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Frank Evers (NYPH)
Francis "Frank" Anthony Evers (born 1965) is an Irish & American businessman and film/TV producer, the CEO of Institute, Institute Artist, the Story Institute, and the president of Evergreen Pictures and Girl Culture Films. Early life Evers was born to Francis Anthony "Frank" Evers, a senior United Nations official, and Irish actress Theresa (Doyle) Evers. His father was born in Menlough, Galway in 1934, and his mother was born in New York, United States in 1934 but spent most of her young life in Tuam, Galway. He has six siblings—five sisters and one brother. He grew up in the Middle East and Ireland until he moved to the US to attend Harvard University in 1983. Evers attended secondary school from 1978 to 1983 at Ireland's Gormanston College, and is a graduate of Harvard University (1987), where he earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies. He has held the Irish Junior Men's record in the pole vault (4.60 m) since March 1983. Career Institute (previously Girl Culture Films) I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Key, Florida
Duck Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the middle Florida Keys. The CDP also includes the neighboring island of Conch Key. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 727, up from 621 in 2010. History Ownership of Newkirk's Indies Inn changed in 1983 when the Pompano Beach Barrington Group purchased the holdings and made extensive changes. The nine-hole par 3 course designed by Robert Trent Jones was removed to make room for a resort expansion approved in 1986. The resort name was changed to Hawk's Cay Resort and Marina. Additional swimming pools and recreational facilities were added in the late 1990s. The Singh Company of Key West, well known for the Truman Annex, entered the Upper Keys in the middle 1990s and began Hawk's Cay Village. This added several hundred Caribbean-style cottages all with water views, porches and the traditional white picket fence. There a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic French style to a modern American audience. She has won two Academy Awards, for '' Harlan County, USA'' (1977), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for ''American Dream'''' (1991),'' the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category. Kopple gained acclaim for the film '' Bearing Witness'' (2005), a documentary about five women journalists stationed in combat zones during the Iraq War. She is also known for directing the documentary films '' Wild Man Blues'' (1997), '' A Conversation With Gregory Peck'' (1999), ''My Generation'' (2000), '' Running from Crazy'' (2013), '' Miss Sharon Jones!'' (2015), and '' Desert One'' (2019). She received a Primetime Emmy Award for ''Fallen Champ: The Untol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Magazine
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' and '' The New York Times Magazine'', it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill, Jacob Weisberg, Michael Wolff, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. It was among the first " lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. ''New York'' in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, it expanded int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks, September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees each year, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation is a foundation that provides funding and support to non-profit organizations. Overview The Annenberg Foundation was established by Walter H. Annenberg in 1989 with $1.2 billion, one-third of the assets from the sale of Annenberg's Triangle Publications. The Annenberg Foundation has focused on educational programming, and its efforts have also included environmental stewardship, social justice, and animal welfare. The foundation has roots as a traditional grantmaking A grant is a fund given by a person or organization, often a public body, charitable foundation, a specialised grant-making institution, or in some cases a business with a corporate social responsibility mission, to an individual or another e ... institution and is also involved in the community. , the foundation has $1.59 billion in assets. Ownership and Board of Directors Walter H. Annenberg headed the Annenberg Foundation until his death in 2002. Leonore Annenberg, his wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Annenberg Space For Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography (2009 - 2020) was an exhibition space in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles' Westside. Founded in March 2009, it was dedicated to displaying photographic works, ranging from artistic to journalistic, using both traditional photographic prints and modern digital techniques. History The goal, according to project creator Wallis Annenberg was to encourage visitors to see the world in a new way and gain understanding of the human condition through the eyes of gifted photographers. As part of the ''Walls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine'' exhibition running from October 5, 2019, to December 29, 2019, was ''Light the Barricades'', an interactive public art installation by Candy Chang and James A. Reeves. The goal of the installation was to encourage viewers to contemplate the inner obstructions that are preventing them from reaching their goals and being their authentic selves. Compound of three walls, as described by Chang herself, each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Schwartz (composer)
