Increasingly, doing so means a snagging a role in a comic book adaptation, or playing second fiddle opposite a press-hogging superstar.
Take the wordless subway ride, early in the movie, that finds Brandon, impeccably swathed in coat and scarf, sitting diagonally opposite a young woman.
The new film has been updated with all of the modern bells and whistles including light cycle races in 3-D and Jeff Bridges acting opposite a digital version of his younger self.
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Eyewitness John Weir, who lives opposite a terraced house containing a number of flats in Forest Road, said about 20 officers had forced its front door open at about 2350 BST last Wednesday during the original raid.
And opposite a particularly Heath Robinson piece of machinery, complete with foot-long levers and dials like the engine room of the Titanic, I spot an old circuit diagram on the wall, mapping out each of Britain's national newspapers.
They don't really care about the plight of European leaders at the mercy of an economic crisis that demands one thing: great integration - but could prompt a political crisis demanding the exact opposite: a looser Europe.
On the other, the broad St Lawrence River is a steely grey-blue, its opposite bank a distant misty outline.
Double taxation is a special tax penalty, which is the opposite of a special tax break.
The decline in the Tories' popularity in recent months continues to puzzle, with some putting it down to a message that is too bleakly austere and others blaming it on something close to the opposite: a lack of Thatcherite punch and clarity.
Save the rare exception of, say, a Carmelo Anthony, who led Syracuse to its national title in 2003, Boeheim runs the opposite of a "one-and-done" program.
Jimmy Lee, who runs that arm of Chase, has a record of paying top dollar to get the people he wants, and he is the opposite of a big-bank bureaucrat.
While both teams were telling a story in the same universe, Stern said the creative process was like digging a tunnel through opposite sides of a mountain to meet in the center.
Though his autograph has become the opposite of a rare collector's item, in-person sales remain strong.
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The opposite (a lack of willingness to take risks) can have its own dangers, as well.
On the wall opposite was a bright Mediterranean scene of whitewashed houses and sheets drying on a line.
"It looks like an opposite of a theory, because he doesn't explain how it happens at all, " Dennett says.
On the flipside, bear markets are simply the opposite of a bull: a market showing a lack of conviction.
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The atomic red pseudo-fruit at the bottom of that glass was both the literal and proverbial opposite of a cherry on top.
The opposite of a buying climax is a selling climax, which is a bullish sign that a stock has bottomed.
If you read that carefully, and understand teen tastes, you might realize Mondo is the opposite of a Disney cartoon.
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His mother was the opposite, a diligent saleswoman for Stanley Home Products, a sort of Amway for brushes, mops and household cleaners.
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Temperamentally and ideologically, Huffington is Eun's opposite, a big, colorful personality who talks incessantly about "great journalism, " rather than external referrals and revenue per user.
Instead, it suggests the exact opposite: a truly decentralised approach, shifting the role of monitoring banks to the market by setting Europe-wide full disclosure rules.
But the present government with its commitment to cutting the budget deficit and public debt are in any case pursuing the opposite of a Keynesian policy.
That fictional scenario is the best way to gauge its real-world opposite, a scheme whose very name--Bluetooth--appropriately calls to mind the more depressing aspects of dentistry.
Rather, they say, it is the opposite: a case of celebrities commanding more attention than many victims of more serious, equally uninvestigated crimes (such as much burglary) receive.
It turned into the exact opposite: a much lawyered affair that has dragged on for more than a year and a half and racked up millions of dollars in legal fees.
There are hooks on one wall to hang a sleeping bag and a spot on the opposite wall for a fold-down table and foot restraints so astronauts can use a laptop computer.
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