Famous as the setting for a key scene of Michael Caine's cult gangster movie Get Carter, the 12-storey monster in the heart of Gateshead is dying with a grace denied it during its short and controversial life.
In a key scene of Sunday night's "Good Wife" episode, "Gloves Come Off," I enjoyed seeing Diane Christine Baranskii, wonderful as always) cut Alicia Florrick down to size when Alicia (Julianna Margulies) ambushed her at the elevator and demanded an immediate answer to her request for more money.
He was trying to coordinate the logistics of a key scene, and the delicate combination of movement, dialogue and lighting wasn't cooperating.
The way Daniel cites a key scene in "The Best of Youth" brings to mind one of the primary differences between the classic and the modern cinema (and I don't mean those adjectives either as honorifics or as pejoratives) — his description of a scene in which Matteo "drives for hours," which doubtless occupies no more than a few minutes of screen time.
In a key scene, the assistant secretary of war explains to a group of military officers who will preside at a court-martial that the purpose of the trial is not to determine guilt or innocence, but "to save this country from further bloodshed".
You might imagine the girl-power message nods to Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of "The Hunger Games," who appears in a key scene wearing a gown of flames, but "Girl on Fire" also speaks to Keys's life, which has changed recently with marriage and a new son, Egypt.
Before heading to the airport in a key scene toward the end of the movie, Kerry can be seen carrying another container of food.
If there was one change in the second season opener, it was a very welcome one: Spacey didn't mug to camera at the end of a key scene, but instead saved up his moralising for one big end-of-episode monologue.
The checklist gained fame as part of a key scene in the 1995 film Apollo 13, in which actor Tom Hanks played Cdr Lovell.
"He's a decent guy in a guilty environment," is how producer Samm Haillay sees it, before showing me a rough cut of a key scene: a tragic and breathlessly calibrated car chase through the motorways that surround Gateshead.
"Godfather IV" is not a sequel to Francis Ford Coppola's mafia movies, but a piece in which the "Oz" actors discuss the plausibility of a key scene in "The Godfather," and Mr. Tergesen and Mr. Winters resolve to put a horse's head in Mr. Meloni's bed.
