1.   But the five people from American universities who are doing field work here do not like it when life imitates the movies.

2.   Movies imitate television as television imitates movies that imitate television.

3.   Other writers of the time were trying to imitate the movies.

4.   Several thought they were imitating a movie.

5.   The intrigue over the case was also compounded by the fact that it appeared to offer eerie overtones of life imitating the movies.

6.   The house imitates a movie set imitating a house, and thrives as much in the camera as it does on the site.

7.   Sometimes, Joan Allen learned to her frustration, movie casting imitates the movie itself.