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Richard Steinmetz
Richard Steinmetz is an American actor, best known for his role as Martin Fitzgerald on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera ''Passions''. Early life A native of Chicago, his was a police officer on the South Side. Steinmetz graduated from high school in Federal Way, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, and played professional soccer for the Portland Timbers. Career After playing professional soccer, he left for San Francisco and then moved to New York City, where he worked on stage for nearly 10 years. In addition to acting, Steinmetz coaches high-school football. His team, the Venice Gondoliers, made it to the City Championships last year, where they played in front of 40,000 people. Steinmetz made his daytime television debut in 1988 on the now-defunct ABC series ''Loving'' as Jeff Hartman, a role which he held for only a year. He had a major supporting role in the action-thriller 'Skyscraper', a 1996 direct-to-video film starring Anna Nicole Smith, where he played her scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = U.S. state, State , subdivision_type2 = List of counties in Illinois, Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook County, Illinois, Cook and DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Municipal corporation, Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council government, Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor of Chicago, Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liquid Dreams (film)
''Liquid Dreams'' is a 1991 American erotic thriller starring Candice Daly. ''Liquid Dreams'' had some cult film buzz, mainly due to the movie's slight comparisons to the 1983 film ''Videodrome''. The film was screened at the International Critics' Week of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Set in the near future, Eve Black (Daly) auditions successfully in a futuristic strip club A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or bar style, and can also adopt a theatre or cabaret-style. Am ... where a movie called ''Neurovid, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz'' is being filmed. Eve has a device put in her ears that turn white to star in a hot movie for her director Ceceil and becomes the latest star of ''Neurovid'' and is tested before being filmed. From here, she starts to solve the murder of her sister Tina. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose Place
''Melrose Place'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living in an apartment complex on Melrose Place, in West Hollywood, California. The show was created by Darren Star for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company, Spelling Television. It was the second series in the ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' franchise. Season one and season two were broadcast on Wednesday at 9 pm, after '' Beverly Hills, 90210''. In 1994, for its third-season and for the rest of its run, the show moved to Monday at 8 p.m. The show had many cast changes during the run. Thomas Calabro and Heather Locklear were the only cast members to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed No. 51 on ''Entertainment Weekly'' "New TV Classics" list. Premise The show is set in a small fictional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marker (TV Series)
''Marker'' is an American drama television series that premiered on UPN on January 17 and ended on May 16, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii. Synopsis The series' plot is about Richard DeMorra (played by Richard Grieco), a carpenter who travels to Hawaii to claim the estate of his estranged father after his father's death. Most of the father's estate was instead willed to his widow, Kimba ( Gates McFadden). To claim his share of the estate, DeMorra must travel and redeem "markers": tokens distributed by his father which correspond to good deeds. Many of these good deeds correspond to detective work, such as in the first episode, where DeMorra is asked to locate a surfer's missing sister. Cast * Richard Grieco as Richard DeMorra * Gates McFadden as Kimba *Andy Bumatai Andrew Jackson Bumatai (born December 24, 1953) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, television host and producer from Hawaii. He is of Native Hawaiian, Filipino, French and German ancestry. Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platypus Man
''Platypus Man'' is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from January 23 to May 15, 1995, during the network's first season.Carter, Bill (October 6, 1994). A New Network Hopes To Lure Fox Viewers. ''New York Times'' Starring comedian Richard Jeni, the television series was based on an hour-long HBO special of Jeni's filmed in 1992. The series lasted one season, with a total of thirteen episodes. ''Platypus Man'' premiered January 23, 1995. The concept of a "Platypus Man" (a solitary male, like the male platypus), the concept of a "cooking show for guys" and the scenes involving the main character's social life were drawn from Jeni's stand-up routines.O'Connor, John J. (January 30, 1995)Television Review; 2 New Sitcoms, 1 New Network.''New York Times'' The show, paired with ''Pig Sty'', followed '' Star Trek: Voyager'' on UPN's Monday schedule. Both ''Pig Sty'' and ''Platypus Man'' were canceled in July 1995. Origin In the early 1990s, Jeni developed a comedy routine where he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven (American TV Series)
''Raven'' is an American drama series that originally aired on CBS from June 19, 1992 to April 30, 1993. This hour-long action drama featured martial arts, adventure, humor, mystery and secret societies. Overview Jonathon Raven is a ninja-trained former Special Forces agent, retired in Hawaii to search for his long-lost son. Avoiding assassins sent to kill him by his former associates in the Black Dragon Clan, he uses his skills to help those in need. He is assisted by his former military buddy turned eccentric private investigator, Herman Jablonski. Plot When Jonathon Raven was twelve years old, his parents were killed by the Black Dragon. He trained with them for many years in the deadly martial arts with the hopes of mastering their lethal skill and then using it against them for vengeance. Although he succeeded in infiltrating them, the Black Dragon are many in number, and are now bent on destroying Raven's bloodline. His one true love, a beautiful Japanese woman named Ak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Commish
