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Bruce Jarchow
Bruce Jarchow (born May 19, 1948) is an American film, television and stage actor. He began his career in Chicago as a member of The Second City Mainstage. He received the 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Well, I'm Off to the Thirty Years' War". His notable roles include Lyle Ferguson in the film ''Ghost'', Dr. Mascelli in ''Outbreak,'' and Principal Scampi in the television series ''Weird Science''. His television appearances include recurring roles in ''Seinfeld'', '' Parks and Recreation'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Work in Progress'', '' ER'', '' Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'', ''The Norm Show'', '' What About Joan'' and ''According to Jim''. He is also featured in the films ''The Weather Man'', '' Stranger than Fiction'', '' Somewhere in Time'', ''Continental Divide'', ''The Puppet Masters'', ''Big Big or BIG may refer to: * Big, of great size or degree Film and television * Big (film), ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore (Chicago), North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is north of Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie, Illinois, Skokie to the west, Wilmette, Illinois, Wilmette to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Evanston had a population of 78,110 . Founded by Methodist business leaders in 1857, the city was incorporated in 1863. Evanston is home to Northwestern University, founded in 1851 before the city's incorporation, one of the world's leading research university, research universities. Today known for its ethnically diverse population, Evanston is heavily shaped by the influence of Chicago, externally, and Northwestern, internally. The city and the university share a historically complex long-standing relationship. History Prior to the 1830s, the area now occupied by Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Divide (film)
''Continental Divide'' is a 1981 American Romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama film starring John Belushi and Blair Brown. It was the first film to be credited as being produced by Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin Entertainment. It was directed by Michael Apted and written by Lawrence Kasdan. Plot Chicago newspaper reporter Ernie Souchak (Belushi) is investigating a corrupt Chicago City Council, alderman. While doing an exposé on some shady land dealings, he is assaulted by two crooked police officers sent by the alderman and ends up in the hospital. Souchak's editor decides to send him out of town for his own safety. A city boy, Souchak reluctantly travels to the Rockies to interview the reclusive Dr. Nell Porter (Brown), who has been conducting research on the American bald eagles for several years. The two are at odds at first. After finding out he is a reporter, she is reluctant to let him stay, but realizes he is not able to survive in the mountains without h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krippendorf's Tribe
''Krippendorf's Tribe'' is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Todd Holland and based on Frank Parkin's 1985 novel of the same name. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, and Lily Tomlin. Its plot follows Professor James Krippendorf (Dreyfuss), an anthropologist who, with the help of his three children, creates a fictitious lost New Guinea tribe to cover up his misuse of grant money. ''Krippendorf's Tribe'' was produced by Touchstone Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, the former a label of and the latter a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The film received generally negative reviews, with criticism for its racial stereotypes. Plot Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf and his wife, Jennifer, bring their three children along during their much-enjoyed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. The search fails, despite the family's best efforts. After Jennifer's death back in the U.S., Krippendorf falls into academic stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Life (film)
''My Life'' is a 1993 American drama film written, directed and co-produced by Bruce Joel Rubin, starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. With a PG-13 rating, this film's worldwide box office gross was $54 million. Plot Bob Ivanovich, a young Ukrainian-American,‘My Life’ (PG-13) By Rita Kempley - Washington Post, November 12, 1993 prays one night for a to be erected in his backyard the following day. After school the next day, he runs home eagerly, followed by his friends. To his disappointment, no awaits. Angrily, Bob re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Dog And Glory
''Mad Dog and Glory'' is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by John McNaughton, and starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray and David Caruso. Plot Wayne Dobie is a shy Chicago Police Department crime scene photographer who has spent years on the job without drawing his gun; his colleagues jokingly call him "Mad Dog". Wayne saves the life of mob boss Frank Milo during a hold-up in a convenience store. To show his appreciation, Milo invites Wayne to a party. During the party at Milo's comedy club, Wayne's hand is burnt by Glory the bartender, who spills hot coffee on him. Milo offers Wayne a gift in return: for one week, he will have the "personal services" of Glory. Wayne learns that Glory is trying to pay a personal debt and wants nothing to do with Milo after the debt is paid. After an awkward start, Wayne and Glory fall in love. Wayne wants Glory to live with him, but Milo has no intention of letting her go, claiming his lien on her. When Wayne does not compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doctor (1991 Film)
