understand about athletes protecting their mental health 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Then he married Aaliyah in real life, obtaining forged documents to make her appear 18, not 15 as she actually was. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

In real life, as in the film, the tabloid media can’t wait to describe the home of every perfect couple as a lurid crime scene, haunted by cruelty, infidelity, and wickedness. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Now, thankfully, that’s finally changing and we are allowed to say ‘fried rice’ like in real life.” Burt Kwouk, the karate-chopping manservant Cato in the ‘Pink Panther’ comedies, dies at 85 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

And that our relationship has all the mess and unpredictability of real life. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z

The population of EastEnders was also younger than in real life, she said. Soap's race depiction 'not authentic' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The great thing about fantasies is that they can be whatever you want and by their very nature they are not about the humdrum or fallout of real life. I’ve fallen in love with a colleague – but I’m married with children 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

"I came to this conclusion: that real life is actually the theatre," says Arena. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z

But real life doesn't have closure usually, not in the way we want it to, not in the way we hope. "Cheer" returns and goes full out, even when COVID and a criminal arrest come for the cheerleaders 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

It is pleasant to think of them as points of light, because in real life, when magnified, they are hideous. Review: ‘The Secret World Inside You’ Explores the Microbial Human 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most inexplicable was Dulles’ directive to the CIA’s technicians to duplicate as many of Bond’s cinematic spy devices as possible in real life. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

This wasn’t real life, but a scene they developed and performed as part of a theatre course in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2009. How we met: ‘I told her I loved her – in Uzbek. She had no idea what I was saying’ 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

And if it is those people's real lives I don't think we should be filming it. The Middle, Modern Family, The West Wing: Rebecca Front's favourite TV 2013-05-27T11:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Nucky moved through his real life Gangster Chronicles as Gyp laid siege to Tabor Heights and found novel ways to bludgeon or flame-broil those unlucky folks who came across his path. Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z

Russell did actually pull this off, though in real life his escape outfit was a less eye-catching pair of women's red tracksuit bottoms and a tie-dyed T-shirt. I Love You Phillip Morris: pure escapism at its best 2012-11-15T10:28:34Z

Thank you so much to @clarkgregg for being a real life hero! The Avengers (and More) Assemble for Cancer: See Their Selfies 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The actress, mother of a toddler in real life, will be playing the mother of a baby and two preteen stepchildren. Jessica Alba to star in "Spy Kids 4" 2010-08-24T05:36:00Z

But thinking and writing about it and everything that has gone down has been dispiriting — real life has a way of insinuating itself into even better-wrought fantasies. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Nobody loves dealing with an entitled S.O.B. in real life, though on television series they do seem to get the best lines. "Succession": a wealth of cruel humor 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

She writes that it’s hard to distinguish between real life and Second Life feelings. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Butterflies are so beautiful in real life that it's hard to rival them in art. Butterfly keeper Mark Tansley on Damien Hirst: The Souls 2010-10-10T21:15:00Z

In real life, this isn’t a trait most people look for in their friends, but as a reality television entity, he couldn’t have been better. David Gest: from impresario to star of British reality TV 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

However, her '80s film performances have since been lauded for the same kind of openness and sincerity she displays in real life. In praise of Cher, the self-proclaimed "Betty White of Rock 'n' Roll" 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

In TV medical dramas such as Casualty and Holby City, patients are always resuscitated – in real life, that doesn't always happen. Another View on Tiger Country 2011-02-06T22:45:01Z

That is apparently a form of, not theft exactly, but of using real life. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is not so fun in real life. ‘Queen Bee syndrome’: the myth that keeps working women in their little box 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to have something that feels like an obstacle in real life,” she said. Two Museums to Host Pollock ‘Black Pourings’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“It was a natural choice,” he said, “to try to fill, in real life, one of the most sweet and loved characters in the world, without becoming a ‘Ho Ho’ superficial cliché.” Heads Up: Denmark, Where Joy Is Always in Season 2013-12-11T17:29:14Z

In Night Vale it’s aliens, and in real life it’s cancer.” From the Ear to the Page, the ‘Night Vale’ Podcast Becomes a Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Bears no more resemblance to real life sex than ... Motherlode Blog: Approaching (Carefully) the Subject of Teens and Porn 2012-08-10T18:15:43Z

Dialogue is so extraordinary because it has to sound like real life, but it never is real life; it’s immensely artful. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts on parenthood and family, both in “Bombs” and in real life? Jesse Eisenberg loves his “mercurial” roles: “It’s wonderful to perform in a way that the authenticity of the character is of paramount concern” 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Do you have any real life experiences that reflect this? "Dumplin'" star Danielle Mcdonald on new opera comedy & pursuing her dreams: "I never had a Plan B" 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

This “Twilight Zone”-esque experience is just one of the real life mysteries that Starlee Kine investigates in “The Mystery Show,” an early hit from Gimlet Media. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

But Jackson insists she has the best gang to help her find her way: the on-screen chemistry between the Derry girls is as strong in real life. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

REMEMBER: When Jennifer Garner was pregnant on Alias and in real life? The Odd Life of Timothy Green: A Fairy Tale for the Infertile 2012-08-14T12:00:02Z

The stories of hip hop, and the real lives behind them, have always revealed more about the inequity of our society than about individual choices. No, Cardi B is not like Bill Cosby: Controversy over resurfaced video is fueled by bad faith outrage 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Having lived through this in real life informed the performances, but onscreen Juliette and Romeo never seem like people reliving an experience. Declaration of War: Romeo and Juliette Take on Cancer 2012-01-27T16:28:06Z

But I was surprised that the show isn’t just introducing America to real life here and instead presents something that transcends the unique geography and character found within the city's borders. "Treme" feels like home to me 2010-04-18T15:01:00Z

In real life, not long after her sister rose to burlesque fame in the 1930s, June established a solid career on Broadway and in Hollywood films. June Havoc, Vaudeville Star, Dies 2010-03-29T15:33:00Z

“I do believe that is a little bit more of an online narrative than it is in real life,” Bloys said, of the final season backlash. Can ‘House of the Dragon’ Be HBO’s Next ‘Game of Thrones’? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

With “Full House,” it was “the idea that this was the happiest set in Hollywood but that real life was a lot harder,” he said. Lifetime Commits to ‘Unauthorized’ Movie Franchise 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The program, Mr. Fain’s notion of what a 21st-century recital can be, explores the interaction between real life and the Internet. The Week Ahead: Sept. 18 ? Sept. 24 2011-09-16T17:55:53Z

In real life, the exiled couple had children and, as often happens, the rebel-turned-parent proceeded to look for order. Tomi Ungerer’s Triumphant Return 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

They are interspersed with gripping scenes of real life in the actual village, captured with poetic flair. 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The actresses playing these true-to-life Gen Y losers are unusually privileged in real life. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

Cusack's Wilson appears long after Landy had gone from being a presumptive savior — in real life the singer had at first enlisted Landy to help with his recovery — to a captor. Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy' a complex venture for Cusack, Giamatti 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

As is often the case in pop culture, media representation has real life consequences. Barbie has become an asexual icon, and we should all learn from her 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The people who trade in targeted abuse online exist in real life too. Fishing for feminists? | Eva Wiseman 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, Megan didn’t just do one tour, like she does in the movie. Q&A: Gabriela Cowperthwaite on killer whales and canine love stories 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

That would be an alarming scenario in real life, but in fiction it’s not so bad, because the accidental president happens to be Jack Bauer. Review: In ‘Designated Survivor,’ Jack Bauer Gets a Promotion 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The film introduced Hansard, frontman of The Frames, to a global audience and the film essentially captured the time during which the co-stars fell for each other in real life. The 22 Best Movie Soundtracks of the 2000s 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

At a time when real life has become a horror show for women, girls and so many others in America, her characters cut through. Maika Monroe: The thinking woman’s scream queen 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

In real life, of course, the song was actually the brainchild of a man named Bill Backer, a creative director at McCann-Erickson. Twitter Needs to Know Who Wrote the Coke Ad in the 'Mad Men' Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

They passed the time discussing whether the “Vanderpump Rules” stars were, in fact, the same in real life as they are on the reality show. ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Cast Pours It On During a Bar Crawl 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

I don't play up to that guy off the TV," he readily agrees, "because I wouldn't particularly want to meet him in real life. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

In some ways Dors's talent was underdeveloped – her real life lines were funnier and saucier than most she was given by scriptwriters. Diana Dors: more than just the British Marilyn Monroe 2010-06-10T22:06:00Z

“Mountains were embedded into my memory before I ever saw them in real life,” she said. Millions of Mountains, Billions of Flowers 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

It was so much better than real life. Doctor Who 'better than real life' 2013-11-04T00:22:47Z

Unlike in real life, the pandemic is over and the village’s bistro, bookstore and boulangerie are open. Review | Louise Penny’s latest mystery imagines a post-covid world. Things are still pretty complicated. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

This was a choreography of real life, an orchestration of random encounters. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z

That does happen to lots of ordinary children in real life, of course. Gillian Cross: 'I'm looking at reality, as hard as I can' 2013-05-20T16:22:55Z

And that's because, well, when you see "a famous person" in real life, it suddenly becomes very obvious that they are just a person. Baftas 2012: 'A business conference with great canapes' 2012-02-13T17:51:26Z

That said, the series' choice to show a character who is not a white woman suffering from the illness more closely resembles the real life diversity of people who need treatment. Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Arnold always plays these big muscular guys, but there's a sweetness to Arnold in real life, and we want to bring that sweetness to the screen. Arnold Schwarzenegger picks drama for comeback 2011-05-05T03:37:33Z

“What do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?” she asked. Two Beds and the Burdens of Feminism 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Advances in digital technology at the major auction houses have made many wealthy collectors comfortable with spending large sums on 21st century works they haven’t seen in real life. A Grand Old Art Fair Returns, to a World That Has Changed 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

We can’t share dreams in real life, but movies bring us close. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z

We are the ones who’ll suffer the consequences, in real life, not just in the afterlife. American Evangelicals, Israeli Settlers and a Skeptical Filmmaker 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“F— stigma and hiding in the dark, this is my real life.” Poet-Rapper-Artist Mykki Blanco: I'm HIV Positive 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Is that something you normally do in your real lives? 'Sunset Daze' gals talk stripper poles, reality TV 2010-04-28T13:30:00Z

She's here with "Rust and Bone," an unlikely love story from Jacques Audiard, in which she plays a whale trainer who must find her way back to a real life after a terrible accident. A movie-star day at TIFF 2012-09-07T22:30:07Z

