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If Tomorrow Comes (miniseries)
''Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes'' is a 1986 American television miniseries based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon, starring Madolyn Smith, Tom Berenger and David Keith. It was directed by Jerry London and the screenplay was written by Carmen Culver. Plot summary Trying to get justice for her wronged mother, Tracy Whitney is instead framed by a gangster and sent to prison for 15 years. At first a victim, Tracy makes alliances and plots her escape. She abandons her plan in order to save the warden's young daughter from drowning, earning herself a pardon. Tracy avenges herself and her mother, and is soon recruited by the mysterious Gunther Hartog to be a master thief. She crosses paths with another con artist, Jeff Stevens, to whom she is attracted but is not sure she can trust. Trailing behind them is the unstable insurance investigator Daniel Cooper. Cast * Madolyn Smith as Tracy Whitney * Tom Berenger as Jeff Stevens * David Keith as Daniel Cooper * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Tomorrow Comes (novel)
''If Tomorrow Comes'' is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story portraying an ordinary woman who is framed by the Mafia, her subsequent quest for vengeance towards them and her later life as a con artist. The novel was adapted into a three-part TV miniseries with the same name in 1986, starring Madolyn Smith and Tom Berenger. Plot Tracy is a successful bank-worker in Philadelphia, engaged to a wealthy heir, whose child she is carrying. Then her mother commits suicide, after being scammed by the New Orleans Mafia and left in debt. Tracy gets a gun to frighten the scammer, Joe Romano, into admitting her mother's innocence, but he tries to rape her and is wounded in the struggle. Her attorney convinces her that she will get a much shorter sentence if she pleads guilty, but the judge sentences her to fifteen years to Southern Louisiana Penitentiary for Women, and she realises that the judge and the attorney are both working for Romano's boss, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa (as TNT), and Asia-Pacific. History Origins In 1986, eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image Entertainment
RLJ Entertainment (formerly Image Entertainment) is an American film production company and home video distributor, distributing film and television productions in North America, with approximately 3,200 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 340 exclusive CD titles in domestic release, and approximately 450 programs internationally via sublicense agreements. For many of its titles, Image has exclusive audio and broadcast rights as well as digital download rights to approximately 2,100 video programs and over 400 audio programs containing more than 6,000 tracks. The company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California. History Founded in 1981 as a public company known as Image Entertainment, Image began as a distributor of LaserDiscs, whose sound and picture quality surpassed that of VHS and Beta, the dominant tape formats of the time. Image successfully secured exclusive output deals with major studios such as Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Orion Pictures, and The Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures and Starmaker Entertainment) was an American home entertainment and production company. It was a subsidiary of Starz Inc. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and sold feature films, television series (mainly shows that aired on Starz), television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its movies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011. A year after Starz launched a home entertainment division (in-name only) in 2016, it later folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment. History Anchor Bay Entertainment can date its origins back to two home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985,Executive Biography of George Port from the MarVista Entertainment websi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam D'Abo
Maryam d'Abo is a British actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film ''The Living Daylights''. Early life and education Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze, daughter of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo, of a landed gentry family of West Wratting, Cambridgeshire. d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva. D’Abo was drawing from the age of eight, but by 13 wanted to become an actress; she joined an amateur theatre company while at school in Geneva. She decided to do a foundation course at the London College of Printing at 18, but abandoned those studies in order to go to drama school at Drama Centre London. She left after one term in order to make her film debut. Career D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film ''Xtro'' (1982), playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien. She appeared in the film '' Until September'' (1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCH Pounder
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952) is a Guyanese-American actress. She has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in ''The X-Files'', '' ER'', '' The Shield'', and ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency''. Pounder portrayed Dr. Angela Hicks in the medical drama series '' ER'' (1994–1997), Captain Claudette Wyms in the FX police drama series '' The Shield'' (2002–2008), Irene Frederic in ''Warehouse 13'' (2009–2014), and District Attorney Tyne Patterson in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2013–2014). From 2014 until the show's conclusion in 2021, she portrayed medical examiner Dr. Loretta Wade on the police drama series '' NCIS: New Orleans''. Pounder was also the voice of Amanda Waller in the animated show ''Justice League Unlimited'' (2004–2006), a role that she has reprised in later DC Comics media. In film, she appeared in '' All That Jazz'' (1979), '' Go Tell It on the Mountain '' (1984), '' Prizzi's Honor'' (1985), '' Bagdad Caf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lane Smith
