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Farrelly brothers
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Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, collectively referred to as the Farrelly brothers, are American screenwriters and directors. The brothers were raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island and are of Irish descent, following college they pursued careers as television writers, notably for Seinfeld. Each of the brothers first four films has a plot centering around a road trip and these trips all originate in Rhode Island, except for Kingpin which begins in Pennsylvania. Their films make frequent use of slapstick and toilet humor, and are populated with blunt. Many of their films contain flashback scenes show how a character was affected by a traumatic event. The brothers are noted for their soundtracks, which typically feature diverse selections of classic and contemporary power pop. Sports are a feature of their films and they have often cast sports stars for bit parts and cameo appearances including Cam Neely, Roger Clemens, Brett Favre, Anna Kournikova. The brothers have been praised and critiqued for the way they use the subject of disability in their films. Peter Farrelly has commented, The problem is not that we look down on these people and they frequently depict able-bodied people as stupid, while disabled people are either more aspirational or gifted. Peter Farrelly has published books including Outside Providence and The Comedy Writer, the Farrelly brothers have collaborated on the following films, Peter Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database Bobby Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database
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Cameron Diaz
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Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She rose to stardom with roles in The Mask, My Best Friends Wedding and Theres Something About Mary, in 2013, Diaz was named the highest-paid actress over 40 in Hollywood. Diaz was born in San Diego, California and her mother, Billie, was an import/export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz, worked for the California oil company Unocal as a foreman. Diaz has a sister, Chimene. Her fathers family is Cuban, and Diazs ancestors had moved from Spain to Cuba. Later they settled in Ybor City, Tampa, before moving to California and her mother has English, Scots-Irish, German and Cherokee ancestry. Diaz grew up in Long Beach and attended Los Cerritos Elementary School, and then Long Beach Polytechnic High School and she began her career as a fashion model at the age of 16, and did contract work with a modeling agency, Elite Model Management. For the next months, she worked all over the world on contracts for companies including Calvin Klein, when she was 17, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen. Diaz also modeled for 2 to 3 months in Australia and shot a commercial for Coca-Cola in Sydney in 1991. Rutter approached Diaz in 2003, ahead of the release of Charlies Angels, Full Throttle, offering to sell the pictures and he stated that he was offering her first right of refusal to them, she saw it as attempted blackmail and sued him. In July 2004, the 30-minute video of the photoshoot, entitled Shes No Angel, was released on a Russian website, on July 26,2005, Rutter was convicted of attempted grand theft, forgery, and perjury. On September 16,2005, Rutter was sentenced to more than three years in prison. At the age of 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, having no previous acting experience, she started acting lessons after being cast. The Mask became one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1994, for the next three years, Diaz played roles in the independent films The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, Shes the One, and Head Above Water. She was scheduled to perform in the film Mortal Kombat, but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role, Diaz returned to mainstream films with My Best Friends Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary, both released in 1997. The following year, she played the role in Theres Something About Mary. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Awards. Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz was featured in movies, such as Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
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Matt Dillon
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Matthew Raymond Matt Dillon is an American actor and film director. He made his film debut in Over the Edge and established himself as a teen idol by starring in films such as My Bodyguard, Little Darlings, Tex, Rumble Fish The Outsiders. In a 1991 article, famed movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn. In the 2000s, he made his debut with City of Ghosts and went on to star in the films Crash, Factotum, You, Me and Dupree, Nothing but the Truth. Since 2015, he has starred in the FOX television show Wayward Pines, Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a bear toy manufacturer. His paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Dillon is the second of six children, he has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor. He is of mostly Irish descent, with some Scottish and German ancestry, Dillon was raised in a close-knit Roman Catholic family. He grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film, the film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes, another of Dillons early roles was in the Jean Shepherd PBS special The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters. The only available copies of this film are stored at UCLA, one of his next roles was in Liars Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich bankers daughter. In the early 1980s, Dillon also had prominent roles in three adaptations of S. E. Hinton novels, Tex, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hintons hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola and he followed those up with The Flamingo Kid in 1984. He made his Broadway debut with the play The Boys of Winter in 1985, Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam. In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as an addict in Gus Van Sants Drugstore Cowboy. Also in 1987, Dillon appeared as a policeman in the video to The Pogues, Dillon continued to work in the early 1990s with roles in films like Singles. In 2002, he wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan, in 2005, he starred in Factotum, a film adaptation of an autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski. Two years later he received praise and earned Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for his role in Crash
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Ben Stiller
