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The Library (play)
''The Library'' is a 2014 play written by Scott Z. Burns concerning the aftermath of a school shooting that takes place in the school library. It was inspired by Dave Cullen's book ''Columbine (book), Columbine'' about the Columbine High School massacre. The original production ran from March 25 to April 27, 2014, at the Public Theater in New York City, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred Chloë Grace Moretz. Plot The play centers on Caitlin Gabriel, a high-school student in an unnamed town who survives a school shooting, then struggles to relay her version of events against eyewitness reports from fellow survivors that she informed the shooter, who is based on Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, where other students had hidden. Even her own parents accept media reports of this accusation, which spark widespread revulsion towards her in the aftermath of the shooting. Cast * Chloë Grace Moretz * Ben Livingston * Michael O'Keefe * Daryl Sabara * Lili Taylor * David Townsend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Z
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Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera ''As the World Turns'' (1987–1995, 1999–2007, 2009) and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2000–2021). Tunie also appeared in films such as '' Rising Sun'' (1993), '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), '' The Caveman's Valentine'' (2001) receiving Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination, ''Flight'' (2012), and '' Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody'' (2022). Early life A native of Homestead, Pennsylvania, she was the fourth of six children raised in the family-run funeral home by parents James W. Tunie and Evelyn Hawkins Tunie. She sang in her church choir, was in the high school band, took dance lessons in the steel-mill town. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical theater from Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Broadway Plays
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Previously, regardless of the siz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Plays
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David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. Often described as one of the preeminent directors of his generation, David Fincher filmography, his films, of which most are psychological thrillers, have collectively grossed over $2.1 billion worldwide and have received List of awards and nominations received by David Fincher, numerous accolades, including three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. He has also received four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Fincher co-founded the production company Propaganda Films in 1986. He directed numerous music videos for the company, including Madonna's "Express Yourself (Madonna song), Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue (Madonna song), Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He received two Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Grammy Awards for Best Music Video for "Love Is Strong" (1994) by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Marshall (producer)
Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal. Marshall has worked with directors such as Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, and Robert Zemeckis. He has also directed the films ''Arachnophobia'' (1990), '' Alive'' (1993), '' Congo'' (1995), ''Eight Below'' (2006), and the documentaries '' The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart'' (2020), '' Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story'' (2022) and ''The Beach Boys'' (2024). Marshall has produced various successful film franchises, including ''Indiana Jones'', ''Back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Kennedy (producer)
Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer who has been president of Lucasfilm since 2012. In 1981, Kennedy co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and her eventual husband Frank Marshall. Her first film as a producer was '' E.T.'' (1982). A decade later, again with Spielberg, she produced the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, the first two of which became two of the top ten highest-grossing films of the 1990s. In 1992, she and Marshall founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company. In 2012, Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company. As Lucasfilm's president, Kennedy has overseen the development, production, and release of projects such as the ''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy (2015–2019), the ''Star Wars'' standalone films '' Rogue One'' (2016) and ''Solo'' (2018) as well as the fifth ''Indiana Jones'' film, '' The Dial of Destiny'' (2023). She has also produced various ''Star Wars' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Brantley
Benjamin D. Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer. He served as the chief theater critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1996 to 2017, and as co-chief theater critic from 2017 to 2020. Early life Born in Durham, North Carolina on October 26, 1954, Brantley received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1977, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa society. Career Brantley began his journalism career as a summer intern at the ''Winston-Salem Sentinel'' and, in 1975, became an editorial assistant at ''The Village Voice''. At ''Women's Wear Daily'', he was a reporter and then editor from 1978 to 1983, and later became the European editor, publisher, and Paris bureau chief until June 1985. For the next 18 months, Brantley freelanced, writing regularly for ''Elle'', '' Vanity Fair'', and ''The New Yorker'' before joining ''The New York Times'' as a Drama Critic (August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Westfeldt
Jennifer Westfeldt (born February 2, 1970) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for co-writing, co-producing, and starring in the 2002 indie film '' Kissing Jessica Stein'', for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. She is also known for writing, producing, starring in, and making her directorial debut in the indie film '' Friends with Kids'' (2012). Westfeldt's television work includes recurring roles on ''Notes from the Underbelly'' (2007–2009), ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2009), '' 24'' (2010), and '' Younger'' (2017–2021) as well as guest starred on shows such as ''Girls'', and ''This Is Us''. Westfeldt made her Broadway debut in 2003 in the revival of ''Wonderful Town'' earning a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Early life and education Westfeldt is the daughter of Constance Perelson, a therapist, and Patrick M. Westfeldt Jr., an electrical engineer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Taylor
Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films '' Mystic Pizza'' (1988) and '' Say Anything...'' (1989), before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through starring roles in '' Bright Angel'' (1990), ''Dogfight'' (1991), '' Household Saints'', '' Short Cuts'' (both 1993), '' The Addiction'' (1995), '' I Shot Andy Warhol'' (1996), and '' Pecker'' (1998). Taylor is the recipient of four Independent Spirit nominations, winning once in the category of Best Supporting Female. Alongside her work on smaller-scale projects, Taylor has encountered mainstream success with parts in films such as '' Born on the Fourth of July'' (1989), '' Rudy'' (1993), ''Ransom'' (1996), '' The Haunting'' (1999), ''High Fidelity'' (2000), '' Public Enemies'' (2009), '' The Conjuring'' (2013), and '' Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials'' (2015). Other credits include '' Factotum'', '' The Notoriou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbine (book)
''Columbine'' is a non-fiction book written by Dave Cullen and published by Twelve (Hachette Book Group) on April 6, 2009. It is an examination of the Columbine High School massacre, on April 20, 1999, and the perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The book covers two major storylines: the killers' evolution leading up to the attack, and the survivors' struggles with the aftermath over the next decade. Chapters alternate between the two stories. Graphic depictions of parts of the attack are included, in addition to the actual names of friends and family (the only exception being the pseudonym "Harriet", which is used for a female Columbine student referred to in Klebold’s journal entries, with whom he was obsessively in love). Cullen says he spent ten years researching and writing the book. He previously contributed to ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Times'' of London, and ''The Guardian''. He is best known for his work for ''Slate'' and '' Salon.co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Christopher Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Juni Cortez in the ''Spy Kids'' film series, and for a variety of television and film appearances, first as a child actor and continuing into adult roles, including voice roles. Early life He graduated from West Torrance High School in 2010. His fraternal twin sister is an actor. The siblings are of mostly Russian-Jewish descent. Sabara began performing with the regional ballet company, South Bay Ballet. Career Sabara began acting during the mid-1990s, appearing on episodes of '' Murphy Brown'', '' Life's Work'', ''Friends'' and '' Will and Grace'' before being cast as Juni Cortez in the '' Spy Kids'' series of family films, which became popular among pre-teen audiences. Sabara provided the voice of Hunter in '' Father of the Pride''. He has appeared in episodes of the television series ''Weeds'', ''House'', ''Dr. Vegas'', and was one of the judges on '' America's Most Talented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
