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Easy Money (1983 Film)
''Easy Money'' is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by James Signorelli and written by Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P. J. O'Rourke and Dennis Blair. The original music score was composed by Laurence Rosenthal. Billy Joel performed the theme song "Easy Money" from his album '' An Innocent Man''. Plot Montgomery "Monty" Capuletti is a hard-living, heavy-drinking, pot-smoking, gambling family man who makes his living as a baby photographer in New Dorp, Staten Island. He loves his wife Rose but has a very tense relationship with his wealthy, snobbish mother-in-law, Mrs. Monahan, who runs a successful department store chain and hates the way Monty acts and lives. There is an added ethnic rivalry between Monty and his wife's family, as he is Italian and they are Irish. The irresponsible Monty cannot even pick up a wedding cake for his engaged daughter Allison without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Signorelli
James Signorelli is an American film director and cinematographer. He was the film segment producer for more than 400 episodes of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1976 until 2011.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine He has produced many of the commercial parodies for which the show is noted. Selected filmography *'' Super Fly'' (1972) (director of photography) *'' Black Caesar'' (1973) (directory of photography, Harlem sequence) *''Saturday Night Live'' (1976-2011) (film producer) *''The Concert in Central Park'', concert film of Simon & Garfunkel (1982) (producer only) *''Easy Money A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment. Most schemes create an impression that participants can obtain this high rate of return with little risk, skill, effort, or time. The term "get rich qui ...'' (1983) *'' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'' (1988) *'' Chance M. Romero's New Mistress of the Dark'' (2003) (film producer/himself) *'' January t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American actor, known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in '' Amadeus'' (1984), Edward R. Rooney in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), Charles Deetz in ''Beetlejuice'' (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990), Eddie Barzoon in '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and '' Deadwood: The Movie'' (2019). His career started in Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and advanced to London and Broadway. In film and television, Jones has had many roles which capitalized on his deadpan portrayal of characters in unusual situations, often to comic effect. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in ''Amadeus'' and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of ''Deadwood''. In 2002, Jones was charged with soliciting a minor to pose for nude photographs. He pleaded no contest and had two subsequent arrests for failing to update his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Lampoon's Vacation
''National Lampoon's Vacation'', sometimes referred to as simply ''Vacation'', is a 1983 American black comedy road film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy, and Frank McRae. It tells the fictitious story of the Griswold family on a cross-country trip to an amusement park and various locations as accidents occur along the way. The screenplay was written by John Hughes on the basis of his short story "Vacation '58", which appeared in '' National Lampoon''. The film was a box-office hit, earning more than $60 million in the U.S. alone with an estimated budget of $15 million. As a result of its success, five sequels have been produced: '' European Vacation'' (1985), '' Christmas Vacation'' (1989), '' Vegas Vacation'' (1997), '' Christmas Vacation 2'' (2003), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsh Nayyar
Harsh Nayyar (born in New Delhi, India) is an Indian actor. Theatre As a student, in April, 1973, Harsh Nayyar starred as ''Dracula'' in a Thompson Theatre production in Raleigh, NC. Nayyar continued to play in various theatre productions. For example, on Broadway, opening March 28, 1979, he was part of the original cast of ''A Meeting by the River'' by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy at Palace Theatre, New York as a photographer. Opening February 27, 2018 off-Broadway, he played a representative of the local Muslim community in '' An Ordinary Muslim'' by Hammaad Chaudry at New York Theatre Workshop. 2002, Nayyar played an Esperanto poet ("eloquently sorrowful"), guiding the main character ''Priscilla'' through Kabul in Tony Kushner's drama '' Journey of a Lifetime'', set to run for two months in Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2004, he portrayed ''Mr. Begg'' "with palpable anger and sorrow" in Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's play ''Guantanamo: Honor Bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Pat Gleason
