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Here, Now
''Here and Now'' is an American drama television series created by Alan Ball. The series consists of 10 episodes and premiered on HBO on February 11, 2018. Starring Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins, the series focuses on a contemporary multiracial family in the Portland area. The show's plot involves many issues including race, identity, and mental illness. On April 25, 2018, HBO cancelled the series after one season. Cast and characters Main * Holly Hunter as Audrey Bayer, a therapist * Tim Robbins as Greg Boatwright, Audrey's husband and philosophy professor * Jerrika Hinton as Ashley Collins, adopted by the Bayer-Boatwrights from Liberia, now creator and owner of a retail fashion website * Raymond Lee as Duc Bayer-Boatwright, adopted from Vietnam when he was five, now a successful life coach and womanizer * Daniel Zovatto as Ramon Bayer-Boatwright, adopted from an orphanage in Colombia at 18 months, now a college senior studying video game design * Sosie Bacon as Kristen Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, terrorism, discrimination, disease, racism, sexism, and human sexuality. Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and Body fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. Whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specificall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promiscuity
Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different Sexual partner, partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners. The term can carry a moral judgment. A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous by many cultures is the one-night stand, and its frequency is used by researchers as a marker for promiscuity. What sexual behavior is considered promiscuous varies between cultures, as does the prevalence of promiscuity. Different standards are often applied to different genders and civil statutes. Feminism, Feminists have traditionally argued a significant double standard exists between how men and women are judged for promiscuity. Historically, stereotypes of the promiscuous woman have tended to be pejorative, such as "the slut" or "the harlot", while male stereotypes have been more varied, some expressing approval, such as "the stud" or "the player", while others imply societal deviance, such as "the womanizer" or "the philand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films '' The Five Senses'' (1999) and ''Fugitive Pieces'' (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows '' Six Feet Under'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''The Tudors'', '' Queer as Folk'', and the HBO World War II miniseries '' The Pacific''. He has also written several films. In 2014, he directed episodes five and six of the fifth season of the HBO series '' Game of Thrones'', earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the latter episode. He returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode. He also directed the season premiere as well as the season finale of the seventh season. In 2021, he directed episodes of the TV series adaptation of '' The Mosquito Coast'' and the miniseries '' Station Eleven''. Biography Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) and a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). PPFA has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, and 14 years after her exit as its president, ABCL's successor organization became Planned Parenthood in 1942. Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States. It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally. The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uta Briesewitz
Uta Briesewitz (born 1967) is a German cinematographer and television director. She is known for her collaborations with film director Brad Anderson. Biography Briesewitz was born in Leverkusen, Germany. She was exposed to film at an early age, watching them on German television, eventually cultivating a preference for French ''Nouvelle Vague'' and Italian cinema. In an interview, she recounted that Francois Truffaut's ''Day for Night'', ''The Story of Adele H'' and ''The Man Who Loved Women,'' were some of the films that made strong impressions on her as a child. Later, Briesewitz considered training to be a painter, but decided it was too isolated as a career. She had an internship with a German television company, before she applied and completed a cinematography program at AFI Conservatory. In 2007 she won a Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdrawal, decreased emotional expression, and apathy. Symptoms typically develop gradually, begin during young adulthood, and in many cases never become resolved. There is no objective diagnostic test; diagnosis is based on observed behavior, a history that includes the person's reported experiences, and reports of others familiar with the person. To be diagnosed with schizophrenia, symptoms and functional impairment need to be present for six months (DSM-5) or one month (ICD-11). Many people with schizophrenia have other mental disorders, especially substance use disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and obsessive–compulsive disorder. About 0.3% to 0.7% of people are diagnosed with schizophrenia during their lifetime. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Bean (actor)
