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My Sexiest Year
''My Sexiest Year'' is a 2007 romantic comedy/drama starring Frankie Muniz and Harvey Keitel and was written and directed by Howard Himelstein. The film is a romantic coming-of-age story in which the kindness bestowed by a glamorous model is returned 30 years later by the young man in whom she inspired the first stirrings of confidence and love. The film takes place in 1970s Miami and was shot in various locations such as Collins Avenue and Coral Gables Senior High School. The film had its world premiere at the 2007 Hamptons International Film Festival. As of 2022, the film has yet to receive a DVD/Blu-ray release date. Plot Jake Stein (Frankie Muniz) is a 17-year-old who lives with his sick mother and grandfather in Brooklyn. He wants nothing more than to be a writer, but when his mother's health takes a turn for the worse, Jake is sent to Miami to live with his father, "Zowie" (Harvey Keitel), a small-time "handicapper" who gives horse racing tips for a living. Not much of a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Muniz
Francisco Muniz IV (; born December 5, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2006), which earned him an Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations. He is also known for his film roles in the films ''Deuces Wild'' (2002)'', Big Fat Liar'' (2002), ''Agent Cody Banks'' (2003), and ''Racing Stripes'' (2005). At the height of his fame, he was considered one of the most popular child actors and "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens" in 2003. In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open-wheel racing career, and competed in the Atlantic Championship. From 2012 to 2014, he was the drummer of the indie rock band Kingsfoil. Early life Francisco Muniz IV was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, on December 5, 1985, the son of nurse Denise and restaurateur Francisco Muniz III. Muniz's mother is half Irish and half Italian, while his father is Puerto Rican (of Spanish desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handicapping
Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. The word also applies to the various methods by which the advantage is calculated. In principle, a more experienced participant is disadvantaged, or a less experienced or capable participant is advantaged, in order to make it possible for the less experienced participant to win whilst maintaining fairness. Handicapping is used in scoring many games and competitive sports, including go, shogi, chess, croquet, golf, bowling, polo, basketball, and track and field events. Handicap races are common in clubs which encourage all levels of participants, such as swimming or in cycling clubs and sailing clubs, or which allow participants with a variety of standards of equipment. Often races, contests or tournaments where this practice is competitively employed are known as ''Handicaps''. Handicappi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Levy (American Comedian)
Daniel Levy (born March 19, 1981) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles. He began performing stand-up in the 2000s and has released three comedy albums, including his most recent special ''Dan Levy: Lion'' in 2016. He has written for a number of television comedies including ''Whitney'' (2011–2013) and was a producer of ''The Awesomes'' (2013–2015), ''Mulaney'' (2014–15), and '' The Goldbergs'' (2014–15). In 2020, he created the NBC series '' Indebted''. Early life Levy was born on March 19, 1981, to Linda and Elliott L. Levy. In 1993, Levy was a member of the "Half Pint Players", a teenage improvization group in Stamford, Connecticut. He began performing as a comedian while attending Emerson College in Boston. Career Levy has performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, and toured with Aziz Ansari, John Mulaney, and Whitney Cummings. He has made TV appearances on ''Premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Specter
Rachel Specter is an American writer, producer and actress. She was a producer and writer of ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' (2015–2019). She began her career as an actress but has since has written for the TV series like ''One Tree Hill'' and ''Cougar Town'', and produced ''Hyperlinked'' (2017) and '' Indebted'' (2020). Life and career Specter was born in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida, with honors. She played the role of Courtney in ''The House Bunny'', and guest-starred in episodes of '' How I Met Your Mother'', ''Gilmore Girls'', '' What I Like About You'', and ''Entourage''. She has also appeared on ''Attack of the Show!'', ''The Feed'', and the web series ''Long Distance Relationship''. Before concentrating on behind the scenes work, Specter appeared as one of the actresses for the Sunsilk Color Showdown ad campaign. She was also known for a series of ads for RGX from Right Guard, Procter & Gamble's mid-2000s competitor against Axe, along with ads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Zano
Nick Zano (born March 8, 1978) is an American actor. Zano is known for having played List of What I Like About You characters#Vince, Vince in The WB's sitcom ''What I Like About You (TV series), What I Like About You''. He hosted MTV's former infotainment program about the film industry, ''Movie House'', and briefly worked as an MTV News correspondent before he began an acting career. His recurring roles on television include Drew Pragin on ''Melrose Place (2009 TV series), Melrose Place'', Pete on ''Happy Endings (TV series), Happy Endings'', P.J. Hillingsbrook on ''90210 (TV series), 90210'', and Johnny on ''2 Broke Girls''. He also starred as a lead on the NBC sitcom ''One Big Happy (TV series), One Big Happy'' as Arthur in the TV series ''Minority Report (TV series), Minority Report''. He is best known as Nate Heywood (Arrowverse), Dr. Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood / Steel in The CW Arrowverse, starring on ''Legends of Tomorrow''. Early life Zano was born in Nutley, New Jersey. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Alfieri
