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Moore strikes up a friendship and then a creative partnership with her.
"The National Cage Bird Show," a young Manhattanite strikes up an online friendship
Instead he strikes up conversation with Special Agent Adams (John Behlmann) from the FBI.
I order pasta with Italian sausage and E. strikes up a conversation with the bartender.
To learn about modern slang, he strikes up a relationship with Barbara Stanwyck's nightclub singer.
Inadvertently and without her boyfriend's knowledge, she strikes up an email relationship with the musician.
She strikes up a conversation with Lionel (Sterling K. Brown) and gives him her business card.
A chorus of voices, each offering a different tangent, strikes up as soon as they appear.
The novel shines when Jo inadvertently strikes up an odd friendship with the preacher, Asa Truth.
Andi strikes up a conversation with her at an intersection, and he's as disarming as they come.
About four minutes in, his lady friends exit the car and Kamel strikes up conversation with Kalanick.
A lady in the line at the bank strikes up a conversation, and I do not recoil.
When the daughter strikes up a friendship with the pervy older director, C.K.'s character freaks out.
Esparza strikes up a conversation with the two teenagers sitting across from us, swapping favorite food spots.
When they both leave town, she strikes up a passionate affair with the new groomsman, Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis).
The band strikes up, they shift and settle in their chairs, some looking pleased, other perplexed, others sleepy.
Andy, however, can't resist a makeover and the cut strikes up a renewed flirtation between the two servants.
He strikes up a friendship with an Iranian immigrant and her two young daughters, who find Ove's grumpiness endearing.
As the orchestra strikes up its first clanging notes, they start moving, but minimally, leaning from left to right.
In that poem, Owen channels the voice of a soldier who strikes up an unnerving conversation with a dead man.
Instead, he strikes up a cautious friendship with her and begins to learn about the keys that inhabit Key House.
She takes that to heart (although not in the ways he expects) and strikes up a friendship with Mike's wife.
Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
In what was supposed to be a quick stop for iced coffee, Tatum strikes up a pretty sweet conversation with Beatrice.
In the film, Argento is called "Eva Avelin" and she strikes up a relationship with Savannah, believing her to be LeRoy.
Fans of The Simpsons will recall a particularly memorable episode in which Homer strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lobster.
Meanwhile, she strikes up what might seem to be a potentially intimate friendship with a rather shy zoologist named Dr. Sweet.
It starts off ordinarily enough: basically Sheeran meets a girl at a boxing gym and strikes up a relationship with her.
Khaled winds up working in a restaurant owned by a middle-aged businessman, with whom he strikes up an unlikely friendship.
He said the story of the black pianist who strikes up a friendship with his Italian-American driver gave him hope.
When they both leave town on business, she deliberately strikes up a passionate affair with the new groomsman, Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis).
After accosting an audience member, he's forced to do community service, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Harmony (Leslie Mann).
She strikes up a familiar tone with Han, and they seem to be catching up after being separated for a long time.
He strikes up a relationship that turns into a romance with Rim, a tourist-guide-cum dancer, played by Rym Ben Messaoud.
Blair himself makes a cameo as a man who strikes up conversation with Ruth at a bar, interrupting her while she's reading.
" Lucy strikes up a friendship with a shady Moroccan artist named Youssef, who tells her: "You are unfamiliar with Bowles, I see.
Esther is caring for her dying mother, and strikes up a friendship with her neighbors, an Iranian scientist and his son, Amir.
Strikers even included a small group of researchers stationed in Antarctica, who brought the tally of continents featuring strikes up to seven.
New England clam chowder: When someone in the bathroom stall next to you strikes up a conversation while you're trying to poop. 12.
Parker is not there when she arrives, and she strikes up a conversation with another man, who buys her "four to five" drinks.
Toni strikes up a friendship, and then more, with Cheryl Blossom—cheerleader, sister to the slain Jason, and daughter to two certifiable psychopaths.
Illustrating the narrative with archival photography, Anthony begins in 1911, the year in which Baltimore strikes up an ordinance that prevents racial integration.
Imagine you're just sitting waiting for a train watching It's a Wonderful Life on your phone and Martin Freeman strikes up conversation with you!
In one ''Playhouse'' episode, a monster named Roger appears, scaring the Playhouse dwellers; Pee-wee fixes him a snack and strikes up a friendship.