Walter Lane Smith III (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor. His well-known roles included newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', Walter Warner in '' Son in Law'', collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the NBC television series '' V'', Mayor Bates in the film ''Red Dawn'', Coach Jack Reilly in '' The Mighty Ducks'', district attorney Jim Trotter III in '' My Cousin Vinny'', U.S. Congressman Dick Dodge in ''The Distinguished Gentleman'' and U.S. President Richard Nixon in '' The Final Days'', for which he received a Golden Globe award nomination. Early life Lane Smith was born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the Leelanau School, a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Michigan, and spent one year boarding at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, before going off to study at the Actors Studio in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino; he was recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Jenner
Barry Francis Jenner (January 14, 1941 – August 9, 2016) was an American actor. Early life Jenner was born January 14, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began acting during his college years at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jenner moved to New York City where he found roles in Club Champion’s ''Widow'', opposite Maureen Stapleton, and ''Put Them All Together'' with Mariette Hartley. Along with Olympia Dukakis, he was a founding member of the innovative Whole Theatre Company where he starred opposite Dukakis in ''Long Day’s Journey Into Night''. Jenner also received wide acclaim as the self-destructive pitcher in Jonathan Reynolds' hit play, ''Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Seventh'', directed by Alan Arkin at New York City’s American Place Theatre. Career Jenner served as a Los Angeles Police Department reserve officer for 21 years. He had early roles on two daytime programs, as Tony Cooper on ''Somerset'' (1974–76) and as Evan Webste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Neeson
William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed 7th on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's 50 Greatest Film Actors. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years. He then acted in the Arthurian film ''Excalibur'' (1981). He appeared in supporting roles in '' The Bounty'' (1984), '' The Mission'' (1986), and ''Husbands and Wives'' (1992). He rose to prominence after his leading performance as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's holocaust drama ''Schindler's List'' (1993). He continued to star in dramas such as '' Nell'' (1994), '' Rob Roy'' (1995), '' Michael Collins'' (1996), and ''Les Misérables'' (1998). In 1999 he took the role of Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' space opera '' Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, film and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical. Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical ''Man of La Mancha'' and was the first to sing and record " The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical '' Kismet'', he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and, as such, was one of the quartet who sang " And This Is My Beloved". Additionally, he won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his 50-year career and his "sonorous baritone" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as "one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors" and as "an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Weston
Jack Weston (born Morris Weinstein; August 21, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1976 and a Tony Award in 1981. Career Weston, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, usually played comic roles in films such as '' Cactus Flower'' (1969) and ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' (1960). He occasionally took on heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker, who along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film '' Wait Until Dark''. Weston had numerous other character roles over 25 years, including in major films such as '' The Cincinnati Kid'' (1965), '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1968), ''Gator'' (1976), ''Cuba'' (1979), '' High Road to China'' (1983), '' Dirty Dancing'' (1987), ''Ishtar'' (1987), and '' Short Circuit 2'' (1988). On television, he made numerous appearances, such as murderer Fred Calvert in the 1958 '' Perry Mason'' episode, "The Case of the Daring Decoy" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daytona Beach News-Journal
''The Daytona Beach News-Journal'' is a Florida daily newspaper serving Volusia and Flagler Counties. It grew from the ''Halifax Journal'', which was started in 1883. The Davidson family purchased the newspaper in 1928 and retained control until bankruptcy in 2009. In 1986, ''The Morning Journal'' and ''Evening News'' merged into one morning newspaper. The newspaper began its online services in 1994. History Daytona's early settlers decided that a newspaper would be important for the development of the town. A group of citizens raised money to persuade Florian A. Mann to move his printing press from Ohio to Daytona and start a new publication. Prior to publication of the first issue, 86 subscribers were signed up, all paid in advance. Advertisers also paid in advance for the first three months. The first issue was scheduled for release on February 1, 1883; however, a schooner bringing the blank paper to Florida shipwrecked off the coast of the Carolinas, with the loss of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
