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Drew Droege
Andrew Gerhardt Droege (pronounced ; born February 9, 1977) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his online impressions of Chloë Sevigny. Early life and education Droege attended and graduated from Lincolnton High School in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Droege went on to study Theatre and English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained a BA. Following college graduation, Droege moved to Los Angeles and started studying with The Groundlings. Career Television and film Droege has appeared on television in ''Hot in Cleveland'', '' Key & Peele'', ''Bob's Burgers'', ''How I Met Your Mother'', '' Up All Night'', '' New Girl'', '' NTSF:SD:SUV::'', '' Jon Benjamin Has a Van'', '' Glory Daze'', '' The Sarah Silverman Program'', '' Kroll Show'', '' Nick Swardson's Pretend Time'', '' Halfway Home'', ''Reno 911!'' and '' Campus Ladies'' and on film in '' Sassy Pants'', '' Eating Out 4: Drama Camp'' and '' Big Gay Love'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is List of municipalities in South Carolina, the second-most populous city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, South Carolina, Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County, South Carolina, Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia metropolitan area, South Carolina, Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 858,302 in 2023, and is the Metropolitan statistical area, 70th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States. The name Columbia (name), "Columbia", a poetic synonym of "the United States of America", derives from the name of Christopher Columbus, who explored the Caribbean on behalf of the Spanish Crown. The name of the city of Columbia is often abbre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kroll Show
''Kroll Show'' is an American sketch comedy television series created by and starring comedian Nick Kroll. John Levenstein and Jonathan Krisel served as the show's executive producers. The series aired on the American cable television network Comedy Central from January 16, 2013, to March 24, 2015. Style ''Kroll Show'' is a social satire that parodies many aspects of television, the internet, and popular culture. The opening title credits of each episode feature multiple iterations of the show's title as parodies of well-known TV series title cards, brand names, corporate logos, and real-world locations, among them Absolut Vodka, ''Breaking Bad'', Google, In-N-Out Burger, NASCAR and ''Game of Thrones''. The style of the series is heavily influenced by the reality television genre, although it differs in style and content from other "mockumentary"-style series like ''The Office''. Most sketches are written, performed, recorded, and edited to mimic the frenetic pace and melodram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titanique
''Titanique'' (sometimes stylized as ''Titaníque'') is a jukebox musical featuring music of Celine Dion, with a book by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli. The musical is a parody of the 1997 film ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', and the story is a retelling of the movie's events from Dion's perspective. The show premiered in Los Angeles in 2017. It premiered off-Broadway at The Asylum Theatre in June 2022, before later transferring to the Daryl Roth Theatre. At the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards, the off-Broadway production won three awards, including Outstanding Musical. Premise In the present-day, Celine Dion hijacks a ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'' museum tour, where she claims to have survived the Sinking of the Titanic , ''Titanics sinking. Celine begins to narrate her version of what really happened to Jack and Rose, and the other characters from the movie on the night the ''Titanic'' sank. The musical is partially Improvisational theatre , improvised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jukebox Musical
A jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known, pre-existing popular music songs, rather than original music composed for the musical. Some jukebox musicals use a wide variety of songs, while others confine themselves to songs performed by one singer or band, or written by one songwriter. In such cases, the plot is often a biography of the artist or artists. In other jukebox musicals, the plot is purely fictional. For musicals about a musician or musical act, some of the songs can be diegetic, meaning that they are performed within the world of the play or film. Works in which all of the music is diegetic, however, such as a biographical film about a singer who is at times shown performing their songs, are generally not considered jukebox musicals. Revues that lack a plot are also usually not described as jukebox musicals, although plotless shows that include a dance element sometimes are. History In Europe in the 17th and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Tell My Mother
