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Real Men (film)
''Real Men'' is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film by Dennis Feldman, starring James Belushi and John Ritter as the heroes: suave, womanizing Central Intelligence Agency, CIA agent Nick Pirandello (Belushi) and weak and ineffectual insurance agent Bob Wilson (Ritter). Plot After scientists accidentally spill a deadly chemical into the ocean that will eventually kill all life on earth, a group of aliens offer to help humanity. They offer a choice: the 'Good Package' to clean up the mess, or the 'Big Gun', a weapon capable of destroying the planet. The aliens only ask for a glass of water in return, which must be delivered by CIA agent Pillbox, the only human they entirely trust. While on a run-thru of the alien meetup, agent Pillbox is shot and killed in a forest by an unseen assassin in an inside-job. FBI computers find Bob Wilson, an insurance agent who looks just like Pillbox, and suggest sending Wilson in Pillbox's place. However, Wilson is a meek office worker who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Bregman
Martin Leon "Marty" Bregman (May 18, 1926 – June 16, 2018) was an American film producer and personal manager. He produced many films, including '' Scarface'', '' Sea of Love'', ''Venom'', '' Serpico'', '' Dog Day Afternoon'', '' The Four Seasons'', '' Betsy's Wedding'', '' Carlito's Way'', '' Carlito's Way: Rise to Power'', '' The Bone Collector'', and '' The Adventures of Pluto Nash''. Early life Bregman was born in New York City to Leon and Ida (Granowski) Bregman. He was Jewish and grew up in the Bronx. As a child, he suffered from polio. He began his career selling insurance and first got into the entertainment business as a night club agent. Career Building relationships with investors such as New York real estate magnate Lewis Rudin, Bregman moved successfully into personal management, eventually representing such stars as Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Bette Midler. Bregman discovered Pacino in an Off Broadway play, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyanne Thorne
Dyanne Thorne (October 14, 1936 – January 28, 2020) was an American actress, stage performer, and vocalist. She was known for her stage work in Las Vegas and as the lead actress in the ''Ilsa'' film franchise which began with ''Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS'' (1975). Early life and education Born in Park Ridge, New Jersey, as Dorothy Ann Seib, and raised there primarily by her mother, she attended Park Ridge High School, where she was one of the feature writers on the school newspaper. After graduating, she attended New York University and took acting courses with Uta Hagen. Career Dyanne Thorne began her career in show business as a band vocalist and New York stage actress. She also worked as a comedic sketch artist/talking foil. Comedy albums, with Allen & Rossi, Vaughn Meader and Lohman & Barkley, earned her appearances on many TV variety shows such as ''The Tonight Show'', ''Red Skelton'', ''Steve Allen'', ''Merv Griffin'', and with Tim Conway at Caesars Palace hotel in Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun '' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Coast (magazine)
''Orange Coast'' is an American lifestyle magazine published for the Orange County, California Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often initialized O.C.) is a county (United States), county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population ... region. Established in February 1974, ''Orange Coast'' is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region. ''Orange Coast'' includes coverage of the region'a people, places, cuisine, fashion, home design and décor, and events. The magazine has been owned by Hour Media Group since 2017. The magazine was re-imagined in June 2008 and again in August 2017. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA). Previous owners of the publication include Emmis Publishing, which acquired it in July 2007. References External links * 1974 establishments in California Lifestyle magazines published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa Bay Times
The ''Tampa Bay Times'', called the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year for the first time in its history, one of which was for its PolitiFact project. History The newspaper traces its origin to the ''West Hillsborough Times'', a weekly newspaper established in Dunedin, Florida, on the Pinellas Peninsula in 1884. At the time, neither St. Petersburg nor Pinellas County existed; the peninsula was part of Hillsborough County. The paper was published weekly in the back of a pharmacy and had a circulation of 480. It subsequently changed ownership six times in seventeen years. In December 1884, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven's Gate (film)
''Heaven's Gate'' is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War. It revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants of modest means in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film's production faced numerous setbacks, including cost overruns, significant retakes, bad press (including allegations of animal abuse on set), and rumors about Cimino's allegedly authoritarian directorial style. Cimino had an expensive and ambitious vision for the film, pushing it nearly four times over its planned budget. The film premiered in November 1980 and received significant critical backlash, prompting United Artists (UA) to pull it from theaters. In April 1981, a truncated re-cut version was released, though it remained a financial failure, earning only $3.5 million again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD Verdict
