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PoliWood (film)
''PoliWood'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Tim Daly, Robin Bronk and Robert E. Baruc. Synopsis The Democratic and Republican National Conventions held in 2008 during the United States presidential election that year are examined in depth in ''PoliWood'', which features interviews with well-known Hollywood celebrities like Susan Sarandon and Anne Hathaway. Interviewees * Richard Abramowitz * Stephen Baldwin * Annette Bening * Ellen Burstyn * Rachael Leigh Cook * Bradley Cooper * David Crosby * Alan Cumming * Tim Daly * Charlie Daniels * Robert Davi * Dana Delany * Giancarlo Esposito * Tom Fontana * Danny Glover * Anne Hathaway * Spike Lee * Blanche Lincoln * Josh Lucas * Frank Luntz * Matthew Modine * Tom Morello * Lawrence O'Donnell * David Paterson * Gloria Reuben * Susan Sarandon * Richard Schiff * Ron Silver * Arlen Specter * Sting * Lynn Whitfield * will.i.am * Zooey Deschanel Debuts and receptions ''PoliWood'' had its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Levinson
Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as '' Diner'' (1982); ''The Natural'' (1984); ''Good Morning, Vietnam'' (1987); '' Bugsy'' (1991); and ''Wag the Dog'' (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Rain Man'' (1988). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries '' Dopesick'' and directed the first two episodes. Early life Levinson is of Russian-Jewish descent. After growing up in Forest Park, Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School in 1960, Levinson attended Baltimore City Community College and American University in Washington, D.C. at the American University School of Communication, where he studied broadcast journalism. He then moved to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer and performed comedy routines. Levinson at one time shared an apartment with would-be drug smuggler (and subject of the movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Davi
Robert John Davi (born 1953) is an American actor, singer and filmmaker. Over the course of his acting career, Davi has performed in more than 130 films. Among his most known roles are opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in ''The Goonies'' (1985), Vietnam veteran and FBI Special Agent Johnson in ''Die Hard'' (1988), Bond villain, James Bond villain Franz Sanchez in ''Licence to Kill'' (1989), police deputy chief Phil Heinemann in ''Predator 2'' (1990) and strip club manager Al Torres in ''Showgirls'' (1995). On television, he portrayed Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Special Agent Bailey Malone in the NBC television series ''Profiler (TV series), Profiler'' (1996–2000). Classically trained as a singer, Davi launched his professional singing career in 2011. His first album, ''Davi Sings Sinatra – On The Road To Romance'', hit No. 6 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' jazz charts. Praised for his voice and vocal interpretations, Davi debuted as a headliner at The Venet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Reuben
Gloria Elizabeth Reuben is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer. She is well-known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ''ER (TV series), ER'' (1995–1999, 2008), for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, and for portraying Elizabeth Keckley in the 2012 Academy Awards, Academy Award–winning, Steven Spielberg–directed film ''Lincoln (film), Lincoln''. Additionally, she has been featured in films such as ''Timecop'' (1994), ''Nick of Time (film), Nick of Time'' (1995), ''Admission (film), Admission'' (2013), and ''Reasonable Doubt (2014 film), Reasonable Doubt'' (2014). She played Krista Gordon on ''Mr. Robot'' (2015–2019), as well as a recurring character on ''City on a Hill (TV series), City on a Hill'' (since 2019). She also played Otis and Adina Johnson, Adina Johnson on Cloak & Dagger (TV series), ''Cloak & Dagger'' from 2018 to 2019. Early life Gloria Reuben was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Pearl Avis (Mills), a Classical music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and is the first African American governor of New York. Following his graduation from Hofstra Law School, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan borough president David Dinkins. In 1985, he was elected to the New York State Senate to a seat once held by his father, former New York secretary of state Basil Paterson. In 2003, he rose to the position of Senate minority leader. Paterson was selected to be the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Spitzer and Paterson were elected with 65% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Jr. (born November 7, 1951) is an American television anchor, actor, liberal political commentator, and host of ''The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'', an MSNBC opinion and news program that airs on weeknights. He was a writer and producer for the NBC series ''The West Wing'' (playing the role of President Bartlet's father in flashbacks) as well as creator and executive producer of the NBC series ''Mister Sterling''. He also appeared as a recurring character on the HBO series ''Big Love''. O'Donnell began his political career as an aide to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and was staff director for the Senate Finance Committee. He describes himself as a "practical European socialist". Early life O'Donnell was born in Boston on November 7, 1951, the son of Frances Marie (née Buckley), an office manager, and Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Sr., an attorney. He is of Irish descent and grew up Catholic. He attended St. Sebastian's School (class of 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Morello
