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Balls Of Fury
''Balls of Fury'' is a 2007 American sports comedy A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and their sport), or follower of sport (and the spor ... film directed by Robert Ben Garant, who also wrote the screenplay with Thomas Lennon, who also co-starred and produced with Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman. The film stars Dan Fogler, with a supporting cast of George Lopez, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, Terry Crews, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Hong and Jason Scott Lee. The film was released in the United States on August 29, 2007. ''Balls of Fury'' was Fogler's first lead role. Plot Eleven-year-old Randy Daytona becomes anxious when he learns that his father Peter has bet on his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics table tennis tournament finals. During his semi-final game against Karl Wolfschtagg of the East Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ben Garant
Robert Ben Garant (born September 14, 1970), credited earlier in his career as Ben Garant, is an American screenwriter, producer, director, actor and comedian. He has a long professional relationship with Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver from their time on the sketch-comedy show ''The State (1993 TV series), The State'', the cop show spoof ''Reno 911!'', and numerous screenwriting collaborations. Early life Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, and grew up in Farragut, Tennessee. He lived in New York City for several years and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While at NYU he was a member of sketch comedy troupe The State (comedy troupe), The State. Career Garant was a cast member on the 1993-1995 MTV sketch comedy series ''The State (1993 TV series), The State''. In 2003, Garant, Thomas Lennon (actor), Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver, all members of The State, created the mockumentary show ''Reno 911!'', which aired on Comedy Centra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Crews
Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American actor, television host, and former American footballer. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/ CW sitcom ''Everybody Hates Chris'', which aired from 2005 to 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox and NBC sitcom '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' (2013–2021). Crews starred in the BET reality series ''The Family Crews'' (2010–2011), and hosted the U.S. version of the game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in films, including ''Friday After Next'' (2002), ''White Chicks'' (2004), ''Idiocracy'' (2006), '' Blended'' (2014), the ''Expendables'' series (2010–2014), and '' Rumble'' (2021). Crews began hosting '' America's Got Talent'' in 2019, following his involvement in the same role for the program's spin-off series '' America's Got Talent: The Champions''. Crews played as a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Koechner
David Michael Koechner ( ; born August 24, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing roles such as Champ Kind in the ''Anchorman'' films and Todd Packer on NBC's ''The Office''. Koechner first became involved in performing when he began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of Del Close, before joining the Second City Northwest. Koechner relocated to New York City in 1995, doing year long stints of sketch comedy as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1995–1996) and as a sketch regular on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' in the mid-1990s. In 1997, Koechner moved to Los Angeles and started working regularly in various film and television comedies, making his first film appearances with small roles in the films such as ''Wag the Dog'', '' Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'', and '' Man on the Moon''. While filming the country mockumentary film ''Dill Scallion'' in 1998, Koechner befriended actor/co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patton Oswalt
Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known as Spence Olchin in the sitcom ''The King of Queens'' (1998–2007) and for narrating the sitcom '' The Goldbergs'' (2013–present) as adult Adam F. Goldberg. After making his acting debut in the '' Seinfeld'' episode " The Couch", he has since appeared in a variety of television series, such as '' Parks and Recreation'', '' Community'', ''Two and a Half Men'', '' Drunk History'', ''Reno 911!'', '' Mystery Science Theater 3000'', ''Archer'', '' Veep'', '' Justified'', '' Kim Possible'', and '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', portraying Principal Ralph Durbin in '' A.P. Bio'' (2018–2021) and Matthew the Raven in the TV series '' The Sandman'' (2022–present). Oswalt is also known for voicing Remy in the Pixar film ''Ratatouille'' (2007), Max in the Illumination film ''The Secret Life of Pets 2'' (2019) (replacing Louis C.K. from the first film), and M.O.D.O.K in the 2021 H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his comedy roles. He has appeared as a series regular in television sitcoms ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''American Housewife'', and '' Outsourced'', along with notable recurring roles in '' Better Things'' and ''Veep.'' His film credits include ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Office