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Catherine McGoohan
Catherine McGoohan (born 31 May 1952) is a British-American actress. Early life McGoohan is the eldest daughter of Irish-American actor Patrick McGoohan and actress Joan Drummond. She has two younger sisters. Career McGoohan appeared in films and television series such as '' Something's Gotta Give'', '' The Girl Next Door'', '' Elizabethtown'', ''General Hospital'' and ''Gilmore Girls''. She appeared alongside her father in '' Columbo: Ashes to Ashes'' (1998), which he also directed. Personal life She moved to the United States with her parents and sisters, having previously lived in both Britain and Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ..., in the late 1960s. She is married to film producer Cleve Landsberg; she has two daughters and a grandson. Filmograph ...
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Glory Road (film)
''Glory Road'' is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story surrounding the events leading to the 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship. Don Haskins portrayed by Josh Lucas, head coach of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP), coached a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history. ''Glory Road'' explores racism, discrimination and student athletics. Supporting actors Jon Voight and Derek Luke also star in principal roles. The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Texas Western Productions, and Glory Road Productions. It was commercially distributed by Buena Vista Pictures theatrically and by the Buena Vista Home Entertainment division for the video rental market. It premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on January 13, 2006, grossing $42,938,449 in box office business despite g ...
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The Big Easy (TV Series)
''The Big Easy'' is an American crime drama series that was based on the 1987 film of the same name. The show premiered on the USA Network on August 11, 1996. Tony Crane played New Orleans police detective lieutenant Remy McSwain, Susan Walters played state district attorney Anne Osbourne, and Barry Corbin played police chief C.D. LeBlanc. It was developed by Jacqueline Zambrano, based on the characters created by Daniel Petrie Jr., who wrote the screenplay to the film and also was the executive producer of the series. Thirty-five episodes were broadcast over two seasons. The series takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was shot on location. Premise A male New Orleans detective and a female district attorney investigate crimes for the New Orleans police department. Episodes Cast *Tony Crane as Det. Remy McSwain *Barry Corbin as Sheriff C.D. LeBlanc * Eric George as Smiley Dupree *Susan Walters as Anne Osbourne (season 1) *Karla Tamburelli as Det. Darlene Broussard (sea ...
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The Elizabeth Taylor Story
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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Acapulco H
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history. It is a port of call for shipping and cruise lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, United States. The city of Acapulco is the largest in the state, far larger than the state capital Chilpancingo. Acapulco is also Mexico's largest beach and balneario resort city. Acapulco de Juárez is the municipal seat of the municipality of Acapulco. The city is one of Mexico's oldest beach resorts, coming into prominence in the 1940s through the 1960s as a getaway for Hollywood stars and millionaires. Acapulco was once a popular tourist resort, but due to a massive upsurge in gang violence and homicide numbers since 2014, Acapulco no longer attracts many foreign touris ...
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An Inconvenient Woman
''An Inconvenient Woman'' is a 1990 novel by Dominick Dunne. Its plot centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles high society, and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenient woman of the title. The hardcover edition () was released by Crown Publishers. The paperback () was published by Ballantine Books. Synopsis Behind-the-scenes Hollywood intrigue, the underworld of laundered money, illegal drugs, and prostitution, and the foibles of the extremely wealthy and those who serve them, serve as the background for a tale of murder, the abuse of power, and the destruction of several lives when revenge enters the picture. Characters include the incredibly rich and famous, those who are desperate to share their spotlight, and the underlings who cater to their every need. Chief among them are billionaire Jules Mendelson, a con ...
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The Return Of The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman
''The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman'' is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' and its spin-off ''The Bionic Woman''. Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) are asked to come out of retirement and confront a paramilitary criminal organization called Fortress, Steve's estranged son Michael Austin ( Tom Schanley), and their own past relationship. Series regular characters Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), head of the OSI, and Dr. Rudy Wells ( Martin E. Brooks) also star, along with new characters OSI agent Jim Castillian (Lee Majors II, the real-life son of Lee Majors) and Lyle Stenning (Martin Landau), leader of Fortress. The movie was a "backdoor pilot" for a potential series based on the character of Michael Austin, but the series never ...
