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Ben Curtis (actor)
Benjamin Bowmar Curtis (born November 2, 1980) is an American actor who became known as the Dell Dude in a series of commercials for Dell Computers between 2000 and 2003. Since then, he has acted on stage and on screen. Early life and education Curtis, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the second of two children; he attended and graduated from The McCallie School, an all-boys school in Chattanooga, after completing elementary school at Saint Nicholas School, also in Chattanooga. At the age of thirteen, inspired by illusionist David Copperfield, Curtis started his own magic business; he competed in and won a few national stage contests. He attended Tannen's Magic School in New York City. He then attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts on an acting scholarship. He also studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, the Atlantic Theater Company, and Tisch's Experimental Theater Wing. Career Dell commercials As part of a commercial advertising camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee's fourth-largest city and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. It anchors the Chattanooga metropolitan area, Tennessee's fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area, as well as a larger three-state area that includes Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, and Northeast Alabama. Chattanooga was a crucial city during the American Civil War, due to the multiple railroads that converge there. After the war, the railroads allowed for the city to grow into one of the Southeastern United States' largest heavy industrial hubs. Today, major industry that drives the economy includes automotive, advanced manufacturing, food and beverage production, healthcare, insurance, tourism, and back office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Burrows
Abe Burrows (born Abram Solman Borowitz; December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage. He won a Tony Award and was selected for two Pulitzer Prizes, only one of which was awarded. Early years Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and later attended both City College and New York University. He began working as a runner on Wall Street while at NYU, and he also worked in an accounting firm. After he met Frank Galen in 1938, the two wrote and sold jokes to an impressionist who appeared on Rudy Vallée's radio program. Career Radio His radio career gained strength when he collaborated with Ed Gardner, the writer and star of radio's legendary ''Duffy's Tavern''. The two created the successful series after Gardner's character, Archie, premiered on ''This Is New York'', an earlier radio program. Burrows was made the show's head writer in 1941, and he credited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Theft Auto V
''Grand Theft Auto V'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto, ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2008's ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', and the fifteenth instalment overall. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, based on Southern California, the Single-player video game, single-player story follows three protagonists—retired Bank robbery, bank robber Michael De Santa, street gangster Franklin Clinton, and drug dealer and Arms trafficking, gunrunner Trevor Philips—and their attempts to commit heists while under pressure from a corrupt government agency and powerful criminals. The open world design lets players Nonlinear gameplay, freely roam San Andreas' open countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos, based on Los Angeles. The game is played from either a Virtual camera system#Third-person view, third-person or First-person (video games), first-person persp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Gay Tony
''Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony'' is the second of two episodic expansion packs available for the 2008 video game '' Grand Theft Auto IV'', developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. The game was released individually for the Xbox 360 on 29 October 2009, and for the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010, as part of a standalone disc-based package titled '' Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City'', which also contains '' Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned'' and does not require the base game to be played. Microsoft added ''Episodes from Liberty City'' to its backwards compatibility list for Xbox One platforms in February 2017. Set concurrently with the events of ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' and ''The Lost and Damned'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' follows Luis Fernando Lopez, a Dominican-American former drug dealer-turned-bodyguard and best friend of Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince, a nightclub magnate and high-status socialite in Libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; xgf, Tovaangar; es, Los Ángeles, , ), referred to by the initialism L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in California. With a 2020 population of 3,898,747, it is the List of United States cities by population, second-largest city in the United States, following New York City. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry and sprawling metropolitan area. The City of Los Angeles lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, and extends through the Santa Monica Mountains and into the San Fernando Valley, covering a total of about . It is the county seat, seat of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, which is the List of the most populous counties in the United States, most populous county in the United States. Home to the Chumash people, Chumash and Tongva indigenous peoples, the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
