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Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Widely known as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom ''Happy Days'' (1974–1984), Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. His many accolades include three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics Choice Awards. Winkler studied theater at both Emerson College and the Yale School of Drama and spent a year and a half with the Yale Repertory Theater. After getting cast in a small role in ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', he became a star playing the role of "Fonzie" on the sitcom ''Happy Days'' (1974–1984). He then helped develop the original ''MacGyver'' television series and directed '' Memories of Me'' (1988) and ''Cop and a Half'' (1993). Winkler acted in films such as '' Heroes'' (1977), ''Night Shift'' (1982), '' Scream'' (1996), '' The Waterboy'' (1998), '' Holes'' (2003), ''The French Dispatch'' (2021), and ...
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Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ...
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Yale Repertory Theater
Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yale's main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church. History As head of Yale Repertory Theatre ("the Rep") from 1966 to 1979, Robert Brustein brought professional actors to Yale each year to form a repertory company and nurtured notable new authors including Christopher Durang. Some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Michael Feingold was the first literary manager. The dean of Yale School of Drama is the artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, with Lloyd Richards (who most notably nurtured the career of August Wilson) serving in this capacity 1979–1991, Stan Wojewodski ...
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Barry Zuckerkorn
''Arrested Development'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox from November 2, 2003 to February 10, 2006. A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26, 2013, and a fifth season was released in two parts on May 29, 2018 and March 15, 2019. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, the show centers the Bluth family. The Bluths are formerly wealthy and a habitually dysfunctional family. It is presented in a continuous format, and incorporates hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage. The series stars Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter. In addition, Ron Howard serves as the series narrator and an executive producer on the show. The main characters of ''Arrested Development'' can be divided into the Bluth ( ) and Fünke ( ) families. Bluth family tree † denotes a deceased character Dashed lines denote adoption C ...
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Black Adam (film)
''Black Adam'' is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics, DC character Black Adam, of the same name. Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, Seven Bucks Productions, and FlynnPictureCo. and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a spin-off (media), spin-off from ''Shazam! (film), Shazam!'' (2019) and the eleventh film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a screenplay by Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, the film stars Dwayne Johnson as Teth-Adam (DC Extended Universe), Teth-Adam / Black Adam, an ancient superhuman who is released from his magic imprisonment by a group of archeologists to free the nation of Kahndaq from the crime syndicate Intergang, whose local leader plans to obtain an ancient relic called the Crown of Sabbac to take control of it. Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell, Marwan Kenzari and Pierce Brosnan appear in supporting roles. Johnson was attached to ''Shazam!'' ear ...
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The French Dispatch
''The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun'' (or simply ''The French Dispatch'') is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. It features an expansive ensemble cast and follows three different storylines as the French news bureau of the fictional '' Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun'' newspaper publishes its final issue. The first segment, "The Concrete Masterpiece", follows an incarcerated and unstable painter, and stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux. The second, "Revisions to a Manifesto", is inspired by the May 68 student protests, and stars Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, and Lyna Khoudri. The third, "The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner", follows the kidnapping of a police commissioner's son and stars Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, and Stephen Park. Bill Murray also star ...
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Holes (film)
''Holes'' is a 2003 American neo-Western comedy drama film directed by Andrew Davis and written by Louis Sachar, based on his 1998 novel. The film stars Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, and Shia LaBeouf in his theatrical film debut. In the film, Stanley Yelnats IV (LaBeouf) is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp in Texas, after being wrongfully convicted of theft. The camp forces inmates to dig holes in a dried lake bed under the command of the cruel Warden Walker (Weaver), who is secretly searching for the buried treasure of outlaw Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow (Arquette). Director Andrew Davis took on ''Holes'' to showcase his versatility beyond action films, enlisting author Louis Sachar to adapt his novel into a screenplay. Filming took place over ten weeks in California during the summer of 2002 on a $20 million budget. Shia LaBeouf was cast as Stanley after Davis sought a "young Tom Hanks," though the character's we ...
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The Waterboy
''The Waterboy'' is a 1998 American sports comedy film directed by Frank Coraci. It was written by Adam Sandler as well as Tim Herlihy and produced by Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo. Sandler also stars as the title character while Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Blake Clark, Peter Dante, and Jonathan Loughran play other characters. Lynn Swann, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Paul "The Big Show" Wight, and Rob Schneider have cameo appearances. The film was extremely profitable, earning $39.4 million in its opening weekend alone in the United States, earning a total of $190 million worldwide. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Plot Bobby Boucher is a socially inept, stuttering 31-year-old man serving as the water boy for the University of Louisiana football program. He lives with his protective and extremely religious mother, Helen, and believes his father, Robert Sr., died of dehydration ...
