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Family Man
Family Man may refer to: Film * ''The Family Man'' (1979 film), American drama starring Ed Asner *''The Family Man'', American 2000 romantic comedy/drama starring Nicolas Cage *'' A Family Man'', American 2016 drama starring Gerard Butler Television *"The Family Man", March 9, 1954 episode of American TV series ''The Motorola Television Hour''#Episode list * ''Family Man'' (American TV series), 1988 American sitcom starring Richard Libertini and Mimi Kennedy * ''The Family Man'' (American TV series), 1990–91 American sitcom starring Gregory Harrison * ''Family Man'' (Hong Kong TV series), 2002 Hong Kong drama * ''The Family Man'' (British TV series), 2006 British three-part medical drama * "Family Man" (''Fear Itself''), June 19, 2008 episode of American TV series ''Fear Itself'' * ''The Family Man'' (Indian TV series), 2019 Indian action drama Literature Comics * "Family Man", daily strip created in 1940 by Reginald Ernest ("Reg") Hicks for The Sun (Sydney) * ''Family Man'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Man (1979 Film)
''The Family Man'' is a 1979 television film, directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Ed Asner and Meredith Baxter Birney. Plot Asner plays a prosperous Irish-born New Yorker who falls in love with a young pianist and is tempted to be unfaithful to his wife for the first time. Cast *Edward Asner as Eddie Madden *Meredith Baxter Birney as Mercedes Cole *Anne Jackson as Maggie Madden *Dick Latessa as Fred * Michael Kirby as Walter *Michael Wincott as Charlie *Martin Short as Louie * Gordon Thomson as Dance Instructor *Michael Ironside as Bartender Reception Writing in 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 ...'', Tom Buckley gave the film a bad review, calling the script "resolutely undramatic, stilted and humorless", the directing "like stretching taffy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Machlin
Milt Machlin (June 26, 1924 – April 3, 2004) was an American journalist, author and adventurer. He helped popularize the phrases "Bermuda Triangle" and "Abominable Snowman" and led an expedition to attempt to find Michael Rockefeller, who disappeared in New Guinea in 1961. Biography Machlin was born in New York City in 1924. In 1943, after one year of college, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Asia Pacific theatre. After the war, he earned a degree from Brown University and a second degree from the Sorbonne in Paris, where his roommate was Irish poet Brendan Behan. He began his career as a journalist for Agence France Presse then as an editor for adventure magazine '' Argosy''. It was during his time at ''Argosy'' that helped popularize the phrases "The Bermuda Triangle" and "Abominable Snowman". Search for Rockefeller In 1969, Machlin traveled to the jungles of Papua New Guinea in an attempt to learn the fate of Michael Rockefeller, son of then-New York Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Man (Black Flag Album)
''Family Man'' is the third album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. Released in 1984 through SST Records, it features spoken word tracks by vocalist Henry Rollins and jazz-indebted instrumental tracks. It is also the first album to feature bassist Kira Roessler. "Armageddon Man" is the only track on the album in which Rollins and the instruments are together. The album, along with spoken word recordings by Jello Biafra following the break-up of Dead Kennedys, is credited for introducing "alternative" spoken word to a larger audience. Music and composition The album features one LP side of spoken word performances from Henry Rollins and another of instrumental music from the Black Flag lineup of guitarist Greg Ginn, bassist Kira Roessler and drummer Bill Stevenson. AllMusic's Pemberton Roach, who described the record as Black Flag's most "experimental", compared the spoken word material to Jim Morrison's works on live The Doors releases. AllAboutJazz's Trevor Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Man (Mike Oldfield Song)
"Family Man" is a pop rock song written by Mike Oldfield, Tim Cross, Rick Fenn, Mike Frye, Morris Pert, and Maggie Reilly. It became a hit song in 1982 for Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly as the vocalist. Daryl Hall and John Oates achieved success a year later with their cover version. In 2009, Maggie Reilly recorded another version of the song for her solo studio album ''Looking Back Moving Forward''. Mike Oldfield version Background The song "Family Man" was first recorded and released as a single by musician Mike Oldfield in 1982 on Virgin Records. It was taken from his studio album ''Five Miles Out'', with vocals performed by Maggie Reilly. In the UK the single was released as a standard black 7-inch vinyl and a 7-inch picture disc featuring a photographic portrait of Oldfield. The single cover depicts a scene where a gentleman in a black suit sitting at a bar, being approached from behind by a woman in a red outfit. Lyrical content According to an interview in 1998, Oldfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Man (Jaki Byard Album)
''Family Man'' is an album by pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1978 and released on the Muse label. accessed July 30, 2012 Reception awarded the album 3 stars with a review stating, "A typically stimulating and eclectic program of music by Jaki Byard".Yanow, SAllmusic Review accessed July 30, 2012 Track listing ''All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated'' # "Just Rollin' Along" - 8:07 # " |
In The Pocket (James Taylor Album)
