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Rodger Boyce
Rodger Boyce is an American character actor who has appeared in more than a dozen feature films, including Best Picture Oscar winner No Country for Old Men' one of three films he has done with Tommy Lee Jones (the others includin''The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada''an''The Good Old Boys''. Other notable feature film appearances include ''Where the Heart Is (2000 film), Where the Heart Is'', ''A Perfect World'' and Lone Star State of Mind'. He has also appeared in some 25 made-for-television movies. In addition, his television work has included episodic appearances in TV series ranging from ''Dallas'', Dangerous Curves' and The Big Easy' to Walker, Texas Ranger', ''Roughriders'', The Good Guys' and even Wishbone'. Rodger began his acting career in theater, and he has occasionally returned to the stage, appearing in summer stock and regional theater productions. A graduate of Texas Tech University where he majored in journalism and English, Rodger is a native Texan and form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Picture Oscar
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the Film producer, producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is traditionally the final award of the night and is widely considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. There have been 611 films nominated for Best Picture and 97 winners. History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Girls (1994 Film)
''Bad Girls'' is a 1994 American Western film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and written by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner. It stars Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore. The film follows four former prostitutes on the run following a justifiable homicide and prison escape, who later encounter difficulties involving bank robbery and Pinkerton detectives. The film was originally conceived as a feminist Western and a low-budget independent film, until producers Albert Ruddy and André Morgan brought in 20th Century Fox. The involvement of a major studio substantially increased the film's budget and necessitated the casting of big-name actresses. Principal photography began in July 1993 in Sonora, California with director Tamra Davis at the helm, but shortly into filming, producers fired Davis and reconceptualized the movie to be more of an action film. Jonathan Kaplan was hired to replace Davis. ''Bad Girls'' opened in North American the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor (film)
''Windsor'' is a 2015 American independent drama film written, directed and produced by Porter Farrell and starring Madelyn Deutch, Quinn Shephard, Nick Krause, Adam Hicks, Peyton Clark, Ian Colletti and Barry Corbin. The film is Farrell's directorial debut. Plot In their last year of high school, six best friends prepare to leave their small, struggling hometown, a place caught in the slow, fine-grinding wheels of American big business that seem to leave no side doors. Maisie, whose father is about to be released from prison, decides she can't leave the town where she has been embraced so lovingly since the dark day when her father nearly killed the man whose company foreclosed on their family farm. The town's patriarch, Gil Denton, a no nonsense, wealthy landowner dying from cancer, loves these six kids, and in his remaining time with them he serves as a sounding board, dependable guide, and sympathetic friend - while providing them a wistful link to a past they will never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Country For Old Men
''No Country for Old Men'' is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films '' Blood Simple'' (1984), '' Raising Arizona'' (1987), and '' Fargo'' (1996). The film follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert; Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money; and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a sheriff investigating the crime. The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss's wife, Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as Carson Wells, a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the money, $2 million. ''No Country for Old Men'' premiered in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
''The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'' (also known as ''Three Burials'') is a 2005 neo-Western film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones. The film was inspired by the real-life killing in Texas of a teenager, Esequiel Hernandez Jr, by United States Marines during a military operation near the United States–Mexico border as well as the novel '' As I Lay Dying'' by William Faulkner, which contains the same plot premise and challenges encountered in the film. The film has many flashbacks with the same event shown from different perspectives. Plot Melquiades Estrada, a Mexican illegal immigrant working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Mike Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots, killing Melquiades. Norton buries Melquiades and does not report anyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Fell On Henrietta
