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Pope Dreams
''Pope Dreams'', also known as ''Music for My Mother'', is a 2006 film written and directed by Patrick Hogan. The film won five awards at various film festivals. Premise An aspiring drummer wants his dying mother to get an audience with the pope while he also tries to impress a girl out of his league. Principal cast * Phillip Vaden as Andy Venable * Marnette Patterson as Brady Rossman * Julie Hagerty as Kristina Venable * Stephen Tobolowsky as Carl Venable * Noel Fisher as Pete * Samantha Anderson as Heather * Casey Barclay as Eric * Jordan Belfi Jordan Belfi is an American actor. He is best known for his work on HBO's ''Entourage'', in which he plays agent Adam Davies, the nemesis of Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven). Early life Belfi was born in California and graduated from Wesleyan University ... as Lucas Reception DVDTalk recommended the film and said it "has a welcome honesty and heart to it that, when bolstered by such skillful performances, makes it well worth hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Hogan (director)
Patrick, Pat, or Paddy Hogan may refer to: Law and politics * Patrick Hogan (Australian politician) (1835–1918), New South Wales politician * Patrick Hogan (Labour Party politician) (1885–1969), Irish Labour party politician, represented Clare * Patrick Hogan (Cumann na nGaedheal politician) (1891–1936), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, represented Galway * Patrick Hogan (Farmers' Party politician) (fl. 1920s), Irish Farmers Party politician, represented Limerick in the 1920s * Patrick Hogan (Tipperary politician) (1907–1972), Irish Fine Gael politician, represented Tipperary South * Patrick J. Hogan (Maryland politician) (born 1962), American politician in the Maryland Senate * Patrick N. Hogan (born 1979), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates Sports * Pat Hogan (footballer) (1930–2017), Australian rules footballer * Patrick Hogan (racehorse breeder) (1939–2023), New Zealand horse breeder and horse racer * Paddy Hogan (born 1987), Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Hagerty
Julie Beth Hagerty (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress. She starred as Elaine in the films ''Airplane!'' (1980) and '' Airplane II: The Sequel'' (1982). Her other film roles include ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' (1982), ''Lost in America'' (1985), ''What About Bob?'' (1991), ''A Master Builder'' (2014), ''Instant Family'' (2018), and ''Marriage Story'' (2019). Early life and education Hagerty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Harriet Yuellig (née Bishop), a model and singer, and Jerald William "Jerry" Hagerty, Jr., a musician. Her brother Michael Hagerty (1952 - 1991) was also an actor. Her parents later divorced. Hagerty attended Indian Hill High School. She was signed as a model for Ford Models at 15, and spent summers modeling in New York City. She moved there in 1972 and worked at her brother's theater group; she also studied with actor William Hickey. Career Hagerty made her off-Broadway debut in 1979, starring in ''Mutual Benefit Life'' at her br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American character actor. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in ''Groundhog Day'' and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in '' Memento'', as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry ('' Deadwood''), Bob Bishop (''Heroes''), Sandy Ryerson (''Glee''), Stu Beggs (''Californication'' and ''White Famous''), "Action" Jack Barker (''Silicon Valley''), Dr. Leslie Berkowitz ('' One Day at a Time''), and Principal Earl Ball ('' The Goldbergs''). Tobolowsky has a monthly audio podcast, ''The Tobolowsky Files'', of autobiographical stories of his acting and personal life. In 2015, he co-hosted a short-lived second podcast, ''Big Problems – An Advice Podcast'', with David Chen. He has also authored three books: ''The Dangerous Animals Club'', ''Cautionary Tales'', and '' My Adventures With God''. Early life and education Tobolowsky was born in Dallas, Texas, into a Jewish family from Russia and Poland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PorchLight Entertainment
PorchLight Entertainment, Inc. was an American animation and live-action studio founded in 1995 by Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann. It is focused on development & production of television series in both live action and animation. It specializes in producing animation for television, film and home video. History On February 20, 1995, PorchLight Entertainment officially began its operations. It was headed by Bruce D. Johnson, former employee of Hanna-Barbera, and former Taft Broadcasting employee William T. Baumann. Their first acquisition is to bring ''Adventures from the Book of Virtues'' to television. Their project was then picked up by PBS, who ordered it to their series commitment. In 1997, while on the virtue of its own successful programming, it would spend $10 million on expanding its own programming activity and planning on to do made-for-TV movies. In 1998, it launched a motion picture division, PorchLight Pictures, which specialized on having motion picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnette Patterson
Marnette Provost Patterson (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress and singer. Early life Patterson was raised as an only child by her mother in Los Angeles, California, where she was born. Her name is her mother's middle name: Marnette. Her aunt is Dana Dillaway, former child actress who appeared in ''Giant'' (1956) as Elizabeth Taylor's and Rock Hudson's daughter Judy (age 4), along with a couple of '' Twilight Zone'' episodes. In 1986, she played "Dorrie" in Mama's Family, 'Santa Mama' (S3-E13) a little girl who asked Santa for things just for her family. In 1989, Patterson was the junior vocalist winner on ''Star Search''. Career Patterson has appeared in films such as ''Camp Nowhere'' (1994). In 1996, Patterson appeared briefly as a volleyball schoolgirl attracting the attentions of Tommy in the premiere episode of '' 3rd Rock From The Sun''. From 1996–1998 Patterson portrayed Nicole Farrell on the NBC series '' Something So Right''. Patterson starred in the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Fisher (actor)
Noel Roeim Fisher (born March 13, 1984) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his portrayal of Mickey Milkovich on the Showtime series '' Shameless'', as well as his portrayal of Cael Malloy on the FX series '' The Riches''. He played Ellison "Cotton Top" Mounts in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries '' Hatfields & McCoys'' as well as Vladimir, a 1,500-year-old vampire in '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'', and Michelangelo in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and its sequel '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' and X-Men: Evolution where he voiced the character Todd “Toad” Tolansky. He also has had roles in shows such as '' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'', ''Lie to Me'', ''Bones'', and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. Early life Fisher was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He began his acting career at the age of 14 in the television movie ''The Sheldon Kennedy Story''. During his time as a young actor in Vancouver, he was encourage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Belfi
Jordan Belfi is an American actor. He is best known for his work on HBO's ''Entourage'', in which he plays agent Adam Davies, the nemesis of Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven). Early life Belfi was born in California and graduated from Wesleyan University in 2000. Career Belfi also had a recurring guest star role in the CBS series '' Moonlight'', starring as the female lead's boyfriend. Belfi also appeared briefly in the ''Gilmore Girls'' Season 5 episode "The Party's Over". He also guest starred on ''Hawaii Five-0'' as Spenser Owens in Season 1 Episode 14 "He Kane Hewa' Ole." In 2012, he guest starred on two episodes of ''Grey's Anatomy'' as Nick during season 8. Belfi had a role on HBO's ''Entourage'', in which he played agent Adam Davies, the nemesis of Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series '' Entourage'', for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Coming-of-age Drama Films
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2006 Drama Films
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2000s Coming-of-age Drama Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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