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Baja Oklahoma
''Baja Oklahoma'' is a 1988 American made-for-television comedy-drama film by HBO Original Film starring Lesley Ann Warren. Written by director Bobby Roth and novelist Dan Jenkins, based on Jenkins's 1982 novel with the same title, it also stars Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, and Julia Roberts. The title song was written by Jenkins and Willie Nelson, who appears as himself near the end of the film to sing it with Warren. Plot Juanita Hutchins has dreams of becoming a country-western music songwriter, but she works at a bar in the meantime. Cast Other "Baja Oklahoma" is a nickname for Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by .... References External links 1988 television films 1988 films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Bobby Roth Films scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Roth
Robert Jay Roth (born 1950) is an American television and film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Born and raised in Los Angeles, Roth began his tertiary education at the University of California, Berkeley studying philosophy and creative writing before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema at the University of Southern California in 1972. He continued his education at the University of California, Los Angeles enrolling in the Master of Fine Arts program and received his graduate degree in motion picture production in 1975. /sup> The following year, he wrote, produced and directed his first film, ''Independence Day''. His 1984 film '' Heartbreakers'' was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. /sup> In 1988, Roth wrote and directed the television film ''Dead Solid Perfect''. Over the course of his career, Roth has written, produced, and directed several television and feature films and episodes. Television series he has worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forsythe (actor)
William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of tough-guy, criminal characters, and has starred in films such as ''American Me'' (1992), ''Raising Arizona'' (1987), ''Dick Tracy'' (1990), '' Gotti'' (1996), '' The Rock'' (1996), and ''The Devil's Rejects'' (2005). He has also played recurring characters in television series such as ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2010) and '' Justified'' (2010). Forsythe was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the indie film ''The Waterdance''. Early life William Forsythe was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Billy Gene Forsythe (1932–2010) and Anita Elena Castellano (1938–) and grew up in the borough's Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood. He is of partial Italian descent. Career Forsythe started out in minor film roles and guest appearances in high-rated TV shows including ''CHiPs'' (1977), ''Hill Street Blues'' (1981) and ''T. J. Hooker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril O'Reilly
Cyril J. O'Reilly is an American film and television actor, writer and producer. Life and career O'Reilly was born in Los Angeles, California, one of three children born to Patrick Joseph O'Reilly, a Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, and his wife, Harriet ( Rothwell). He has worked in Hollywood for nearly three decades, and is known for playing a reluctant vampire in ''Dance of the Damned'', and for his role as Tim Cavanaugh in the teen sex comedies ''Porky's'' and '' Porky's II: The Next Day''. He co-starred in the 1981 television movie ''Splendor in the Grass'' with Melissa Gilbert. In 2007, twenty-six years later, the two re-united in the television movie ''Sacrifices of the Heart''. His other film work has included roles in ''Airplane!'', ''The Cool Surface'', and ''Navy SEALs''. He has appeared in a variety of television programs, including ''M*A*S*H'', '' ER'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''The X-Files'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', '' St. Elsewhere'', ''Hunter'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Olkewicz
Walter Olkewicz (May 14, 1948 – April 6, 2021) was an American character actor. He played Marko in the short-lived TV series ''Wizards and Warriors'' and Coach Wordman in the feature film '' Making the Grade''. Biography Olkewicz was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and attended a Catholic grammar school there and St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City before graduating from Bayonne High School in 1965. He continued his education at Plains College in Kansas and at Colorado State University. During his high-school years, he was active in plays. Before he began acting professionally, Olkewicz sold insurance, sold office supplies, and drove a taxi. Early in his career, Olkewicz acted with improv and other groups. He co-founded the improvisational group Saturday Bath, which had a national tour that lasted more than a year.Originally billed as Ray Holland, He appeared in the films ''Futureworld'' (1976), ''The Greatest'' (1977), ''Summer Camp'' (1979), ''Hot T-Shirts'' (1981), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Nilsson
