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Tightrope (film)
''Tightrope'' is a 1984 American neo-noir psychological film, psychological mystery film, mystery crime film, crime action thriller film directed and written by Richard Tuggle and produced by and starring Clint Eastwood. Plot A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man. A man dressed as a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The policeman, however, is actually the stalker. The next day, divorced New Orleans Police Department, New Orleans police detective Wes Block, along with his daughters Penny and Amanda, take in a stray dog, adding to the several strays they already have. As the family prepares to go to a New Orleans Saints, Saints game, Block is summoned to a crime scene, forcing him to break his plans with his daughters. The young woman was strangled in her bed. The killer left no fingerprints, but waited in her apartment until midnight to kill her, even pausing to make himself coffee. At the brothel where the woman worked, Blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Brook (director)
Simon Brook is a British film director, mostly of documentaries. Simon Brook is the son of fellow director Peter Brook and the actress Natasha Parry. His sister is the actress and writer Irina Brook. Selected filmography (as director) * ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film), The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (1988) - as assistant director * ''Minus One#Film_adaptation, Minus One'' (1991) * ''Alice'' (short film starring Gabrielle Lazure, 1995) * ''L'amazone'' (documentary, 1998) * ''Karos d'Éthiopie, les amoureux du fleuve'' (television documentary, 2001) * ''Brook by Brook'' (television documentary, 2002) * ''Cleopatra's Lost City'' (television documentary, 2003) * ''Jungle Magic'' (documentary, 2005) * '':w:fr:La Légende vraie de la tour Eiffel, La légende vraie de la tour Eiffel'' (documentary fiction, 2005) * ''Generation 68'' (2008) * ''Annie Nightingale: Bird on the Wireless'' (2011) * ''Peter Brook: The Tightrope'' (2012) * ''Indian Summer'' (2013) * ''Hell Is Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Thriller Film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as David Bordwell suggested they were films that favor spectacle to storytelling, others such as Geoff King stated they allow the scenes of spectacle to be attuned to storytelling. Action films are often hybrid with other genres, mixing into various forms such as comedy film, comedies, science fiction films, and horror films. While the term "action film" or "action adventure film" has been used as early as the 1910s, the contemporary definition usually refers to a film that came with the arrival of New Hollywood and the rise of antihero, anti-heroes appearing in American films of the late 1960s and 1970s drawing from war films, crime films and Western (film), Westerns. These genres were followed by what is referred to as the "classical period" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American Film criticism, film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creole Queen
''Creole Queen'' is a 1,000-passenger paddlewheel riverboat operating out of the Port of New Orleans. She is operated by New Orleans Paddlewheels, Inc. She was built by Halter Marine at Moss Point, Mississippi along the lines of a turn-of-the-century sternwheeler and was christened into service in September 1983. She is long and wide. She has three decks, two of which house three dining and banquet rooms and a third top deck for covered outside seating. Her gross tonnage is 397. She is docked at the Poydras Street Poydras Street () is a street that serves as the main artery of the New Orleans Central Business District, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The street is named for Julien de Lallande Poydras. Many of the city of New Orleans' and the state of Louisiana ... dock adjacent to the Riverwalk and New Orleans Hilton Riverside and Towers. Her master is Captain Brian Clesi. External links ''Creole Queen'' official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crescent City Connection
The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges in the world. Each span carries four general-use automobile lanes; additionally the westbound span has two reversible HOV lanes across the river. It is the farthest downstream bridge on the Mississippi River. It is also the widest and most heavily traveled bridge on the lower Mississippi; the only other comparable bridges on the Mississippi are in the St. Louis area, those being the Poplar Street Bridge, the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, and the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. History What later became known as the Crescent City Connection is the second bridge to span the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge, the first being the Huey P. Long Bridge, a few miles upriver from the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as the (; ; ), is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans () was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the ("Old Square" in English), a central square. The district is more commonly called the French Quarter today, or simply "The Quarter", related to changes in the city with American immigration after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Most of the extant historic buildings were constructed either in the late 18th century, during the city's period of Spanish rule, or were built during the first half of the 19th century, after U.S. purchase and statehood. The district as a whole has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, with numerous contributing buildings that are separately deemed significant. It is a prime tourist destination in the city, as well as attracting local residents. The French Quarter suffered relatively light damage from floodwater as compared to other a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet MacLachlan
