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Punchline (film)
''Punchline'' is a 1988 American comedy-drama film written and directed by David Seltzer and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Its story follows a talented young comic as he helps a housewife who wants to break into stand-up comedy. It stars Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, and Mark Rydell. The film was produced by Daniel Melnick and Michael I. Rachmil and was released on October 7, 1988. It grossed $21.0 million in the United States and Canada, against a budget of $15 million. It received generally mixed reviews and has a 57% approval rating based on 21 votes on Rotten Tomatoes. Plot Steven Gold is a struggling medical student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. It quickly becomes evident that he is lousy at the former and excels at the latter. And yet, when he is given a chance at the big time, he cracks under the pressure. Lilah is a dedicated housewife who yearns to be a comic. She has the raw talent but does not have the command of the craft that Steven possesses. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Seltzer
David Seltzer (born February 12, 1940) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for ''The Omen'' (1976) and ''Bird on a Wire (film), Bird on a Wire'' (1990). As writer-director, Seltzer's credits include the 1986 teen tragi-comedy ''Lucas (1986 film), Lucas'' starring Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder, the 1988 comedy ''Punchline (film), Punchline'' starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks, and 1992's ''Shining Through'' starring Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas. Early life David Seltzer was born to a Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, Highland Park, Illinois in 1940. Career He was uncredited for his contributions to the screenplay of the 1971 musical film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original book, Roald Dahl, is credited as the sole screenwriter; however, it has been revealed that Seltzer rewrote 30 percent of Dahl's script, adding such elem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Greist
Kim Greist (born May 12, 1958) is a retired American actress and model. Her credits include '' C.H.U.D.'' (1984), ''Miami Vice'' (1985), ''Brazil'' (1985), '' Manhunter'' (1986), ''Throw Momma from the Train'' (1987), '' Punchline'' (1988), '' Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey'' (1993), ''Roswell'' (1994) ''Houseguest'' (1995), and ''Judging Amy'' (2001). Career Greist trained for the stage and spent some of her late teenage years as a professional model in Europe. She then returned to the United States at age 20 and launched her acting career in the off-Broadway comedy ''Second Prize: Two Months in Leningrad'' in 1983. Her later stage credits included appearances in the New York Shakespeare Festival. Greist's first film appearance was in the horror film '' C.H.U.D.'' (1984). In 1985, she made a guest appearance in the 1985 ''Miami Vice'' episode "Nobody Lives Forever" (S01E21), and also starred alongside Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm in the Terry Gilliam f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Essman
Susan Essman (born May 31, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, producer and writer. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene on ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' (2000–2024), as the voice of Mittens in '' Bolt'' (2008), and as Bobbi Wexler on ''Broad City'' (2009–2011). Early life Essman was born on May 31, 1955 in The Bronx, New York City, and was raised in the suburb of Mount Vernon. Her father, Leonard Essman, was an internist and clinical oncologist. Her mother, Zora (née Pressman), taught Russian at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the great-granddaughter of silent film actor and Russian opera impresario Leo Feodoroff. Essman is Jewish; her grandparents emigrated from Russia and Poland. Career Performing Essman has been traveling and appearing at clubs throughout the country for more than three decades. In 1988, she appeared on HBO with Joy Behar and other rising female comedians on ''On Location: Women of the Night II''. On January 5, 1989, she was a guest on '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sohmer
Steve Sohmer (born June 26, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American author, former network television and motion picture studio executive, television writer and producer, and Shakespearean scholar. In 1966, his first novel, ''The Way It Was'' was published by Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster. The book received positive reviews and was chosen by ''The New York Times'' as one of the twenty best novels of the year. In 1967, Sohmer was named creative director of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. In 1972, Sohmer left the Bureau to establish his own media promotion firm in partnership with The Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company. For the next five years the New York-based company created slide and film sales presentations for media clients. In 1977, Sohmer was named Vice President, Marketing and Promotion, of the CBS Television Network. Sohmer supervised the marketing of CBS Entertainment, CBS News and CBS Sports. Sohmer's promotion lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unfaithfully Yours (1984 Film)
