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Sicily (actress)
Sicily Sewell (born October 1, 1985) is an American chef, restaurateur, television producer, and actress. She is sometimes credited in film or television as simply with a mononym Sicily. Following the birth of two daughters, Sewell became a restaurateur. Early life, family and education Sewell was born in Pontiac, Michigan. Her parents divorced, and she and her mother and brothers relocated to California where other family resided. She has three brothers (one of which was born after their relocation to California). She resided in Los Angeles during her childhood. As an adult, Sewell attending the Hollywood campus of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. Career Television and film Sewell made her television appearance on an Emmy Award-winning episode of ''Sesame Street'' when she was eight years old. She played "Young Aisha" in a two-part episode of Season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' called "Rangers Back in Time", as well as in the 10 part miniseries ''Mighty Morph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac ( ') is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located roughly northwest of downtown Detroit, Pontiac is part of the Metro Detroit, Detroit metropolitan area, and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 61,606. Founded in 1818, Pontiac was the second European-American organized settlement in Michigan near Detroit, after Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn. It was named after Pontiac (Ottawa leader), Pontiac, a war chief of the Ottawa people, Ottawa Tribe, who occupied the area before the European settlers. The city was best known for its General Motors automobile manufacturing plants of the 20th century, which were the basis of its economy and contributed to the wealth of the region. These included Fisher Body, Pontiac East Assembly (a.k.a. Truck & Coach/Bus), which manufactured GMC (automobile), GMC products, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Situation Comedy
A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of character (arts), characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent setting, such as a home, workplace, or community. Unlike sketch comedy, which features different characters and settings in each Sketch comedy, skit, sitcoms typically maintain plot continuity across episodes. This continuity allows for the development of storylines and characters over time, fostering audience engagement and investment in the characters' lives and relationships. History The structure and concept of a sitcom have roots in earlier forms of comedic theater, such as farces and comedy of manners. These forms relied on running gags to generate humor, but the term ''sitcom'' emerged as radio and TV adapted these principles into a new medium. The word was not commonly used until the 1950s. Early television sitcoms were often filme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closeted
''Closeted'' and ''in the closet'' are metaphors for LGBTQ people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior. This metaphor is associated and sometimes combined with coming out, the act of revealing one's sexuality or gender to others, to create the phrase "coming out of the closet". Some reasons why LGBTQ people stay closeted include discrimination, fear for one's safety, internalized homophobia or transphobia or living in a hostile environment. Etymology Nondisclosure of one's sexual orientation or gender identity preceded the use of "closet" as a term for the act. For example, the writer Thomas Mann entered a heterosexual marriage with a woman in 1905, and had six children, but discussed his attraction to men in his private diary, which by contemporary terms would have designated him a closeted homosexual man. D. Travers Scott claims that the phrase "coming out of the closet", alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming Out
Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBTQ people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. This is often framed and debated as a privacy issue, because the consequences may be very different for different individuals, some of whom may have their job security or personal security threatened by such disclosure. The act may be viewed as a psychological process or journey; decision-making or Risk, risk-taking; a strategy or plan; a mass or public event; a speech act and a matter of Identity (social science), personal identity; a rite of passage; liberty, liberation or emancipation from oppression; an wikt:ordeal, ordeal; a means toward feeling LGBT pride instead of shame and social stigma; or a career-threatening act. ''Coming out of the closet'' is the source of other gay slang expressions related to voluntary disclosure or lack thereof. LGBTQ people who have already revealed or no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colors (restaurant)
