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Karen Moncrieff
Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963, in Sacramento, California) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known as the writer and director of critically acclaimed movies ''Blue Car'' and ''The Dead Girl'' ''''. Movies she has directed have won several awards. ''The Dead Girl'' won the Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize in 2007. ''The Keeping Hours'' won the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the L.A. Film Fest in 2017. Her directing credits are in both television and features, and she has acted in the soap operas ''Passions'', ''Days of Our Lives'' and '' Santa Barbara''. In 1985, she was crowned Miss Illinois and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant. She graduated from Rochester Adams High School Rochester Adams High School (also known as Adams High School, Adams, or AHS) is a public high school located in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and is part of the Rochester Community Schools district. Academics Rochester Adams High S ...
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Wings (NBC TV Series)
''Wings'' is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997 for a total of 172 episodes. The show is set at the fictional "Tom Nevers Field" airport, a small two-airline airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts (not to be confused with the actual Nantucket Memorial Airport), where the Hackett brothers operate Sandpiper Air, their single-plane airline. The majority of the episodes are set in the airport. Tim Daly and Steven Weber starred as brothers and pilots, Joe and Brian Hackett. Crystal Bernard played Helen, their friend since childhood and later Joe's love interest and wife, who ran the lunch counter at the airport but dreamed of becoming a concert cellist. David Schramm played Roy Biggins, who ran a competing airline called Aeromass. Rebecca Schull played Fay, Joe and Brian's employee at Sandpiper Air. Thomas Haden Church portrayed the mechanic Lowell in the first six seasons, Tony Shalhoub was taxi driver Antonio fr ...
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Petals On The Wind (film)
''Petals on the Wind'' is a 2014 Lifetime movie sequel to the 2014 adaptation ''Flowers in the Attic'', starring Heather Graham, Rose McIver, Wyatt Nash, Bailey Buntain and Ellen Burstyn. It is based on V. C. Andrews' 1980 novel of the same name, the second novel on the Dollanganger series. The film follows the surviving Dollanganger children—Cathy, Chris and Carrie—ten years after escaping the attic. Despite attempting to move on with their lives, after multiple failed attempts and tragedies occur, Cathy decides it is time to take revenge on her mother. Lifetime first announced the film shortly before ''Flowers in the Attic'' was released. The network announced on the premiere of the movie the developing of the following books of the Dollanganger series, ''If There Be Thorns'' and ''Seeds of Yesterday'', both of which aired in 2015. The film received a positive response from critics. Plot Ten years after escaping from Foxworth Hall, the surviving Dollanganger children—Ca ...
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The Trials Of Cate McCall
''The Trials of Cate McCall'' is a 2013 American drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff and stars Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte and Clancy Brown in pivotal roles. Plot Cate McCall (Kate Beckinsale) is a lawyer, an alcoholic in recovery and on probation, and estranged from her family. In order to regain custody of her young daughter and be reinstated to the bar, she accepts the ''pro bono'' appeal of a woman, Lacey, who has been convicted of murder. Aided by her assistant, Cate pulls out all stops to prove Lacey's innocence, as well as work on her own alcohol and work addictions. Cate becomes obsessed with the case, neglecting arranged time with her daughter while she successfully gets Lacey's conviction overturned. Cate begins drinking again after learning Lacey is guilty, which makes her mistreat her kid even more. In the middle of a trial, Cate goes back to her previous position at a prestigious law firm and purposely ruins the case for her own client. Cate then takes ...
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Touching Evil (American TV Series)
''Touching Evil'' is an American crime drama television series, based on the British series of the same name created by Paul Abbott. It starred Jeffrey Donovan as Detective David Creegan and Vera Farmiga as Creegan's partner Detective Susan Branca. Brian Markinson, Kevin Durand and Zach Grenier co-starred. The premise of this adaptation was somewhat different from the UK series' storyline. Rather than acquiring the ability to sense criminals, Creegan's recovery from a gunshot wound to the head instead strips him of his impulse control and sense of shame. The series was produced by actor Bruce Willis' production company Cheyenne Enterprises, and premiered on March 12, 2004. It ran for 13 episodes, ending on June 14, 2004. Although ''Touching Evil'' garnered acclaim from television critics, the USA Network deemed it commercially unsuccessful and opted not to renew the series for a second season. Plot Returning from a year-long psychological leave of absence after surviving an almo ...
