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Feel Good Film Festival
The Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF), also known as the Sunflower Film Festival, was held annually in Hollywood, California from 2008 to 2012. The Festival was the largest of its kind showcasing American, international, independent, and family-friendly films from all around the world that leave the audience feeling good. The FGFF was a three-day annual event held in August showcasing 60–70 feel-good feature films, short films, screenplays, and student films. History Mission Kristen Flores, FGFF Founder and Festival Director, established the Feel Good Film Festival. The Feel Good Film Festival began in Hollywood August 22–24, 2008, with the goal of showcasing upbeat, happy ending films. It isn't necessarily difficult to find feel-good films to screen. "They've been looking for an outlet," according to the Festival's creator, Kristen Flores. The mission of the festival is "a film viewing experience for the entire family that encourages the development, production, and distrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Mencia
Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show ''Mind of Mencia'' (2005–2008). Around the time of the show's cancellation, several comedians accused Mencía of plagiarism and stealing jokes. Early life Ned Arnel Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula on October 22, 1967, the son of Mexican mother Magdelena Mencía and Honduran father Roberto Holness. He has 16 older siblings and one younger sibling. At the time of his birth, his mother was engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and she subsequently refused to give Mencía his biological father's surname. Out of respect for his father, he later began using the Holness surname anyway, and did so until the age of 18. He moved to the U.S. as a child and was raised Catholic in East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Sheffer
Craig Eric Sheffer (born April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his leading roles as Norman Maclean in the film '' A River Runs Through It, ''Aaron Boone in the film ''Nightbreed'', Joe Kane in the film '' The Program'', and Keith Scott on the television series ''One Tree Hill''. Early and personal life Sheffer was born in York, Pennsylvania. His father worked as a prison guard. Before becoming an actor, Sheffer sold newspapers in New York City and "slept under the marble staircase" in Grand Central Terminal for weeks while living off Unification Church spaghetti dinners." Career Sheffer was first seen on a nationwide basis as Ian Hayden on the ABC daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live'', and on the 1983 prime time series''The Hamptons''. His earliest starring assignment in films was as the best friend of troubled teenager Emilio Estevez in '' That Was Then... This Is Now'' (1985), a reformatory camp inmate in '' Fire with Fire'' (1986), an ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Howard
Clinton Engle Howard (born April 20, 1959) is an American actor. He is the second son born to American actors Rance and Jean Howard, and younger brother of actor and director Ron Howard. His 200-plus acting credits include feature films such as ''The Waterboy'' and '' Apollo 13'', as well as television series, such as ''Gentle Ben'', ''The Baileys of Balboa'', ''The Cowboys'', and ''My Name Is Earl''. He has appeared in many films directed by his brother, Ron, and had a small role in the 1967 animated film ''The Jungle Book''. He is lead singer of his own band, The Kempsters, and also makes custom snow globes. Early life Born in Burbank, California, Howard's parents are actors Rance Howard and Jean Speegle and his older brother is actor and filmmaker Ron Howard. Career Television Howard began his career when he was two, appearing in five episodes of ''The Andy Griffith Show'', then starring his older brother Ron. He played Leon, a toddler in a cowboy outfit who wandered arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Garson
William Garson Paszamant (February 20, 1964September 21, 2021) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes. He was known for playing Stanford Blatch on the HBO series ''Sex and the City'', in the related films ''Sex and the City'' and ''Sex and the City 2'' and in the spin-off '' And Just Like That...'', Mozzie in the USA Network series '' White Collar'' from 2009 to 2014, Ralph in the 2005 romantic comedy ''Little Manhattan'', Gerard Hirsch in the reboot of ''Hawaii Five-0'', and Martin Lloyd in the sci-fi series ''Stargate SG-1''. Early life and education Garson was born in Highland Park, New Jersey, the son of Muriel (née Schwartz) and Donald M. Paszamant. Garson was Jewish. He attended Camp Wekeela in Hartford, Maine, as a child for 11 years. He graduated in 1982 from Highland Park High School. In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater from Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Bean
Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’ small theater scene." He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show '' To Tell the Truth''. "A storyteller ''par excellence''", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on ''The Tonight Show'' more than 200 times. In the 1960s, Bean remarked in an interview that he became known as a "neocelebrity who's famous for being famous" for his appearances as a panellist on television prime-time gameshows. Early life Orson Bean was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1928, while his first cousin twice removed, Calvin Coolidge, was President of the United States. Bean was the son of Marian Ainsworth (''née'' Pollard) and George Frederick Burrows. His fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Baldwin
