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Tom Dolby
Tom Dolby (born January 17, 1975) is an American filmmaker, producer, and novelist. Dolby was the writer and co-director of the feature film ''Last Weekend''. He was also the director and co-writer of the film '' The Artist's Wife''. Dolby is the principal and founder of Water's End Productions, a Los Angeles–based production company that has produced films such as Luca Guadagnino's ''Call Me By Your Name'', Ira Sachs' ''Little Men'', Matt Tyrnauer's ''Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood'', and Nia DaCosta's '' Little Woods''. Early life and education Tom Dolby was born on January 17, 1975, in London, England. He grew up in San Francisco, California. He is the son of American businessman and engineer Ray Dolby and NARAL Pro-Choice America activist and fundraiser Dagmar Dolby. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1994 and Yale University in 1998. Career Tom Dolby's debut novel, ''The Trouble Boy'', concerns a young gay screenwriter in Manhattan. It was followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotchkiss School
The Hotchkiss School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. It educates approximately 600 students in grades 9–12, plus postgraduates. Founded in 1891, it was one of the first English-style boarding schools in the United States and an early proponent of student financial aid, having accepted scholarship students since its inception. Hotchkiss is a member of the Eight Schools Association and Ten Schools Admission Organization, two groups of American boarding schools. It was also a founding member of the G20 Schools group, an international association of college-preparatory high schools. The school's list of notable alumni includes Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, Nobel laureate Dickinson Richards, Morgan Stanley co-founder Harold Stanley, and Yale University president A. Whitney Griswold. History Early years and developing reputation In 1891, Maria Hotchkiss, the heir to her late husband Benjamin's armaments for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa De La Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz (born September 7, 1971) is a Filipina-American writer known for young adult fiction. Her young-adult series include ''Au Pairs'', the '' Blue Bloods'', and ''The Beauchamp Family''. Early life and education Melissa de la Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines and says that she has wanted to be an author since she was eleven years old. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 13, in 1985, and they settled in San Francisco, where she graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. She went on to study art history and English at Columbia University in New York City."About Melissa" Melissa-delacruz.com. Retrieved 2010-10-03. After graduation she worked as a computer consultant. Personal life De la Cruz is married to Michael Johnston, another wr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cross (actor)
Joseph Michael Cross (born May 28, 1986) is an American actor and producer. He began work as a child actor, starring in the 1998 films '' Desperate Measures'', '' Wide Awake'', and '' Jack Frost''. He won the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture for '' Running with Scissors'' (2006), and co-starred in '' Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006), '' Untraceable'' (2008), ''Milk'' (2008), and '' Lincoln'' (2012). From 1999 to 2004, Cross starred as Casey Hughes in the CBS soap opera ''As the World Turns''. In 2017, he appeared in the HBO limited series '' Big Little Lies'' and the Netflix crime drama series '' Mindhunter''. Early life Cross was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Maureen (née Toumey), a real estate agent, and Michael J. Cross, who worked in marketing. He has four siblings. Cross grew up in Pelham, New York, and attended Pelham Middle School and Pelham Memorial High School. For his undergraduate studies, Cross transferred from Hartford's Trinity C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Booth
Zachary Booth (born 1983) is an American actor. He appeared in several productions with the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire, before starring in The N's ''What Goes On'' and on FX's ''Damages''. Booth is a 2004 BFA graduate of the University of Michigan. Career Booth had supporting roles in the films ''Assassination of a High School President'' alongside Mischa Barton, and '' The Marc Pease Experience'' with Ben Stiller. In 2009, he had a role in the Ang Lee film '' Taking Woodstock'' as a member of a hippie naturist group. In fall/winter of 2008, Booth co-starred alongside Tony award winners Victoria Clark and Michelle Park and Tony nominee Jonathan Groff in ''Prayer for My Enemy'', a new play by Craig Lucas at the Off-Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons in New York City. During the same year, he played the role of Gary in '' Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist''. In September 2010, he starred in the New York production of the new Edward Albee play ''Me, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Born and raised in New Orleans to a politician mother and school administrator father, Clarkson earned a degree in drama from Fordham University before attending the Yale School of Drama, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree. She made her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's mob drama '' The Untouchables'' (1987), followed by a supporting role in Buddy Van Horn's '' The Dead Pool'' (1988). After appearing in minor roles in the early and mid-1990s, she garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a drug-addicted actress in the independent drama '' High Art'' (1998). She appeared in numerous sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SundanceTV