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Benjamin Edward Meara Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of comedians and actors Jerry Stiller. After beginning his career with a play, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered his own show entitled The Ben Stiller Show. Having previously acted in television, he began acting in films, in addition, he has had multiple cameos in music videos, television shows, and films. Stiller is a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack and his films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards. Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30,1965 in New York City and his father, comedian and actor Jerry Stiller, is from a Jewish family that emigrated from Poland and Galicia in Eastern Europe. His mother, actress/comedian Anne Meara, who was from an Irish Catholic background, while the family was never very religious, they celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Stiller had a Bar Mitzvah. His parents frequently took him on the sets of their appearances and he considered his childhood unusual, stating In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing—a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights—not what youd call traditional. His elder sister, Amy, has appeared in many of his productions, including Reality Bites, DodgeBall, A True Underdog Story, Stiller displayed an early interest in filmmaking and made Super 8 movies with his sister and friends. At nine years old, he made his debut as a guest on his mothers short-lived television series. In the late 1970s, he performed with the New York City troupe NYCs First All Childrens Theater, playing roles, including the title role in Clever Jack. After being inspired by the television show Second City Television while in high school, during his high school years, he was also the drummer of the punk band Capital Punishment, which released a studio album named Roadkill in 1982. Stiller attended The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and he started performing on the cabaret circuit as opening act to the cabaret siren Jadin Wong. Stiller then enrolled as a student at the University of California. After nine months, Stiller left school to move back to New York City and he made his way through acting classes, auditioning and trying to find an agent. When he was approximately 15, Stiller obtained a part with one line on the television soap opera Guiding Light. He was later cast in a role in the 1986 Broadway revival of John Guares The House of Blue Leaves, alongside John Mahoney, during its run, Stiller produced a satirical mockumentary whose principal was fellow actor Mahoney
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Lee Evans (comedian)
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Lee John Martin Evans is an English retired stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and musician. He is a director of Little Mo Films, which he had co-directed with the late Addison Cresswell, Evans has become one of Britains highest selling and legendary stand-up comedians, with his Roadrunner tour grossing £12.9 million. He is also an actor, having appeared in the Hollywood films The Fifth Element, Mouse Hunt, Theres Something About Mary, The Ladies Man. He lent his voice to Zippo the Troodon in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Dinotopia and he had made his cinema debut with the Jerry Lewis comedy Funny Bones, earning the Paris Film Festival Award for Best Actor. In 2008, Evans Big tour DVD became the highest-selling Christmas DVD in the United Kingdom, in the midst of the latter tour, Evans officially announced his retirement on The Jonathan Ross Show. Evans was born in Avonmouth, Bristol, the son of an Irish mother, Shirley Hunt, and he has an older brother, Wayne. His father was a nightclub performer and his family left Bristol in 1975, moving to Essex, where he attended Billericay School and reportedly was the victim of bullies. After a spell as a boxer and two years at Thurrock Art College, also in Essex, Evans followed his father into entertainment. During his teenage years, he moved to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Evans rose to fame during the 1990s with loud, hot, sweaty, energetic stage performances and physical observational comedy. His slapstick humour has led to comparisons with Sir Norman Wisdom, in his earlier work, he used a dysfunctional character called Malcolm to illustrate unusual characters. In 1993, he won the Perrier Comedy Award for his work at the Edinburgh Festival, Evans sweat drenches him on stage. During most of his performances, he often takes an intermission, during which he has a quick shower. He has also said that his suits are regularly thrown away after three performances, mainly because of the sweat, with dry-cleaners refusing to handle them. In November 2005, Evans broke the record for a solo act performing to the biggest comedy audience. Evans toured the UK in autumn 2008 with his stand-up act entitled Big, during his Big tour he performed in front of over 500,000 people on 59 dates. This was scheduled to involve the first ever performance by a comedian at the O2 Arena in London until Chris Rock announced dates that would place at the venue prior to Evans. The DVD was filmed at the O2 arena and was released on 24 November 2008, Evans appeared on the Channel 4s Comedy Gala for Great Ormond Street Hospital on 30 March 2010. He was the last act on stage and he received a comedy award, Evans toured the UK again in 2011 with a new stand-up act entitled Roadrunner, with 50 dates starting with Bournemouth in August, running until November in Cardiff
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Chris Elliott
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Christopher Nash Chris Elliott is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He has also starred in such as Cabin Boy, Theres Something About Mary, Scary Movie 2. He is currently starring as Roland Schitt on CBC Televisions Schitts Creek. Elliott was born in New York City, and is the youngest of five children of Lee, a model and TV director, and Bob Elliott and he grew up on the Upper East Side. He attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in the spring of 1979, Elliott became known in the mid-to-late 1980s, when he was a writer and performer on Late Night with David Letterman, playing an assortment of recurring quirky, oddball characters. His characters on the included, The Regulator Guy – a parody of the The Terminator films. The Regulator Guy spoke with a vaguely Germanic accent and claimed to be from the future, the Regulator Guy segments were usually pre-taped and presented by Letterman as the trailer for an upcoming television series. The font used for the title was similar to the font used for the then-popular American television series The Equalizer, in the Regulator Guys only live, on-stage appearance, Elliott, carried by wires, flew over the audience via jet pack onto the Late Night set. The jet pack prop appeared to malfunction, which the Regulator Guy then blamed for ruining his dramatic appearance. The Fugitive Guy – a parody of the TV series The Fugitive The Panicky Guy – Elliott would pretend to be an audience member, once in the hallway he would be run over and crushed by an advancing floor waxer, with his hands raised in terror. In one variation, he played a German Panicky Guy in Lederhosen, marlon Brando – a parody of Brando, whom Elliott portrays as a semi-deranged man who performs a banana dance to the tune of Alley Cat. Chris Elliott, Jr. – a spoof of talk-show host Morton Downey, the miracle was the behind-the-scenes work needed to bring his character to life and others. In 1986 Elliott starred in the Cinemax special FDR, A One Man Show, a spoof comedy about the life and times of the president. He looked and sounded nothing like the man, he portrayed events from Roosevelts life that never happened, such as a Japanese bombing of the White House, by the end of the show, he had performed Gallaghers shtick of smashing watermelons and other soft fruits on stage. Many of Elliotts early film roles were as an actor in non-comedies such as Michael Manns Manhunter. In 1990, Elliott created and starred in his own sitcom, Elliotts real-life father, Bob Elliott, appeared in the show as Chris father. The January 1999 issue of TV Guide called the Zoo Animals on Wheels episode the 19th funniest TV moment of all time. In 1993, Elliott teamed up with producer Brad Hall and directed a series of acclaimed short films that Elliott showed when appearing on Late Show with David Letterman
