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Tisa Farrow
Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow is a retired United States, American actress and model. Early life Farrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan and Australian-born film director John Farrow. She is the youngest of their four girls and three boys; her siblings are Mia Farrow, Mia (b. 1945), Prudence Farrow, Prudence, Stephanie, Michael Damien, Patrick Villiers Farrow, Patrick Joseph, and John Charles. Like most of her siblings, Tisa received a strict and mainly Catholic education. In her high school freshman year she enrolled at the progressive New Lincoln School in New York City. She left school of her own volition in the middle of the 11th grade. She then worked as waitress. In her own words, she also "spent a long time going around town trying out for commercials" - with no success: "I would always run into some career woman who disliked me right away because she didn't like my sister Mia." Career Farrow's first film role wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Clément
René Clément (; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20-minute short written by and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, '' La Bataille du rail'' (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan (1979 Film)
''Manhattan'' is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's ( Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star. ''Manhattan'' was Allen's first movie filmed in black-and-white, and was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. It features music by George Gershwin, including '' Rhapsody in Blue'', which inspired the film. Allen described the film as a combination of ''Annie Hall'' and '' Interiors''. The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hemingway and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Allen and Brickman. Its North American box-office receipts of $39.9 million made it Allen's second biggest box-office hit (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly '' Your Show of Shows'' (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for ''The New Yorker''. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish. He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply '' Woody Allen''. In 2004, Comedy Central ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Search And Destroy (1979 Film)
'' Search and Destroy'' is a 1979 Canadian action-thriller film directed by William Fruet and starring Perry King, Don Stroud, and Tisa Farrow. Plot Members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up dead in Los Angeles and Niagara Falls. Ex-Colonel Kip Moore (Perry King), is pressed by Upstate New York police for details. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer with a black glove is on the loose. Cast * Perry King as Kip Moore * Don Stroud as Buddy Grant * Tisa Farrow as Kate Barthel * George Kennedy as Anthony Fusqua * Jong Soo Park as Assassin * Tony Sheer as Frank Malone * Phil Aikin as Rosie Washington * Rummy Bishop as Ernie Cappel * Daniel Buccos as Sinclair * Rob Garrison as R.J. Reception Really Awful Movies called it..."Great Canadian exploitation fun," while ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel ( ; born May 13, 1939) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He first rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films since 1967. Keitel has played in such films as '' Who's That Knocking at My Door'' (1967), '' Mean Streets'' (1973), '' Taxi Driver'' (1976), '' Blue Collar'' (1978), '' The Last Temptation of Christ'' (1988), '' Thelma & Louise'' (1991), ''Bugsy'' (1991), '' Reservoir Dogs'' (1992), '' Bad Lieutenant'' (1992), '' The Piano'' (1993), '' Pulp Fiction'' (1994), ''From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), '' Cop Land'' (1997), '' Red Dragon'' (2002), '' National Treasure'' (2004), '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), ''Youth'' (2015), and '' The Irishman'' (2019). He has been nominated for a number of accolades, including Academy and Golden Globe nominations for ''Bugsy'' (1991), and won an AA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingers (1978 Film)
''Fingers'' is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by James Toback. The film is about a troubled young man being pulled between his mob father and his mentally disturbed pianist mother. Plot Jimmy "Fingers" Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) is a brilliant young pianist who also works as a debt collector for his father Ben (Michael V. Gazzo), a local loan shark. Wherever Jimmy goes, he always carries a tape player with him, playing classic pop hits (mainly soul and R&B) from the 1950s and 1960s. While trying to concentrate on an upcoming recital interview at Carnegie Hall, Jimmy loses focus when he falls for a woman named Carol ( Tisa Farrow). He gets further sidetracked when collecting a large debt from a mafioso named Riccamonza (Tony Sirico), who eventually threatens Ben's life. This forces Jimmy to seek retribution. Cast * Harvey Keitel as Jimmy "Fingers" * Tisa Farrow as Carol * Michael V. Gazzo as Ben Angelelli * Jim Brown as "Dreems" * Tanya Roberts as Julie * Marian Seld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Toback
