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John Nicolella
John Joseph Nicolella (May 28, 1945 – February 21, 1998) was an American film director, film producer, television director, and television producer. He is best known for his directing and producing work on the 1980s television series ''Miami Vice''. Career Nicolella began his career working as an assistant director on the Ivan Passer-directed film '' Born to Win'' (1971). Other films soon followed, the Paul Newman-directed film ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'' (1972), '' Crazy Joe'' (1974) starring Peter Boyle, '' Sweet Revenge'' (1976) starring Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston and ''Time Square'' (1980). He was also as a production manager on the films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Curse of the Pink Panther'' (1983) and co-produced ''Easy Money'' starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In 1984, he joined the production crew of ''Miami Vice'' directing a number of episodes until 1987. He continued working with the sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
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] |
Joe Pesci
Joseph Frank Pesci ( , ; born February 9, 1943) is an American actor and musician. He is known for portraying tough, volatile characters in a variety of genres and for his collaborations with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese in the films ''Raging Bull'' (1980), ''Goodfellas'' (1990), ''Casino'' (1995), and ''The Irishman'' (2019). He also appeared in ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984), ''Moonwalker'' (1988), ''JFK'' (1991), '' A Bronx Tale'' (1993), and '' The Good Shepherd'' (2006). His comedy roles include such films as the first two installments in the ''Home Alone'' franchise (1990–1992), ''My Cousin Vinny'' (1992), and the ''Lethal Weapon'' franchise (1989–1998). Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the gangster character Tommy DeVito in ''Goodfellas'' and received two other nominations in the same category for his portrayals of Joey LaMotta and Russell Bufalino in ''Raging Bull'' and ''The Irishman'', respectively. He announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Force
''Super Force'' is an American action-adventure TV series which aired from October 1990 to May 1992. The series is about a former astronaut turned cop who uses a highly advanced powered exoskeleton and motorcycle to fight crime in the city of Metroplex during the then future year of 2020. Among the features of the black battle suit were enhanced strength and armament and a force field that protected the wearer from virtually all known weapons, whereas the motorcycle had an array of James Bond-type gadgets and weapons. Syndicated by Viacom, ''Super Force'' was designed to be a companion series to ''Superboy'', and the second series in a proposed two-hour block of action programming that also included ''Lightning Force''. Unusual for a series that only ran 30 minutes per episode, ''Super Force'' debuted with a two-hour TV pilot film, which was later split into four episodes for syndication purposes. Plot summary Astronaut Zachary Stone (Ken Olandt) returns from his acclaimed d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marker (TV Series)
''Marker'' is an American drama television series that premiered on UPN on January 17 and ended on May 16, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii. Synopsis The series' plot is about Richard DeMorra (played by Richard Grieco), a carpenter who travels to Hawaii to claim the estate of his estranged father after his father's death. Most of the father's estate was instead willed to his widow, Kimba (Gates McFadden). To claim his share of the estate, DeMorra must travel and redeem "markers": tokens distributed by his father which correspond to good deeds. Many of these good deeds correspond to detective work, such as in the first episode, where DeMorra is asked to locate a surfer's missing sister. Cast *Richard Grieco as Richard DeMorra *Gates McFadden Cheryl Gates McFadden (born March 2, 1949) is an American actress and choreographer. She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden for acting work. She is best known for playing Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key West (TV Series)
''Key West'' is an American comedy-drama series set and filmed in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox from January to June 1993. It was created by David Beaird. The show was produced by Viacom Productions (now CBS Television Studios). Plot The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, where his idol Ernest Hemingway had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He tries to get a job for ''The Meteor'', a local newspaper, wishing to relive the life of its most famous employee, Ernest Hemingway. This brings him into conflict with the paper's editor, Roosevelt Cole (Ivory Ocean), who remarks "You want to report on the Spanish Civil War?" Eventually Seamus is hired on a probationary period. In a later episode it was revealed Seamus is once again poor as his lottery winnings we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose Place
''Melrose Place'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living in an apartment complex on Melrose Place, in West Hollywood, California. The show was created by Darren Star for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company, Spelling Television. It was the second series in the ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' franchise. Season one and season two were broadcast on Wednesday at 9 pm, after ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. In 1994, for its third-season and for the rest of its run, the show moved to Monday at 8 p.m. The show had many cast changes during the run. Thomas Calabro and Heather Locklear were the only cast members to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed No. 51 on ''Entertainment Weekly'' "New TV Classics" list. Premise The show is set in a small fictional apart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Justice
