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Mindy Sterling
Mindy Lee Sterling (born July 11, 1953) is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has amassed multiple live action and voice-over credits across film and television. Her accolades include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In film, Sterling played Frau Farbissina in the ''Austin Powers'' series (1997–2002) and appeared in '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'' (1999), '' How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' (2000), '' All About Nina'' (2018), and '' Bobcat Moretti'' (2023). On television, she played Francine Briggs on the Nickelodeon series ''iCarly'' (2007–2012), Mitzi Kinsky on the ABC series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2010–2011), Susan Skidmore on the Disney Channel series '' A.N.T. Farm'' (2011–2013), Bobbie on the Vimeo series '' Con Man'' (2015–2017), and Linda Schwartz on the ABC series '' The Goldbergs'' (2017–2023). Sterling provided the voice of Miss Endive on the Cartoon Network series ''Chowder'' (2007–2010), Lin Beifong on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention Center. Founded in 1970, originally showcasing primarily comic books and science fiction/fantasy media, Comic-Con has grown to include a large range of popular culture, pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually all genres. According to ''Forbes'', Comic-Con is the "largest convention of its kind in the world". Since 2010, Comic-Con has filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with over 130,000 attendees. Comic-Con is home to the Eisner Awards, which recognizes creative achievement in American comic books, often referred to as the comic industry's equivalent to the Academy Awards. San Diego Comic Convention, Trade name, doing business as Comic-Con International, is the corporate name of the public-benefit nonprofit corporation behind Comic-Con. The corporation also organizes WonderCon, an annual convention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vimeo
Vimeo ( ) is an American Online video platform, video hosting, sharing, and services provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices and operates on a software as a service (SaaS) business model. The platform provides tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting along with enterprise software solutions and the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services. The site was initially built by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in 2004 as a skunkworks project of CollegeHumor, taking inspiration from the Image sharing, photo sharing site Flickr launched earlier that year by Ludicorp. The project was organized as a division of CollegeHumor's parent, Connected Ventures, a Startup company, startup formed by Ricky Van Veen, Josh Abramson, Lodwick and Klein. IAC Inc., IAC acquired a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shecky Greene
Shecky Greene (born Fred Sheldon Greenfield; April 8, 1926 – December 31, 2023) was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he became a headliner in the 1950s and 1960s. He appeared in several films, including '' Tony Rome''; '' History of the World, Part I''; and '' Splash''. In television, he guest-starred on such television shows as ''Love, American Style'' and '' Combat!'', and later ''Laverne & Shirley'' and '' Mad About You''. Early life and education Fred Sheldon Greenfield was born on April 8, 1926, to Jewish parents, Carl and Bessie Greenfield, and raised on the North Side of Chicago. In his youth, Greene enjoyed performing as a singer and in a drama club he formed while attending Sullivan High School. He emulated his older brother, who liked to speak in accents. During World War II, Greene served in the U.S. Navy for three years and was discharged in 1944. He was briefly, but more than once, enrolled ... [...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] |
The Grinch (film)
''The Grinch'', also known as ''Dr. Seuss' The Grinch'', is a 2018 American animated Christmas comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal. The third screen adaptation of Dr. Seuss' 1957 book '' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'', following the 1966 television special and the 2000 live-action feature-length film, it is Illumination's second Dr. Seuss film adaptation, after '' The Lorax'' in 2012. The plot follows the Grinch, who plans to stop Whoville's Christmas celebration by stealing all the town's decorations and gifts, with his pet dog Max. The film was directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, from a screenplay written by Michael LeSieur and Tommy Swerdlow. The film stars the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character, with Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Angela Lansbury, and Pharrell Williams, who serves as the narrator. The film was announced in 2013, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despicable Me 3
''Despicable Me 3'' is a 2017 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal. It is the sequel to '' Despicable Me 2'' (2013), the third main installment, and the fourth overall entry in the '' Despicable Me'' franchise. The film was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, co-directed by production and character designer Eric Guillon, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, from a screenplay by the writing team of Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. It stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Coffin, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Jenny Slate, Dana Gaier, Nev Scharrel, and Julie Andrews. In the film, Gru teams up with his long-lost twin brother Dru to stop Balthazar Bratt, a former child actor of the 1980s, from destroying Hollywood after his show was canceled years ago. Development on a third main ''Despicable Me'' film began in 2013 with Coffin returning as director alongside Balda. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsters University
''Monsters University'' is a 2013 American animated Coming-of-age film, coming-of-age comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. A prequel to ''Monsters, Inc.'' (2001), it was directed by Dan Scanlon (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Kori Rae, and written by Scanlon and the writing team of Dan Gerson and Robert L. Baird. John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich served as the film's executive producers. The music for the film was composed and conducted by Randy Newman, making it his seventh collaboration with Pixar. ''Monsters University'' tells the story of the main characters of ''Monsters, Inc.'', James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, and their experience in college leading to them becoming best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson (filmmaker), Bob Peterson and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz and the Abominable Snowm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha And Omega (film)
''Alpha and Omega'' is a 2010 American animated romantic adventure film directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck. Starring the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover and Christina Ricci, the film was written by Christopher Denk and Steve Moore, based on a story by Moore and Gluck. The film sets around two young Rocky Mountain wolves named Kate (Panettiere) and Humphrey (Long) who fall in love with each other, but are on the opposite ends of their pack. However, when Kate and Humphrey learn that they got relocated to Idaho for repopulation, they must work together to get back to Jasper National Park before a war slowly begins to emerge between both packs. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2010, and was released nationwide in 2-D and 3-D on September 17, 2010, by Lionsgate Films. ''Alpha and Omega'' was a box-office success, grossing $50.5 million against a budget of $20 million, but received genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winx Club
''Winx Club'' is an animated television series co-produced by Rainbow S.p.A., Rainbow and, later, Nickelodeon. It was created and directed by Italian animator Iginio Straffi. It premiered on 28January 2004, becoming a ratings success in Italy and on Nickelodeon networks internationally. The show is set in a magical universe that is inhabited by fairies, witches, and other mythical creatures. The main character is List of Winx Club characters#Bloom, Bloom, a teenage girl from planet Earth who discovers she is a fairy and enrolls at Alfea College to train and hone her magical skills. At Alfea, she makes friends with four other fairies with whom she founds a group called the Winx Club, and together, they fight a long series of enemies who threaten the Magic Dimension, discovering in the process her true origins and the fate of her biological family. The series uses a Serial (radio and television), serial format with an ongoing storyline. Iginio Straffi initially outlined the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Korra
''The Legend of Korra'' (abbreviated as ''TLOK'' and also known as ''Avatar: The Legend of Korra'' or more rarely simply as ''Korra'') is an American animated Fantasy television, fantasy action drama television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon. It is a sequel to their previous series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (2005–2008), and ran for 52 episodes ("chapters") across four seasons ("books") from April 14, 2012, to December 19, 2014. It has since continued as a The Legend of Korra (comics), comic book series. Like its predecessor, the series is set in a World of Avatar: The Last Airbender, fictional universe where certain people can telekinesis, telekinetically manipulate, or "bend", one of the Classical element, four elements: water, earth, fire, or air. Only one individual, the "Avatar", can bend all four elements, and is responsible for maintaining balance in the world. The series follows Avatar Korra, the successor and reincar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Beifong
is a fictional major character, voiced by Mindy Sterling, in Nickelodeon's animated television series ''The Legend of Korra'', which aired from 2012 to 2014. The character and the series, a sequel to '' Avatar: The Last Airbender'', were created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Lin's mother, Toph Beifong, greatly aided the previous avatar, Aang, in his efforts to save the Earth Kingdom from destruction. Lin is the older of Toph's two daughters. Character overview Lin Beifong is the Chief of Police of Republic City and the daughter of Toph Beifong, who once held the same position. Like her mother, Lin is able to both manipulate the classical element of earth, which is known as earthbending and its sub-ability to manipulate metal, which is termed metalbending. Like Toph, Lin also has the ability to sense movements around her through mechanoreception. She learned these techniques under the hard tutelage of her mother. Despite the fact that her mother was friends wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chowder (TV Series)
''Chowder'' is an American comedy animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Cartoon Network. It premiered on November 2, 2007, and ended on August 7, 2010, after three seasons with a total of 49 episodes. The series follows an aspiring young boy named Chowder and his day-to-day adventures as an apprentice in Chef Mung Daal's catering company. Although he means well, Chowder often finds himself in predicaments due to his perpetual appetite and his nature as a scatterbrain. Chowder's guidance in his goal to become a master chef is influenced by Mung's wife, Truffles; Mung's assistant Shnitzel; Mung's rival Ms. Endive; her apprentice Panini, who has a perpetual crush on Chowder; as well as other side characters. The show had one win and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards as well as six nominations at the Annie Awards. Premise The series revolves around the titular Chowder, who works as an apprentice to chef Mung Daal at his catering company. Though he i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
