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Steven Tsapelas
Steven Tsapelas is an American writer and filmmaker best known for his work on the popular webseries ''We Need Girlfriends''. ''We Need Girlfriends'' In 2006, Tsapelas pitched the idea of ''We Need Girlfriends'' to his Ragtag Productions co-founders Angel Acevedo and Brian Amyot. Tsapelas wrote all eleven episodes of the popular webseries and directed ''MySpace,'' ''Rod vs Henry'' and ''Future Henry'. Tsapelas, Amyot and Acevedo were in development on a television version of ''We Need Girlfriends'' for Sony Pictures and CBS, to be executive produced by Darren Star Darren Star (born July 25, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of film and television. He is best known for creating the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–2000), ''Melrose Place'' (1992–1999), ''Sex and the City' ..., Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson, but Tsapelas has recently confirmed the project has been cancelled. In 2021, Tsapelas wrote and directed the feature comedy ''UFO C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queens, New York
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long Island to its west, and Nassau County to its east. Queens also shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island (via the Rockaways). With a population of 2,405,464 as of the 2020 census, Queens is the second most populous county in the State of New York, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second most populous of the five New York City boroughs. If Queens became a city, it would rank as the fifth most-populous in the U.S. after New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. Approximately 47% of the residents of Queens are foreign-born. Queens is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth and is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States. Queens was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Need Girlfriends
''We Need Girlfriends'' is an 11-episode comedy web series. Background The series was created by Steven Tsapelas, Angel Acevedo and Brian Amyot. It was produced by their Astoria, New York based film production company Ragtag Productions. The series chronicles the lives of Tom, Rod and Henry. After college, the three friends move into an apartment together and are all simultaneously dumped by their girlfriends. The series was then picked up for possible development for a television version of ''We Need Girlfriends'' for Sony Pictures and CBS, to be executive produced by Darren Star, Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson. The project was eventually canceled. Episode list The web series premiered on November 1, 2006 and the season finale aired on YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragtag Productions
Ragtag Productions is an American independent film and video production company based in Astoria, Queens. They are noted for the web comedy series ''We Need Girlfriends'' that ran in 2006–2007. The company entered into discussions with CBS about turning ''We Need Girlfriends'' into a television series pilot with ''Sex and the City'' creator Darren Star. After premiering the first episode in August 2010 at The Feel Good Film Festival founded by Kristen Ridgway Flores, their newest project ''My Future Girlfriend'' debuted online on . Background Company founders Steven Tsapelas, Brian Amyot and Angel Acevedo were film majors at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, where they met. Upon graduation, the three moved to Astoria to work together producing film shorts and submitting them to festivals. After seeing the increasing popularity of online film submissions and contest, they decided to focus on the Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Star
Darren Star (born July 25, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of film and television. He is best known for creating the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–2000), ''Melrose Place'' (1992–1999), ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), '' Younger'' (2015–2021), and '' Emily in Paris'' (2020–present). Early life Darren Star was born to a Jewish family in Potomac, Maryland. His mother was a freelance writer and his father was an orthodontist. He attended Winston Churchill High School and UCLA where he studied English and Creative Writing. Career He created the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' based on his own high school experiences and ''Melrose Place'', and he was the creator and a writer for the HBO series ''Sex and the City''. He also worked on ''Central Park West'' (1995), ''Grosse Pointe'' (2000), ''The $treet'' (2000), ''Miss Match'' (2003), '' Kitchen Confidential'' (2005), '' Runaway'' (2006) and '' Cashmere Mafia'' (2008). He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day. * January 25 – In South Africa the largest part of the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Queens, New York
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hofstra University Alumni
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University. It became an independent Hofstra College in 1939 and gained university status in 1963. Comprising ten schools, including the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Deane School of Law, Hofstra has hosted a series of prominent presidential conferences and several United States presidential debates. History The college was founded in 1935 on the estate of namesake William S. Hofstra (1861–1932), a lumber entrepreneur of Dutch ancestry, and his second wife Kate Mason (1854–1933). It began as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University. It became the fourth and most recent American college or university named after a Dutch American, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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