Colors was a 70-seat restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed the popular Windows on the World restaurant, and, when many of its former workers remained unemployed a non-profit started the restaurant to employ them, while upgrading their skills. Former employees of the Windows on the World restaurant opened Colors in 2006, with the support of the non-profit Restaurant Opportunities Center. The restaurant closed its original location in 2017. ''The New York Times'', and other publications, reported that ROC had problems fulfilling its ideals of worker empowerment, reporting difficulties like workers quitting over not being paid on time. Former actress Sicily Sewell, who trained at Le Cordon Bleu Le Cordon Bleu (; French: " The Blue Ribbon"; LCB) is a French hospitality and culinary education institution, teaching haute cuisine. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, California, Oakland and Emeryville, California, Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany, California, Albany and the Unincorporated area, unincorporated community of Kensington, California, Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Food
Soul food is the ethnic cuisine of African Americans. Originating in the Southern United States, American South from the cuisines of Slavery in the United States, enslaved Africans transported from Africa through the Atlantic slave trade, soul food is closely associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States. The expression "soul food" originated in the mid-1960s when "soul" was a common word used to describe African-American culture. Soul food uses cooking techniques and ingredients from West African cuisine, West African, Cuisine of the Central African Republic, Central African, European cuisine, Western European, and Indigenous cuisine of the Americas. The cuisine was initially denigrated as low quality and belittled because of its origin. It was seen as low-class food, and African Americans in the Northern United States, North looked down on their Black Southerners, Black Southern compatriots who preferred soul food (see the Great Migration (African American), Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jami Gertz
Jami Beth Gertz ( ; born October 28, 1965) is an American actress. Gertz had roles in the films '' Crossroads'', '' Quicksilver'' (both 1986), '' Less than Zero'', '' The Lost Boys'' (both 1987), and the 1980s TV series '' Square Pegs'' and 1996's '' Twister'', as well as roles as Judy Miller in the CBS sitcom '' Still Standing'' and as Debbie Weaver in the ABC sitcom '' The Neighbors''. She is an owner of the Atlanta Hawks basketball team along with her husband Tony Ressler. Early life Gertz was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lived in the suburb of Glenview. She attended public schools, graduating from Maine East High School. Her parents are Sharyn and Walter Gertz, who was a builder and contractor, and she has two brothers, Michael and Scott. Gertz, who is Jewish, was raised in Conservative Judaism. Career She was discovered in a nationwide talent search by Norman Lear and studied drama at NYU. As a child actor, Gertz was in one episode of '' Diff'rent Strokes'' al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Hodge
Edwin Martel Basil Hodge (born January 26, 1985) is an American actor. He is recognized for portraying Dante Bishop in ''The Purge'' film series, and is the only actor to appear in all of the first three films. Early life Hodge was born on January 26, 1985, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Aldis Basil Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Hodge's mother is from Florida and his father from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Both of his parents served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge. Career Hodge guest starred on an episode of the TNT series '' Leverage'' which stars his younger brother. He guest starred on an episode of '' One Tree Hill''. Hodge played the role of "the Bloody Stranger" in the horror film ''The Purge'' (2013) and its sequels '' The Purge: Anarchy'' (2014) and '' The Purge: Election Year'' (2016); "the Bloody Stranger" was revealed to be named Dante Bishop in the third film. He also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Hudson
Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films ''Leviathan'' (1989), '' The Hand That Rocks the Cradle'' (1992), ''The Crow'' (1994), '' Airheads'' (1994), '' The Basketball Diaries'' (1995), '' Congo'' (1995), '' Miss Congeniality'' (2000), and ''The Ron Clark Story'' (2006). On television, his most prominent role was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's '' Oz'' (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television shows ''St. Elsewhere'' (1984), '' The Last Precinct'' (1986), '' 10-8: Officers on Duty'' (2003–2004), ''Desperate Housewives'' (2006–2007), '' The Secret Life of the American Teenager'' (2008–2013), ''Law & Order'' (2009–2010), the voice of Agent Bill Fowler in '' Transformers: Prime'' (2010–2013), ''Franklin & Bash'' (2012–2014), '' Grace and Frankie'' (2015–2020), and ''L.A.'s Finest'' (2019–2020). From 2022 to 2024, Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marilyn Gambrell Story
''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 ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
