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Opportunity Knocks (film)
''Opportunity Knocks'' is a 1990 American comedy film starring Dana Carvey. It was directed by Donald Petrie. Synopsis Con men Eddie Farrell and Lou Pesquino need cash fast and pretend to be repair men sent to fix a gas leak. The con fails, but they escape. Eddie and Lou find an empty house that they decide to burglarize. When they learn from a message on the answering machine that the owner is out of the country and the man who was going to house-sit can't make it, they spend the night. The next day, Eddie and Lou are on the run from thugs sent by local gangster Sal Nichols, to whom they owe money. After they find themselves separated, Eddie takes refuge in the empty house. In the morning, Eddie walks out of the shower and meets Mona Malkin, whose son owns the house. She assumes Eddie is her son's friend Jonathan Albertson, the one supposed to house-sit. Eddie plays along, meeting Mona's businessman husband Milt, who offers him a job. Eddie decides to run a "love con" on Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Petrie
Donald Mark Petrie (born April 2, 1954) is an American film director and actor. Life and career Petrie was born in New York City, New York (state), New York, the son of Dorothea G. Petrie, Dorothea (née Grundy), a television producer, actor, and novelist, and Daniel Petrie, a director. He is the brother of writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. Petrie began his entertainment career as an actor, having trained and graduated from California State Northridge as a theatre major. Donald soon was appearing in many television episodes. In 1980, Donald decided to shift his focus to directing when he was accepted as a Fellow at the American Film Institute. Petrie has acted and guest-starred on television programs since 1976. Filmography Films * ''Mystic Pizza'' (1988) * ''Opportunity Knocks (film), Opportunity Knocks'' (1990) * ''Grumpy Old Men (film), Grumpy Old Men'' (1993) * ''The Favor (1994 film), The Favor'' (1994) * ''Richie Rich (film), Richie Rich'' (1994) * ''The Associate (1996 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tolkan
James Stewart Tolkan (born June 20, 1931) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Strickland in ''Back to the Future'' (1985) and ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989), and as Marshall Strickland in ''Back to the Future Part III'' (1990). Other memorable film roles include ''Love and Death'' (1975), ''Top Gun'' (1986), ''Masters of the Universe'' (1987) and '' Dick Tracy'' (1990). Early life Tolkan"Miss Welles Wed to Actor" '' The New York Times''. August 29, 1971. was born in , the son of Dale Nichols and Ralph M. Tolkan, a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Films
The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * March 2 - ''The Hunt for Red October'' is released. It is the first film in Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success. * March 23 – '' Pretty Woman'' is released and grosses $463 million, making Julia Roberts a worldwide star. * March 30 – '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history. * May 25 – Universal Pictures unveils a new opening logo with music composed by James Horner, which debuts on ''Back to the Future Part III''. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years. * June 1 – CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in '' Total Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Clegg
Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup. In 1986 Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called ''Le Zoulou Blanc'' (, for "The White Zulu"), he was an important figure in South African popular music and a prominent white figure in the resistance to apartheid, becoming for a period the subject of investigation by the security branch of the South African Police. His songs mixed English with Zulu lyrics, and also combined idioms of traditional African music with those of modern Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film '' Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Church Lady
Enid Strict, better known as The Church Lady, is a recurring character from a series of sketches on the American television show, '' Saturday Night Live'', that appeared from 1986 to 1990, and again in 1996, 2000, 2011, and 2016. She also appeared on ''The Dana Carvey Show'' in March 1996, reading a Top Ten List, "New Titles for Princess Diana." About the character The Church Lady is a mature woman named Enid Strict who is the uptight, smug, and pious host of her talk show ''Church Chat.'' Her show includes guests, usually celebrities whom she interviews, played by other cast members of ''SNL'' or by the celebrities themselves. However, the interviews are only a guise for her to call out the guests on their various alleged sins, which are often publicly known news events of the day. They initially receive sarcastic praise from her, until the interview degrades into a tirade against their apparent lack of piety and their secular lifestyles, culminating with her judgmental admonishme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves as the program's showrunner. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title ''NBC's Saturday Night''. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. In 1980, Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Scott (American Actress)
Judith Scott is an American actress known for her roles in '' L.A. Doctors, Jake 2.0,'' and ''Dexter.'' Early life She was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Dec 22, 1965. Career She portrayed Dr. Rose Kent on Season 1 of '' 24''. She played a recurring role as Dr. Jenna Williams on the series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. She portrayed Esmee Pascal on the Showtime series ''Dexter''. She has guest-starred on '' Numbers'', ''Family Law'', ''Judging Amy'', ''The X-Files'', ''Frasier'', ''Crossing Jordan'', ''House'', ''Forever Knight'' and many other series. She has also appeared in feature films such as ''Guess Who'', ''Fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displ ...'', and '' Flightplan''. Her upcoming projects include ''Geechee'' and ''From Scratch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Raver
Lorna Raver is an American retired actress who has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television series. She is sometimes credited as Lorna Raver Johnson. Life and career Raver was born in York, Pennsylvania, and was raised in a Pennsylvania Dutch environment. She had early experience performing at the Hedgerow Theater in Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City, appearing off-Broadway in the premieres of ''Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe'' and ''Between Daylight and Boonville''. She then spent several years as a stage actress in Chicago and regionally before moving to Los Angeles, where she had many guest roles on TV and continued to work in live theater, including performances of '' The Seagull'', '' Spinning into Butter'', '' The Women'', ''The American Plan'', '' Oedipus Rex'', and ''The Drama Coach'', for which she won the Drama-Logue and LA Weekly awards. She also performs in radio drama.'' On September 19, 2006, she began appearing as Rebecca Kaplan on CBS's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Close
Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century. In addition to an acting career in television and film, he was one of the influences on modern improvisational theater. Close is co-founder of the iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic"). Life and career Early life Close was born on March 9, 1934, in Manhattan, Kansas. He ran away from home at the age of 17 to work in a traveling side show, but returned to attend Kansas State University. At age 19 he performed in summer stock with the Belfry Players at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. At age 23 he became a member of the Compass Players in St. Louis. When most of the cast—including Mike Nichols and Elaine May—moved to New York City, Close followed. He developed a stand-up comedy act, starred as the Yogi in the Broadway musical revue ''The Nervous Set'', and performed briefly with an imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Honda
Eugene "Gene" Honda is a public address announcer for the Chicago White Sox (starting in 1985, full-time since 1991), Chicago Blackhawks (succeeding Harvey Wittenberg since the 2001–02 season), DePaul Blue Demons basketball, Big Ten tournament, Illinois Fighting Illini football (since 2012), and the NCAA Final Four (since 2010). He is also a constant voice on Chicago's PBS station WTTW Channel 11, the Big Ten Network, and the Chicago Marathon. He formerly worked for radio station WLAK (now WLIT) in Chicago. Honda was the PA announcer for the 2009 NHL Winter Classic on January 1 at Wrigley Field. Additionally, he was the PA announcer for the 2012 Frozen Four at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Honda is the only person to have announced at the MLB World Series, MLB All Star Game, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, NCAA Final Four, NCAA Frozen Four, a World Marathon Major,the STIHL Strong Man competition and the Westminster Dog Show. Gene graduated from Chicago's Senn High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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