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Alan Arkin
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Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director, musician, and singer. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his performances in The Russians Are Coming and he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Argo. Arkin was born Alan Wolf Arkin in Brooklyn, New York City] on March 26,1934, Arkin, a painter and writer, and his wife, Beatrice, a teacher. He was raised in a Jewish family with no emphasis on religion and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany. His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11, during the 1950s Red Scare, Arkins parents were accused of being Communists, and his father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he was vindicated only after his death, Arkin attended Los Angeles City College from 1951 to 1953. With two friends, he formed the music group The Tarriers, in which Arkin sang. It reached #4 on the Billboard magazine chart the year as Harry Belafontes better-known hit version. The group appeared in the 1957 Calypso-exploitation film Calypso Heat Wave, singing Banana Boat Song, from 1958 to 1968, Arkin performed and recorded with the childrens folk group, The Baby Sitters. He also performed the role of Dr. Pangloss in a staging of Leonard Bernsteins operetta Candide, alongside Madeline Kahns Cunegonde. Arkin was an member of the Second City comedy troupe in the 1960s. Arkin is one of six actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. Two years later, he was nominated, for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In 1968, he appeared in the role of Inspector Clouseau after Peter Sellers disassociated himself from the role. His portrayal of Dr. Oatman, a scared and emotionally conflicted psychiatrist treating John Cusacks hit man character Martin Q, Blank in Grosse Point Blank was also well received. At 72 years old, Arkin was the sixth oldest winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, on Broadway, Arkin starred in Enter Laughing and Luv. He also directed The Sunshine Boys, among others, in 1969, Arkins directorial debut was a 12-minute childrens film titled People Soup, starring his sons Adam and Matthew Arkin. His most acclaimed directorial effort is Little Murders, released in 1971, the film opened to a lukewarm review by Roger Greenspan, and a more positive one by Vincent Canby in the New York Times
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LaTanya Richardson
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LaTanya Richardson, often listed as LaTanya Richardson Jackson, is an American actress and producer. She began her career appearing in off-Broadway, before playing supporting roles on television and film. Richardson has appeared in films include Fried Green Tomatoes, Malcolm X, Sleepless in Seattle, When a Man Loves a Woman, Losing Isaiah, Lone Star, U. S. Marshals, and The Fighting Temptations. Her television credits include Show Me a Hero, Luke Cage and she was born in Atlanta, Georgia. While a student at Atlantas Spelman College in 1974, she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, then at all-male Morehouse College and she and Jackson married in 1980. They have one child, freelance film and TV producer Zoe Jackson, after her daughters birth, Richardson stopped working regularly, because, she said, “We’d vowed to be an intact revolutionary black family. But it was very, very hard. ”To date, Richardsons biggest role in a picture was in the 2003 musical The Fighting Temptations in which she appears as the main antagonist. This was her appearance on Broadway after her debut in the 2009 revival of Joe Turners Come. LaTanya Richardson at the Internet Movie Database LaTanya Richardson at the Internet Broadway Database
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A&E Networks
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A&E Networks is an American media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U. S. and abroad. A&E stands for Arts & Entertainment, the company is a joint venture with Hearst and Disney-ABC Television Group, a unit of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Thus A&Es shareholders were Hearst & ABC and Radio City Music Hall and RCA, the company launched Arts & Entertainment Network, a cultural cable channel, on February 1,1984. In 1991, the company launched the A&E Monthly general entertainment magazine, in June 1993, the Rockefeller Groups Radio City Music Hall sold its 12. 5% stake in A&E to the other three partners with NBC owning 25% and the other two 37. 5% each. Also that month, a new unit was set up. The A&E channel expanded to Canada, and later Mexico from 1993 to 1994, Biography began airing 5 nights a week in 1994. Also in 1994, A&E, on its 10th anniversary, changed its name from Arts, the A&E company launched The History Channel on January 1,1995 with its U. K. counterpart following on November 1 in partnership with British Sky Broadcasting. A&E Networks considered THC to be the driver in international expansion due to lack of rights to A&E international co-productions. As expected, the History Channel led A&Es overseas expansion in Brazil with TVA, formerly only direct sales, A&E Home Video initiated a six-month trial in which Barnes & Noble would sell the Biography line in stores and becoming permanent in 1996. THC debuted in two other media in September 1996 with a program on ABC Radio Networks and Border Books stocking THC videos, during the 1998-1999 season, Biography, American Justice and Biography Movies debuted. THC expanded in 1998 into tours of U. S. landmarks with Mayflower Tours having a website, a show History Channel Traveler. While in October, THC and Madison Square Garden Network teamed up to produce several short-form sports history programs, A+E spun out its first two digital cable channels in November 1998 with The Biography Channel and History Channel International from A&E and The History Channel. A&E was spending $10 million per year to convert to the digital format, AETN All Asia Networks was formed on April 2007 through a joint venture between A&E Television Networks and Malaysias pay TV provider Astro Overseas Limited. In August 2009, A&E TV Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services, following the deal, Disney and Hearst each held approximately 42% of the combined company, while NBC Universal retained approximately 16%. The deal included mechanisms by which NBCU could choose, or alternatively be forced to, AETN and Network 18 Group In August 2010 formed a joint venture, AETN-18 India, which would first launch the History and Bio channels in India. In May 2011, A&E Television Networks changed its name to A+E Networks. A&E dropped TV as their brands had move beyond just the TV channel, in July 2012, NBCUniversal confirmed plans to divest its 15. 