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Lyre, Lyre, Hearts On Fire
The fifth season of the television series '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' commenced airing in the United States and Canada on September 27, 1999, and concluded on May 15, 2000, and contained 22 episodes. The fifth season aired in the United States on the USA Network. The season was released on DVD as a ten disc boxed set under the title of ''Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 5'' on October 19, 2004, by Anchor Bay Entertainment Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures and Starmaker Entertainment) was an American home entertainment and production company. It was a subsidiary of Starz Inc. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and sold feature films, television se .... The episode "Antony and Cleopatra" has been discussed as a reworking of Shakespeare's play of the same name. Episodes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Xena: Warrior Princess (Season 5) 1999 American television seasons 2000 American television seasons Xena: Warrior Princess seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Network
USA Network (simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels, before being relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980. Since then, USA steadily gained popularity through its original programming, a long-established partnership with WWE and, for many years, limited sports programming that increased significantly in 2022 after the shutdown of NBCSN. As of September 2018, USA Network is commercially available to about 90.4 million households (98% of households with pay television) in the US. History Madison Square Garden Sports Network (1977–1980) USA Network originally launched on September 22, 1977, as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (not to be confused with the New York City-area regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kurtzman
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing ''The Mummy'' (2017). He'd made his directorial debut with '' People Like Us'' (2012), co-written by him, Orci, and Jody Lambert from a story by him. Kurtzman is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams, as well as co-creating the more recent ''Star Trek'' shows, including '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life, family and education Kurtzman was born into a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California. His longtime screenwriting partner Roberto O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 American Television Seasons
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the Year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome opens in London; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Death and state funeral of King Hussein rect 200 0 400 200 1999 İzmit earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Columbine High School massacre rect 0 200 300 400 Kosovo War rect 300 200 600 400 Year 2000 problem rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Climate Orbiter rect 200 400 400 600 Napster rect 400 400 600 600 Millennium Dome 1999 was designated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Actium
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between a maritime fleet of Octavian led by Marcus Agrippa and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the former Roman colony of Actium, Greece, and was the climax of over a decade of rivalry between Octavian and Antony. In early 31 BC, the year of the battle, Antony and Cleopatra were temporarily stationed in Greece. Mark Antony possessed 500 ships and 70,000 infantry, and made his camp at Actium, and Octavian, with 400 ships and 80,000 infantry, arrived from the north and occupied Patrae and Corinth, where he managed to cut Antony’s southward communications with Egypt (via the Peloponnese) with help from Marcus Agrippa. Octavian previously gained a preliminary victory in Greece, where his navy successfully ferried troops across the Adriatic Sea under the command of Marcus Agrippa. Octavian landed on mainland Greece, opposite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Becker (filmmaker)
Joshua Matthew Becker (born August 17, 1958) is an American film and television writer and director and author whose credits include episodes of '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' as well as collaborations with Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. Life and career Early life and education Josh Becker was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1958. He became fascinated with cinema after seeing '' How the West Was Won'' at age six. As a teenager, he made several Super-8 short films with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. He dropped out of high-school at age 16 and completed his GED, then attended several colleges (including Michigan State University), but did not complete his studies. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked several mid-to-low level jobs while trying to enter the film industry. He also hitchhiked to Alaska during his period (inspired by the writer Jack London), and recounted his adventures in Alaska Journal, and his later memoir, ''Going Hollywood''. Film and televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Blair
Selma Blair Beitner (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress. She played a number of roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film '' Brown's Requiem'' (1998). Her breakthrough came when she starred as Zoe Bean on the WB sitcom '' Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane'' (1999–2000), and as Cecile Caldwell in the cult film '' Cruel Intentions'' (1999). She continued to find success with the comedies ''Legally Blonde'' (2001) and '' The Sweetest Thing'' (2002), and achieved international fame with her portrayal of Liz Sherman in the big-budget fantasy films ''Hellboy'' (2004) and '' Hellboy II: The Golden Army'' (2008). Her other notable film credits include ''Storytelling'' (2001), '' A Guy Thing'' (2003), '' A Dirty Shame'' (2004), '' The Fog'' (2005), ''WΔZ'' (2007), ''Feast of Love'' (2007), '' The Poker House'' (2008), ''Dark Horse'' (2011), ''In Their Skin'' (2012), '' Ordinary World'' (2016), '' Mothers and Daughters'' (2016), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hurst