''In the Pocket'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor and his last to be released under Warner Bros. Records before signing with Columbia. Released in June 1976, the album found Taylor recording in the studio with many colleagues and friends, mainly Art Garfunkel (who duetted with him on "A Junkie's Lament" and also contributed vocals on "Captain Jim's Drunken Dream"), Carly Simon (Taylor's wife, who harmonised with him on "Shower the People"), Stevie Wonder (who wrote with Taylor the song "Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down", a song on which he also played the harmonica) and David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt, and Bonnie Raitt, among others. The result of the sessions, which took place between late 1975 and early '76, was a very melodic album and one of his most diverse and polished, highlighted with the single " Shower the People", which through the years became a Taylor standard and concert favorite. Released as a single, the track peaked at #22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called '' The Forsyte Saga'', and two later trilogies, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of the Chapter''. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born to a prosperous upper-middle-class family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was published in 1897, and did not achieve real success until 1906, when '' The Man of Property'', the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published. In the same year his first play, '' The Silver Box'' was staged in London. As a dramatist, he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other themes, the struggle of workers against exploitation, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the repression of women, jingoism and the politics and morality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012) and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008). Early life and education Calvin Trillin was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1935 to Edythe and Abe Trillin. In his book ''Messages from My Father'', he said his parents called him "Buddy". Raised Jewish, he attended public schools in Kansas City, graduated from Southwest High School, and went on to Yale University, where he was the roommate and friend of Peter M. Wolf (for whose 2013 memoir, ''My New Orleans, Gone Away'', he wrote a humorous foreword), and where he served as chair of the ''Yale Daily News'' and was a member of the Pundits and Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. Career After serving in the U.S. Army, Trillin worked as a reporter for ''Time'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Chambers (author)
Kimberley Chambers is an English novelist (born on 13 June 1967) who lives in Hornchurch, Greater London. She has published sixteen crime novels, including the Mitchells & O'Haras and Butlers series, which are mainly set in Essex or East London. She writes gritty, crime family sagas, laced with her trademark humour, most often from the perspective of the villain. Three of her novels – ''Payback'', ''Tainted Love'' and ''Life of Crime'' - have been ''Sunday Times'' Number One bestsellers. Life Chambers was born and brought up in Dagenham, Greater London. Her mother, Valerie, worked as a typist, and her father, Tom, was a steel erector. An only child, she attended John Perry Infants and Junior School and Dagenham Priory Comprehensive, but left without any O-Levels. She worked as a market trader on a ladies’ fashion stall in the legendary Roman Road market in the East End. She also worked as a pub DJ and as a mini-cab driver in Romford before writing her first novel, ''Billi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon (born 28 July 1969, London) is a British horror and dark fantasy writer. Life Lebbon was born in London. He lived in Devon until he was eight and then in Newport until the age of 26. He now lives in Goytre, Monmouthshire with his wife and two children. Career Lebbon's short story ″Reconstructing Amy″ won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001, his novel ''Dusk'' won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year. His novelization of the film ''30 Days of Night'' became a ''New York Times'' bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008. The film '' Pay the Ghost'' (2015) directed by Uli Edel and starring Nicolas Cage is based on Lebbon's short story of the same name. ''The Silence'' was made into a film by John R. Leonetti and was released 10 April 2019 on Netflix. Lebbon also made a cameo as a corpse in the film. His ''Firefly'' novel ''Generations'' (fourth in series) won the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elinor Lipman
Elinor Lipman (born October 16, 1950) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Early life and education Elinor Lipman was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts to a Jewish family. She is the second daughter of Julia M. and Louis S. Lipman. She attended public schools and graduated from Simmons College (now Simmons University) in 1972 with a BA in journalism. While still in college, Lipman worked as an intern for ''The Sun'', a daily newspaper in Lowell. Career During the 1970s she was a staff writer and editorial assistant for the Massachusetts Teachers Association's monthly newsletter, ''Massachusetts Teacher''. Lipman also worked for a time for Boston's public television station, WGBH, writing press releases. She credits the adult education creative writing class she took at Brandeis University in 1978 for propelling her into writing fiction. She began writing fiction in 1979, and her first short story, "Catering", was published in Yankee Magazine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Hannon
Irene Hannon (also known as Irene Hannon Gottlieb) is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. She was a communications executive with Anheuser-Busch. Early life and education Hannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Dorothy Morgan and James Patrick Hannon Sr., an Irish immigrant. She and her brother James, Jr. grew up in Brentwood, Missouri a suburb of St. Louis where she frequently spent time at the local library, eventually working there in high school and college. Hannon graduated from Rosati-Kain High School, a Catholic school. She then graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Saint Louis University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ... in Columbia. Career While working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