Daniel Leroy Baldwin (born October 5, 1960) is an American actor. He is the second oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all of whom are actors. Baldwin played the role of Detective Beau Felton in the NBC TV series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', and has also starred in '' Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life'' (1992), ''Mulholland Falls'' (1996), ''Vampires'' (1998), ''The Pandora Project'' (1998), '' Stealing Candy'' (2002), ''Paparazzi'' (2004) and ''Grey Gardens'' (2009). He hosted ''The Daniel Baldwin Show'' on radio station WTLA in Syracuse from 2017 to 2019. He has also been an emcee for the television series '' truTV Presents: World's Dumbest''. In February 2009, he appeared on ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'', admitting to his struggle with cocaine addiction. Early life Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the second son of Carol Newcomb (née Martineau), a breast cancer survivor who founded the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter and actor. Called the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited many times since. Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll (progressing later towards more experimental and aggressive rock), the Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Pop. He had a long collaborative relationship and friendship with David Bowie over the course of his career, beginning with the Stooges' album ''Raw Power'' in 1973. Both musicians went to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions and Pop began his solo career by collaborating with Bowie on the 1977 albums ''The Idiot (al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Gerwig
Greta Celeste Gerwig (; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films by Joe Swanberg, some of which she co-wrote or co-directed, including ''Hannah Takes the Stairs'' (2007) and ''Nights and Weekends'' (2008). Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with her partner Noah Baumbach on several films, including '' Greenberg'' (2010), ''Frances Ha'' (2012), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, ''Mistress America'' (2015) and ''White Noise'' (2022). She also appeared in Whit Stillman's ''Damsels in Distress'' (2011), Woody Allen's '' To Rome with Love'' (2012), Rebecca Miller's ''Maggie's Plan'' (2015), Pablo Larraín's '' Jackie'' (2016), Mike Mills' '' 20th Century Women'' (2016), and Wes Anderson's ''Isle of Dogs'' (2018). Gerwig has had two solo directorial ventures, the coming-of-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Robertson
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film '' PT 109'', and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film ''Charly''. On television, Robertson portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 TV film adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic ''Return to Earth'', played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 miniseries '' Washington: Behind Closed Doors'', and portrayed Henry Ford in '' Ford: The Man and the Machine'' (1987). His last well-known film appearances were as Uncle Ben in the 2002–2007 ''Spider-Man'' film trilogy. Robertson was also an accomplished aviator who served as the founding chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)'s Young Eagles Program during its inception in the early 1990s. It became the most succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Harrison
Gregory Neale Harrison (born May 31, 1950) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Chandler in the 1987 film ''North Shore (1987 film), North Shore'', as Dr. George Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates, the young surgeon assistant of Dr. Trapper John McIntyre (played by Pernell Roberts) on the CBS series ''Trapper John, M.D.'' (1979–86), and as ruthless business tycoon Michael Sharpe in the CBS series ''Falcon Crest'' (1989–1990). Since 2015, he has played Joe O'Toole, father of Oliver, in the Hallmark Channel expansion films of ''Signed, Sealed, Delivered (TV series)#Expansion films, Signed, Sealed and Delivered''. Early life and career Harrison was born in Avalon, California, in 1950, the middle child of Ed Harrison, a ship's captain and poet, and Donna Lee Nagely, an aspiring dancer; they eventually divorced. He has an older sister, Kathleen (born 1948), and a younger brother, Christopher (born 1961). He served for two years in the United States Army during the Vietna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorja Fox
Jorja-An Fox ( ) is an American actress and producer. She first came to prominence with a recurring role in the NBC medical drama '' ER'' as Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999. This was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano in the NBC political drama ''The West Wing'' in 2000. She played Sara Sidle in the CBS police procedural drama ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', both as a regular (2000–2007, 2010–2015) and recurring (2008–2010) cast member. She reprised the role in the sequel '' CSI: Vegas'', which premiered on October 6, 2021. Early life Fox was born in New York City to Montreal-born parents Edward and Marilyn Fox and is of French-Canadian, Belgian and Irish descent. She was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. She has an older brother, Jeff. She describes herself as being overweight while growing up, with a prominent gap between her teeth. By her 20s, she observed that neither he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