''The Commish'' is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC in the United States from September 28, 1991, to January 11, 1996. The series focuses on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in Eastbridge, New York. Premise The series stars Michael Chiklis as Anthony Joseph "Tony" Scali, a former NYPD detective who is now the police commissioner in the small fictional suburban New York town of Eastbridge, and tends to work through problems with humor and creativity more often than with violence or force. Theresa Saldana plays Rachel Scali (née Metzger), Tony's wife, and Kaj-Erik Eriksen plays their young son, David. Also living with the family in the first season was Rachel's freeloading brother, Arnie Metzger, played by David Paymer. A daughter, Sarah Lou, named after her maternal grandmother Sarah Metzger (Rachel's mother) and Lou Donello (an old friend and former partner of Tony's), and played by twins Justine and Dayna Cornborough, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law & Order
''Law & Order'' is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment, launching the '' Law & Order'' franchise. ''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering on September 13, 1990, and completing its 20th season on May 24, 2010. On September 28, 2021, after an 11-year hiatus, NBC announced that the series would be revived for a 21st season, which premiered on February 24, 2022. The revival saw the debut of new regular cast members and the reprisal of District Attorney Jack McCoy and Detective Kevin Bernard by series veterans Sam Waterston and Anthony Anderson, respectively. On May 10, 2022, the series was renewed by NBC for a 22nd season, which premiered on September 22, 2022. Set and filmed in New York City, the series follows a two-part approach: the first half-hour is the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and apprehension of a suspect by New York City Police Department detectives; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Live In The Grey
''They Live in the Grey'' is a 2022 American supernatural horror film, written and directed by Abel Vang and Burlee Vang. The film stars Michelle Krusiec, Ken Kirby, Madelyn Grace, J.R. Cacia, and Ellen Wroe. The movie was released via streaming service Shudder on February 17, 2022. Plot Claire Yang (Michelle Krusiec) a worker at CPS, and her police officer husband, Peter (Ken Kirby) spend a somber evening recounting the memory of their dead son. Claire is shown to be able to see ghosts, and even interact with them. Some ghosts end up physically harming her in some way, while others just yell or stare. She is shown to deal with them by using pills and sleeping in the closet among other things. She is called to the house of a potentially abused child, Sophie Lang (Madelyn Grace). While there she meets the parents, Audrey, a part-time travel agent and Giles, a realtor. Sophie, the daughter, has been showing up to school with various injuries that they first blame on skateboard f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (2014 Film)
''The Barber'' is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Basel Owies and starring Scott Glenn. It is Owies's feature directorial debut. Cast *Scott Glenn as Eugene Van Wingerdt / Francis Allen Visser *Chris Coy as John McCormack *Kristen Hager as Audrey Bennett *Stephen Tobolowsky as Chief Gary Hardaway *Max Arciniega as Luis Ramirez *Olivia Taylor Dudley as Kelli *Lydia Hearst as Melissa *Tim Dezam as Capt. Phil Baroni *Valorie Hubbard as Grace *Thomas Calabro as Thomas McCormack Release The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival on October 3, 2014. It was then released in limited theaters and on VOD on March 27, 2015. Reception The film has a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oktay Ege Kozak of IndieWire graded the film a D. Tirdad Derakhshani of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' awarded the film two and a half stars out of four. Dennis Harvey of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The One (2001 Film)
''The One'' is a 2001 American science fiction action film directed by James Wong, written by Wong and Glen Morgan, and starring Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, and Jason Statham. The film, which deals with the concept of multiverses and interdimensional travel, follows Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li), a rogue agent who travels to parallel realities in order for him to kill other versions of himself to become a mythical super-being known as "The One". Li plays a dual role as Yulaw and Gabe Law, an LASD deputy sheriff who teams up with a multiverse agent to prevent Yulaw from becoming the One. The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 2001, and received negative critical reviews but grossed $78,5 million worldwide. Plot Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li), once an agent of the MultiVerse Authority (MVA) which polices interdimensional travel, seeks to hunt down all variations of himself in alternate universes. By killing 124 versions of his other selves an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy/Beautiful
''Crazy/Beautiful'' (stylized as ''crazy/beautiful'') is a 2001 American teen romantic drama film starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. It is largely set at Palisades Charter High School and the surrounding area, including Downtown Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and East Los Angeles. Plot Carlos Nuñez is a 17-year-old Mexican-American teen who lives in East LA, but takes the bus two hours every day to attend school in the Pacific Palisades for a better education. A straight-A student, he has ambitions of attending the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming a pilot. On a day out with friends at the Santa Monica Pier, he meets Nicole Oakley, a classmate who is doing trash pickup at the beach as part of a DUI sentence. Nicole is the daughter of a US congressman and lives in the upscale Palisades, but she is rebellious, hard-partying, and has a strained relationship with her father. Her troubles stem from her mother’s suicide when she was young, as well as the feeling o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
