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Joel Goodman
Joel Goodman is an American film score composer and recording artist. He is the founder of Museum Music, MusicBox, and Hi-Fi Productions. In 2023 he released the album ''An Exquisite Moment''. Early life and education Goodman was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Queens, where he learned to play his first instrument (the trumpet) from public school music educator Allen Stier. He attended high school in Manhattan at The High School of Music & Art, where he played trumpet in the orchestra, and wrote arrangements and played bass for his high school jazz band. In the summer before his final year, Goodman attended the Berklee College of Music summer program. Goodman attended the Berklee College of Music as a double major focusing on both bass performance and jazz composition and arranging. During this time those he studied under included Herb Pomeroy, Michael Gibbs, Bob Freedman, John LaPorta, Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Steve Swallow and Bruce Gertz. Goodman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under English rule in 1683 in what was then the Province of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population stood at 2,736,074, making it the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, and the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the state.Table 2: Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State - 2020 New York State Department of Health. Accessed January 2, 2024. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Jarecki
Andrew Jarecki (born March 24, 1963) is an American filmmaker, musician, and entrepreneur. He is best known for the Emmy-winning documentary series ''The Jinx (TV series), The Jinx''. He is also known for the documentary film ''Capturing the Friedmans'', which won eighteen international prizes including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He also co-founded Moviefone and created the KnowMe iOS platform. Career Jarecki graduated from Princeton University in 1985. He is the co-founder and CEO of Moviefone, which provides film schedules over the Internet and telephone and was sold to AOL in 1999. With producer J. J. Abrams, Jarecki co-wrote the theme song to ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'', "New Version of You", in 2000. Jarecki's 2003 documentary about a family, ''Capturing the Friedmans'', his first feature, began as an offshoot from a short film he was making about birthday pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, screen printing, prints, book illustration, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan. Initially located in the Crown Building (Manhattan), Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue, it opened just days after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Wall Street Crash. The museum was led by Anson Goodyear, A. Conger Goodyear as president and Abby Rockefeller as treasurer, with Alfred H. Barr Jr., Alfred H. Barr Jr. as its first director. Under Barr's leadership, the museum's collection rapidly expanded, beginning with an inaug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN
ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices and auxiliary studios in Miami, Orlando, New York City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. James Pitaro has been chairman since March 5, 2018, following the resignation of John Skipper on December 18, 2017. , ESPN is available to approximately 70 million pay television households in the United States—down from its 2011 peak of 100 million households. It operates regional channels in Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Netherlands. In Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Today, Amazon is considered one of the Big Tech, Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet Inc., Alphabet, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. The company has multiple subsidiaries, including Amazon Web Services, providing cloud computing; Zoox (company), Zoox, a self-driving car division; Kuiper Systems, a satellite Internet provider; and Amazon Lab126, a computer hardware R&D provider. Other subsidiaries include Ring (company), Ring, Twitch (service), Twitch, IMDb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A&E (TV Network)
A&E (an initialism of its original name, the Arts & Entertainment Network) is an American cable and satellite television network and the flagship property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Walt Disney Company (through the Disney General Entertainment Content division of Disney Entertainment). A&E was launched on February 1, 1984, as a block on Nickelodeon. The network originally focused on fine arts, documentaries, dramas, and educational entertainment. Today, it deals primarily in non-fiction programming, including reality television, true crime, documentaries and miniseries, thus de-emphasizing its full name in the process. Since 1985, it is no longer a programming block, due to its joint owners spinning it off into a 24-hour channel while Nickelodeon later launched Nick at Nite to fill in the time slot A&E formerly held. , A&E is available to approximately 63,000,000 pay television households in the United States – down from its 2011 pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisher Stevens
Stephen Fisher (born November 27, 1963), known professionally as Fisher Stevens, is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben Jahveri in ''Short Circuit'' (1986) and ''Short Circuit 2'' (1988). He is also a documentary filmmaker, having won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for '' The Cove'' (2009). He also directed the documentaries '' Crazy Love'' (2007) and '' Before the Flood'' (2016). Stevens is known for his roles in films such as '' Reversal of Fortune'' (1990), '' Bob Roberts'' (1992), '' Hackers'' (1995), ''Anything Else'' (2003), and '' Hail, Caesar!'' (2016). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), ''Isle of Dogs'' (2018), ''The French Dispatch'' (2021), and '' Asteroid City'' (2023). In television he portrayed Chuck Fishman in CBS series '' Early Edition'' (1996–2000), Marvin Gerard on NBC's ''The Blacklist'' (2015–2022), Gabriel Kovac in CBS's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Irene Taylor (born June 15, 1970) is a film director and producer. Early life Taylor was born on June 15, 1970, to Child of deaf adult, deaf parents Sally and Paul Taylor (engineer), Paul Taylor. She graduated from New York University and Columbia University's Columbia School of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism. Career Taylor began her documentary career in photojournalism. Her first feature documentary, ''Hear and Now'', a documentary memoir about her deaf parents, won the Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, a Peabody Awards, Peabody Award, and numerous awards at festivals around the world. It was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America in 2008 for Documentary of the Year. Her HBO feature documentary ''Beware the Slenderman'' received two 2017 Critics' Choice Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Documentary, and was also nominated for a 2018 Emmy Award. Taylor's previous credits include several theatrically released short films, all wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oren Jacoby
Oren Jacoby is a director and producer of documentary films including; '' Shadowman (2017),'' '' My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes'' (2014), '' Lafayette: The Lost Hero''(2010), '' Constantine's Sword'' (2008), '' Sister Rose's Passion'' (2005), ''The Shakespeare Sessions'' (2003), ''Stage on Screen: The Topdog Diaries'' (2002), ''The Beatles Revolution'' (2000), and ''Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself'' (1998). His stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison's ''Invisible Man'' premiered in 2012 at the Court Theater in Chicago, starring Teagle Bougere. Life and career Jacoby was educated at Brown University and Yale University. He has been an independent filmmaker since 1992, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2005 for ''Sister Rose's Passion'', which also won Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. He has written, directed, and produced award-winning films for three decades. His work has been recognized by the American Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning, dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of Light_infantry#United_States, infantry combat. He is the author of ''The Perfect Storm (book), The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea'' (1997) which was adapted into a The_Perfect_Storm_(film), major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing. He covered the War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021), War in Afghanistan for more than a decade, often embedded in dangerous and remote Outpost_(military), military outposts. The book ''War'' (2010) was drawn from his field reporting for Vanity_Fair_(magazine), ''Vanity Fair'', that also served as the background for the documentary film ''Restrepo (film), Restrepo'' (2010) which received the List_of_Sundance_Film_Festival_award_winners, Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
