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Madolyn Smith
Madolyn Smith is a retired American actress, known for her roles in the films ''Urban Cowboy'' (1980), '' 2010: The Year We Make Contact'' (1984), and '' Funny Farm'' (1988). Career Smith first came to public attention with her role as Pam in the 1980 film ''Urban Cowboy''. She later co-starred in the films '' 2010'' (1984), the sequel to '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', and '' All of Me'' (1984), a Steve Martin-Lily Tomlin comedy. Reviewing the latter film, Pauline Kael wrote in ''The New Yorker'' that Smith was a "talented and stunning brunette ... who knows how to make guile and bitchery funny, and who has a comic charge comparable to Lily Tomlin's." In the early 1980s she also appeared in several TV movies, including '' Pray TV'', ''Rehearsal for Murder'' and '' Deadly Intentions''. She portrayed Jehan Sadat, wife of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, in the 1983 TV miniseries ''Sadat'', and played Ernie Kovacs' wife Dorothy in the 1984 TV movie '' Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in 1706 as ''La Villa de Alburquerque'' by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés''.'' Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque, 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was Old Town Albuquerque, an outpost on Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Located in the Albuquerque Basin, the city is flanked by the Sandia Mountains to the east and the West Mesa to the west, with the Rio Grande and bosque flowing from north-to-south. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Albuquerque had 564,559 residents, making it the List of United States cities by population, 32nd-most populous city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Tomorrow Comes (novel)
''If Tomorrow Comes'' is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story portraying an ordinary woman who is framed by the Mafia, her subsequent quest for vengeance towards them and her later life as a con artist. The novel was adapted into a three-part TV miniseries with the same name in 1986, starring Madolyn Smith and Tom Berenger. Plot Tracy is a successful bank-worker in Philadelphia, engaged to a wealthy heir, whose child she is carrying. Then her mother commits suicide, after being scammed by the New Orleans Mafia and left in debt. Tracy gets a gun to frighten the scammer, Joe Romano, into admitting her mother's innocence, but he tries to rape her and is wounded in the struggle. Her attorney convinces her that she will get a much shorter sentence if she pleads guilty, but the judge sentences her to fifteen years to Southern Louisiana Penitentiary for Women, and she realises that the judge and the attorney are both working for Romano's boss, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy ''The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'' (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created ''The Patty Duke Show'' (1963–66), '' I Dream of Jeannie'' (1965–70), and ''Hart to Hart'' (1979–84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as '' Master of the Game'' (1982), ''The Other Side of Midnight'' (1973), and ''Rage of Angels'' (1980). Sheldon's 18 novels have sold over 300 million copies in 51 languages. Sheldon is consistently cited as one of the top-10 best-selling fiction writers of all time. Early life Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, of Russian Jewish ancestry, were Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Tomorrow Comes (miniseries)
''Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes'' is a 1986 American television miniseries based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon, starring Madolyn Smith, Tom Berenger and David Keith. It was directed by Jerry London and the screenplay was written by Carmen Culver. Plot summary Trying to get justice for her wronged mother, Tracy Whitney is instead framed by a gangster and sent to prison for 15 years. At first a victim, Tracy makes alliances and plots her escape. She abandons her plan in order to save the warden's young daughter from drowning, earning herself a pardon. Tracy avenges herself and her mother, and is soon recruited by the mysterious Gunther Hartog to be a master thief. She crosses paths with another con artist, Jeff Stevens, to whom she is attracted but is not sure she can trust. Trailing behind them is the unstable insurance investigator Daniel Cooper. Cast * Madolyn Smith as Tracy Whitney * Tom Berenger as Jeff Stevens * David Keith as Daniel Cooper * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between The Laughter
