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Marie Masters
Marie Masters (born Marie Mastruserio; February 4, 1941) is an American actress, writer, and director. She is known for playing the role of Dr. Susan Stewart (As the World Turns), Susan Stewart on the CBS Daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns'' (1968 to 1979, 1986 to 2010). She also worked as a staff writer on ''ATWT'', beginning in 2001. She has directed theatrical productions and worked as an assistant director on Broadway shows. She was the assistant artistic director for The New Group, a nonprofit theater company. Early life Masters was born on February 4, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was raised in Mount Auburn Historic District, Mount Auburn. When she was ten years old, she attended her first play, a summer stock production, and became interested in acting. She was educated at St. George grade school and graduated from Our Lady of Angels St. Bernard in 1959. Masters attended Marian College (Indiana), Marian College in Indiana after receiving a scholarship to study art his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio River, Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. It is the List of cities in Ohio, third-most populous city in Ohio and List of united states cities by population, 66th-most populous in the U.S., with a population of 309,317 at the 2020 census. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the Metropolitan statistical area, nation's 30th-largest, with over 2.3 million residents. Throughout much of the 19th century, Cincinnati was among the Largest cities in the United States by population by decade, top 10 U.S. cities by population. The city developed as a port, river town for cargo shipping by steamboats, located at the crossroads of the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trojan Women
''The Trojan Women'' (, lit. "The Female Trojans") is a tragedy by the Ancient Greece, Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE. Also translated as ''The Women of Troy,'' or as its transliterated Greek title ''Troades, The Trojan Women'' presents commentary on the costs of war through the lens of women and children. The four central women of the play are the same that appear in the final book of the ''Iliad,'' lamenting over the corpse of Hector after the Trojan War. ''Hecuba (play), Hecuba'', another tragedy by Euripides, similarly deals with the experiences of women left behind by war and was more popular in antiquity. The tragedy has inspired many modern adaptation across film, literature, and the stage. Historical background Scholar Neil Croally believes that ''The Trojan Women'' was written as a reaction to the Siege of Melos#:~:text=Athens invaded Melos in the,enslaved the women and children., Siege of Melos in 416 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, in which At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide (magazine)
''TV Guide'' is an American biweekly magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes. The print magazine's operating company, TV Guide Magazine LLC, is owned by NTVB Media since 2015. The magazine was spun off from TV Guide in 2008 by then-owner Macrovision to OpenGate Capital for $1 and a $9.5 million loan. ''TV Guide Magazine'' has a license to use the TV Guide name and distinctive red and white logo in print publications only; it is prohibited from using the branding or logo online. While the TV Guide trademark and other intellectual property is owned by Fandom, Inc., the ''TV Guide'' name and editorial content from the magazine are licensed by Fandom for use on the magazine's promotional website and mobile app. History Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide'' magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scream For Help
''Scream for Help'' is a 1984 British horror film directed by Michael Winner, written by Tom Holland, and starring Rachael Kelly, David Brooks, and Marie Masters. Set in New Rochelle, New York, the film follows a teenage girl who discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but her repeated claims of her findings are disbelieved by those around her. Former Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones composed the musical score. Plot In New Rochelle, New York, Christie, a teenage girl, discovers that her stepfather Paul is trying to murder her and her mother Karen for her money, but when she tries to tell other people about it, no one will believe her. After a maintenance worker dies in the basement, Christie believes Paul set the trap for her mother after she saw him leave the basement the previous night. Christie begins following Paul everywhere and discovers he is having an affair with a young attractive woman named Brenda. She is caught by Brenda's brother Lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. Unlike its sister networks TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV, TCM does not carry any sports cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films, such as ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), '' Cross Creek'' (1983), '' Jagged Edge'' (1985), ''Bitter Moon'' (1992), ''Kika'' (1993), '' Patch Adams'' (1998), ''Erin Brockovich'' (2000), '' A Walk to Remember'' (2002), and ''Femme Fatale'' (2002). His voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He narrated the PBS series '' The Pacific Century'' (1992), winning an Emmy. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burnss documentary miniseries '' The Roosevelts: An Intimate History''. Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love. Early life Coyote was born Robert Peter Cohon on October 10, 1941, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slayground
