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Cosmic Slop (film)
''Cosmic Slop'' is a 1994 American anthology television film executive produced by Reginald and Warrington Hudlin. The film is hosted by musician and Parliament-Funkadelic frontman George Clinton, and derives its title from the 1973 album and song of the same name by Clinton and Funkadelic. ''Cosmic Slop'' features three short stories, directed by the Hudlin brothers and Kevin Rodney Sullivan. The first and third segments are based on the short stories "The Space Traders" by Derrick Bell and "Tang" by Chester Himes, respectively. The film's ensemble cast includes Robert Guillaume, Jason Bernard, Edward Edwards, Larry Anderson, Nicholas Turturro, Richard Herd, Paula Jai Parker, and Chi McBride. Cast "Space Traders" "The First Commandment" "Tang" * Paula Jai Parker as Tang * Chi McBride as T-Bone * Reno Wilson as The Messenger Release ''Cosmic Slop'' premiered on HBO at 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on November 8, 1994 (03:00 UTC, November 9). Reception Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction On Television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Story creation and scientific accuracy Science fiction tries to blend fiction and reality seamlessly so that the viewer can be immersed in the imaginative world. This includes characters, settings, and tools. Viewers often critique the scientific plausibility and accuracy of technology and technological concepts. In the 2020 series ''Away (TV series), Away'' a notable plot point in the eight episode, ''Vital Signs'' has astronauts listen intently for a sound boom picked up by a real-life Mars rover called InSight. Similarity, in 2022 scientists used InSight to listen for the landing of a real spacecraft. Visual production process and methods The need to portray imaginary settings or char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland. History The current company took shape when University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company. Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies. The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Kirkwood
Craig Kirkwood (born August 10, 1974) is an American lawyer and former actor. He is best known for his role as Jerry "Rev" Harris in the 2000 film '' Remember the Titans''. Career Kirkwood was born in Los Angeles, California. He made his acting debut in a Levi's commercial after being hired by his aunt who is a casting director, Amy Sobo. After enrolling in high-school drama classes, in 1993 he was cast in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom '' Running the Halls'', which ran for one season. He went on to guest star on '' My So-Called Life'', '' Family Matters'', '' The Parent 'Hood'', '' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', '' Sister, Sister'', '' The Burning Zone'', '' The Steve Harvey Show'', '' Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction'', '' Mercy Point'', '' Nikki'', '' JAG'', '' It's All Relative'' and '' Courting Alex''. In 1997, Kirkwood co-starred in the TV series '' Deepwater Black'', which ended after one season. Kirkwood's most notable role to date was as Jerry "Rev" Harris in the 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brock Peters
Brock Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor and singer, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of ''Porgy and Bess'', and the wrongfully convicted Tom Robinson in the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. He was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead performance as Rev. Stephen Kumalo in the 1972 Broadway revival of ''Lost in the Stars''. His film roles also included '' The Pawnbroker'' (1964), ''Soylent Green'' (1973) and '' Ghosts of Mississippi'' (1996). In the 1980s and 1990s, he voiced the role of Darth Vader in the serial radio drama adaptations of the original trilogy of ''Star Wars'' films, and played two recurring roles in the ''Star Trek'' franchise: Starfleet Admiral Cartwright in two of the original-cast feature films, and Joseph Sisko (father of station commander Benjamin Sisko) in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. Early life Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Gunton
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama '' The Shawshank Redemption'', Chief George Earle in 1993's '' Demolition Man'', Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in '' Patch Adams,'' and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in ''Argo''. He also played Leland Owlsley in the ''Daredevil'' television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in '' 24,'' and Noah Taylor in '' Desperate Housewives.'' In addition to his film and television careers, Gunton is a prolific theatre actor. He originated the role of Juan Perón in the Broadway premiere of ''Evita'' and the titular character in the 1989 revival of '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', roles for which he received Tony Award nominations. He has received a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, and a Clarence Derwent Award. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi McBride
Kenneth "Chi" McBride ( ; born September 23, 1961) is an American actor. He has appeared in films, where he is known primarily as a character actor, and in television, where he has had numerous starring roles. In film, he has played prominent roles including ''The Frighteners'' (1996), '' Gone in 60 Seconds'' (2000), ''I, Robot'' (2004), '' Waiting...'' (2005), ''Let's Go to Prison'' (2006), and ''Draft Day'' (2014). On television, he was high school principal Steven Harper on the series ''Boston Public'', Emerson Cod on ''Pushing Daisies'', Detective Laverne Winston on the Fox drama ''Human Target'', Detective Don Owen in the short-lived CBS crime drama '' Golden Boy'', and Captain Lou Grover in '' Hawaii Five-0''. Early life McBride was born in Chicago, Illinois, from which his stage name derives. He was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist religion and attended Shiloh Academy, now known as Chicago SDA Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school. McBride originally planned to pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Jai Parker