Andy Bean (born October 7, 1984) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Alec Holland in DC Universe's ''Swamp Thing'', Greg Knox in ''Power'', Henry Bergen in '' Here and Now'' and as Stanley Uris in ''It Chapter Two''. Career Bean co-starred as Greg Knox in the drama series ''Power'', an FBI agent assigned to the Ghost case and Angela Valdes' former love interest. He played the role of Henry Bergen, a homeless thief, in '' Here and Now'' (2018). In his first major movie role, Bean played Spike, a physicist trying to attempt teleportation, in ''Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine'' (2016), and also had minor roles in '' Allegiant'' (2016) and '' Transformers: The Last Knight'' (2017). He was cast, in 2019, as Alec Holland in DC Universe's ''Swamp Thing'', which ran for one season. In 2019, Bean played the role of adult Stanley Uris in ''It Chapter Two'', sharing the character with Wyatt Oleff Wyatt Jess Oleff (born July 13, 2003) is an American actor, known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niousha Noor
Niousha Noor ( fa, نيوشا نور) is an Iranian-American actress. Career Noor has appeared in numerous TV shows and films, including playing Donya on HBO's '' Here and Now''. In 2020, Noor starred opposite Shahab Hosseini in IFC's psychological thriller '' The Night'', which made history as the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license for a theatrical release in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Her performance as Neda garnered her widespread critical acclaim. In September 2021, Noor was announced as a principal cast member of the Netflix series ''Kaleidoscope'', as an FBI agent investigating a heist by a team led by Giancarlo Esposito's character. Shortly after production of ''Kaleidoscope'', Noor was cast as one of the lead characters in Maryam Keshavarz's ''The Persian Version'', which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Levine
Frank Theodore Levine (born May 29, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Buffalo Bill (character), Buffalo Bill in the film ''The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Silence of the Lambs'' (1991) and Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series ''Monk (TV series), Monk'' (2002–2009). Levine's other notable roles were in the films ''Nowhere to Run (1993 film), Nowhere to Run'' (1993), ''Heat (1995 film), Heat'' (1995), ''Bullet (1996 film), Bullet'' (1996), ''The Fast and the Furious (2001 film), The Fast and the Furious'' (2001), ''The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film), The Manchurian Candidate'' (2004), ''Memoirs of a Geisha (film), Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), ''American Gangster (film), American Gangster'' (2007), ''Shutter Island (film), Shutter Island'' (2010), ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' (2018), and ''The Report (2019 film), The Report'' (2019). Early life Levine was born in Bellaire, Ohio, the son of Charlotte Virginia (Clark) and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Ettinger
Cynthia Ettinger is an American actress, known for her stage and television work, most notably her appearances on the TV series '' Carnivàle'' and in the unaired pilot of the TV series ''Smallville''. Career Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent for ''Smallville ''Smallville'' is an American superhero television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series was produced by Millar Gough ...'', but during filming everyone realized that she was not right for the role, including Ettinger. She turned to theater jobs, and when the opportunity for ''Carnivàle'' came up, she chose that project because of the theater-like experience. Also appeared in the episode “The Parking Garage” in the popular TV series Seinfeld and in the 2000 movie Fail Safe by Stephen Frears. References External links * Broadway World Interview 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Bigley
Kevin Bigley (born October 5, 1986) is an American television and film actor, best known for playing rookie paramedic Brian Czyk on the USA Network series ''Sirens''. Biography Bigley was born in Yuba City, California, and studied acting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, in Chicago, Illinois. He began learning comedy as a defense mechanism to stave off bullying. Bigley began his acting career in San Francisco, California. He appeared in a seven-month run of "Killer Joe" at Profiles Theatre in Chicago. He also performed in "A Separate Peace" at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. After working with actor Vince Vaughn on a TV pilot, Bigley moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and worked jobs including catering for a Jerry Springer game show, ''Baggage'', on the GSN. He landed a part in Vaughn's 2011 movie ''The Dilemma'' and went on to appear onscreen in film and television, including on the series ''Bones'', ''CSI: Miami'' and ''Chicago Code'' before winning the role of rookie EMT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virginian-Pilot
''The Virginian-Pilot'' is the daily newspaper for Norfolk, Virginia. Commonly known as ''The Pilot'', it is Virginia's largest daily. It serves the five cities of South Hampton Roads as well as several smaller towns across southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina. It was a locally owned, family enterprise from its founding in 1865 at the close of the American Civil War until its sale to Tribune Publishing in 2018. The ''Virginian-Pilot'' is owned by parent company, '' Tribune Publishing''. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. Pulitzer Prizes The newspaper has won three Pulitzer Prizes. The first was won in 1929 by editor Louis Jaffe, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for " An Unspeakable Act of Savagery", an editorial which condemned lynching. Jaffe mentored the paper's next editor, Lenoir Chambers, who in 1960 received the same prize for his editorials o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
