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Johnny Handsome
''Johnny Handsome'' is a 1989 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Walter Hill (director), Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Forest Whitaker, Lance Henriksen and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, and adapted from the novel ''The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'' by Morton Freedgood, John Godey. The music for the film was written, produced and performed by Ry Cooder, with four songs by Jim Keltner. Plot John Sedley is a man with a disfigured face, mocked by others as "Johnny Handsome." He and a friend are double-crossed by two accomplices in a crime, Sunny Boyd and her partner Rafe, and a Judge sends Johnny to jail, where he vows to get even once he gets out. In prison, Johnny meets a surgeon named Fisher, who is looking for a guinea pig so he can attempt an experimental procedure in reconstructive cosmetic surgery. Johnny, figuring he has nothing to lose, is given a new, normal-looking face (making him unre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Hill (director)
Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer known for his action films and revival of the Western (genre), Western genre. He has directed such films as ''The Driver'', ''The Warriors (film), The Warriors'', ''Southern Comfort (1981 film), Southern Comfort'', ''48 Hrs.'' and its sequel ''Another 48 Hrs.'', ''Streets of Fire'' and ''Red Heat (1988 film), Red Heat'', and wrote the screenplay for the crime drama ''The Getaway (1972 film), The Getaway''. He has also directed several episodes of television series such as ''Tales from the Crypt (TV series), Tales from the Crypt'' and ''Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood'' and produced films in the Alien (franchise), ''Alien'' franchise. He founded Brandywine Productions with David Giler and Gordon Carroll. Hill said in an interview that "every film I've done has been a Western", and elaborated in another that "the Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Overlook Press
The Overlook Press is an American publishing house based in New York, New York which considers itself "a home for distinguished books that had been 'overlooked' by larger houses". History and operations The Overlook Press was formed in 1971 by Peter Mayer who had worked at Avon and Penguin Books, where he was chief executive officer from 1978 to 1998. Overlook has more than one thousand titles in print, including fiction, history, biography, drama, and design. Their publishing program consists of nearly 100 new books per year, evenly divided between hardcovers and trade paperbacks. Imprints include Tusk Books, whose format was designed by Milton Glaser. In 2002, Overlook acquired Ardis Publishing, a publisher of Russian literature in English. Overlook also took ownership of the British publishing company Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. In 2007, Overlook's publisher Peter Mayer was the recipient of the New York Center for Independent Publishing's Poor Richard Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Weintraub
Fred Robert Weintraub (April 27, 1928 – March 5, 2017) was an American film and television producer and writer. Career Background Weintraub was the original owner and host of The Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village. Weintraub discovered singers and stand-up comedians such as Peter, Paul and Mary, Lenny Bruce (with whom he was arrested for obscenity), Randy Newman and The Isley Brothers. The club also featured early performances of Neil Diamond, Woody Allen, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Ricky Nelson, Nina Simone, Dustin Hoffman, Charles Aznavour, Lily Tomlin, Stevie Wonder, Kris Kristofferson, Joni Mitchell, George Carlin, Bob Dylan, Harry Chapin, Bill Cosby and Phil Ochs. During the early 1960s The Bitter End hosted "Open Mike" Hootenannies every Tuesday night, showcasing young, old, known and unknown folksingers. Weintraub is not related to fellow film producer Jerry Weintraub. Films and television Moving west in the mid 1960s, Weintraub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Heller
Paul Heller (also known as Paul M. Heller; 25 September 1927 – 28 December 2020) was an American film producer residing in Southern California. His best known movies include ''Enter the Dragon'', '' Withnail and I'', '' My Left Foot'', '' The Annihilation of Fish'', '' Skin Game'', '' Hot Potato'', '' The Promise'', ''The Barony'', '' Black Belt Jones'', and '' David and Lisa''. Biography Film production His debut as a film producer was '' David and Lisa'', which received two Oscar nominations. He was the executive producer of 1990's Oscar winner '' My Left Foot'', which earned five Academy Award nominations and Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. His film '' The Eavesdropper'' won acclaim as Best Film at Mar del Plata and honors at both the New York and London Film Festivals. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the French Awards as was his film '' Secret Ceremony'', starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow. Heller worked as a Warner Bros. executive, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raynor Scheine
Raynor Scheine (born Raynor Johnston; January 19, 1942) is an American actor who has appeared in films for three decades dating back to 1979, including '' My Cousin Vinny'' and ''Fried Green Tomatoes.'' His name is a play on the phrase "rain or shine". Raised in Emporia, VA, he received a degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. Broadway performances * '' Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' (Mar 27, 1988 – June 26, 1988) – Rutherford Selig * '' Gem of the Ocean'' (December 6, 2004 – February 6, 2005) – Rutherford Selig * '' Inherit the Wind'' (Present) – Elijah Filmography Movie roles * '' Something Short of Paradise'' (1979) .... Professor * '' Bloodrage'' (1979) .... Fred * '' A Stranger is Watching'' (1982) .... Derelict * '' Lovesick'' (1983) .... Shelter * '' Touched'' (1983) .... Mitchell * '' Nothing Lasts Forever'' (1984) .... Hillbilly * '' Insignificance'' (1985) .... Autograph Hunter * '' Nine 1/2 Weeks'' (1986) .... Flower Delivery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Graf