In real life that person is obviously Miller but it’s more fun to think of them as a character linked to this universe. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Will it return to real life when next danced? Critic?s Notebook: Is Ballet Dying? Sure, It?s Died Many Times 2011-01-05T00:02:49Z

“Here we saw something that could happen in real life,” she said. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z

And then she more or less went away, retreating into real life. Music Review: Iris DeMent at City Winery 2013-01-23T22:12:33Z

Ms. Atkinson and Mr. Gill, who are married in real life, romp with evident delight through the featherweight plot about the Actor’s scheme to reveal his wife’s straying heart by posing as a potential lover. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z

He even sees Legend as the ultimate embodiment of Arthur in real life. "Arthur" creator on iconic cartoon's 25-year legacy and those "legendary" memes 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

That's probably not quite as scary as him being there in real life, but it's still quite scary! Sinister? Not from where I'm standing 2012-06-20T10:33:00Z

Perhaps some of the tiptoeing around Margaret, who is still alive and painting in real life, is due to Burton's inability to shake the sense that those eyes were watching him. Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' feels too paint-by-numbers 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Through the use of long, uncomfortable scenes, often shot with minimal camera movement — a Mungiu trademark — “Graduation” explores that moral gray area that lies in the shadows between idealism and real life. ‘Graduation’s’ Cristian Mungiu on ‘compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

He responds: I paint mostly from real life. ArtsBeat Blog: Questions Raised About Dylan Show at Gagosian 2011-09-27T00:20:58Z

It doesn’t happen that way in real life and sometimes the good guy gets it, and I think that’s why people still mourn her death because they just never saw it coming. From bingeing to unpleasant characters to Sharpie fumes, dramatic actors tell all 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In real life, North Korea complained to the United Nations in June, accusing the United States of sponsoring terrorism and committing an act of war by allowing the movie's production. Sony spoof 'The Interview' makes North Korea butt of the joke 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

“So online laughter is very much like a fingerprint, which is actually very much like real life. You recognize people’s laughs.” Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Type ‘Ha,’ Not So Much. 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

But in real life, even in Los Angeles, can Ms. Coolidge really not find a date? Jennifer Coolidge Loads Up on Vegan Chocolate Bars and Whipped Cream 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It lands uncannily now, since at some point during its gestation, real life caught up with the book’s speculative world. From the Ice of Greenland, a Deadly Virus and a Familiar Doom 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Movies love the romance of the white-hatted hero, but in real life we also need to save ourselves. ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

At the same time, however, the scene was an object lesson in the manipulative power of cinema — especially its ability to compel us to identify with characters we would fear and loathe in real life. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

And real life is so flawed and scary and it doesn't wrap itself up in these neatly prescribed bows that cinema might. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

“The Experiment” was originally envisioned as a “meta room,” meant to examine our urge to let a contrived experience substitute for real life. In a virtual escape room, a family finds clues for getting through the pandemic 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Plus, actors don’t want to reveal that in real life, they look their age — that can be bad for business. Hollywood’s secret beauty trick: The special effects facelift 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Nowhere is this fear more prevalent than among MGTOW, with any suggestion of meeting in real life usually receiving a swift and scornful rebuttal. Men going their own way: the toxic male separatist movement that is now mainstream 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

That said, sometimes real life can intervene and improve films. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z

In real life, he said, most of our social structures are “predicated upon the monopoly of certain forms of violence,” which is part of why we behave. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“But few developments could have been more surprising than the election results. For some reason, in film, being upended can be a very pleasurable experience, where in real life it often isn’t.” Jessica Chastain’s ‘Miss Sloane’ Echoes Campaign Rhetoric 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The actor playing Park’s Brick, Daniel Bess, is her husband in real life too. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

She then tries to impose her self-help mantras and plans for bringing world peace on reluctant colleagues and a downer mother played by Diane Ladd, Ms. Dern’s mother in real life. HBO Gives Low-Rated ‘Enlightened’ a Second Shot 2013-01-08T22:53:38Z

Meanwhile, the humor, pathos, and communitarian striving so well captured in All Together and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will continue to play out in real life, here and abroad, where it really counts after all. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z

“I knew that is was pretty unrealistic to meet up with these people and collaborate with them in real life.” A Virtual Gathering of Feminist Artists 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But hand on heart I don’t think I have ever been scared, really properly scared by horror: and this is despite being a fantastic scaredy-cat in real life. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

I am taken with the way he captures talent whether he’s shooting them in character or in real life. Where Street Art Comes Indoors and Legos Climb the Walls 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

It wasn't all glossy, like everything I'd seen before; it was very British and ordinary, people roughing it, the way I kind of thought it probably would be in real life. My first X-rated movie 2010-08-12T21:46:00Z

Wight suggests drawing out the conversation by asking kids to relate the story to something that happened in real life or to come up with a question they’d like to ask the author. Perspective | Yes, parents, there is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Indians are more expressive and emotional in real life, and gritty realism should incorporate that. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

This was not, after all, real life; it was a gathering of real-life experiences. Stealing from Blockbuster 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z

“In real life, things don’t always work out. Real life is messy and bumpy, so basically, nothing could go ‘wrong.’ The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

She based her story to real life stories, and then launched it into a question of morality and drama. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

“Oh, no. I’m becoming more and more and more true. Trust me on this one: I’m following the spirit, no doubt. So, yeah, ‘Plays for the Plague Year’ looks like real life, cause it is. Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

But he seems more a disrupter of both styles, part of an ongoing process of the contamination of abstract painting by real life that has been underway at least since early modernists like Miro. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Supreme felt like “Kids” in real life, Mr. Clark said; a few actors in the film even worked there. Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme 2012-11-21T22:29:38Z

I had access to people who became friends in real life. Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Boyhood,” which director Richard Linklater filmed over 12 years, finally meshing real life and fiction in an absorbing coming-of-age drama, is just the kind of audacious experiment the medium needs right now. 2015 Oscar nominations show lack of diversity in a year when films didn’t 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Points and perks are great, but you need cards that work in real life. How Do You Pack for a Yearlong Trip? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Secrets and resentments abound, but loyalty and abiding affection carry this bicoastal tale of actors finding their way in real life. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

In real life, the villains of this piece weren’t protesters from outside but Hollywood’s own Joseph Breen and the Production Code he enforced. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Growing up in a chocolate factory sounds like a dream, but for 12-year-old Brynn O’Neill, it’s pretty close to real life. This tween has a sweet job: Working in the family chocolate shop 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

In real life, I could extract nothing astute or even coherent from my current state of upheaval. I Lost My Job and My Husband. Then I Found Newfoundland. 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Barely any women — in the film or in real life — have done what she has: made it to the top tier of the world’s orchestral podiums. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

It should be mentioned in every piece because that drug single-handedly destroys our friend group on screen and continues to detonate generations in real life. FX's fearless "Snowfall" comes to a close: A perfect ending to an American horror story 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

It’s like adventures or people who climb mountains or jump out of airplanes; I find real life challenging enough. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Whether this was intentional or not, Godard's anti-technique produced an unforced naturalness that struck many younger viewers around the world as closer to real life than any scripted drama could have been. "Breathless": Rebel postcard from the past 2010-05-29T18:01:00Z

In real life Ms. Joosten was a psychiatric nurse and single mother in suburban Chicago when she began her acting career at 42. Kathryn Joosten, Neighbor on ‘Desperate Housewives,’ Dies at 72 2012-06-03T16:23:33Z

"What makes me laugh in real life is anything inappropriate," added Cox, who is also one of the producers of the independent film, which premiered Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival. Courteney Cox finds dark humor in suicide in 'Just Before I Go' 2014-04-25T13:03:52Z

Just as in Tinder, the photos might be better than the dish appears in real life. Tender is Tinder for recipes, but with similarly disappointing choices 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Q.As much as you play to appreciative audiences in real life, you’re still portraying a comedian who doesn’t satisfy any audiences. For Gregg Turkington’s Character, There’s No Success Like Failure 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In real life, however, Dame Judi maintains there's nothing good to be said about about aging. Stars check back into Marigold Hotel 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

He takes things in your real life and makes them scary.” Rrrring! Hello, Sidney? It?s Happening Again! 2011-04-10T01:13:02Z

This is the series I recommend most often to friends and strangers in real life. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

But, she added, the film took some artistic liberties. “in real life, if you’re on the cusp of breaking up, don’t go to Vegas. You’re not going to make it.” 'Think Like a Man Too' deepens the relationships, Vegas-style 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Blustering, bullying, and bravado play well on reality TV but can be disastrous in real life when you are running a country. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Both men have had experience bending sordid real life into sometimes equally sordid drama. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z

Here were women singing about real life rather than slush, and giving the men a run for their money. Glastonbury 2010: I love Snoop Dogg the artist ? but despise him as a man 2010-06-27T18:59:00Z

But the social strictures that often govern fashion choices in real life do not yet really hold sway in virtual life. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s based on Poehler’s real life, where he was a lawyer in the US who moved to Sweden and eventually got into standup comedy. Welcome to Sweden: Amy Poehler’s brother takes American charm abroad 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

We hear him say, as he did in real life, “We shall overcome.” “Selma” Vs. “Selma” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Much of “The Amazons” is devoted to exploring how the real lives of Amazons were transformed into myth. The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The characters all work for a television show that creates a syrupy narrative out of sordid and gritty real life, and they do that by consciously fudging the distinction between truth and fiction. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

I had drawn from real life and made them two-dimensional, so to speak, and it was extraordinary seeing that metamorphose from the page into three dimensions again. Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form 2010-05-17T16:33:00Z

Honestly, it’s like anything else that takes a germ from real life. Motherlode: A Baby With Three Mothers 2011-07-20T16:05:54Z

In real life, you don’t speak Spanish and English at the same time. 7 Roles. 14 Actors. 2 Languages. 1 Stage. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

They drive for a week or two at a time, then park the bus and return to what they described as their real lives. Artists Begin Building Trump’s Border Wall, Sending Mexico the Bill 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Examined, the Virtual Life Is Worth Living The habit of insisting that the virtual life is somehow not part of real life has diminished with time. Critic’s Notebook: Madden NFL 25 Portrays ‘Real’ Football 2013-08-26T22:05:55Z

It’s the kind of interaction that is difficult to get right unless you’ve seen a version of it in real life. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

“In private it’s a different story. ‘Grow up, this is real life,’ I hear these same feminist friends say.” Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

In real life Walker died, but at the end of "Furious 7," his character, Brian O'Conner, was given a poignant retirement send-off in which he'd be living with his wife and raising a family. 'Furious 7': 'See You Again' songwriter inspired by a different loss 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

