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Lights Out (2011 TV Series)
''Lights Out'' is an American boxing drama television series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. The series premiered on January 11, 2011, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. On March 24, 2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show. The final episode aired on April 5. Plot synopsis An aging, former world heavyweight champion, Patrick "Lights" Leary is an extremely proud, good-hearted Irish American who is struggling to find his identity after retiring from his beloved boxing. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia (a neurological disorder that affects boxers who suffered too many hits to the head, gradually causing memory loss and constant headaches). Now, Lights is struggling to support his family (a wife and three daughters) and their comfortably secure lifestyle in Bayonne, New Jersey, after his amora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the Epic poetry, epic and the Lyric poetry, lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'' ()—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Ancient Greek, Greek word meaning "deed" or "Action (philosophy), act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional Genre, generic division between Comedy (drama), comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''Play (theatre), play'' or ''game'' (translating the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish American
Irish Americans () are Irish ethnics who live within in the United States, whether immigrants from Ireland or Americans with full or partial Irish ancestry. Irish immigration to the United States From the 17th century to the mid-19th century Some of the first Irish people to travel to the New World did so as members of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish garrison in Spanish Florida, Florida during the 1560s. Small numbers of Irish colonists were involved in efforts to establish colonies in the Amazon basin, Amazon region, in Newfoundland, and in Virginia between 1604 and the 1630s. According to historian Donald Akenson, there were "few if any" Irish forcibly transported to the Americas during this period. Irish immigration to the Americas was the result of a series of complex causes. The Tudor conquest of Ireland, Tudor conquest and Plantations of Ireland, subsequent colonization by English and Scots people during the 16th and 17th centuries had led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting Taxation in the United States, U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law. It is an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury and led by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States. The duties of the IRS include providing tax assistance to taxpayers; pursuing and resolving instances of erroneous or fraudulent tax filings; and overseeing various benefits programs, including the Affordable Care Act. The IRS originates from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a federal office created in 1862 to assess the nation's first income tax to fund the American Civil War. The temporary measure funded over a fifth of the Union's war expens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Johnson
Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954) is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in ''Night Heat'' (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in ''E.N.G.'' (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in ''The Wire'' (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee. Early years Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an Afro-Caribbean father from Trinidad and Tobago and a white mother. The family later moved to Canada. He has three siblings including jazz singer Molly Johnson and actress and singer Taborah Johnson. Johnson attended Eastern Michigan University on a partial athletic scholarship for American football, but he was expelled after he was caught stealing food from the school cafeteria. He attended several other universities including the University of Ottawa and Loyola College/Concordia University, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norberto Barba
Norberto Barba (born September 12, 1963) is an American television and film director. He is known for his work on ''Grimm'' and the ''Law & Order'' franchise. Biographical details A native of the Bronx, New York, Barba studied at Regis High School in New York City. He also spent two years at Columbia University and later went to USC School of Cinematic Arts. After earning his degree, he became a director fellow at the American Film Institute, where he earned his postgraduate degree in film production. Barba made his directorial debut in 1992 with the short film ''Chavez Ravine'', which tells the story of a father and son struggling to defend their home against city developers planning to build Dodger Stadium in the mid-1950s. In addition, he directed '' Blue Tiger'' (1994) and ''Solo'' (1996), before specializing as a director/producer for television programs. His television credits include series such as '' New York Undercover'', '' Level 9'', '' Resurrection Blvd.'', ''Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn Walker
Eamonn Roderique Walker (born 12 June 1962) is a British actor. On television, he began in the BBC sitcom ''In Sickness and in Health'' (1985–1987), the ITV (TV network), ITV crime dramas ''The Bill'' (1988–1989), ''Supply & Demand (TV series), Supply & Demand'' (1998), and the HBO series ''Oz (TV series), Oz'' (1997–2003), for which he won a CableACE Award. He led the ITV television film ''Othello (2001 TV film), Othello'' (2001) and had a further role in the Fox series ''Justice (2006 TV series), Justice'' (2006–2007). Walker starred as List of Chicago Fire characters#Wallace Boden, Wallace Boden in the NBC drama ''Chicago Fire (TV series), Chicago Fire'' and its spinoffs from 2012–2024. His films include ''Young Soul Rebels'' (1991), ''Once in the Life'' (2000), ''Legacy (2010 film), Legacy'' (2010), and ''A Lonely Place to Die'' (2011). Early life and education Walker was born in west London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962. Brought up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg E
