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Very Mean Men
''Very Mean Men'' is a 2000 American crime-comedy film directed by Tony Vitale and starring Matthew Modine, Ben Gazzara, Martin Landau, Scott Baio, Burt Young, and Paul Ben-Victor. Release The film entered the competition at the 2000 Seattle International Film Festival, in which it won the New American Cinema Award for best editing. Cast * Matthew Modine as Bartender * Ben Gazzara as Gino Minetti * Martin Landau as Mr. White * Scott Baio as Paulie Minetti * Burt Young as Dominic Piazza * Paul Ben-Victor as Jimmy D. * Billy Drago as Dante * Charles Durning as Paddy Mulroney * Louise Fletcher as Katherine Mulroney * Jack McGee as Jocko Mulroney * Patrick Renna as Donny Mulroney * Idalis DeLeón as Argentine * Leigh-Allyn Baker as Mary * Charles Napier as Detective Bailey * Joe Lara as Detective Miller * Lana Parrilla as Teresa * Tony Vitale Tony Vitale (born Anthony Vitale) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer. He is best known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Vitale
Tony Vitale (born Anthony Vitale) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer. He is best known for the 1997 film ''Kiss Me, Guido''. More recently, Vitale pioneered the use of Internet Protocol television (IPTV) technologies and broadcast TV programming to help create dedicated OTT streaming channels. Early life Vitale was born in the Bronx. His father, Anthony, worked for the New York City Department of Transportation, and died when Tony was 13. His mother, Mildred, worked as an aide for the New York City Department of Education. Vitale attended Christopher Columbus High School and graduated with honors from Iona College with a degree in finance and minor in communications. Film and television career While working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange including during Black Monday, Vitale attended film classes at night at New York University. After the death of his mother in 1990, Vitale began working in the film and televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McGee (actor)
Jack McGee (born February 2, 1949) is an American television and film character actor. He has appeared in over 100 films and television series. Known for his gravelly raspy voice, McGee tends to play gruff, blue-collar type characters. He is best known as Chief Jerry Reilly on the television series '' Rescue Me''. He was a regular cast member on the FX series for three seasons. In 2010, he co-starred as Hickey on the Spike TV comedy series ''Players''. Life and career McGee was born in the South Bronx, New York, the youngest of eight children. He attended Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, where he was class president and also played on the Football team, and appeared as a member of the background harmony in The Young Rascals. In 1977, he became a firefighter for the New York City Fire Department in order to pursue his acting career. As a firefighter, he served with FDNY Engine Company 38 and Ladder Company 51 in the Bronx. In the TV Series Rescue Me, he portrayed FD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Crime Comedy Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crime Comedy Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). ''Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series '' X-Men'', '' Final Destination'', '' Scary Movie'', and ''Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', '' Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is '' Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; '' Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; '' Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and '' Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lana Parrilla
Lana Parrilla (born July 15, 1977) is an American actress. She was a regular cast member in the fifth season of the ABC sitcom ''Spin City'' (2000–2001) and in the fourth season of '' 24'' (2005), and starred in ''Boomtown'' (2002–2003), ''Windfall'' (2006), ''Swingtown'' (2008), and as Dr. Eva Zambrano in the short-lived medical drama ''Miami Medical'' (2010), and as The Evil Queen / Regina Mills in the ABC fantasy drama series '' Once Upon a Time'' (2011–2018). Among her awards and nominations is a 2012 ALMA Award win for Outstanding TV Actress - Drama. In 2021, she played the role of Rita Castillo in the second season of '' Why Women Kill''. Early life Parrilla was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in 1977. Her mother, Dolores Dee Azzara, is of Sicilian ancestry ( Villabate) and her father, Sam Parrilla, is a Puerto Rico-born baseball player who played one season with the Philadelphia Phillies. She is also the niece of Candice Azzara, an American Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Lara
