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Carol Littleton
Carol Sue Littleton, (born October 23, 1942) is an American film editor. Her work includes ''Body Heat'' (1981), ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), and ''The Big Chill'' (1983). Littleton was the recipient of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing (for a TV Miniseries, Movie or a Special) for ''Tuesdays with Morrie'' (1999). Littleton served as president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild from 1988 to 1991, and as vice president from 1994 to 2001, as well as from 2005 to 2007. Littleton has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors, and serves as ACE vice president since 2019. She is also a current member of the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Film Editors Branch). Carol Littleton is married to cinematographer John Bailey. Life and career Carol Littleton was born 1942 in Oklahoma City but her family later moved to Miami in Northeastern Oklahoma, where she grew up.An Interview with Carol Littlet ...
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and is the 8th largest city in the Southern United States. The population grew following the 2010 census and reached 687,725 in the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma's largest municipality and metropolitan area by population. Oklahoma City's city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside the core Oklahoma County area are suburban tracts or protected rural zones ( watershed). The city is the eighth-largest in the United States by area including consolidated city-counties; it is the second-largest, after Houston, not ...
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Karen Arthur
Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American film director, producer, and actress. Arthur has directed three feature films, including ''Lady Beware'' (1987) and ''The Mafu Cage'' (1978), but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television movies and series. In 1985, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (for an episode of ''Cagney & Lacey''). She is currently a resident of the town of Springfield, Vermont. Partial filmography References External linksKaren Arthurat Academy of Television Arts & Sciences The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States. It is a 501(c)(6) non-prof ... * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arthur, Karen 1941 births American women film directors American television actresses A ...
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Alan Rudolph
Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter. Early life Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor, and his wife. He became interested in film and was a protégé of director Robert Altman. Rudolph worked as an assistant director on Altman's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's ''The Long Goodbye (novel), The Long Goodbye'' and later on ''Nashville (film), Nashville''. Career Rudolph's films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships, and frequently are ensemble pieces featuring prominent romanticism and fantasy. He has written almost all of his films. In addition, he has repeatedly worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham (see list of film director and composer collaborations). Director Rudolph came to prominence with ''Choose Me'' (1984), the story of the sexual relationships among a ha ...
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Roadie (1980 Film)
''Roadie'' is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Alan Rudolph about a truck driver who becomes a roadie for a traveling rock and roll show. The film stars Meat Loaf and marks his first starring role in a film. There are also cameo appearances by musicians such as Roy Orbison and Hank Williams Jr. and supporting roles played by Alice Cooper and the members of Blondie. Plot Travis W. Redfish is a beer-drinking, bar-brawling, fun-loving Texan, who works as a distributor of Shiner beer. He also helps his father, Corpus C. Redfish with the family salvage company, whose motto is "Everything will work if you let it!" B.B. Muldoon is his best friend and business partner, and the romantic interest of Travis' younger sister Alice Poo. While B.B. and Travis are making deliveries in their Shiner beer truck, they notice an RV that has broken down on the side of the road. At first, they laugh at the thought of helping the stranded motorists, but then Travis sees wannabee groupi ...
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Willard Huyck
Willard Miller Huyck, Jr. (born September 8, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas. Career Huyck and Lucas met as students at the film school of the University of Southern California, and became members of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope group of filmmakers. Along with his wife Gloria Katz, Huyck wrote screenplays for films including ''American Graffiti'', ''Lucky Lady'', ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'', and ''Radioland Murders'', and performed uncredited work on the original ''Star Wars''. He also directed four films he co-wrote with Gloria Katz: ''Messiah of Evil'', ''French Postcards'', ''Best Defense'', and ''Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a fictional Character (arts), character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck first appeared in ''Adventure into F ...''. The latt ...
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French Postcards
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ...
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Peter Werner
Peter H. Werner (born January 17, 1947, in New York City, New York (state), New York) is an American film director, film and television director. Biography Werner was born to a American Jews, Jewish family, in New York City, New York, one of three children born to Elizabeth (née Grumbach) and Henry Werner.New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths WERNER, ELIZABETH GRUMBACH"
February 17, 2003
He has one sister, Patsy Werner Hanson, and one brother, Tom Werner. In 1977, Werner won the Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Live Action Short Film for directing the short film ''In the Region of Ice''. Since then he worked on primarily directing television amassing a number of televi ...