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Jonathan Richman
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Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band, since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, acoustic and electric, backing. Currently, he plays only acoustic to protect his hearing and he is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, into a Jewish family, Richman began playing music, failing at this, he returned to Boston. While in Boston, Richman formed the Modern Lovers, a garage rock band. Other notable members of the group were keyboard player Jerry Harrison and drummer David Robinson, who later joined Talking Heads, in 1972 they recorded a series of demos with producer John Cale. Among these songs were the seminal Roadrunner and Pablo Picasso which were released on the groups post-breakup album. The album was strange for its time, featuring Velvets-influenced basic three-chord rock at a time when glam, later in 1972, the group also recorded with producer Kim Fowley, these demos were eventually released in 1981 as The Original Modern Lovers. Despite playing live regularly, the Modern Lovers had a difficult time securing a recording contract and this stymied efforts to complete a debut album, and led to the breakup of the original Modern Lovers in February 1974. In 1975, Richman moved to California to record as a solo singer/songwriter with Beserkley Records, the albums produced by the new group found Richman turning away from electric rock music towards gentler acoustic textures, with a strong rooting in 1950s rock and roll. After several months as a trio, Richman found a new drummer, D. Sharpe, a jazz player on the Boston scene. Rock and Roll with the Modern Lovers was released in 1977 and, just as this began to climb the charts in Europe. A subsequent live album, Modern Lovers Live, was released in 1978, in the United Kingdom, Richman was recognised as a progenitor of the punk rock scene, and several of his singles became hits. Roadrunner reached Number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, and its follow-up, Egyptian Reggae was a version of Jamaican musician Earl Zeros reggae song None Shall Escape the Judgment, Zero was credited as co-writer on Richmans later versions of the track. Back in Your Life was released in 1979 under the Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers moniker, following the Modern Lovers final breakup, Richman went on sabbatical for a few years, staying in Appleton, Maine, and playing at local bars in Belfast, Maine. He returned to recording in 1983 with Jonathan Sings and these were followed up with US tours and a brace of pop recordings. In 1993, he contributed the track Hot Nights to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization, always possessing an ardent cult following, Richman has become better known in recent years thanks to a series of appearances on Late Night with Conan OBrien. He also appeared briefly in a bar scene in a previous Farrelly Brothers film, Kingpin, in 1998 a live album of Modern Lovers recordings from the early 1970s was released, Live at the Long Branch & More
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Mark Irwin
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He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied political science at the University of Waterloo and Filmmaking at York University. He is widely known for his collaborations with David Cronenberg on films such as Fast Company, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone. Irwin has also been a collaborator for several directors such as Wes Craven, Todd Phillips. He has worked primarily in the genres of horror and comedy film. nl
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Romantic comedy film
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Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is a movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily. Another definition states that its primary distinguishing feature is a plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. Romantic comedy films are a genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. However a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies, a wedding-bells, fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory. The basic plot of a comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other, the protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together. While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some effort to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other, the couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together happily ever after. The ending of a comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists lives. There are many variations on this basic plotline, sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each others arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character. Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, the basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Some comedy films, such as Knocked Up, combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, often known as bromance, such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include American Pie 2 and even Wedding Crashers, romantic comedies have begun to spread out of their conventional and traditional structure into other territory
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Bobby Farrelly
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Robert Bobby Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly brothers, Farrelly was raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island, the son of Mariann, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Robert Leo Farrelly. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he entered the school on a hockey scholarship, Bobby and his brother Peter Farrelly are known as The Farrelly brothers. They also conceived the Seinfeld episode The Virgin In 2014, Bobby & his brother, Peter, directed Dumb and Dumber To, in 2016, Bobby directed two episodes of Season 10 of the Canadian cult mockumentary TV series Trailer Park Boys. Farrelly has been married to his wife, Nancy, since 1990, Farrelly told the BBC that he professes a belief in God. Bobby Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database Bobby Farrellys career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
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Peter Farrelly