As he said in a speech late last year, his books gave him the chance “to be a complete brave man that I’m not in my real life.” Book World editor Nora Krug: The Pat Conroy I met was determined to live well 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

And in real life, he found one, scoring a major label deal and dropping a well-received album, “True Colors.” Perspective | 2017 was the greatest year in DMV rap history. These 25 songs prove it. 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

A completely imagined world, a dystopian world, did not attract me at all, I wanted to stay with real life. If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z

You get a lot of real life from all that. Artists with rural Washington ties reveal the stories behind their Grammy-nominated projects 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

They can start to show up for real life. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Characters on The Deuce speak with a brisk frankness that's often absent elsewhere on TV, and that makes it feel like real life. 'The Deuce' Succeeds Because It's Not More of the Same 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

According to Christopher Bunton, the actor made his grandfather “slightly more lovable” than he was in real life. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The book the Vatican fought in real life was “The Da Vinci Code.” In Dan Brown’s ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon Returns, With an A.I. Friend in Tow 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Still, she said the series’s raw depiction of real life traumas had sometimes triggered her, since her own maternal grandparents had been sent to residential schools. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

It was, The Times of Philadelphia excitedly observed, “one of the most marvelous and perfect tragedies which real life has ever contributed as a contrast to the creations of fiction.” The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Something huge, like Mount Rushmore in your imagination, and yet underwhelming, like Mount Rushmore in real life. The wait for the Mueller report is over. And now . . . we wait. 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Do you believe that actually works in real life? Hugh Grant: Don't Watch Romantic Comedies on Valentine's Day 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

If nothing else, "History of Us" affords us with a vivid reminder that even in our leisure time and doldrums alike, real life is happening right now. We've reached the point in the stay-at-home life when only the Indigo Girls LP will do 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

The juxtaposition is embodied chiefly by Ms. Setterfield, who plays the leading lady and the author’s wife, a role she occupies in “real life” as well. Dance Review: ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ at Joyce SoHo 2012-06-07T21:56:16Z

One significant detail about the film differs from real life: It’s in English. ‘The 33’ director recalls ‘hellhole’ where mining disaster film was made 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Similarly, there are half as many women in films as in real life — although the amount of female lead roles on broadcast TV is on the upswing. The Hidden Factor in Hollywood’s Racial Diversity Problem 2014-02-13T17:28:54Z

And that is part of the Portas controversy – in real life, her critics says, the truth is not always so obliging. Mary Portas: 'I'm one of the best in the world at retail' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

If we're going to make this thing and on some level dupe you into thinking that it's a documentary, you have to believe that it's real life. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

The demands of real life dictated mealtime, and roasting ingredients on a sheet pan felt easier than stir-frying and steaming. The Smoky Taste of Wok Hei, Without a Wok 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

There is an absurdity to the bleakness of “A Little Life,” a sense that real life only rarely reaches such abominable depths. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Trans people often saw transition as the start of the real life … and this was exactly how Adam felt.” Trans Literature for the Masses 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

More people will see an outfit online than they probably will in real life. What Do Gen Z Shoppers Want? A Cute, Cheap Outfit That Looks Great on Instagram 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

You’ve probably been to a hundred like it, if not in real life then at least in romantic comedies. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

But in real life, trials unfold at a less than gripping pace. A Theater Serves as a Courthouse, Provoking Drama Offstage 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

“I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in,” Ganz said. Swiss actor Bruno Ganz who played Hitler in 'Downfall' dies aged 77 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

One of the problems with getting back to real life is that my real life is in limbo. Steven Boyer Puts Down the Sock Puppet and Picks Up His Life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

These elite clubs exist in real life, minus the occult nicknames, and their self-mythologizing exoticism is profoundly satisfying to their members and profoundly irritating to everyone else. A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Although James calls the publicity circuit surrounding the film’s opening slightly awkward — “I don’t talk a lot in my real life” — he recognizes that the parade of back-to-back interviews is part of the job. Actor Stephan James sees parallels between himself and Olympian Jesse Owens 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

“She was outed in real life, her pictures downloaded and saved without her consent, likely to reemerge at inopportune times and even worse places on the Internet,” according to the Daily Dot. Doxxing Internet babes: “She wanted it” 2014-02-23T00:00:00Z

For me, there’s no way to critique the joys — and, most urgently, the tragedies — of real life. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, this little city is buzzing with culture, its historical beauty and stunning sea views preserved thanks to strict building restrictions. Five 'Game of Thrones' Destinations Fans Should Visit 2014-04-04T11:27:45Z

Clothes were there, of course – the kind that do translate to real life when this particular fantasy is over. Marc Jacobs at New York fashion week: army fatigues with a luxe edge 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

“The Brittany Murphy Story is an affront to everything my daughter was in real life. It’s hideous, unauthorized and completely untrue.” Brittany Murphy's Dad Slams The Lifetime Biopic About His Daughter 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, one of the most influential Jews of color adding distinctive Hanukkah foods to the communal table is Michael Twitty. "Untraditional" Hanukkah celebrations are often full of traditions for Jews of color 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the right wing is campaigning in terms of real lives lost and rights revoked. Hillary Clinton doesn’t speak for me: I’m a millennial woman raising a biracial son. I voted for Bernie, and I refuse to be shamed for it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But the third movie, “The Purge: Election Year,” which hit theatres earlier this month, arrives at a time when nightmare politics have already bent real life. Watching “The Purge” in Our Year of Nightmare Politics 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

I gave Erica what I take away from my friends who’ve become these big reality stars — who they are in real life, not really so much who they are on screen. Gabrielle Union: 'Bring It On' Cheers Come Back Like 'Muscle Memory' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And he’s a straight man in real life. “Real O’Neals” star walks back explosive Bryan Singer comments: “I admit there is no basis for any of the things I said or implied” 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

"Beyond the performer, there is a real human being there, struggling for a real life, struggling to connect with her art, and struggling to be understood." Britney Spears subject of biographic comic book 2011-05-11T01:01:09Z

But it’s clear that his real life is happening on that phone. My Stepmother? But She’s 19! 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

In any documentary series there exists the tendency to distance one’s self by transforming the real life subjects into character, perhaps downplaying the stakes of what we see them living through. Smart Watch: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Ava DuVernay’s “August 28″ and more top TV thi... 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

That doesn't happen in real life too often. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Davis: We curse on the site because we curse in real life. World Chefs: Profanity-filled 'Thug Kitchen' cookbook urges healthy eating 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the problem with being the grandstanding actor in real life is that you’re stuck on a stage of your own making. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z

The three lifeless forms that comprise his collection live parallel to the three humans that constitute his real life: my mother, my brother and me. My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Based on the real life of the writer and director Jennifer Fox, “The Tale” is a push “to disseminate a hard truth, and it’s effective,” Margaret Lyons wrote in her review. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Tale’ and ‘From Here to Eternity’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

"I wanted to do a musical, but really ground it in real life and invest it with stuff that felt messier and real," Chazelle said. Gosling, Stone spin modern twist on old Hollywood in 'La La Land' 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And audiences get a thrill out of the suspense and the violence, perhaps more so when they are dealing with a stressful situation in real life, analysts and movie executives said. In spite of violent national tragedies, horror films endure 2013-01-11T12:02:37Z

One of the themes of this biography is how the real life intersects with the films. Chris Kyle is a stand-in for Clint: The author of Eastwood’s controversial biography on his new edition, including “American Sniper” and more 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The movie is “wan and disconnected to anything that feels like real life,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in December. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z

Stories of Bill Murray's real life exploits are nearly as famous as his films these days. Bill Murray reveals his great unrealized dream 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

We could sometimes look in the eyes of the inmates while they were acting and see that those eyes had witnessed murder in real life. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: 'For us it was cinema or death' 2013-03-01T08:00:05Z

In real life, the feds quickly sold the operation. Hollywood veteran launches dream with "Sex Tax" 2010-04-14T03:25:00Z

We want to cheer for the women on screen because there is so little cheering for women — still — in real life. Oscar snub of "Little Women" shows the limits of Hollywood feminism 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters Failure is just another name for much of real life: much of what we set out to accomplish ends in failure, at least in our own eyes. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

Conversation starter: Have you ever seen someone in real life being treated unfairly for no reason? Black history movies that tackle racism 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Live news will occasionally go off the rails when you can’t edit out real life, but there’s something particularly fun about cable news anchors botching lines on-air. Megyn Kelly’s “Huckabee” flub was Fox News at its best: Why we’re obsessed with cable news bloopers 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

With "American Horror Story" drumming up scares for cable channel FX, its new companion series "American Crime Story" will serve those drawn to real life criminal investigations, the network said on Tuesday. 'American Horror Story' crime counterpart tackles O.J. Simpson trial 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

It tells us that all art is a travesty of real life, because real life happens in private, alone, before an empty house, without the gaze of an audience to ennoble or redeem it. Unfinished Business 2011-03-31T11:15:00Z

Love is the very fire and energy of real life! 'The Power of Love': address by U.S. bishop at Harry and Meghan's... 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

If “Black Edge” weren’t about real life, it would be an uncomplicated pleasure to read. Review: ‘Black Edge,’ an Account of a Hedge Fund Magnate and Insider Trading 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

It's fictional, but it's made from pieces of real life. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane balances fame and the future 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

When the Man in Black brags that Westworld isn’t the only world he reigns, it’s likely because he’s a big shot in real life. 5 Illuminating Westworld Discoveries 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

As for any parallels with herself, Ms. Orji said: “It’s something so different from anything I would entertain in my real life.” ‘Insecure’ No More, Yvonne Orji Still Enjoys Cheap Pizza 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

And in real life, I hear everything around me in a musical way, including words I don’t understand. Meet the super humans 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

The two are in real life mother and daughter, and Perry is every bit as wonderful as her mom in a touching final scene in which the roles of child and mother are reversed. Review: Metcalf sparkles in B'way's 'Other Place' 2013-01-11T02:08:09Z

Just the way rich people do in real life. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z

It's a meme of sorts, one that traversed from the Web into real life in 2009 when it was created by Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon in Somerset, who called it the "Lying Down Game." "Lying Down Game" claims man's life 2011-05-16T15:17:00Z

Because this is real life — and worse, this is the author’s real life. When It Comes to Her Relationship History, Nancy Jo Sales Is an Open Book 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

They were stories of ordinary people and real life. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But this online world has applications in real life as well. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z

Historically, space has been overwhelmingly white, male and American, in real life and in film, as seen in “serious” space films like The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 and Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

On television and in real life, the U.S. is absolved of responsibility for killing civilians. How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Romcoms may be hugely popular, but that name is misleading – in real life, relationships are seldom funny. Clip joint: breakup scenes 2010-03-24T15:24:00Z

I’m a product in their business model and their business model requires that I’m traceable in real life. Doxxing victim: “This isn’t about porn, this is about humiliation” 2014-03-02T01:00:00Z

He is a salve for his followers’ insecurities: an all-purpose friend, boyfriend, parent and mental-health counselor whom they don’t even need the luxury of knowing in real life. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

In real life, I had plenty of time. I shot a deer for Thanksgiving. Here’s why. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

In real life drinking is fun until it’s not. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z

Unlike real life, however, everyone is happy and healthy within an hour, thanks to Doc Baker and his silk-neck bow. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Little House on the Prairie’ 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

I was always in the position to be that character in real life. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Sure, there are still plenty of parents like this in real life, but the ones filling the role on reality TV seem too made-to-order to be genuine. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

We never met in real life or even talked on the phone, but I carried her in my heart every day until all of a sudden — I didn't. "Yellowjackets" gives us more of Misty's origin story in "Digestif" 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

But nobody goes into shock and astonishment and immediately calls the cops, the way they would in real life, or in a conventional movie. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z

They didn’t want portraits to lose their formality and gravitas by looking too much like real life. Review | First Moroni exhibition in North America features one of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Much of what the superheroes go through is inspired by the friends’ real life experiences. The Superheroes From House of Slay Are Here to Stay 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Did you fall in love in real life, or just for the camera? Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Stefani’s directions were clear: She wanted to capture her history — if it didn’t happen in real life, it wasn’t going on the album. Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In real life, there was considerable controversy over whether Marks actually committed the murders in question, with defenders claiming that her help was entirely unintentional. See the trailer from the next show from the “Handmaid’s Tale” creator, “Alias Grace” 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

“So much of it is their real lives, turned into a story,” Fairchild said. A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

"Rocky II," his directorial debut, will combine elements of fiction and real life. French filmmaker trying to locate Ed Ruscha's fake rock in the Mojave 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

On the show Mrs. Maisel measures her thighs, her waist, all her measurements, and that would give me so much anxiety in real life. What the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Wears Offscreen 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

There's a lot of stuff on the show that has happened to those guys in real life, and Mel is one of them, or a version of some of them. Kristen Schaal: The toast of American comedy 2010-10-15T23:03:00Z

In his manifesto, Mekas put the cinema of liberation in the larger context of a modern art that emphasized aesthetic form but also real life. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

An absolute masterpiece, it's less a vision of a musician giving glimpses into his real life than it is a vision of a human being who makes music. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

This is real life sliced and diced and reassembled: served up anew, given artistic shape. Fly on the wall has become surveillance TV 2010-11-21T22:16:00Z

The miserable thing about real life is how little it resembles our picture-postcard fantasies of it. The Drink That Stands Between Recovery and Relapse 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

In real life, he was abducted and beheaded by a consortium of earls. Edward II: Derek Jarman's striking reflection on homophobia 2012-08-16T11:00:05Z

They carry pizzas that look better than any pizza in the history of real life; they date babes. Where the boys are: Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” and what women’s comedies can learn from the art of the bromance 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film also shows the actors' efforts to give authentic performances as people they would never be in real life. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, van Gogh tried many jobs, including teaching and being a minister like his father. National Gallery visit inspires Vincent van Gogh kids book

Was Hollywood movie art imitating the real life relationship between Long and Barrymore? Justin Long reclaims his acting mojo in "Distance" 2010-09-01T22:57:00Z

In real life, Mr. Angelo, owner of Michael Angelo’s Wonderland Beauty Parlor in the meatpacking district, recommended grabbing a friend and following these steps: Skin Deep: New Year’s Eve in ’70s Fashion, With ‘American Hustle’-Style Makeup and Hair 2013-12-24T23:40:40Z

I wonder what is the point of editing your picture if people are going to see what you look like in real life? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Subject of too-filtered, too-flattering photo wants it taken down 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

And once life becomes a story, it is no longer real life but art. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

She began to blog about it, and along the way, she realized that many people knew each other online but not in real life. Special Section: Fine Arts: Social Networking Among Young Arts Professionals 2011-10-22T14:06:08Z

Would that their plan for destroying greed were possible in real life. A pack of Parisian oddballs take on the corporate elite 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

They are so much more fun than the monsters in real life. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

And never mind that, not bio-pics but in real life, rancorous kids were likely to be consigned to more ordinary fates: at a desk, behind a checkout counter or even in jail. Nowhere Boy: Lennon and McCartney Before the Beatles 2010-10-08T20:20:00Z

I think that essentially the same is true in real life. When Mothers Bully Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“As a fantasy, it’s fun, but the idea that Harry made this girl so easily identifiable means … it’s someone’s real life that I have to consider. She’ll forever be Harry’s muse before her own person.” Perspective | Harry Styles and ‘I Love Dick’ reveal the gender differences in how we treat muses 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

In your real life treatment of patients, how much of your real advice about sex is based in talk therapy versus necessary medication? Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The poignancy of this film comes from the fact that even a movement of such extremity could not transcend the drab realities of either real life, or the modern cultural world. Black metal, darker than your average music scene 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z

In real life Tyler Okonma is 20 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, lanky and sinewy and irrepressibly goofy, with a vibrant antisocial streak. Arts & Leisure Preview: Angry Rhymes, Dirty Mouth, Goofy Kid 2011-05-04T11:00:08Z

As Mr. Carter does in real life, Reggie preaches constantly that the family must think about long-term possibilities instead of short-term rewards. LeBron James’s Experiences Inspire ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Hopefully, I do not make as many bad decisions in my real life, but I am interested in the fallibility and messiness of people. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

He shares and takes to its extreme the simple, everyday Dutch affection for real life. The real-life power of Rembrandt 2011-08-16T15:40:03Z

The invitation was particularly delicate for Arquette and Cox, who were asked to act out a story in which their “Scream” characters have split up, in circumstances mirroring the couple’s real life. They Screamed, We Screamed. Now They’re in ‘Scream’ Again. 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

But in this collection of small things that make up a real life, the movie’s aim proves incredibly true. Don’t Sleep on These 6 Performances During Awards Season 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

“There’s something about living in real life that can’t be replicated.” Alicia Keys is done playing nice. Your phone is getting locked up at her shows now. 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But once in a while, they’re incredibly awkward, even controversial, as comedy can’t quite overcome the tie ins to real life events. The most controversial celebrity cameos on “Sesame Street” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

“This is something totally impossible in real life. I want viewers of my art to question what they usually think is normal.” This Japanese body is terrifying and amazing 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Online and in real life, Kaling, 39, gives the simultaneous impression of being someone who is enjoying the fruits of unimaginable success but is somehow also your totally relatable best friend. Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

In real life: Brown’s plans were close to what was depicted. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Just ring up the club and get replacements sent out, like people would do in real life? TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z

Yes, he has turned a doctor who in real life was lynched by a mob into a kung fu expert who lynches the mob instead. In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Yet Ozick was not far off, in her short story “Rosa,” when she wrote: “The whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life.” A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, too, men all but committed murder in pursuit of her. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z

Born in New York City in 1931, the only child of a lawyer and schoolteacher, Gottlieb explains that “from the start, words were more real to me than real life, and certainly more interesting.” ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Any resemblance to real life is purely unintentional. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

As they did in real life, the Earp brothers — like many in their time and place — try their luck at a variety of temporary occupations, drifting as the need arises. ‘The Last Kind Words Saloon’: an elegiac tale of the Old West 2014-05-07T20:15:05Z

“In the town of South Hill he saw a Walmart,” Shteyngart writes, “and wondered if that was the first one he had seen in real life.” A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

I don’t think I’d get along with girls if I ever met one in real life. Not-to-Be-Missed Shouts of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

In real life the singing nun left the convent, but not with a boyfriend. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Our brilliant young writers, he claimed, were afraid to capture the dazzling variety and absurd clashes of real life. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

But in real life, one always gets the sense that curly hair is the consolation prize. The Mirror: Making Waves, With No Apology 2011-08-05T20:14:52Z

“The lyrics make me more vulnerable than I am in real life,” she says. Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z

In real life, Enlightened lived and died by the corporation. Whether you call that a victory or defeat is, appropriately enough, a philosophical question now. Agents of Channel Change: HBO Cancels Enlightened 2013-03-20T14:26:46Z

Another sign of real life: kids playing soccer in the street. Frugal Traveler: Fast Cars, Medieval Villages 2011-05-31T19:19:09Z

On the tight, shiny surface of this narrative, there’s so little tremor of real life. Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mean people are not always good to know in real life. A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

We used real life cockroaches, we collected them all in the subway system and everywhere. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

I guess that will never happen, so I want to become a heart surgeon in real life. The dreams of children – a photo essay 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I wish we could meet in real life at some point.” Every Atom, Molecule and Cell Connected 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I know what the streets want to hear, I know what the street’s going through, the lingo, the fashion, everything. It ain’t nothing; it’s my real life,” he told Suarez. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

“You can have a real life. And you can still find quiet, human moments.” Five Places to Visit in Montreal With Sugar Sammy 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

This was relevant because ... they were recently married in real life? Jookin Meets Ballet at Fall for Dance Festival 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

If this were real life, it would be the silliest episode of Police Camera Action ever. The Last Stand: Arnold Schwarzenegger is back – and it's business as usual 2012-12-20T10:56:00Z

Tom's the dreamer who prefers make-believe to real life. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

For example, a musician might be telling an autobiographical story through the songs that mirror their chronology in real life. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

But the people who trade in targeted abuse online exist in real life too. Fishing for feminists? | Eva Wiseman 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, surfaces bear the mark of time – that is, their history. Why the Iranian film industry is like Hollywood before 1969 2013-02-08T15:16:10Z

Victoria is portrayed as finding Albert irritating at first, but it wasn’t like that in real life. The Real History Behind PBS’s Historical Drama 'Victoria' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

But it’s more difficult to understand how he visualizes chiffon dresses with inserted hoops being worn in real life.” T Magazine: Runway In Review 2011-09-19T18:30:47Z

But where Albertine describes herself as frustrated, exhausted and repressed in real life, on the page she is wry and vibrant, and seems to hold nothing back. Viv Albertine, Midlife Radical 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“This guy that was my love interest was like, ‘I’d never date you in a real life,’ and I was like, ‘What?’ Chloë Grace Moretz: I was body-shamed by male co-star when I was 15 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

