Just Write
''Just Write'' is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Andrew Gallerani starring Jeremy Piven, Sherilyn Fenn, JoBeth Williams and Wallace Shawn. Plot Harold McMurphy (Piven) is a single, 30-year-old, Hollywood-obsessed tour bus driver in Beverly Hills who works for his father's struggling tour company. He dreams of finding a perfect woman that will love him for who he is, despite his father's insistence that he lower his standards. When two women from a tour ask Harold where they can see Hollywood stars, he directs them to a trendy Hollywood cafe where his best friend, Danny (Jeffrey D. Sams), is a bartender. Harold goes to meet them and overhears a conversation in which a man hits on a woman by telling her that he is a writer represented by Arthur Blake (Shawn). Harold then spots up-and-coming actress Amanda Clark (Fenn) arguing with her agent, Sidney Stone (Williams). Danny encourages Harold to ask Amanda for an autograph. She greets him warmly and asks what he does ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn; February 1, 1965) is an American actress and author. She came to attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the television series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991, 2017) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. She is also known for her roles in '' Wild at Heart'' (1990), ''Of Mice and Men'' (1992), ''Boxing Helena'' (1993), the television sitcom '' Rude Awakening'' (1998–2001), ''The United States of Leland'' (2003), '' Shameless'' (2016), and ''Shining Vale'' (2022). Early life Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn on February 1, 1965, in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Todd Susman
Todd Susman (born January 17, 1947) is an American actor. Early life A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Susman graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1965. Career Susman has appeared in over one hundred different television series and commercials and was also featured in the Broadway production of ''Hairspray'', the 1970s films '' Star Spangled Girl'' (1971), '' The Loners'' (1972), ''Little Cigars'' (1973) and ''California Dreaming'' (1979). He later appeared in the major studio films ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), ''Coneheads'' (1993), ''The Juror'' (1996), and the remake of '' The Taking of Pelham 123'' (2009). Susman was in the 2007 independent film, ''The Big Bad Swim'', and the 2009 comedy, ''The Flying Scissors''. He also voiced the lead character in the 2002 video game '' Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix''. Susman had supporting roles in the films '' Only The Strong'' (1993), ''Night of the Running Man'' (1995), ''Bodily Harm'' (1995), '' Just Write'' (1997 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Films Shot In California
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Independent Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1997 Romantic Comedy Films
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1997 Films
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', the List of highest-grossing films, highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comet, comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is Handover of Hong Kong, handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner (rover), Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir Leno (; born April 28, 1950) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and actor. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's ''The Tonight Show'' from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009, he started a primetime talk show, ''The Jay Leno Show'', which aired weeknights at 10:00p.m. ET, also on NBC. Prior to the premiere of Leno's prime time show, O'Brien's ratings as the new ''Tonight Show'' host had already suffered a decline, however. When O'Brien turned down NBC's offer to have Leno host a half hour monologue show before ''The Tonight Show'' to boost ratings amid reported viewership diminishing, Leno returned to hosting the show on March 1, 2010. He hosted his last episode of this second tenure on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Since 2014, he has hosted ''Jay Leno's Garage,'' and the 2021 revival of ''You Bet Your Life''. Leno writes a regular column in ''Popular Mechani ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mary-Pat Green
Mary-Pat Green is an American film, television, and theatre actress. Career Television and film She is best known for playing Odessa on the television series '' Any Day Now''. She has appeared as a guest star on many television series, including '' Saving Grace'', ''Eli Stone'', ''My Name Is Earl'', ''Home Improvement'', ''NYPD Blue'', '' Married... with Children'', ''Melrose Place'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', '' Step by Step'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Friends'', ''Millennium'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', '' Ally McBeal'', '' Six Feet Under'', ''The West Wing'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Cold Case'', '' The Middle'', ''Anger Management'', ''Mom'', and others. Theatre Green has appeared on Broadway theatre, Broadway in the original cast of ''Sweeney Todd'' and the 1974 revival of ''Candide''. She has performed the role of Reverend Mother in ''Nunsense'' over 1500 times and in 2002 she played Lorena Hickok in Michael John LaChiusa's stage musical ''First Lady Suite'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josh Keaton
Joshua Luis Wiener (born February 8, 1979), known by his stage name Josh Keaton, is an American voice actor. He is known for his roles as Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane in '' Voltron: Legendary Defender'', Spider-Man in various media in addition to Electro in the video game ''Marvel's Spider-Man'', Jack Darby in '' Transformers: Prime'' and the adolescent Hercules in ''Hercules''. He was also the voice of Ryu Hayabusa in the console versions of ''Ninja Gaiden'', and the voice of Revolver Ocelot in '' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater''. He is also the voice of King Anduin Wrynn in the MMORPG ''World of Warcraft''. Early life Keaton was born in Hacienda Heights, California, to a father from Brooklyn, New York, and a mother from Lima, Peru. He has three sisters: Danielle, Alitzah (Ali Navarro), and Sabrina. He is fluent in Spanish which he learned first as a child, and later English. As a child, he learned to speak some Quechua from his maternal grandparents. His father is Jewish and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barbara Perry (actress)
Barbara Perry (June 22, 1921 – May 5, 2019) was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway. Early life Perry was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her father, William Covington Perry, of Hopewell, Virginia, was a classical and jazz keyboardist, orchestra and band conductor, and orchestral arranger with the Happiness Boys, the New York NBC Radio Studios' (Blue Network) ''Interwoven Stocking Co. Hour'', his own band called "Perry's Hot Dogs", with Ben Selvin and his Orchestra, and with many Broadway shows. He died of tuberculosis in Banning, California on October 30, 1936. Her mother, Victoria Mae (Gates) Perry of New Castle, Pennsylvania, sang soprano in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, at the Old Metropolitan Opera House, starting around 1925, under General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Career Being separated from her husband around the time she sang with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, as a form of "childcare", she enliste ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lou Cutell
Lou Cutell (October 6, 1930 – November 21, 2021) was an American actor, who was perhaps best known for his appearance as Amazing Larry in the 1985 film '' Pee-wee's Big Adventure''. Life and career Cutell was born in New York City to Sicilian parents. He moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, where he received a bachelor's degree at the University of California. Cutell began his acting career in 1961, appearing in the Broadway play ''The Young Abe Lincoln'' in the role of William Berry Cutell made his television debut in 1964, guest-starring in ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''. From the 1970s to the 1990s Cutell appeared and guest-starred in numerous films and television programs including '' Seinfeld'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'', '' Alice'', ''The Bob Newhart Show'', ''Rhinoceros'', ''The World's Greatest Lover'', '' The Wild Wild West'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (and its spin-off ''Lou Grant''), ''Barney Miller'', ''The Black Marble'', ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Fleck (actor)
John Fleck (born May 7, 1951) is an American actor and performance artist. He has performed in numerous TV shows, including ''Babylon 5'', ''Carnivàle'', '' Murder One'', and the ''Star Trek'' franchise. He also appeared in ''Howard The Duck'', ''Waterworld'' and the music video for the ZZ Top song "Legs". He made a minor appearance in the ''Seinfeld'' episode "The Heart Attack". He played a minor character during the sixth season of '' Weeds''. He wrote and performed "Mad Women" at La MaMa E.T.C. He is also one of the NEA Four. In 1990 he and three of his fellow artists became embroiled in a lawsuit against the government's National Endowment for the Arts program. John Frohnmayer, one of the chairman of the NEA, vetoed funding his project, a performance comedy with a toilet prop, on the basis of content and was accused of implementing a partisan political agenda. The artists won their case in court in 1993 and were awarded amounts equal to the grant money in question, though t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |