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Dennis McCarthy (composer)
Dennis McCarthy (born July 3, 1945) is an American composer of television and film scores. His soundtrack credits include several entries in the ''Star Trek'' franchise, including underscores for ''The Next Generation,'' ''Deep Space Nine'', ''Voyager'', ''Enterprise'', and the 1994 feature film ''Star Trek Generations''. His other television credits include ''Dynasty'', ''V'', ''MacGyver'', ''Sliders'', ''Dawson's Creek,'' and ''Project Greenlight.'' He also produced the album ''Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back'' by Brent Spiner also from ''Star Trek'', and composed music for stage productions. McCarthy has won 18 ASCAP awards and a Primetime Emmy Award for his theme on ''Deep Space Nine'', in addition to nine Emmy nominations for his various ''Star Trek''-related work. He also shares one Emmy for his music direction for the 63rd Academy Awards The 63rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 25, 1991, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sliders (TV Series)
''Sliders'' is an American science fiction and fantasy television series created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. It was broadcast for five seasons between 1995 and 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. Tracy Tormé, Robert K. Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, David Peckinpah, Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive producers at different times of the production. For its first two seasons, it was produced in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California, in the last three seasons. The first three seasons were broadcast by the Fox network. After being canceled by Fox, the series moved to Sci Fi Channel for its final two seasons. The final episode was shown in the United Kingdom in December 1999, and on the Sci Fi Channel in February 2000. Plot The show's titular characters are a group of people who travel ("slide") between different Earths in par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Friedberg
Rick Friedberg (born March 11, 1944) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his work with Leslie Nielsen. He is also the author of ''Hollywood War Stories, How to Survive in the Trenches'', a memoir/advice guide on the film industry. Career Friedberg made his feature film debut in 1980 with the comedy ''Pray TV (1980 film), Pray TV'' starring Dabney Coleman, followed by 1983's ''Off the Wall (1983 film), Off the Wall''. He would direct television episodes for ''The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', ''New Monkees'' and ''CityKids''. When Friedberg made the comic instruction video ''Bad Golf Made Easier'' with Leslie Nielsen, he showed his son Jason Friedberg's script to him, which was parodying James Bond movies and other action films. Nielsen approved, and this led to 1996's ''Spy Hard''. The film eventually grossed $26 million against a production budget of $18 million. Through the 2000s and 2010s, Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off The Wall (1983 Film)
''Off the Wall'' is a 1983 American crime comedy film directed by Rick Friedberg, written by Dick Chudnow, and starring Paul Sorvino, Patrick Cassidy, and Rosanna Arquette. Plot A young woman frames two hitchhikers for her crimes. Feeling guilty, she tries to break them out. Reception Roger Ebert of the ''Chicago Sun-Times The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the ''Chicago T ...'' gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, calling it "one of the most lame-brained movies of recent years." References External links * 1983 films 1980s crime comedy films American crime comedy films Films scored by Dennis McCarthy 1983 comedy films Films directed by Rick Friedberg 1980s English-language films 1980s American films English-language crime comedy films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Markowitz
Robert Markowitz (born February 7, 1935, in Irvington, New Jersey) is an American film and television director. He directed episodes of ''Serpico'' (1976), '' Delvecchio'' (1976-1977), and ''Amazing Stories'' (1986), and a number of television films that include ''A Dangerous Life'' (1988), ''Too Young to Die?'' (1990), ''Decoration Day'' (1990), ''Because Mommy Works'' (1994), '' Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics'' (1994) ''The Tuskegee Airmen'' (1995), ''The Great Gatsby'' (2000), ''The Big Heist'' (2001), ''The Pilot's Wife'' (2002), and '' Word of Honor'' (2003). His last directing credit was the TNT television film ''Avenger'' (2006), starring Sam Elliott and Timothy Hutton. Partial filmography * ''Avenger'' (2006) – Made for TV - TNT * '' Word of Honor'' (2003) – Made for TV - TNT * ''The Pilot's Wife'' (2002) – Made for TV - CBS * ''The Great Gatsby'' (2000) – Made for TV - A&E Networks-BBC * ''The Tuskegee Airmen'' (1995) – Made for TV - HBO * ''Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pray TV (1982 Film)
''Pray TV'' is a 1982 American Christian made-for-television drama film which aired on ABC starring John Ritter and Ned Beatty. The project garnered controversy when Rev. Jerry Falwell, the prominent televangelist, undertook a public campaign in an attempt to keep the TV movie from airing. Plot A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity. Calls received to phone number The telephone number advertised by Rev. Stone received 15,000 real calls. Cast *John Ritter as Tom McPherson * Ned Beatty as Rev. Freddy Stone *Richard Kiley as Rev. Gus Keiffer * Madolyn Smith as Liz Oakes *Louise Latham as Mrs. Oakes *Jonathan Prince as Bill Oakes * Michael Currie as Artie Allman *Kenneth Tigar as Parker * Lois Hamilton as Bobbi Ellis *Jason Bernard Jason Bernard (born Ronald Carl Johnson, May 17, 1938 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
63rd Academy Awards
The 63rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 25, 1991, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards (commonly referred to as the Oscars) were presented in 22 categories. The ceremony, which was televised in the United States on ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actor Billy Crystal hosted for the second consecutive year. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Geena Davis. ''Dances with Wolves'' won seven awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included '' Dick Tracy'' with three awards, '' Ghost'' with two awards, and '' American Dream'', ''Creature Comforts'', ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', '' Days of Waiting'', ''Goodfellas'', ''The Hunt for Red October'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Society Of Composers, Authors And Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores). ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties. In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song. In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$1.335 billion in revenue and distributed $1.254 billion in royalties to its members. ASCAP membership included over 850,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, with over 16 million registered works. History ASCAP was founded by Victor Herbert, together with composers George Botsford, Silvio Hein, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage Productions
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Spiner
Brent Jay Spiner (; born February 2, 1949) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the android Data on the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', as well as four subsequent films. In 2019, he reprised the role for '' Star Trek: Picard''. In 1997, he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Data in '' Star Trek: First Contact'', and was nominated in the same category for portraying Dr. Brackish Okun in '' Independence Day'', a role he reprised in '' Independence Day: Resurgence''. Spiner has also enjoyed a career in the theater and as a musician. Early life Brent Jay Spiner was born on February 2, 1949, in Houston, Texas, to Jewish parents Sylvia (''née'' Schwartz) and Jack Spiner, who owned a furniture store. At age 29, Jack Spiner died of kidney failure when his son was ten months old. After his father's death, Spiner was adopted by his mother's second husband, Sol Mintz, whose surname he used between 1955 and 1975. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back
''Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back'' is an album by Brent Spiner, best known for his role as Data in the American television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', first released in June 1991. The title is a parodic reference both to Frank Sinatra's ''Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back'' and the Data character, whose eyes are golden yellow. On the album, Spiner is backed by the orchestra from that series as he sings a number of old pop standards, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s. Background In the liner notes, Spiner wrote of Sinatra's "You Make Me Feel So Young": :Sinatra at his awesome best. This song and dozens of others accompanied every dinner I ate between the ages of five and thirteen. My stepfather, an amateur saxophone player and a hell of a mambo dancer, had put together one of the all time great collections of popular music recordings anywhere. So, to my good fortune, we dined each night with the likes of Ol' Blue Eyes, Judy Garland, Nat "King" Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Prima an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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