Allan Lee Graf (born December 16, 1949) is an American athlete, actor, stuntman and director. A high school All-American football player at San Fernando in Los Angeles, California, Graf played offensive guard for the undefeated national champion University of Southern California Trojans in 1972. After a brief experience playing professional football, Graf stumbled into stunt work, and over time has become a stunt coordinator in Hollywood, coordinating stunts in football movies like '' Any Given Sunday'' and '' Friday Night Lights''. Graf likes to cast himself in onscreen stunt roles, and has appeared in many television shows and movies. Graf has become a second unit director, working on films such as ''Wayne's World'', '' The Replacements'', '' The Waterboy'', '' We Were Soldiers'', and '' Jerry Maguire''. Early life and education Allan Lee Graf was raised in Sylmar, California, but transferred to San Fernando High School in tenth grade. According to Graf, San Fernando was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Meek
Jeffrey William Meek (born February 11, 1959) is an American actor. Meek and his family moved often; as a child, Meek lived in Zweibrücken (West Germany), Michigan and San Francisco. Meek graduated from Arlington High School in Riverside, California, and attended the University of California at Irvine. After graduating from UCI with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama, he moved to New York City, after he was offered the role of Quinn McCleary on ''Search for Tomorrow''. Acting roles Meek's film acting includes appearing with Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins in '' Heart Condition'' with Mickey Rourke, Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker in ''Johnny Handsome'', and with Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis in '' Winter People''. His television work includes starring in the episode "Fruit of the Poison Tree" (5x09), of the TV series ''Miami Vice'' (1989), and in the CBS series, '' Raven'' and the CBS late-night series, ''The Exile''. He also played the dual roles of Raiden and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jason
Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 – February 20, 2025), better known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He often played military personnel, law enforcement agents, and authority figures in both films and television series. Early life Born in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jason grew up on the Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach. Jason was a self-described "surf bum" until the age of eighteen, when he acted on stage for the first time and became "an actor bum." He had the lead role, playing Sheridan Whiteside in his high school's adaptation of '' The Man Who Came to Dinner''. From there, he "never had a job, never worked for a living, just played for the rest of islife." He continued acting at Orange Coast College, citing his favorite role there as Harold Hill in ''The Music Man''. After hitchhiking to Pittsburgh for a stint at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Jason returned to California and helped to start the South Coast Repertory Theatre in his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Bryceland
Yvonne Bryceland (18 November 1925 – 13 January 1992) was a South African stage actress. Some of her best-known work was in the plays of Athol Fugard. Early life She was born Yvonne Heilbuth in Cape Town, South Africa, the daughter of Adolphus Walter Heilbluth, a railway foreman,"South African Yvonne Bryceland Ventured Far from Her Privileged Roots to Reach the Road to Mecca" (July 18, 1988) ''People'' and Clara Ethel (''née'' Sanderson). She was educated at St. Mary's Convent, Hope St., Cape Town.''Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia'' (2000) Career Bryceland worked as a newspaper librarian for the '' Cape Argus'' before her professional theatrical début in ''Stage Door'' in 1947, becoming an actress with the Cape Performing Arts Board in 1964. Prior to her professional career, she had performed as an amateur at the Barn Theatre in Constantia which had been founded by David Bloomberg who later became the mayor of Cape Town. Having had no formal training prio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schramm (actor)
David Michael Schramm (August 14, 1946 – March 28, 2020) was an American actor. He was best known for playing the role of Roy Biggins, the curmudgeonly rival airline owner in the TV series '' Wings''. Early life and education Schramm was born on August 14, 1946, in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was a bookie. Schramm revealed in a 2008 interview that at the age of 17, "(my parents) always came to see me in school, where I won trophies for speaking, and then in those big outdoor dramas we have in Kentucky, and then as an apprentice actor at the playhouse that eventually became the Actors Theater of Louisville." Schramm also earned $25 a week for cleaning toilets and for being in a play. "I had been acting non-stop since I was a teenager," Schramm said in a 2012 interview. "But really I got started in acting because others helped me push into it. When I was a kid, it was other actors getting me to do it. Then I had a series of teachers who told me I was going to do it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans Police Department
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has primary responsibility for law enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The department's jurisdiction covers all of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, while the city itself is divided into eight police districts. The NOPD has a long history of civil rights violations, police corruption, corruption and poor oversight. Since 2012, the NOPD has been in a federal consent decree where it has to implement sweeping reforms to address a wide array of structural problems identified by the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice in a 2011 report. History After New Orleans was founded by French colonists in 1718, the policing of the city was done by military forces. These were alternating French, Spanish and French under differing governmental rule. The formation of the New Orleans Police Department was first recorded in 1796, during the administration of Baron Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
