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The Imagemaker
The Imagemaker is a 1986 American political thriller film directed by Hal Weiner and starring Michael Nouri, Anne Twomey, Jerry Orbach, Jessica Harper and Farley Granger. It is the film debut of Marcia Gay Harden in a very minor role. Plot Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos. Cast * Michael Nouri as Roger Blackwell * Anne Twomey as Molly Grainger * Jerry Orbach as Byron Caine * Jessica Harper as Cynthia * Farley Granger as Ambassador Robert Hoyle * Richard Bauer as Morris Brodkin * Roger Frazier as Victor Griffin * Maury Povich as Talk-Show Host * Patrick Blake as Martin * Jerome Dempsey as Congressman Dave Lyons Credits * Directed by Hal Weiner * Written by Dick Goldberg and Hal Weiner * Produced by Hal Weiner and Marilyn Weiner * Music by Fred Karns * Cinematography by Jacques Haitkin * Editing by Terry Halle * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nouri
Michael Nouri (born December 9, 1945) is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his television roles, including Dr. Neil Roberts on '' The O.C.'', Phil Grey on ''Damages'', Caleb Cortlandt on ''All My Children'', Eli David in '' NCIS'', and Bob Schwartz on ''Yellowstone''. He is also known for his starring roles in the films '' Flashdance'' (1983) and '' The Hidden'' (1987), and has appeared in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including the original production of '' Victor/Victoria''. He is a Saturn Award and Daytime Emmy Award nominee. Early life Nouri was born in Washington D.C. to Gloria (née Montgomery) and Edmond Nouri.That Guy in Flashdance . ''''. February 16, 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Twomey (actress)
Anne Carolyn Twomey (born June 7, 1951) is an American former actress. She earned critical acclaim for her performance in the 1980 play ''Nuts'', for which she won the Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Life and career Twomey is a graduate of Temple University. Twomey's Broadway credits include ''To Grandmother's House We Go'' (1981) and Tennessee Williams' ''Orpheus Descending'' (1989). Off-Broadway she appeared in ''Vieux Carré'' (1983), also by Williams, which garnered her a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and ''The Vampires'' (1984). Twomey's feature film credits include ''Deadly Friend'' (1986), ''Last Rites'' (1988), '' The Scout'' (1994), '' Picture Perfect'' (1997), and '' The Confession'' (1999). Twomey had recurring roles in the 1993 season of ''L.A. Law'' and the 2000–01 season of ''Third Watch''. She has made guest appearances on '' Shannon'', ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last'' bona fide'' leading men of the Broadway theatre, Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile stage and film actor." Over his career he received a Tony Awards, Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award. Orbach's career began on the New York City, New York stage, both on and off-Broadway, where he created roles such as El Gallo in the original off-Broadway run of ''The Fantasticks'' (1960) where he was the first performer to sing that show's standard "Try to Remember." He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Chuck Baxter in the musical ''Promises, Promises (musical), Promises, Promises'' (1968–1972). He was Tony-nominated for portraying Sky Masterson in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Harper
Jessica Randolph Harper (born October 3, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's '' Phantom of the Paradise'' (1974), and subsequently featured in films including '' Love and Death'' (1975), '' Inserts'' (1975) and '' My Favorite Year'' (1982). She is best known for her portrayal of Suzy Bannion, the protagonist of Dario Argento's cult classic '' Suspiria'' (1977), and appeared in a supporting role in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake. Her other films include '' Stardust Memories'' (1980), '' Shock Treatment'' (1981) (the follow-up to ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' in which she replaced Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss), '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1981), '' The Blue Iguana'' (1988), '' Safe'' (1995), '' Minority Report'' (2002), '' Bones and All'' (2022) and '' Nightbitch'' (2024). In addition to acting, Harper is also an award-winning author of children's music and books. Early life Harper was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farley Granger
Farley Earle Granger Jr. (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in '' The North Star'' (1943), a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political position. Another war film, '' The Purple Heart'' (1944), followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific. Here he made useful contacts, including Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. It was also where he began exploring his bisexuality, which he said he never felt any need to conceal. His role in Hitchcock's ''Rope'', a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924, earned him much critical praise though the film got mixed reviews. Hitchcock cast him again in '' Strangers on a Train'', as a tennis star drawn into a reciprocal murder plot by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Haitkin
Jacques Adam Haitkin (August 29, 1950 – March 21, 2023) was an American cinematographer. He was best known as the cinematographer for Wes Craven's slasher film ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''. Haitkin studied at the film school of New York University and American Film Institute, and graduated in 1975. He was well-known mainly as a horror film cinematographer, especially on films by Craven and Jack Sholder. He also worked as additional or second unit director of photography on '' The Expendables'', '' X-Men: First Class'', '' X-Men: The Last Stand'', ''Furious 7'', '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', '' Kong: Skull Island'' and '' The Fate of the Furious''. Haitkin died at his assisted living community in Portola Gardens in San Francisco, California, on March 21, 2023, at the age of 72. He died from complications related to ALS and leukemia. Filmography * '' Hot Dogs for Gauguin'' (1972) * '' Hot Tomorrows'' (1977) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. Harden's breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film '' Miller's Crossing''. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Pollock'' (2000) and '' Mystic River'' (2003), winning for her portrayal of artist Lee Krasner in the former. Her other notable film credits include '' The First Wives Club'' (1996), '' Flubber'' (1997), '' Space Cowboys'' (2000), '' Mona Lisa Smile'' (2003), and the '' Fifty Shades'' film series (2015–2018). Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Tony Kushner's epic play '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''/'' Angels in America: Perestroika'' for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in 2009 in Yasmina Reza's comedic play '' God of Carnage'', with her perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bauer
Richard Bauer (March 14, 1939 – March 1, 1999) was an American actor. He won an Obie Award in 1978 for his performances in ''Landscape of the Body'' and ''The Dybbuk ''The Dybbuk'', or ''Between Two Worlds'' (, trans. ''Mezh dvukh mirov ibuk'; , ''Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn – der Dibuk'') is a play by S. An-sky, authored between 1913 and 1916. It was originally written in Russian and later translated into Yidd ...''. Filmography Awards References External links * * * 1939 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male stage actors Obie Award recipients Male actors from St. Louis Male actors from Washington, D.C. {{US-film-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury Povich
Maurice Richard Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American former television personality, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show '' Maury'' which aired from 1991 to 2022. Povich began his career as a radio reporter, initially at WWDC and later as host of a daytime Washington, D.C. talk show ''Panorama''. In the late 1980s, he gained national fame as the host of tabloid infotainment TV show '' A Current Affair'', based at Fox's New York flagship station WNYW. In 1991, he co-produced his own show '' The Maury Povich Show'', which in 1998 was rebranded as ''Maury''. Early life and education Povich was born on January 17, 1939, into a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., the second of three children born to Ethyl (née Friedman) and ''Washington Post'' sportswriter Shirley Lewis Povich. His paternal grandfather, Nathan Povich, emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1878 at age 12. Maury graduated from the Landon School in 1957, and from the University of Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 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] |
1986 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Five popular films ('' Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', '' Song of the South'' and '' Lady and the Tramp'') were re-released in theaters. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1986 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 7 - Lawrence Gordon resigns as president and chief operating officer of the Fox Entertainment Group, citing poor health * February 3 - Pixar Animation Studios is founded by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. * April - Guy McElwaine resigns as head of Columbia Pictures. * April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. * June - First Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland. *July 2 - '' The Great Mouse Detectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s American Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and regen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
