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Brooklyn Lobster
''Brooklyn Lobster'' is a 2005 American drama film presented by Martin Scorsese and written, produced, and directed by Kevin Jordan. The screenplay is based on Jordan's family's efforts to salvage their Brooklyn-based wholesale and retail seafood operation when the bank defaulted on a loan they had secured to finance a restaurant extension to the business. Plot Frank Giorgio's life is thrown into chaos when the bank that loaned him money for a restaurant addition to his seafood business folds and the FDIC demands he repay the loan in full immediately. With the threat of a public auction looming, the very proud and stubborn Frank, his family, and eccentric crew rally to save the business. Frank's son Michael, who works in the tech world of Seattle, and his girlfriend Kerry return home for Christmas and are dragged into the family drama. Michael's childhood home has been sold, and his mother Maureen, who has separated from Frank and is hoping to establish her own identity apart fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. () (June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974), ''The Front'' (1976), ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984), ''Hide in Plain Sight'' (1984), ''The Purple Rose of Cairo'' (1985), ''Moonstruck'' (1987), ''Harlem Nights'' (1989), ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989), ''Jacob's Ladder'' (1990), ''Hudson Hawk'' (1991), ''Ruby'' (1992), '' Léon: The Professional'' (1994), '' 2 Days in the Valley'' (1996), ''Dinner Rush'' (2000), and ''Lucky Number Slevin'' (2006). He played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the miniseries ''The Last Don'' (1997). Aiello was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the Spike Lee film ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989). Early life Aiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan, the son of parents Frances Pietrocova, a seamstress from Naples, Italy, and Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockville Centre
Rockville Centre, commonly abbreviated as RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 24,023 at the 2010 census. History Rockville Centre has been occupied by humans for thousands of years. Generally speaking, the people of the prehistoric Woodlands period East River culture are believed to have been the Algonkian-speaking ancestors of the historical Indian tribes of western Long Island. The historical territory of their Lenape descendants, the Canarsie, Recouwacky (Rockaway), Matinecock and Massapequa, included present-day western Long Island's Queens and Nassau Counties. By the year 1643, there were roughly thirteen Algonquin bands (then referred to as tribes) living east of the Dutch-English settlements: the four or so Lenape chieftaincies in western Long Island, and Metoac descendants of the prehistoric Woodlands period Windsor culture living on eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Schnetzer
Stephen Paul Schnetzer (born June 11, 1948) is an American actor. Life and career Schnetzer, who is of German descent, was born in Canton, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas A. Schnetzer. His mother was a war bride from Algeria. He attended Catholic Memorial School. After playing the role of Julie Olson Williams' brother, Steven Olson, on ''Days of Our Lives'', he joined the cast of the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' as fitness expert Marcello Salta. He later played attorney Cass Winthrop on '' Another World'' (1982–86, 1987–99). After the cancellation of ''Another World'', he made guest appearances as Cass Winthrop on the CBS soap opera ''As the World Turns'' (1999–2002; 2005; 2006) and on ''Guiding Light'' (2002). He has also been billed to under the names Stephen Schnetzer, Stephen St. Paul, and Steven St. Paul. Schnetzer has recently become a prolific voiceover talent advertising for many companies, such as Mercedes-Benz, and various prescription and over-the-coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Mason (actor, Born 1949)
Tom Mason is an American actor. He began his television career in 1977, portraying Rex Stout's fictional detective Archie Goodwin in the ABC-TV movie ''Nero Wolfe''. His subsequent TV credits include the series ''Grandpa Goes to Washington'', ''Freebie and the Bean'' (1980), ''George Washington'' (1984), ''Our Family Honor'' (1985–1986), ''Jack and Mike'' (1986–1987), ''Party of Five'' (1994–2000), ''The Bedford Diaries'' (2006) and ''The Black Donnellys'' (2007). Mason's episodic credits include ''Law & Order'', ''The Practice'', '' 100 Centre Street'' and ''The Sopranos''. Mason's film credits include ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), ''The Aliens Are Coming'' (1980), ''Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' (1983), ''Crimes of the Heart'' (1986), ''Men Don't Leave'' (1990), ''F/X2'' (1991), '' Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted'' (1992), ''The Amy Fisher Story'' (1993), ''Final Appeal'' (1993), '' Greedy'' (1994), '' Flashfire'' (1994), ''The Puppet Masters'' (1994), '' Brooklyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Garrick
Barbara Garrick is an American actress. Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film. Life and career Garrick was born in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, she has several stage credits, including ''Eastern Standard'', ''Stanley'', and ''A Thousand Clowns''. She performed on several New York-based television shows, including several stints on soap operas. She portrayed the villainous nurse Charlotte Wheaton on ''Guiding Light'' in 1985, and on ''As the World Turns'' in 1999. She had several stints as cult follower Allison Perkins on ''One Life to Live'', and first appeared as the character from 1986 to 1987, with subsequent stints from 2001 to 2003, and in 2008. Garrick returned to the show in its final few months and was a prominent part of its final episode on January 13, 2012. Her character Allison narrated the entire episode and spoke the show's final words, "Things are rarely what they appear." Garrick played DeDe Halcyon Day i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Freed
