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Dann Florek
Ezekial Dann Florek (born May 1, 1950) is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his role as New York City Police Captain Donald Cragen on NBC's '' Law & Order'' and its spinoff '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and Dave Meyer on ''L.A. Law'' (1988–1993). Early life Florek was born in Flat Rock, Michigan, the son of Leonard Florek, a chiropractor, and Darlene Florek. He attended Eastern Michigan University, but never graduated. He moved to New York City to pursue an acting career in the theatre. Career Florek worked his way into supporting roles in such diverse 1980s films as ''Sweet Liberty'', ''Moon Over Parador'' and ''Angel Heart''. He also played Mr. Slate in the live-action film version of ''The Flintstones''. Florek played Dave Meyer, the husband of Susan Ruttan's character, Roxanne Melman, on 22 episodes of NBC's hit drama ''L.A. Law'' beginning in 1988. Florek also had a recurring role in the WB sitcom ''Smart Guy'' as the high school gy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Series
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite television, satellite, or cable television, cable, excluding breaking news, television advertisement, advertisements, or Trailer (promotion), trailers that are typically placed between shows. Television shows are most often broadcast programming, scheduled for broadcast well ahead of time and appear on electronic program guide, electronic guides or other TV listings, but streaming services often make them available for viewing anytime. The content in a television show can be produced with different methodologies such as taped variety shows emanating from a television studio stage, animation or a variety of film productions ranging from movies to series. Shows not produced on a television studio stage are usually contracted or licensed to be made by appropriate production companies. Television shows can be viewed live (real time), b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Benson
Olivia Margaret "Liv" Benson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the NBC police procedural drama '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', portrayed by Mariska Hargitay. Benson holds the rank and pay-grade of Captain and is the Commanding Officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, which operates out of the 16th Precinct. She investigates sexual offenses such as rape and child sexual abuse. When the series began, Benson held the rank of detective. Benson was partnered with Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), serving as the junior member of the pair. Following Stabler's departure at the end of the 12th season after a deadly shootout in the precinct, she is partnered with Detective Nick Amaro (Danny Pino) and becomes the senior member. During the 15th season, Benson is promoted to sergeant and appointed as squad supervisor in the wake of the retirement of Sergeant John Munch (Richard Belzer). Soon afterward, Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Record (Bergen County)
''The Record'' (also called ''The North Jersey Record'', ''The Bergen Record'', ''The Sunday Record'' (Sunday edition) and formerly ''The Bergen Evening Record'') is a newspaper in New Jersey, United States. Serving Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey, it has the second-largest circulation of the state's daily newspapers, behind ''The Star-Ledger''. ''The Record'' was under the ownership of the Borg family from 1930 to 2016, and the family went on to form North Jersey Media Group, which eventually bought its competitor, the ''Herald News''. Both papers are now owned by Gannett Company, which purchased the Borgs' media assets in July 2016. For years, ''The Record'' had its primary offices in Hackensack with a bureau in Wayne. Following the purchase of the competing ''Herald News'' of Passaic, both papers began centralizing operations in what is now Woodland Park, where ''The Record'' is currently based. History The newspaper was first publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, film, video game or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events). One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program ''The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial ''change in narrative viewpoint and activity'' from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist, which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new sub-series. The ''new protagoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Logan (Law & Order)
Michael Logan is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series ''Law & Order'' franchise, played by Chris Noth. He appears in 148 episodes of the franchise (111 episodes of ''Law & Order'' and 36 episodes of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'') as well as in one episode of '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. He also appeared in '' Exiled: A Law & Order Movie''. History in the franchise Logan initially appeared on ''Law & Order'' from the show's pilot episode. He appeared in every episode beginning with the first season in 1990 until Noth's dismissal from the series in 1995. After appearing in the franchise telemovie ''Exiled'', the character then guest-starred in the ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' season-four episode "Stress Position". Logan subsequently became a regular on ''Criminal Intent'', starting with the first episode of season five, " Grow", which originally aired on September 25, 2005. Logan then left the series in the 21st episode of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Noth
Christopher David Noth ( ; born November 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Mike Logan on ''Law & Order'' (1990–95), Big on ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), and Peter Florrick on ''The Good Wife'' (2009–16). Noth reprised his role of Mike Logan on ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (2005–08), and reprised his role of Big in the films ''Sex and the City'' (2008) and ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010). He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television for ''Sex and the City'' in 1999 and for ''The Good Wife'' in 2010. Noth starred in the first two seasons of the 2021 revival of '' The Equalizer'', on CBS, and appeared in '' And Just Like That...'', the revival of ''Sex and the City''. Early life Noth was born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the youngest of three boys, to news reporter Jeanne Parr (1924–2016). Parr was one of the first female correspondents for CBS News, and hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Law & Order Movie
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Faith (Law & Order Episode)
The fifth season of ''Law & Order'' aired on NBC between September 21, 1994, and May 24, 1995. Critic Alan Sepinwall considers the season's casting lineup to be the best out of all the seasons of ''Law & Order''. Cast Jack McCoy (played by Sam Waterston) replaced season 4's Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty) as Executive Assistant District Attorney. Mike Logan (played by Chris Noth) departed the cast after this season, thus making Adam Schiff (played by Steven Hill) the last remaining first-season cast member. Main cast *Jerry Orbach as Senior Detective Lennie Briscoe *Chris Noth as Junior Detective Det. Mike Logan *S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren *Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy *Jill Hennessy as Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid *Steven Hill as District Attorney Adam Schiff Recurring cast *Dann Florek as Captain Don Cragen *Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet Departure of Chris Noth After the fifth season, Chris N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Hennessy
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is most known for her roles on the American television series ''Law & Order'', on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and ''Crossing Jordan'', on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as ''RoboCop 3'' and ''Most Wanted'', and the independent films ''Chutney Popcorn'' and '' The Acting Class'', the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed. Early life Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Robinette
Paul Robinette, played by Richard Brooks, is a fictional character who appeared in the TV drama series '' Law & Order'' from the pilot episode in 1990 until the final episode of the third season, "Benevolence," in 1993. He is the first of the eight Assistant District Attorneys who have been featured on ''Law & Order'', and the only one who was Black and male. He appeared in 69 episodes. Character overview Robinette was born in 1957 and is introduced as having been raised in Harlem and worked his way through law school. He had the chance to work on Wall Street, but turned it down in favor of the Manhattan District Attorney's office, where he felt he could make a difference. He works under Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty). He was mentored as a teenager by Deputy Police Commander William Jefferson ( Ron Foster), who inspired him to become a lawyer. In the pilot episode, " Everybody's Favorite Bagman", however, he and Stone discover that Jefferson is corrupt, and that he conspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brooks (actor)
Richard L. Brooks (born December 9, 1962) is an American actor, singer, and director. He played the eccentric bounty hunter Jubal Early in the space-western ''Firefly'' and assistant district attorney Paul Robinette in the NBC drama series ''Law & Order'' from 1990 to 1993, later appearing as a defense attorney on that same show. In 2013, he began starring as Patrick Patterson in the BET drama series, ''Being Mary Jane''. Early life Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan. Later, he moved to New York City and was a student of the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School. Career While in New York, Brooks performed in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference production of August Wilson's ''Fences'', which gained him a positive reputation. A subsequent move to Los Angeles found the actor landing television roles in ''Hill Street Blues'' and ''The Russians Are Coming'', along with made-for-TV f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