DVD Verdict was a judicial-themed website for DVD reviews. The site was founded in 1999. The editor-in-chief was Michael Stailey, who owned the website between 2004 and 2016, and the site employed a large editorial staff of critics, whose reviews were quoted by sources such as '' CBS Marketwatch'', and were praised by such writers as Anthony Augustine of '' Uptown''. DVD Verdict also had four sister sites, titled ''Cinema Verdict'', a theatrical movie review site, ''TV Verdict'', a television review site, ''Pixel Verdict'', a video game review site, and ''DVD Verdict Presents''. The last reviews were published in 2017. , the site is offline. See also * DVD Talk DVD Talk is a home video news and review website launched in 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman. History Kleinman founded the site in January 1999 in Beaverton, Oregon. Besides news and reviews, it features information on hidden DVD features known as ... References Further reading * External links * * American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jophery Brown
Jophery Clifford Brown (January 22, 1945 – January 11, 2014) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who made one relief appearance for the Chicago Cubs. He became an award-winning stunt man and actor. Early life and family Brown was born in Grambling, Louisiana, the seventh of eight children of Sylvester and Ida Mae (née Washington) Brown. His older brother, Calvin Brown, was a pioneering Black stuntman, a founding member of the Black Stuntmen's Association, and Bill Cosby's stunt double in the television series ''I Spy''. Brown attended Grambling High School and Grambling College (1964–1966). He did not graduate from Grambling, but he had a 12–2 win–loss record, with a 0.88 earned run average (ERA) and a shutout for the Grambling Tigers. Baseball career Brown was drafted three times by major league teams, first by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1965, then by the Boston Red Sox in 1966, before finally signing with the Cubs on June 20, 1966. He spent the next couple of years i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Kartalian
Vahe "Buck" Kartalian (August 13, 1922 – May 24, 2016) was an American character actor. Biography Vahe Kartalian was born on August 13, 1922, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Armenians, Armenian immigrants. He had four sisters and one brother. When Kartalian was two, their family moved to New York City. His father, a baker, died when he was 11. During World War II, Kartalian served in the United States Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific War, Pacific theatre. After returning home, he worked as a body builder and professional wrestler (called the "Hell's Kitchen Roughneck") and competed in both regional and national competitions. Kartalian decided to become an actor after being noticed by Broadway theatre, Broadway producers. He never took acting lessons. Plays in which Kartalian appeared on Broadway included ''One More River'' (1960), ''Golden Fleecing'' (1959), and ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1951). In ''Romeo and Juliet'', he played Sampson alongside Olivia de Havilland as Juliet. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Hofmann
Isabella Hofmann (born December 11, 1958) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Kate in '' Dear John'' (1988–1992), Megan Russert in '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1994–1997), and Dr. Renee Dunseith in '' Providence'' (2001–2002). Career A native of Chicago, Hofmann attended East Troy High School in East Troy, Wisconsin, and Columbia College Chicago. She performed with the comedy troupe The Second City before breaking into television in 1986. Among her various television credits are Meredith Cavanaugh on '' JAG'', Kate McCarron on the NBC sitcom '' Dear John'', Lt. Megan Russert in the crime drama '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', and Cecile Malone on the Showtime comedy '' Beggars and Choosers''. She played Annie in the 1990 movie '' Tripwire'' and Marie in the 1994 movie ''Renaissance Man''. Hofmann appeared twice in season 7 of TV series ''Criminal Minds'' as David Rossi's first ex-wife Carolyn Baker. Hofmann appeared in a 2010 episode of '' NCIS'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardy Rawls
Hardy Rawls is a character actor. In 2003, '' Adweek'' and ''Ad Age'' described Rawls's best-known role as that of the father on Nickelodeon's '' The Adventures of Pete & Pete''. For Maytag's 2004 marketing campaign, Rawls became the third actor to portray Ol' Lonely, replacing the retiring Gordon Jump; Rawls was, in turn, replaced by Richmond, Virginia real estate broker Clay Jackson on April 2, 2007. Rawls also performed in NBC's 1987 television film A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestr ... ''Bates Motel''. References External links * 20th-century male actors 21st-century male actors living people male television actors Nickelodeon people place of birth missing (living people) year of birth missing (living people) {{tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
