Harold (film)
''Harold'' is a 2008 American comedy film co-written by Greg Fields and T. Sean Shannon, starring Spencer Breslin in the titular role, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nikki Blonsky, Ally Sheedy and Stella Maeve. It is Shannon's first full-length feature film and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, which itself was adapted from one of his ''Saturday Night Live'' sketches. It was also released six years after the death of Greg Fields. ''Harold'' was filmed in August 2007 in and around Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and received a limited release on July 11, 2008, in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City. Plot Harold Clemens is a 16-year-old boy with early male pattern baldness. Harold seems to cope all right in his hometown of Douglas, until his mom, Maureen, announces that the family is moving to a new house in Fredericksburg due to a promotion at her job. Harold panics, because he had somewhat fit in with everyone at his old school, despite his baldness. When he arrives in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cuba Gooding Jr
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), he appeared in ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), ''The Tuskegee Airmen'' (1995), ''Outbreak'' (1995), and ''Jerry Maguire'' (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later fame for his roles in ''Men of Honor'' (2000) as Carl Brashear, and in Michael Bay's World War II epic ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001) as Doris Miller. His other films include ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997), '' What Dreams May Come'' (1998), ''Rat Race'' (2001), ''The Fighting Temptations ''(2003), '' American Gangster'' (2007), ''Gifted Hands ''(2009), ''Lee Daniels' The Butler'' (2013), and ''Selma'' (2014) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray. He also provided the voice of Buck the Horse in the animated feature film ''Home on the Range'' (2004). In 201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Suzanne Shepherd
Suzanne "Honey" Shepherd is an American actress and theater director. Education Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so. Career She was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with Alan Alda and Alan Arkin. She is known for her portrayal of Karen's overbearing mother in the film ''Goodfellas'', Carmela Soprano's mother Mary DeAngelis in the HBO television series ''The Sopranos'', and the assistant school principal in ''Uncle Buck''. She also played the role of Mrs. Scarlini in the film 2000 film ''Requiem for a Dream'', and Big Ethel in ''A Dirty Shame''. In 2016, she played the role of Lucille Abetemarco the mother of Detective Anthony Abetemarco played by former '' Sopranos'' co-star Steve Schirripa in "Good Cop Bad Cop" the second episode of the seventh season of the CBS police procedural drama '' Blue Bloods''. In 2018, she reprised the role of Lucille ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. History On April 11, 2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called "Fancast.com," set to launch the summer of 2007. In June 2008, the domain Movies.com was acquired from Disney. In March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo! Movies, making Fandango the official online and mobile ticketer for registered users of the Yahoo! service. That October, Paul Yanover was named President of Fandango. Fandango made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival. On January 29, 2016, Fandango announced it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicola Peltz
Nicola Anne Peltz Beckham (born January 9, 1995) is an American actress. Primarily known for her roles in dramatic film and television, she has performed in some blockbuster adaptations and has since been nominated for a Young Hollywood Award. She is married to Brooklyn Beckham, the son of football player David Beckham and pop singer Victoria Beckham. Peltz is best known for her roles as Katara in ''The Last Airbender'' (2010), Bradley Martin in the A&E drama series '' Bates Motel'' (2013–2015), and Tessa Yeager in '' Transformers: Age of Extinction'' (2014). Early life Peltz was born in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz and model Claudia Heffner. She has one sister and six brothers, including former professional hockey player Brad Peltz and actor Will Peltz. She also has two half-siblings from her father's previous marriages. She was raised in a Jewish household (her father's faith). Career Peltz made her film debut as Macken ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicky Katt
Nicky Katt (born May 11, 1971) is an American actor. Katt often plays unsympathetic characters, such as an irascible motorhead in ''Dazed and Confused,'' an ill-fated white supremacist child rapist in ''A Time to Kill'', and an embittered business rival in ''Boiler Room''. Career Katt known for his role as unorthodox teacher Harry Senate on David E. Kelley's Fox drama series ''Boston Public''. Katt's film roles include Clint Bruno in '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993), Billy Ray Cobb in '' A Time to Kill'' (1996), Tim in ''SubUrbia'' (1996), Stacy the hitman in ''The Limey'' (1999), Greg Weinstein in '' Boiler Room'' (2000), Adolf Hitler in '' Full Frontal'' (2002), Fred Duggar in ''Insomnia'' (2002), Stuka in ''Sin City'' (2005), and Nate Petite in '' Snow Angels'' (2008). Katt has co-starred in many movies and received critical praise for performances in ''The Limey'' and ''SubUrbia''. He was originally cast to star in the ABC spring 2006 replacement series '' The Evidence'', bu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Colin Quinn