Visiting Los Angeles after her mother's sudden death, Lyn (Melissa Barrera) strikes up a conversation with a stylish young businessman from out of town.
He sees Maddy in the window and strikes up a friendship with her that begins with handwritten signs, and progresses to texting and beyond.
Kim is out day-drinking, mulling over her employment offer, when an engineer named Dale strikes up a conversation and buys her a drink.
The trio strikes up an unlikely friendship, and Raymond's warmth has the potential to upend everything Eleanor has believed to be true about herself.
She strikes up conversation, and tells them that they can access services that will support them with their health, their psychological problems, and their childcare.
At the Kwame Ture event, he strikes up a flirtation with Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), the president of the Black Student Union at Colorado College.
Hudson, meanwhile, is sitting at an outdoor cafe when she strikes up a conversation with a gray-bearded, man-bunned expat cradling a bass case.
When her marriage finally ends, Ms. Levy strikes up a correspondence with the handsome South African doctor John Gasson, who had treated her in Mongolia.
Sabri is where Haftar's rivals had their final strongholds, and was bombarded by LNA heavy artillery and air strikes up until a few weeks ago.
Much of the plot centers on a romance Gloria strikes up with Arnold (John Turturro), a former Marine, and on Gloria's relationships with her adult children.
Rue didn't plan to stay sober, but once she strikes up a friendship — and then romance — with new girl Jules (Hunter Schafer), she gets clean again.
BEIJING — Regal orchestral music strikes up, a computer-animated train races by and an old man with a bushy white beard looms onto the television screen.
Poe strikes up a friendship with a sleeveless woman, which emphasizes the fuzzy line between an artificial personality and a human who only exists on a chip.
Sandwiched between these suburban episodes are scenes aboard a grimy city bus where Ray strikes up an acquaintance with Shatique (Danielle Leneé), a young African-American woman.
In this video, Mr. Xi, his hands folded behind his back, strikes up a conversation with a worker at an equipment manufacturer in Qiqihar, a northeastern city.
Mr. Jurowski had a similar effect on the deceptively playful character of the scherzo, a movement Mahler once called "Death Strikes Up," with its eerie fiddle tune.
Netflix Description: A charismatic, hard-partying young man strikes up an unlikely romance with a smart and focused young woman during their last year of high school.
There you can watch the sun set over the pride of the Saudi petroleum industry as a muezzin in the mosque below strikes up a call to prayer.
It follows the tale of a young whippersnapper with a Sia-like fringe, who strikes up a pretty damn magic friendship with a snowman who comes to life.
Tinge Krishnan ("Junkhearts") directs this musical love story about a single mother in London who strikes up a romance with a suave stranger on the streets of Camden.
Since research suggests talking with strangers is a pleasant experience and leaves us feeling fulfilled, there's no reason to groan when your Uber driver strikes up a conversation.
Recent research has suggested that Lyme disease alone strikes up to 300,000 Americans every year, as much as 10-times higher than the number of diagnoses actually made.
"Dark Quiet Death" begins with a classic '90s meet-cute: A man spots a woman browsing the shelves of a video game store and awkwardly strikes up a conversation.
Prince of Peoria: NETFLIX ORIGINAL When an easygoing 13-year-old prince goes incognito as a U.S. exchange student, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fastidious overachiever.
I thought about the last pages of the book, where Levy strikes up a strange email correspondence with a Dr. John Gasson — the doctor who treated her in Mongolia.
With more than 45,000 killed by coalition air strikes up to August last year, "their destruction just becomes really a matter of time," he said on Tuesday in London.
The protagonist Paul (Griffin Dunne) is an uptight data-inputter who, reading Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" in a Manhattan coffee shop, strikes up a conversation with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette).
Introduced pulling off one of these small-scale capers in 1981, Forest pauses during his getaway to help a stalled motorist (Sissy Spacek), and strikes up a relationship with her.
Henry's handsome younger brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) also returns from war, where he was a fighter pilot, and strikes up a friendship with Ronsel against the strenuous wishes of his father.
He strikes up a relationship with a new tenant in his apartment building, played by Gloria Grahame, but his erratic behavior begins to sow doubt in her mind about his innocence.
Forced to perform community service after a run-in with a heckler, he meets the much-younger Harmony (Leslie Mann), with whom he strikes up an awkward and not especially convincing relationship.
That sense of longing turns out to also be affecting a few of her colleagues, including hunky astronaut Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm), with whom she strikes up a desperate and sad affair.
He strikes up a feud with Jim for no reason other than the fact Jim is lazy and perhaps in the same league, maybe even the one above, in terms of attractiveness.
As Jin waits to find out whether his semi-estranged father will ever regain consciousness, he strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a tour guide and lifelong Columbus resident.
Things get especially dicey when she moves with her young son into a shabby Manhattan apartment and strikes up a romance with an F.B.I. agent (Matthew Modine) who has her under surveillance.
Towards the midpoint of "Remember," Tonia heads to a medical conference where she strikes up a conversation with one of the accomplished speakers, a beautiful and successful pediatric neurosurgeon named Maggie (Gillian Alexy).
One day in town, Irina strikes up a conversation with a teenage girl named Sam, and the younger girl, who has an extremely active imagination, convinces herself that she has found Samantha Geary.
Yet, the first few minutes of the glitzy drama's sophomore episode gives us a glimmer of feminist hope as Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) strikes up an alliance with mortal enemy Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon).
As he digs up weeds and bounds on top of anyone who'll dare play with him, he's nothing if not a conversation starter; Amber strikes up chats with every fellow dog owner who passes.
Jamey strikes up a text message correspondence with Sierra under the belief that she is the bitchy and beautiful head cheerleader, Veronica (a pleasingly frigid Kristine Froseth), and lonely Sierra can't help but text back.
PRINCE OF PEORIA 13-year-old Emil travels to the States to live incognito as an exchange student, and the prince strikes up an unlikely friendship with Teddy, who is the total opposite of Emil.
Sinosphere BEIJING — The brass band strikes up and a squadron of young female singers, known as the 56 Flowers, launches into a rousing anthem to Mao Zedong, whose giant, smiling portrait looms over the stage.
When it becomes clear that the woman doesn't speak English, Franks turns around to a young man in a hoodie sitting in the row behind them, and strikes up a conversation about taking public transportation.
Synopsis: Kidnapped boy Phillip Perry strikes up a friendship with his captor Butch Haynes, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search is headed up by honorable Texas Ranger "Red" Garrett.
Now confronted with the traumatic past in the present, Claire feels her long-subdued grief rising to the surface, and so she strikes up an uneasy friendship with Clive in an effort to solve the puzzle.
Audience Score: 74%Critic Score: 60%The biographical war drama is about an escaped British internment-camp prisoner (Pitt) who travels throughout various countries and eventually strikes up a friendship with the Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk).
He visits a local tourist attraction, where he strikes up a conversation with a young woman, a painter named Yoon Hee-jung (Kim Min-hee), who is aware of his reputation though not terribly familiar with his work.
Unmoored by Dina, Sydney strikes up a mutual sarcasm pact with Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), an affable weirdo and extremely small-time pot dealer who becomes her would-be boyfriend and, as her powers reveal themselves, self-appointed sidekick.
Based on Becky Albertalli's novel, Simon strikes up an anonymous email friendship with a classmate facing the same dilemma, forging a relationship that also leaves Simon guessing -- and at times fantasizing -- about who his electronic soulmate might be.
When loneliness overwhelms her, she talks to her pet plant, Sip, or strikes up a conversation with her Mission Buddy, Jim, a friendly computer simulation who would never make it past the first minutes of a Turing test.
Louis C.K. stars in it as a TV comedy writer opposite John Malkovich as a notorious 68-year-old filmmaker who strikes up an uncomfortable relationship with the writer's daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), who has not yet turned 18.
But in a much weirder twist, Stallworth also strikes up a phone acquaintance with David Duke himself (played, brilliantly, by Topher Grace), with whom he chats on the regular about white supremacy and the wrongs incurred on white Americans.
He has two equally creaky confederates, played by Tom Waits and Danny Glover, and strikes up a romance with Jewel (Sissy Spacek), who proves susceptible to his charms even as she expresses some gentle skepticism about who he pretends to be.
An adaptation of a 2011 novel by Deborah Harkness, this British series takes place at Oxford University, where a historian with magical powers (Teresa Palmer) strikes up a romance with a handsome vampire played by Matthew Goode of "Downton Abbey."