Thomas Baptist Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He is best known for his tenure with the rock band Rage Against the Machine and then with Audioslave. Between 2016 and 2019, Morello was a member of the supergroup Prophets of Rage. Morello was also a touring musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his acoustic solo act, the Nightwatchman, and Street Sweeper Social Club. Morello co-founded Axis of Justice, which airs a monthly program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK (90.7 FM) in Los Angeles. Born in Harlem, New York and raised in Libertyville, Illinois, Morello became interested in music and politics while in high school. He attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. After his previous band Lock Up disbanded, Morello met Zack de la Rocha. The two founded Rage Against the Machine together, going on to become one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis in ''Full Metal Jacket''. His other film roles include the title character in '' Birdy'', the high school wrestler Louden Swain in ''Vision Quest'', FBI agent Mike Downey in ''Married to the Mob'', Joe Slovak in ''Gross Anatomy'', William Shaw in ''Cutthroat Island'', Drake Goodman in ''Pacific Heights'', Peter Foley in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', and Dr. Ralph Wyman in ''Short Cuts''. On television, Modine portrays the villainous Dr. Martin Brenner in Netflix's ''Stranger Things'', the oversexed Sullivan Groff on '' Weeds'', Dr. Don Francis in ''And the Band Played On'' and Ivan Turing in '' Proof''. Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in ''And the Band Played On'' and ''What the Deaf Man Heard'' and receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Luntz
Frank Ian Luntz (born February 23, 1962) is an American political and communications consultant and pollster, best known for developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and public relations support for pro-Israel policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect; including use of the term '' death tax'' instead of ''estate tax,'' and ''climate change'' instead of ''global warming.'' Luntz has frequently contributed to Fox News as a commentator and analyst, as well as running focus groups during and after presidential debates on CBS News. Luntz describes his specialty as "testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate." He is also an author of business books dealing with communication strategies and public opinio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Lucas
Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in various films, including '' American Psycho'' (2000), '' You Can Count on Me'' (2000), '' The Deep End'' (2001), '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), ''Sweet Home Alabama'' (2002), ''Hulk'' (2003), ''An Unfinished Life'' (2005), ''Glory Road'' (2006), ''Poseidon'' (2006), '' Life as We Know It'' (2010), ''The Lincoln Lawyer'' (2011), '' Red Dog'' (2011), ''J. Edgar'' (2011), '' The Mend'' (2014), '' Breakthrough'' (2019), ''Ford v Ferrari'' (2019), and ''The Forever Purge'' (2021). He has also appeared in television series such as '' The Firm'' (2012), ''The Mysteries of Laura'' (2014–2016), and ''Yellowstone'' (2018–2022). Early life Lucas was born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Michele (née LeFevre), a nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor. Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (born Blanche Meyers Lambert; September 30, 1960) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing from 1993 to 1997. Lincoln was the first woman and the first Arkansan to serve as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. She also served as the Chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus. In 2010, she ran for a third term, but was defeated in a landslide by Republican John Boozman, whose brother, Fay Boozman, she had defeated in 1998. She is the founder and a principal of Lincoln Policy Group, a consulting firm. Early life, education and private career A seventh-gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with ''She's Gotta Have It'' (1986). He has since written and directed such films as '' School Daze'' (1988), ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989), '' Mo' Better Blues'' (1990), '' Jungle Fever'' (1991), ''Malcolm X'' (1992), '' Crooklyn'' (1994), '' Clockers'' (1995), '' 25th Hour'' (2002), ''Inside Man'' (2006), ''Chi-Raq'' (2015), ''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) and ''Da 5 Bloods'' (2020). Lee also acted in eleven of his feature films. His films have featured breakthrough and acclaimed performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo and John David Washington. Lee's work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover (; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is widely known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the ''Lethal Weapon'' film series. He also had leading roles in his films included ''The Color Purple'', ''To Sleep with Anger'', ''Predator 2'', '' Angels in the Outfield'', and ''Operation Dumbo Drop''. Glover has prominent supporting roles in '' Silverado'', ''Witness'', '' A Rage in Harlem'', ''Dreamgirls'', ''Shooter'', '' Death at a Funeral'', ''Beyond the Lights'', ''Saw'', ''Sorry to Bother You'', '' The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', '' The Dead Don't Die'', ''Lonesome Dove'' and '' Jumanji: The Next Level''. He is also an active supporter of various political causes. In 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Glover with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Additionally, Glover has received numerous accolades, including the NAACP's President's Award and the Cuban National Medal o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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