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Battered (1978 Film)
Battered may refer to: * Batter (cooking) * Battered (band) * ''Battered'' (album) * ''Battered'' (1978 film), a 1978 TV movie directed by Peter Werner * ''Battered'' (film), a 1989 documentary directed by Lee Grant See also *Batter (other) *Battered person syndrome *Battered woman defense Battered woman syndrome (BWS) is a pattern of signs and symptoms displayed by a woman who has suffered persistent intimate partner violence: whether psychological, physical, or sexual, from her male partner. It is classified in the ICD-9 (code ) ...
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The Mafu Cage
''The Mafu Cage'' (also released as ''My Sister, My Love'', ''Deviation'' and ''Don't Ring the Doorbell'') is a 1978 American psychological horror film directed by Karen Arthur, and starring Carol Kane and Lee Grant. Its plot follows two sisters, both the daughters of a late anthropologist, residing in a dilapidated Los Angeles mansion: one, an astronomer, and the other, a dysfunctional eccentric who keeps and tortures a variety of monkeys and other primates. Arthur worked with screenwriter Don Chastain to loosely adapt Eric Westphal's play ''Toi et Tes Nuages'', which she had seen in Paris in 1975. The finished product premiered at Cannes in 1978. Plot Ellen Carpenter (Lee Grant) is a successful but emotionally repressed astronomer in Los Angeles who resides with her sister, Cissy (Carol Kane) in a dilapidating house in the Hollywood Hills; the sisters inherited the home from their late father, a successful anthropologist who worked extensively in Africa. Cissy is mentally im ...
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The Hazing (1977 Film)
"The Hazing" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the October 1942 issue of ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' and reprinted in the 1972 collection ''The Early Asimov''. Discussing the story in ''The Early Asimov'', the author noted that it is set in the same fictional universe as his earlier stories "Homo Sol" and " The Imaginary", but featured different characters. "The Hazing" was the thirtieth story written by Asimov, and the twenty-eighth to be published. Due to the peculiar workings of the science fiction magazine publishing industry, the story appeared a month before "The Imaginary". When putting together ''The Early Asimov'', Asimov confessed he was unable to remember writing "The Hazing, or any details of the story, even after reading it. Plot summary In the ''Homo Sol'' stories, the Galactic Federation has developed psychology into a hard science, with quantitative equations and solutions for behavior. Consequently, master psychologist ...
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Legacy (1975 Film)
In law, a legacy is something held and transferred to someone as their inheritance, as by will and testament. Personal effects, family property, marriage property or collective property gained by will of real property. Legacy or legacies may refer to: Arts, media and entertainment People * “Legacy”, a.k.a. Big Popp, a legend in Natick M.A. Comics * " Batman: Legacy", a 1996 Batman storyline * '' DC Universe: Legacies'', a comic book series from DC Comics written by Len Wein * ''Legacy'', a 1999 quarterly series from Antarctic Press * ''Legacy'', a 2003–2005 series released by Dabel Brothers Productions * Legacy, an alternate name for the DC supervillain Wizard who leads the Injustice Society IV team * Legacy (Marvel Comics), an alias used by Genis-Vell, better known as Captain Marvel * Legacy Virus, a fictional virus from the Marvel Universe * Marvel Legacy, a comic book line introduced in 2017 * '' Star Wars: Legacy'', a 2006 series from Dark Horse * '' X-Men: Legacy' ...
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Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American filmmaker. He is the co-writer of the ''Star Wars'' films ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), ''The Force Awakens'' (2015), and ''Solo: A Star Wars Story'' (2018). He also co-wrote ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) and ''The Bodyguard (1992 film), The Bodyguard'' (1992), and is the writer-director of ''Body Heat'' (1981), ''The Big Chill (film), The Big Chill'' (1983), ''Silverado (film), Silverado'' (1985), ''The Accidental Tourist (film), The Accidental Tourist'' (1988), and Dreamcatcher (2003 film), ''Dreamcatcher'' (2003). He is known for updating old Hollywood genres—film noir, science-fiction, westerns—in a classical dramatic style with quick-witted dialogue, but dealing with contemporary social themes. As a director, he has made various personal films that examine characters and generations. Kasdan has been nominated for four Academy Awards: as a producer for Best Picture nomi ...
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