Mary Pat Gleason (February 23, 1950 – June 2, 2020) was an American film and television actress and an Emmy Award-winning writer. From 1983 to 1985, she appeared as "Jane Hogan" on the daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light'', for which she was also a writer. Life and career Gleason was born in Lake City, Minnesota, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth (Kane) and Harold Clifford Gleason. During her high school years she starred in a local theater's production of ''Once Upon a Mattress''. Her first screen role was the a 1982 episode of ''Texas'', a soap opera that aired on NBC. She appeared on, among many others, such television series as ''Full House'', ''Dear John (U.S. TV series), Dear John'', ''Murphy Brown'', ''Empty Nest (TV series), Empty Nest'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Saved by the Bell'', ''Friends'', ''Sex and the City'' and ''Step by Step (TV series), Step by Step''. She appeared in more than 50 feature films, including ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Traff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arch Johnson
Archibald Winchester "Arch" Johnson (March 14, 1922 – October 9, 1997) was an American actor who appeared on Broadway and in more than 100 television programs. Early years Archibald Winchester Johnson was born in Minnesota in 1922. He served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Johnson attended the University of Pennsylvania. Career Starting out in Philadelphia in the 1940s through 1950s, Johnson worked in community theater both as an actor and director. He began acting with the Plays and Players Theatre in Philadelphia and was part of the world premiere of ''Stalag 17'' while there. After he left Philadelphia, he studied for two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. A stage actor as well and a prolific television character actor, he was in the original production of ''West Side Story'' (1957) on Broadway and the revival of that show in 1980, again on Broadway. He was the only actor from the original s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Altman
Jeff Altman (born August 13, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared as a guest on ''Late Night with David Letterman'' and ''Late Show with David Letterman'' a combined 45 times. Altman mesmerized contemporaries like David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld, and inspired future comedians like Judd Apatow. Altman has also had numerous acting roles in movies and television such as Dr. Gene Splicer in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', Professor Dweeb in ''Slimer'' and '' The Real Ghostbusters'', Clint Mullet on ''Mork and Mindy'', and five different guest characters on ''Baywatch''. He had a recurring role as Hughie Hogg, the nephew of Jefferson Davis Hogg, on ''The Dukes of Hazzard''. Early life and education Altman was born in Syracuse, New York, to Genelle, a housewife, and Arthur, a sales manager. At Nottingham Senior High School in Syracuse, he played third singles on the school's tennis team and was on the wrestling team. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly McArthur
__NOTOC__ The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1982. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. January Kimberly McArthur (born September 16, 1962) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1982 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. After her appearance in ''Playboy'', McArthur had guest starring roles on episodes of ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Highway to Heaven''. She was the first of three actresses to replace Robin Wright in the role of Kelly Capwell on the NBC daytime soap '' Santa Barbara''. She also played a role in ''Case Closed'' and ''Easy Money''. February Anne Marie Fox (born September 28, 1962) was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1982. March Karen Rachel Witter (born December 13, 1961, in Long Beach, California) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Haydn
Lili Haydn is a Canadian-born violinist, film and TV composer, singer-songwriter, and former child-actress. She won a Grammy Award in 2019 for ''Opium Moon'' and was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics" in the TV series, ''Ginny & Georgia'' in 2023. As a solo artist she has released four albums. She was the opening act for Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sting, and George Clinton and The P-Funk Allstars and has collaborated with Roger Waters, Hans Zimmer, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, B. B. King, Seal, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and others. Early life and education Haydn was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of comedian Lotus Weinstock and video artist David Jove, who was one of the first people to mass-produce LSD. Haydn's parents allowed her to choose her own first name. She reportedly chose the name "Helicopter" by which she was known briefly. When she was three years old, Haydn and her mother move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins, April 29, 1909 – September 12, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer. His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in ''The Seven Year Itch'', a character he played in the Broadway production (1952–1954) and reprised for the 1955 film adaptation. He received a Tony Award for his work in the play and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film. Although Ewell preferred acting on stage, he accepted several other screen roles in light comedies of the 1950s, most notably ''The Girl Can't Help It'' (1956). He appeared in the film version of the musical ''State Fair'' (1962) and in a small number of additional ones released between the early 1960s and 1980s. Early life Ewell was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Martine (née Yewell) and Samuel William Tompkins. His family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers, but Ewel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