James Toback (; born November 23, 1944) is an American film director and screenwriter. His screenplay for ''Bugsy'' won the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for best screenplay of the year and was nominated for both the Academy Award for best original screenplay and for the Golden Globe best screenplay award. Toback's documentary Tyson, which he directed and co-produced, was featured at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning a prize in the festival's ''Un Certain Regard'' section. That film was nominated for best documentary awards in several United States competitions. In 2009, the San Francisco International Film Festival selected Toback for its annual Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting. Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki examined Toback in a 2005 documentary '' The Outsider: A Film about James Toback''. Interspliced with a narrative tracking Toback's 2004 whirlwind creation of '' When Will I Be Loved'', Jarecki puts a "Who is James Toback?" question to multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Initiation Of Sarah
''The Initiation of Sarah'' is a 1978 American made-for-television supernatural horror film directed by Robert Day. It first aired on ABC on February 6, 1978, and starred Kay Lenz as a shy, withdrawn young woman who discovers that she has psychic powers after joining a sorority. The film achieved some controversy upon its initial airing on television as part of the film's plot involved Morgan Fairchild wearing a wet T-shirt after being thrown into a fountain, something that had not been previously shown in a made-for-TV movie. The film was later re-made in 2006 for ABC Family and Fairchild returned to portray the mother of the titular Sarah and her sister, who was renamed Lindsay. Fairchild initially regretted portraying Jennifer in the 1978 film but later changed her mind after producer Chuck Fries stated that while it was easy to find an ingenue, it was difficult to find someone who could play a convincing "bitch". Synopsis The film opens with Sarah (Kay Lenz), a painfully s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto De Martino
Alberto De Martino (12 June 1929 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervisor. De Martino's films as a director specialised in wellcrafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films. These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market. ''The Telegraph'' stated that his best known of these film was probably '' The Antichrist''. ''The Antichrist'' capitalized on the box-office appeal of ''The Exorcist'' (1973) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than ''Jaws''. Life and career Alberto De Martino was born on 12 June 1929 in Rome. De Martino was the son of a film make-up artist. He started his career as a child actor. On attending University, De Martino studied law. Martino returned to a career in cinema work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Shadows In An Empty Room
''Strange Shadows in an Empty Room'' ( it, Una magnum special per Tony Saitta) is a 1976 film starring Stuart Whitman as a tough ''Dirty Harry'' type who sets out to discover his sister's killer. Plot A tough cop learns that his sister was poisoned, and puts the alleged murderer in jail. Later he begins to doubt the suspect was the guilty party, and sets out to discover the real killer. Cast * Stuart Whitman as Tony Saitta * John Saxon as Ned Matthews * Martin Landau as George Tracer * Gayle Hunnicutt as Margie Cohn * Tisa Farrow as Julie Foster * Carole Laure as Louise Saitta * Jean LeClerc as Fred * Anthony Forrest as Robert Tracer * Jean Marchand as Terence * Jerome Tiberghien as Ted Sullivan Production ''Strange Shadows in an Empty Room'' was shot in Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Director Alberto de Martino stated that Stuart Whitman agreed to do the film to have work outside of Hollywood. For the car chase in the film, de Martino did not use stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Casilli
Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other photos, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of the Month of September 1957. Biography Casilli attended the Cleveland Institute of Art at only 14 years of age. He later served in the United States Navy before moving to Hollywood, where he worked at Paul Hesse Studios. This is the place where he learned the business of photography. After four years of working at Paul Hesse Studios, Casilli decided to open up his own studio and begin his career as a professional photographer. He had the opportunity to photograph big celebrities such as Donna Summer , Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Will Smith, and Halle Berry. Casilli's style is said to have been iconic and defined the photography of the 1980s. From 1962 until 1981 he photographed fifty-seven Playmate pictorials, including Playmates of the Year Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