Colin Edward Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Quinn first gained widespread attention for his work as a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1995 to 2000, and he became known for anchoring ''Weekend Update'', the show's news parody segment. Prior to and after his work on ''SNL'', he also worked on MTV's 1980s game show ''Remote Control'', where he served as the announcer/sidekick; and as host of Comedy Central's late-night panel show ''Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn''. Notable film work includes his role as Dooey in ''A Night at the Roxbury'', Dickey Bailey in the '' Grown Ups'' films, and playing Amy Schumer's father in the film '' Trainwreck''. Comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Chris Rock, and Dave Attell have cited Quinn as the quintessential "comic's comic" and New York comedian. Quinn has also become known for his comedic one-man shows that offer his unique takes on history ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Thornton
The Godz were a New York City-based avant-noise psychedelic music, psychedelic band that originally existed from 1966 to 1973. History The Godz musicians were guitarist Jim McCarthy, bassist Larry Kessler, autoharpist Jay Dillon, and drummer Paul Thornton. They started the band after Larry Kessler met Jim McCarthy and Paul Thornton when they all took jobs in the 49th Street location of the musical instruments store Sam Goody's. According to McCarthy they came up with their musical approach on this situation: "One day Paul came over to visit them, and the three gathered in Larry's living room to smoke a joint." What happened next was purely accidental, according to Jim: "There were all these percussive instruments lying around and out of total frustration, I got up and started shaking a tambourine or something like that, and that's how it all started. We all started to get up and make noise like a bunch of maniacs, expressing our frustration." After this event, "Larry made a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alan Aisenberg
Alan Aisenberg (born March 18, 1993) is an American actor and television producer. He is best known for his role as Baxter Bayley on the Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black''. Life and career Aisenberg was raised in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and picked up acting at a Jewish Community Center in Tenafly, New Jersey at a very young age. While attending college at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he co-founded a production company known as Deverge. Aisenberg made his screen debut in the 2007 horror film ''Unholy''. He later made his television debut in 2008 with a minor role in the Nickelodeon series '' The Naked Brothers Band'' before landing roles in a number of films, as well as television series such as ''Mozart in the Jungle'' and ''Inside Amy Schumer''. In June 2015, Aisenberg began his recurring role as correctional officer Baxter "Gerber" Bayley on the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Orange Is the New Black''. On January 29, 2017, Aisenberg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dave Attell
David Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer best known as the host of Comedy Central's ''Insomniac with Dave Attell'', which earned him a cult following. His work has drawn admiration from many comedians. Early life Attell was born in the New York City borough of Queens to a Jewish family. He was raised in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from South Side High School. After graduating from New York University in 1987 with a degree in communications, Attell began performing at open-mic nights. Career Attell's first appearance on television was in 1988 on VH1's ''Stand-Up Spotlight,'' which also featured early appearances by Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Jeff Garlin, Jay Mohr and Wanda Sykes. The show was hosted by Rosie O'Donnell. On November 23, 1993, he made his first appearance on ''The Late Show with David Letterman''. The appearance was seen by ''Saturday Night Live'' creator Lorne Michaels, who then recru ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elizabeth Gillies
Elizabeth Egan Gillies (born July 26, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She gained prominence for her starring roles as Jade West in the Nickelodeon series ''Victorious'' (2010–2013), and as Fallon Carrington on The CW revival of ''Dynasty'' (2017–2022). Gillies made her Broadway debut at age 15 in the musical '' 13'', playing the character of Lucy. She made her first television appearance in ''The Black Donnellys'' (2007), later starring as Jade West in the Nickelodeon series ''Victorious'' (2010–2013). From 2011 to 2014, she provided the voice of Daphne in Nickelodeon's '' Winx Club'', and she had a main role in the FX comedy series ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'' (2015–2016). Since 2017, Gillies has starred as billionaire heiress and energy executive Fallon Carrington in The CW's series ''Dynasty'', a reboot of the 1980s series of the same name. She has also appeared in various feature and television films, including the horror film ''Animal'' (2014), the te ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |