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Prime (2005 Film)
''Prime'' is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, and Bryan Greenberg. It was written and directed by Ben Younger. The film grossed $67,937,503 worldwide. Plot Rafi is a recently divorced, 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan who becomes romantically involved with David, a talented 23-year-old painter from the Upper West Side. Rafi shares all her secrets with her therapist Lisa who, unbeknownst to Rafi, is David's mother. Lisa is supportive of Rafi's relationship with a younger man before she learns who he is, discovers the connection and finds herself not only faced with the ethical and moral dilemma of counselling David's girlfriend, but also the reality that she feels differently about the relationship now that she knows her son is involved. Lisa consults her own therapist, and they decide that it is in the best interest of her patient Rafi for Lisa to continue treatment, as long as the relationship remains the "fling" it appears to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Younger
Ben Younger (born October 7, 1972) is an American screenwriter and film director. Biography Early life and career Younger was born in Brooklyn, and raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household in Eltingville, Staten Island and in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. He attended a yeshiva, before entering Queens College, part of the City University of New York, where he studied political science. While at university, he started performing comedy. After leaving university, he set his sights on a career in politics, taking on a role as a policy analyst for the New York City comptroller's office, where he served as a legislative aide to Alan Hevesi. After that, he successfully managed the State Assembly campaign for Queens Democrat Melinda Katz, becoming, at 21, the city's youngest ever campaign manager. Despite his success, Younger became disenchanted with politics, and by 1995 started to seek a creative outlet that would rekindle the excitement he felt as a stand-up comedian. He wrote and direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Parisse
Anne Marie Cancelmi (born July 31, 1975), known professionally as Annie Parisse, is an American actress. She portrayed Alexandra Borgia on the drama series ''Law & Order''. Parisse has also starred as Julia Snyder on the soap opera ''As the World Turns'', for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. Early life Parisse was born in Anchorage, Alaska, the daughter of Annette, a teacher, and Louis G. Cancelmi, a senior executive with Alaska Airlines. She has Italian, Slovak and Syrian ancestry. Her brother Louis is also an actor. Louis is married to Elisabeth Waterston, a daughter of ''Law & Order'' veteran Sam Waterston. Parisse grew up in Mercer Island, Washington, and attended Mercer Island High School. Parisse moved to New York City when she was 18 to attend Fordham University, where she majored in theater and appeared in numerous productions, including ''Medea'' and '' Antigone'', both of which featured her as the lead. Career Television and film Parisse join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and cast recording, original cast recordings. It aims to reissue rare or unavailable albums, as well as newer releases by artists no longer under a contract. The label's name was derived from combining French-born composer Edgard Varèse's last name with the musical term sarabande, a slow Spanish dance. As of February 2018, Varèse operates as a division of Concord Music Group's Craft Recordings label. History Varèse Sarabande's roots trace back to 1972, with the introduction of a predecessor imprint called Varèse International. The first LP release was "Lumiere" by Dub Taylor. Varèse International Records was originally conceived as an avant garde classical label. In the years that followed, under the management of the founder–owners, Dub Taylor and Chris Kuchler, the label expanded its catalogue to include jazz, classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Music
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely a symphony orchestra) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer. The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre, television and radio programs, and video games, and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unscripted
''Unscripted'' is an American comedy drama series that aired on HBO in early 2005. The series was largely improvised by its performers. It was executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov. ''Unscripted'' is the second HBO series Clooney and Soderbergh collaborated on that has an improvisational structure, after '' K Street''. Clooney directed the first five episodes and Heslov directed the last five episodes. Synopsis ''Unscripted'' follows the misadventures of three struggling actors, who are all in the same acting class in Los Angeles, California, as they make the rounds from auditions to rejection and from personal struggle and to satisfaction. The three all play themselves, as the show blends fact with fiction as a movie/show within a show. It features many cameo appearances from stars playing themselves