Sam Freed (born August 29, 1948) is an American actor who has performed on Broadway and television and in movies. His first major regular role on television was as Bob Barsky in the last three seasons of ''Kate & Allie''. In the short-lived series ''Ferris Bueller'', he played Bill Bueller, the father of the title character. He also portrayed James C. Whiting III, the executive editor of ''The Baltimore Sun'', in the fifth and final season of ''The Wire''. He was married to late actress Barrie Youngfellow, who co-starred in the 1980s ABC-TV/syndicated sitcom series ''It's a Living''. Formative years Sam Freed was the youngest of six children of a traveling salesman father and a homemaker mother. He graduated from York Suburban Senior High School and began developing his acting skills at the York Little Theatre. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Penn State in 1970. His first production at the university was ''Under Milk Wood''. While he apprenticed with Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Kahn
Ian R. Kahn (born April 21, 1972) is an American stage, television actor and podcast host, perhaps best known for his roles on '' Turn: Washington's Spies'', ''Dawson's Creek'', ''Bull'', ''The Unusuals'' and ''As the World Turns''. He portrayed George Washington in 24 episodes of the 2014 TV series, '' Turn: Washington's Spies''. He made his Broadway debut in ''ENRON'' at the Broadhurst Theater in April 2010. In September 2009, he made his off-Broadway debut in MCC's ''Still Life''. He has appeared in major regional theater companies across the United States. Some of his roles have included Mortimer in '' Arsenic and Old Lace'' at the Baltimore Center Stage, Algernon in ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' at the Arena Stage, Johnny Wheelwright in ''A Prayer For Owen Meany'' at Roundhouse theater, Tom in ''The Glass Menagerie'' at St. Louis Rep, Henry Higgins in ''My Fair Lady'' at The Media Theater, Septimus Hodge in ''Arcadia'' at the Wilma Theater, and as William Shakespeare i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Ryan
Marisa Ryan (born November 20, 1974) is an American actress, best known for her role as Nina Grabowski in the HBO series ''Sex and the City'', as Elizabeth Cooper-MacGillis in the CBS sitcom ''Major Dad'' (1989–1993), and as Abby Bernstein in the 2001 comedy film ''Wet Hot American Summer'', its Netflix prequel series, '' Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp'' (2015) and its Netflix sequel series '' Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later'' (2017). Career Ryan made her screen debut in a small role in the 1983 film ''Without a Trace''. From 1989 to 1993, she starred as Elizabeth Cooper-MacGillis in the CBS sitcom ''Major Dad'' opposite Gerald McRaney. She later went to star in the Independent films ''Love Always'' (1996), '' Slaves to the Underground'' (1997), ''Taylor's Return'' (1997), and ''With or Without You'' (1998). In 1998, Ryan joined the cast of Fox police drama series, ''New York Undercover'' as Det. Nell Delaney, during the show's fourth and final season. She l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Burns
Heather Burns (born April 7, 1975) is an American actress, known for her role as Miss Rhode Island Cheryl Frasier in the 2000 film '' Miss Congeniality'' and its 2005 sequel, '' Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous''. Her other film appearances include ''You've Got Mail'' (1998), ''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002) and '' Bewitched'' (2005). Life and career Burns was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Evanston Township High School. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her father Jim Burns played basketball for the Chicago Bulls, and as an attorney was the US Attorney in Chicago from 1992-1996. Burns has appeared in a number of films with Sandra Bullock, including '' Miss Congeniality'' (2000), ''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002) and '' Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous'' (2005). She also starred in the film ''What's Your Number?'' (2011) and she held a recurring role opposite Zach Galifianakis in the HBO series '' Bored to Death'' and played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahamas International Film Festival
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is a non-profit film festival held in the Bahamas. Open to both locals and international visitors, the festival was founded by Leslie Vanderpool in 2004. BIFF also hosts a youth film workshop that aims to provide young Bahamians with information and resources on filmmaking. The 2015 BIFF showcased several women-driven films such as '' Carol'' and '' Janis: Little Girl Blue''. BIFF was listed among the 25 coolest film festivals in the world by ''MovieMaker Magazine''. Awards The following is a list of awards given at the Bahamas International Film Festival. Grand Jury Audience awards First Look Honors Bahamian Tribute Award * 2009: Gavin McKinney Career Achievement Award * 2005: Spike Lee * 2006: Nicolas Cage * 2007: Daryl Hannah * 2008: Laurence Fishburne * 2011: Heather Graham * 2013: Danny Glover * 2017: Grace Jones Rising Star Honoree * 2007: Naomie Harris * 2008: Anna Faris * 2009: Sophie Okonedo * 2011: Zoë Kravitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
