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Fits And Starts (film)
''Fits and Starts'' is a 2017 American comedy film written and directed by Laura Terruso and starring Wyatt Cenac, Greta Lee and Maria Dizzia. Cast *Wyatt Cenac as David *Louis Cancelmi as Daniel *Greta Lee as Jennifer *Maria Dizzia as Sawyer Edwards *Alex Karpovsky as Charles * Ben Sinclair as Parking Attendant * Larry Murphy as McDannell *Sam Seder as Dressler *Diane Ciesla as Lily Geist *Buzz Bovshow as Bernard Geist *Michael Cyril Creighton as Richard Pringle *Matt Dellapina as Jordan Roth *Jennifer Prediger as Shopper Reception The film has a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang .... References External links * * {{rotten-tomatoes, fits_and_starts_2017 American comedy films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt John Foster Cenac Jr. (; born April 19, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He was a correspondent and writer for ''The Daily Show'' from 2008 to 2012. He starred in the TBS series '' People of Earth'' and in Barry Jenkins's first feature ''Medicine for Melancholy''. He also hosted and produced the HBO series ''Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas''. Early life Cenac was born in New York on April 19, 1976 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and spent his early years in the Bronx. His father, Wyatt Cenac Sr., was a cab driver born in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada in 1944. When Cenac was five, his father was shot and killed in his cab by a teenage passenger in Harlem. Cenac moved with his mother, a New York native, and Trinidadian stepfather to Dallas, Texas, in 1981. He spent his summers with his maternal grandmother in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in an apartment on President Street. While in elementary school, he became friends with comic book writer Brian K. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Lee
Greta Jiehan Lee (born March 7, 1983) is an American actress. Early life Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are Korean immigrants. While attending Harvard-Westlake School, she became interested in the performing arts. After high school, she studied communication and theater at Northwestern University, and continued to pursue acting by moving to New York City. Career She has played Soojin in ''Girls'' and Homeless Heidi in ''High Maintenance''. She was a guest star in the TV shows ''New Girl'' and ''Wayward Pines''. She costarred as Hae Won in ''Sisters'' alongside Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Lee starred as Maxine in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Russian Doll Matryoshka dolls ( ; rus, матрёшка, p=mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə, a=Ru-матрёшка.ogg), also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside ano ...''. Filmography Television Film Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Dizzia
Maria Teresa Dizzia (born December 29, 1974) is an American actress. Dizzia was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in ''In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)''. Early life and education Dizzia is the daughter of Lorraine (née Bladis) and John Paul Dizzia. She was raised in Cranford, New Jersey. She has a sister who is a lawyer. She graduated from Kent Place School in 1993, receiving the Drama Award upon graduation. She studied theater at Cornell University. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Career Dizzia performed the role of Eurydice in the Sarah Ruhl play ''Eurydice'' in regional theatre and Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre, from June 18, 2007, to August 26, 2007. She performed in another Sarah Ruhl play ''In the Next Room'' on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, from October 22, 2009, to January 10, 2010. Her performance as Mrs. Daldry earned her a 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas; both years, there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW Edu and the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival, and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. It has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995-2001), West by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Cancelmi
Louis Cancelmi (pronounced ; born June 9, 1978) is an American stage and film actor. He is a frequent performer in productions by the Public Theater, both at their Astor Library home and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. He is best known for appearances in ''Boardwalk Empire'', '' Blue Bloods'', and ''The Irishman''. Early life Cancelmi was born in Pittsburgh. His family relocated to California, then to Anchorage, and then to Seattle, with Anchorage being Cancelmi's self-identified hometown. He is the brother of actress Annie Parisse. Cancelmi started acting in high school plays. He attended Yale College, entering with interests in writing and mathematics but ultimately majoring in theater. Personal life He is married to Elisabeth Waterston, daughter of Sam Waterston, with whom Cancelmi acted in ''Please Be Normal'' in 2014 and Shakespeare in the Park's '' The Tempest'' in 2015. The couple lives in the Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Karpovsky
