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My Giant
''My Giant'' is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Lehmann. The film stars Billy Crystal, who also produced and co-wrote the story for the film, and Romanian NBA player Gheorghe Mureșan in his debut film appearance. David Seltzer's script was inspired by Crystal's friendship with professional wrestler André the Giant, whom he had met during the filming of '' The Princess Bride''. Plot A struggling talent agent, Sammy Kamin, travels to Romania on business after splitting up with his wife. After his young client fires him, Sammy crashes his car and is rescued, while unconscious, by an enormous Romanian man named Max who is close to 8 feet tall. Sammy thinks the rescuer is God, as he can only see Max's giant hands. When Sammy wakes up, he initially thinks he is in Heaven, but is confused to find a statue of Jesus next to his bed, as he was raised Jewish. He then realizes Max has brought him to a monastery, where he was raised after being placed for adoption b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lehmann
Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director known for directing the dark comedy '' Heathers''. Early life and education In 1978, Lehmann graduated from Columbia University.Columbia College Today: "Michael Lehmann ’78: Satire and Subversion on the Silver Screen" By Jennifer Preissel November/December 2017 Lehmann is of descent. Career Lehmann's first job in the film industry was answering phones at |
André The Giant
André René Roussimoff (; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess human growth hormone. Beginning his career in 1966, Roussimoff relocated to North America in 1971. From 1973 to the mid-1980s, Roussimoff was booked by World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) promoter Vincent J. McMahon as a roving "special attraction" who wrestled for promotions throughout the United States, as well as in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. During the 1980s wrestling boom, Roussimoff became a mainstay of the WWWF (by then renamed the World Wrestling Federation), being paired with the Heel (professional wrestling), villainous manager Bobby Heenan and André the Giant–Hulk Hogan rivalry, feuding with Hulk Hogan. The two headlined WrestleMania III in 1987, and in 1988, he defeated H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond O'Connor (actor)
Raymond John O'Connor (September 13, 1952 - October 9, 2023) was an American character actor. Life and career Raymond John O’Connor was born September 13, 1952, in the Parkchester neighborhood of the borough of South Bronx in New York City. Born to a typical Irish Catholic family, his early life included attending Catholic schools and minor brushes with law enforcement. This path led Ray to attend Belmont Abbey College, a Benedictine monastery in North Carolina. Ray had no intentions of entering the monastery although it was a remarkable intellectual, emotional, and spiritual experience. During and after college he dabbled with many jobs including working as a hard rock miner, drilling and blasting 795 feet beneath New York. Ray flirted with theater in undergraduate school and began pursuing it more seriously in graduate school in the mid-1970’s eventually jumping into the deep end of the New York Theatre scene and finding his sea legs with the First Amendment Comedy group and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jere Burns
Jere Eugene Burns II (; born October 15, 1954) is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television. He played the roles of ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series '' Dear John'', DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton on the television series ''Burn Notice'', Jack on the sitcom '' Something So Right'', and Dixie Mafia middle-man Wynn Duffy on '' Justified''. Early life Jere Eugene Burns II was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of a gown and cap manufacturer. He attended the Browne & Nichols School and graduated in 1973. Burns was drawn to acting late in college. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1980, he moved to Manhattan and was cast in ''Don Juan'' at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Career Burns has appeared on Broadway; his Broadway theatre credits include ''Hairspray'' and '' After the Night and the Music''. Burns made his television debut in a small role on ABC's ''ABC Afterschool Special'' episode " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Roberts
Doris May Roberts ( Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. Roberts studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent film roles, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in '' The Honeymoon Killers'' (1970), Elliott Gould in '' Little Murders'' (1971), Steven Keats in '' Hester Street'' (1975), Billy Crystal in '' Rabbit Test'' (1978), Robert Carradine in '' Number One with a Bullet'' (1987), Cady McClain in ''Simple Justice'' (1989), among many others. She achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in NBC's '' Remington Steele'' from 1983 to 1987 and her co-starring role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the CBS sitcom '' Everybod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Castellaneta
Daniel Louis Castellaneta ( ; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series ''The Simpsons'' (as well as other characters on the show such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Mr. Teeny, Kodos, Itchy, and Barney Gumble). Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa in Nickelodeon's '' Hey Arnold!'', and has had voice roles in several other programs, including '' Futurama'', '' Sibs'', '' Darkwing Duck'', '' The Adventures of Dynamo Duck'', '' The Batman'', '' Back to the Future: The Animated Series'', '' Aladdin'', '' Earthworm Jim'', and '' Taz-Mania''. In 1999, he appeared in the Christmas special '' Olive, the Other Reindeer'' and won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman. Castellaneta released a comedy album '' I Am Not Homer'', and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled ''Where Did Vincent van Gogh?'' Early life Daniel Louis Caste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Lloyd
David Eric Lloyd Morelli (born May 19, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for work as a child actor in such roles as Charlie Calvin in Disney's ''The Santa Clause'' film trilogy and the follow-up series '' The Santa Clauses'', as well as "Little John" Warner in the NBC television series '' Jesse'', and Kyle Grant in '' Dunston Checks In''. Career His television career began when, between ages two and five, he was cast as a young Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) in episodes of ''The Wonder Years''. His film credits include '' Batman & Robin'', '' Dunston Checks In'', ''Deconstructing Harry'', '' My Giant'', '' The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars'', and '' The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue''. In 1996, the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' wrote, "Eric Lloyd is a few years shy of adolescence, but already he has the credentials of a veteran actor," stating that at that time his biggest role was in ''The Santa Clause'', but that his role in '' Dunston Checks In'' put him "back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease, thromboembolic disease, and venous thrombosis. The underlying mechanisms vary depending on the disease. It is estimated that dietary risk factors are associated with 53% of CVD deaths. Coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease involve atherosclerosis. This may be caused by high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes mellitus, lack of exercise, obesity, high blood cholesterol, poor diet, excessive alcohol consumption, and poor sleep, among other things. High blood pressure is estimated to account for approximately 13% of CVD deaths, while tobacco accounts for 9%, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Seagal
Steven Frederic Seagal ( ; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-Dan (rank), dan Black belt (martial arts), black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in ''Above the Law (1988 film), Above the Law'', which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences. He has appeared in over 50 films. By 1991, he had starred in three commercially successful films, and would go on to achieve greater fame in ''Under Siege'' (1992), where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback, a role he reprised in the sequel ''Under Siege 2: Dark Territory'' (1995). In 1994, he starred in his directorial debut film ''On Deadly Ground''. During the latter half of the 1990s, Seagal starred in thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of 21,899 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. A substantial percentage of its population is Native Americans in the United States, Native American, with residents from the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni people, Zuni tribes. Gallup is the county seat of McKinley County and the most populous city between Flagstaff, Arizona, Flagstaff and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque, along historic U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico, U.S. Route 66. Gallup is known as the "Heart of Indian Country" because it is on the edge of the Navajo reservation and is home to members of many other tribes, as well. The city is on the Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway (New Mexico), Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.Trail of the Ancients. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adoption
Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parents to the adoptive parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. Historically, some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption, while others used less formal means (notably contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities without an accompanying transfer of filiation). Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations. History Antiquity Adoption for the well-born While the modern form of adoption emerged in the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
