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Joe Dirt
''Joe Dirt'' is a 2001 American adventure comedy film, directed by Dennie Gordon (in her feature film directorial debut), starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Adam Beach, Brian Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, and Kid Rock. The film was written by Spade and Fred Wolf, and produced by Robert Simonds. The plot revolves around a poor young man, Joe Dirt, who at first seems to be a loser. As he travels in search of his parents, his finer qualities are increasingly revealed. He ends up with a new family of close friends, people he has helped and who respect him. While critical reception was mostly negative, the film was a modest financial success, eventually becoming a cult favorite. A sequel, '' Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser'', premiered on Crackle on July 16, 2015. Plot Joe Dirt, a janitor at a Los Angeles radio station, tells his life story via shock jock Zander Kelly's broadcast. Joe reveals that as a baby he had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennie Gordon
Dennie Gordon is an American film and television director. Her directorial television credits include ''Party of Five'', ''Sports Night'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''The Practice'', ''Grounded for Life'', '' The Loop'', ''White Collar'', ''Burn Notice'', '' Hell on Wheels'', ''Waco'', ''The Office'' and other series. She has also directed the feature films ''Joe Dirt'', ''New York Minute'' and '' What a Girl Wants''. In 2000, Gordon won the DGA Award for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for episode of the HBO series, '' Tracey Takes On...'' starring Tracey Ullman. She is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and the Yale School of Drama. Filmography * ''Joe Dirt'' (2001) * '' What a Girl Wants'' (2003) * ''New York Minute A New York minute is a very short period of time. New York Minute may also refer to: * ''New York Minute'' (film), a 2004 American family comedy film starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen * "New York Minute" (''Law & Order''), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Thompson (actor)
Brian Earl Thompson (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film ''The Terminator''. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film ''Cobra (1986 film), Cobra''. His first named role was on ''Werewolf (TV series), Werewolf'', a horror series that ran during Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the ''Star Trek'' franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag, who informed Commander William Riker that "Gagh is always best when served live", the Colonist (The X-Files)#Alien Bounty Hunters, Alien Bounty Hunter on ''The X-Files'', and Eddie Fiori on ''Kindred: The Embraced''. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movie parody ''The Extendables''. Early life Thompson was born in Ellensburg, Washington, and raised in Longview, Washington, Longview. He attended Central Washington University, where he studied business m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a mile (). The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai, Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their Stream channel, channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was Tectonic uplift, uplifted. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acrania
Acrania is a rare congenital disorder that occurs in the human fetus in which the flat bones in the cranial vault are either completely or partially absent. The cerebral hemispheres develop completely but abnormally. The condition is frequently, though not always, associated with anencephaly. The fetus is said to have acrania if it meets the following criteria: the fetus should have a perfectly normal facial bone, a normal cervical column but without the fetal skull and a volume of brain tissue equivalent to at least one-third of the normal brain size. Causes Genetics Recent work has identified mutations in the hedgehog acyltransferase (HHAT) gene that have caused acrania along with holoprosencephaly and agnathia. The mutation in which causes this disease is a loss-of-function mutation. Before this discovery in 2010, HHAT was known to play a role in the sonic hedgehog pathway. When HHAT contains a loss-of-function mutation, less HHAT protein is produced. is necessary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mullet (haircut)
The mullet is a hairstyle in which the hair is cut shorter at the front, top and sides, but is longer at the back. Etymology According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', use of the term ''mullet'' to describe this hairstyle was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys", who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head", combining it with a description of the haircut: "Hair clipper#Blades, number one on the side and don't touch the back, number six on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack." They expounded on the subject at length in a six-page article entitled "Mulling Over The Mullet" in Issue 2 (1995) of their magazine Grand Royal, offering a selection of alternative names for the cut, including "Hockey Player Haircut" and "Soccer Rocker". False etymology Although a widely circulated image from the Australian automotive magazine ''Street Machine (magazine), Street Machine'' appeared to show the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock Jock