Janet Angel MacLachlan (August 27, 1933 – October 11, 2010) was an American actress who had roles in such television series as ''The Rockford Files'', '' The Invaders'' '' Alias'', ''All in the Family'' and ''The Golden Girls''. She is best remembered for her key supporting part in the film '' Sounder'' (1972) where she portrayed Camille Johnson, a young teacher. MacLachlan worked with numerous well-known actors and actresses and celebrities such as Bill Cosby, Jim Brown, James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou and Morgan Freeman. Life and career MacLachlan was born in Harlem, New York City; her mother, Iris South MacLachlan, and father, James MacLachlan, were both Jamaican-born members of the Church of the Illumination. Attending P.S. 170 and Julia Ward Junior High School, MacLachlan graduated from Julia Richman High School in 1950. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Hunter College in 1955. She then worked as an executive secretary in New York City before turning to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Rose
Jamie Rose (born November 26, 1959) is an American actress and acting coach. Born in New York City, Rose was raised in Southern California, where she began her career as a child actor, first appearing in commercials. She made her feature film debut in the cult horror film '' Just Before Dawn'' (1981), and subsequently had supporting roles in Clint Eastwood's ''Tightrope'' and '' Heartbreakers'' (both 1984). Rose has numerous television credits, including the role of Vickie Gioberti on the primetime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' (1981–1983), as well as the lead on the crime series '' Lady Blue'' (1985–1986). Later film credits include '' Atlas Shrugged: Part II'' (2012), as well as guest-starring roles on the series ''Jane the Virgin'' (2015) and ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2016). Since 2007, Rose has operated her own acting studio workshop, JRose Studio, in Los Angeles. She has also written a book, ''Shut Up and Dance! The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead--On the Dance Floor and Off'', p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Masterson
Rodney Gregory Masterson, Jr., known as Rod Masterson (February 14, 1945 – September 12, 2013), was an American film and television actor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Background A native of Alexandria in Central Louisiana, Masterson was one of four children born to Rodney Masterson, Sr., a physician originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and Elizabeth F. Masterson, a native of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in North Louisiana. He graduated in 1963 from Holy Savior Menard Central High School, a Roman Catholic-institution in Alexandria and in 1967 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He served in the United States Marine Corps, first as a drill sergeant and rose to the rank of lieutenant during the Vietnam War era and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In addition to his acting, Masterson operated a Bikram Yoga clinic in Baton Rouge. Acting career Masterson made his screen debut in the NBC television film, ''The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish'', whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco St
Marco may refer to: People Given name * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor Surname * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Jindřich Marco (1921–2000), Czechoslovak photographer and numismatist * Joseph Marco (born 1988), Filipino actor * Kenny Marco (1947–2025), Canadian guitarist. * María del Pilar Sinués de Marco (1835–1893), Spanish writer * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Beer
Faubourg Brewing Company was a brewery founded in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 31, 1907, and originally named Dixie Brewing Company. The brewing operation was located on Tulane Avenue until 2005 when it closed due to damage from Hurricane Katrina. After that the beer was contract brewed out of state until November 2019 when a new brewery opened in New Orleans. In 2021 the brewery was renamed the Faubourg Brewing Company. Following the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in May 2024, the company announced its closure and that all equipment from their New Orleans plant would be auctioned off. History Faubourg Brewing Company was founded as Dixie Brewing by Valentine Merz, and began production in 1907. The original brick Dixie Brewery building at 2401 Tulane Avenue at the corner of Tulane Avenue and Tonti Street was designed by the German architect Louis Lehle and completed in 1907 with a wooden extension added in 1919. During Prohibition, the company became the "Dixie Bev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