''Dark Justice'' is an American crime drama television series about a judge who becomes a vigilante by night so that he can bring high-level offenders who use technicalities to "escape" the legal system to what he calls "dark justice." The role of Judge Nicholas Marshall was played by actors Ramy Zada (1991) and Bruce Abbott (1992–1993). The series began airing on April 5, 1991 and ran for three seasons (66 episodes) finishing on September 28, 1993. Production and filming During the first season, the series was shot in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain. Before the second season, the series had to switch locations due to budget constraints caused by the 1992 Summer Olympics. The second and third seasons were shot in Los Angeles, California. Actor Ramy Zada, who played the lead role of Judge Nicholas Marshall during the first season, was said to be unavailable for the second season due to the location change, and Bruce Abbott was chosen as his replacement. The location was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel's Fire
''Gabriel's Fire'' is an American crime drama television series created by Donald R. Boyle, Coleman Luck and Jacqueline Zambrano that ran on ABC from September 12, 1990, to June 6, 1991, in the United States during the 1990–91 television season. A revamped version of the series, entitled '' Pros and Cons'', aired briefly the following season. Overview The main character, Gabriel Bird, was played by James Earl Jones. He was a former Chicago police officer who, over twenty years prior, had been wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a fellow police officer. In fact, he shot the officer to protect a defenseless mother and child whom the officer was about to murder in cold blood during a 1969 police raid. Unbeknownst to Bird, the raid had been merely a pretext for the police to attack the members of a militant black nationalist organization. This incident in the character's background was inspired by the 1969 death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leg Work
''Leg Work'' is an American police drama television series created by Frank Abatemarco that premiered on CBS on October 3, 1987. Ten episodes of the series were produced, of which six were aired prior to the show's cancellation. The final episode aired on November 7, 1987. The cable network TV Land later aired the remaining four episodes. Synopsis Set in New York City, the show's main character was Claire McCarron (played by Margaret Colin), a former Assistant D.A. turned private investigator. A policeman's daughter (Colin was a policeman's daughter in real life), she drove around town in a Porsche 911 Cabriolet but lived beyond her means and often struggled to make a living from her fledgling detective agency. The show also starred Patrick James Clarke as her brother and NYPD lieutenant Fred McCarron, and Frances McDormand as Willie Pipal, her friend who still worked for the DA's office. Cast * Margaret Colin as Claire McCarron * Patrick James Clarke as Fred McCarron * France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Story (U
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers. Most crime drama focuses on crime investigation and does not feature the courtroom. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. History The ''One Thousand and One Nights'' (''Arabian Nights'') contains the earliest known examples of crime fiction. One example of a story of this genre is the medieval Arabic tale of "The Three Apples", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the ''Arabia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nash Bridges
''Nash Bridges'' is an American police procedural television series created by Carlton Cuse. The show stars Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit (SIU). The series ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29, 1996, to May 4, 2001. A total of 122 episodes aired. A TV film appeared on the USA Network in 2021. Premise ''Nash Bridges'' stars Don Johnson as the eponymous Nash Bridges, an inspector (and later captain) with the San Francisco Police Department's elite "Special Investigations Unit". The show begins with Bridges in his 40s, twice-divorced, and dealing with his feisty teenage daughter Cassidy (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). Nash convinces recently retired Inspector Joe Dominguez (Cheech Marin), to return to the force and partner with him. Nash and Joe cruise the streets of San Francisco in Nash's 1971 Plymouth Barracuda convertible, a gift from Nash's brother Bobby just before Bobby left for the Vietna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbeat (Don Johnson Album)
''Heartbeat'' is the debut studio album by American actor and singer Don Johnson, released on September 30, 1986, by Epic Records. In the United States, the album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 in October 1986 and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the following month. The Heartbeat (Don Johnson song), title track peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In 1998, the album was reissued by Razor & Tie with six additional tracks from Johnson's follow-up album, ''Let It Roll (Don Johnson album), Let It Roll'' (1989). Background In a 1987 interview with the ''Los Angeles Times'', Johnson stated, "I wanted the record to be modern, tough rock and I think I achieved that on some level. I didn't want it to sound like something that other people designed and I just stopped by for a few minutes to do the vocals. And I made it clear to Walter [Yetnikoff, then Walter Yetnikoff, president and CE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