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Peter John Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and novelist. In addition to his film career, Peter is also an acting board member of the online media company DeskSite. Farrelly was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, the son of Mariann, a practitioner, and Robert Leo Farrelly. He was raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island and graduated from Providence College, Farrelly decided to pursue writing full-time, which prompted him to quit his job and head to Cape Cod, Massachusetts where he got a job as a waiter. On one of the tables he was waiting, Farrelly struck up a conversation with a professor from UMass Amherst. Farrelly said he did not think his chances were good, considering he did poorly in college, with what would later be Outside Providence, Farrelly submitted the work and was pleasantly surprised that he was accepted. He later became interested in screenwriting, which led him to directing and he made this career decision after many of his works sold, but were not produced. They also conceived the Seinfeld episode The Virgin, Peter did its first project away from Bobby in Movie 43, released in 2013 and produced by the siblings long-time producer Charles B. He produced the film and directed two of its segments. In 2012, Peter and his brother announced that the filming of the sequel to Dumb and he is a published novelist, with works including Outside Providence and The Comedy Writer. Farrelly is a member of DeskSite. He lives in Los Angeles, while Bobby remains in Massachusetts, Peter Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database
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American Film Institute
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The American Film Institute is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the moving picture arts in America. AFI is supported by funding and public membership. The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, a board of trustees chaired by Sir Howard Stringer and a board of directors chaired by Robert A. Daly guide the organization, which is led by President and CEO Bob Gazzale. Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens, Jr. and Jean Picker Firstenberg. <ref>AFI Board of Trustees etc. American Film Institute. October 2014. Retrieved December 24,2014. </ref>Two years later, in 1967, AFI was established, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation. The institute established a program for filmmakers known then as the Center for Advanced Film Studies. The institute moved to its current eight-acre Hollywood campus in 1981, the film training program grew into the AFI Conservatory, an accredited graduate school. AFI educates audiences and recognizes excellence through its awards programs and 10 Top 10 Lists. In 1969, the established the AFI Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies at Greystone. The first class included filmmakers Terrence Malick, Caleb Deschanel and Paul Schrader, mirroring a professional production environment, Fellows collaborate to make more films than any other graduate level program. Admission to AFI Conservatory is highly selective, with a maximum of 140 graduates per year, in 2013, Emmy and Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks joined AFI as Artistic Director of the AFI Conservatory where he provides leadership for the film program. Brooks artistic role at the AFI Conservatory has a legacy that includes Daniel Petrie, Jr. Robert Wise. Award-winning director Bob Mandel served as Dean of the AFI Conservatory for nine years, jan Schuette took over as Dean in 2014. AFI Conservatorys alumni have careers in film, television and on the web and they have been recognized with all of the major industry awards – Academy Award, Emmy Award, guild awards, and the Tony Award. The AFI Catalog, started in 1968, is a web-based filmographic database, early print copies of this catalog may also be found at your local library. Each year the AFI Awards honor the ten outstanding films and ten outstanding television programs, the awards are a non-competitive acknowledgement of excellence. The Awards are announced in December and a luncheon for award honorees takes place the following January. The juries consisted of over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the films popularity over time, historical significance, citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice. AFI operates two film festivals, AFI Fest in Los Angeles, and AFI Docs in Silver Spring, Maryland, AFI Fest is the American Film Institutes annual celebration of artistic excellence
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
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The MTV Movie & TV Awards is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV, winners are decided online by the general public. Presently voting is done through MTVs official website through a special Movie Awards link at movieawards. mtv. com, the most recent award show took place on April 9,2016. Winners are presented with the golden statue, made by New York firm. Unlike its sister event MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards were taped, the entire production was taped in a completely different order than what the MTV viewing audience saw. For example, the shows host would tape all his/her monologues and introductions at one time, celebrities would often only appear at the live taping for the announcement of their award category, and members of the general audience fill their vacant seats during the other times. Through editing, MTV was able to present to its audience a awards show which appears to be taped in live sequence. This method of production allowed profanity to be edited from the show, the actual live taping aired same-day on pay-per-view channels in most metropolitan cities around the world. Some awards telecasts had also shown in television syndication. However, in 2007, this changed, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett announced that the 2007 edition would be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3,2007 in Los Angeles. The 2016 broadcast was the first show since 2006 not to air live as the event was taped on April 9,2016 before airing on Viacoms MTV networks the following day on April 10. Since 2007, polls for several awards were voted by users on MTVs official website. Prior to announcing the winner MTV would air testimonials from major Hollywood celebrities praising the winners greatness while only offering a slight tease as to who the winner was, following Clint Howards win and emotional reaction the award was discontinued. The MTV Generation Award is the successor to the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, the recipient of the award is celebrated for great achievement in movies. The distinction is given to an artist who has shown us a variety of roles, a personal and professional flair and of course. 2016, Will Smith The Silver Bucket of Excellence is an award that was given to a film that has made lasting impact on moviegoers and it was further defined in 2006 as honoring a film of the past that resonates with even more meaning today. The award is given to an actor of young age that managed to inspire others with a portfolio of work. Emma Stone was awarded the first MTV Trailblazer Award on 2012,2013, Will Ferrell 2015, Kevin Hart 2016, Melissa McCarthy Since 1993, scenes are spoofed, mostly from that years most popular films, although television shows and older movies have also been chosen
