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Blue City (film)
''Blue City'' is a 1986 American action thriller film directed by Michelle Manning and starring Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and David Caruso. It is based on Ross Macdonald's 1947 novel of the same name about a young man who returns to a corrupt small town in Florida to avenge the death of his father. Plot A young man, Billy Turner, returns to his hometown of Blue City, Florida, after five years away. He gets into a bar fight and is thrown in jail. Then, he learns that his father Jim, the town's mayor, was killed while he was gone. The chief of police, Luther Reynolds, tells Billy that the police did not find the killer but that Perry Kerch, Jim's widow's business partner, was a suspect. Billy decides to start his own investigation. He meets with his old friend, Joey Rayford, who refuses to help him. Billy then meets with Kerch. Kerch says that he did not kill Jim and then has his thugs beat up Billy. Billy talks to Joey again, and Joey agrees to help him take down Kerch. Billy bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Manning
Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing ''Sixteen Candles'' and ''The Breakfast Club''. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997 to 2005. In 2017, she became an executive producer on the Disney Channel series ''Andi Mack''. Career She began her career with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola’s '' The Outsiders'' and ''Rumble Fish''. Manning worked as an executive for Ned Tanen’s Channel Productions, where she produced ''The Breakfast Club'' and was associate producer of ''Sixteen Candles''. Manning made her feature directorial debut in 1986 with '' Blue City'' for producers Walter Hill and William Hayward as well as musical sequences for Hill's ''Another 48 Hrs.'' In television, Manning directed episodes of ''Miami Vice'' and Paramount's '' Friday the 13th: The Series''. Manning was Vice President of Production at Orion Pictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Contreras (actor)
Luis Contreras (September 18, 1950 – June 20, 2004) was an American character actor. The son of actor Roberto Contreras, his film debut was in ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind''. Contreras often played the parts of bums, gang members, police officers, prison inmates, and criminals. One of the typical roles that he played as a gang member or criminal was that of Jesus in ''Walking the Edge''. Contreras appeared in multiple movies for director Walter Hill: ''The Long Riders'', '' 48 Hrs.'', '' Extreme Prejudice'', ''Red Heat The practice of using colours to determine the temperature of a piece of (usually) ferrous metal comes from blacksmithing. Long before thermometers were widely available it was necessary to know what state the metal was in for heat treating it an ...'', '' Geronimo: An American Legend'', and '' Last Man Standing''. He died of cancer in 2004 at the age of 53. Filmography References External links * 2004 deaths 1950 births {{US-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Tanen
Ned Stone Tanen (c. September 20, 1931 – January 5, 2009) was an American film studio executive. The films he produced were some of the most popular films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the 2 key Brat Pack films '' The Breakfast Club'' and ''St. Elmo's Fire'', as well as ''Smokey and the Bandit'', ''American Graffiti'', '' Coal Miner's Daughter'', '' The Deer Hunter'', ''Crocodile Dundee'','' Top Gun'', ''Animal House'', and many others. History Tanen was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles and served in the United States Air Force after graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following his military service, he got a job in 1954 in the MCA mailroom. He became an agent there in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s he was packaging TV shows for MCA/Universal after MCA acquired Universal Pictures. He helped form the Uni Records label at MCA in 1967. Artists recording on the Uni label included Neil Diamond, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John and the Stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breakfast Club
''The Breakfast Club'' is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice-principal. ''The Breakfast Club'' premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on February 15, 1985. It grossed $51.5 million against a $1 million budget, and earned acclaim from critics, who consider it to be one of Hughes's most memorable and recognizable works. The media subsequently referred to the film's five main actors as members of a group called the "Brat Pack". In 2015, the film was digitally remastered and was re-screened in 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary. In 2016, ''The Breakfast Club'' was selected for preservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Harvest