“One of my favorite things about Richie, he’s sort of confident in his lack of self-awareness. And he’s great with people, just like Ebon is in real life.” Ebon Moss-Bachrach Gives ‘The Bear’ Its Abrasive Edge 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor is a moralist fully aware of the ambiguities of real life, and his sense of humor keeps him from becoming a narrow-minded ideologue. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z

But the precise summing-up of the Warhol print is excellent – indeed quotable, to describe Warhol's actual remoteness from real life. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z

When it finally arrives, it doesn’t feel right eating junk food while listening to the ACO – which in real life I would sit rigidly still for the duration of, suppressing every itch and cough. Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Two men accused of partying with dead friend DENVER-- It's a real life version of the movie "Weekend at Bernie’s" with two men allegedly taking their dead friend around town for one final party. Metra board hears big rate hike proposal 2011-09-16T18:06:00Z

In this story, the writer is confronting this knowledge within himself; basically, he’s trying to determine his path forward both in writing and real life, if these things can really be separated. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

When David and Rick married in real life, their wives were incorporated into the show. David Nelson, Son in ?Ozzie and Harriet,? Dies at 74 2011-01-13T03:23:00Z

She's as pretty in real life as she is in her pictures. Model reaction 2011-04-02T23:04:06Z

Catch glimpses of real life on the forbidden island. Cuban car guys star in first U.S. show shot entirely on the forbidden island 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

It’s not much different from how it works in real life, when we encounter seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the people we meet. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

This is public art intended to address its audience in real life, in the present tense. A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Dean Rusk, the secretary of state, complained to newsmen in real life. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z

The film, based on the real life poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, fetched one of the highest selling prices at the festival - a reported $6 million. "Beasts," "The House I Live In" win top awards at Sundance 2012-01-29T04:48:05Z

Better still, though, it dismantles the notion — reinforced by countless narratives on the page, on screen, in real life — they must be either spice or nice. Perspective | Thank you, Gillian Flynn for giving women permission to be bad 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The sets were as lavish in real life as they appear on screen – no wonder the budget soared out of control. How we made Cleopatra 2013-07-15T17:59:00Z

But the scene captures the magic of the show and its candy-colored universe, in which telenovela fantasy is brought down to earth by good, old-fashioned real life. ‘Jane the Virgin’ is full of telenovela twists and turns. It is also profoundly real. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

In real life, when desire achieves its goal, the magic sooner or later expires. Chuck Jones’s Animated Offspring in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

It does not draw from real life, it only creates myths. Sex, shame and Indian cinema 2010-07-22T22:23:00Z

In real life, it would be a very challenging production. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He may be cynical in real life, but he is not cynical on screen. Mel Gibson: the year of living disastrously 2010-12-16T22:39:01Z

Ms. Bigelow, the director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” is in her sweet spot when transforming real life into high art. A White Director, the Police and Race in ‘Detroit’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

But real life doesn’t work like it does in the movies. Perspective | Ask Amy: Women wonder whether to call out male friends for sexism 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Now the world of motion-capture has created a new challenge for actors whose performance will need to be subsumed into a character that they do not personally resemble in real life. Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca: a charming and good-natured movie pioneer | Peter Bradshaw 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

If only real life were so fast and loose. Zelda Fitzgerald Lets It All Hang Out 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

“In a film or whatever, you get to sing about it,” he observes, “but in real life you get the likes of us turning up.” In the Best New Crime, Lethal Lasagna, Honor Killings and Nanny Cams 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

When a friend's son was paralysed in the Mumbai attacks she changed tack, wary of exploiting what she knew from real life. Linda Grant 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z

But we share a sense of humor in our real lives. Stirring Up a Family From Scratch 2011-01-30T02:13:00Z

And though it's a historical epic and not fantasy, the characters, both real life and fictional, are portrayed more black and white than anyone in "Game of Thrones." 'New Worlds' review: Historical drama that's more talky than epic 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

And yet you seem like such a grounded fellow in real life! He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

Of course there is a disconnect: It is more likely that Zora and Brick would be ostracized and mocked than loved in real life. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z

And I knew that Mama Akua didn’t cry — even during the assassination in real life — so I was really self-conscious about crying. Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

His character is so unpredictable, and he seems like such a free spirit in real life. David Hollander on ‘Ray Donovan’ Season 4 and Taking Over as Showrunner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The drama of theatre, cinema and the law-court tends to imply that human actions and motivations are clear and legible, whereas in real life they are not. Aurora – review 2012-11-08T21:30:01Z

It was such a contrast to how she felt in real life. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

It was an understandable response: The frisson that came from seeing, in real life, the same building where poor Andrea met her maker in the Season 3 finale of “The Walking Dead,” was delightful. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s quite a brilliant little introduction—one that makes literal both the time period of “Fargo”’s second season, on the cusp of Reagan’s election, and that “Fargo” is a filmed production, not “real life.” “Fargo” recap: Season two is already so much better than season one 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

If a scene takes place in a coffee shop, it's one that he goes to in real life. The slacker meets the sleuth 2011-03-26T00:02:00Z

As someone who’s very new to poetry, I’m still getting used to the ambiguity of it — what’s happening, who is speaking, is this real life? Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike T. E. Laurence, now better remembered in movies and adventure stories than in real life, well into this century “Miss Bell” remained a well-known figure in the country she helped create: Iraq. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z

Q: "Happily Divorced" is based on your real life when your husband told you he was gay after 18 years. Fran Drescher's gay husband inspires sitcom return 2011-06-15T21:43:16Z

For starters, they brought out Morris Day and the Time, the band that played Prince’s nemeses in the film and was both a valuable foil and an extension of his id in real life. Let’s Not Go Crazy: The Grammys Missed an Essential Part of Prince 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The other is when the evil person being portrayed is a person who has a disability in real life, and even then, Zayid maintains, only a disabled actor should be cast. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

“The 15:17 to Paris” doesn’t get far into the aftermath of the train attack, which Eastwood shoots with a messy freneticism that feels truer to real life than the choreographed violence of most thrillers. Here’s what ties together Clint Eastwood’s heroes, from ‘15:17 to Paris’ to Dirty Harry 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Maybe this helps explain why television’s exasperated, pretend-news anchors are having a tough time keeping pace with real life. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

In real life, the train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, a small town near the Pennsylvania border. The eerie parallels between Netflix's "White Noise" and the Ohio train derailment disaster 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Kelly called the "Mike & Molly" characters "downright obese", adding that she finds it "aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room" even in real life. Marie Claire blog on TV "fatties" provokes uproar 2010-10-27T22:05:00Z

Just as in real life, these issues can creep up anywhere and at any time, and Atlanta always has smart things to say about them. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Trump fighting to take control of the president’s car like it’s an action movie, only he’s the president and this is real life.” Late Night Reacts to Cassidy Hutchinson’s Damning Trump Testimony 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

And these people pose just as much of a threat to our relationships in real life as they do on Love Island. What "Love Island" can teach young people about commitment 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

If so many women have endured this terror in real life, do we really need an exaggerated Hollywood version of our experiences? ‘False Positive’ and the Horror-Filled Truth About Fertility Treatments 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

The numbers are in: The tally of Americans offed by serial killers in fiction far surpasses the one in real life. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

McSquareJaw Owen Hunt is actually a Mc something in real life. Mc-Reconsidering 'Grey’s Anatomy' Without Derek Shepherd 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Drawing from real life, particularly personal experience, is encouraged. Confident that you can answer life’s big questions? Enter the Great American Think-Off. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Just to be clear: in real life, she is not David Bowie, and she loathes Ted Cruz. Thanks for nothing, Facebook: #FriendsDay is our latest reminder that curated selves are becoming “more real than real” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In real life, conversations can be purely pragmatic, or solipsistic; sometimes they're nothing more than an antidote to silence, sounds to fill the quiet margins of our social lives. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z

Well, this “This” is the stuff of real life: relationships, sex, friendships, marriage and bereavement. What's 'This' about? Sex, death, marriage and being tired 2011-03-01T22:08:44Z

While my white friends could lean into empathising with Kat as a fellow misfit and edgy alternative to Bianca’s bland popularity, I was aware that, if this movie was real life, I’d be the Chastity. Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

I talked about her as if we had met in real life. I had a fake online girlfriend 2013-01-18T16:15:00Z

One said: “A hero in real life as well ... a police officer who died doing his job.” Harry Potter's Brazilian voiceover actor shot dead in Rio shanty town 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The tension between the characters sometimes trickled into real life: Ms. Crosley once texted Mr. Shah to ask him why his character hadn’t responded to her character’s last two emails. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

While stone's character is unique, Chandra's fits a profile that is hardly rare in real life. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

It’s funny that this view of real life keeps recalling works of art. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z

His real life is a long way from home. Stoney’s Seafood House: A taste of nostalgia, along with some solid crab cakes 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Curtseying and winking at the gathered journalists, the five women - real life burlesque dancers from the U.S. - oozed enthusiasm about being at the world's premier cinema showcase. Burlesque dancers take central stage at Cannes 2010-05-13T14:09:00Z

It’s another black-humor genre piece, a neo-noir set in an alternate New York where crime and corruption are a little more ubiquitous and a lot more romantic than in real life. ‘Ultra City Smiths’ Review: New York Neo-Noir, With Plastic Dolls 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

In real life, Nash's defence-related work was undertaken for the Rand Corporation, not directly for the Pentagon. A Beautiful Mind hides ugly truths 2012-12-19T17:27:18Z

Mr. Bannenberg said that “in real life, there is a limit to what we can do.” No One Needs a Superyacht, but They Keep Selling Them 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Instead of "spotting blacks" where convenient, his people and objects threw shadows as you'd see in real life. Comics: Neal Adams overview illustrates his lasting impact 2011-06-29T17:48:45Z

In real life, according to Jefferson, the South Carolina and Georgia delegates did request that a line criticising slavery be struck out of the declaration. 1776: the original constitutional nightmare 2010-08-12T08:22:00Z

In real life, Melissa Rivers said that “every now and again, she would say that for whatever age she was, she looked good. But that was that.” A ‘Crown Jewel of Comedy’: The Joan Rivers Card Catalog of Jokes Finds a Home 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

She is great company, less funny ha-ha in real life, more chatty and droll. Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

In ways that are both fascinating and intensely disturbing, Soon-to-Be takes both women to places they could not reach in real life. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

They are in real life, according to the FBI’s latest statistics. Ocean’s 8: lazy gender swap or feminist felony victory? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

I always think in real life, people do so many strange things. Q&A: McCarthy and Falcone, goofballs in matrimony 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

