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Susan Charlotte
Susan Charlotte (born July 21, 1954) is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. Best known as a playwright, Charlotte was the inaugural recipient of the Joseph Kesselring Prize. She is the author of such plays as ''The Shoemaker'', ''Love Divided By/Times Three'' and ''Did You Know My Husband?'' She is also a screenwriter whose films include: ''A Broken Sole'' and ''Come On''. Charlotte has written for CBS, PBS and Lifetime TV. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books. She is the founding artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Food For Thought Productions and the non-profit theatre company Cause Celebre Productions. She has also been a Film and Theatre professor at Columbia University, CUNY, and NYU. Career Theatre She has written fifteen full-length plays and fifty one-acts. Her plays, which have been produced for over thirty years, include: the 2011 Off-Broadway premiere of '' The Shoemaker'' starring Danny Aiello and directed by Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards throughout her career. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films, including ''Tom Jones'' (1963) and '' Georgy Girl'' (1966), which won her a New York Film Critics Award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1967 and performed in several stage productions in New York City while making frequent returns to London's West End. Redgrave performed with her sister Vanessa in '' Three Sisters'' in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' in 1991. She made a return to cinema in the late 1990s, in films such as ''Shine'' (1996) and '' Gods and Monsters'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are '' Get Shorty'', '' Out of Sight'', ''Swag'', ''Hombre'', ''Mr. Majestyk'', and '' Rum Punch'' (adapted as the film '' Jackie Brown''). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films '' 3:10 to Yuma'' and '' The Tall T'', as well as the FX television series '' Justified''. Early life and education Leonard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Flora Amelia (née Rive) and Elmore John Leonard. Because his father worked as a site locator for General Motors, the family moved frequently for several years. In 1934, the family settled in Detroit. He graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943 and, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Aubier
Pascal Aubier is a French actor, director, script writer, producer and editor, born in 1943 in Paris, France. Filmography As actor * 1958 : '' Faibles femmes'' * 1964 : ''Lucky Jo'' * 1965 : '' Pierrot le fou'' : ''Brother #2'' * 1966 : ''Chappaqua'' * 1967 : ''Mamaia'' : ''Manager'' * 1968 : ''La Fille d'en face'' : ''Georges'' * 1969 : '' Sirocco d'hiver'' (''Sirokkó'') : ''Tihomir'' * 1969 : '' L'Examen du petit'' * 1969 : '' La Bande à Bonnot'' : ''Eugène Dieudonné'' * 1971 : '' Valparaiso, Valparaiso'' * 1972 : '' Le Soldat et les trois sœurs'' * 1979 : '' Rien ne va plus'' : ''Hospital patient, Métro passenger, Jean-Gabriel'' * 1980 : '' Bobo la tête'' : ''The officer'' * 1980 : '' Ma blonde, entends-tu dans la ville ?'' : ''Syndicaliste'' * 1981 : '' Le Rat'' * 1982 : '' Tokyo no yami'' (aka ''Laissé inachevé à Tokyo'') * 1982 : ''Rock'' (TV) : ''Impresario Guzzi Smith'' * 1983 : '' Debout les crabes, la mer monte !'', dir. Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan : ''Le mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stone (writer)
Peter Hess Stone (February 27, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was an American screenwriter and playwright. Stone is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the screenplays he wrote or co-wrote in the mid-1960s, Charade (1963 film), ''Charade'' (1963), ''Father Goose (film), Father Goose'' (1964), and ''Mirage (1965 film), Mirage'' (1965). Life and career Early life Stone was born in Los Angeles to Jewish parents. His mother, Hilda Stone, Hilda (née Hess), was a film writer, and his father, John Stone (producer), John Stone (born Saul Strumwasser), was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies. Hilda was a Bavarian Jew from Bamberg, but was born in Mexico (her father Draft evasion, dodged the draft in the 1870s) and lived there for five years with her family until all foreign nationals were kicked out during the Mexican Revolution, Mexican Revolution of 1910. Stone had an older brother David, who wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Arts Club
The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'' to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". The National Arts Club has several art galleries, and hosts a variety of public programs in all artistic areas including theater, literature and music. Although the club is private, many of its events are free and open to the public. Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J. Tilden House, a landmarked Victorian Gothic Revival"National Arts Club Designation Report" |
Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the third longest-running drama in television in American history. ''Guiding Light'' aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio between January 25, 1937, and June 29, 1956. With 72 years of radio and television runs, ''Guiding Light'' is the longest running soap opera, ahead of '' General Hospital'', and is the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program ''Grand Ole Opry'' (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program '' The Daily Service'' (1928), the CBS religious program '' Music and the Spoken Word'' (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program '' Lørdagsbarnetimen'' (1924–2010) have been on the air longer. When the show debuted on radio in 1937, it centered on Reverend J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving (TV Series)
''Loving'' is an American television soap opera that ran on ABC from June 26, 1983, to November 10, 1995, for a total of 3,169 episodes. The serial, set in the fictional town of Corinth, Pennsylvania, was co-created by Agnes Nixon and former actor Douglas Marland. ''Loving'' premiered on June 26, 1983 with a two-hour primetime movie and, on the next day, debuted as a half-hour weekday soap opera. On July 4, 1995, ABC officially canceled ''Loving'' due to low ratings, and its final episode aired on November 10, 1995. On November 13, 1995, the following Monday, ABC replaced ''Loving'' with its spin-off '' The City'', which ran until March 28, 1997. History With the established and successful ABC daytime soap operas veering into a new trend of youth orientation and storylines with more action and adventure, soap creator Agnes Nixon and actor/writer Douglas Marland sought to create a new serial that would be introduced as a traditional, classic soap opera for the 1980s. Romanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser (; born March 30, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and television writer. He is known for his roles as Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom ''My Two Dads'', Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom ''Mad About You'', Modell in the 1982 film ''Diner,'' Carter Burke in the 1986 film ''Aliens'', and as Detective Jeffrey Friedman in ''Beverly Hills Cop'' (1984), ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), and '' Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley''. More recently, he has gained recognition for his roles as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film ''Whiplash'' and Dr. Sam Owens in the Netflix series ''Stranger Things''. Reiser is ranked 77th on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". The name of his production company, Nuance Productions, is inspired by one of his lines in the film ''Diner'', where his character explains his discomfort with the word "nuance". Reiser is arguably best known for his role as greedy, slimy company man Carter Burke in James Cameron's ''Aliens'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Duke
Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016) was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film '' The Miracle Worker'' (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The following year, she played the dual role of "identical cousins" Cathy and Patty Lane on her own show '' The Patty Duke Show'' (1963–1966). She progressed to more mature roles, such as Neely O'Hara in the film ''Valley of the Dolls'' (1967) and Natalie Miller in the film '' Me, Natalie'' (1969). The latter earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. From 1985 to 1988, she served as president of the Screen Actors Guild. Duke was diagnosed with bipolar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MoMA
Moma may refer to: People * Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist * Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician * Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher Places ; Angola * Moma, Angola ; Mozambique * Moma District, Nampula ; Russia * Moma District, Russia, Sakha Republic * Moma Natural Park, a protected area in Moma District * Moma (river), a tributary of the Indigirka in Sakha Republic * Moma Range, in Sakha Republic Transport * Moma Airport, in Sakha Republic, Russia * Moma Airport (Democratic Republic of the Congo), in Kasai-Occidental Province Other uses * ''Moma'' (moth), an owlet moth genus * Mars Organic Molecule Analyser, an instrument aboard the ''Rosalind Franklin'' Mars rover * Mixed Groups of Reconstruction Machines, a Greek Army organization * Modern Hungary Movement ( hu, Modern Magyarország Mozgalom, link=no), a political party in Hungary * Moma language, spoken in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written fifteen operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, fourteen symphonies, twelve concertos, nine string quartets and various other chamber music, and several film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for an Academy Award. Life and work 1937–1964: Beginnings, early education and influences Philip Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 31, 1937, the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Lithuanian-Jewish emigrants. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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