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I'll Take Manhattan (miniseries)
''I'll Take Manhattan'' is a four-part 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's 1986 novel of the same name. Screened by CBS, it tells the story of the wealthy Amberville family, who run their own publishing company in New York. After the death of the patriarch of the family, the company is taken over by his unscrupulous brother Cutter. Zachary's children, especially his energetic and intelligent daughter Maxi, begin a battle to regain control of their father's company. ''I'll Take Manhattan'' was the highest-rated miniseries of the 1986–87 US television season with a 22.9/35 rating/share.TV Guide magazine, June 27–July 3, 1987, issue #1787. All figures are based on the Nielsen ratings. The rating represents the percentage of the 87.4 million TV households tuned to a station (sets watching this show). The share represents the percentage of TV sets tuned to a television station at the time of the broadcast (sets in use). Plot summary Part 1 In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Michaels
Richard Michaels (born February 15, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American film and TV show director and producer whose career spanned five decades. His directing credits include the television series ''Bewitched'', ''The Brady Bunch'', ''Love, American Style'' and the TV movies '' Once an Eagle'' (1976), ''Homeward Bound'' (1980 TV movie)', '' The Children Nobody Wanted'' (1981), '' Sadat'' (1983), '' Silence of the Heart'' (1984), '' Rockabye'' (1986), '' I'll Take Manhattan'' (1987),''Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean'' (1990) (Suzanne Pleshette was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Leona Helmsley), '' Father and Scout'' (1994). Personal life Marriages Michaels has been married three times. His first was to Toby Michaels from 1959 to 1962. His second marriage was to actress Kristina Hansen in 1964; they divorced in 1972. In 1986 he married Judith Penrod; they currently reside in Makena, Hawaii. Relationship with Elizabeth Montgomery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of August 2024, it is the primary part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a marketing research firm founded in 1923. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella for years. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. NMR was separated again from Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse. Some suicides are impulsive acts driven by stress (such as from financial or academic difficulties), relationship problems (such as breakups or divorces), or harassment and bullying. Those who have previously attempted suicide are at a higher risk for future attempts. Effective suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to methods of suicide such as firearms, drugs, and poisons; treating mental disorders and substance abuse; careful media reporting about suicide; improving economic conditions; and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Although crisis hotlines, like 988 in North America and 13 11 14 in Australia, are common resources, their effectiveness has not been well studied. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 1.5% of total deaths. In a given year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Vernon
Katherine Elizabeth Vernon (born 1961) is a Canadian-born American actress. She is known for her roles as Lorraine Prescott on the CBS primetime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' (1984–1985), the stuck-up and popular Benny Hanson in the comedy film ''Pretty in Pink'' (1986), Sophia in the 1992 film ''Malcolm X'', and Ellen Tigh in the 2004 Syfy series ''Battlestar Galactica''. Early life Vernon was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Nancy West and actor John Vernon. At age seven, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where her father was pursuing his career. Her sister is singer Nan Vernon. Career Vernon portrayed Lorraine Prescott on the CBS prime time soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' from 1984 to 1985. During the 1980s, she appeared on various TV series, including '' Family Ties'', ''Dallas'', ''Remington Steele'', ''Hotel'', ''Murder, She Wrote'' and the 1987 miniseries '' I'll Take Manhattan'', as well as the 1986 comedy-drama film ''Pretty in Pink'', and the 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julianne Moore
Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress and children's author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films, and for her roles in Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Julianne Moore, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as Best Actress Prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival. In 2015, ''Time (magazine), Time'' named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, ''The New York Times'' named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. After studying theatre at Boston University, she played a regular in the soap opera ''As the World Turns'' from 1985 to 1988, earning a Daytime Emm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hecht
