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Mark Margolis
Mark Margolis (; born November 26, 1939) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alberto "The Shadow" in '' Scarface'', Antonio Nappa in '' Oz'', and Hector Salamanca in '' Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul''. His performance in ''Breaking Bad'' was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2012. He regularly performs in the films of Darren Aronofsky, appearing in all but two of his films, and starring in his first film '' Pi'' (1998). Early life Margolis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Fanya (née Fried) and Isidore Margolis. He is from a Jewish family. Margolis was briefly a student at Temple University before dropping out and moving to New York City. At age 19, he was a student under Stella Adler at the Actors Studio. He was also later trained by Lee Strasberg and Barbara Loden. Career Margolis is noted for his supporting roles in '' Scarface'' (1983) '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1994), and the films of Darren Aronofsky: '' π'' (1998), ''Requiem for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah (2014 Film)
''Noah'' is a 2014 American epic film, epic List of films based on the Bible, biblical drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ari Handel. Inspired by the biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis and the Book of Enoch, it stars Russell Crowe as Noah, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Anthony Hopkins. The film was released in North American theaters on March 28, 2014, in 2D and IMAX, while a version 2D to 3D conversion, converted to Stereoscopy, 3D and IMAX, IMAX 3D was released in several other countries. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $362 million worldwide, making it Aronofsky's highest-grossing film to date. Although it received praise for its direction and acting, the film also generated controversy for its perceived Environmentalism, environmentalist political messages and extensive use of non-biblical sources for inspiration, such as the Book of En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jewish Chronicle
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Equalizer (1985 TV Series)
''The Equalizer'' is an American spy thriller television series, originally airing on CBS from September 18, 1985, to August 24, 1989, and co-created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. It starred Edward Woodward as a retired intelligence agent with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact justice on behalf of innocent people who find themselves in dangerous circumstances, while sometimes also dealing with people from his past in covert operations who want to pull him back in or settle old scores. The concept has been rebooted twice with a pair of movies ( in 2014 and 2018) starring Denzel Washington slated to be followed up by a third film, and a re-imagined 2021 TV series starring Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall. Series plot elements The series stars British actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former covert operations officer of an unnamed US government intelligence organization, which was often referred to simply as "the Agency" or "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Barbara (TV Series)
''Santa Barbara'' is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from July 30, 1984, to January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. The serial was produced by Dobson Productions and New World Television, which also served as distributor for the show in international markets. ''Santa Barbara'' was the first series for New World Television. ''Santa Barbara'' aired in the United States at 3:00 PM Eastern (2:00 PM Central) on NBC in the same time slot as ''General Hospital'' on ABC and ''Guiding Light'' on CBS and right after '' Another World''. ''Santa Barbara'' aired in over 40 countries around the world. It became the longest-running television series in Russia, airing there from 1992 to 2002. ''Santa Barbara'' won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated 30 times for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Generation
Next Generation or Next-Generation may refer to: Publications and literature * ''Next Generation'' (magazine), video game magazine that was made by the now defunct Imagine Media publishing company * Next Generation poets (2004), list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry Technology Next generation often means a new state of the art: * AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture (other), AMD products * Next Generation Air Transportation System, the Federal Aviation Administration's massive overhaul of the national airspace system * Next Generation Internet (other), various projects intended to drastically increase the speed of the Internet * Next Generation Networking, emerging computer network architectures and technologies * Next-generation lithography, lithography technology slated to replace photolithography beyond the 32 nm node * Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, software architecture designed by Microsoft * NextGen Healthcare Inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Swan (film)
''Black Swan'' is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, based on a story by Heinz. The film stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder, and revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's '' Swan Lake'' by the New York City Ballet company. The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina Sayers (Portman) is a perfect fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities better embodied by the new rival Lily (Kunis). Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the role, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into madness. Aronofsky conceived the premise by connecting his viewings of a production of ''Swan Lake'' with an unrealized screenplay about understudies and the notion of being haunted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (2008 Film)
''The Wrestler'' is a 2008 American sports psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Rourke plays an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success of his 1980s heyday. He also tries to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter and to find romance with a woman who works as a stripper. Production began in January 2008 and Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired rights to distribute the film in the U.S.;REMSTAR MEDIA PARTNERS , Remstar Media Partners acquires canadian distribution rights for the movie "The Wrestler" . Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fountain (film)
''The Fountain'' is a 2006 American epic romantic drama film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Blending elements of fantasy, history, spirituality, and science fiction, the film consists of three storylines involving immortality and the resulting loves lost, and one man's pursuit of avoiding this fate in this life or beyond it. Jackman and Weisz play sets of characters bonded by love across time and space: a conquistador and his ill-fated queen, a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, and a traveler immersed in a universal journey alongside aspects of his lost love. The storylines—interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs—reflect the themes and interplay of love and mortality. Aronofsky originally planned to direct ''The Fountain'' on a $70 million budget with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles, but Pitt's withdrawal and cost overruns led Warner Bros. to shut down his productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem For A Dream
''Requiem for a Dream'' is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher McDonald and Marlon Wayans. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay. The film depicts four characters affected by drug addiction and how it alters their physical and emotional states. Their addictions cause them to become imprisoned in a world of delusion and desperation. As the film progresses, each character deteriorates, and their reality is overtaken by delusion, resulting in a catastrophe. Selby's novel was optioned by Aronofsky and producer Eric Watson. Selby had always intended to adapt the novel into a film, as he had written a script years prior to Aronofsky approaching him. Aronofsky was enthusiastic about the story and developed the script with Selby, despite initial struggles to obtain funding for the film's production. He and the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ï€ (film)
''Pi'' (stylized as ) is a 1998 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his feature directorial debut. ''Pi'' was filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film and earned Aronofsky the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award. The title refers to the mathematical constant pi. The film explores themes of religion, mysticism, and the relationship of the universe to mathematics. The story, about a mathematician with an obsession to find underlying complete order in the real world, contrasts two seemingly irreconcilable entities: the imperfect irrationality of humanity; and the rigor and regularity of mathematics, specifically number theory. Plot Unemployed number theorist Max Cohen, who lives in a drab apartment in Chinatown, Manhattan, believes everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He suffers from cluster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pet Detective
''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' is a 1994 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, an animal detective who is tasked with finding the abducted dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins football team. The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, who wrote the screenplay with Jack Bernstein and Jim Carrey. The film co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young, and then-Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and features a cameo appearance from death metal band Cannibal Corpse. Morgan Creek Productions produced the film on a budget of , and Warner Bros. released the film in February 1994. It grossed $72.2 million in the United States and Canada and $35 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $107.2 million. It received mixed reviews from critics. Carrey's performance led to the film having a cult following among male adolescents. In addition to launching Carrey's film career, it also started a franchise, spawning the sequel film '' Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Loden
Barbara Ann Loden (July 8, 1932September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater.''The Hollywood Reporter'', Barbara Loden obituary, September 8, 1980. Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' described Loden as the "female counterpart to John Cassavetes". Born and raised in North Carolina, Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. Loden became a regular sidekick on the irreverent '' Ernie Kovacs Television Show'' in the mid-1950s and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of '' After the Fall'' earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. In 1970, Loden wrote, directed, and starred in ''Wanda'', a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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