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Private investigator
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A private investigator, a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases, official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, Vidocq later suspected that it had been a set-up. He was sentenced to five years and fined 3, 000-francs, Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology, and ballistics to criminal investigation. He made the first plaster casts of shoe impressions and he created indelible ink and unalterable bond paper with his printing company. His form of anthropometrics is still used by French police. He is also credited for philanthropic pursuits – he claimed he never informed on anyone who had stolen for real need, after Vidocq, the industry was born. Much of what private investigators did in the days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. A larger role for new private investigative industry was to assist companies in labor disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia, in the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852. Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him, in 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency - a private detective agency - in 1850, Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Pinkertons agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes, to plant protection and it is sometimes claimed, probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army. Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, during the union unrest in the US in the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot of 1892, several states passed so-called anti-Pinkerton laws restricting the importation of private security guards during union strikes. Pinkerton agents were hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy. The Pinkerton agencys logo, an eye embellished with the words We Never Sleep, many private detectives/investigators with specialized academic and practical experience also work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and other criminal defense cases. Many others are insurance investigators who investigate suspicious claims, before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce
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Miami
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Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U. S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Miamis metro area is the eighth-most populous, Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Groups inventory, in 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities, in 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami Americas Cleanest City, for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, Miami is nicknamed the Capital of Latin America and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U. S. with over 300 high-rises, Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers. For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the Cruise Capital of the World, has been the number one cruise port in the world. It accommodates some of the worlds largest cruise ships and operations, Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U. S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Native American tribes, the Tequestas occupied the area for a thousand years before encountering Europeans. An Indian village of hundreds of people dating to 500–600 B. C. was located at the mouth of the Miami River, in 1566 the explorer, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, claimed it for Spain. A Spanish mission was constructed one year later in 1567, Spain and Great Britain successively controlled Florida, and Spain ceded it to the United States in 1821. In 1836, the US built Fort Dallas as part of its development of the Florida Territory and attempt to suppress, the Miami area subsequently became a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. Miami is noted as the major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower. The Miami area was known as Biscayne Bay Country in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wilderness, the area was also characterized as one of the finest building sites in Florida. The Great Freeze of 1894–95 hastened Miamis growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the ones in Florida that survived. Julia Tuttle subsequently convinced Henry Flagler, a tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to the region
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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams
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Quarterback
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A quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the team and line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern American football, the quarterback is considered the leader of the offensive team. In modern American football, the quarterback is usually the leader of the offense, the quarterback touches the ball on almost every offensive play, and his successes and failures can have a significant impact on the fortunes of his team. Accordingly, the quarterback is among the most glorified and scrutinized positions in team sports, prior to each play, the quarterback will usually tell the rest of his team which play the team will run. After the team is lined up, the center will pass the ball back to the quarterback, usually on a running play, the quarterback will then hand or pitch the ball backwards to a half back or full back. On a passing play, the quarterback is almost always the responsible for trying to throw the ball downfield to an eligible receiver downfield. Depending on the scheme by his team, the quarterbacks role can vary. While quarterbacks in Canadian football need to be able to throw the ball often, in the NFL, quarterbacks are required to wear a uniform number between 1 and 19. In the CFL, the quarterback can wear any number from 0 to 49 and 70 to 99. Because of their numbering, quarterbacks are eligible receivers in the NCAA, NFHS, after a Super Bowl victory, the starting quarterback is the first player to be presented with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The starting quarterback of the victorious Super Bowl team is chosen for the Im going to Disney World. Campaign, whether they are the Super Bowl MVP or not, examples include Joe Montana, Trent Dilfer, Dilfer was chosen even though teammate Ray Lewis was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXV, due to the bad publicity from Lewis murder trial the prior year. In addition to their role, quarterbacks are occasionally used in other roles. Most teams utilize a backup quarterback as their holder on placekicks, in the Wildcat, a formation where a halfback lines up behind the center and the quarterback lines up out wide, the quarterback can be used as a receiving target or a blocker. A more rare use for a quarterback is to punt the ball himself, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway was known to perform quick kicks occasionally, typically when the Broncos were facing a third-and-long situation. As Roger Staubachs back-up, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White was also the teams punter, ascending the starting role upon Staubachs retirement, White held his position as the teams punter for several seasons—a double duty he performed to All-American standard at Arizona State University. White also had two touchdown receptions as a Dallas Cowboy, both from the halfback option, if quarterbacks are uncomfortable with the formation the defense is using, they may call an audible change to their play