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as ''Godspell'' (1971), '' Pippin'' (1972), and '' Wicked'' (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including ''Pocahontas'' (1995), '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), ''The Prince of Egypt'' (1998, music and lyrics), '' Enchanted'' (2007), '' Disenchanted'' (2022), and the two-part adaptation of ''Wicked'' (2024-2025, music and lyrics). Schwartz has earned numerous accolades including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony Award's Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015. Early life and education Schwartz is Jewish and was born in New York City, the son of Sheila Lorna (née Siegel), a teacher, and Stanley Leonard Schwartz, a businessman. He gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (; born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth; July 24, 1968)Kristin Chenoweth Biography '''' , accessed December 1, 2014; according to her autobiography, she was named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth upon her adoption five days after her birth. is an American actress and singer, with credits in , film, and television. In 1999, she won a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen Of Versailles (musical)
''The Queen of Versailles'' is a 2024 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Lindsey Ferrentino. It is based on the 2012 documentary of the same name directed by Lauren Greenfield about Jackie and David Siegel, owners of Westgate Resorts, who are building a gigantic mansion, Versailles, in central Florida. The musical premiered at Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts in July and August 2024, starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham. Reviews have been mostly positive. A Broadway production is scheduled to open in late 2025. Synopsis In central Florida, just as the housing bubble bursts and the 2008 financial crisis nearly bankrupts them, Jackie and David Siegel, are building a gigantic mansion named and modeled after the Palace of Versailles in France. Jackie is a former model and Mrs. Florida pageant winner, warm, optimistic, and naïve; her husband David, 30 years her senior, is an aggressive businessman, as optimistic as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RiverRun Film Festival
The RiverRun International Film Festival is an annual Oscar-qualifying film festival held each spring in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and presents a variety of feature-length and short films from all genres, and also presents special events, regional premieres of significant films, celebrity tributes, family events and classic retrospectives as well as panel discussions and parties. Jury Awards winners Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Feature Best Director History Founded in 1998 by Gennaro and Beth D'Onofrio, the RiverRun International Film Festival got its name from the French Broad River near Brevard, North Carolina, where the festival was originally held. In 2003, Dale Pollock, a former film producer and then-Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, moved RiverRun to Winston-Salem, where it resides today as an independent arts organization s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (U
Bravo(s) or The Bravo(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Groups and labels * Bravo (band), a Russian rock band * Bravo (Spanish group), represented Spain at Eurovision 1984 * Bravo Music, an American concert band music publishing company Albums * ''Bravo'' (5566 album) or the title song, 2008 * ''Bravo'' (Dr. Sin album), 2007 * ''Bravo!'' (EP), by Up10tion, or the title song, 2015 *''Bravo!'', by Friska Viljor, 2006 *''Bravo!'', by Tube, 1997 Literature *'' The Bravo'', an 1831 novel by James Fenimore Cooper * ''Bravo'' (magazine), a European German-language teen magazine * ''Bravo'' (Romanian magazine), a teen magazine Television *Bravo (American TV network), a cable television network * Bravo (British TV channel), a digital television channel 1985–2011 * Bravo (Canadian TV network), a cable television network * Bravo (New Zealand TV channel), a free-to-air channel * ''Bravo!'' (TV series), a 1975–1976 Brazilian telenovela * ''Bravo TV'' (TV series), a 1985–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnolia Pictures
Magnolia Pictures LLC is an American independent film distributor and production company, and is a subsidiary of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Entertainment. Magnolia was formed in 2001 by Bill Banowsky and Eamonn Bowles, and specializes in both foreign and independent film An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is film production, produced outside the Major film studios, major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independ ...s. Magnolia distributes some of its films, especially foreign and genre titles, under the Magnet Releasing arm. In April 2011, Cuban had placed Magnolia up for sale, but stated that he would not sell the company unless the offer was "very, very compelling." Magnify, formerly Magnolia Pictures International, is the global sales arm of Magnolia Pictures. Filmography 2000s 2010s 2020s Upcoming films Undated films References External links *Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
