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Jenna Lamia
Jenna Lamia is an American actress, writer, and audiobook narrator. Career Acting Lamia began her acting career in New York City, where she appeared on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's ''Ah, Wilderness!'' at Lincoln Center. She soon moved on to television and film appearances, and is best known for her roles as Sherri Ward in ''The Fighter'' with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Siobhan Miller in '' Law and Order: SVU'', Carrie Schillinger in '' Oz'', and as Poppy Downes in Comedy Central's ''Strangers With Candy'', with Amy Sedaris. Over the span of her career, she has appeared on and off-Broadway, in over 30 television shows and feature films, and voiced video games and animated characters for film and television. As of 2021, she appears as Judy Cooper in the Syfy television series ''Resident Alien'', starring Alan Tudyk. Audiobook narration As an audiobook narrator, Lamia has won several golden earphones awards from '' AudioFile'' magazine, and was named Female Narrator of the Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema is an American film production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and is a film label of Warner Bros. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio after acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in 1994; Turner later merged with Time Warner (later known as WarnerMedia from 2018 to 2022) in 1996, and New Line was merged with Warner Bros. Pictures in 2008. The studio has been nicknamed, "The House that Freddy Built" due to the success of the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' film series. History New Line Cinema was established in 1967 by the then 27-year-old Robert Shaye as a film distribution company, supplying foreign and art films for college campuses in the United States. Shaye operated New Line's offices out of his apartment at 14th Street and Second Avenue in New York City. One of the company's early successes was its distribution of the 1936 anti-cannabis propaganda film ''Reefer Madness'', whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfect Couple (book)
The Perfect Couple may refer to: * ''A Perfect Couple'', a 1979 film directed by Robert Altman * ''The Perfect Couple'' (1954 film), a West German comedy film * ''The Perfect Couple'' (2007 film), a South Korean film * "The Perfect Couple" (''The Inside''), an episode of ''The Inside'' * "The Perfect Couple" (''The O.C.''), an episode of ''The O.C.'' * "The Perfect Couple", a song by Paul Heaton from '' Fat Chance'' * "Cặp đôi hoàn hảo", the Vietnamese version of TV series ''Just the Two of Us'' * ''Perfect Couples ''Perfect Couples'' is an American sitcom television series that was originally broadcast by NBC. The half-hour romantic comedy was co-created by Jon Pollack and Scott Silveri and produced by Universal Media Studios. A sneak preview of the series ...'', a 2010-2011 American sitcom * The Perfect Couple (TV series), an upcoming television series {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel '' Horrorstör''. Hendrix lives in Manhattan and was one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. Life and career Hendrix was born in South Carolina. His parents divorced when he was 13 years old and the author spent much of his time in public libraries. As an adult Hendrix worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing. Alongside his novels, he has written for numerous media outlets, including ''Playboy Magazine'', The ''New York Post'', and, prior to its closure in 2008, as a film critic for The ''New York Sun''. In 2009, Hendrix attended the Clarion Workshop at the University of California at San Diego. He has also contributed to Katie Crouch's young adult series ''The Magnolia League,'' and his fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Pseudopod. In 2012, Hendrix co-wrote '' Dirt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Best Friend's Exorcism
''My Best Friend's Exorcism'' is a 2016 horror novel by Grady Hendrix. A hardback edition was published on May 17, 2016, through Quirk Books and an audiobook narrated by Emily Woo Zeller was released through Blackstone Audio. A film adaptation directed by Damon Thomas from a screenplay by Jenna Lamia was released in 2022 on Prime Video. Synopsis The year is 1988 and Abby Rivers has just started her sophomore year of high school in South Carolina. She is glad to have her best friend Gretchen Lang at her side, as they have been inseparable since they met at Abby's 10th birthday back in 1982. Gretchen was the only one to attend Abby's ''E.T.''-themed birthday party at the skating rink and their friendship was cemented ever since. The novel then goes through their relationship from that point on, which includes singing into hairbrushes to Madonna, getting their hair braided in Jamaica, and dealing with the awkwardness of growing up, whether it is bad acne or overprotective parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Best Friend's Exorcism (film)
''My Best Friend's Exorcism'' is a 2022 American supernatural comedy horror film directed by Damon Thomas from a screenplay by Jenna Lamia, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Grady Hendrix. The film stars Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Rachel Ogechi Kanu, and Cathy Ang. The film was released on Prime Video on September 30, 2022. Plot In 1988, high school sophomores Abby Rivers and Gretchen Lang are longtime best friends. Gretchen is moving away with her family over the summer, which saddens Abby, but Gretchen assures her they will always have each other. Together with their friends Margaret Chisholm and Glee Tanaka, Abby and Gretchen spend a weekend at Margaret's family's lake house. One night, they all ingest LSD provided by Margaret's boyfriend Wallace Stoney and, with the exception of Abby, go skinny-dipping in the lake. When Margaret makes an insensitive comment about Abby's acne, Abby walks away, with Gretchen following her to comfort her. Abby and Gretchen venture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations and additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and the Fox Media Center in Tempe. Launched as a competitor to the Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC) on October 9, 1986, Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network. It was the highest- rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and again in 2020, and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, but these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate, either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket Island, where she resides."Huffington Post" Accessed 24 November 2008. She was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop."The Love Season" (back flap) Accessed 24 November 2008. In 2019, ''New York Magazine'' called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads". Currently, actress Ellen Pompeo has been working with ABC in adapting Hilderbrand's ''Paradise Trilogy'' into a TV series where she would star after her departure as the lead on ''Grey's Anatomy''. Biography Hilderbrand spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore," until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. She spent the next summer workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Girls (TV Series)
''Good Girls'' is an American crime comedy-drama television series created by Jenna Bans that aired on NBC from February 26, 2018, to July 22, 2021. The series is executive produced by Bans, Dean Parisot, and Jeannine Renshaw for Universal Television."NBC orders Mae Whitman and Retta series Good Girls" from '''' (May 10, 2017)"NBC 2017–18 Fall Schedule: 'Must-See TV' Revived o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Tomorrow (TV Series)
''No Tomorrow'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from October 4, 2016 to January 17, 2017. The series was developed by Corinne Brinkerhoff. It is based on the 2012 Brazilian series '' Como Aproveitar o Fim do Mundo'' (''How to Enjoy the End of the World''), which aired on Rede Globo in 2012. The show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ''No Tomorrow'' was canceled on May 8, 2017; five days later, an epilogue to the series was released. Plot The series follows a woman who lives in Seattle and becomes involved with a free-spirited man who inspires her to make an "apocalyst", a list of things to do before the world ends—which he claims will be in eight months and twelve days. With the help of her friends, they try to find out if he can be taken seriously while completing the bucket list. Cast and characters Main * Tori Anderson as Evie Covington, a bored middle-manager employed in a supply warehouse who pushes herself in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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