Space'', '' EuroTrip'', and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. He has also had a prolific voiceover career, playing characters such as Hoss Delgado in ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', Zeta in ''The Zeta Project'', Tank in the film '' Surf's Up'', and provided the voice of Bruce Wayne / Batman in multiple animated films and television series, beginning in 2008 with '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold''. Early life Karl Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of Gretta Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; 1931–2014), a sculptor, and William B. Bader (1931–2016), a foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Nilaja Tyler (born September 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host. She is known for playing Andrea Marino in the first season of ''Ghost Whisperer'', Tara Lewis (Criminal Minds), Dr. Tara Lewis in ''Criminal Minds'', Mother Nature in The Santa Clause (franchise), ''The Santa Clause'' films, and voicing Lana Kane in ''Archer (2009 TV series), Archer'', as well as recurring roles on ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Talk Soup'', and ''Friends''. She co-hosted seasons two through seven of CBS's ''The Talk (talk show), The Talk'', for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. Since 2013, she has hosted ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series), Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. She also hosted Ubisoft's Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3 press conferences and has lent her voice to the video games ''Halo: Reach'', ''Gears of War 3'', and ''Watch Dogs (video game), Watch Dogs''. Early life Tyler was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudden Death (sport)
In a sport or game, sudden death (also sudden-death, sudden-death overtime, or a sudden-death round) is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner. Sudden death is typically used as a tiebreaker when a contest is tied at the end of regulation (normal) playing time or the completion of the normal playing task. An alternative tiebreaker method to sudden death is to play an extra, shortened segment of the game. In association football 30 minutes of extra time (overtime) after 90 minutes of normal time, or in golf one playoff round (18 holes) after four standard rounds (72 holes) are two alternatives. Sudden death playoffs typically end more quickly than the shortened play alternative. Reducing the variability of the event's duration assists those scheduling television time and team travel. Fans may see sudden death as exciting and suspenseful, or they may view the format as compromising the sport, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triad (organized Crime)
A triad ( zh , t=三合會 , s=三合会 , cy=sāam hahp wúi , j=saam1 hap6 wui6‑2 , hp=sān hé huì , first=t,j ) is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China and has outposts in various countries with significant overseas Chinese diaspora populations. The Hong Kong triad is distinct from mainland Chinese criminal organizations. In ancient China, the triad was one of three major secret societies.Wang, Peng (2017). ''The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. It established branches in Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese communities overseas.Chu, Y. K. (2002). ''The triads as business''. Routledge. Known as "mainland Chinese criminal organizations", they are of two major types: “dark forces” (loosely-organized groups) (）and “Black Societies" () (more-mature criminal organizations). Two features which distinguish a black society from ordinary "dark forces" or low leve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loan Sharks
A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high interest rates, has strict terms of collection upon failure, and generally operates outside the law. Description Because loan sharks operate mostly illegally, they cannot reasonably expect to be able to use the legal system to collect such debts, they often resort to enforcing repayment by terms of blackmail and threats of violence. Historically, many moneylenders skirted between legal and criminal activity. In the recent western world, loan sharks have been a prominent feature of the criminal underworld. Loan sharking is not to be confused with predatory lending with extremely high interest rates such as payday or title loans, which is sometimes considered to be "loan sharking" (or, at least, unfavorably compared to loan sharking by critics) regardless of whether it is legal. A key difference between "traditional" loan sharking and predatory lending is that lenders alleged to be engaged in the latter practice are exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship. The GDR was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women). 237 events were held and 27,221 volunteers helped to prepare the Olympics. The 1988 Seoul Olympics were the second summer Olympic Games held in Asia and the first held in South Korea. As the host country, South Korea ranked fourth overall, winning 12 gold medals and 33 medals in the competition. 11,331 media (4,978 written press and 6,353 broadcasters) showed the Games all over the world. These were the last Olympic Games of the Cold War, as well as for the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games in 1992. The Soviet Union dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