A shock jock is a radio broadcaster or DJ who entertains listeners and attracts attention using humor or melodramatic exaggeration that may offend some portion of the listening audience. The term is used pejoratively to describe provocative or irreverent broadcasters whose mannerisms, statements and actions are typically offensive to much of society. It is a popular term within the radio industry. A shock jock is the radio equivalent of the tabloid newspaper in that both consider entertaining their audience to be as important as—if not more important than—providing factual information. A radio station that relies primarily on shock jocks for programming has what is called a hot talk format. The term is used in two broad, yet sometimes overlapping, contexts: # The radio announcer who deliberately makes outrageous, controversial, or shocking statements, or does boundary-pushing stunts to improve ratings. # The political radio announcer who has an emotional outburst in respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janitor
A cleaner, cleanser or cleaning operative is a type of Industry (economics), industrial or domestic worker who is tasked with cleaning a space. A janitor (Scotland, United States and Canada), also known as a custodian, Facility Operator, porter or caretaker, is a person who cleans and might also carry out Maintenance, repair and operations, maintenance and security duties. A similar position, but usually with more managerial duties and not including cleaning, is occupied by building superintendents in the United States and Canada and by site managers in schools in the United Kingdom. According to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge English dictionary a "cleaner" is "a person whose job is to House cleaning, clean houses, offices, public places, etc.:"; the Collins dictionary states that: "A cleaner is someone who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building." However, a cleaner does not always have to be employed and perform work for pay, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crackle (streaming Service)
Crackle was an American-based video streaming service. It was founded in 2004 as Grouper, before the service was purchased by Sony Pictures in 2006 and renamed ''Crackle''. In 2018, the name was changed to Sony Crackle. Sony sold a majority stake to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment in March 2019, and the name was changed back to Crackle. In July 2024, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment was placed in Chapter 7 liquidation, which would signal a liquidation of the company's assets, and the cessation of its subsidiaries, including Crackle; while all other subsidiaries were shuttered, the Chapter 7 trustee had kept the Crackle website operating (), available only in the United States. History ''Grouper Networks'', an encrypted P2P network that integrates file sharing, instant messaging and multimedia streaming, was founded in 2004 by Josh Felser, Dave Samuel, Mike Sitrin, and Aviv Aiyal. Later, Sony purchased it in August 2006 for $65 million. In July 2007, Sony rebrand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful Loser
''Beautiful Loser'' is the eighth studio album by American rock artist Bob Seger, released in 1975. This album marked Seger's return to Capitol Records after a four-year split. His previous record with Capitol was '' Brand New Morning'' in 1971. The album relied mostly on session musicians from the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, but the Silver Bullet Band members were used separately on some songs and together on " Nutbush City Limits," a cover song of the hit by Ike & Tina Turner. Track listing Note *The liner notes credit "Nutbush City Limits" to the Silver Bullet Band, while the album as a whole is credited to only Bob Seger. Personnel Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album. * Bob Seger - lead vocals (all tracks), guitar (tracks 4, 5, 9), slide guitar (track 3), harmonica (track 3), piano (track 4) Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (all tracks except tracks 4 and 7) * Barry Beckett - grand piano, organ, synthesizer, electric piano * Pete Carr - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Of Choice
Chosen family—also referred to as found family, a family of choice, or ''hānai'' family—refers to non-biological kinship bonds that are intentionally formed, regardless of legal recognition. These relationships are often based on mutual care, support, and emotional connection. In contrast to the nuclear family; chosen family is created through voluntary association. Chosen family in the LGBTQ+ community LGBTQ+ individuals in particular often seek out chosen family when ostracization by their families of origin leaves them in need of social support. Many LGBTQ+ individuals face rejection or shame from the families they were raised in upon coming out. Research indicates that in the absence of social support by an individual's family of origin, chosen family can promote psychological resilience Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. The term was popularized in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