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Of Pure Blood
''Of Pure Blood'' is a 1986 made-for-TV thriller for CBS that premiered on October 19, 1986, directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Lee Remick. Alicia Browning (Remick) is a casting director in New York City whose grown son is shot to death in Munich, Germany by police when he apparently tried to attack a doctor who was attending the annual Oktoberfest. When Alicia travels to Germany—her native homeland—to investigate, she finds the old Nazi Lebensborn breeding programs still alive and wanting her son's child—her grandchild—that he fathered with a German girlfriend before his death, for their attempts to recreate Hitler's so-called 'master race' and a modern-day Fourth Reich. Cast * Lee Remick as Alicia Browning * Eszter Marai as young Alicia Browning * Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Felix Neumann * Gottfried John as Paul Bergmann * Richard Münch as Dr. Bamberg * Katharina Böhm as Ursula Schiller * Carolyn Nelson Sargent as Johanna * Catherine McGoohan as Pru * Hans-Jà ...
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Scarecrow And Mrs
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin, often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.Lesley Brown (ed.). (2007). "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles". 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Scarecrows are used around the world by farmers, and are a notable symbol of farms and the countryside in popular culture. Design The common form of a scarecrow is a humanoid figure dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as Corvus, crows or Old World sparrow, sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. Machinery such as windmills have been employed as scarecrows, but the effectiveness lessens as animals become familiar with the structures. Since the invention of the humanoid scarecrow, more effective methods have been developed. On California far ...
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In My Mind (film)
''In My Mind'' is a 2017 British documentary film about Patrick McGoohan and the making of ''The Prisoner'', the late 1960s allegorical science-fiction TV series. The documentary was created and narrated by Chris Rodley for the 50th anniversary of the original airing of the TV series in the UK. The film follows the events surrounding Rodley's visit to interview McGoohan in 1983 for a 1984 documentary about the making of the original series. It premiered at 'Fall In', a celebration of the Prisoner TV series held at the original outdoor location of Portmeirion in north Wales and was released on Blu-ray Disc on 30 October 2017. Summary In 1983, Channel 4, the newly created fourth television channel in the UK, repeated all 17 episodes of the original series of ''The Prisoner''. Following the airing of the final episode – " Fall Out" – in 1984, the channel had arranged to create a special one-hour programme discussing the making of the series called ''Six Into One – The Prisoner ...
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Beginners
''Beginners'' is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. It tells the story of a man reflecting on the life and death of his father, while trying to forge a new romantic relationship with a woman dealing with father-issues of her own. The film is based on the coming out of Mills' own father at the age of 75, five years before his death. After its premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the ''Los Angeles Times'' heralded ''Beginners'' as a "heady, heartfelt film" with a cast who have "a strong sense of responsibility to their real-world counterparts". Christopher Plummer received numerous accolades for his performance in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Plot (Throughout the film, scenes of Oliver Fields' memories of his deceased parents are intercut, as flashbacks, into the narrative of his developing relationship with Anna Wallace.) In Los Angeles in 2003, a few months after the death of ...
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Redemption Road
''Redemption Road'' (also ''Black, White and Blues'') is a 2010 American film directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Michael Clarke Duncan and Luke Perry. Premise In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his inheritance from his recently deceased grandfather. Cast * Michael Clarke Duncan as Augy * Morgan Simpson as Bailey * Luke Perry as Boyd * Tom Skerritt as Santa * Taryn Manning as Jackie * Kiele Sanchez as Hannah * Melvin Van Peebles as Elmo * Cassandra Lawson as Bailey’s Young Mother Release After it played at film festivals such as the Nashville Film Festival and Hollywood Film Festival in 2010, it received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 26, 2011. Reception On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 57% based on reviews from 7 critics, with an average rating of 4.5/10. On Metacritic it has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indic ...
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