''Don't Tell My Mother'' is a television program hosted by Diego Buñuel and shown on the subscription television channel Nat Geo Adventure. Development For the past ten years, Diego Buñuel has been a foreign correspondent for French television covering countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Congo. Every time he left for one of his stories, he would tell his production crew in the Paris office, "Don't tell my mother I am in Colombia, it makes her really nervous." After a few years of traveling repeatedly, Buñuel realized that the international news coverage, which he was part of, only focused on the worst headlines possible. Thus, Buñuel embarked on a rather unusual effort – to talk about countries that make headlines, but instead of focusing on the same three basic stories, he extended the reach of his eye to look at a more subtle vision of these countries, full of culture, people, interests that rise high above the daily news reports. ''Don't Tell My Mother'' criss- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queer (film)
''Queer'' (titled onscreen as ''William S. Burroughs' Queer'') is a 2024 period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1950s Mexico City and Ecuador, the film follows an outcast American expatriate (Daniel Craig) who becomes infatuated with a much younger man ( Drew Starkey); Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, and Lesley Manville also star. ''Queer'' premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2024, where it played in-competition for the Golden Lion. It was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 27, by A24, and was released nationwide on December 13. The film has received generally positive reviews from critics and was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review, where Craig was awarded the Best Actor prize. Craig was also nominated for the Golden Globe, the Critics' Choice, and the Scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Gay Love
''Big Gay Love'' is a 2013 American comedy film written and directed by Ringo Le and produced by Quentin Lee and Marisa Le. The story centers on Bob ( Jonathan Lisecki), an overweight gay man who overcomes discrimination and insecurity based on his looks to find love in the form of a chef named Andy (Nicholas Brendon). The film was funded through Kickstarter and reached its goal on 23 March 2013. Cast * Jonathan Lisecki as Bob * Nicholas Brendon as Andy * Ann Walker as Betty * Ethan Le Phong as Chase (as Phong Truong) * Todd Stroik as Aidan * Ken Takemoto as Mr. Tran * Drew Droege as Dan#1 * Amy Hill as Dr. Barrenbottom * Jason Stuart as Dan#2 * Karina Bonnefil as Billy Gene * Jeffrey Damnit as Rambo * Harvey Guillén as Brian * Ina-Alice Kopp as Lana * Jesse James Rice as Tag * Reed Schiff as jazz pianist Reception ''Big Gay Love'' premiered at the Frameline Film Festival and then screened at Outfest, Philadelphia QFest, and the Palm Springs Cinema Diverse Film Festival wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Camp
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics'' ()—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' rather than a ''t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sassy Pants
''Sassy Pants'' is a 2012 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Coley Sohn and starring Anna Gunn, Ashley Rickards, Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader, and Jenny O'Hara. The film was released by Phase 4 Films on October 19, 2012. Cast *Anna Gunn as June Pruitt, an overbearing mother who has been homeschooling children. She and her children are estranged, and she cannot admit to herself that she is the problem. * Ashley Rickards as Bethany Pruitt, an 18-year girl who graduated from homeschooling. She wants to go away to college, but her mother wants to keep her home to control her. *Haley Joel Osment as Chip Hardy, Bethany's father's boyfriend. *Diedrich Bader as Dale Pinto, a divorced gay dad who has a great relationship with his kids. He owns a car lot. *Jenny O'Hara as Grandma Pruitt, an overbearing mother who treats June the same way June treats Bethany. *Martin Spanjers as Shayne Pruitt *Shanna Collins as Brianna *Aaron Perilo as Cory *Rene Rosado as Hector *D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campus Ladies
''Campus Ladies'' is an American sitcom that premiered on Oxygen on January 8, 2006. It stars Christen Sussin and Carrie Aizley as two 40-something women who decide to go enroll at the fictional University of the Midwest. The humor comes from the various situations in which the "ladies" get involved while trying to fit in with their much younger friends and classmates. Premise The shopping trip of recent widow Joan Beamin and married Barri Martin, lifelong friends and both apparently childless, is cut short when Barri wastes a drink on her skirt. When they go to Barri's house for her to change, they find her husband Roger having an affair in their bedroom. The ladies end up in a bar and observe a group of students from the local university, and ultimately decide to enroll. Once at UMW, the ladies meet Drew and Abdul, two of their classmates who will be living in the room next to them. Drew is tall and blond and believes himself to be a ladies' man, but in actuality, is far from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