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Between is a preposition. It may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Between'' (Frankmusik album), a 2013 album by Frankmusik * "Between", a song by Jerry Cantrell from '' Boggy Depot'' * ''Between'' (TV series), a Canadian science fiction-drama television and web series * ''Between'', a 2008 video game designed by Jason Rohrer * '' The Between'', a 1995 novel by Tananarive Due Other uses * Between, Georgia, an American town See also * In Between (other) In Between or related spellings may refer to: Film and television * ''In Between'', a 1991 film featuring Alexandra Paul * ''In Between'' (1994 film), a Hong Kong romantic anthology film * ''In Between'' (2005 film), a film with a score by Suz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was a Hungarian-American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Kovacs has been credited as an influence by many individuals and shows, including Johnny Carson, ''Laugh-In, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'', ''Saturday Night Live'', ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', Jim Henson, ''Max Headroom (character), Max Headroom'', Chevy Chase, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, ''Captain Kangaroo'', ''Sesame Street'', ''The Electric Company'', ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'', ''The Muppet Show'', Dave Garroway, Andy Kaufman, ''You Can't Do That on Television'', ''Mystery Science Theater 3000, MST3K'', Uncle Floyd, among others. Chase even thanked Kovacs during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for ''Saturday Night Live''. While Kovacs and his wife Edie Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadat (miniseries)
''Sadat'' is a 1983 American two-part, four-hour made-for-television biographical film based on the life and death of the late 3rd President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, starring Louis Gossett Jr. as Sadat and Madolyn Smith as Sadat's wife, Jehan. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television through Operation Prime Time. Gossett's performance earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Plot The film begins by depicting Sadat's involvement with violent anti-British insurgents. Eventually he becomes a follower of Gamal Abdel Nasser (John Rhys-Davies) as the latter begins his ascent to political supremacy in Egypt. As Egypt becomes more of a regional power led by Nasser, Sadat suffers the strain of being Nasser's yes man, while clashing with him. Nasser enjoys widespread popularity once he nationalizes the Suez Canal, but suffers a fatal downfall in the wake of Egypt's crushing defeat in the Six-Day War. Eventually succeeding Nasser, Sadat finds himself beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while "series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the US in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a " serial", just as a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. In Britain, miniseries are often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehan Sadat
Jehan Sadat ( ar, جيهان السادات ''Jihān as-Sadāt'', ; née Safwat Raouf; 29 August 1933 – 9 July 2021) was an Egyptian human rights activist, the First Lady of Egypt from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981. As Egypt's first lady, she greatly influenced the reform of the country's civil rights legislation. Advance laws, referred to as the "Jehan Laws", have given women in Egypt a range of new rights, such as the right to child support and custody in the event of divorce. Early years Jehan Sadat, also spelled Jihan, was born Jehan Safwat Raouf ( ar, جيهان صفوت رؤوف ''Jīhān Ṣafwat Raʼūf'' ) in Cairo, Egypt, as the first girl and third child of an upper-middle-class family of an Egyptian surgeon father, Safwat Raouf, and English music teacher mother, Gladys Cotterill. Her mother was the daughter of Charles Henry Cotterill, a Sheffield City police superintendent. She was raised as a Muslim, according to her father's wishes, but also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Intentions
''Deadly Intentions'' is a 1985 American made-for-television thriller film starring Michael Biehn, Madolyn Smith and Cloris Leachman. A sequel titled '' Deadly Intentions... Again?'' was released in 1991. Plot Charles Raynor, is the outwardly "perfect" doctor husband of Katherine. But Raynor is actually a psychopath, who is carefully plotting the murder of his wife. As the horrible truth slowly dawns upon Katherine, she must find some way to prevent her murder—and to alert disbelieving authorities of her husband's duplicity. Cast * Michael Biehn as Charles Raynor * Madolyn Smith as Katherine Raynor * Cloris Leachman as Charlotte Raynor * Morgana King as Anna Livanos * Jack Kruschen as Alex Livanos * Kevin McCarthy as Reichman * Cliff DeYoung as Garner * Edward Edwards as Tom Horner * Bruce French as Dr. Reston * Robert Clarke as Pharmacist * Dennis Haskins as Airline Attendant * Kimberly Beck as Sally Raynor * Michael Currie as Dr. Lawrence * Sagan Lewis Susan Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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