Paul Hecht (born August 16, 1941) is an English-born Canadian stage, film, voice and television actor known for playing radio newsman Ross Buckingham in Howard Stern's ''Private Parts''. Early life and education Born in London, England, Hecht graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963. Career Hecht made his Broadway debut in 1968 in ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'', for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Additional Broadway credits include ''1776'' (as John Dickinson), '' The Rothschilds'', ''The Great God Brown'', '' Herzl'', '' Caesar and Cleopatra'', ''Noises Off'', and ''The Invention of Love''. He received the Obie Award for his performance in the off-Broadway production of '' Enrico IV'' in 1989. Hecht voiced a role in the 2010 animated film '' My Dog Tulip''. He played Emperor Palpatine for the radio drama adaptions of ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi''. Hech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Gotell
Walter Jack Gotell (born Walter Jacques Goettel; 15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German-born British actor. He was well known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore era of the James Bond film seriesTom VallancObituary: Walter Gotell ''The Independent'', 20 June 1997. as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in '' From Russia With Love''. He also appeared as Gogol in the final part of '' The Living Daylights'' (1987), Timothy Dalton's debut Bond film. Early life Gotell was born Walter Jacques Goettel in Bonn in 1924, to Jewish parents Margarete Wilhelmine (née Cohn) and Jakob Goettel. He was raised mainly in Berlin. Due to rising antisemitism and the growing influence of Nazism, Gotell and his family immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938, and he was naturalised as a British citizen in 1948. Gotell became interested in acting during secondary school, and he began acting in repertory theatre as a teenager. Career Due to a sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Griffin
Lynne Griffin (born 17 September 1952) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in film, television and stage, particularly her appearances in the horror films '' Black Christmas'' (1974) and ''Curtains'' (1983), the Bob and Doug McKenzie comedy film '' Strange Brew'' (1983), and a recurring role on the television series ''Wind at My Back'' (1996–2001). Griffin returned to the Black Christmas universe in the 2024 fan film, It's Me, Billy: Chapter 2, playing Nancy, the sister of her character in the 1974 film. Early life Griffin was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Kay, an actress, and James Joseph Griffin, a fashion photographer and soccer player. She is married to fellow actor Sean Sullivan. Filmography Films Television series Television movies Theatre * Stratford Shakespeare Festival * Shaw Festival * 2002: Resurgence Theatre Company - ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Tempest'' Awards In 1980 Griffin earned an ''Outstanding Performance by an Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abortion
Abortion is the early termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Abortions that occur without intervention are known as miscarriages or "spontaneous abortions", and occur in roughly 30–40% of all pregnancies. Deliberate actions to end a pregnancy are called induced abortion, or less frequently "induced miscarriage". The unmodified word ''abortion'' generally refers to induced abortion. Common reasons for having an abortion are birth-timing and limiting family size. Other reasons include maternal health, an inability to afford a child, domestic violence, lack of support, feelings of being too young, wishing to complete an education or advance a career, or not being able or willing to raise a child conceived as a result of rape or incest. When done legally in industrialized societies, induced abortion is one of the safest procedures in medicine. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone (aka RU-4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a member of a group of genetic disorders called inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) that cause loss of vision. Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). As peripheral vision worsens, people may experience " tunnel vision". Complete blindness is uncommon. Onset of symptoms is generally gradual and often begins in childhood. Retinitis pigmentosa is generally inherited from one or both parents. It is caused by genetic variants in nearly 100 genes. The underlying mechanism involves the progressive loss of rod photoreceptor cells that line the retina of the eyeball. The rod cells secrete a neuroprotective substance (rod-derived cone viability factor, RdCVF) that protects the cone cells from apoptosis. When these rod cells die, this substance is no longer provided. This is generally followed by the loss of cone photoreceptor cells. Diagnosis is through eye examination of the retina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Daly
James Timothy Daly (born March 1, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom '' Wings'' and his recurring role as drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on ''The Sopranos.'' He starred as Pete Wilder on the ABC medical drama '' Private Practice'' from 2007 to 2012. He is also known for his voice role as Clark Kent/Superman in '' Superman: The Animated Series ''and several animated Superman movies. From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS political drama '' Madam Secretary'', starring Téa Leoni. Early life Daly was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, the only son and youngest of four children of actor James Daly (1918–1978) and actress Mary Hope Daly (; 1921–2009). He is of Irish descent, his ancestors being from Limerick and County Kerry. He is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly. He has two other sisters, Mary Glynn (wife of Mark Snow) and Pegeen M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