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Brett Favre
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Brett Lorenzo Favre is a former American football quarterback who spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was a 20-year veteran of the NFL, having played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings. Favre was the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for 500 touchdowns, throw for over 70,000 yards, over 6,000 completions, and over 10,000 pass attempts. Favre started at the position for the University of Southern Mississippi for four years before being selected in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by Atlanta. He was traded to Green Bay on February 10,1992, Favre became the Packers starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 season, stepping in for injured quarterback Don Majkowski, and started every game through the 2007 season. He was traded to the New York Jets and started at quarterback for the 2008 season before signing with the Vikings on August 18,2009 as their starting quarterback and he made an NFL record 297 consecutive starts. He is the player to win the AP NFL Most Valuable Player Award three consecutive times, and is one of only six quarterbacks to have won the award as well as the Super Bowl in the same season. He has led teams to eight division championships, five NFC Championship Games and he holds many NFL records, including most career pass completions, most career pass attempts, most career interceptions thrown, most consecutive starts by a player, most sacked, and most fumbles. At the time of his retirement, he was the NFLs all-time leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns and he is also referred to by his nickname The Gunslinger. Favre was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016, Favre was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Bonita Ann and Irvin Ernest Favre, and raised in the small town of Kiln. Both his parents were schoolteachers in the Hancock County School District and he is of part French ancestry. He was the second of four children and attended Hancock North Central High School, Favre started for the Hancock North Central baseball team as an eighth-grader and earned five varsity letters. Irvin Favre said he knew his son had a great arm, as a result, in the three years Brett was on the team, his father ran the wishbone, a run-oriented offense. Favre rarely threw more than five passes in a game, after high school, Southern Mississippi offered Favre a football scholarship, which was the only one he received. Southern Miss wanted him to defensive back, but Favre wanted to play quarterback instead. Favre began his year as the seventh-string quarterback and took over the starting position in the second half of the third game of the year against Tulane on September 19,1987. Favre, despite suffering a hangover from the night before and vomiting during warm-ups, Favre started ten games during his freshman year and won six of them. In his junior season, Favre led the Golden Eagles to an upset of Florida State on September 2,1989, Favre capped a six-and-a-half-minute drive with the game-winning touchdown pass with 23 seconds remaining
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Jeffrey Tambor
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Tambor was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Eileen, a housewife, and Michael Bernard Tambor, a flooring contractor. He grew up in a Conservative Jewish family with roots in Hungary, Tambor is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where he studied acting and then went on to receive a masters degree from Wayne State University. Tambor first moved to theater in Milwaukee, later making his Broadway debut in the comedy Sly Fox, appearing with George C. Scott. He appeared in Measure for Measure in the same year, in 1979 he starred in Norman Jewisons. And Justice For All, as a lawyer friend of the protagonist, Arthur Kirkland. In an early TV job, an ad for Avis rent-a-car, he was running through an airport, mocking O. J. Simpsons Go. He has had a significant career in episodic TV, where he made numerous guest appearances on different shows, including Taxi, Kojak, M*A*S*H, The Golden Girls, in 1979 Tambor got his first role as a main character in television in the short-lived show The Ropers. Throughout the 1980s Tambor had a role on Hill Street Blues playing a defense attorney who eventually becomes a judge. In 1981 he appeared in an episode of Barney Miller as a man who was trying to bring exposure to the members of the Trilateral Commission in charge of the coming New World Order. In 1987 and 1988, Tambor appeared as a regular on the prime time ABC series Max Headroom as Murray, Tambor is often remembered as Hank Kingsley, the narcissistic sidekick of fictional talk show host Larry Sanders on The Larry Sanders Show. Tambor received four Emmy nominations for his performance on the show—all of which he would lose, to Michael Richards for Seinfeld, David Hyde Pierce for Frasier and he is also often remembered for Kingsleys then-famous catch phrase Hey Now. Beginning in 2003, Tambor starred in the television comedy Arrested Development as George Bluth, Sr. the show was cancelled in 2006, after three seasons, but a fourth season was released on Netflix in 2013. In 2004, Tambor received his fifth Emmy nomination for his work on the show and he lost to David Hyde Pierce for the final season of the sitcom Frasier. Tambor was nominated for a time in 2005 but lost to Brad Garrett for the final season of Everybody Loves Raymond. The second episode of Arrested Developments third season lampooned this loss, Tambors characters son describes his ability by saying, Its a wonderful performance. Tambor served as the announcer for the game show Hollywood Squares in 2002 and 2003 and he was also the voice of King Neptune in 2004s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. In the spring of 2005, he starred as George Aaronow in the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. After the cancellation of Arrested Development in April 2006, Tambor signed on to a series with John Lithgow called Twenty Good Years about two men who ponder the last 20 years of their life. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,2006, but was taken off the air only a few episodes
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Markie Post
