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When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
''When Zachary Beaver Came to Town'' is a 2003 American Comedy drama, comedy-drama film directed by John Schultz (director), John Schultz and starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Cody Linley. It was film adaptation, adapted from a National Book Award-winning children's novel of the same name by Kimberly Willis Holt."National Book Awards – 1999" National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-14. (With acceptance speech by Willis Holt.) Plot Toby Wilson (Jonathan Lipnicki) is a boy who lives with his parents in the small, sleepy town of Granger, Texas, but his mother runs off to Nashville to try to become a singer. On one summer, Toby's life changes when he and his best friend Cal McKnight (Cody Linley) meet a fat sideshow freak named Zachary Beaver (Sasha Neulinger), who has n ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schultz (director)
John Schultz is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and former musician. Biography Schultz started his writing and directing career with the documentary ''The Making of 'Jurassic Park (1995) but has since directed such films as ''Bandwagon (film), Bandwagon'', ''Drive Me Crazy'', ''Like Mike'', ''When Zachary Beaver Came to Town'', ''The Honeymooners (2005 film), The Honeymooners'', ''Aliens in the Attic'', ''Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer'', ''A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding'', and ''Adventures in Babysitting (2016 film), Adventures in Babysitting'', a Disney Channel Original Movie. Prior to his career in film, Schultz was the original drummer of The Connells, a Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, band. He left in 1985. References External links *John Schultz and Doug MacMillan: The streak lives on American film producers American male screenwriters Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Writers from Raleigh, N ... [...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] |
2003 Direct-to-video Films
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Browning Smith
Daniel Browning Smith, also known as The Rubberboy (born May 8, 1979), is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and a stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history, owning a total of seven ''Guinness World Records''. Smith owes his flexibility to the genetic condition hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Early life Smith was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. He has one sister and one brother. He was inspired by contortionists since the age of four, giving him the dream of becoming the world's best one. At this time, Daniel began to jump off the top bunk bed and land in a straddle split, much to the amazement of his family. Later, in his teen years, he began street performing with this technique to attract people's attention. When Smith turned 18, he joined the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus before beginning contortion training under Master Lu Yi at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. Ehlers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Perryman
Louis Byron Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor. He acted in a number of small roles both on television and in films such as ''The Blues Brothers'', ''Poltergeist'', '' Boys Don't Cry'' and ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2''. He was a film crew member on the original ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' film. In the sequel ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'', he portrayed L.G., the radio station manager. Perryman also starred in Texas independent filmmaker Eagle Pennell's '' The Whole Shootin' Match'' and '' Last Night at the Alamo''. Death Perryman was killed in his home in Austin, Texas Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and W ..., on April 1, 2009, by a 26-year-old man named Seth Christopher Tatum. Tatum, who had rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan (born March 27, 1969) is an American character actor. He has appeared mostly in independent films and television since the 1990s, including as Uncle Eddie on the sitcom '' Grounded for Life'' (2001–2005). His film appearances include supporting roles in '' Goodfellas'' (1990), '' Rhythm Thief'' (1994), '' Walking and Talking'' (1996), '' Henry Fool'' (1997), ''The Departed'' (2006), '' Superbad'' (2007), '' Pineapple Express'' (2008), ''Seven Psychopaths'' (2012), '' The King of Staten Island'' (2020), and co-starring roles in '' Big Fan'' (2009) and ''Results'' (2015). He has been twice nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Life and career Corrigan was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City. After studying at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, he made his film debut in 1989 in ''Lost Angels'', starring Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz. He was cast in '' Goodfellas'' as the younger brother of Henry Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has Mexico-United States border, an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has Texas Gulf Coast, a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state List of U.S. states and territories by area, by area and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population. Texas is nicknamed the ''Lone Star State'' for its former status as the independent Republic of Texas. Spain was the first European country to Spanish Texas, claim and control Texas. Following French colonization of Texas, a short-lived colony controlled by France, Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin, Texas
Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the Metropolitan statistical area, 26th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the List of United States cities by population, 13th-most populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, fifth-most populous city in the state after Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 in Texas, I-35 corridor. This combined metropolitan region of San Antonio–Austin met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Onion
''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. ''The Onion'' began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the '' Onion News Network''. In 2013, ''The Onion'' stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. ''The Onion'' was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged ''The Onion'' and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group. This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media. Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold ''The Onion'' to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun '' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Like Mike
''Like Mike'' is a 2002 American sports comedy film directed by John Schultz and written by Michael Elliot and Jordan Moffet. Starring Lil' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brenda Song, Robert Forster, Crispin Glover, and Eugene Levy, the film follows an orphan who gets basketball talents after finding an old pair of sneakers that once belonged to Michael Jordan. It was produced by NBA Productions, and features cameo appearances by NBA players. The film was released on July 3, 2002, by 20th Century Fox, three years after Jordan left the Chicago Bulls, one year before Jordan retired for the third (and last) time from the NBA, and during his playing career with the Washington Wizards (Jordan's first retirement was 1993). ''Like Mike'' received mixed reviews from critics. In later years, the film became a fan favorite among basketball fans. Plot 13-year-old Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends, Murph and Reg Stevens, live in an orphanage in Los Angeles. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
