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Leilani Jones (actress)
Leilani Jones Wilmore (born May 14, 1957) is an American actress. Life and career Jones was born in Oahu, Hawaii. She originated the role of Chiffon at the WPA Theater in the original cast of ''Little Shop of Horrors''. Marlene Danielle replaced her for a few weeks when the show opened Off Broadway at the Orpheum Theater. Jones resumed her role at that time and played the part for three more years. Jones also recorded the role on the original cast recording. Jones next went on to play the role of Satin, a stripper at a Chicago burlesque house, in the original Broadway production of ''Grind''. Jones won a Tony as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for her performance. After leaving ''Grind'', Jones married writer, actor and television producer Larry Wilmore and her career slowed down considerably, as she appeared only in small roles in a few movies and television shows and did voice over work for video games, most notably portraying the voice performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oahu, Hawaii
Oahu (, , sometimes written Oahu) is the third-largest and most populated island of the Hawaiian Islands and of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital, Honolulu, is on Oahu's southeast coast. The island of Oahu and the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands constitute the City and County of Honolulu. In 2021, Oahu had a population of 995,638, up from 953,207 in 2010 (approximately 70% of the total 1,455,271 population of the Hawaiian Islands, with approximately 81% of those living in or near the Honolulu urban area). Oahu is long and across. Its shoreline is long. Including small associated islands such as Ford Island plus those in Kāneohe Bay and off the eastern (windward) coast, its area is , making it the 20th-largest island in the United States. Well-known features of Oahu include Waikīkī, Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, Kāneohe Bay, Kailua Bay, and the North Shore. Name The Island of Oahu is often nicknamed (or translated as) "The Gathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave's World
''Dave's World'' is an American sitcom television series, created by Fred Barron, that aired on CBS from September 20, 1993, to June 27, 1997. The series is based on the writing of ''Miami Herald'' columnist Dave Barry. Plot The show focuses on the daily trials and tribulations of columnist Dave Barry (Harry Anderson) and his wife, Beth (DeLane Matthews), along with their sons, Tommy (Zane Carney) and Willie (Andrew Ducote). Dave worked at the Miami ''Record-Dispatch'' (a fictionalized version of the ''Miami Herald'', where Barry worked in real life), where Kenny Beckett ( Shadoe Stevens) was his editor, although Dave typically worked from home, where Mia (J.C. Wendel) was his assistant. Neighbor Sheldon Baylor (Meshach Taylor) was a successful plastic surgeon and Dave's best friend from high school. Starting in the second season, the Barrys hired Eric (Patrick Warburton) to do some work on their house, which led to Eric and Mia dating and eventually moving next door to the Barry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Of Thieves
''Sea of Thieves'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Xbox Game Studios. The player assumes the role of a pirate who completes voyages from different trading companies. The multiplayer game sees players explore an open world via a pirate ship from a first-person perspective. Players may encounter each other during their adventures, sometimes forming alliances, and sometimes going head-to-head. The concept of ''Sea of Thieves'' was conceived in 2014. Rare was inspired by players of PC games such as '' Eve Online'' (2003), '' DayZ'' (2018), and ''Rust'' (2018), who used the game tools to create their own stories. Rare explored different settings, such as vampires and dinosaurs, before settling on a pirate theme inspired by the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films and ''The Goonies'' (1985). The game features a progression system that only unlocks cosmetic items as the development team wanted to encourage both casual and experienced players to play t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Monkey Island
''Return to Monkey Island'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital in association with Lucasfilm Games. The sixth ''Monkey Island'' game, it was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on September 19, 2022, for Linux on October 26, 2022, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 8, 2022, and for iOS and Android on July 27, 2023. It was the first ''Monkey Island'' game by the series' creator, Ron Gilbert, since '' Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge'' (1991). Gilbert worked on the first two ''Monkey Island'' games before leaving the development company, LucasArts, in 1992. Further installments were developed by LucasArts and Telltale Games without him. The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights to ''Monkey Island'' when it purchased Lucasfilm in 2012; in 2019, Gilbert negotiated to create a new ''Monkey Island'' with the designer Dave Grossman, who had worked on the first two games. ''Return to Monkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeChuck's Revenge
''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge'' is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1991. Players control the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who searches for the legendary treasure of Big Whoop and faces the zombie pirate LeChuck. Like ''The Secret of Monkey Island'' (1990), development was led by Ron Gilbert with Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. ''Monkey Island 2'' was the sixth LucasArts game to use the SCUMM engine and the first to use the iMUSE sound system. ''Monkey Island 2'' was a critical success, but a commercial disappointment. It was followed by ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' in 1997. A remake was released in 2010, following a similar remake of the first game. In 2022, Gilbert released ''Return to Monkey Island'', set after the cliffhanger of ''Monkey Island 2''. Gameplay ''LeChuck's Revenge'' plays like most SCUMM-based point-and-click adventure games. Actions and dialogues are depicted on an Animation Window which covers the top of the screen; verbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