''Red Harvest'' (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The plot follows the Op's investigation of several murders amid a labor dispute in a corrupt Montana mining town. Some of the novel was inspired by the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute in the mining town of Butte, Montana. ''Time'' included ''Red Harvest'' in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005, noting that, in the Continental Op, Hammett "created the prototype for every sleuth who would ever be called 'hard-boiled.'" The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror." Plot The Continental Op is called to Personville (known as "Poisonville" to the locals) by the newspaper pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' The Maltese Falcon''), Nick and Nora Charles (''The Thin Man''), the Continental Op (''Red Harvest'' and '' The Dain Curse'') and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in ''The New York Times'', he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." ''Time'' included Hammett's 1929 novel ''Red Harvest'' on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of '' The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time''. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made '' The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Seymour
Philip Warren Seymour (May 15, 1952 - August 17, 1993) was an American drummer, singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for the singles "I'm on Fire" (with The Dwight Twilley Band), his own solo hit "Precious to Me" and for providing backing vocals on Tom Petty's hits "American Girl" and " Breakdown." His solo work is revered among fans of power pop. Dwight Twilley Band In 1967, Seymour met fellow Tulsa musician Dwight Twilley at a theater where they had both gone to see a screening of '' A Hard Day's Night''. They soon began writing and recording together, going by the name Oister. In 1974, Seymour and Twilley signed with Shelter Records and formed The Dwight Twilley Band. "I'll never forget the cold November night at the Church Studios in Tulsa. Phil and I had just signed our first recording contract. We had been instructed by the record company to get acquainted with working in a 'real' 16-track studio and not to record a 'real' record. In the confusion of a pivotal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Olson
Carla Olson (born July 3, 1952) is a Los Angeles-based songwriter, performer and record producer. Biography Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Olson moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1978 where she formed the Textones, whose debut album ''Midnight Mission'' entered the ''Billboard'' 200. Carla is multi lingual. She served as a French translator for Malian legend Ali Farka Toure. She also speaks Italian, Japanese and Swedish. An early version of the Textones consisting of Olson, Kathy Valentine, Markus Cuff, and David Provost, played the late 1970s punk/new wave scene in Los Angeles and toured the US and Europe. They also released an EP in the UK and a single in the US. Their debut album for A&M Records, ''Midnight Mission'', consisted of Olson along with George Callins, Joe Read, Tom Jr Morgan, and Phil Seymour. They also toured the US and Europe. The record charted at 76 on the ''Billboard'' 200, and both singles, "Standing in the Line" and "Midnight Mission", were feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Hurst
Richard Douglas Hurst (born January 1, 1946) is an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' as well as '' The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!'' in 1997 and '' The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood'' in 2000. Rick Hurst profile, Internet Movie Database; accessed February 28, 2017. He also starred as Earl, the chef in the short-lived Bea Arthur series '' Amanda's''. He appeared in many movies, including ''The Karate Kid Part III'' (1989) as the Announcer. He makes numerous appearances at various Dukes of Hazzard events and at Cooters in Nashville and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. He also has made appearances at The World Of Wheels in Birmingham, Alabama. Family His sons are actor Ryan Hurst, and Collin Hurst. He was married to Shelly Weir, the mother of Collin. Filmography * ''The Doris Day Show'' (TV series) as Mechanic, episode "Happiness Is Not Being Fired" (1971) * '' Sanford and Son'' (TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddi Edwards
Paddi Edwards (December 9, 1931 – October 18, 1999) was a British-American actress. She worked steadily in film and television. Career She found a niche in television movies, and toward the end of her life, doing voice work in projects for Disney, such as the roles of Flotsam & Jetsam in ''The Little Mermaid'' franchise. Across a career spanning many live-action and voice-acting performances, she worked on ''Ghostbusters'', '' 101 Dalmatians'', ''Hercules'', and ''Pepper Ann''. Death Edwards died of respiratory failure Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels. A drop in the oxygen carried in the blood is known as hypoxemia; a rise ... on October 18, 1999, aged 67, at her home in Encino, California. Partial filmography References External links * 1931 births 1999 deaths American film actresses American television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Whipple
Sampson E. Whipple (September 25, 1960 – June 3, 2002) was an American actor best remembered for his role as Dr. John Ballard on the TV series '' Seven Days''. His credits include ''The Doors'', ''Airheads'', '' This Is Spinal Tap'' and '' The Rock''. He also appeared in television shows such as '' Open All Night'', '' The Larry Sanders Show'', '' Seinfeld'', and ''Home Improvement''. On June 3, 2002, Whipple died at age 41 after a two-year battle with cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b .... Filmography References External links * * 1960 births 2002 deaths American male film actors American male television actors Deaths from cancer in California Male actors from Los Angeles 20th-century American male actors People from Venice, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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