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Network One
Network One was a small "independent" network, consisting of mostly low-powered television stations, scattered across the Continental United States, similar to Urban America Television, America One, or the better-known Ion (formerly PAX). The network officially launched on December 1, 1993, around the same time as Channel America and the American Independent Network, but shut down on November 13, 1997. "Alternative" programming Focusing on "alternative" programming, the network consisted of various B-Grade movies, beauty pageants, anime, and episodes of the series '' Night Flight'' and '' Bohemia Afterdark'' (a Portland, Oregon-based music video show). Classic episodes of the 1950s " hard-boiled" crime drama '' Lock-Up'' with Macdonald Carey were featured as well. Commercials were filled with advertisements for 1-900 chat lines with a more mature focus. List of series and films to air on Network One *''Action Cinema'' *'' Aerobicise'' *''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' *'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NetworkOne
Network One was a small "independent" network, consisting of mostly Low-power broadcasting, low-powered television stations, scattered across the Continental United States, Continental United States, similar to Urban America Television, America One, or the better-known ION Television, Ion (formerly PAX). The network officially launched on December 1, 1993, around the same time as Channel America and the American Independent Network, but shut down on November 13, 1997. "Alternative" programming Focusing on "alternative" programming, the network consisted of various B-movie, B-Grade movies, beauty pageants, anime, and episodes of the series ''Night Flight (TV series), Night Flight'' and ''Bohemia Visual Music, Bohemia Afterdark'' (a Portland, Oregon-based music video show). Classic episodes of the 1950s "hard-boiled" crime drama ''Lock-Up (TV series), Lock-Up'' with Macdonald Carey were featured as well. Commercials were filled with advertisements for Premium-rate telephone number, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caged In Paradiso
''Caged in Paradiso'' (alternate title Maximum Security) is a 1989 American low-budget action film directed by Mike Snyder and starring Irene Cara Irene Cara Escalera (March 18, 1959 – November 25, 2022) was an American singer and actress who rose to prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film '' Fame'', and for recording the film's title song " Fame", which reach ... (who also sings the theme song "Paradiso"), Peter Kowanko and Paula Bond. It was filmed on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Plot Female inmates wrongly imprisoned on an island fortress plan their escape. Sources *New York Times 1989 films American action films 1980s English-language films 1989 action films American prison films Films shot in the United States Virgin Islands 1980s American films English-language action films {{1980s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Little
Anthony Little (born September 16, 1956) is an American television fitness personality and businessman, who is best known for his fitness infomercial products. Little is a certified personal trainer and identifies himself as "America's Personal Trainer". The ''Florida Times-Union'' described him as being known for his "booming-voice enthusiasm" and long blond ponytail. Little is known for his use of the catchphrase he trademarked, "You can do it!" Biography Personal life As a child, Little and his mother were abandoned by his father, and he was raised by his mother in Fremont, Ohio. As an adult, he moved to Tampa, Florida, to advance his personal fitness career. In 2009, Little married fitness model Melissa Hall. She delivered their twin sons, Cody and Chase, in Tampa on November 23, 2009. Little has two children from a prior marriage with Tracy Felix: daughter Tara (born ca. 1987) and son Trent (born ca. 1988). Little describes himself as an avid collector of antiques, cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Trees
''The Big Trees'' is a 1952 American lumberjack Western film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist. It was Kirk Douglas's final film for Warner Brothers, a film he did for free in exchange for the studio agreeing to release him from his long-term contract. The film has fallen into the public domain. Douglas plays a greedy timber baron who seeks to exploit the sequoia forest, while facing the protest of the Quaker colonists. Plot In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyes the big redwood trees in the virgin region of northern California. The land is already settled by, among others, a religious group led by Elder Bixby ( Charles Meredith) who have a religious relationship with the redwoods and refuse to log them, using smaller trees for lumber. Jim becomes infatuated with Bixby's daughter, Alicia (Eve Miller), though that does not change his plan to cheat the homesteaders. When Jim's right-hand man, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) finds out, he ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Cat (film)
''The Big Cat'' is a 1949 American outdoor action film in Technicolor directed by Phil Karlson. The cast included Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, and Gene Reynolds. Karlson said the film "was a complete social statement. That was my answer to John Ford's ''The Grapes of Wrath''." Plot Drought during the 1930s forces a large cougar to come down from the high country in Utah to prey on farmers' cattle. This has prompted many farmers to pursue and attempt to kill the cat, but so far all have failed. Danny Turner (Lon McCallister) arrives in the area to move into his mother's birthplace now owned by his stepfather Tom Eggars (Preston Foster). Tom is constantly threatened by a hostile neighbor, Gil Hawkes (Forrest Tucker). Shortly after Danny arrives Tom and Gil have a scuffle, a sure sign of a soon-to-be war. When Danny arrives he meets Doris Cooper (Peggy Ann Garner), whom he develops a crush on. After some close calls with Gil, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bells Of San Angelo