Alexander Karpovsky (born September 23, 1975)Rick PorterAlex Karpovsky - Apple TV ''Apple TV'' is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series ''Girls'' and Craig Petrosian on the Amazon series ''Homecoming''. Early life and education Alex Karpovsky was born in Israel and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University before receiving a master's degree in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford. Career His debut feature, ''The Hole Story'', earned him a slot in ''Filmmaker'' magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include ''Woodpecker'' (SXSW Film Festival, 2008), ''Trust Us, This Is All Made Up'' (SXSW Film Festival, 2009), ''Rubberneck'' (Tribeca Film Festival, 2012), and ''Red Flag'' (LA Film Festival, 2012),Neil GenzlingerFilm Festival Blooms With Ripe Perversity ''The New York Times'', April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Sinclair (actor)
Ben Sinclair (born May 16, 1984) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Early life and education Sinclair grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona. His mother is a Jewish cantor, cantor at a Reform Judaism, Reform synagogue; his father is a public school teacher. Sinclair attended Oberlin College. Career Sinclair is the co-creator, writer, and star of ''High Maintenance'', a Vimeo web series and HBO television series set in New York City. The series is partially inspired by experiences from his personal life, and first aired in 2012. His final performance as his ''High Maintenance'' character was as a small cameo on HBO's Betty (TV series), ''Betty'', also filmed in New York City. He has also directed four episodes of FXX’s Dave (TV series), ''Dave''. Personal life Sinclair married his writing partner and ''High Maintenance'' co-creator Katja Blichfeld in 2010, after meeting at a 2009 party in Los Angeles. They came up with the idea for the show w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Murphy (actor)
Lawrence Murphy Jr. (born March 12, 1972 in Abington, Massachusetts)Zaino, Nick A, III. (November 24, 2006). "Dumbest show on television?", ''The Boston Globe'', p. D2. is an American actor and comedian, known for his work on the TV series ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', ''Ugly Americans'', ''Delocated'' and ''Bob's Burgers''. Career Murphy began performing stand-up comedy in 1997 at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon after he teamed up with Brendon Small. Together they performed sketches and rock operas until 2001. Murphy's subsequent independent live work is a mix of sketch and characters. Murphy is a voice actor renowned for his versatility. He voiced all of the main characters on the Adult Swim comedy series ''Assy McGee'' and has lent his voice to several Soup2Nuts animated shows including ''O'Grady'', ''Home Movies'', and ''WordGirl''. He voices Teddy in the animated Fox series ''Bob's Burgers''. He voiced the hostile immigration offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Seder
Samuel Lincoln Seder (born November 28, 1966) is an American actor, political commentator, and media host. His works include the film ''Who's the Caboose?'' (1997) as well as the television shows ''Beat Cops'' (2001) and ''Pilot Season (TV series), Pilot Season'' (2004). He also appeared in ''Next Stop Wonderland'' (1998) and made guest appearances on ''Spin City'' (1997), ''Sex and the City'' (2000), ''America Undercover'' (2005), and ''Maron (TV series), Maron'' (2015). Since 2010, he has hosted a daily political talk show, ''The Majority Report with Sam Seder''. He also voices Hugo, a recurring character on the animated comedy series ''Bob's Burgers''. He has written for such television shows as ''Entourage (American TV series), Entourage'', ''Two and a Half Men'', and ''Friends''. Early life Seder was born to a Jewish family in New York City, and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. One of three children, his father, J. Robert Seder, is a well-known lawyer in Worcester. Seder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cyril Creighton
Michael Cyril Creighton is an American actor and writer best known for his portrayal of Howard Morris in ''Only Murders in the Building'', Patrick in ''High Maintenance'', Joe Crowley in ''Spotlight'' and his Writers Guild of America Award-winning web series ''Jack in a Box.'' Life and career Creighton was raised on Long Island, New York, by his mother and maternal grandparents. He works regularly in film, television and theatre alternating between comedic and dramatic roles. Sarah Larson of The New Yorker says "Creighton has a gift for expressing the tension between the desire to connect and the desire to protect oneself." On the stage, Creighton's credits include the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's "The Amateurs" at Vineyard Theater and the New York Premiere of Sarah Ruhl's ''Stage Kiss'' at Playwrights Horizons. For his portrayal of Kevin in ''Stage Kiss'', he was named a "Face to Watch" by ''The New York Times'' and nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
