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Christine Dunford
Christine Dunford is an American actress from the Bronx, New York. Life and career Christine Dunford was born in the Bronx. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1979, the year that she played a featured role in the school's production of '' Dark of the Moon''. She was also voted class president during her senior year. She received theater training at the Juilliard School and began her career in the New York theater, cast in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of '' Two Gentlemen of Verona'' at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Dunford spent the next two years working at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in the American premiere of the off-Broadway and Broadway runs of '' Serious Money'' and in the lead role of ''Love's Labours Lost'', directed by Gerald Freedman. Other New York stage appearances include ''Infidelities'' at Primary Stages and the title role in '' Tamara''. On the west coast, Dunford starred with Ed Begley, Jr. in Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronx, New York
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land area of and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density.New York State Department of Health''Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State – 2010'' retrieved on August 8, 2015. It is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island. With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the only majority-Hispanic county in the Northeastern United States and the fourth-most-populous nationwide. The Bronx is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara (play)
''Tamara'' is a 1981 play by John Krizanc about the painter Tamara de Lempicka. The play is based on the historical meeting of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Lempicka, who was hoping to be commissioned by d'Annunzio to paint his portrait. He had invited her to his villa at Gardone Riviera, on the southwest shore of Lake Garda, a villa now known as '' Il Vittoriale degli Italiani''. Style The play draws the audience into a labyrinthine story which reflects complicity in civic responsibility. Lempicka declines to use her voice, despite the power given it through her cultural preeminence. She sells her art to the highest bidder without comment. In ''''Tamara'''', the barrier between spectator and actor has been dissolved; the spaces intermingle, and spectators become actors on many stages. ''Tamara'' is postmodern theatre performed in a large house with ten actors performing simultaneous scenes in several different rooms; at other times there is simultaneous action in eleven rooms. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Newhart
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery style. Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his album of comedic monologues, ''The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart'', became a bestseller and reached number one on the ''Billboard'' pop album chart; it remains the 20th-best-selling comedy album in history. The follow-up album, ''The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!'', was also a success, and the two albums held the ''Billboard'' number one and number two spots simultaneously. Newhart later went into acting, starring as Chicago psychologist Robert Hartley in ''The Bob Newhart Show'' during the 1970s, and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series '' Newhart''. He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s, '' Bob'' and ''George and Leo''. Newhart had film roles such as Major Major in ''Catch-22'' and Papa Elf in ''Elf''. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Disney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob (TV Series)
''Bob'' is an American sitcom television series created by Bill Steinkellner, Cheri Steinkellner, and Phoef Sutton. It aired on CBS from September 18, 1992, to December 27, 1993. The series was the third starring vehicle sitcom for Bob Newhart, following his previous successful CBS sitcoms ''The Bob Newhart Show'' and ''Newhart''. Synopsis Newhart portrayed Bob McKay, the creator of the 1950s comic book superhero "Mad-Dog". Mad-Dog was a casualty of the Comics Code Authority, a real-life self-regulation authority formed to assuage concerns over violence and gore in comics in the 1950s. In the wake of the CCA, Bob became a greeting card artist. In the pilot, Mad-Dog is revived when the American-Canadian Trans-Continental Communications Company buys the rights to the series. Complications ensued when Ace Comics head Harlan Stone (John Cygan) insisted Mad-Dog should be a bloodthirsty vigilante rather than the hero Bob originally created. Bob initially turned down Harlan's offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something So Right (TV Series)
''Something So Right'' is an American sitcom television series which ran on two different networks during its time on the air, and in reruns on the USA Network for a number of years after its cancellation. ''Something So Right'' starred Mel Harris as Carly Davis, a twice-divorced party planner who had married Jack Farrell ( Jere Burns), a divorced English teacher. They had three children, one from each of their former marriages. This program premiered on NBC on September 17, 1996, hammocked between the Top 30 hit ''Mad About You'' and the Top 20 hit ''Frasier''. The hammocking effort failed, and the show faltered in the ratings and was canceled the following spring. It was picked up as a midseason replacement on ABC the next year, running until July 7, 1998. Characters *Carly Davis ( Mel Harris) – Carly is a party planner who is currently married to Jack Farrell. She has two biological children from two previous husbands: her son Will Pacino from her first husband Dante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for co-starring in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983) and '' Who's the Boss?'' (1984–1992), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom '' The Tony Danza Show'' (not to be confused with his 2004–2006 daytime variety talk show of the same name). He has also appeared in films such as '' The Hollywood Knights'' (1980), '' Going Ape!'' (1981), '' Angels in the Outfield'' (1994), ''Crash'' (2004), and ''Don Jon'' (2013). Early life Danza was born on April 21, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anna Mary (née Camisa; 1925–1993) and Matthew Anthony "Matty" Iadanza (1920–1983).Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', February 8, 2022 His mother was a bookkeeper and his father worked as a waste collector in Brookly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Street (TV Series)