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Scream (1996 Film)
''Scream'' is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. Set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, ''Scream''s plot follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Campbell) and her friends, who, on the anniversary of her mother's murder, become the targets of a costumed serial killer known as Ghostface. Williamson, who was struggling to get his projects off the ground, was inspired by reports of a series of murders by the Gainesville Ripper as he wrote a screenplay that satirized the clichés of the slasher genre popularized in films such as ''Halloween'' (1978), '' Friday the 13th'' (1980), and ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984). Developed under the title ''Scary Movie'', Williamson's script became the subject of an intense bidding war from multiple studios before Miramax Films purchased the rig ...
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Night Shift (1982 Film)
A night shift is either a group of workers night working, or the period in which they work. Night Shift, Nightshift, or The Night Shift may also refer to: Film, TV, and video games Film * ''Night Shift'' (1944 film), a French-Italian film directed by Jean Faurez * ''Night Shift'' (1982 film), an American film, one of Ron Howard's earliest directorial efforts * ''The Night Shift'' (film), a 2011 American zombie comedy film * ''Night Shift'' (2018 film), a Russian comedy film * ''Night Shift'' (2020 film), a 2020 Franco-Belgian film * ''Night Shift'' (2023 film), 2023 American horror film * Nightshift (film), a 2020 Philippine horror film Television * ''Night Shift'' (Hong Kong TV series), a Hong Kong crime thriller * ''Night Shift'' (Irish TV programme), a 2006–2008 Irish musical TV programme broadcast on Channel 6 * ''Night Shift'' (British TV series), a British TV series shown late at night on ITV in 1992–1994 and again in 1998 * ''The Night Shift'' (TV series) ...
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Heroes (1977 Film)
''Heroes'' is a 1977 American drama film directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan and starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field and Harrison Ford (in his first post-''Star Wars'' role, but filmed before that movie's release). Winkler plays a Vietnam War vet with PTSD who sets about finding the men from his unit who had served in Vietnam. Field plays his at-first-reluctant girlfriend and Ford plays one of the former soldiers in his unit, now a dysfunctional stock car driver in Sedalia, Missouri, who keeps a stolen M16 rifle in the trunk of his car. Plot Jack Dunne, an amnesiac Vietnam veteran most likely suffering from a severe case of PTSD, escapes a V.A. mental ward in New York City intent on starting a business as a worm farmer in Eureka, California. At the city bus station, he accidentally meets Carol Bell, a woman unsure of her engagement to a man toward whom she has confused feelings. Initially annoyed by Jack's wild, disruptive antics on the bus and at a diner, Carol gradually warms ...
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Cop And A Half
''Cop and a Half'' is a 1993 American family buddy cop-comedy film directed by Henry Winkler, and stars Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II and Ray Sharkey (in his final role). Reynolds plays a veteran cop who reluctantly takes an eight-year-old boy (Golden) as his partner to solve a murder investigation. ''Cop and a Half'' opened at #1 in the U.S. and grossed $40.7 million worldwide against a $14 million budget. The film was followed by a lower budgeted, direct-to-DVD sequel, ''Cop and a Half: New Recruit'' (2017). Plot Devon Butler is an eight-year old boy who lives in Tampa Bay, Florida with his grandmother Rachel in a small apartment. Devon dreams of being a cop. He watches police TV shows, knows police procedures, and plays cops and robbers with his friend Raymond Sanchez. One day, while snooping around in a warehouse, he witnesses a murder. He goes to the police station to report the crime where he meets Captain Rubio and Detective Nick McKenna, who dislikes children. ...
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Memories Of Me
''Memories of Me'' is a 1988 American comedy-drama film by director Henry Winkler, starring Billy Crystal, Alan King, and JoBeth Williams. This was the first theatrically released film directed by Winkler, who had previously directed the TV movie '' A Smoky Mountain Christmas''. Much of it was filmed inside the MGM Studios in Culver City, California, only a few miles from Hollywood. Plot Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, has a heart attack in the middle of surgery. An expert, he is able to instruct his colleagues on exactly what to give him and do to minimize the damage. Abbie is later placed in a room and put on monitors. Fighting off sleep triggers a childhood memory in which he also resisted sleeping with his unsympathetic dad. Watching old home movies with Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life and pediatrician in the hospital, she asks about his family. His parents divorced when he was seven, and she is shocked when he admits his father is still living, as he´d ...
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