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Beer League
''Artie Lange's Beer League'' (also known simply as ''Beer League'') is a 2006 American comedy film written and produced by, and starring, Artie Lange. It was released in select theaters on September 15, 2006, in the New Jersey, New York, Cleveland and Philadelphia areas. Plot Artie DeVanzo is an unemployed town drunk who plays softball with his buddies Maz and Johnny for Ed's Bar and Swill. Their arch-rival is Manganelli Fitness, led by Dennis Manganelli. After the teams brawl during the first game of the year, the town's police chief decides whichever team finishes best in the league that season can still play in the league, and whichever team loses is out for good. Artie lives at home with his mother and can never hold a job or a girlfriend for very long. After a night out with his pals, he ends up at a diner for late night food, where he sees old flame Linda Salvo out with her friends. Artie abandons his friends and starts some small talk with Linda, which results in a one-n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artie Lange
Arthur Steven Lange Jr. (born October 11, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio personality best known for his tenures on the sketch comedy series '' Mad TV'' from 1995 to 1997 and ''The Howard Stern Show'' from 2001 to 2009. Raised in New Jersey, Lange first worked as a longshoreman and taxi driver to help support his family, following the death of his quadriplegic father. He debuted as a stand-up comic in 1987 and took up the profession full-time five years later, developing his act on the New York City club circuit. In 1995, Lange moved to Los Angeles to star in ''Mad TV''. His arrest for cocaine possession during the second season led to his departure and subsequent rehabilitation. In 1997, Norm Macdonald chose Lange to co-star in his comedy film '' Dirty Work'' (1998), which secured Lange further acting roles, including a role on Macdonald's sitcom '' The Norm Show''. In 2001, Lange returned to New Jersey and joined ''The Howard Stern Show''; during thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was '' Too Late Blues'' (1961), followed by '' Faces'' (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award. Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's '' Minnie and Moskowitz'' (1971), '' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie'' (1976), '' Opening Night'' (1977), and '' Love Streams'' (1984). He also appeared in other notable films, including: '' Coogan's Bluff'' (1968), '' The Last Tycoon'' (1976), '' Valentino'' (1977), '' Convoy'' (1978), ''Johnny Be Good'' (1988), '' Mobsters'' (1991), '' In the Soup'' (1992), '' Honeymoon in Vegas'' (1992), '' Indecent Proposal'' (1993), '' The Sleepy Time Gal'' (2001), '' Imaginary Crimes'' (1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Null
Christopher Null (born September 7, 1971) is an American writer, journalist and entrepreneur. A former blogger for Yahoo! Tech, he was the editor of Drinkhacker.com, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Filmcritic.com, which operated from 1995 to 2012. He is also the former magazine editor for '' PC/Computing'' and the founder of Mobile PC magazine. Early life He was born on September 7, 1971, in Houston, Texas. He obtained an MBA at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Null has built a career spanning technology journalism, film criticism, and online publishing. He began his editorial career in technology, serving as Managing Reviews Editor for '' LAN Times'' in the late 1990s before advancing to '' Smart Business'' (formerly ''PC Computing''), where he held roles as Reviews Editor and Executive Editor from 1998 to 2002. Null then became Editor-in-Chief of ''New Architect'' magazine from 2002 to 2003 and led ''Mobile PC'' (later ''Mobile'') magazine as Editor-in-Chief ... [...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] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box-office Bomb
A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to produce, but nevertheless failed commercially. Originally, a "bomb" had the opposite meaning, referring instead to a successful film that "exploded" at the box office. The term continued to be used this way in the United Kingdom into the 1970s. Causes Negative word of mouth With the advent of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in the 2000s, word of mouth regarding new films is easily spread and has had a marked effect on box office performance. A film's ability or failure to attract positive or negative commentary can strongly impact its performance at the box office, espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick DiPaolo