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Six Feet Under (TV Series)
''Six Feet Under'' is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the premium network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, spanning 63 episodes across five seasons. It depicts the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles, along with their friends and lovers. The ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, and Rachel Griffiths as the central characters. It was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. ''Six Feet Under'' received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting, and consistently drew high ratings for the HBO network. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. The show's finale has also been described as one of the greatest television series ...
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Any Day Now (TV Series)
''Any Day Now'' is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. Set in Birmingham, Alabama, ''Any Day Now'' explored issues around race and friendship and how they effect the lives of two devoted lifelong friends over the years—from the 1960s to the current day. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint, portraying best friends since childhood, as they openly and honestly address events in their interracial community. The show's title is taken from the 1962 song " Any Day Now", written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard. A version performed by Lori Perry served as the show's theme song. Setting ''Any Day Now'' focuses on the lives and interactions of two female protagonists: Mary Elizabeth "M.E." O'Brien Sims (Potts) and Rene Jackson (Toussaint). The two had grown up as close friends in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. However, their friendship ended when M.E. became pregnant and chose, de ...
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Mike Hammer, Private Eye
''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'' is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. Like the previous series, it was produced by Jay Bernstein but in a less hands-on capacity. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season. ''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'' premiered on September 27, 1997. The final episode of the series aired on June 14, 1998. Premise The series starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character he had played in '' Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'' and ''The New Mike Hammer'', two moderately successful CBS series from the 1980s. Kent Williams was the only other, regular actor from the 1980s series to return, albeit in a different role. Guest star, Tracy Scoggins, formerly seen in a different role in the 1984 episode of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, "24 Karat Dead," appears in episode 2, "Beat Street ...
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Unhappily Ever After
''Unhappily Ever After'' is an American sitcom television series that aired for 100 episodes on The WB from January 11, 1995, to May 23, 1999, for a total of five seasons. The series was produced by Touchstone Television. Synopsis The series follows the Malloy family of Los Angeles, California: father Jack (Geoff Pierson); mother Jennie ( Stephanie Hodge); dim-witted eldest son Ryan ( Kevin Connolly); daughter Tiffany (Nikki Cox); and "forgotten" son Ross (Justin Berfield). In the first two seasons, storylines featured Jennie's pill-popping mother Maureen Slattery (Joyce Van Patten). The series was initially written as a starring vehicle for Hodge, whose character Jennie was the focus of the first few episodes. However, the series soon turned its focus to Jack, a schizophrenic who had been kicked out of the house in the pilot episode and was living in an apartment with his only "friend": his son's talking toy rabbit, Mr. Floppy (Bobcat Goldthwait). By the show's third season, Ti ...
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Diagnosis Murder
''Diagnosis: Murder'' is an American action-comedy-mystery-medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played by Van Dyke's real-life son Barry. The series began as a spin-off of ''Jake and the Fatman'' (Dr. Mark Sloan made his first appearance in episode 4.19 "It Never Entered My Mind"), became a series of three television films, and then a weekly television series that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993. Joyce Burditt wrote the episode in ''Jake and the Fatman'' and is listed here as the creator of the spin off series. The series struggled at first and was almost cancelled at the end of the second season, but it returned as a midseason replacement in the third season, and was regularly renewed thereafter. 178 episodes were made and aired in the show's eight seasons on the CBS network in the United States and two more TV movies aired after the series' c ...
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Watch The Skies
''Daniel X: Watch the Skies'' is a teen science fiction novel written by James Patterson and Ned Rust.''Daniel X: Watch the Skies''
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It is the second novel in the Daniel X series and was released on July 27, 2009.


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The evil alien Daniel has to defeat in this novel – No. 5 on the List of Alien Outlaws on Earth – is torturing and killing humans in order to create an entertaining reality televis ...
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Nowhere Man (American TV Series)
''Nowhere Man'' is an American mystery science fiction thriller television series that aired on UPN on Monday nights from August 28, 1995, to May 20, 1996, starring Bruce Greenwood. The series was created by Lawrence Hertzog. Despite critical acclaim, including ''TV Guide''s label of "This season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after one season. Reruns later aired in the early 2000s on Family Channel in Canada. Overview ''Nowhere Man'' is the story of photojournalist Thomas Veil, who discovers that his life has been abruptly "erased": his friends claim not to know him, his wife claims not to recognize him and is living with another man. His ATM cards and credit cards no longer work. His best friend turns up dead. His private studio is now owned by someone else. His mother, recovering from a stroke, is incapable of confirming his existence. He is ejected from his favorite restaurant as a total lunatic. In the course of a single evening, every trace of Tom's identity is g ...
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