8% stake in A+E Networks by way of a share repurchase by A+E, making Disney and Hearst 50-50 partners in the joint venture. In August 2012, A+E switched distribution for their series and movies from New Video Group to Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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FremantleMedia
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FremantleMedia Group Limited is a British international television content and production/distribution subsidiary of Bertelsmanns RTL Group, Europes largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, early on, it merged with Germanys largest television production company, UFA. The company holds the rights to such as Lets Make a Deal, Family Feud. Fremantle also produced Temptation and an interactive gameshow Quizmania for ITV Play and they own the rights to most of the post 1948 Bob Hope film catalog that includes The Seven Little Foys, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Son of Paleface. They were also the distributors of the television series Baywatch, currently, they hold rights to the game Brain Wall, more commonly known as Hole in the Wall in over 20 countries. In other countries, they own the rights to Betty La Fea in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sara in Belgium. FremantleMedia also holds international rights to the Threes Company franchise. The company also owns the catalog of the American TV production company Reeves Entertainment. FremantleMedia bought a share of the Canadian video game development company Ludia in October 2010. The Pet Collective was Launched online in April 2012, and is a producer of animal-friendly content that celebrates the connection between animals and their human companions. On January 30,2014, FremantleMedia was in negotiations to acquire rival All3Media, on March 26,2014, FremantleMedia acquired a 75% stake in 495 Productions, with an option to acquire the remaining 25% in the near future. FremantleMedias US production & distribution division is FremantleMedia North America,495 Productions has specialized in developing programs. In November 2011, it was announced that FremantleMedia were to reorganise the British operations from 1 January 2012, talkback Thames brand would be split into four different labels within the newly created FremantleMedia UK production arm, Boundless for factual programming. FremantleMedias old Website FremantleMedias 2nd original website FremantleMedias original Website FremantleMedias website FremantleMedia Australias website
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A&E (TV channel)
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The channel originally focused programming on biographies, documentaries, and drama series but has later expanded to include reality television programming. As of July 2015, the A&E network is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households in the United States, the U. S. version of the channel is shown in Canada while international versions exist for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. A&E launched on February 1,1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U. S. the network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/ABCs Alpha Repertory Television Service and RCA-owned The Entertainment Channel. When A&E debuted, the took over the satellite transponder timeslot that ARTS occupied from its launch in 1981. Childrens television channel Nickelodeon signed off just before 9 p. m. Eastern Time, and A&E took over at 9 p. m. with a programming block. However, some cable providers continued to carry Nickelodeon and A&E on the same channel and it was not until the early 1990s that these companies found separate channels for both networks. A&E was envisioned as a counterpart to PBS, and in its early days focused on such PBS-style programming as the Leonard Bernstein Fidelio. By 1990, A&Es original programming accounted for 35 to 40 percent of the program content. The comedy series An Evening at the Improv built a young audience in the late 80s. Also, Comedy On the Road won a CableACE Award, both series were produced by Larry ODaly, A&Es signature show was Biography, a one-hour documentary series that A&E revived in 1987. In 1994, airings of Biography went from weekly broadcasts to airing five nights a week, the nightly series became A&Es top-rated show and one of cable televisions most notable successes. Biography received Primetime Emmy Awards in 1999 and 2002, in its first decade, A&E had limited advertising, with fewer commercials at the time, mostly for A&E programs and its magazine. Beginning in the mid-90s, advertising was increased substantially on the channel, in May 1995, the channels name officially changed to the A&E Network, to reflect its declining focus on arts and entertainment. By 1996, the network had branded itself as simply A&E, even the arts patron often finds arts on TV not as satisfying as it should be. And the word entertainment is too vague, therefore, much like ESPN uses its letters rather than what they stand for – Entertainment Sports Network – we decided to go to just A&E. The network created two original weekly series, Sidney Lumets 100 Centre Street and Nero Wolfe, both of which lasted from 2001 to 2002. In May 2003, A&E launched a campaign with the networks new tagline. In addition, A&E had garnered favorable notice for true-crime documentary series such as Cold Case Files, American Justice, City Confidential, Investigative Reports, the network also cut back on its broadcasts of Biography from originally twice daily to weekend mornings only