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Born in Palo Alto, California, Post is the daughter of scientist Richard F. Post and Marylee Post, a poet, the middle child, she and her two siblings were raised in Stanford, California and Walnut Creek, California and attended Las Lomas High School where she was a cheerleader. She attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and briefly Pomona College in Claremont, California, prior to acting, Post worked on several game shows. She began her career with the crew of the Tom Kennedy version of Split Second. She also served as producer of Alex Trebeks Double Dare. Post often was a celebrity player on game shows, including Pyramid. After The Fall Guy, she played Christine Sullivan on the 1980s television comedy series Night Court from the season until the shows end. She played Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the comedy series Hearts Afire, Post has also had regularly recurring guest star roles on The District and on Scrubs as the mother of Dr. Elliot Reid. Film credits include Theres Something About Mary, in which she played the mother of Cameron Diazs character. She played a girl and dominatrix in the 1988 TV movie Tricks of the Trade opposite Cindy Williams. She also had a role in NBCs 1995 movie Visitors in the Night. According to her IMDB. com page, Post also appeared in the 1997 TV movie Survival on the Mountain and she worked on the comedy movie Cook Off. as Christine Merriweather. She appeared in the 30 Rock episode The One with the Cast of Night Court playing herself when she, Harry Anderson, Post was the voice of June Darby on the animated series Transformers, Prime. Since 2014, Post has appeared as a character, Bunny. Post is married to actor and writer Michael A. Ross and she was previously married to Stephen Knox, whom she met at Lewis and Clark College. Markie Post at the Internet Movie Database Markie Post at AllMovie
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Keith David
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Keith David Williams, known professionally as Keith David, is an American film and television, voice actor, and singer. He is known for his role as Childs alongside Kurt Russell in John Carpenters The Thing. He has acted in mainstream films, such as Crash, Theres Something About Mary, Barbershop. David last starred as Elroy Patashnik in the season of the comedy series. In 2016, he began starring as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series and his Emmy Award-winning voice-over career includes work as the narrator of numerous Ken Burns films such as The War. David was born in Harlem and raised in Corona, Queens and his mother, Dolores, was a manager at New York Telephone, and his father, Lester Williams, worked as a director of payroll operations. He initially intended to become an actor playing the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. He attended the Juilliard Schools Drama Division where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979, in 1980–81, David honed his craft touring the country with John Housemans The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Nights Dream and Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. Less than two years later, he went on to star as Childs, opposite Kurt Russell in John Carpenters The Thing, in the 1980s run of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, he portrayed Keith the Southwood Carpenter in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe segments. He also played Keith, the coin collector in an episode where Rogers. He went on to appear in such as Oliver Stones Platoon, The Quick and the Dead, They Live, Men at Work, Marked for Death. He played Kirby in the 1995 film Dead Presidents, and he appeared in the 1995 Spike Lees film Clockers and he portrayed Father in the romantic comedy action film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. At the same time, he has appeared in independent films including the critically acclaimed Requiem for a Dream. He has also appeared extensively in television productions since the 1980s and he was a regular on another shoot made for ABC entitled The Big House in 2004. David portrayed Detective Jim Crenshaw in the 2010 horror film Chain Letter, in 2010, David was cast as Max Malini for the NBC television series The Cape. On April 18,2011, Keith appeared in the 21st episode of one of Hawaii Five-0 as criminal tycoon Jimmy Cannon. In 2012, he appeared in the horror film Smiley and the science-fiction drama Cloud Atlas, in 2013, David appeared in the controversial drama Boiling Pot which is based on true events of racism. In 2014, David portrayed Command Sergeant Major Donald Cody in the Fox comedy series Enlisted, later in 2014, David was cast as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the sitcom Community
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Sarah Silverman
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Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, such as racism, sexism, for her work on television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010 and she also appeared in other television programs, such as Mr. Show and V. I. P. and starred in films, including Whos the Caboose. School of Rock, Wreck-It Ralph, and A Million Ways to Die in the West, in 2015, she starred in the drama I Smile Back, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Silverman was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, to Beth Ann and she was raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. Silvermans parents divorced and later remarried others, Silverman is the youngest of five siblings. Her sisters are Rabbi Susan Silverman, screenwriter Jodyne Silverman, and actress Laura Silverman, born into a Jewish family, she considers herself secular and non-religious. She was in attendance when women lit menorahs at the Western Wall for the first time in December 2014 and her ancestors were from Poland and Russia. The first time Silverman performed stand-up comedy was in Boston at age 17 and she described her performance as awful. After graduating from The Derryfield School in Manchester, she attended New York University for a year, instead, she performed stand-up comedy in Greenwich Village. After beginning her stand-up comedy in 1992, Silverman was part of the 1993–94 season of Saturday Night Live for 18 weeks as a writer and featured player. Bob Odenkirk, a former SNL writer, explained, I could see how it wouldnt work at SNL because shes got her own voice and she can play a character but she doesnt disappear into the character—she makes the character her. She has stated that she was not ready for SNL when she got the job, later, she was grateful that her SNL time was short because it didnt end up defining her. She appeared in three episodes of Larry Sanders during its two seasons. She also starred in the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show and had the role for the 1997 independent film Whos the Caboose. Silverman and Seder later made a television series sequel entitled Pilot Season in which Silverman stars as the same character and Seder again directed. She made her standup comedy debut on the Late Show with David Letterman in July 2007. In 2005, Silverman released a film, Sarah Silverman, Jesus Is Magic
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Khandi Alexander