'' Bells of San Angelo '' is a 1947 American Trucolor Western film directed by William Witney and starring Roy Rogers. The first Roy Rogers film shot in Trucolor, this modern day Western mixes half a dozen songs with mystery, international smuggling of silver, violence, a pack of dogs and comedy relief with one character packing a "16-shooter" from which 22 shots can be heard during the musical number "''Hot Lead''" performed by the Sons of the Pioneers. Plot Roy is a "border inspector" ever on the alert for smuggling silver between Mexico and the United States. Roy's Mexican friends have told him that one of their own has important information about a silver mine on the American side of the border, but their contact is shot and killed by the mine guards. Before shooting him, they plant a piece of ore containing a high level of silver on his body. The American mine owners say they play rough, as no towns or law enforcement are anywhere near them and their mine is just across t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beatniks (film)
''The Beatniks'' is an American crime film in the teensploitation genre directed by Paul Frees that was filmed in 1958 and released in 1959. It was also featured on the movie-mocking program ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. Plot Eddy Crane is the leader of a gang that robs small businesses for petty cash. At one point, his gang accosts the broken-down car of a music business executive, Harry Bayliss. Afterward Bayliss wishes to call a tow truck, so he goes into the diner where Eddy's gang is celebrating. Bayliss overhears Eddy singing to the jukebox and offers him a chance to audition for his variety program. Eddy accepts, passes his audition, and is given a spot on television. Eddy sings a two-minute song that is apparently stupendously successful, with Bayliss calling Eddy an "overnight sensation" and prophesying an astounding rise to fame, complete with a hit record, "a guest spot on every top show," and eventually culminating with "The Eddy Crane Show." Atop Eddy's newfound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Oakley (TV Series)
''Annie Oakley'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series that fictionalizes the life of the famous Annie Oakley. (Except for depicting the protagonist as a phenomenal sharpshooter of the period, the program entirely ignores the facts of the historical Oakley's life.) Featuring actress Gail Davis in the title role, the weekly program ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in Television syndication, syndication. A total of 81 black-and-white episodes were produced, with each installment running 25 minutes in length. American Broadcasting Company, ABC aired daytime reruns of the series on Saturdays and Sundays from 1959 to 1960 and then again from 1964 to 1965. Synopsis The series starred Gail Davis as Annie Oakley, with Brad Johnson (actor, born 1924), Brad Johnson as Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig and Jimmy Hawkins as Annie's little brother, Tagg Oakley; Hawkins appeared in 80 of the series' 81 episodes. In the Television pilot, pilot episode, "Bull's Eye", Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AmfAR
amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, known until 2005 as the American Foundation for AIDS Research, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy. amfAR is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) and operates as an independent nonprofit with worldwide initiatives. amfAR was formed in September 1985 by actress Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Gottleib, Mathilde Krim, physician Joseph Sonnabend, and activist Michael Callen. The organization was created when Taylor and Gottleib’s California-based National AIDS Research Foundation, which sought to actively engage in HIV-related drug development, merged with Krim’s New York-based AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF), which sought to lessen the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS diagnoses, as well as to increase funding to the cause. What resulted was a foundation that prioritized both research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Kit Carson
''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series that aired from 1951 to 1955 and consisted of 104 episodes. While airing, the show was shown in over 130 markets and was sold to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company by MCA TV, MCA-TV. After airing, MCA-TV acquired Broadcast syndication, syndication rights to the show. In New York, the show aired on Tuesday evenings on WNBC, WNBT (TV) and ran for thirty-minutes. The show starred Bill Williams (actor), Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Kit Carson, Christopher "Kit" Carson, and Don Diamond co-starred as El Toro, Carson's Mexican companion. Though the show may have been inspired by the historic Kit Carson, it is not historically accurate. Premise The show is set in the American frontier, Wild West in the late 19th century. Carson and El Toro, his Mexican partner, travel around the American West helping people. Cast Main * Bill Williams (actor), Bill Williams as Kit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Harris (photographer)
Ron Harris (1933 – May 26, 2017) was an American photographer, videographer, and television director. Early life and career Harris was born in The Bronx, and attended High School of Performing Arts. He began his career as a fashion photographer. ''Aerobicise'' In 1980, ''Aerobicise'' began with a four-minute pilot featuring Harris’ then girlfriend, Jami Allen, later associate producer and voice-over of ''Aerobicise''. In 1981, Harris created and directed the exercise show, ''Aerobicise'' on the cable television network Showtime. ''Aerobicise'' was nominated for a CableACE Award and became the highest grossing exercise video series of its time. He later created '' 20 Minute Workout''. Most of the performers in the original ''Aerobicise'' show were trained dancers. The performers included Jane Leeves, Jami Allen, Loryanna Catalano, Deborah Corday, Tina Rocca, Tamarah Park, Beth Farrelly, Amanda Lee, Debbie Bellman, Evangeline Browne, Darcy DeMoss, Lee Nicholl, Dan Peters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