And, obviously, moments just like this took place in real life before the sexual revolution; they just couldn’t have been shown on TV. Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

The challenges are similar to Duo’s — translation, speaking, listening — but the degree of difficulty was higher and the initial lessons seemed more relevant to real life. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It seems wrong to conflate elements of Mr. King’s real life with his fiction. Review: In Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch,’ a Murderer’s Victims Kill Themselves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Starting something real and simple. Not having assistants, and someone who comes to your house in the morning and drives you, and hair and makeup … a real life.” He Wanted to Give Massages, but the Movies Called Him Back 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

His clothes look better in photographs than they do in real life. Olivier Rousteing said his Balmain collection was inspired by his millennial childhood. That’s not fair to millennials. 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Studies have shown, for example, that people who see African Americans portrayed in stereotypically negative roles in comedy skits are quick to adopt negative attitudes toward that group in real life. Louis C.K. or Tina Fey? Gender, science and the age-old question: Are men or women funnier? 2014-03-15T13:30:00Z

In real life, she said loudly and with great dignity: "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Grey areas 2010-08-26T08:28:00Z

The critical modern reader would probably see “Décadence” as a fictionized memoir, with accurate details drawn from real life, but an outrageous plot. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z

What emerged from their imaginations was a character who, in real life, would have sent the mansion's lead thieves running for the hills fearing for their lives. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

The director’s real life was in evidence as well. Footsteps: In Rimini, Looking for Fellini’s World 2013-06-07T18:44:48Z

In real life, much of Harvey's support came from senior citizens, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and women. Milk: the creme de la creme of faithful biopics 2010-08-05T08:29:00Z

On Wednesday, Lifetime announced a limited series follow-up to its hit TV movie, "Lizzie Borden Took an Ax," based on the real life 1893 double murder trial of the Massachusetts woman. Christina Ricci to return as Lizzie Borden on Lifetime 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Now comes "The Fighter," an off-center but exceptional boxing film I prefer in every aspect, especially one: It feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies. 'Fighter': Boxing film with reality in its corner 2010-12-16T16:17:00Z

Sure, even in real life you sometimes just want to sit and talk. Critic?s Notebook: The Electronic Games That Now Connect Us 2012-01-05T00:00:54Z

She makes meat loaf, something I'm not too sure Charlotte Gainsbourg does in real life. Cannes: Lars von Trier at world's end 2011-05-18T15:19:00Z

I have enjoyed this book because it deals with the kind of real life friendship problems many girls face. Marshmallow Skye by Cathy Cassidy - review 2012-07-07T08:00:00Z

It also signals the comeback of the gross-out comedy, a genre in decline, struggling with nerves about social censure and competition from the shock value of real life. Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

It's still surreal and just baffling to me that the thing that I was working on aligned with real life in such a way. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The addition of the final lip sync numbers at the top of the show, accompanied by little packages about who the queens were and are in real life made for gripping television. RuPaul's Drag Race ends season 7 with one of the best finales in show's history 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Many real life rock musicians reportedly failed to see the humour in the film as fictional scenes, which include the band getting lost on the way to the stage, so closely matched their own antics. Spinal Tap-style comedy for BBC 2012-08-17T08:58:32Z

Country music aspires to tell the story of real life in America, but American life continues to feel unreal. Perspective | Country artists have the ear of American gun culture. They need to speak up. 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

I'm a citizen of this country, and I am a mother, and these are things that I think about in my real life. Edie Falco on playing a good cop, resistance to change, and Giuliani's love for "Sopranos" 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

But I liked that the political controversies involved policy, slightly wonky policy issues that people would actually fight over in real life–collective bargaining, vouchers, redistricting, energy exploration and watersheds. House of Cards Watch: I Ate the Whole Thing 2013-02-08T14:00:42Z

As Christian Bale remembers it, Trump spoke to him as if the actor actually was his character, Bruce Wayne, in real life. Christian Bale says Donald Trump thought he was Bruce Wayne in real life 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

But to the extent the Trump agenda stalled in real life, was it not a result of resistance and blowback from progressives using social media as a megaphone? Review: Manly Trump Sinks Waterlogged Liberals in ‘Shipwreck’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

And if we can't be Mr. Pennybags in real life, at least we can live the dream for a couple of hours. In Praise of Monopoly 2010-05-14T12:56:00Z

Much attention was paid to the film’s casting: In real life, Belón and her family are Spanish. Yet another white lady in jeopardy: “The Shallows” and Hollywood’s empathy gap 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Do you see things happening in real life now, say, environmental crises and massive privatization, and think, "No, no, I was just making that up?" Karl Taro Greenfeld on the fiction, grim reality in 'The Subprimes' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

A: When I meet people in real life, “in the wild,” that’s the most common thing people say to me. Review | ‘Solutions and Other Problems’ author Allie Brosh talks cats, depressions and the joys of Zoom book tours 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

As much as I love science fiction and fantasy and imaginative stuff, you always have to go back to real life as your touchstone and say, What is the truth? George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

In so doing, she has created a beautiful, funny fiction that is both utterly removed from and utterly true to real life. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

Your book is about growing up without comfort and safety and privilege, of feeling not seen in real life, of stitching together an identity and self-narrative from pop culture. When you grow up, your heart doesn’t have to die: Kevin Smokler and Jason Diamond on the perfectly imperfect world of John Hughes 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

In real life, as in the film, Jane says there is no doubt that Timothy is Stephen’s child, not Jonathan’s. Jane Hawking: ‘There were four of us in our marriage’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Minsky’s character development attracted actress Cynthia Watros, a mother of twins in real life who plays the parent of twin girls in “Finding Carter.” MTV series traces aftermath of abduction 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Is “Survivor” real life or is it a show? How ‘Survivor’ Failed Its #MeToo Test 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

This is one incident where The Big Sick departs from real life. The Big Sick's Kumail Najiani and Emily Gordon: 'In America, the idea of a cross-cultural relationship is still controversial' 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

What was it like filming as real life, Trump-based events unfolded? The Handmaid's Tale stars on playing Janine and Serena Joy: 'I wanted to give Offred a hug' 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Of course, those who consider her a friend say that in real life, she’s a total sweetheart. Carly Fiorina killed in the debates. But how would she do in person? 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

A hope philodendron stands in the window of the loft bedroom, the largest and healthiest I have ever seen in real life, almost five feet tall. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Sweetly, it seems that Brown and Elba are close in real life. Luther is back with more comic-book gore and fantastical crimes 2013-06-29T05:00:00Z

While the other members were known to Breck or his friends, Lewis Daynes was not someone they knew in real life. I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Today, the pair says, the quilts “allow them to remember and memorialize real lives that were lost” precisely because they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, perform in ways deemed acceptable. Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

An odd mixture of thriller and gooey romance, “Safe Haven” works best as a primer on what I’ll call Movie Behavior — things people do in the movies that you can’t ever imagine in real life. ‘Safe Haven’: a bewildering mess 2013-02-13T01:05:51Z

In real life, Brummell resigned his commission in the Hussars voluntarily. Beau Brummell: friends without benefits 2012-10-05T13:12:00Z

“I don’t do that in my real life.” John David Washington Gets an Education in ‘The Piano Lesson’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

But despite this Magic inside my mind, real life awaited me outside of my bedroom. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Even so, strangers at some point will have to encounter other strangers in a business context and in real life. Will We Ever Touch (Professionally) Again? 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In real life, you were pregnant with twins. A Minute With: Lopez, Banks on expectations when 'Expecting' 2012-05-16T11:55:13Z

You may find it significant, moving and even profound, but it has a limited connection to the real world and the real life of Mark O’Brien. “The Sessions”: An unlikely, certain-to-be Oscar-bound sex fable 2012-10-19T17:02:00Z

In real life, he’s not a gun owner. If we can’t get guns out of our cities, let’s get them out of our crime stories 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

“We eat mostly vegetables in real life, so Johnny has been messing around with a lot of food behind the scenes for a while now,” Marler says of the chef in an email. Act fast! Komi just cooked up a plant-based pop-up. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, communities around the country are dealing with a bizarre rash of real life creepy clowns, perhaps inspired by "AHS: Freak Show." Clown group upset over 'American Horror Story' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The paradox of Ms. Yun’s real life is that despite attempts to remain in the background she is celebrated all over the world. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

"I started thinking about what I knew about James in real life and realized they were very similar to Oz's," Raimi said. James Franco lightens up for role in "Oz the Great and Powerful" 2013-03-07T19:53:42Z

One safe way to deal with the “I thought I knew you”s of real life was to argue about which lever your fictional TV kin would have pulled. It Was ‘Roseanne’ vs. ‘Roseanne,’ in a Polarizing Revival 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

No wonder Ernest Hemingway sat around the Paris of that movie and probably the one in real life clamoring to punch somebody. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z

For example, in NBC’s version, Mr. Mulaney’s character had gotten sober at a young age, just as the comedian did in real life, but that got lost in the transition to Fox. The Stealth Success of John Mulaney 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

“In real life, if I had met two older men that were into solving mysteries, I would totally bond with them in the same manner,” she said. Why Are Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short Working Together? It’s a Mystery. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The fact that they became a couple in real life only added to the mythology; a Liz Taylor and Richard Burton for the TMZ generation. Can Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart keep their cool? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

I think it certainly helped that she and Stephen were falling in love in real life over the course of the first season, in helping sell that romance because it was so genuine. ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z

There’s a lot there that wasn’t the same as real life, but certainly plucked from it and embellished. Candace Bushnell: 'In real life, Carrie and Big wouldn’t have ended up together' 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, the story is not dissimilar. Gerda Wegener: 'The Lady Gaga of the 1920s' 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

If only evil were so easy to identify in real life. 'Detroit' Is an Important, Flawed Look at American History 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

If we can’t learn from them, don’t they become just another vehicle with which to say, “At least things aren’t as bad as that in real life”? No spoilers here, but they are. The Handmaid's Tale is coming to Hulu – with a white man at the helm 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

While the friends don’t live together anymore in real life, they do on screen. Please Like Me: this millennial comedy is more than just the Australian Girls 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Q: In real life you seem hard to read. Sarah Silverman's not kidding ... maybe 2011-03-24T16:26:00Z

“How darkly funny it is that you end up almost in a similar way and place that you were in real life?” With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s taking me back to college for sure,” said Rashida Jones, who plays a lawyer in the movie and attended Harvard in real life. Scene City: A Facebook Face-to-Face 2010-09-29T19:00:00Z

