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Lucky (American TV Series)
''Lucky'' is an American dark comedy television series which ran for one season on FX in 2003. The show starred John Corbett as Michael "Lucky" Linkletter, a professional poker player and gambling addict. The series was created by Robb Cullen and Mark Cullen. It was nominated for the 2003 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Cast Main * John Corbett as Michael "Lucky" Linkletter * Craig Robinson as Buddy "Mutha" LeGendre * Billy Gardell as Vincent "Vinny" Sticcarelli Supporting * Ever Carradine as Theresa "Terry" Phillips * Andrea Roth as Amy * Kevin Breznahan as Danny Martin * Seymour Cassel as Victor "The Trake" Fleming * Dan Hedaya as Joey Legs * Steve Troisi as Benny The Bartender * Robb Cullen Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen are brothers and American film and television writers and producers, who usually work together. The brothers have created multiple primetime TV series – ''Hitz'' for UPN, ''Lucky'' for FX, ''Gary The Rat'' for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, terrorism, discrimination, disease, racism, sexism, and human sexuality. Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and Body fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. Whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specificall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ever Carradine
Ever Dawn Carradine is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Tiffany Porter and Kelly Ludlow on the ABC television series '' Once and Again'' and '' Commander in Chief'', respectively and as Naomi Putnam and Janet Stein on the Hulu original series ''The Handmaid's Tale'' and '' Runaways'', respectively. Early life and education Carradine was born in Los Angeles the daughter of Susan Snyder, a horse trainer's assistant, and actor Robert Carradine. She has two half-siblings, Marika Reed Carradine and Ian Alexander Carradine. A number of other members of the Carradine family are also actors, including her grandfather John Carradine, and uncles Keith Carradine and David Carradine. She is also a cousin of Martha Plimpton. Career After graduating from Lewis & Clark in 1996, she returned to Los Angeles and appeared in several television shows including '' Diagnosis: Murder'', '' Tracey Takes On...'', and '' The Sentinel''. In 1998, she received her first recurring gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 American Television Series Debuts
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s American Black Comedy Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fortenberry
John Fortenberry is an American film and television director. Born in , he graduated from the , after which he went to work at ' '' |
Charles Minsky
Charles David Minsky is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Garry Marshall, their collaborations include ''Pretty Woman'', '' Dear God'', ''Raising Helen'', '' The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'', ''New Year's Eve'' and ''Mother's Day''. Filmography *''Radioactive Dreams'' (1985) *''April Fool's Day'' (1986) *'' Weekend Warriors'' (1986) *''Pretty Woman'' (1990) *''Dutch'' (1991) *''The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag'' (1992) *''Past Tense'' (TV) (1994) *''Kazaam'' (1996) *'' Dear God'' (1996) *''Guinevere'' (1999) *''Looking for an Echo'' (2000) *'' Tomcats'' (2001) *'' Slap Her... She's French'' (2002) *''Welcome to Collinwood'' (2002) *''Raising Helen'' (2004) *'' The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' (2004) *'' The Producers'' (2005) *''Keeping Up with the Steins'' (2006) *''You, Me and Dupree'' (2006) *'' The Russell Girl'' (TV) (2008) *''Post Grad'' (2009) *''Loving Leah'' (TV) (2009) *''New Year's Eve'' (2011) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spiller
Michael Alan Spiller (born August 1, 1961) is an American cinematographer and television director.Michael Spiller Biography (1961-) Film Reference Spiller has directed on numerous series and has also served as a prior to directing. Early on, he worked frequently with director and classmate , including cinematography for Hartley's breakout indie film The Unbelievable Truth, which helped launch both of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lessac
Michael Lessac (born 1940) is a theatre, television, and film director and screenwriter. Lessac is also the Artistic Director of Colonnades Theatre Lab, Inc and of Colonnades Theatre Lab, South Africa. He is the Project Creator & Director of the international theatre piece, '' Truth in Translation''. Career Lessac started his career in theatre after having received a Ph.D. in developmental and perceptual psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 under the tutelage of Richard Solomon and Henry Gleitman, and was then given a McKnight Fellowship to the Tyronne Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Later Lessac was given a two-year Ford Foundation Grant to work at the national theatres of England, Italy, France, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. He also developed his interest in music and was signed to Columbia Records in 1968 to record an album, ''Sleep Faster, We Need the Pillow'', produced by John Hammond. From 1974–1984, as founder and artistic direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Newman
Molly Newman is a television writer and producer from Evansville, Indiana, who is most known for work on shows such as ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''Frasier'', '' Murphy Brown'', '' Tracey Takes On...'', '' Maximum Bob'', and '' Brothers & Sisters''. In 1985, she was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ... in the category, Best Book (Musical) with collaborator Barbara Damashek for '' Quilters''. References External links * Information on Molly Newmans' plays Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Writers from Evansville, Indiana American television writers American women television producers American women television writers Screenwriters from Indiana Television producers from Indiana 21st-century American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Personal life Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. He is of Swedish and English descent; through his father, he is a member of the Gyllenhaal family, and a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, "Gyllenhaal". Stephen grew up in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in a close-knit Swedenborgian family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972, with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Ogden. He was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years, from 1977 until their divorce was finalized in 2009. From that marriage, he is the father of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lauer
Peter Lauer is an American music video and television director. He directed the music videos "Run's House" for Run-DMC and edited " It Takes Two" for Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock. Lauer made his television directorial debut in 1993 directing an episode of ''The Adventures of Pete & Pete''. He has since directed episodes of ''The Secret World of Alex Mack'', ''Strangers with Candy'', ''Dead Like Me'', ''Arrested Development'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Chuck'', '' Scrubs'', ''Wonderfalls'', ''Remember WENN'', ''Sons of Tucson'', and the Nickelodeon film ''Cry Baby Lane'' among other series. In 2014, Lauer has directed episodes of ''Awkward'' and ''Finding Carter ''Finding Carter'' is an American teen drama television series that aired on MTV for two seasons from July 8, 2014, to December 15, 2015. The series stars Kathryn Prescott as Carter Stevens, a teenage girl whose life is torn apart when she disco ...''. References External links * American music video directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russo Brothers
Anthony Russo (born February 3, 1970) and Joseph Russo (born July 18, 1971), collectively known as the Russo brothers (), are American directors, producers, and screenwriters. They direct most of their work together. They are best known for directing four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' (2014), '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016), '' Avengers: Infinity War'' (2018), and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019). ''Endgame'' grossed over $2.798 billion worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time. The brothers have also worked as directors and producers on the comedy series ''Arrested Development'' (2003–2005), ''Community'' (2009–2014), and '' Happy Endings'' (2011–2012). They won a Primetime Emmy Award for ''Arrested Development''. Early life Anthony Russo (born February 3, 1970) and Joseph Russo (born July 18, 1971) were born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, the sons of Patricia Gallupoli and attorne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
