(Given that McPhee and Hilty's respective backgrounds echo that of their characters, if Smash breaks out the way NBC hopes it will, be not surprised when tabloids start playing up a real-life rivalry).
A proficient but psychologically unilluminating study of the none too real-life rivalry between 70s Formula One titans James Hunt Chris Hemsworthh) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl), it offers some whizzy thrills for petrolheads, while Peter Morgan's script hammers home the racing-as-living metaphors for all they're worth.
It's art historical fiction about the real-life rivalry between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
In FX's "Feud," which chronicles the real-life rivalry between Crawford (Jessica Lange and Davis Susan Sarandonon) surrounding production of the film, the two women are forced to reckon with a conflict fueled for years, in large part, by increasingly limited offers for women their age.
He worked with the screenwriter Peter Morgan and the director Ron Howard on "Rush," their feature film about his life and rivalry with Hunt, which was released worldwide this autumn.
Charles James Fox was an 18th century Whig politician noted for his colourful personal life and rivalry with William Pitt the Younger and radical anti-slavery views.
Sports has always been a part of school life and rivalries were fierce.
Many are based on domestic life and rivalries; in these, virtue typically triumphs and violence may be common and matter-of-fact.
If there is a surprise, it is Ron Howard's Rush, all about the real-life 70s rivalry between motor-racing alpha gorillas James Hunt and Niki Lauda: it has a best drama nomination (though it could as easily as qualified as a comedy) and also an acting nod for Daniel Brühl.
He also faced opposition within his own order, in particular, from the other great theologian of his time, Gabriel Vázquez an opposition which developed into a life-long rivalry and a partisanship which survived their deaths.
Writer Paula Pell (who also cameos) took inspiration from her own childhood journals, and the best jokes are rooted in real-life sibling rivalries and recognisable nostalgia.
