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My Father The Hero (1994 Film)
''My Father the Hero'' is a 1994 French-American comedy-drama directed by Steve Miner and starring Gérard Depardieu and Katherine Heigl. It is an English-language remake of the 1991 French film '' Mon père, ce héros,'' which also starred Depardieu in a similar role. Plot André Arnel (Gérard Depardieu), a Frenchman divorced from his wife, takes his teenage daughter, Nicole (Katherine Heigl), on vacation with him to The Bahamas. She is desperate to appear as a woman and not a girl, so in order to impress a local boy Ben (Dalton James), she makes up more and more ridiculous stories, starting with André being her lover and leading to some bizarre assumptions by the rest of the community. André is desperate to make Nicole happy (especially as she is increasingly upset by his relationship with girlfriend Isobel) and so plays along with her crazy games, and the stories they make up get increasingly bizarre. Cast *Gérard Depardieu as André Arnel, Nicole's father *Katherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Miner
Stephen C. Miner (born June 18, 1951) is an American director of film and television, film producer, and a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is notable for his work in the horror genre, including ''Friday the 13th Part 2'', ''Friday the 13th Part III'', ''House'', ''Warlock'', '' Halloween H20: 20 Years Later'', '' Lake Placid'', and ''Day of the Dead''. He has also directed numerous comedy and drama films, as well as episodes of notable television series including ''The Wonder Years, Dawson's Creek'', and ''Smallville.'' Life and career Miner was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began work in the film industry as a recurring collaborator of producer-director Sean S. Cunningham, filling in for various behind the scenes roles on films such as ''The Last House on the Left'' and ''Friday the 13th''. His directorial debut was the latter film's first sequel, and he directed the third entry less than a year later. In 1983, Miner acquired the rights from To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Miner
Betty or Bettie is a name, a common diminutive for the names Bethany and Elizabeth. In Latin America, it is also a common diminutive for the given name Beatriz, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin name Beatrix and the English name Beatrice. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was more often a diminutive of Bethia. Notable people Athletes * Betty Cuthbert (1938–2017), Australian sprinter and Olympic champion * Betty Jameson (1919–2009), American Hall-of-Fame golfer and one of the founders of the LPGA * Betty McKilligan (born 1949), Canadian pairs figure skater * Betty Nuthall (1911–1983), English tennis player * Betty Pariso, American bodybuilder * Betty Stöve (born 1945), Dutch tennis player * Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born 1950), American tennis player * Betty Uber (1906–1983), English badminton and tennis player Journalists and media personalities * Betty Elizalde (1940–2018), Argentine journalist and broadcaster * Betty Kennedy (1926–2017), Canadian broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Miner
Robert Nimrod Miner (December 23, 1941 – November 11, 1994) was an American businessman. He was the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of Oracle's relational database management system. From 1977 until 1992, Bob Miner led product design and development for the Oracle relational database management system. In Dec., 1992, he left that role and spun off a small, advanced technology group within Oracle. He was an Oracle board member until Oct., 1993. Early life Bob Miner was born on Dec 23, 1941 in Cicero, Illinois, to an Assyrian family. Both of his parents came from Ada, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, and had migrated to the US in the 1920s. He was their fifth child of five. Bob Miner graduated in 1963 with a degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Career In 1977 Bob Miner met Larry Ellison at Ampex, where he was Larry's supervisor. Bob Miner left Ampex soon thereafter to found a company called Softwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Robinson (actor)
Michael or Mike Robinson may refer to: Arts and humanities * Michael Robinson (Canadian artist) (1948–2010), poet and printmaker * Michael F. Robinson (born 1933), English composer and musicologist * Michael Massey Robinson (1744–1826), poet * Michael S. Robinson (1910–1999), British art historian * Michael Eric Robinson (born 1956), American composer Sports American football * Michael Robinson (cornerback) (born 1973), NFL player for the Green Bay Packers in 1996 * Michael Robinson (fullback) (born 1983), NFL player for the Seattle Seahawks from 2010 to 2013 * Michael Robinson (arena football) (born 1986), AFL player for the Kansas City Command * Mike Robinson (defensive end) (born 1956), NFL player for the Cleveland Browns in 1981 & 1982 Association football (soccer) * Michael Robinson (footballer) (1958–2020), Irish footballer from 1975–1989, television pundit in Spain thereafter * Mike Robinson (soccer) (born 1958), American former soccer forward * Mike Robin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Burrows (actor)
Stephen Burrows, aka Stephen Dale Burrows or Steve Burrows, is a writer-director-actor in many movies, including '' Bleed Out'', '' Chump Change'' and ''Spy Hard''. In 2009 a routine operation left Burrows' mother in a coma with permanent brain damage. His personal video diary over the course of almost ten years evolved into the 2018 HBO documentary ''Bleed Out'' as "a citizen’s investigation into the state of American health care", particularly medical malpractice, ruinous medical bills, and nearly useless insurance coverage. Filmography Actor * '' The Soldier of Fortune'' (1991) as The Soldier * ''America's Funniest Home Videos" (1992-1996) as Elvis, as Shriner, as Abe Lincoln etc. * ''Seinfeld'' (1993) guest-starring as David * '' My Father the Hero'' (1994) as Hakim * ''Bobby's World'' (1994) as Ukulele Man * '' The Second Half'' (1994) as UPS Man * '' Bucket of Blood'' (1995) as Carpenter * ''The George Wendt Show'' (1995) as Karaoke M.C. * '' Alien Avengers'' (1996) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baha Men
The Baha Men are a Bahamian junkanoo band formed in New Providence, Bahamas in 1977. They are best known for their Grammy Award-winning hit song "Who Let the Dogs Out". History Early years The Baha Men formed in 1977 as High Voltage, initially playing disco and funk.Thompson, Dave (2002) ''Reggae & Caribbean Music'', Backbeat Books, , pp.28–29 They performed regularly in nightclubs and hotels in the Bahamas and self-released several albums. In 1991, one of their tapes found its way to Atlantic Records A&R man Steve Greenberg, who signed the band to the Big Beat subsidiary, at the same time getting the band to change their name to the Baha Men. Early success The following year, the Baha Men released their first album, ''Junkanoo,'' which included the local hit "Back to the Island". ''Kalik'' followed in 1994, including the international hit "Dancing in the Moonlight". The band moved with Greenberg to Polygram for the 1997 album ''I Like What I Like'' and ''Doong Spank'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Jacobs
Manny is a common nickname for people with the given name Manuel, Emanuele, Immanuel, Emmanuel, Herman, or Manfred. People * Manny Acosta (born 1981), Panamanian pitcher in the Mexican Baseball League * Manny Acta (born 1969), Dominican Major League Baseball player, manager and coach * Manny Alexander (born 1971), Dominican former Major League Baseball player * Manny Aparicio (born 1995), Canadian soccer player * Manny Aragon (born 1947), former New Mexico State Senator, later convicted of conspiracy to defraud * Manny Banuelos (born 1991), Mexican pitcher in Major League Baseball * Emmanuel Burriss (born 1985), American Major League Baseball player * Manny Charlton (born 1941), founding member and lead guitarist of the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth * Manny Corpas (born 1982), Panamanian pitcher in Major League Baseball and the Mexican Baseball League * Manny Coto (), Cuban-American film and television writer, director and producer * Manny Curtis (1911–1984), American songw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |