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Mystic Pizza
''Mystic Pizza'' is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Donald Petrie in his feature directorial debut, and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor. It follows the coming-of-age of three young Portuguese-American friends who work at a pizza parlor in a seaside Connecticut town. The film received positive reviews, with Roger Ebert declaring at the time, "I have a feeling that ''Mystic Pizza'' may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars. All of the young actors in this movie have genuine gifts." It marked Matt Damon's film debut. Plot Sisters Kat and Daisy Araújo, and their friend Josephina "JoJo" Barboza, are young Portuguese-American women working as waitresses at Mystic Pizza, a pizza parlor owned by Leona and her husband Vic in the fishing town of Mystic, Connecticut. JoJo is engaged to Bill but faints at their wedding because she gets cold feet. She wants to continue having sex with Bill unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Petrie
Donald Mark Petrie (born April 2, 1954) is an American film director and actor. Life and career Petrie was born in New York City, New York (state), New York, the son of Dorothea G. Petrie, Dorothea (née Grundy), a television producer, actor, and novelist, and Daniel Petrie, a director. He is the brother of writer Daniel Petrie Jr. Petrie began his entertainment career as an actor, having trained and graduated from California State Northridge as a theatre major. Petrie soon was appearing in many television episodes. In 1980, Petrie decided to shift his focus to directing when he was accepted as a Fellow at the American Film Institute. Petrie has acted and guest-starred on television programs since 1976. Filmography Film * ''Mystic Pizza'' (1988) * ''Opportunity Knocks (film), Opportunity Knocks'' (1990) * ''Grumpy Old Men (film), Grumpy Old Men'' (1993) * ''The Favor (1994 film), The Favor'' (1994) * ''Richie Rich (film), Richie Rich'' (1994) * ''The Associate (1996 film), Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige Damon ( ; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He was ranked among ''Forbes'' most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has received various List of awards and nominations received by Matt Damon, awards and nominations, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. Damon made his acting debut in the film ''Mystic Pizza'' (1988) before gaining prominence in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in ''Good Will Hunting'', which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. He established himself as a leading man by starring as Tom Ripley in ''The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), Jason Bourne in the Bourne (franchise), ''Bourne'' franchise (2002–2007; 2016), and Linus Caldw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stonington (borough), Connecticut
Stonington is a borough and the town center of Stonington, Connecticut, United States, referred to by locals as "The Borough". The population was 976 at the 2020 United States Census, up from 929 in 2010. The densely built Borough of Stonington occupies a point of land that projects into Little Narragansett Bay. It has two main streets that link Cannon Square and Wadawanuck Square, named for the former Wadawanuck Hotel that brought wealthy visitors in the post-Civil War era. Its colonial, Federal, and Greek revival architectures have been preserved through the lack of traffic or modern industry, together with the borough's role as a fashionable summer residence, while the activity of one of Connecticut's last remaining fishing and lobstering fleets keeps it from being simply a quaint, historic village. There is a large community of Portuguese descent. History On August 30, 1775, a ship's tender chased two small private sloops into Stonington Harbor during the American Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groton, Connecticut
Groton ( ) is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located on the Thames River (Connecticut), Thames River. It is the home of General Dynamics Electric Boat, which is the major contractor for submarine work for the United States Navy. The Naval Submarine Base New London is located in Groton, and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer is also a major employer. Avery Point in Groton is home to a regional campus of the University of Connecticut#Avery Point campus, University of Connecticut. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 38,411 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History Groton was established in 1705 when it separated from New London, Connecticut, New London. The town was named after Groton, Suffolk in England. A hundred years before it was established, the Niantic people settled in the area between the Thames River (Connecticut), Thames River an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystic Pizza Restaurant
A mystic is a person who practices mysticism, or a reference to a mystery, mystic craft, first hand-experience or the occult. Mystic may also refer to: Arts, entertainment Books and comics * Ms. Mystic, comic book superheroine * ''Mystic'' (comics), a CrossGen publication * ''Mystic Comics'', a Timely Comics publication Film and television * Mystics, a race shown in the film ''The Dark Crystal'' * ''The Mystic'', a 1925 film directed by Tod Browning * ''Mystics'' (film), a 2003 film directed by David Blair * ''Mystic'' (TV series), a 2020 television series based on the ''Pony Club Secrets'' series of books Music * Mystic Production, a record label from Poland * Mystic Records, a record label based in Oceanside, California, U.S. * Mystic (singer) (born 1974), hip hop singer from San Francisco, U.S. * "Mystic", song by Prodigy from ''Hegelian Dialectic'' * "Mystik", song by Tash Sultana from the album ''Flow State'' * The Mystics, a singing group which began in Brooklyn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Shepherd
Sadie Gertrude Stern (October 31, 1934 – November 17, 2023), known professionally as Suzanne Shepherd, was an American actress and theater director. Background Shepherd was born Sadie Gertrude Stern on October 31, 1934, to a Jewish family in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of Dora (Mendelson), a cook, and David Stern, a distributor of jukeboxes and vending machines. She began using the name "Suzanne" when she was 13. She attended Battin High School and Bennington College, and studied acting with Sanford Meisner. She later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so. Career Shepherd was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with Alan Alda and Alan Arkin. Shepherd was known for her portrayal of Aunt Tweedy in the film ''Mystic Pizza'', Karen's overbearing mother in the film '' Goodfellas'', Carmela Soprano's mother Mary DeAngelis in the HBO television series ''The Sopranos'', and the assistant school princi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Flood
Ann Flood (born Maryanne Elizabeth Ott; November 12, 1932 – October 7, 2022) was an American actress, best known for her role as journalist and author Nancy Pollock Karr in the soap opera ''The Edge of Night'', a role she began in 1962. Flood portrayed the show's heroine for 22 years, witnessing the show's transition from live to taped broadcasts and its move from CBS to ABC. Early years Flood was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ott. She graduated from Bay Shore High School with a scholarship in merchandising and buying to a junior college in New England, but a summer job changed her plans. She worked as a receptionist at a beach club where many of the members were actors who put on shows for the community. One of them invited her to take a small part in a play, and that sparked Flood's interest in acting. She took lessons from a dramatic coach and began to learn more about the profession from other actors. She said that changing her name f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Zarish
Janet Zarish (born April 21, 1954) is an American actress known for her work in television, movies and the theatre. She is Associate Arts Professor and Head of Acting of the Graduate Acting Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She received her B.F.A. at The Juilliard School under John Houseman. Career Zarish has appeared on and Off-Broadway, starring in ''Other People's Money'' at the Minetta Lane Theater and ''Miss Julie'' at the Roundabout Theatre. She appeared in soap operas as Natalie Bannon on ''As the World Turns'' in the early 1980s, and as Lee Halpern on ''One Life to Live'' from 1986 to 1988, and again from 2008 to 2009. She has also guest starred on ''Law & Order'', ''Forever'', ''New York Undercover'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Mad About You'', and ''Blue Bloods''. Zarish acted in a ''Seinfeld'' episode, "The Alternate Side,"; it was selected as one of Seinfeld's top ten episodes by ''Rolling Stone''. In film, she played supporting roles in ''Mystic Pizza'' and '' The Nex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Turenne
Louis Turenne (November 26, 1933 – 25 July 2006) was a Canadian actor. From 1977 to 1978, he played the role of Anthony Saxon on '' The Edge of Night''. Turenne was known for his work on the ''Babylon 5'' television series. He played the Minbari The list of ''Babylon 5'' characters contains characters from the entire ''Babylon 5'' universe. In the show, the Babylon station was conceived as a political and cultural meeting place. As such, one of the show's many themes is the cultural and ... Draal in the first season two-part episode " A Voice in the Wilderness". The producers later cast him in the recurring role of Brother Theo, the leader of a group of Catholic monks who came to live on the station. He also played "The Fireside Gourmet" in the 1988 coming-of-age film '' Mystic Pizza''. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Turenne, Louis 1933 births 2006 deaths Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Male actors from Montreal Male actors from Ontari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Merlin
Joanna Merlin (born JoAnn Delores Ratner; July 15, 1931 – October 15, 2023) was an American actress and casting director who worked with Stephen Sondheim and starred in the original Broadway production of ''Fiddler on the Roof''. She wrote two acting guides and was a faculty member of New York University's graduate acting program. From 2000 to 2011, she was known for her recurring role on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' as Judge Lena Petrovsky. Early life JoAnn Delores Ratner, who later took her mother's maiden name, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 15, 1931, to Toni Merlin and Harry Ratner, a Jewish grocer. Memim.com. Accessed October 2015. Her parents had immigrated to the United States from Russia. Her family also included her older sister, Harriet Glic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conchata Ferrell
Conchata Galen Ferrell (March 28, 1943 – October 12, 2020) was an American actress. She played Berta the housekeeper on the sitcom ''Two and a Half Men'' from 2003 to 2015, and she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the role (in 2005 and 2007). Ferrell had previously been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in ''L.A. Law'' (in 1992). Early life Conchata Galen Ferrell was born March 28, 1943, in Loudendale, West Virginia, Loudendale, West Virginia, to Mescal Loraine (née George) and Luther Martin Ferrell. She was raised in Charleston, West Virginia. Her family later moved to Circleville, Ohio. She attended West Virginia University for two years, dropped out, and after working several jobs, enrolled and graduated from Marshall University with a degree in history education. She made her first onstage performance at Marshall in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