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Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Arthur Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood states that Lumet was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the modern era and he was noted by Turner Classic Movies for his strong direction of actors, vigorous storytelling and the social realism in his best work. Film critic Roger Ebert described him as having one of the finest craftsmen. Lumet was also known as an director, having worked with the best of them during his career. Sean Connery, who acted in five of his films, considered him one of his directors. A member of the cohort of New Yorks Actors Studio, Lumet began his directorial career in Off-Broadway productions. His first movie was typical of his best work, a well-acted, tightly written, as a result of directing 12 Angry Men, he was also responsible for leading the first wave of directors who made a successful transition from TV to movies. In 2005, Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, two years later, he concluded his career with the acclaimed drama Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead. A few months after Lumets death in April 2011, a celebration of his work was held at New Yorks Lincoln Center with the appearance of numerous speakers. In 2015, Nancy Buirski directed By Sidney Lumet, a documentary about his career, Lumet was born in Philadelphia to parents of Jewish descent. He studied theater acting at the Professional Childrens School of New York, Lumets parents, Baruch and Eugenia Lumet, were both veterans of the Yiddish theatre. His father, who was an actor, director, producer and writer, was a Polish Jewish emigrant to the United States who was born in Warsaw, Lumets mother, who was a dancer, died when he was a child. He made his debut on radio at age four and stage debut at the Yiddish Art Theatre at age five. As a child he appeared in many Broadway plays, including 1935s Dead End. In 1935, aged 11, he appeared in a Henry Lynn short film, Papirossen, the film was shown in a theatrical play with the same title, based on a hit song, Papirosn. The play and short film appeared in the Bronx McKinley Square Theatre, in 1939, he made his only feature-length film appearance, at age 15, in. One Third of a Nation. In 1939, World War II interrupted his acting career
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Bobby Cannavale
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Robert Bobby Cannavale is an American actor known for his leading role as Bobby Caffey in the first two seasons of the crime drama series Third Watch. In 2016, he starred in the HBO drama series Vinyl, produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger. For his roles in Mauritius and The Motherfucker with the Hat, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Cannavale has appeared in The Station Agent, Shall We Dance. Snakes on a Plane, The Other Guys, Woody Allens Blue Jasmine, Chef, the remake of Annie, Paul Feigs Spy, Cannavale was born and raised in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Isabel and Sal Cannavale. His father is of Italian descent, while his mother is Cuban and he was raised Catholic and attended St. Michaels Catholic School, where he participated in a number of extracurricular activities, including being an altar boy and member of the chorus. Cannavales parents divorced when he was 13 and his mother moved the family to Puerto Rico, after two years in the American territory, they settled in Margate, Florida. Cannavale returned to New Jersey after barely eking out a school diploma in the late 1980s from Coconut Creek High School, in order to be closer to New York. Following this, in 2001, he starred with Alan Arkin in 100 Centre Street – which was written and directed by Sidney Lumet, in 2002, he joined the cast of Ally McBeal for the last five episodes, but the show was then cancelled. Following this, he starred with Yancey Arias and Sheryl Lee in the miniseries Kingpin, in 2003, Cannavale briefly appeared on the last two episodes of Oz. He also appeared in the film The Station Agent as a man who befriends a little removed from society. From 2004 to 2006, he had a recurring guest role on Will & Grace as Vince DAngelo, for this role, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005. He appeared in The Take alongside John Leguizamo and Tyrese Gibson, as Agent Steve Perelli. Cannavale serves as the voice of Corado R. Ciarlo, known as Babe, in the Ken Burns PBS film series The War from the perspective of the men who fought in combat and their loved ones at home. He also read the audiobook versions of Richard Prices 2008 novel Lush Life, on August 25,2008, ABC ordered his pilot Cupid, a remake of the 1998 program which had starred Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall, to series. In the new version of the series, Cannavale starred opposite Sarah Paulson with script development overseen by original series creator Rob Thomas, ABC debuted Cupid on March 31,2009, but it was cancelled on May 19,2009. In 2008, he received a Tony Award nomination for his role as Dennis in the Broadway play, in 2009, CBS announced Cannavale would reprise his role of Det. Eddie Saccardo on the show, Cold Case, for three episodes, starting with the third episode of Season 7. Cannavale was also in the film Win Win in 2011, as Terry Delfino and he later starred in the Broadway play The Motherfucker With the Hat alongside Chris Rock and Annabella Sciorra