''The Doctor'' is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines. It is loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 memoir ''A Taste Of My Own Medicine''. The film stars William Hurt as Jack McKee, a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships. Plot Dr. Jack McKee is a successful surgeon at a leading San Francisco hospital. He and his wife, Anne, have all the trappings of success, although Jack works such long hours that he rarely has time to see their son and has become somewhat emotionally dead to his wife. His "bedside manner" with his patients, in many cases seriously ill, is also lacking. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual and the chatter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan, not particularly professional. Returning home from a charity event, Jack has a coughing fit. His wife is shocked when he coughs up blood all over her and the car. In an examination, Jack has a sample of a growth remo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrooged
''Scrooged'' is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens, ''Scrooged'' is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard. ''Scrooged'' was filmed on a $32 million budget over three months in New York City and Hollywood from December 1987 to March 1988. Murray returned to acting for the film after taking a four-year hiatus following the success of ''Ghostbusters'', which he found overwhelming, although he had a minor role in ''Little Shop of Horrors''. Murray worked with Glazer and O'Donoghue on reworking the scri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Days
''Radio Days'' is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is a nostalgic look at the golden age of radio during the late 1930s and 1940s, focusing on a working-class family living in Rockaway Beach, New York. The film weaves together various vignettes, blending the lives of the family members with the radio programs they listen to daily. It also features an ensemble cast. Plot The film is narrated by the fictional Joe, who is voiced by Allen himself. Joe begins by relating how two burglars got involved in a radio game show after answering a random phone call during a home burglary; the burglars ransacked the house but the residents won the game show prizes. He goes on to explain that he associates old radio songs with childhood memories. During the late 1930s and early 1940s young Joe lived with his modest Jewish-American family in Rockaway Beach. His mother always listened to ''Breakfast with Irene and Roger''. His father kept his occupation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Manhattan Project (film)
''The Manhattan Project'' is a 1986 American science fiction thriller film. Named after the World War II-era program that constructed the first atomic bombs, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct an atomic bomb for a national science fair. It was directed by Marshall Brickman, based upon his screenplay co-written with Thomas Baum, and starred Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, John Mahoney, Jill Eikenberry and Cynthia Nixon. This filma box-office bomb whose ticket sales recovered just 21 percent of its budgetwas the first from the short-lived Gladden Entertainment. The film's director and screenplay co-writer Marshall Brickman had established his career as a co-writer on several Woody Allen films. ''The Manhattan Project'' was his third film as director, following the comedies '' Simon'' (1980) and '' Lovesick'' (1983). Plot Dr. John Mathewson discovers a new process for refining plutonium to purities greater than 99.997 percent. The U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Bodyguard
''My Bodyguard'' is a 1980 American family comedy drama film directed by Tony Bill (his directorial debut), and written by Alan Ormsby. The film stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin (in his first film role), Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon. The film was the debut of both Baldwin and an uncredited Jennifer Beals and was Joan Cusack's first major film. Plot Clifford Peache lives in an upscale Chicago luxury hotel with his father, the hotel manager, and his grandmother. He is a new student at Fleer H.S., where he arrives each day in a hotel limousine. Clifford quickly becomes a target of abuse from a gang of bullies, led by Melvin Moody. They regularly extort money from students, allegedly to protect them from another student, Ricky Linderman. According to school legend, Linderman has killed several people, including his own little brother. Not believing the stories, Clifford consults a teacher who claims that the only violence she's aware of from Ricky's past occurr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