''Hudson Street'' is an American sitcom that aired on ABC for one season, from 1995 to 1996. The series starred and was executive produced by Tony Danza with Lori Loughlin also starring. Synopsis Danza starred as Tony Canetti, a divorced detective in Hoboken, New Jersey, who shares custody of his son Mickey with his ex-wife. In between work and raising his son, Tony also starts a romance with an idealistic crime reporter, Melanie (Lori Loughlin). The series received good reviews and initially placed in the top ten (partly due to its placement between the ABC hits ''Roseanne'' and ''Home Improvement''), but the series was cancelled after one season as it could not hold on to its lead-in audience. ABC moved the series to Saturday nights in 1996 which sealed its fate for cancellation. Cast * Tony Danza as Tony Canetti * Lori Loughlin Lori Anne Loughlin (; born July 28, 1964) is an American actress. From 1988 to 1995, she played Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Sports
''Good Sports'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on the CBS network from January 10 to July 13, 1991, starring Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. It was Fawcett's only scripted TV series after ''Charlie's Angels''. Synopsis The show features the two main characters, Bobby Tannen (O'Neal), a once-famous former football player for the Green Bay Packers gone to seed and Gayle Roberts (Fawcett), an ex-Miss America, as mismatched anchors on an all-sports cable network, Mr. Downtown Bobby Tannen and Ms. Gayle Roberts. Bobby is a self-obsessed jock, constantly worried about himself and his image. Gayle is the more down to earth and level-headed of the two. Both characters were concerned with the ratings of their sports show, outwardly disliking each other but nonetheless mutually attracted. Supporting cast * Brian Doyle-Murray as John "Mac" MacKinney, the sport show's obsequious producer * Lane Smith as R.J. Rappaport, the huffy cable channel owner * Cleavant Derricks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, and its Greater Los Angeles, sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Box
''The Shadow Box'' is a play written by actor Michael Cristofer. The play made its Broadway debut on March 31, 1977. It is the winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play was made into a telefilm, directed by Paul Newman in 1980. Plot synopsis The play takes place over twenty-four hours, in three separate cottages on the grounds of a large hospital, in the United States. Within the three cabins are three patients: Joe, Brian and Felicity, who are to live with their respective families as they have reached the end of their treatment. They have agreed to be part of a psychological program where they live within the hospital grounds and have interviews with a psychiatrist.Leah, Frank D “THEATER REVIEW; The Shadow Box Explores Mortality”''The New York Times'' 12 November 12, 1989Cristofer, Michael. "Introduction", "The Shadow Box: A Drama in Two Acts", Samuel French, Inc., 1977, , pp.3-7 ;Act One It is morning and Joe is sitting in the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith David
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is known for his signature deep voice and commanding screen presence in over 300 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media. He has starred in such films as '' The Thing'' (1982), ''Platoon'' (1986), '' They Live'' (1988), ''Dead Presidents'' (1995), '' Armageddon'' (1998), '' There's Something About Mary'' (1998), '' Requiem for a Dream'' (2000), '' Pitch Black'' (2000), '' Barbershop'' (2002), ''Crash'' (2004), '' The Chronicles of Riddick'' (2004), '' Cloud Atlas'' (2012), '' The Nice Guys'' (2016), and '' Nope'' (2022). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series ''Community'' (2015) and starred as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama '' Greenleaf'' (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice-over career includes work as the narrator of Ken Burns films such as '' The War'' (2007) and '' Muhammad Ali'' (2021). In film, characters that he has voiced inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geffen Playhouse
The Geffen Playhouse (or the Geffen) is a not-for-profit theater company founded by Gilbert Cates in 1995. It produces plays in two theaters in Geffen Playhouse, which is owned by University of California Los Angeles. The Playhouse is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was named for donor David Geffen. The current executive director is Gil Cates Jr. History The Geffen Playhouse was built in 1929 as the ''Masonic Affiliates Club'', or the MAC, for students and alumni at UCLA. One of the first 12 structures built in Westwood Village, it was designed by architect Stiles O. Clements. Its courtyard fountain is a piece from Malibu Potteries; the two patterns can be seen on and in Malibu Potteries founder Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter's house, the Adamson House, which Clements designed (the same year he designed the Geffen) and for which Rindge provided the tile. The pattern on the lower tier of the Geffen's fountain appears in the Adamson H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