Nicholas Rocco Di Paolo (born January 31, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, radio personality and podcast host. He is the host of ''The Nick Di Paolo Show'' podcast, and is best known for his appearances as a regular on '' Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn'', the '' Comedy Central Roasts'', '' The Chris Rock Show'', '' Opie and Anthony'', and ''The Howard Stern Show'', as well as recurring roles on '' Louie'', '' Grace Under Fire'', '' Tru TV's World's Dumbest'', and '' Horace and Pete''. Early life Di Paolo was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Danvers, the son of Nick and Joan Di Paolo. In 1980, after graduating from high school, he attended the University of Maine where he was a running back on the university's football team and graduated in 1984 with a major in marketing. He joined the fraternity Sigma Nu. His brother also attended the university and did play-by-play commentary for the Maine Black Bears hockey team with Gary Thorne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (; born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. Known for her comedic roles in sketch comedy, television and film, Fey has received List of awards and nominations received by Tina Fey, numerous accolades, including nine Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. She appeared on the Time 100, ''Time'' 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in both 2007 and 2009 and was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010. Fey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based Improvisational theatre, improvisational comedy group The Second City. She joined the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1997 to 2006 where she served as a head writer, a performer, and co-anchor of ''Weekend Update''. She later returned to the show portraying a Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin, satirical version of 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Barry
Todd Barry (born March 26, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian and actorZinoman, Jason (March 21, 2012)How a Master of Stand-Up Sells the Joke.''New York Times'' best known for his "bone-dry" and extremely sarcastic deadpan delivery. He grew up in Florida but lives in New York city where he was born. During the mid 1980s, Barry played drums with the indie rock band The Chant. His first Comedy Central special "Super Crazy" was aired in 1999 and since then he has released several other comedy albums, including his 2016 critically acclaimed and fan favourite "The Crowd Work Tour". Barry has appeared in numerous films and television roles, most notably in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' (as the staff writer Keith), ''Flight of the Conchords'' (as the "Third Conchord"), and '' Louie'' (as himself). Life and career Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Breuer
James Breuer (born June 21, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, and actor. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1995 to 1998 and starred in the film ''Half Baked'' (1998). Career Breuer was a member of the cast of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1995 to 1998, playing characters such as Joe Pesci and Goat Boy. He went on to host ''The Jim Breuer Show'' after leaving ''SNL''. Breuer regularly tours as a comedian. Footage of his 2008 tour was used in his documentary ''More Than Me'' and in his four-hour DVD program ''The Jim Breuer Road Journals''. In September 2021, he cancelled shows at venues requiring COVID-19 vaccination in New Jersey and Michigan and has stated that he will not perform at venues with such requirements. In 2023, Breuer appeared as a featured speaker on the ReAwaken America Tour. During one appearance, Breuer received backlash for mocking the collapse of football player Damar Hamlin; he suggested the collapse was caused by COVID-19 vacci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Lombardi
Louis Lombardi (born January 17, 1968) is an American actor known for his roles in ''The Sopranos'', ''Fantasy Island'', and ''24'' and also as the bartender in ''Battleship''. Early life Lombardi was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of Louis Lombardi Sr. Career On television, Lombardi had a recurring role on ''The Sopranos'' as Agent Skip Lipari, and guest starred on such shows as ''Chuck'', '' Entourage'', '' Heroes'' and '' CSI''. He was a cast member of a 1990s revival of '' Fantasy Island'' and played Edgar Stiles on '' 24''. He also played Stucky Fein in the short-lived television show '' Mob City''. He has had roles in films including '' Beer League'', ''The Usual Suspects'', '' Natural Born Killers'', '' Suicide Kings'', '' Beverly Hills Cop III'', '' The Animal'', '' Spider-Man 2'', '' 3000 Miles to Graceland'', '' The Crew'', '' The Hot Chick'', '' The Spirit'', ''Battleship A battleship is a large, heavily naval armour, armored warship with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Birdsong
Mary Evans Birdsong (born April 18, 1968) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and singer. In addition to her work in theater and voice acting, she was a regular cast member on '' Reno 911!'' and appeared in the HBO series '' Succession''. Early life Birdsong was born in Florida and grew up on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, one of five sisters. She graduated from Southern Regional High School in 1986. Birdsong is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she earned a BFA in acting. Career Film and television Birdsong made her on-screen debut in the 1996 TV film ''Live On Tape''. She is best known as Deputy Cherisha Kimball on the comedy series '' Reno 911!'' (2005–2007, 2020–2022) and its two spin-off movies in 2007 and 2021. She is also known for playing Nancy McDonald in Rob Zombie's '' Halloween II'' and Kai Mitchell opposite George Clooney in the Alexander Payne film '' The Descendants''. She appeared alongside Adrien Brody in the stoner comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
