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Jackson (2008 Film)
''Jackson'' is a 2008 American comedy-drama-musical film written and directed by J. F. Lawton and starring Barry Primus and Charlie Robinson. Synopsis Jackson is about two homeless men in Los Angeles, Donald and Sam. At the start of the day Donald is given a $20 bill (also known as a " Jackson"). The film follows the two and shows their adventures throughout the day with this money, and features songs from various operas. Cast * Barry Primus as Donald * Charlie Robinson as Sam * Steve Guttenberg as Businessman * Debra Jo Rupp as Nice Lady Musical numbers # " Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's ''Elixer of Love'' – Richard Brown and Shawnette Sulker # "Champagne Aria" from Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' – Cedric Trenton Berry # " Habanera" from Bizet's ''Carmen'' – Elaa Lee Romani/ Chorus: Ariella Vaccarino, Aleta Braxton, Pilar Diaz, Tahlia McCollum # Sextet from Donizetti's '' Lucia di Lammermoor'' – Jennifer Suess, William Gorton, Michael Sokol, Fred Winthrop, Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Primus
Barry Primus (born February 16, 1938) is an American television and film actor, director, and writer. Career While Primus is primarily an actor, he has also worked as a writer and director in films in which he has acted. For the first decade of his career, he was employed as a stage actor. He gained some experience on TV in shows like '' The Defenders'', ''East Side/West Side'' and '' The Virginian''. He then made his initial film appearance in the Manhattan-filmed '' The Brotherhood'' (1968). His other films include '' Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (film)'' (1971) '' Boxcar Bertha'' (1972), ''Autopsy'' (1975), '' Heartland'' (1979), ''The Rose'' (1979), ''Night Games'' (1980), ''Absence of Malice'' (1981), and ''Guilty by Suspicion'' (1991). He had a recurring role on the TV series '' Cagney and Lacey'' (1982 — 1988) as Christine Cagney's (Sharon Gless's) boyfriend, Sergeant Dory McKenna, whose drug problem compromises his value as a police officer. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clamma Dale
Clamma Churita Dale (born 1948) is an American operatic soprano. She portrayed "Bess" in the highly successful 1976 Houston Grand Opera production of ''Porgy and Bess''. The show was transferred from Houston to Broadway and Dale was awarded a 1977 Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a musical and received a Tony Award nomination. She won a Grammy award in 1978 for Best Opera Recording of the Porgy & Bess soundtrack. Early life and education Dale was born and raised in Chester, Pennsylvania. Her father was a jazz musician and she received much of her early musical training from him, playing the clarinet, cello, saxophone, piano, and guitar during her youth as well as singing in the school choir. She studied music at the Settlement Music School earned a bachelor's degree in music from the Juilliard School in 1970. She earned her master's degree from the Juilliard School in 1975. Career After graduating from school, Dale worked as a first grade music teacher in Brooklyn unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Drama Films
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Musical Comedy-drama Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Musical Comedy-drama Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. '' The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while ''Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to '' The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's ''WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of '' Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting '' The Incredible Hul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakedance Film Festival
Founded in 2006, and operating until 2009, the Lakedance International Film Festival was held annually in Sandpoint, Idaho in autumn, featuring an international juried competition of feature and short length independent films, question and answer sessions with filmmakers and stars, panel discussions, gala events, outdoor screenings, educational opportunities and VIP exclusive events. History 2006 Foundation In January 2006, father and son Fred and Trevor Greenfield announced the formation of the first international film festival in North Idaho, to be held in Sandpoint, Idaho at The Historic Panida Theater during the dates of August 24–26, 2006 and would be named the "Idaho Panhandle International Film Festival" (later changed to "Lakedance" and its various iterations). The Greenfields said their motivation for creating their event was to avoid "Hollywood politics" and "star-driven marketing" and focus on just high quality entertaining independent films and their producers, dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea Bay Film Festival
The Swansea Bay Film Festival was a film festival that took place in Swansea, Wales. Festival mission This is a festival that promises to "honour the individual voice".bbc.co.uk May 29, 2008, "Swansea Film Festival:, Retrieved September 26, 2009by Binda Singh festivalfocus.org , Swansea Bay Film Festival information, Retrieved September 26, 2008 Its goal is to provide a worldwide for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie (song)
"Dixie", also known as "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie", and other titles, is a song about the Southern United States first made in 1859. It is one of the most distinctively Southern musical products of the 19th century. It was not a folk song at its creation, but it has since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented the word " Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a nickname for the Southern U.S. Most sources credit Ohio-born Daniel Decatur Emmett with the song's composition, although other people have claimed credit, even during Emmett's lifetime. Compounding the problem are Emmett's own confused accounts of its writing and his tardiness in registering its copyright. "Dixie" originated in the minstrel shows of the 1850s and quickly became popular throughout the United States. During the American Civil War, it was adopted as a de facto national anthem of the Confederacy, along with " The Bonnie Blue Flag" and " God Save the South". New versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Stapp
Gregory Stapp is an American bass who has performed actively in concerts and operas internationally for more than 35 years. He has had a particularly fruitful partnership with the San Francisco Opera, portraying more than 30 roles with the company since 1980.search results aSan Francisco Opera Archives/ref> He has also worked actively as a private voice teacher and as a teacher of master classes at a number of universities. He is the current Second Vice President of the American Guild of Musical Artists. Early life and education Born and raised in Colorado, Stapp attended Doull Elementary School, Kunsmiller Junior High School, and Cherry Creek High School in Denver. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Loretto Heights College in 1976 where was a pupil of George Lynn, the former music director of Westminster Choir College. He pursued further studies in opera at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia from 1976-1980. He studied with Dorothy DiScala at the school and earned an Arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Va, Pensiero
"" (), also known as the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves", is a chorus from the opera ''Nabucco'' (1842) by Giuseppe Verdi. It recollects the period of Babylonian captivity after the loss of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The libretto is by Temistocle Solera, inspired by Psalm 137. The opera with its powerful chorus established Verdi as a major composer in 19th-century Italy. The full incipit is "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate", meaning "Go, thought, on wings of gold". Initial reception Verdi composed ''Nabucco'' at a difficult moment in his life. His wife and small children had all just died of various illnesses. Despite a purported vow to abstain from opera-writing, he had contracted with La Scala to write another opera and the director, Bartolomeo Merelli, forced the libretto into his hands. Returning home, Verdi happened to open the libretto at "Va, pensiero" and seeing the phrase, he heard the words singing. At first rehearsal "the stagehands shouted their a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