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition effort against Islamic State is killing the group's fighters more quickly than it can replace them, a senior British general said on Tuesday, with more than 45,000 killed by coalition air strikes up to August last year.
Jessika Pava, an Asian female X-wing pilot, has just a few lines in "The Force Awakens," but on Tumblr, she has become the star of her own stories, where she strikes up a friendship with Poe and pursues a romance with Rey.
But there will be a twist when the New York Philharmonic strikes up the band this weekend for the lush Gershwin score of Woody Allen's 1979 film, "Manhattan": Since the Philharmonic recorded the original soundtrack, the performance it re-enacts will be its own.
I Love You, Daddy has sparked controversy since it made its premiere earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it stars C.K. as a TV writer whose 17-year-old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) strikes up a relationship with an infamous older filmmaker (John Malkovich).
Written and directed by Ficarra and John Requa (and based on a true story), the film stars Jim Carrey as a middle-aged man who comes out, becomes a grifter and, while serving multiple stints in prison, strikes up a romance with a cellmate played by Ewan McGregor.
When Ines blanks her father at a cocktail reception he has tagged along to, Winfried strikes up a conversation with the client she is trying to woo, telling him about his recent decision to acquire a replacement daughter: "Mine is never at home, and this one even cuts my toenails".
LOOKING BACK AT ADAM SANDLER AND DREW BARRYMORE&aposS FIRST ONSCREEN ROMANCE It follows the story of a heartbroken wedding singer named Robbie Hart (Sandler) who — after getting jilted at the altar — strikes up a friendship with a beautiful soon-to-be-married waitress named Julia Sullivan (Barrymore), with the pair eventually falling in love.
Ahead, nine of them explain how to get skilled in responding to the natural flow of conversations — whether that's in a meeting you assumed wouldn't require your input, with your boss on a random Wednesday afternoon, or with the CEO who suddenly strikes up conversation about the project your manager assigned you just yesterday.
Cut off from any future he ever imagined and lacking in basic survival skills — he greets the deep freeze in a pair of thin-soled Chelsea boots — Dylan strikes up a friendship with Stella and Constance just as what is predicted to be the worst winter in 200 years descends over much of the planet.
Those who know Zach Grenier only from his role as the unctuously ruthless lawyer David Lee on "The Good Wife" may do a double take when he turns up as a bearish former Mafia foot soldier who strikes up a conversation with a silver fox of a gentleman (Eric Conger) in a hospital waiting room.
The 50-year-old comedian, who hosted this year's Academy Awards for the second year in a row, kicked off his monologue by poking fun at the president's latest scandal and likening it to the Guillermo del Toro film — which tells the story of a mute cleaning lady in 1960s Baltimore who strikes up a romance with a mysterious aquatic creature.
She moves abroad, to London for college and, later, after the death of her mother, to Paris, where she strikes up a friendship with an older man, an Anglophone novelist, referred to only as M. As foreigners together, they wander the city talking and later exchanging emails about everything from food to birds' nests to grumpy shopkeepers to writing and even a standard measuring stick.
Yet you infer an astonishing amount about all the characters, who also include a pregnant book editor (Amelia Workman), who is a client of Peter's and quotes the Keats ode that gives the play its title; a big-talking, London-based chum of Alex's (Odiseas Georgiadis); and a well-spoken man (Leroy McClain) who strikes up an unexpected – and initially unwelcome – friendship with Alice.
But Knight unfortunately diverts our attention with two in loco parentis adults: Coach Patricia Fink, who has been brought over from the basketball team to oversee the production of "The Phantom of Thornton Hall" even though her tendency is to send the cast members "off to run laps," and Mr. Bishop, the charismatic but anxious American history teacher who strikes up a kinship with Lenore when she unexpectedly blurts out the secret of her pregnancy.
Centered on a fictionalized version of the New York skate collective Skate Kitchen — and featuring an acting ensemble made up largely of members of that collective — the movie follows a young skater, Camille (Rachelle Vinberg), who rebels against her restrictive mother by taking the Long Island Rail Road into Lower Manhattan, where she finds solace in the support of fellow Instagram-loving skaters and strikes up a romance with a young photographer played by Jaden Smith.

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