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Everything's Relative (1987 TV Series)
''Everything's Relative'' is an American sitcom starring Jason Alexander, John Bolger, Gina Hecht, Tony Deacon Nittoli and Anne Jackson which aired on CBS from October 3 to November 7, 1987. Summary The series centered around the Beeby brothers – Julian (Alexander), a divorced, hard-working 33-year-old businessman and Scott (Bolger), a single 25-year-old womanizing construction worker – who shared a loft apartment in the SoHo section of lower Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ... despite their different lifestyles, values, careers, and social lives. Other characters included Emily Cabot (Hecht), Julian's business partner and friend; Mickey Murphy (Nittoli), a young man who ran errands for both brothers; and Rae (Jackson), the boys' meddling and opinionat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, host and director. An Emmy and Tony winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series '' Seinfeld'' (1989–1998), for which he was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. His other roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film '' Pretty Woman'' (1990), comic relief gargoyle Hugo in the Disney animated feature ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), and the title character in the animated series ''Duckman'' (1994–1997). He has made guest appearances on shows such as '' Dream On'' (1994), '' Curb Your Enthusiasm'' (2001, 2009), and ''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2019). For his role in ''Dream On'', he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song for "The Bad Guys?" on ''Brainwashed B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane White
Jane White (October 30, 1922 – July 24, 2011) was an African-American actress. Born in New York City, she attended Smith College and The New School. In 1945, she made her Broadway debut in '' Strange Fruit''. This performance was followed by roles in ''Razzle Dazzle'', ''The Insect Comedy'', ''The Climate of Eden'', ''Take a Giant Step'', ''Jane Eyre'', and ''The Power and The Glory''. In 1959, she opened the acclaimed musical ''Once Upon a Mattress'', originating the role of Queen Aggravain alongside Carol Burnett and Joseph Bova. She won an Obie Award in 1971 for sustained achievement. Early life White was born to Walter Francis White, a notable civil-rights leader and national secretary of the NAACP from 1931 to 1955, and Gladys Leah Powell. She grew up in the fashionable Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem at 409 Edgecombe Avenue. The house was nicknamed "The White House of Harlem" because of the prominent and important figures who were part of her parents' circle, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 American Television Series Endings
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 200 60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 American Television Series Debuts
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Guttman
Ronald Guttman (born 12 August 1952) is a Belgian actor, theatrical producer and film producer. Career Guttman was born in Uccle. He started appearing in French language productions in Europe in 1975, appearing in his first English-language film, '' Hanna K.'', in 1983. Guttman continues to work in both Europe and North America, predominantly in television, including ''Lost'', '' Lipstick Jungle'', ''Heroes'', ''The West Wing'', ''Mad Men'' and ''Hunters''. He had a recurring role as Alexander Cambias, Sr. on the daytime soap opera ''All My Children'' (20 episodes over 18 years) and spots on three series in the ''Law & Order'' franchise: ''Law & Order'', ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. In 2021, he had a recurring role as French gangster Jean Jehan in the Epix drama series ''Godfather of Harlem''. Guttman's performances also include numerous Off-Broadway productions, including '' The Fifth Column'', a play by Ernest Hemingway; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Trainer
David Trainer is an American television director. He is perhaps best known for directing every episode of the Fox sitcom ''That '70s Show'' (except the pilot, which was directed by Terry Hughes) and directed all the episodes of the Netflix sitcom ''The Ranch''. He also directed the first two seasons of the television show ''Boy Meets World'' (also a supervising producer), the 4th and final season of ''the John Larroquette Show'' and over 60 episodes of ''Designing Women''. Among many others, his directing credits also include several episodes of '' FM'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Grace Under Fire'', ''Cybill'', ''Anything But Love'', ''My Boys'', ''Hot in Cleveland'' and ''Mike & Molly''. He also wrote episodes for the soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' in 1977 and the sitcom ''Misery Loves Company'' which he co-created with Michael Jacobs and Bob Young in 1995. Awards Trainer was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on ''Designing Women ''Designing W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Kauffman
Marta Fran Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' with her longtime friend, David Crane. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. Kauffman and Crane produced ''Veronica's Closet'' and ''Jesse''. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on ''Related''. Both writers were the creators of the HBO series '' Dream On''. Without Crane, she co-created the Netflix series ''Grace and Frankie''. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburbs,Jewish Journal: "For Kauffman, Making ‘Match’ Was a Blessing" by Danielle Berrin J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crane (producer)
David Crane (born August 13, 1957) is an American writer and producer. He is best known as one of the co-creators of the television sitcoms ''Friends'' and ''Episodes''. Early life Crane was born to a Jewish family in West New York, New Jersey, the son of Joan Crane and veteran Philadelphia television personality Gene Crane. He attended Harriton High School in Pennsylvania and graduated from there in 1975. He is a 1979 graduate of Brandeis University. Career He and his husband, Jeffrey Klarik (creator of ''Half & Half'', co-producer ''Mad About You''), created the 2006 ensemble sitcom '' The Class''. In 2011, Crane and Klarik created a sitcom called ''Episodes'' for the BBC. Airing first in the US on Showtime on Sunday January 9, 2011 and then on BBC Two on Monday January 10, 2011, it features ''Friends'' star Matt LeBlanc and ''Green Wings Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig (; born 12 July 1966) is an English actress, narrator and comedian. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Robman
Steven I. "Steve" Robman (born September 27, 1944) is an American television director, television and theatre director/theater producer, producer. Biography He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles), Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California (1962), University of California, Berkeley (1966), and the Yale School of Drama (1973). He has been married to actress Kathy Baker since 2003. He was Artistic Director of the Phoenix Theatre (New York), Phoenix Theatre in New York City from 1980 to 1982. He has also staged plays at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Long Wharf Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Goodman Theatre. He has directed over 100 hours of television, including dramatic and comedy series as well as movies-of-the-week. Television directing credits * ''Ghost Whisperer'' * ''Shark (U.S. TV series), Shark'' * ''Pasadena (TV series), P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Frazer
Daniel Thomas Frazer (November 20, 1921 – December 16, 2011) was an American actor, born in a West Side neighborhood (formerly known as Hell's Kitchen) of Manhattan in New York City. He was probably best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil, the former partner turned supervisor of Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas's character, in the 1970s TV police drama ''Kojak''. His screen career started in 1950. Frazer served in the Special Services division of the United States Army during World War II, where he got exposure to theatrical writing and directing.DAN FRAZER, Metacritic . Retrieved February 20, 2022. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Diamond
Matthew Diamond (born November 26, 1951) is an American film and television director, producer and choreographer best known for directing '' Dancemaker''. Life and career Matthew Diamond was born in New York City, the son of Irwin and Pearl (née Ziffer) Diamond. He graduated from City College of New York with a B.A. in 1972 and attended the School of Performing Arts in New York City. He began his career as a dancer with the Louis Falco Dance Company from 1970–74, Jennifer Muller and the Works from 1975–76 and the Batsheva Dance Company, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1978. He was choreographer for the Bat–Dor Dance Company, and co-founded the dance company Diamond where he served as cofounder (with Maria Loffredo), artistic director, and choreographer from 1979–83. He also served as opera director for Children's Free Opera in 1983. He also choreographed for dance companies including The Washington Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company and Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel. Diamond's choreo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Gardner
Rita Gardner ( Schier; October 23, 1934 – September 24, 2022) was an American actress and singer. Career Gardner made her stage debut Off-Broadway in Jerry Herman's musical review ''Nightcap'' (1958) before her breakout turn as Luisa in the original cast of ''The Fantasticks'' in 1960. Other off-Broadway credits include ''The Cradle Will Rock'' (1964), ''To Be Young, Gifted, and Black'' (1969), '' Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris'' (1972), '' Steel Magnolias'' (1987), ''Wings'' (1993), and '' The Foreigner'' (2004). Gardner made her Broadway debut in the short-lived musical (65 performances) '' A Family Affair'' in 1962 as Sally Nathan. She was featured in a brief 1963 revival of '' Pal Joey'' as Linda English and replaced Susan Watson soon after the opening of '' Ben Franklin in Paris'' in 1964. Her Broadway career subsequently stalled, finding her serving as a standby or understudy in ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' (1965), ''The Last of the Red H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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