''Slayground'' is a 1983 British crime thriller film directed by Terry Bedford and starring Peter Coyote, Mel Smith and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay was by Trevor Preston, adapted from ''Slayground'', the 14th Parker novel (1971) by Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark). Cast * Peter Coyote as Stone * Mel Smith as Terry Abbatt * Billie Whitelaw as Madge * Philip Sayer as Costello * Bill Luhrs as Joe Sheer * Marie Masters as Joni * Clarence Felder as Orxel * Ned Eisenberg as Lonzini * David Hayward as Laufman * Michael M. Ryan as Danard * Barrett Mulligan as Lucy * Kelli Maroney as Jolene * Margareta Arvidssen as Grete * Rosemary Martin as Dr. King * Malcolm Terris as Venner * Jon Morrison as Webb * Cassie Stuart as Fran * Debby Bishop as Beth * Stephen Yardley as Turner * P. H. Moriarty as Seeley * Zig Byfield as Sams * Erick Ray Evans as Malpas * Bill Dean as compére * Ozzie Yue as waiter * Tony Devon as Joey Production The film was developed by Barry Spikins when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via Prospect Park (production company), Prospect Park from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. ''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying the series' protagonist Victoria Lord in March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Crossing
''King's Crossing'' is an American nighttime soap opera which aired on ABC from January 16 to February 27, 1982 for seven episodes. The show was originally conceived by Lorimar Productions as a retooling of the cancelled CBS drama '' Secrets of Midland Heights'', however it ended up completely unrelated from its predecessor, with only Linda Hamilton, Doran Clark, Marilyn Jones and Daniel Zippi returning as completely different characters. Series overview The show centered on the Hollister family, who had returned to the small town of King's Crossing, California, which they had left ten years earlier. The family consisted of Paul (Bradford Dillman), a recovering alcoholic hoping for a fresh start as an English professor at the town's college, his long-suffering wife Nan (Mary Frann), their two daughters, Carey (Jones), who becomes involved with stablehand Billy (Zippi), and Lauren (Hamilton), an aspiring pianist who falls in love with her piano teacher, symphony conductor Jonath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here's Boomer
''Here's Boomer'' is an American Adventure (genre), adventure/Drama (film and television), drama television series produced by Paramount Television that premiered on the NBC network on March 14, 1980. A television film called ''A Christmas for Boomer'' aired on December 6, 1979, and served as the Television pilot, pilot. A Spin-off (media), spin-off of the live-action series ''The Red Hand Gang'', the show follows the adventures of the titular stray dog, "Boomer" and ran for two seasons, ending its run on August 14, 1982, with the final original episode, "Flatfoots," airing on July 3 of that year. Synopsis The series followed the adventures of Boomer, a stray dog that traveled around helping people in trouble. The part of Boomer in all of the shows was played by a four-year-old mongrel named Johnny, who was trained by Ray Berwick. One early title considered for the series was ''Here's Johnny'', after the dog who played the part, but was rejected owing to the use of that catch-ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate & Allie
''Kate & Allie'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as two divorced mothers who decide to live together and raise their children in the same home. The series was created by Sherry Coben. Overview The show stars Susan Saint James as the free-spirited Kate McArdle and Jane Curtin as her more conservative childhood friend, Allie Lowell. After both women divorce, they decide to share a brownstone in New York City's Greenwich Village and raise their families together. The show also starred Ari Meyers as Kate's daughter Emma, and Frederick Koehler and Allison Smith as Allie's children Chip and Jennie. Both Kate and Allie were portrayed as independent, smart women. Kate and Allie dated men regularly and were shown as wise to romantic games, but not averse to remarrying if the opportunity presented itself. ''Kate & Allie'' first aired on CBS as a mid-season replacement series a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Stewart (As The World Turns)
Daniel "Dan" Stewart (born James "Jimmy" Lowell) is a fictional character from the daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns''. Storylines Viewers saw Dan's beginnings as Jimmy Lowell, and watched as Ellen, a young single mother, gave up Jimmy for adoption. After Dan's adoptive mother died, his birth mother married his adoptive father, David Stewart, and mother and son were reunited. Dan was married to heroines Liz Talbot and Kim Reynolds, as well as the more villainous Susan Burke. A love quadrangle with Dan, Susan, Liz and Dan's brother Paul was a cornerstone of the show's storylines for many years. The character of Dan died of a brain tumor. Dan's daughters, Emily Stewart and Betsy Stewart, figured prominently into subsequent stories on ''As the World Turns ''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created ''As the World Turns'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