Victor Alfieri (born July 30, 1971) is an American actor and writer, born in Italy and raised in the U.S. Biography Alfieri was born in Rome and raised an only child by his mother and grandmother, spending summers working in the family's restaurant. Alfieri, a self-described 'class clown', created his own sketch comedy act to entertain friends. At the age of 18, a photographer invited him to do an advertising shoot and soon he graced the covers of several Italian magazines, known as ''fotoromanzi''. His modeling career was cut short, when during an encounter with three muggers his face was scarred by injuries requiring more than 56 stitches. In 1991, Alfieri turned from modeling to join the Italian Police Force. He quit the force after two and a half years of service and, determined to start a career in Hollywood, Alfieri packed his bags and moved to Los Angeles, to the disbelief of his relatives back in Italy. Alfieri quickly landed work as an actor, with various television s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Rich
Benjamin Norman Schultz (February 8, 1926 – August 22, 2020), known professionally as Allan Rich, was an American character actor. Career Rich began his acting career when he was nine years old. He appeared in the Broadway productions ''I'll Take the High Road'' (1943), ''Career Angel'' (1944), ''Darkness at Noon'' (1951), and ''The Emperor's Clothes'' (1953). In 1948, Rich played the title role in a production of Ben Jonson's ''Volpone'' in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Beginning in 1979, Rich was distributor and publisher of Hollywood portraits made by George Hurrell. Personal life and death Allan Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He married Elaine in 1951, who would go on to be a personal manager to a number of actors after the couple moved to Los Angeles in 1976. The couple had two children together, Marian and David. Elaine Rich died in 2015, aged 81. He mentored Rene Russo in acting. Rich spent the last fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolína Kurková
Karolína Kurková (; born 28 February 1984) is a Czech model and actress, known for her work as a former Victoria's Secret Angel and ''Vogue'' cover star. Mario Testino praised the "proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level", which he said "ma eher a model who could fit almost into any moment". ''Vogue'' editor Anna Wintour called her the "next supermodel". In 2007, Kurková was among the world's top-earning models, having earned an estimated $5 million. She placed 6th in the ''Forbes'' annual list of the highest-earning models that same year. Early life Karolína Kurková was born in Děčín, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Kurka, a Czech basketball player, and a Slovak mother. While Kurková was young, she was made fun of for her height. But after a friend sent photos of Kurková to an agency in Prague, at age 15, she landed a runway appearance, as well as gigs for commercial and print advertising. She later traveled to Milan to gain more experience an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Cabrera
Ryan Frank Cabrera ( ) (born July 18, 1982) is an American musician. He began his career as a lead singer for the Dallas band Rubix Groove before pursuing his solo career. Following the 2001 release of independent album '' Elm St.'', he released his first major-label album, ''Take It All Away'', on August 17, 2004. Earlier in the year, Cabrera had become known for his up-tempo pop-rock single " On the Way Down". It was then followed by Cabrera's second single, "True"; and his third single "40 Kinds of Sadness". Early life Cabrera was born in Dallas, Texas to Francisco "Frank" Cabrera and Debbie Cabrera. His Father is Colombian and his Mother is American. He was raised in Flower Mound, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, graduating with the Class of 2000. During this time, he was the lead singer of a self-described "noisy punk band" called Caine which he described as being "as bad as our name suggested" in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher McDonald
Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955) is an American film, television, theatre and voice actor. McDonald is best known for playing the villainous professional golfer Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy ''Happy Gilmore''. Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in ''Grease 2'' (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiance Geena Davis in ''Thelma & Louise'' (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation '' Leave It to Beaver'' (1997), and Tappy Tibbons in ''Requiem for a Dream'' (2000). Along with numerous independent and small-budget film roles, he played supporting characters in box-office hits '' Grumpy Old Men'' (1993), '' Flubber'' (1997), ''Rumor Has It'' (2005), ''The House Bunny'' (2008) and '' About Last Night'' (2014). Voice acting roles for McDonald include Jor-El on '' Superman: The Animated Series'' (1996), Kent Mansley in ''The Iron Giant'' (1999), Superman on ''Batman Beyond'' (2000) and Harvey Dent on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memoir
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography since the late 20th century, the genre is differentiated in form, presenting a narrowed focus. A biography or autobiography tells the story "of a life", while a memoir often tells the story of a particular event or time, such as touchstone moments and turning points from the author's life. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist or a memorialist. Early memoirs Memoirs have been written since the ancient times, as shown by Julius Caesar's ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'', also known as ''Commentaries on the Gallic Wars''. In the work, Caesar describes the battles that took place during the nine years that he spent fighting local armies in the Gallic Wars. His second memoir, ''Commentarii de Bello Civili'' (or ''Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo Shoot
A photo shoot is the process taken by creatives and models that results in a visual objective being obtained. An example is a Model (person), model posing for a photographer at a studio or an outdoor location. A photo shoot is a series of images that are taken, with the goal of obtaining images that can then be placed into post-production, or editing. These images are then used for print/digital advertising, business collateral, or just for personal use. An amateur photo shoot is more likely to be under the arrangement of Trade-For-Portfolio (TFP), whereas a professional photo shoot for a brand or product is likely to be a paid arrangement. With TFP photo shoots, the agreement is often that everyone involved in the shoot will receive the high-resolution, edited images as a form of payment. Sunday, August 23, 2020 With professional photo shoots, the contract is generally signed via a representative modelling agency and so payment is generally always monetary. Due to this, model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