''Unfaithfully Yours'' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, starring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski and featuring Armand Assante and Albert Brooks. The screenplay was written by Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, and Robert Klane based on Preston Sturges' screenplay for the 1948 film of the same name. The original music score is by Bill Conti and the song "Unfaithfully Yours (One Love)" was written for the film and performed by Stephen Bishop. Plot Claude Eastman is a composer and the conductor of a prestigious symphony who has recently married beautiful Daniella, a much younger woman. While traveling, he sends a message to his friend Norman Robbins to keep an eye on his wife, but the message is garbled by Claude's Italian valet Giuseppe, and Norman hires a private detective named Keller to investigate Daniella. The private eye's report, which comes with a fuzzy video, is that Daniella had an assignation with a man who, by wearing Argyle socks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Zieff
Howard Burton Zieff (October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009) (pronounced Zeef) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer. Early life Zieff was born to Jewish parents in Chicago, Illinois, then moved to Los Angeles, CA. with his family.Mel Heimer. "Zany TV commercials do so sell goods," ''The Titusville Herald'' (Pennsylvania), November 11, 1969, page 5. Career He studied art for one year at Los Angeles City College, then dropped out in 1946 to join the United States Navy. He learned photography at the Naval Photography School in Pensacola, Florida and then, after his discharge, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He became a commercial photographer in New York City in the 1950s, earning a reputation in the 1960s as one of the city's best-known advertising photographers. His campaigns included "You Don't Have To Be Jewish" for Levy's rye bread, "Mamma Mia, that's a spicy meatball" for Alka-Seltzer, and ads for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame (1980 Film)
''Fame'' is a 1980 American teen musical drama film directed by Alan Parker and written by Christopher Gore. Set in New York City, it chronicles the lives and hardships of students attending The High School of Performing Arts, from their auditions to their freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years. Producer David De Silva conceived the premise in 1976, partially inspired by the musical ''A Chorus Line''. He commissioned playwright Gore to write the script, originally titled ''Hot Lunch'', before selling it to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). After he was hired to direct the film, Parker rewrote the script with Gore, aiming for a darker and more dramatic tone. The script's subject matter received criticism by the New York Board of Education, which prevented the production from filming in the actual High School of Performing Arts. The film was shot on location in New York City, with principal photography beginning in July 1979 and concluding after 91 days. Parker encountered a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Sander
Clinton O. "Casey" Sander (born July 6, 1955 or 1956) is an American actor known as the character "Captain" Jimmy Wennick on the short-lived TV series '' Tucker''. His television credits also include ''Criminal Minds'', ''The Golden Girls'', '' Grace Under Fire'', ''Home Improvement'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', '' Rules of Engagement'', ''Sons of Anarchy'', ''Mad Men'', ''Silicon Valley'', '' The Newsroom'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Hunter'', NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and '' Marvin Marvin'', among other shows. He more recently had a recurring role on the TV sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' as Bernadette's father, Mike, and also appeared in four episodes of '' The Ranch'' as Roger Hollister. Early and personal life Sander was born in Washington, D.C. His father was an Air Force lieutenant colonel. While attending Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, as sophomore, he played shortstop on the school's baseball team. In his senior year, he was a 10th round draft p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Salazar
Ángel Salazar (March 2, 1956 – August 11, 2024) was a Cuban-American comedian and actor. He was known for saying "Sheck it out" ("check it out") before, during, and after jokes. As an actor, he was best known for his role as ''Chi-Chi'' in the 1983 film '' Scarface''. Early life Salazar was born in Cuba in 1956. He left the country as a teenager, swimming to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and eventually settling in New York City. Career Salazar first began performing stand-up comedy when he was eighteen, debuting his "check it out" line in his first open-mic appearance, and soon went on to acting. In his most famous role, he played Chi Chi in '' Scarface'' (1983); his other film credits included '' Punchline'' (1988) and '' Carlito's Way'' (1993). Salazar also appeared on ''Last Comic Standing'' and many HBO Comedy specials. His last film he was shooting was ''The Brooklyn Premiere'' aka "ScarFace Resurrection" by Brooklyn-born director Eric Spade Rivas, which had him reunite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candace Cameron Bure
Candace Helaine Cameron Bure (; Cameron; born April 6, 1976) is an American actress and talk show panelist. She is known for portraying D.J. Tanner on ''Full House'' and its sequel series ''Fuller House (TV series), Fuller House'', and a number of roles in Hallmark Channel original productions—including the title character in their adaptations of the Aurora Teagarden novel series. In 2014, she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) season 18, season 18 of ''Dancing with the Stars (American TV series), Dancing with the Stars'', finishing in third place. Bure also starred as Summer van Horne on ''Make It or Break It''. From 2015 to 2016, she was a co-host of the daytime television talk show ''The View (talk show), The View''. In 2022, Bure became chief content officer of Great American Media. Early life Candace Cameron was born to parents Robert, a schoolteacher, and Barbara Cameron, who managed Cameron and her siblings' acting careers, on April 6, 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