The Electronic Fund Transfer Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1978 and signed by President Jimmy Carter, to establish the rights and liabilities of consumers as well as the responsibilities of all participants in electronic funds transfer activities. The act's provisions were implemented through Federal Reserve Board Regulation E. Rights of consumers The EFT Act recognizes the right of consumers to choose the financial institution to which their payments are directed. The EFT Act also prohibits a creditor or lender from requiring a consumer to repay a loan or other credit by electronic fund transfer, except when there is an overdraft on checking plans. Financial institution liability The financial institution must give the customer notice of his liability in case the card is lost or stolen. This notice must include a phone number for reporting card loss and a description of the financial institution's error resolution process. Limit to customer liability on loss or theft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Irwin
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' He also worked as a choreographer on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1989 for ''Largely New York''. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on the ''Sesame Street'' segment '' Elmo's World'', and he appeared in the ''Sesame Street'' film short ''Does Air Move Things?'' He has regularly appeared as Dr. Peter Lindstrom on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and had a recurring role as "The Dick & Jane Killer" on '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. From 2017 to 2019, he appeared as Cary Loudermilk on the FX television series '' Legion''. Early life Irwin was born in Santa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Marvel
Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969) is an American actress. Her more prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on '' The District'', Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on '' House of Cards'', and President Elizabeth Keane on '' Homeland''. Film roles include '' Burn After Reading''; '' Synecdoche, New York''; '' True Grit''; '' Lincoln'' (alongside husband Bill Camp); and '' The Meyerowitz Stories''. She also had a recurring role in season 2 of the FX series '' Fargo'' and the Netflix miniseries '' Unbelievable''. She also played "The Major" in the series '' Manifest''. Early life and education Marvel was born in Los Angeles, California, and was raised in Mohnton, Pennsylvania. She trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and then the Juilliard School. Career Since the early 1990s she has appeared in off-Broadway plays. Marvel appeared in many stage productions throughout her career. Her first professional role was as Isabella in ''Measure for Measure'' at Canada's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryann Shane
Ryann Shane (born July 4, 1993) is an American actress best known for her role as Deva Hopewell in the Cinemax series ''Banshee''. Life and career Shane grew up with a close relationship with her father. She made her acting debut in 2004, in a short film called ''Superstore''. Shane appeared in '' Definitely, Maybe'' alongside Ryan Reynolds in 2008. She played a daughter of an ex-boxer with dementia in the 2011 series '' Lights Out''. In 2012, Shane was cast as Deva Hopewell, the rebellious teenage daughter of Carrie and Gordon Hopewell, in the Cinemax show ''Banshee A banshee ( ; Irish language, Modern Irish , from , "woman of the Tumulus#Ireland, fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or kee ...''. The show ran for four seasons from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, she starred as Deanna Lambert, a teenager whose sex tape with an older boy made her a pariah, in '' Story o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racketeer
Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. The term "racketeering" was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters Union.David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s", in ''Corrupt Histories'', Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. Specifically, a racket was defined by this coinage as being a service that calls forth its own demand, and would not have been needed otherwise. Narrowly, it means coercive or fraudulent business practices; broadly, it can mean any criminal scheme or operation with ongoing or reoccurring profit, as defined in the 1970 U.S. RICO Act, which aimed to cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debt Collector
Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money borrowed or otherwise withheld from another party, the creditor. Debt may be owed by a sovereign state or country, local government, company, or an individual. Commercial debt is generally subject to contractual terms regarding the amount and timing of repayments of principal and interest. Loans, bonds, notes, and mortgages are all types of debt. In financial accounting, debt is a type of financial transaction, as distinct from equity. The term can also be used metaphorically to cover moral obligations and other interactions not based on a monetary value. For example, in Western cultures, a person who has been helped by a second person is sometimes said to owe a "debt of gratitude" to the second person. Etymology The English term "debt" was first used in the late 13th century and comes by way of Old French from the Latin verb ''debere'', "to owe; to have from someone else." The related term "debtor" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