''The Stars Fell on Henrietta'' is a 1995 American drama film from Warner Bros., directed by James Keach and produced by Clint Eastwood. The film is based on a short story written by Winifred Sanford titled "Luck". The script for the film was penned by Philip Railsback, who is Sanford's grandson. Plot The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil... but at what cost? Cast *Robert Duvall as Mr. Cox *Aidan Quinn as Don Day *Frances Fisher as Cora Day * Brian Dennehy as Big Dave McDermot *Billy Bob Thornton as Roy *Lexi Randall as Beatric Day *Kaytlyn Knowles as Pauline Day * Francesca Eastwood as Mary Day (as Francesca Ruth Eastwood) *Joe Stevens as Big Dave's Driver * Victor Wong as Henry Nakai * Paul Lazar as Seymour *Spencer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby (1992 Film)
''Ruby'' is a 1992 American drama film directed by John Mackenzie, centered on Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald—the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy—in the basement garage of a Dallas police station in 1963. The film stars Danny Aiello as Ruby, Sherilyn Fenn as Sheryl Ann DuJean (also known as Candy Cane), and Arliss Howard. It is based on a play by British screenwriter Stephen Davis. ''Ruby'' was released in the United States three months after the premiere of Oliver Stone's film ''JFK''. Plot The film opens with Jack Ruby reflecting on his past, describing it as a dream, unsure if it really happened. The film then cuts to a disturbing image: a man in a suit has been tortured, hung on a meat hook, and drained of blood — a brutal warning to someone. In 1962 Dallas, Ruby runs the struggling Carousel Club, a burlesque venue. He watches an uninspired performance by an aging dancer, Telephone Trixie, and laments the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Tommy Lee Jones, various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. After appearing in several projects from the 1960s to 1980s, Jones established himself as a leading man in the 1990s, known for List of Tommy Lee Jones performances, his gruff and authoritative film roles. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as United States Marshal, U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the thriller film ''The Fugitive (1993 film), The Fugitive'' (1993). His other Oscar-nominated roles were as businessman Clay Shaw in ''JFK (film), JFK'' (1991), Hank Deerfield in ''In the Valley of Elah'' (2007), and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in ''Lincoln (2012 film), Lincoln'' (2012). He played Agent K in the Men in Black (film series), ''Men in Black'' franchise. Other notable roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necessary Roughness (film)
''Necessary Roughness'' is a 1991 American sports comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. The film stars Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Loggia, and Harley Jane Kozak. Co-stars include Larry Miller (comedian), Larry Miller, Sinbad (comedian), Sinbad, Jason Bateman, Kathy Ireland, Rob Schneider, and Fred Dalton Thompson. The film touches on an up-and-coming season (sport), season at the (then) fictional higher learning institution of Texas State University and its American football, football team nicknamed the Fightin' Armadillos. (At the time the film was made, there was no Texas State University, but in 2003, Southwest Texas State University changed its name to Texas State University, nicknamed the Bobcats, which coincidentally was the "season opener" opponent of the fictional Texas State Armadillos.) The once-powerful Armadillos are forced to start the season with a host of new coaches and players after the previous staff and all but one players are banned following a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota (1988 Film)
''Dakota'' (also known as ''Harley'') is a 1988 American drama film starring Lou Diamond Phillips and directed by Fred Holmes. The film was reedited and rereleased under a different title in 1991, ''Harley''. Plot Dakota ( Lou Diamond Phillips) is a troubled teenager on the run who takes a job at a Texas ranch to work off his debts. While Dakota restores an antique car, he becomes a pseudo big brother for the rancher's young son, Casey, who lost his leg to cancer. Dakota also begins to fall for the rancher's daughter, Molly. Cast * Lou Diamond Phillips as John Dakota * DeeDee Norton as Molly Lechner * Herta Ware as Aunt Zard * Eli Cummins as Walt Lechner * Jordan Burton as Casey Lechner * Steve Ruge as Bo Sandoval * John Hawkes as "Rooster" * Tom Campitelli as Rob Diamond * Leslie Mullin as Cynthia Diamond * Lawrence Montaigne as Mr. Diamond * Connie Coit as Mrs. Diamond * Susan Crippin as Alicia * Robert Lemus as Eric Dakota * Ben Jones as Mr. Dakota * Cecilia Flores as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