I am so glad that my daughters have never even seen a gun in real life or seen a body or been involved in a bombing or a riot. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

So what else from the film resembles real life? Here’s How the Animators Made The Lego Movie: Watch 2014-02-20T15:27:07Z

It's the most odd business, the naming of characters in fiction, because it's so unlike people's names in real life. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

Manchester Art Gallery, to 30 Aug David Osbaldeston, Manchester In Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters In Search Of An Author, the line between theatrical artifice and real life dramas is intriguingly, and unnervingly, blurred. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z

As is often the case with actors who play memorable characters, there's a tendency for people to blur the line between real life and the screen. Rainn Wilson gets spiritual in his memoir 'The Bassoon King,' and Dwight Schrute has something to say about it 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

They gradually grew more comfortable with each other and, in February, made their relationship official, on Facebook and in real life. On Love: Jenna Bugge & Jeffrey Solomon 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Henry Winkler, who played The Fonz in Happy Days, called him "our television father on the sound stage, but a father figure in real life". Famous faces we lost in 2010 2010-12-28T08:38:08Z

"You can't imagine real life getting under his skin," it added. Ewan McGregor leads all-star cast in Broadway revival of 'The Real Thing' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Its complex tone and pacing more closely resemble real life than TV fare. Selleck's Jesse Stone still a fascinating character 2010-05-06T01:56:00Z

That’s what has happened in real life; clearly the movies have some catching up to do – even those set on far-flung and futuristic fantasy worlds. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

College life and real life both disappoint in this academic comedy. This week's new films 2012-09-28T23:05:52Z

“While we do love hosting events and seeing people in real life, people are dying every day and we definitely don’t want to worsen that number,” she said. This American Mess 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

In real life, they apparently never met while there. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

If the invasion of London transpires in real life, she will accept his hand. 'The Map of the Sky': conjuring world's end in the name of true love 2012-10-10T22:09:05Z

It's not easy, but it's real life because we don't laugh all the time. Nate is a "troubled soul": "Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed on his character's dark turn 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

While these peekaboo fabrics look all airy and ethereal parading down a runway on a reed-thin 17-year old-model, knowing how to wear any of them in real life isn't exactly obvious. T Magazine: Sheer Luck 2012-11-21T16:00:00Z

In real life, Smith worked in the White House as the deputy press secretary for President George H.W. Sony hacking story takes a 'Scandal' turn 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a New Jersey man is looking forward to seeing how portrays the man who befriended him in real life. NJ Man Knows Secrets of Genuine 'Boardwalk Empire' 2010-09-17T10:49:00Z

We all do this kind of acting in real life. Review | An underwear model and his pals just dropped the year’s best country album 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Most unusual answer: the ability to replay real life. Class of KidsPost: Second-graders at Congressional School in Falls Church 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

When the dog tags arrived, Wilson noticed they were covered in plastic, as they would have been in real life to keep the metal from making noise and alerting the enemy. Robert De Niro’s Career in Five Artifacts 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

He was totally the opposite in real life. André 3000 Is Moving On in Film, Music and Life 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

We created a safe environment to the guys exposed to the real life trauma. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Walker Brothers -- who were not brothers, nor named Walker in real life -- enjoyed bigger success in Britain than in their native United States. Musician John Walker of Walker Brothers dead at 67 2011-05-09T23:06:20Z

“All day, you have anxiety. You’re trying to make sure everyone around you is comfortable,” she said of real life. Ashley Nicole Black Is Her Own Competition 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

In real life, “Candide” invariably leaves me struggling, just like its protagonist, with my desire to be optimistic. Review | Opera’s quest for optimism: WNO takes on ‘Candide’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the greatest juxtaposition in fashion may be not between the runways and real life, but between Ms. Kawakubo and the conventions of the catwalk. Magical Thinking at Céline and Comme des Garçons 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

In addition to online galleries, there are “in real life” options, such as the Affordable Art Fair, which features hundreds of pieces from dozens of galleries all over the globe. These online galleries are helping millennials become art collectors 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Especially post-pandemic, when we have so much streaming overload, younger people are antsy for an IRL experience,” she said, using the acronym for “in real life.” Longtime Film Forum Director to Step Down After 50 Years 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

But Pitt said that it was an honest reflection of real life. Brad Pitt: gangster movie Killing Them Softly reflects economic crimes 2012-05-22T21:03:32Z

“I’m like this weird insect. I can’t sit still in real life.” Robin Wright, Putting on a Director’s Cap 2014-02-05T15:49:53Z

In real life, few really knew why Sievey wore or needed the head. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

It's the one thing that bothers me in real life. David the Goliath gets what he wants 2011-03-22T21:55:00Z

He feels that the movie represents the sort of person he is in his real life — at home in a peaceful desert community on the outskirts of Las Vegas, reading or meditating. Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Welcome to Marwen” juxtaposes these scenes with moments where Mark is haunted by his trauma in real life. Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis on "Welcome to Marwen," process, pretension and pain 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

“It was a beautiful journey to witness,” Mendizábal said, “the truth of these two characters emerged on the page as she was emerging more and more in real life.” Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

In real life, pioneers of human-android romance now have a name, “digisexuals,” which some academics and futurists have suggested constitutes an emergent sexual identity. Do You Take This Robot … 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

In real life he’d be lined, paunchy, and hoarse, with a tumor or heart attack right around the corner. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

“This ain’t no TV screen up here,” he told the crowd, “this is real life.” Music Review: The Old-School Style, Unafraid to Be Imperfect 2010-11-19T22:45:00Z

And Lakshmi called for doing more in real life, not just online. Padma Lakshmi gets political with series cheering immigrants 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

She became somebody unlike herself in real life? An Arena Stage director on neuroscience for research — and inspiration 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Whether or how much a book draws from real life isn’t strictly quantifiable. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

I explained that in real life, it might not be so easy. Fort Ticonderoga Re-enacts Dramatic Battles 2013-09-12T19:44:27Z

Instead, it finds its power in small, intimate moments, which collectively offer one of the truest depictions of real life in recent cinema. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z

Over the past year, once widely popular cop shows have fallen under increased scrutiny for their rosy portrayals of policing, at a time of far-too-frequent police killings of Black people in real life. TV "copaganda" still helps the real-life police more than survivors 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Scenes from the movie became so familiar it was as if they had happened in real life. What’s Your Favorite Movie to Watch at the Holidays? We Want to Know. 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

We understand that in real life the hard men of Little Italy would probably rather listen to Billy Joel, if they listen to anything, but we are in search a greater truth. Soundtracks of my tears: how movie music sets a mood and sums up an era 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

True to real life, the governor, Lord Harris, becomes his biggest patron, commissioning paintings of his home and surroundings. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z

In real life I think I'd be more afraid of the creature. A new life for Shaun Tan's lovable lost thing 2011-03-02T19:34:21Z

In real life, he recently finished his first year at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. O'Connell has law school on hold to play TV lawyer 2010-05-19T21:22:00Z

As Mika Kurosawa, his partner in real life and a major figure in Japanese contemporary dance, says during the film, the ritual at first reminded her of suicide. Review: ‘Zero One’ Plays With Difference at Danspace 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

Hoffman was absent, but Redford joined former editor Ben Bradlee, played by Jason Robards in the film, and the two real life reporters. Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, grows old with style as he reinvents himself for film festival 2013-04-20T12:36:22Z

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud fearsomely depicted real life as they found it – real human life, with the figure at the heart of the matter, the lonely human predicament their weighty concern. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z

In real life, he has proved versatile and likable in the manner of 1950s heartthrobs; he could very easily have a variety show. Is There Anything Ansel Elgort Can’t Do? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

What we're not going to say is, "You've got to sing a rock 'n roll song this week," because that doesn't happen in real life. "Idol" producer says show back from dark side 2011-02-02T04:37:23Z

Ray said that part wasn’t difficult to write because, incredibly, that’s what happened in real life. ‘The Comey Rule’ might make you angry. The people who made it hope it serves as a lesson. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Subtle though After Life is, we are still left with the curious paradox of an opera that gains its power above all from real life – the least operatic element within it. After Life 2010-05-16T20:30:00Z

Maybe there’s not as much of a highlight reel to show after the honeymoon when real life sets in. Facebook’s Last Taboo: The Unhappy Marriage 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The results may sometimes feel surreal, but this technique allows her to capture the impossibly strange events of real life. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The letters address real life and how people work through problems. Perspective | Ask Amy: Prospective parents worry about racist relatives 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

“The time of the film and the time of real life unite at this point.” They’re not all Daft Punk: ‘Eden’ and the other side of EDM 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Q: But in real life, a girl like that would never go for a guy like him. Steve Carell goes from "Office" to end of the world 2012-06-20T19:27:37Z

Among the recipients were Jimmy Carr, and , who was performing a show called Sex Tourist, based his on real life experiences in Thailand. Is there a backlash against rape jokes? 2013-08-20T07:21:24Z

Lambert: Coming back to real life was a bit of shock. Adam Lambert talks new album, 'Idol' knock-offs 2012-05-14T12:11:14Z

Statham As well as a recurring role playing a tiresome mockney geezer in real life, he's also the face/fist behind the Transporter and Crank series. Who's the least expendable of The Expendables? 2010-08-06T23:06:00Z

"Raise your hand if you were cool in high school," one actor asked the crowd, his hair in the tallest Mohawk I had seen in real life. When I wanted to find my people, I found them in the "food women" living all across the globe 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

As in real life, where we've watched successive administrations run out of money and credibility, so we've seen the characters in the show flail and suffocate in their analogue world of diminishing opportunity. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z

An important plot point concerns the loyalty questionnaire, which in real life, as in the show, contained two highly divisive questions. George Takei Guides ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical, Not a Starship 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Only Judy Garland is denied that glimmer of hope, but then real life is often less kind than playwrights are. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z

And that it was a mistake to conflate the characters in a novel with real life. Perspective | I’m not Salman Rushdie and other assumptions I’m tired of hearing at book events 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Social Network's Zuckerberg behaves in real life as many of us do on the keyboard. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

All of these women whose loved ones are found or missing and are tied to this, they formed a group in real life and are still very, very close. "Lost Girls" star Miriam Shor: "I was enraged about how these women had been treated" 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

First of all, celebrities don't know anything about real life. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z

Do we really need a movie based on the "real life" events that supposedly spawned Jack the Giant Killer? Jack the Giant Slayer: big news or the height of nonsense? 2012-11-23T15:16:42Z

Does knowing the books are based on real life condition the way readers respond? Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z

In the movie, unlike real life, Brodsky — who died in New York in 1996 at 55 — magically gets to return to that nest in his final days. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z

