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Clay Pigeon (film)
''Clay Pigeon'' is a 1971 American action film directed by Lane Slate and Tom Stern and written by Ronald Buck, Jack Gross, Jr. and Buddy Ruskin. The film stars Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley, Burgess Meredith and Ivan Dixon. The film was released on August 1971, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot A Vietnam War veteran (Stern) has been using illegal drugs, but eventually decides that he wants to escape that life. But before he can leave it behind, a CIA narcotics agent (Savalas) recruits him to go undercover in Los Angeles to help expose other ex-soldiers who are involved in drug dealing and drug kingpin Neilson (Vaughn). Cast * Tom Stern as Joe Ryan * Telly Savalas as Redford * Robert Vaughn as Neilson * John Marley as Police Captain * Burgess Meredith as Freedom Lovelace * Ivan Dixon as Simon * Jeff Corey as Clinic Doctor * Marilyn Akin as Angeline * Marlene Clark as Saddle * Belinda Palmer as Tracy * Mario Alcalde as Jason * Peter Lawford as Government Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gross (screenwriter)
Jack Gross Jr. (February 4, 1929 – December 14, 2007) was an American film screenwriter and television situation comedy writer. Biography Gross was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Jack O. Gross, founded KFMB-TV, the first television station in San Diego in May 1949. His brother Laurence Gross was an entertainment critic on KNSD. He wrote the screenplays for '' Clay Pigeon'' and ''Welcome to Arrow Beach'' (1974)''. On television, he wrote episodes of ''Gilligan's Island'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'' and ''My Favorite Martian''."Man in Rolls Hails from Hollywood" (14 March 2001), The Press-Enterprise, page B2 He graduated Point Loma High School in 1947. He was a graduate of San Fernando Valley State College, now known as CSUN, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Gross died of heart failure in La Jolla, California. His son is Josh E. Gross, publisher of ''Beverly Hills Weekly ''Beverly Hills Weekly'' is the free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper serving Beverly Hills, CA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British film studio founded in 1979 which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and was folded in 1999. Among its most successful and well known films were '' An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), ''Flashdance'' (1983), ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), '' Dead Man Walking'' (1995), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998), '' Fargo'' (1996), ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995), '' The Game'' (1997) and ''Notting Hill'' (1999). In 1979, PolyGram created PolyGram Pictures in a partnership with Peter Guber. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, PolyGram continued to invest in a diversified film unit with the purchases of individual production companies. In 1995, PolyGram purchased ITC Entertainment for $156 million. In May 1998, PolyGram was sold to Seagram, which owned Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group, for $10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Greenspun
Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with ''The New York Times'' in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for ''Penthouse'' for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s. Biography Greenspun was a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and in the mid-1970s served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. A graduate of Yale (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1958) and an instructor in English at Connecticut College from 1959 to 1962, he "began writing about film early in the Sixties, partly as a way of avoiding my Ph.D. dissertation, partly as a way of thinking about material that suddenly seemed as exciting as anything I had come across in English studies," he recalled. Greenspun was a professor of film history and criticism at Rutgers University from 1970 to 1995, as well as at the School of the Arts at Columbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lawford
Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford ( Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor.Obituary ''Variety'', 26 December 1984. He was a member of the " Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was said that he was " famous for being famous". Early life Born in London in 1923, he was the only child of Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, KBE (1865–1953) and May Sommerville Bunny (1883–1972). At the time of Peter's birth, however, his mother was married to Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Ernest Vaughn Aylen D.S.O, one of Sir Sydney's officers, while his father was married to Muriel Williams. At the time, May and Ernest Aylen were living apart. May confessed to Aylen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Alcalde
Mario Alcalde (September 6, 1926 – April 22, 1971) was an American film and television actor. Alcalde was born in Key West, Florida, the son of Armando Alcalde. Alcalde attended the American Theatre Wing. He began his screen career in 1954, appearing in the television drama series ''Robert Montgomery Presents''. Alcalde then made an appearance in the 1956 film '' Crowded Paradise'', which starred Hume Cronyn and Nancy Kelly. He played as Juan Figueroa. In the early 1950s he had also acted on stage, appearing in an Off-Broadway production of the play ''Bullfight''. Alcalde later guest-starred in television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Daniel Boone'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Dr. Kildare'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''Man with a Camera'', '' The Virginian'' and ''The Wild Wild West''. He played the recurring role of Yellow Hawk in the western television series '' The Texan''. Alcalde also played therapist Chuck Atwell in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Clark
Marlene Clark (born December 19, 1949) is an American actress, animator and fashion model. Clark is perhaps best known for her portrayals of Ganja Meda in the 1973 horror film ''Ganja & Hess'' and Janet Lawson, Lamont's girlfriend in the sitcom ''Sanford and Son'' from its fifth season in 1975 until the series conclusion in 1977. Early life Born on December 19, 1949, in New York City or Los Angeles (sources differ), Clark was raised in the Harlem section of New York. before her career in acting, Clark was a fashion model. Career Of the films Clark appeared in during the 1960s include ''For Love of Ivy'' (1968), starring Sidney Poitier, and ''Putney Swope'' (1969), which was directed by Robert Downey Sr. Clark appeared in Hal Ashby's directorial debut ''The Landlord'' (1970). Bill Gunn, who wrote the screenplay of ''The Landlord'', then cast her in his unreleased film, ''Stop'' (1970). Clark also appeared opposite Jim Brown and Stella Stevens in '' Slaughter'' (1972). The same ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s. Life and career Corey attended New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and was active in the school's Dramatic Society. In the mid-1930s, he acted with the Clare Tree Major Children's Theater of New York. When Corey began making films, his agent suggested that he change his name from Arthur Zwerling, and he did so. He worked with Jules Dassin, Elia Kazan, John Randolph and other politically liberal theatrical personalities. Although he attended some meetings of the Communist Party, Corey never joined. A World War II veteran, Corey served in the United States Navy. His memoir, ''Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How To Act'', which he wrote with his daughter, Emily Corey, is published by the University Press of Kentucky. His longtime friend and former student Leonard Nimoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and performing covert actions. As a principal member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States. President Harry S. Truman had created the Central Intelligence Group under the direction of a Director of Central Intelligence by presidential directive on January 22, 1946, and this group was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency by implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veteran
A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has served directly in combat in a war is further defined as a war veteran (although not all military conflicts, or areas in which armed combat took place, are necessarily referred to as ''wars''). Military veterans are unique as a group as their lived experience is so strongly connected to the conduct of war in general and application of professional violence in particular. Therefore, there are a large body of knowledge developed through centuries of scholarly studies that seek to describe, understand and explain their lived experience in and out of service. Griffith with colleagues provides an overview of this research field that addresses veterans general health, transition from military service to civilian life, homelessness, veteran empl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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