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Biloxi Blues (film)
''Biloxi Blues'' is a 1988 American military comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Neil Simon, and starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1984 play of the same title, the second chapter in what is known as the ''Eugene trilogy'', the first being ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' and the third being '' Broadway Bound''. Plot During World War II, Jewish teenager Eugene Jerome of Brooklyn is drafted into the United States Army and is sent to basic training at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi. He sets himself three goals: lose his virginity, survive the war, and become a writer. Jerome keeps a journal to record his impressions of his fellow draftees. The new privates are trained by Sergeant Toomey, a wounded veteran with a steel plate in his head. Toomey imposes arbitrary rules and metes out harsh punishments. A recruit named Epstein refuses to accept Toomey's authority. Toomey imposes increasingly harsh punishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 21 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). His other honors included three BAFTA Awards, the Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010. His films received a total of 42 Academy Award nominations, and seven wins. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv act was a hit on Broadway, and each of their three albums was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Siemaszko
Kazimierz Andrew "Casey" Siemaszko (; born March 17, 1961) is an American actor. He had supporting roles in ''Back to the Future'' and '' Stand By Me'' before having starring roles in '' Three O'Clock High'' and '' Young Guns''. Personal life Siemaszko was born in Chicago and grew up on the city's northwest side. He attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory School and graduated from the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University in 1983. His father, Konstanty (1918–1999), was a Polish Roman Catholic and a former member of the Polish Navy. He joined the Polish Underground and was a survivor of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He emigrated to Chicago in 1959 and became a well-known local choreographer and a fixture in the Polish community. His mother, Collette McAllister (1931–2008), was English. His sister Nina is an actress and his brother, Corky, is a writer for '' Daily News'' and a reporter for ''NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Parker (actor)
Corey Parker (born July 8, 1965) is an American actor and acting coach. Early life Corey Parker was born in New York City. He is the son of actress Rochelle Natalie "Rocky" Parker (1940–2014) and her second husband, John David Haas. Parker began his acting career at the age of four, starting in television commercials. He later attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Career Following high school, Parker committed to acting full-time. He is a member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theater. Parker performed onstage at the 61st Academy Awards. Movies in which Parker has appeared include ''Biloxi Blues (film), Biloxi Blues'', ''Willy/Milly'', ''White Palace (film), White Palace'', ''Friday the 13th: A New Beginning'', and ''How I Got into College''. He has also appeared on television in series including ''Thirtysomething,'' ''Broadway Bound (film), Broadway Bound'', ''Blue Skies (1994 TV series), Blue Skies'', ''Love Boat: The Next Wave'', and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Mulhern
Matt Mulhern (born July 21, 1960) is an American actor and historian who has starred in such films as ''One Crazy Summer'' and ''Biloxi Blues (film), Biloxi Blues'', and such television series such as ''Major Dad'', ''JAG (TV series), JAG'', and ''Rescue Me (U.S. TV series), Rescue Me'' (playing Lt. John Stackhouse). Mulhern attended Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey. Mulhern was trained as an actor by William Esper at Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA in Acting in 1982. He was first cast as Joseph Wykowski in Neil Simon's Tony Award winning ''Biloxi Blues''. From there, he went on to a film, TV, and theater career as an actor, appearing in films such as ''One Crazy Summer'', ''Extreme Prejudice (film), Extreme Prejudice'', ''Biloxi Blues (film), Biloxi Blues'', ''Junior (1994 film), Junior'', ''Walking to the Waterline'', ''Infinity'', ''Sunchaser, The Sunchaser'', and others. New York theater c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Flanagan
Markus Flanagan (born August 20, 1964) is an American actor. Career In 1990, he starred in the short-lived ABC police drama ''Sunset Beat'' alongside George Clooney, Michael Deluise and Erik King. He was a series regular on NBC's ''Nurses'' for season two playing Luke, the rebel nurse. Flanagan co-starred in the Nickelodeon series ''Unfabulous'' as Jeff Singer, the father of Emma Roberts' character, from 2004 to 2007. His other television credits include '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', '' CSI: Miami'', ''Judging Amy'', ''Northern Exposure'' and ''Friends''. He also had recurring roles as Harry Dean on Fox's ''Melrose Place'', as Mark on the Peabody award-winning show ''Better Things'', and from 2019 - 2023 as Gerald Drummond on the Apple TV+ series '' The Morning Show''. He has appeared in over 125 television episodes with roles on; ''Friends'', '' CSI'', ''CSI Miami'', ''NCIS,'' ''Major Crimes'', ''Bones'', ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', ''Will & Grace, Seinfeld, Veronica's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulfport, Mississippi