Paula Jai Parker is an American actress. She is best known for her supporting roles in the films ''Friday'' (1995), '' Sprung'' (1997), '' Why Do Fools Fall in Love'' (1998), '' Phone Booth'' (2002), ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005), and '' Idlewild'' (2006), and for her roles on television sitcoms '' The Wayans Bros.'' (1995-1996), '' Family Time'' (2012-2019), '' Hollywood Divas'' (2014-2016), ''Ray Donovan'' (2016), '' Black Jesus'' (2019), '' A House Divided'' (2019-2022), and '' Queen Sugar'' (2021). Parker is also known for her voice of Trudy Proud in the Disney Channel animated comedy series, '' The Proud Family'' (2001-2005), and also in the 2005 TV Movie '' The Proud Family Movie'', and even its 2022 reboot, '' The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''. Early life Parker was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Washington, D.C. in 1987 to study at Howard University. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Herd
Richard Thomas Herd Jr. (September 26, 1932 – May 26, 2020) was an American actor, appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles, from the 1970s to the 2010s. He was well known in the science fiction community for his role in the 1983 NBC miniseries '' V'' and 1984 sequel '' V: The Final Battle'', as John, the Visitors' Supreme Commander. Other major roles in his career included recurring parts on the NBC series ''seaQuest DSV'' as Admiral William Noyce; on '' Star Trek: Voyager'' as Admiral Owen Paris, the father of helmsman Tom Paris; and as George Costanza's boss Matt Wilhelm on ''Seinfeld''. In two guest appearances on ''Quantum Leap'', he played children's show host "Captain Galaxy", a would-be time traveler, and a miner named Ziggy Ziganovich. He also voiced Father Elijah in the Dead Money DLC for '' Fallout: New Vegas''. Herd appeared at a number of fan conventions for his science fiction roles. Early life H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Turturro
Nicholas Turturro Jr. (born January 29, 1962) is an American actor, known for his roles in New York City based films and on the television series '' Blue Bloods'' and '' NYPD Blue''. He has collaborated with director Spike Lee since the late 1980s, starting with voice work for ''Do the Right Thing'', and playing a supporting role in '' BlacKkKlansman''. Nicholas is the younger brother of John Turturro and the cousin of Aida Turturro. Early life Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Katherine Florence (Incerella), was an amateur jazz singer, who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and was born in the U.S., to Italian parents, with roots in Sicily.Stated on '' Finding Your Roots'', October 31, 2017 His father, Nicholas Turturro Sr., was a carpenter and shoemaker who emigrated from Giovinazzo, Apulia, Italy, at the age of six and later fought as a US Navy serviceman on D-Day. In 1983, Turturro, then a struggling actor, was employed as a doorman for the Manh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Anderson (actor)
Larry Anderson (born September 22, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Early work He originally started as an assistant to magician Mark Wilson in 1973, and was immediately put to work on the set of '' The Magician'' (starring Bill Bixby), assisting Wilson as the show's magic coordinator. He has since appeared in several television series and films, and is also known for his uncredited role as Michael Long in the pilot episode '' Knight of the Phoenix'' of the 1980s hit TV series '' Knight Rider''. His voice was overdubbed by David Hasselhoff who, when the character was shot in the face and given plastic surgery, took over the role for the remainder of the series. Career Anderson's other TV roles include '' The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Charlie's Angels'', and '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' (all in 1977); the short lived 1979 TV series '' Brothers and Sisters''; and the soap opera, ''Days of Our Lives'' in 1987, appearing as James Dixon. He also hosted three game shows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Edwards (actor)
Edward Edwards is an American film and television actor. Edwards attended and graduated at Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas. He had minor roles in over fifty different television shows since his acting debut in 1974, in shows such as ''The Dukes of Hazzard'',''The Ropers'',''Family Ties'', '' ALF'', ''Fresh Prince Of Bel Air'', ''House'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' 24'', '' Commander in Chief'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Without a Trace'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', '' NYPD Blue'', ''Monk'', ''Criminal Minds'', ''Frasier'' and '' JAG''. Edwards has also appeared in minor roles in films such as '' Gang Related'' (1997), '' Bounce'' (2000) and ''Duplex'' (2003). Filmography See also *List of people with reduplicated names Reduplication is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms include cloning, doubling, duplication, and repetition. Reduplication has a grammatical function in some languages, such as plurality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Bernard
Jason Bernard (born Ronald Carl Johnson, May 17, 1938 – October 16, 1996) was an American actor. Life and career Bernard was born in Chicago, Illinois. His first starring role was in the pilot episode of the television series '' The White Shadow'' as Jim Willis. His other well-known television roles are in the television series '' Cagney & Lacey'' as Inspector Marquette from 1982 to 1983, '' Days of Our Lives'' as Preston Wade in 1982, and a recurring role in the first season of '' Night Court'' as Judge Stone's arrogant rival Judge Willard. His big role came in the 1983 NBC miniseries '' V'' as Caleb Taylor. Bernard reprised his role in the 1984 sequel '' V: The Final Battle''. In the 1990s Fox comedy series '' Herman's Head'', he played Herman's boss, Mr. Paul Bracken. He appeared in the video games '' Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger'' and '' Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom'' as Captain William Eisen. Bernard's first role in a feature film was a cameo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
