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Lauren Holly
Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the television series ''Picket Fences'', NCIS Director Jenny Shepard in the series '' NCIS'', and Dr. Betty Rogers on '' Motive''. In film, she portrayed Mary Swanson in '' Dumb and Dumber'' (1994), Bruce Lee's wife Linda Lee in '' Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' (1993), Darian Smalls in '' Beautiful Girls'' (1996), and Gigi in '' What Women Want'' (2000). Early life Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Michael Ann Holly, is an art historian and the Starr Director of Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and former professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her father, Grant Holly, was a screenwriter and professor of literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She had two younger brothers: Nick Holly and Alexander Innes Holly. Holly attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational since 1968. The college's campus in Yonkers maintains a Bronxville, New York, Bronxville mailing address and sits roughly 20 miles from New York City. In athletics, the Sarah Lawrence Gryphons compete in the Skyline Conference of the NCAA Division III. History Establishment and development (20th century) Sarah Lawrence College was established in 1926 by the real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence. The college was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women. A major component of the college's early curriculum was "productive leisure", wherein students were required to work for eight hours wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Historian
Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to art. Art history is a broad discipline encompassing many branches. Some focus on specific time periods, while others concentrate on particular geographic regions, such as the art of Europe. Thematic categorizations include feminist art history, iconography, the analysis of symbols, and design history. Studying the history of art emerged as a means of documenting and critiquing artistic works, with influential historians and methods originating in Ancient Greece, Italy and China. As a discipline, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor and producer. He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'' (1984–1993) and its spin-off ''Frasier'' (1993–2004, and again Frasier (2023 TV series), from 2023 to 2024). At more than 20 years on-air, this is one of the longest-running roles played by a single live-action actor in primetime television history. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Kelsey Grammer, numerous accolades including a total of six Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Tony Award. Grammer, having trained as an actor at Juilliard School, Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre, made his professional acting debut as Macbeth#Characters, Lennox in the 1981 Broadway (theatre), Broadway revival of ''Macbeth''. The following year, he portrayed Michael Cassio, Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in ''Othello''. In mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down Periscope
''Down Periscope'' is a 1996 American military comedy submarine film directed by David S. Ward, produced by Robert Lawrence, and starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, and Rob Schneider along with Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton, William H. Macy, and Rip Torn in supporting roles. Released by 20th Century Fox on March 1, 1996, the film focuses on Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge (played by Grammer), a capable, if somewhat unorthodox, U.S. Navy officer who fights to save his career after being saddled with a group of misfit seamen who have been brought together as the crew of his first command, USS ''Stingray'', a rusty, obsolete World War II-era diesel submarine that is the focus of a special naval military exercise, war game, supervised by a bitter rival (played by Dern) who is fighting to bury Dodge's career by any means necessary. Plot Lieutenant commander (United States), Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, currently the executive officer of the attack submarine USS ''Orlando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina (1995 Film)
''Sabrina'' is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel. It is a remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 film of the same name, which in turn was based upon the 1953 play '' Sabrina Fair''. The film stars Harrison Ford as Linus Larrabee, Julia Ormond as Sabrina and Greg Kinnear (in his first starring film role) as David Larrabee. It also features Angie Dickinson, Richard Crenna, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly, John Wood, Dana Ivey and Fanny Ardant. The film was released on December 15, 1995, by Paramount Pictures. It was a box office disappointment, but earned mostly positive reviews from critics. Plot Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Fairchild. Sabrina has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay. Sabrina travels to Paris for a fashion internship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. Over his forty year career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for '' Out of Africa'' (1985). He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969), and ''Tootsie'' (1982). Pollack's other notable films include '' Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), '' The Way We Were'' (1973), '' The Yakuza'' (1974), '' Three Days of the Condor'' (1975), '' Absence of Malice'' (1981), '' The Firm'' (1993), and '' Sabrina'' (1995). Pollack produced and acted in '' Michael Clayton'' (2007), and produced numerous films such as ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was an American-born Hong Kong martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as Eclecticism, eclectic, Zen Buddhism, Zen Buddhist and Taoism, Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a Bruce Lee filmography, film career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for his roles in five feature-length Martial arts film, martial arts films, Lee is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema. Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with the New Hollywood movement, with a breakthrough role as Duke Forrest in Robert Altman's ''M*A*S*H''. He then starred in notable films like '' The Turning Point'', ''Up in Smoke'', '' Ice Castles'', '' Alien'', '' The Dead Zone'', ''Top Gun'', and '' A River Runs Through It''. On television, Skerritt played the leading role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock on the family drama ''Picket Fences'' (1992-96), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. He also had a recurring role as Evan Drake on the sixth season of sitcom ''Cheers'' (1987-88). Skerritt is also a three-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, a Genie Award nominee, an American Television Award nominee, and is both a Saturn Award and Western Heritage A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Cooper
Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper is one of the main characters appearing in American comic books published by Archie Comics. She is the lead guitarist, percussionist and one of the three singers of The Archies. The character was created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater, and first appeared in '' Pep Comics'' #22 ( cover-dated Dec. 1941), on the first page of the first ''Archie'' story, serving as a love interest to Archie Andrews. Betty is in love with Archie, which drives her attempts to win his affections by whatever means possible, and her rivalry with her best friend, vocalist/keyboardist Veronica Lodge, have been among the longest-running themes in the comics. She is portrayed by Lili Reinhart in '' Riverdale'' and Khushi Kapoor in '' The Archies''. Publication history Betty was named for, and originally based on, Betty Tokar Jankovich, a Czech immigrant who briefly dated Archie co-creator Bob Montana in 1939 when she was 18.Gustines, George Gene"At 94, the Real Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All My Children
''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, ''All My Children'' is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont, Pennsylvania, Penn Valley. The original series featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime television's most popular characters. ''All My Children'' was the first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s. Originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc., the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob, the show was sold to ABC in January 1970. The series started with half-hour episodes before expanding to a full hour on April 25, 1977. The show had experimented with the full-hour format for one week starting on Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hill Street Blues
''Hill Street Blues'' is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the Metropolitan Police Department staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large U.S. city. The "blues" are the police officers in their blue uniforms. The show received critical acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada."TV Guide Names Top 50 Shows" CBS.Roush, Matt (February 25, 2013). "Showstoppers: The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time". '' |