William Joseph Lara (October 2, 1962 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor, martial artist, and musician, known for the role of Tarzan in the American TV series '' Tarzan: The Epic Adventures''. Career Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 TV movie '' Tarzan in Manhattan'' and in the 1996-1997 follow-up TV series '' Tarzan: The Epic Adventures''. He also appeared in numerous action films, including '' Steel Frontier'' and '' American Cyborg: Steel Warrior''. He stopped acting after 20 years in 2002 to pursue a career in country music. At the peak of his career, Lara appeared in two action films, ''Armstrong'' and ''Warhead''. Personal life In 2009, Lara became active in music. He married Christian author and pastor Gwen Shamblin on August 18, 2018. He was also the father of one child with Natasha Pavlovich from their previous relationship. He lived in Brentwood, Tennessee. Lara was a certified pilot holding multi-engine commercial and instrument ratings along with a type rating fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Napier (actor)
Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American character actor known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the Army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in '' Something Wild'' (1986), '' Married to the Mob'' (1988), '' The Silence of the Lambs'' (1991), ''Philadelphia'' (1993), '' Beloved'' (1998), and '' The Manchurian Candidate'' (2004). Other notable roles include the short-tempered country singer Tucker McElroy in ''The Blues Brothers'', gruff army Commander Gilmour in '' Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh-Allyn Baker
Leigh-Allyn Baker (born March 13, 1972) is an American actress. She had recurring roles on '' Charmed'' and as Ellen on '' Will & Grace'', and a starring role as the matriarch Amy Duncan on the Disney Channel sitcom '' Good Luck Charlie''. She also provided the voice of Abby on the computer-animated Nickelodeon series '' Back at the Barnyard''. Career Baker has done voice work in video games for the ''Star Trek'' and '' X-Men'' and guest starred in television shows such as '' That '70s Show'', '' Early Edition'', '' Yes, Dear'' and among other series. She also starred in the short-lived 1996 sitcom '' The Last Frontier'' and voiced Lu Zhi in the 2010 game '' Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer''. Baker is also known to television audiences for her recurring roles as Hannah Webster in the first season of '' Charmed'' and as Ellen, the long-time friend of Grace Adler ( Debra Messing) on '' Will & Grace'', a role she played since the show began in 1998 through to its last seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idalis DeLeón
Idalis M. DeLeón (born June 15, 1969) is an American singer, actress, and television host. DeLeón is best known as an MTV VJ, hosting the music countdown show from June 1994 until September 1998. DeLeón is also known for her acting roles as Roni De Santos during the fifth season of the sitcom '' Living Single'' (1997–1998) and Charity in the 1998 comedy film '' Ride''. Career DeLeón, who is of Puerto Rican ancestry, first began her career in the South Bronx, New York City, as a member of the girl group Seduction, who scored a top ten hit ''" Two to Make It Right"'' in 1989. As an entertainment reporter and anchor, DeLeón has worked for VH1, Fox Family, Fox Sports, '' Access Hollywood'', and since 2003 as the weekend hostess for '' Extra''. Since 2004 DeLeón has also been the co-host of the Sí TV show ''Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner''. She also has several acting credits including a recurring role on the Sci Fi Channel series '' The Invisible Man''. In 2004, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Renna
Patrick Maxwell Renna (born March 3, 1979) is an American actor and film producer best known for his role as Hamilton "Ham" Porter in the 1993 baseball film The Sandlot. Some of his more recent projects include, ''Bad Roomies'', which is Patrick's first film as a producer, a recurring role on Netflix's hit GLOW and most recently the independent film ''Boys of Summer'', which was released in the summer of 2022. Filmography Film * ''The Sandlot'' (1993) – Hamilton 'Ham' Porter * ''Son in Law'' (1993) – Zack Warner * ''Summertime Switch'' (1994) – Modem * ''Beanstalk'' (1994) – Danny * ''The Big Green'' (1995) – Larry Musgrove * '' Blue River'' (1995) – Zoltan * ''Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard'' (1996) – Glenn * '' Sometimes They Come Back... Again'' (1996) – Young Alan * ''Address Unknown'' (1997) – Bernie Libassi * '' Falling Sky'' (1998) – Mark * ''Born Bad'' (1999) – Evan * ''The Secret Life of Girls'' (1999) – Patrick * ''Speedway Junky'' (1999) – Bud * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