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channel operates independently of both the Institute and the Sundance Film Festival. Originally, Sundance was dedicated largely to airing documentaries, independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The channel has since incorporated both original and acquired programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with programming being edited for content soon thereafter. , Sundance is available to approximately 54,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2017 peak of 71,000,000 households. History As Sundance Channel (1996–2014) After negotiations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Wonder (production Company)
World of Wonder Productions (WOW) is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions with a key focus on LGBTQ topics. Together, Barbato and Bailey have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, BBC, Netflix, MTV and VH1, with credits including the ''Million Dollar Listing'' docuseries, ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', and the documentary films'' The Eyes of Tammy Faye'' (2000) and '' Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures'' (2016). World of Wonder is best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known production is ''RuPaul's Drag Race.'' They have managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul since the early 1990s, eventually producing the television franchise alongside the majority of its live shows, po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
''Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys'' is an American reality television series that premiered on December 7, 2010, on the Sundance Channel. The series chronicles the lives of four gay men and their female best friends. Season 2, which saw the show relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, premiered November 18, 2011. Cast Season 1 * Elisa and David - Elisa Casas owns a vintage clothing store, Chelsea Girl, in SoHo and David Munk manages it. They met while living across the hall from each other in the Weinstein dormitory at New York University. * Sarah and Joel - Sarah Rose is a travel writer and the author of ''For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History''. Joel Derfner is the author of two books, ''Gay Haiku'' and ''Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead''. He also composes musicals. * Rosebud and Sahil - Rosebud Baker is an actress. She and Sahil Farooqi met in college in Virginia. As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff (born January 17, 1969) is an American writer, editor, and teacher. His debut novel, '' The Danish Girl'', was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2015, while his third novel, '' The 19th Wife'', was adapted into a television movie of the same name in 2010. Writing career Ebershoff published his first novel, ''The Danish Girl'', in 2000. It is inspired by the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to have gender reassignment surgery. The novel won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award and an American Library Association Award, and a '' New York Times Notable Book of the Year.'' An international bestseller, it has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. In 2015, producer Gail Mutrux adapted the novel into an Oscar-winning film also called ''The Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgianne Levangie
Georgianne "Gigi" Levangie; January 2, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. She has written numerous screenplays but is most widely known for the film '' Stepmom'', starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Levangie Grazer is also the author of a number of ''New York Times'' best-selling novels including ''The Starter Wife'', ''Maneater'', ''Queen Takes King'', and ''The After Wife''. Biography Levangie was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she lived most of her life on the Eastside of Hollywood. She played violin in a junior orchestra and was also voted Class Clown at LeConte Junior High. She was a student at Hollywood High when she gave up violin to become a cheerleader. She attended UCLA, where she majored in political science. Gigi reportedly never joined a sorority at UCLA because she couldn't afford it as well as not being able to stand authority, especially from "smug rich kids." Her Hollywood career began as an intern on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Doonan
Simon Doonan (born 1952 Simon Doonan, '''', 15 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012) is an author, television personality, and the former Creative Director of Barneys NY. Biography Doonan comes from the English town of . His first retail job was a summer position at Heelas, a |
Cindy Chupack
Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter and film director who has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/executive producer of HBO's ''Sex and the City'' and writer/co-executive producer of ABC's ''Modern Family''. Early years Chupack was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, living there until she graduated from Edison Preparatory School. Although she moved away, and currently lives in California, she says she maintains close ties to her high school friends, many of whom still live in Tulsa. She still credits her third-grade teacher, Virginia Davis, at Waite Phillips Elementary School, by praising her skill at writing. Chupack said in an interview that this encouraged her to pursue her dream of becoming a professional writer. Career Several episodes she penned—namely, ''Sex and the City''s "Evolution", "Attack of the 5'10" Woman", "Just Say Yes", "Plus One is the Loneliest Number", "I Love a Charade", and "Splat!", and ''Modern Family''s "Little Bo Bleep"—we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
