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Elaine Bromka
Elaine Bromka (born January 6, 1950) is an American actress. She is known for cowriting the one-woman play ''Lady Bird, Pat & Betty: Tea for Three'' with Eric H. Weinberger, in which Bromka portrayed First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford. She is also known in film for playing Cindy Russell in '' Uncle Buck'' (1989). Bromka also played Gloria in the 2011 film '' In the Family''. She has also appeared on television shows including ''Days of Our Lives'', ''The Sopranos'', '' Sex and the City'' and '' ER'' as well as on Broadway in such productions as '' The Rose Tattoo'', ''I'm Not Rappaport'' and ''Macbeth''. Bromka won a New England Emmy Award for her work in the television special ''Catch a Rainbow''. Bromka is from Montclair, New Jersey. Select filmography *''Without a Trace'' (1983) *'' Uncle Buck'' (1989) *'' In the Family'' (2011) *''Archaeology of a Woman'' (2012) *'' Theresa Is a Mother'' (2012) *''Happy Yummy Chicken ''Happy Yummy Chicken'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Independent (Ridgecrest)
''The Daily Independent'' is a daily newspaper serving Ridgecrest, California, 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 territori .... It is owned by Gannett. ''The Daily Independent'' has been in business since 1926. This small-market daily has its main focus on hyperlocal journalism, covering the news of the Indian Wells Valley. It also has strong sports coverage, focusing on youth sports, three local high schools and a community college. In 2013, Gannett subsidiary Gatehouse Media, which owns the ''Independent,'' was awarded a contract to print ''The Rocketeer 2.'' The ''Rocketeer'' is a small newspaper whose focus is Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. References External links * Daily newspapers published in California Mass media in Kern County, Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Family (2011 Film)
''In the Family'' is a 2011 independent drama film that was the directorial debut of Patrick Wang. It tells the story of the surviving partner's attempt to maintain his relationship with his dead partner's young son. Cast * Sebastian Banes – Chip Hines * Patrick Wang – Joey Williams or Chin-Mei Lang (pre-foster name) * Trevor St. John – Cody Hines * Park Overall - Sally Hines * Chip Taylor - Darryl Hines * Kelly McAndrew - Eileen Robey * Peter Hermann - Dave Robey * Eisa Davis - Anne Carter * Zoe Winters - Helene * Christina Hogue - Cheryl * Elaine Bromka - Gloria * Brian Murray - Paul Hawkes * Susan Kellerman - Marge Hawkes Reception Critical response The film has received critical acclaim since its release. Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 97% based on 29 reviews, with an average score of 8.4/10. At Metacritic it scored 82% based on reviews from 9 critics, considered "universal acclaim". Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars and quote, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MinnPost
''MinnPost'' is a nonprofit online newspaper in Minneapolis, founded in 2007, with a focus on Minnesota news. Funding ''MinnPost'''s initial funding of $850,000 came from four families: John and Sage Cowles, Lee Lynch and Terry Saario, Joel and Laurie Kramer, and David and Vicki Cox. The Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida initially donated US$250,000 and in 2008 subsequently granted additional funds to expand local reporting. Major foundation support has come from the Blandin Foundation, Otto Bremer Foundation, Bush Foundation, Carolyn Foundation, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Martin and Brown Foundation, Joyce Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation, and The Saint Paul Foundation. In March 2014, ''MinnPost'' announced that, thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ''MinnPost'' and online news site Voice o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BroadwayWorld
BroadwayWorld is a theatre news website based in New York City covering Broadway, Off-Broadway An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ..., regional, and international theatre productions. The website publishes theatre news, interviews, reviews, and other coverage related to theater. It also includes an online message board for theater fans. History The site was founded in 2003 to cover theater news. As of September 2018, the website had a readership of 5.5 million monthly online visitors and an Alexa PageRank of 16,156 worldwide. The site also produces annual fan-voted awards and competitions related to various types of production. BroadwayWorld added a pay transparency rule to their job site in March 2021 due to the advocacy of On Our Team and Costume Professionals for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Emmy Awards
New England Emmy Awards are a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The division was founded in 1977 and in addition to granting the New England Emmy Awards, it recognizes awards scholarships, honors industry veterans at the Silver Circle Celebration, conducts National Student Television Awards of Excellence, has a free research and a nationwide job bank. The chapter also participates in judging Emmy entries at the regional and national levels.Academy History Boundaries The academy is divided into the following boundaries and encompasses Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and the majority of Connecticut excluding Fairfield County. These boundaries are responsible for the submission of television broadcast materials presented for awards considerations. Board of governors Each year the membership of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LNP (newspaper)