Rob Nilsson is a filmmaker, poet, and painter, best known for his feature film '' Northern Lights'', co-directed with John Hanson and winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1979). He also is known for directing and playing the lead role in '' Heat and Sunlight'', produced by Steve and Hildy Burns, also featuring Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema and Ernie Fosseliius. ''Heat and Sunlight'' won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988, and his 9 @ Night Film Cycle won the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in Cinema. Nilsson has also received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Fargo International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee, the Master's Award from the Golden Apricot Film Festival, a Filmmaker of the Year Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival, and the Milley Award from the city of Mill Valley for accomplishment in the Arts. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, musician and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians. Personal life Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1933, Mayall grew up in Cheadle Hulme. He was the son of Murray Mayall, a guitarist and jazz enthusiast. From an early age he was drawn to the sounds of American blues players such as Lead Belly, Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith and Eddie Lang, and taught himself to play the piano, guitars, and harmonica. Mayall was sent to Korea as part of his national service, and during a period of leave bought his first electric guitar in Japan. Back in England, he enrolled at Manchester College of Art and started playing with a semi-professional band, the Powerhouse Four. After graduation, he obtained a job as an art designer, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Cline
Patsy is a given name often used as a diminutive of the feminine given name Patricia or sometimes the masculine name Patrick, or occasionally other names containing the syllable "Pat" (such as Cleopatra, Patience, Patrice, or Patricia). Among Italian Americans, it is often used as a pet name for Pasquale. In older usage, Patsy was also a nickname for Martha or Matilda, following a common nicknaming pattern of changing an M to a P (such as in Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy; and Molly → Polly) and adding a feminine suffix. President George Washington called his wife Martha "Patsy" in private correspondence. President Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha was known by the nickname "Patsy", while his daughter Mary was called "Polly". People with the name Female * Patsy Biscoe (born 1946), Australian children's entertainer * Patricia Patsy Burt (1928–2001), British motor racing driver * Patricia Patsy Byrne (1933–2014), English actress * Patsy Chapman (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Krige
Alice Maud Krige (; born 28 June 1954) is a South African actress and producer. Her first feature film role was in ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981) as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon. She played the dual role of Eva Galli/Alma Mobley in ''Ghost Story'' (1981) and the Borg Queen in '' Star Trek: First Contact'' (1996). Early life and education Krige was born in Upington, Cape Province (now Northern Cape), South Africa, the daughter of Patricia, a professor of psychology, and Louis Krige, a physician. The Kriges later moved to Port Elizabeth, where Alice grew up in what she has described as a "very happy family", with two brothers, one of whom became a physician and the other a Professor of Surgery.Alice Krige biodata Yahoo! Movies; accessed 29 September 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John M
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1992 and an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2018, she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Harris' work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists. Biography Early years Harris is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Rutland Harris (1921–1993), was a Marine Corps officer, and her mother, Eugenia (1921–2014), was a wartime military wife. Her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Davis
Carole Raphaelle Davis (born 17 February 1958) is an English actress, model, singer-songwriter, and writer. Career Acting In 1978, Davis posed for ''Playboy''. In 1980, she posed for '' Penthouse'' magazine under the name Tamara Kapitas, becoming Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1980 and a runner-up for Pet of the Year in 1981. As an actress, Davis' first feature film was in James Cameron's horror film '' Piranha II: The Spawning'' (1982). Later in the 1980s, she appeared in the comedy film ''The Flamingo Kid'' (1984). Her best known film role came as Roxie Shield, the vengeful ex-girlfriend in ''Mannequin'' (1987), a film that was widely panned by critics but later became a cult classic. She later also appeared in films such as the comedy '' The Shrimp on the Barbie'' (1990), the comedy '' If Looks Could Kill'' (1991), and '' The Rapture'' (1991). She has made guest appearances on television series such as ''The A-Team'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'', ''Sex and the City'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Charney
Jordan Charney (born April 1, 1937) is an American character actor. Many of his earliest roles were on daytime television, with appearances in numerous soaps. Jordan created the role of creepy Julian Dark in the early to mid-1960s on the CBS soap, ''The Secret Storm''. He played Sam Lucas, a former convict who became a lawyer, in both '' Another World'' and its spin-off ''Somerset'', playing the role from 1967 to 1974. He also appeared as Lt. Vince Wolek on ''One Life to Live'' (1975–1977). Other roles were on ''Love of Life'' and ''All My Children''. Charney portrayed newspaper editor Ted Bergman in the 1977 CBS series '' The Andros Targets''. In 1980, he played Capt. Roger Westerby, an old flame of Corabeth Godsey, in a season eight episode of ''The Waltons''. He had a recurring role as Frank Angelino, Jack Tripper's boss, on ''Three's Company'' (1981–1983). He is often cast as a judge, attorney, prison warden, or police officer. He has made appearances on ''Falcon Cres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