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Khandi Alexander is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as dancer in 1980s and was a choreographer for Whitney Houstons world tour from 1988–1992, during 1990s, Alexander has appeared in a number of films, include CB4, Whats Love Got to Do with It, Sugar Hill, and Theres Something About Mary. She starred as Catherine Duke in NBC sitcom NewsRadio from 1995 to 1998 and she also had a major recurring role in NBC medical drama ER as Jackie Robbins, sister to Dr. Peter Benton. Alexander also received acclaim for her leading performance in the HBO miniseries The Corner in 2000. From 2002 to 2009, Alexander starred as Dr. Alexx Woods in the CBS police procedural series CSI, from 2010 to 2013 she starred as LaDonna Batiste-Williams in HBO drama Treme. Later in 2013, she joined the cast of ABC drama Scandal as Maya Lewis, Olivia Popes mother, Alexander also received Critics Choice Television Award nomination for playing Bessie Smiths sister in the 2015 HBO film Bessie. Khandi Alexander was born in New York City, the daughter of Alverina Yavonna, an opera and jazz singer, and Henry Roland Alexander and she was educated at Queensborough Community College. She appeared on Broadway, starring in Chicago, Bob Fosses Dancin and she was a choreographer for Whitney Houstons world tour from 1988–1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Coles video for Pink Cadillac in 1988. Alexander began her career in the late 1980s. She made her debut on the 1985 sketch-comedy show FTV. Since the early 1990s, Alexander has concentrated on film and TV, playing supporting roles in movies, including CB4, Joshua Tree, Whats Love Got to Do with It, Poetic Justice. In 1995, Alexander was cast as Catherine Duke on the NBC comedy series NewsRadio and she stayed with the show until season 4 episode 7, Catherine Moves On. She played the character of Jackie Robbins in medical drama series ER. In 2000, Alexander won critical acclaim for her performance as Fran Boyd and she later appeared in the films Emmetts Mark and Dark Blue, and starred opposite Rob Lowe in the Lifetime television movie Perfect Strangers. In 2002 through 2008, she portrayed the character of Alexx Woods, Alexander left CSI, Miami shortly before the end of the 2007-2008 season. Her final appearance aired on May 5,2008, on February 2,2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode Smoke Gets In Your CSIs. She returned again as Alexx Woods in guest appearances in the episodes Out of Time on September 21,2009, in fall 2008, Alexander was cast as a lead character in the HBO drama pilot, Treme, that premiered on April 11,2010. She played a bar owner in a neighborhood of New Orleans affected by the storm Katrina and she received critical acclaim for her performance in the show
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Willie Garson
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Willie Garson is an American character actor. He has appeared in over fifty movies, usually playing minor roles, Garson was born in Highland Park, New Jersey, the son of Muriel and Donald M. Paszamant. Garson attended Camp Wekeela in Hartford, Maine as a child for 11 years, in 1985, he received a theater degree from Wesleyan University and also attended Yale Drama School. Garson had a role as Henry Coffield on NYPD Blue and as Stanford Blatch on Sex. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, The X-Files, Cheers, Yes, Dear, CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Pushing Daisies, Stargate SG-1, Wizards of Waverly Place, CSI, Miami, Mental, Spin City, and Taken. He co-starred in the 2007 HBO series John from Cincinnati and he co-starred as Mozzie in the USA Network series White Collar from 2009 to 2014. Garson has also appeared in three movies from the Farrelly brothers—Kingpin, Theres Something About Mary, and Fever Pitch. His other film credits include Groundhog Day, Just Like Heaven, The Rock, Fortress 2, Re-Entry, Being John Malkovich, Freaky Friday, Labor Pains, and Out Cold. He made a cameo in the end credits of Jackass Number Two, in 2009, Garson adopted a seven-year-old son, Nathan. Willie Garson at the Internet Movie Database Willie Garson speaks in-depth about adopting his son on a podcast
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Harland Williams
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Harland Reesor Williams is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, artist, musician and radio personality. He is the child of five with two older and two younger sisters. Harland holds dual citizenship with Canada and the United States and he is an author and illustrator of his own series of childrens books involving a little brontosaurus named Jimbo. Williams love of art drove him to create the series, in which the curious, young dinosaur embarks on a series of amazing adventures, the artistically inclined Williams had refined his passion for drawing and painting at Canadas Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Williams is cousin to Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn, and together they have a band called The Cousins. Williams is known for his roles, which include Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Theres Something About Mary, Half Baked, RocketMan, Sorority Boys, Down Periscope. Williams was featured as a security guard in the video for Barenaked Ladies Falling for the First Time. His improvisational skills led to him winning the award for Best Improviser on an episode of NBCs prime time series Thank God Youre Here in 2007, williamss ventures include voicing Monster on Nickelodeons animated series Robot and Monster and starring as Warwick the Warlock in Disneys direct-to-DVD movie Spooky Buddies. He has a free, bi-weekly podcast called The Harland Highway, the Harland Highway can be downloaded on iTunes or streamed live from your mobile device on Stitcher Radio. Rocker Parry Gripp of the rock band Nerf Herder wrote a song in homage to Williams and he has appeared on Tom Greens House Tonight and on the Adam Carolla Podcast numerous times. He is known for his performance of bird sounds on Carollas show, in August 2012 he began filming in Vancouver a 13-part CityTV comedy series called Package Deal, in which he stars. Official website Harland Williams at the Internet Movie Database
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Lenny Clarke
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Lenny Clarke is an American comedian and actor, famous for his thick Boston accent and role as Uncle Teddy on the series Rescue Me. Clarke was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the most famous saloon comic in Boston during the 1980s, the DVD release When Standup Stood Out details Clarkes early career and affiliations with other famous Boston comics, such as Steven Wright and Denis Leary, his good friends. In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a television show Lenny Clarkes Late Show featuring Wright and Leary. From 2004 to 2011, Clarke appeared in the role of Uncle Teddy on the FX comedy-drama Rescue Me. In 2007, Clarke played the role of Ron Abbot on the short lived Fox comedy series The Winner, the show was cancelled after six episodes due to low ratings on May 16,2007. Clarke is also an occasional guest on the WEEI radio shows in Boston and it was on this show that he announced he would be a regular on the 2009 Fox Sitcom Brothers as the racist neighbor who is married to a black woman. He wound up appearing in three episodes before the series was cancelled, in the 2011-12 TV season, he landed a role as the main characters father on the NBC mid-season replacement sitcom Are You There, Chelsea. Official website Lenny Clarke at the Internet Movie Database