either in projects they're involved in, or involved in a social function, such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Noah Wyle, Hank Azaria, Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and film producer. The List of highest-paid film actors, highest-paid actress of 2010 and 2014, Sandra Bullock filmography, Bullock's filmography spans both comedy and drama, and List of awards and nominations received by Sandra Bullock, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was named one of Time 100, ''Time''s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. After making her acting debut with a minor role in the thriller ''Hangmen (film), Hangmen'' (1987), Bullock received early attention for her supporting role in the action film ''Demolition Man (film), Demolition Man'' (1993). Her breakthrough in the action thriller ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'' (1994) led to leading roles in the romantic comedy ''While You Were Sleeping (film), While You Were Sleeping'' (1995), and the dramas ''A Time to Kill (1996 film), A Time to Kill'' (1996) and ''Hope Floats'' (1998). She achieved furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ato Essandoh
Ato Essilfi Bracato Essandoh (born July 29, 1972) is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in numerous films and TV series, including a major role in the 2023 Netflix political drama series '' The Diplomat''. Early life and education Ato Essilfi Bracato Essandoh was born in Schenectady, New York, on July 29, 1972, the eldest child of Ebow and Monica Essandoh, from Ghana. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1990. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. He first joined theater when he was dared to do so by a girlfriend. He studied acting under James Price at The Acting Studio - New York in New York City. Career In 2020 Essandoh launched a podcast, ''Unrelated'', together with childhood friend Chris Cecot, in which they discuss how race and color shaped their experiences growing up. in the same year, he played an African-British-Jewish astronaut in the 2020 Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Dollar
Aubrey Dollar is an American actress. She is known for playing Marina Cooper on the CBS daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light'' from 2001 to 2004. Dollar has also starred in the television series '' Point Pleasant'' (2005–2006), '' Women's Murder Club'' (2007–2008), '' Battle Creek'' (2015), and '' Filthy Rich'' (2020). Life and career Aubrey Dollar was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and studied at Needham B. Broughton High School, where she was a classmate of fellow actor Colin Fickes. She attended Boston University and Amherst College. Her younger sister, Caroline, is also an actress. From 2001 to 2004, Dollar played Marina Cooper in the soap opera, ''Guiding Light''. She is known for her roles as Judy Kramer in '' Point Pleasant'', a 2005 series on Fox, and as Marcy Bender in ''Dawson's Creek''. From 2007 to 2008, Dollar starred as Cindy Thomas on the ABC television series '' Women's Murder Club''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zak Orth
Adam Zachary Orth (born October 15, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in ''Wet Hot American Summer'', ''The Baxter'', '' Melinda and Melinda'', '' In and Out'', ''Music and Lyrics'', and ''NYC 22''. He also starred in the NBC television drama ''Revolution'' as Aaron. Early life and education Orth was born Adam Zachary Orth in Libertyville, Illinois, the son of Jane (Oehms), a piano teacher, and Robert Orth, an opera singer. Orth is an alumnus of The Theatre School at DePaul University. Career He is a good friend of the members of the comedy group Stella and has appeared in many of their short films, as well as their 2005 TV series. He is also known for his brief role in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Romeo + Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet or Romeo & Juliet may also refer to: Ballets * ''Romeo and Juliet'', a ballet score by Constant Lambert * Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), ''Romeo and Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Belack
Doris Belack (February 26, 1926 – October 4, 2011) was an American character actress of stage, film and television. Early years Born on February 26, 1926, Belack was the younger child of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Isaac and Bertha Belack; she had an older sister. Life and career Belack began her acting career immediately after she graduated from high school when she began performing in a summer stock theater company. She has sometimes been misidentified as the first Bernice Fish, the wife to Abe Vigoda's character Fish on ''Barney Miller''. She was actually only a one-episode replacement for actress Florence Stanley, who played the role. Before that, Belack was seen mainly in soap operas. She originated the role of Anna Wolek Craig for nearly a decade on ''One Life to Live''. She also appeared in '' Another World'' (three different roles over several years), '' The Doctors'' (1980, as psychiatrist Dr. Claudia Howard), and ''The Edge of Night'' (1981, as Beth Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