''LNP'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is published by the LNP Media Group, a division of the family-owned Steinman Enterprises. First published under its present name on October 14, 2014, ''LNP'' traces its roots to one of the oldest newspapers in the U.S., ''The Lancaster Journal'', which dates back to 1794. The newspaper's broadsheet print edition is published in the morning, seven days per week. The paper's online counterpart is LancasterOnline.com. The online edition of the newspaper is currently blocked to European visitors as a response by LancasterOnline.com to the 2018 EEA data privacy regulations popularly known as GDPR. ''LNP'' is the third-largest daily circulation print newspaper in the state of Pennsylvania, as of December 2016. History In 2009, Lancaster's two daily newspapers, the morning ''Intelligencer Journal'' and the evening ''Lancaster New Era'', which were both published by Lancaster Newspapers (present-day LNP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, ''Macbeth'' most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Not Rappaport
''I'm Not Rappaport'' is a play by Herb Gardner, which originally ran on Broadway in 1985. Productions The play was originally staged by Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1984. The play premiered on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on November 19, 1985, and closed on January 17, 1988 after 891 performances. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the cast starred Judd Hirsch (Nat), Cleavon Little (Midge Carter), Jace Alexander (Gilley), and Mercedes Ruehl (Clara)."' I'm Not Rappaport' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed November 13, 2015 The production received s for Best Play, Best Lighting Design, and Best Actor (Judd Hirsch). A revival opened at the Booth Theatre on July 25, 2002, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Tattoo
''The Rose Tattoo'' is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1949 and 1950; after its Chicago premiere on December 29, 1950, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2, 1951, and its publication by New Directions the following month. A film adaptation was released in 1955. ''The Rose Tattoo'' tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. Productions The original Broadway play starred Maureen Stapleton, Phyllis Love, and Eli Wallach. Other original cast members of the 1951 Broadway play included Martin Balsam and Vivian Nathan. The original production of ''The Rose Tattoo'' premiered February 3, 1951, at the Martin Beck Theatre (now known as the Al Hirschfeld Theatre) and concluded October 27, 1951, with a total of 306 performances. It was produced by Cheryl Crawford, written by Tennessee Williams; incidental music by D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names (12 others used neither), with many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also using the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the thoroughfare is eponymous with the district and its collection of 41 theaters, and it is also closely identified with Times Square, only three of the theaters are located on Broadway itself (namely the Broadwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ER (TV Series)
''ER'' is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and physician Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant C Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television. ''ER'' follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of Cook County General Hospital (a fictionalized version of the real Cook County Hospital) in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the department's physicians and staff. The show is the second longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history behind ''Grey's Anatomy'', and the sixth longest medical drama across the globe (behind the United Kingdom's ''Casualty'' and '' Holby City,'' ''Grey's Anatomy'', Germany's ''In aller Freundschaft'', and Poland's ''Na dobre i na złe''). It won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex And The City
''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (newspaper column), newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name, the series premiered in the United States on June 6, 1998, and concluded on February 22, 2004, with 94 episodes broadcast over six seasons. Throughout its development, the series received contributions from various producers, screenwriters, and directors, principally Michael Patrick King. ''Sex and the City'' has received both acclaim and criticism for its subjects and characters, and is credited with helping to increase HBO's popularity as a network. The series has won several accolades, including seven of its 54 Emmy Award nominations, eight of its 24 Golden Globe Award nominations, and three of its 11 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. The series placed fifth on ''Entertainment Weekly'' "New TV Classics" list, and has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
