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Clueless (TV Series)
''Clueless'' is an American television teen sitcom based on the 1995 film of the same name (which was inspired by Jane Austen's 1815 novel '' Emma''). It aired on ABC from September 20, 1996 to February 14, 1997, as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The series then spent its last two seasons on UPN, airng from September 23, 1997 to May 25, 1999. Alicia Silverstone had a development deal with Columbia- TriStar at this time, and was unable to reprise her role from the film. Premise ''Clueless'' is a teen comedy that follows the adventures of Cher Horowitz, a California girl who attends Bronson Alcott High. Cher and her friends navigate the ups and downs of high school life as they face struggles with relationships, school, and social status. Episodes Cast and characters Main * Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz * Stacey Dash as Dionne "Dee" Davenport * Donald Adeosun Faison as Murray Duvall * Elisa Donovan as Amber Mariens * David Lascher as Josh Lucas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Sitcom
A teen situation comedy, or teen sitcom, is a subgenre of comedic television program targeted towards young people (Preadolescence, tweens, Adolescence, teenagers and, to a lesser extent, Young adult, young adults). In general, these types of programs focus primarily on characters between 10 and 18 years of age and routinely feature characters involved in humorous situations (either realistic or fantasy in style, depending on the program's plotline), and often focus on the characters' family and social lives. The primary plot of each episode often involves the protagonist, protagonist(s) the program centers on, while secondary plotlines often focus on the character(s') parents, siblings (those not among the leads, if any) or friends, although the secondary characters may sometimes also or instead be involved in the episode's main plot. The most common episodic plot lines used in teen sitcoms involve the protagonist(s) dealing with family and friends, ending up in a complicated sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms ''Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991–1994), ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series), Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003), and ''Melissa & Joey'' (2010–2015). She appeared as Liz in ''No Good Nick'' (2019). She has also appeared in the films ''Drive Me Crazy'' (1999), ''Nine Dead'' (2009), and ''God's Not Dead 2'' (2016). On October 17, 2021, she became the first celebrity to win the $1 million top prize for her charity, Youth Villages, on ''Wheel of Fortune (American game show), Celebrity Wheel of Fortune'' and the fourth overall million-dollar winner on ''Wheel of Fortune''. Early life Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, the first child of Paula Hart (née Voje), a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery worker, and entrepreneur. Her maternal grandfather, Stanley John Voje, was a Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Brown
Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1958) is an American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and director. Early life Brown was born in Van Nuys, California, the daughter of Celia Jane (née McCann) and Leonard Francis Brown. Her father worked at NBC in the advertising scheduling department and her mother was a secretary at the same studio complex. Both of Brown's grandfathers had worked in the film business. Her great-grandfather was character actor Frank O'Connor. She attended a Catholic elementary school as a child, and later Van Nuys High School. After attending Los Angeles Valley College, she enrolled in the American Conservatory Theater. Career Brown began her career performing in nightclubs. She was a contestant on the game show '' Whew!'' (as Annie Brown). She started working on television with a guest spot on the sitcom ''Happy Days''. She also appeared in the 1981 cult film '' Bloody Birthday''. Following a small role in the Clint Eastwood comedy film '' Any Which W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Strong
Danny Strong (born ) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', Doyle McMaster in ''Gilmore Girls'' and Danny Siegel in '' Mad Men''. He also wrote the screenplays for '' Recount'', the HBO adaptation '' Game Change'', '' The Butler'', and co-wrote the two-part finale of ''The Hunger Games'' film trilogy, '' Mockingjay – Part 1'' and '' Mockingjay – Part 2''. Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, director, and writer for the Fox series ''Empire'' and created, wrote and directed the award-winning Hulu miniseries '' Dopesick''. Strong has won two Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, two Peabody Awards and an NAACP Image Award. Early life Strong was born in Manhattan Beach, California. He grew up in a Jewish family of Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish origin. He began acting at a young age. As a child, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Weekly
''Entertainment Weekly'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''EW'') is an American online magazine, digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture. The print magazine debuted on February 16, 1990, in New York City, and ceased publication in 2022. Different from celebrity-focused publications such as ''Us Weekly'', ''People (magazine), People'' (a sister magazine to ''EW''), and ''In Touch Weekly'', ''EW'' primarily concentrates on entertainment media news and critical reviews; unlike ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter'', which were primarily established as trade magazines aimed at industry insiders, ''EW'' targets a more general audience. History Formed as a sister magazine to ''People'', the first issue of ''Entertainment Weekly'' was published on February 16, 1990. Created by Jeff Jarvis and founded by Michael Klingensmith, who serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cher Horowitz
This is a list of characters in the original film version of the American teen comedy ''Clueless'' (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name, which premiered in 1996. The original characters were created by Amy Heckerling, writer and director of the film, who was inspired by Jane Austen's novel '' Emma.'' The main character, Cher Horowitz, is a rich girl from Beverly Hills, California, whom Heckerling has described as "positive and happy". Cher Horowitz ''(Alicia Silverstone in the film, Rachel Blanchard in the series)'' Cher is a sweet, if somewhat dippy, blonde teenager who lives with her father in Beverly Hills, California. Cher often speaks in Valley Girl slang (including new idioms coined by the writers of ''Clueless''). Her role in the film and series is that of the central protagonist; many of the plot lines revolve around, or involve, Cher in some way, although sub-plots, particularly in the TV series, allow the focus to shift from her toward others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film studio and production company that is part of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, which is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. The company was founded on March 2, 1982, as Nova Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, CBS, and HBO, whose video units handled video, broadcast, and pay cable rights to its products. It was renamed a year later to Tri-Star to avoid confusion with the PBS series ''Nova (American TV program), Nova''. Among its notable releases are ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Rambo: First Blood Part II,'' and Hollywood’s first ''Godzilla (1998 film), Godzilla''. The company scored box-office hits with modestly budgeted fare in the 1980s. It also cut fortuitous distribution deals with the Producers Sales Organization, Carolco Pictures and the Taft Broadcasting, Taft Entertainment Group; acquired Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Loe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack Cohn, Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as CBC Film Sales Corporation, Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia (personification), Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone ( ; born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller ''The Crush (1993 film), The Crush'' (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in the music videos for Aerosmith's songs "Cryin'", "Amazing (Aerosmith song), Amazing" and "Crazy (Aerosmith song), Crazy". She went on to star as Cher Horowitz in the teen comedy film ''Clueless'' (1995), which earned her a multi-million-dollar deal with Columbia Pictures. In 1997, she starred in the superhero film ''Batman & Robin (film), Batman & Robin'', playing Batgirl. Silverstone received a Golden Globe nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her role in the short-lived NBC series ''Miss Match'' (2003). She has continued to act in film and television and on stage. A veganism, vegan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TGIF (ABC)
''TGIF'' was an American prime time television block programming, programming block that has aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC at various points since the late 1980s. The name comes from the initials of the popular phrase "wikt:thank God it's Friday, Thank God It's Friday"; however, the stars of the lineup touted the initialism as meaning "Thank Goodness It's Funny." In its various incarnations, the block mainly featured sitcom, situation comedies aimed at a Family-friendly, family audience, and served as a lead-in to the long-running newsmagazine ''20/20 (American TV program), 20/20'' (which has been part of ABC's Friday-night schedule since September 1987, two years prior to the original launch of ''TGIF''). The block initially premiered on September 22, 1989, as a partnership with Lorimar Television and television producers Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett (who had a deal with Lorimar), marking one of the first attempts by a major network to brand a programming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
