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John Joseph Duda
John Joseph Duda (born March 19, 1977) is an American child actor best known for starring in the Christmas movie ''Prancer''. Life John Joseph Duda was born to Deborah Sullivan and John Duda Sr. in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He has two younger siblings, Sara (born 1978) and Kevin (born 1981). His mother was a nurse, and his sister was a musician actress. He is of Irish and Polish descent. In elementary school, Duda was an avid piano player and was part of the Oak Lawn singing group Kids Spectacular. He became passionate about acting at a young age. He graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep and Harvard University. At Harvard he studied economics and was a stage manager and singer for the a cappella group Din & Tonics. He worked as a teacher and mentor for middle and high school, earned a doctorate in education from UCLA in 2011, and founded multiple nonprofit organizations to benefit students. In 2013, Johnny married Lindsey Gandy. They have two children together. They work with or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prancer (film)
''Prancer'' is a 1989 Christmas film, Christmas Fantasy film, fantasy Drama (film and television), drama film directed by John D. Hancock, John Hancock, written by Greg Taylor (author), Greg Taylor, and starring Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Rebecca Harrell, Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Abe Vigoda, Michael Constantine, Rutanya Alda, John Joseph Duda, and Ariana Richards. It is set in Three Oaks, Michigan, where town exteriors were filmed. Filming also occurred at the Old Republic House in New Carlisle, Indiana, La Porte, Indiana, and at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois. The film was followed by a direct-to-video sequel called ''Prancer Returns'', released by USA Films, USA Home Entertainment in 2001. In 2022, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released a remake called ''Prancer: A Christmas Tale''. Plot Eight-year-old Jessica Riggs and her older brother, Steve, are being raised by their widowed father, grieving and cantankerous John. Their apple farm has fallen on hard t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The U.S. Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. The 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Alumni
The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see the list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University. Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College. Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty. Nobel laureates Pulitzer Prize winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Child Actors
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 that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
''The Woman Who Loved Elvis'' is a 1993 American drama television film, directed by Bill Bixby and written by Rita Mae Brown, based on the 1992 novel ''Graced Land'' by Laura Kalpakian. It stars Roseanne Barr and her then-husband Tom Arnold, with Cynthia Gibb, Danielle Harris, and Sally Kirkland. It was filmed in June 1992 in Ottumwa, Iowa, where Arnold was born. The film tells the story of Joyce Jackson, an Iowan woman who maintains a shrine to Elvis Presley on her front porch, lives on welfare payments with her two daughters Lisa-Marie and Priscilla, and hopes that her estranged husband Jack will one day return. When she is assigned a new case worker, a young woman named Emily Shaw, the two quickly bond and form a relationship that will change both of their lives. Meanwhile, it comes to light that Joyce has been supplementing her welfare payments by selling quilts. As of 2024, a number of online sources incorrectly list the film's plot as being about Joyce going on a road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backdraft (film)
''Backdraft'' is a 1991 American action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. Starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Jason Gedrick and J. T. Walsh, it follows Chicago firefighters on the trail of a serial arsonist. It was released on May 24, 1991, to mixed reviews, and grossed $152.4 million worldwide. It received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. It also inspired a special effects attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, which opened in 1992 and closed in 2010. It was followed by the sequel, ''Backdraft 2'', in 2019, with Baldwin and Sutherland reprising their roles. Plot Two firefighters of Engine 17 of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) are brothers: the elder, Lieutenant Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey, is experienced, while Brian has labored in his brother's shadow. Brian returns to firefightin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatliners
''Flatliners'' is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 ( Charles L. Campbell and Richard C. Franklin). The film was theatrically released on August 10, 1990, by Columbia Pictures. It grossed $61 million at the box office. A follow-up film directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev was released in September 2017, also featuring Sutherland in a starring role. Plot Medical student Nelson Wright convinces classmates Joe Hurley, David La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Thomas (film Critic)
Kevin Thomas (born June 12, 1936) is an American film critic who has written reviews for the ''Los Angeles Times'' since 1962. His long tenure makes him the longest-running film critic among major United States newspapers.Interview with Kevin Thomas , Alternative Projections – Los Angeles Filmforum, Retrieved October 21, 2013 Thomas was born in Los Angeles in 1936. He earned a bachelor's degree from in 1958 and master's degree from in 1960. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