Michael Eric Hurst ONZM (born 20 September 1957) is a British-born New Zealand actor, director and writer. He is known internationally for acting in the television programs '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and companion series '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' as Iolaus. Most recently, he is known for his role in directing the Starz series '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' and '' Ash vs Evil Dead''. Biography Hurst was born in Lancashire, England, the eldest of three brothers. When he was seven his family moved to Christchurch, New Zealand. He enrolled at Papanui High School, then University of Canterbury, but for only one year. He is married to New Zealand actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand and they have two sons. In 1984, Hurst won the lead role of David Blyth's ''Death Warmed Up'', New Zealand's first splatter movie. The plot saw Hurst's character weathering institutionalisation, sundry wackos, and a motorcycle chase in the tunnels below Waiheke Island. The film won the grand pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Raimi
Theodore "Ted" Raimi (born December 14, 1965) is an American character actor, director, comedian, and writer. He is known for his roles in the works of his brother Sam Raimi, including a fake Shemp in ''The Evil Dead'', possessed Henrietta in ''Evil Dead II'', and Ted Hoffman in the ''Spider-Man'' trilogy.Peter David's novelizations of the films reveal his first name to be Ted, after the actor who plays him. He later reprised his role as Henrietta in the television series ''Ash vs. Evil Dead'', in which he also played the character Chet Kaminski. He is also known for his roles as Lieutenant JG Tim O'Neill in ''seaQuest DSV'' and Joxer the Mighty in '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' and ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. Raimi has appeared in minor roles in a number of other films and television series, including the films '' Crimewave'', ''Intruder'', '' Shocker'', ''Darkman'', '' Candyman'', ''Army of Darkness'', ''Clear and Present Danger'', ''The Grudge'', '' Drag Me to Hell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Maynard
Kevin R. Maynard is a television writer. He has written for the Showtime (TV network), Showtime series ''Dexter (TV series), Dexter''. Maynard was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Awards, Writers Guild of America Award for best dramatic series at the Writers Guild of America Awards 2007, February 2008 ceremony for his work on the first season of ''Dexter''. He is married to Krista Vernoff, the head writer for ''Grey's Anatomy''. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male screenwriters American male television writers American television writers {{US-tv-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Black (screenwriter)
Chris Black is a screenwriter and television producer, from Toledo, Ohio. Black is known for writing and producing mainly science fiction and action series, although he also was a part of the production team of the comedy-drama '' Desperate Housewives'' during its first two seasons. Black has produced and written episodes of ''Cleopatra 2525'', '' The Huntress'', ''Sliders'', ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', ''Hawaii'' and '' Standoff''. In addition, he has written episodes of several other shows, including '' Weird Science'', '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' and '' Vanished''. He also co-wrote the 1997 action movie '' Masterminds'' starring Patrick Stewart. In 2022, Black and Matt Fraction co-created '' Godzilla and the Titans'' for Apple TV+ Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a small network appliance hardware that plays received media data such as video and audio to a television set or external display. Since its secon . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Orci
Roberto Gaston Orcí (born July 20, 1973) is a Mexican-American film and television screenwriter and producer. He began his longtime collaboration with Alex Kurtzman while at school in California. Together they have been employed on television series such as '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. In 2008, together with J. J. Abrams, they created ''Fringe''. In 2013, they created '' Sleepy Hollow'' alongside Phillip Iscove. Orci and Kurtzman's first film project was Michael Bay's '' The Island'', and due to that partnership they went on to write the scripts for the first two films of the ''Transformers'' film series. Orci first became a film producer with 2008's '' Eagle Eye'' and again with 2009's '' The Proposal''. He and Kurtzman since returned to working with Abrams on '' Mission: Impossible III'' and both ''Star Trek'' and ''Star Trek Into Darkness''. Between 2005 and 2011, Kurtzman and Orci's film projects took revenues of more than $3 bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrior Princess
Warrior Princess may refer to: *"Warrior Princess", the 2014 Mongolian hit film about the life of Queen Anu *'' Xena: Warrior Princess'', a 1995-2001 American television series ** "The Warrior Princess" (''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''), an episode of ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' ** ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' (comics) *'' X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Warrior Princess'', a 1996 story arc of the ''X-wing: Rogue Squadron'' comics series *'' Diana: Warrior Princess'', a 2003 roleplaying game by Heliograph Incorporated *''Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender'', a 2013 memoir of Kristin Beck, a former United States Navy SEAL who came out as a trans woman *nickname of English professional kickboxer Ruqsana Begum (born 1983) See also *Women warriors in literature and culture *List of female action heroes *List of women warriors in folklore This is a list of women who engaged in war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
