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Front Of The Class (film)
''Front of the Class'' is a 2008 American docudrama film directed by Peter Werner that is based on the 2005 book ''Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had'' by Brad Cohen and co-authored by Lisa Wysocky, which tells of Cohen's life with Tourette syndrome and how it inspired him to teach other students. The book was made into a ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' TV movie starring newcomer James Wolk—a 2007 University of Michigan graduate—and featuring Treat Williams and Emmy Award-winning actress Patricia Heaton as Cohen's parents; the movie aired on CBS on December 7, 2008. Synopsis Brad Cohen's story starts when he is a young boy and his mother helps doctors to realize that he has Tourette syndrome. With the support from his mother and school principal, Brad is a success story, becoming a motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher. Plot Twelve-year-old Brad lives in Missouri with his divorcée mother, Ellen, and younger brother, Jeff. He consta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Of The Class (book)
Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker, teacher, school administrator, and author who has severe Tourette syndrome (TS).Fussell, James A. (December 5, 2008)."One man's faith spurs Tourette sufferer to inspire others".''The Kansas City Star''. Retrieved on December 7, 2008. Also, Fussell/ref> Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his 2005 book, ''Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had'', co-authored with Lisa Wysocky. The book has been made into a 2008 ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' TV movie titled ''Front of the Class (film), Front of the Class'', and adapted into a hit 2018 Bollywood film ''Hichki''. Cohen was born December 18, 1973. During his childhood, Cohen was accused of being a troublemaker in school and was punished by his teachers for the tics and noises caused by TS. He decided to "become the teacher that he never had". After he graduated and received his teaching certificate, 24 elementary schools rejected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Scott Kay
Dominic Scott Kay (born May 6, 1996) is an American inactive former child actor, entrepreneur and singer. He is best known for his work as the voice of Wilbur in '' Charlotte's Web'', and in the post-credits scene of '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' as Henry Turner, the son of Will Turner ( Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). He also played Tom Cruise's son in Steven Spielberg's ''Minority Report'', and Adam in ''Snow Buddies''. He also appeared on season five of the American edition of ''The Voice''. Kay directed and wrote a short film starring Kevin Bacon called '' Saving Angelo'', a story based on the true events of an abandoned dog left for dead on the side of the road that he and his family rescued in 2003. He also wrote and directed another short film, ''Grandpa's Cabin''. Kay is an entrepreneur, owning multiple entertainment companies. He is known as a fond animal-lover, and currently serves as a StarPower Ambassador for Starlight Children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 Hours'', and Sunday morning political affairs program ''Face the Nation''. CBS News Radio produces hourly newscasts for hundreds of radio stations, and also oversees CBS News podcasts like '' The Takeout Podcast''. CBS News also operates a 24-hour digital news network. Up until April 2021, the president and senior executive producer of CBS News was Susan Zirinsky, who assumed the role on March 1, 2019. Zirinsky, the first female president of the network's news division, was announced as the choice to replace David Rhodes on January 6, 2019. The announcement came amid news that Rhodes would step down as president of CBS News "amid falling ratings and the fallout from revelations from an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations" ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Although it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, it remains the second largest daily in the state, with nearly one million unique page views a month. Founded on August 22, 1811, as the ''Greensburg Gazette'' and in 1889 consolidated with several papers into the ''Greensburg Tribune-Review'', the paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of Westmoreland and parts of Indiana and Fayette until May 1992, when it began serving all of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' and ''Pittsburgh Press'', deprived the city of a newspaper for several months. The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. History Nelson family ownership (1880–1926) The paper, originally called ''The Kansas City Evening Star'', was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the '' Fort Wayne News Sentinel'' (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful Presidential run of Samuel Tilden. Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world—including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 100,000 events a year. Like the International Paralympic Committee, the Special Olympics organization is recognized by the International Olympic Committee; however, unlike the Paralympic Games, Special Olympics World Games are not held in the same year nor in conjunction with the Olympic Games. The Special Olympics World Games is a major event put on by the Special Olympics committee. The World Games alternate between summer and winter games, in two-year cycles, recurring every fourth year. The first games were held on July 20, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, with about 1000 athlete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Shriver
Timothy Perry Shriver (born August 29, 1959) is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE. He is a member of the Kennedy family as the third child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (who founded the Special Olympics), and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps. Early life and education Timothy Shriver was born in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts to Sargent Shriver, a former United States Ambassador to France and the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics. He was raised as a Catholic along with his siblings, Bobby Shriver, Maria Shriver, Mark Shriver, and Anthony Shriver. He is a member of the Kennedy Family through his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a younger sister of President John F. Kennedy. Shriver graduated from St. Albans School. He received his B.A. from Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born Paul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada in 2008 and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters. History 19th century Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen's Reuters House. Reuter moved to London in 1851 and established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange. Headquartered in London, Reuter' ... [...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] |
Mike Pniewski
Michael Pniewski (born April 20, 1961) is an American actor and public speaker. Life and career Pniewski was born in Los Angeles, California. His education began at UCLA, where he graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater and also won the Natalie Wood Acting Award. His most notable role has been that of Chief of Detectives Kenny Moran on the hit television series '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent''. He has also been seen on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series '' Recount''. Pniewski appeared as legendary football coach Bobby Bowden in the film '' We Are Marshall'' and co-starred in the CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame production ''Front of the Class''. In 2019, he appeared in the Clint Eastwood film '' Richard Jewell''. Additional credits include '' Big Love'', '' Thief'', '' The Riches'', '' Miami Vice'', '' The Ultimate Gift'', '' The Sopranos'', '' Madam Secretary'', '' Blue Bloods'', '' CSI: NY'', '' Conviction'', '' Warm Springs'', ''Buried Alive II'', ''Spaceb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Chrest
Joseph Chrest (born September 15, 1965) is an American academic and actor. He has had roles in numerous films and television shows including ''21 Jump Street'', ''22 Jump Street'', '' Oldboy'', ''Lee Daniels' The Butler'', '' The Perfect Date'', and as Ted Wheeler in ''Stranger Things''. Early life Chrest was born and raised in St. Albans, West Virginia, where he attended St. Albans High School. Career Chrest is also an adjunct professor at the School of Theatre in Louisiana State University's College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Since 1992, he is a founding member of LSU's Swine Palace Swine Palace is a non-profit professional theatre company associated with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The theatre companies home is located in the Reilly Theatre on the campus of LSU. History I .... Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chrest, Joe Living people Louisiana State University facul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen York
Kathleen York is an American actress, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter recording artist. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for " In the Deep" from the 2004 film ''Crash.'' Life and career Actress Acting since her teens, York is most known for her work recurring as Andrea Wyatt in NBC's ''The West Wing'', the Dominick Dunne miniseries ''A Season in Purgatory'', and received critical acclaim for her starring role as Naomi Judd in the NBC miniseries, ''Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge''. Her film credits include '' Nightcrawler'', ''Crash'', ''Cries of Silence'', ''The Big Day'', ''I Love You to Death'', '' Flashback'', and ''Cold Feet''. Series regular roles include '' In the Dark'', ''Vengeance Unlimited'', '' Aaron's Way'' and ''The Client List'' and recurring roles in ''How To Get Away With Murder'', ''Jane The Virgin'', '' Outcast'', '' Murder One'', ''The O.C'' and ''Desperate Housewives''. Guest star appearances include ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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