But real life beckons, as it always does. What You Should Watch This Weekend: Amazon Pilots and ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z

I feel like the internet tells us stuff that we can’t learn in real life. 'It’s how I feel. It’s not how you feel': four teens explain why they reject the gender binary 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to get caught up in where you are and not think about your real life. Q&A: Tips for Smart Shopping in Marrakesh 2013-12-13T16:02:28Z

That's the type of stuff that keeps me interested, real life in absurd circumstances. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

But it also reflects an increasingly relevant question faced by television viewers: How much do we want our entertainment to resemble real life? Review | Police-shooting drama ‘Shots Fired’ is thoughtful but won’t burst your political bubble 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The blond hair is now silver, the bearing not quite as statuesque, but in real life the 67-year-old doesn't look nearly as grizzled as his Hobo. Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun 2011-07-08T23:07:07Z

Director Ben Affleck couldn't use any elements of Lord of Light in his Argo, because in real life he didn't have the rights. Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin 2013-02-22T09:00:02Z

We were heady from all our speculative texting, but real life, as always, was more awkward. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

In the movie, as in real life, they're fiercely protective of their brothers while serving as a comedic Greek chorus of sorts. 'The Fighter's' unique sisterhood 2010-12-27T21:16:00Z

In real life and on the show, she was serving this purpose, but really being pushed so far out of her comfort zone with her work with the committee. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

In real life, the armoured vehicles stopped outside Croke Park and the shooting was done by hand. Michael Collins is 30 seconds from the truth about Irish history 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z

I’ve known a lot of these people before they get on the shows, so I like to think of them in their real life, not their reality TV version. Gabrielle Union: 'Bring It On' Cheers Come Back Like 'Muscle Memory' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Most of her stand-up focused on drawing distinctions between the person she seems to be on television and the person she is in real life. In a Stand-Up Act, Leslie Jones Finds the Humor in Being Hacked 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

But in real life my girlfriends are so interesting, and the way they talk about their children and their lives is dark and hilarious and funny.” The Baronesses Are Coming! And Filling a Comedy Gender Gap 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The affair is pleasurably steamy, and however heretical O’Connor’s invention, it’s nice to see Emily Brontë having a bodice-ripping good time, especially given how steeped in sorrow her real life was. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

And, as so often happens in real life, technology was the bane of my experience, with numerous glitches that added an hour to the 90-minute running time. Review: Voices in Your Head, and a Sense of Being Trapped 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

He followed that up with “The Rehearsal,” an HBO show in which he tested the idea that one could “rehearse” for real life scenarios — confrontations with friends or even parenthood — and filmed the results. ‘The Curse’ Series Premiere Recap: The Cameras Are Rolling 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

Yet the secret genius of "Your Love" is that the song never directly spells out whether the narrator consummates his crush in real life; we only get one side of the story. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Director Jonathan Levine said the actors did a lot of improvisation on set and that the movie sought to touch on some real life matters in a funny way. 'Long Shot' pairs Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen in political romance 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

These types of beliefs and standards work great online, but the internet doesn’t mirror real life. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But it must be kind of hard if it was in real life. A Minute With: Jane Fonda on learning from the young comic set 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

“I think the first impression is, ‘This kid’s obviously light on his feet, so delicate, possibly naïve,’” said Smit-McPhee, who, in a black T-shirt and ball cap, is self-assured and philosophical in real life. Kodi Smit-McPhee on Quiet Confidence, Chronic Pain and ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

In real life, King handily beat the self-proclaimed chauvinist pig. ‘Battle of the Sexes’ is about a tennis match — but it feels a lot like the 2016 election 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The first question I get will be, 'What are Bill and Susanna like in real life?' BBC Breakfast's Stephanie McGovern: I was seen as 'too common for telly' 2013-07-16T15:06:47Z

Most importantly, for trans youths who couldn't be themselves in real life, the homepage was a space for self-expression. How the early internet created a place for trans youth to find one another and explore coming out 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

In real life, Brown was anything but forgettable. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

In real life, the Military Wives benefited considerably from the input of Gareth Malone, who marshalled them into a chart-topping phenomenon and chronicled the whole process in his TV series. Same old song: are heartwarming musical films becoming too one-note? 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Do not snap your fingers in real life. From Fonzie to Cousineau, Henry Winkler shares his 50-year acting secret: "Cool is authenticity" 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

But trolls might not retain those qualities in real life. Internet trolls can’t help themselves 2012-08-01T21:00:00Z

Mr. Wein and Ms. Lister-Jones, a couple in real life, previously collaborated on “Breaking Upwards” a fresh and honest look at the difficulties of sustaining a relationship in the post-post-sexual-revolution world. Movie Review: Daryl Wein’s ‘Lola Versus’ With Greta Gerwig 2012-06-07T22:39:20Z

Ms. Wilson — who plays Marnie’s mother on “Girls,” has been Alicia’s nemesis on “The Good Wife” and is Mrs. Tom Hanks in real life — has a big, husky laugh. Rita Wilson Takes Over a Record Store 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

"She wasn't a burned-out star or a beauty model looking for a platform to draw attention to herself, but a person who had seen the ups and downs of real life." Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z

But the real life “Rail Man” wasn’t an accomplice of Brown’s. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Just as the parents-as-children characters coexisted in my mind with their children, real life hovered alongside the endless possibilities of fantasy. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z

In real life, I think I see myself mostly in Peggy. "Mad Men's" Meredith on Why She's Don's Best Secretary Ever 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Does it mean a character you would like in real life, a character you would not associate with but like watching, a character who is, in one way or another, like you? Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

“Coda” is effective the same way a sitcom is effective, but the swerves and texture of real life are sadly lacking. After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that our culture, enmeshed as it is in carefully arranged snapshots of real life, needs Jenny Diski, who, by her own admission, “never owned a camera, never taken one on holiday.” The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

“We were always aware of what was going on in the community and with the people around us, so we wrote about real life — just expressed ourselves through music.” 50 Years Later, Gamble and Huff’s Philly Sound Stirs the Soul 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

You’d never get a stalker in a dressing room in real life, but there are posters backstage of well-known crazies, just like in Roadies. Real-life roadies review Roadies: 'I felt like a nurse watching an hour of ER' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Indeed, we can only wish real life in America offered this depth of moral vision. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

But it sounds as if your electronic gentleman is ambivalent about meeting in real life — or married or just killing time before his 4 p.m. conference call. Social Q’s: Social Q’s: Spreading the Wealth 2013-05-16T17:17:27Z

“It’s enough to get rejected in real life,” said Ms. Hill, 28, who blogs about legal issues and lives in New York. 2010-01-07T05:35:00Z

And so Mr. Bieber is not yet fully grown, and in his real life, he’s been doing his best to maintain at least a veneer of young-person normalcy. Pop: Justin Bieber’s Album ‘Believe’ Comes Out Tuesday 2012-06-14T12:00:00Z

"The movies are unconventional, and you have the added element that the two people are a couple in real life," she added. Stewart, Pattinson crowned top earning romantic film couple 2013-01-17T21:14:51Z

A beauty known for playing chief executive officers, presidents and other powerful women, the actress turned out to be something of a General Patton in real life, too. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

"I didn't realise that if you put a movie star in your book you actually get the movie star in real life," Cunningham quipped. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2011-07-08T21:55:21Z

The film, inspired by the screenwriter Will Reiser’s real-life story of being given a cancer diagnosis in his mid-20s, treats its subject matter as he did in real life: as dreadfully serious and dreadfully funny. The Carpetbagger: For '50/50's' Writer, the Hardest Part Was the Drama 2012-01-13T19:56:38Z

Though in real life most of us have trouble even commanding the attention of a bartender. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z

Brooks character talks about how he wants to discover the real life of America by watching the Yeagers, but he can’t get there. Albert Brooks fans, rejoice! His genius films are coming to Netflix — and they feel more relevant than ever 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Roy Thomas, who was a writer and assistant editor at Marvel in the 1960s and, later, its editor-in-chief from 1972-1974, said that since comics try to mirror real life, death is always a specter. After half century, it's 1 Fantastic's farewell 2011-01-25T09:16:04Z

Most seemed pretty normal, with college degrees, which I don’t have, but certainly meant to; some attractive, mostly divorced but some like me, never married, some witty, some dull, sort of like real life. My year on Match.com 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z

He’s not interested in the technical razzle-dazzle or the idea of “putting on a number” so much as giving audiences a break from the constraints of real life. ‘La La Land’: How one of the best movies of the year almost didn’t get made 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Minor miracles can happen when independent films shake off the yoke of plot and let themselves be guided by the breath of real life. After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

In my real life, though, I chalked it up to dumb luck. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z

I thought: “This works in real life. This means something.” Modern Love: Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us 2011-04-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, she is similarly warm and chatty, with something of a compulsion to put the person next to her at ease. Kelly Ripa has made a career of being herself. Where does she go from here? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

I think that's the main draw of the zombie genre, and it's useful for real life, because at some point there'll be an emergency to react to; best to plan ahead. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

In real life, little about James was as genteel as that song. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

That's not going to help you in real life, but in this film it will. U.K. director Edgar Wright takes on "The World" 2010-08-16T03:19:00Z

It is a notion familiar to the actor in real life, who has a habit of "returning to zero" to refresh himself and look at things again. Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, grows old with style as he reinvents himself for film festival 2013-04-20T12:36:22Z

They can be elegant and emotionally engaging in real life, as the Oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" beautifully captured. 'Penguins of Madagascar' hit by a blizzard of puns 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

This is good for good fiction, but bad, sadly, for real life. John Hodgman: By the Book 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In real life, it leads to hate and mess. How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

But what both Franken and Tapper did do was bring the clear sense of right and wrong found in scripted drama to real life. Al Franken and Jake Tapper channel Aaron Sorkin and, still, the good guy eats it 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

If we want to make something that is real, it has to be like real life.” Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

And “Nocturnal Animals,” with Amy Adams as a gallery owner uncertain of where real life ends and art begins, arrives on HBO. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

Children facing challenges in real life find tremendous comfort in the fictional familiar. Kids Love Multi-Volume Series About Big Families. No Wonder. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

“The stories,” he also said, “seem like something that would only happen in a martial arts movie; however, they took place in real life.” Critic’s Notebook: Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Is Popular at Cannes 2013-05-19T20:30:52Z

Perhaps that’s partly because, in real life, layoffs often occur late in the year for accounting reasons. Critic’s Notebook: Made-for-TV Holiday Movies Are Here Again 2012-11-09T23:37:31Z