Gulfport ( ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, and its co-county seat. It had a population of 72,926 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Mississippi, second-most populous city in Mississippi, after Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson. The Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area had a population of 416,259. Gulfport lies along the Gulf Coast of the United States in southern Mississippi, taking its name from its port on the Gulf Coast on the Mississippi Sound. Gulfport emerged from two earlier settlements, Mississippi City, Mississippi, Mississippi City and Handsboro. Founded in 1887 by William H. Hardy as a terminus for the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, the city was further developed by Philadelphia Business magnate, oil tycoon Joseph T. Jones, who funded the railroad, harbor, and channel dredging. The city was officially incorporated in 1898. By the early 20th century, Gulfport had become the largest lumber export ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clarion-Ledger
''The Clarion Ledger'' is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the second-oldest company in the state of Mississippi, and is one of the few newspapers in the nation that continues to circulate statewide. It is an operating division of Gannett River States Publishing Corporation, owned by Gannett. History The paper traces its roots to ''The Eastern Clarion,'' founded in Jasper County, Mississippi, in 1837. Later that year, it was sold and moved to Meridian, Mississippi. After the American Civil War, it was moved to Jackson, the capital, and merged with ''The Standard''. It soon became known as ''The Clarion''. In 1888, ''The Clarion'' merged with the ''State Ledger'' and became known as the ''Daily Clarion-Ledger''. Four employees who were displaced by the merger founded their own newspaper, ''The Jackson Evening Post'', in 1892. One of those four was Walter Giles Johnson, Sr. He survived the other three to grow the paper later known as the ''"Jackson D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It lies on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast in southern Mississippi, bordering the city of Gulfport, Mississippi, Gulfport to its west. The adjacent cities are both designated as county seat, seats of Harrison County. The population of Biloxi was 49,449 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the state's List of municipalities in Mississippi, fourth-most populous city. It is a principal city of the Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area, home to 416,259 residents in 2020. The area's first European settlers were French colonists. The beachfront of Biloxi lies directly on the Mississippi Sound, with barrier islands scattered off the coast and into the Gulf of Mexico. Keesler Air Force Base lies within the city and is home to the 81st Training Wing and the 403rd Wing of the United States Air Force Reserve, U.S. Air Force Reserve. History Colonial era In 1699, French colonists fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keesler Field
Keesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, Mississippi, Biloxi, a city along the Gulf Coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. The base is named in honor of aviator 2nd Lieutenant, 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler, Samuel Reeves Keesler Jr., a Mississippi native killed in France during the World War I, First World War. The base is home of Headquarters, Second Air Force (2 AF) and the 81st Training Wing (81 TW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The base has specialized in ground trade training since its opening in 1941 during World War II. It has had high-quality technical schools and absorbed units moved from other bases under the Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC). History In early January 1941, Biloxi city officials assembled a formal offer to invite the United States Army to build a base to support the World War II training buildup. The War Department activated United States Army Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789).See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 It operates under the authority, direction, and control of the United States Secretary of Defense, United States secretary of defense. It is one of the six armed forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. The Army is the most senior branch in order of precedence amongst the armed services. It has its roots in the Continental Army, formed on 14 June 1775 to fight against the British for independence during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
