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Pyrates
''Pyrates'' is a 1991 comedy film, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick about a couple who experience pyrokinesis after having sex. Directed and written by Noah Stern, the film was released on VHS on December 18, 1991. Plot When Ari (Kevin Bacon) and Sam (Kyra Sedgwick) first meet they realise that there is chemistry between them. When they have sex with each other, they experience pyrokinesis. However, as their love affair does not run smoothly, their friends Liam ( Bruce Martyn Payne) and Pia (Kristin Dattilo) intervene to try to help. At one point when Sam is angry with Ari, Liam helps Ari to serenade her with a rendition the Soft Cell song ''Tainted Love''. Cast *Kevin Bacon as Ari *Kyra Sedgwick as Sam * Bruce Martyn Payne as Liam *Kristin Dattilo as Pia *Buckley Harris as Dr. Weiss *Deborah Falconer as Rivkah *David Pressman as Carlton *Raymond O'Connor as Fireman *Byrne Piven as Rabbi Lichtenstein *Ernie Lee Banks as Wee Willie *Mickey Jones as Wisconsin Del *Petra Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. His films include the musical-drama film '' Footloose'' (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller '' JFK'' (1991), the legal drama '' A Few Good Men'' (1992), the historical docudrama ''Apollo 13'' (1995), and the mystery drama ''Mystic River'' (2003). Bacon is also known for voicing the title character in '' Balto'' (1995), and has taken on darker roles, such as that of a sadistic guard in '' Sleepers'' (1996), and troubled former child abuser in '' The Woodsman'' (2004). He is further known for the hit comedies '' National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978), ''Diner'' (1982), '' Tremors'' (1990) and '' Crazy, Stupid, Love'' (2011). His other well-known films are ''Friday the 13th'' (1980), ''Flatliners'' (1990), '' The River Wild'' (1994), '' Wild Things'' (1998), '' Stir of Echoes'' (1999), '' Hollow Man'' (2000), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), '' X-Men: First Class'' (2011), '' Black Mass'' (2015) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Falconer
Deborah Falconer is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Her first album was ''Untangle''. She released her second album, ''Brave Like Me'', on July 22, 2003. Her third album, ''Lift Your Gaze'', was released on October 18, 2014. Personal life Falconer married Robert Downey Jr. Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of ... on May 29, 1992, after dating for 42 days. The couple divorced on April 26, 2004. They have one son together, Indio. Filmography Film Television References External links * Living people American film actresses American women singers 20th-century American actresses Musicians from Sacramento, California Actresses from Sacramento, California Singers from California Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (actor)
Anthony Frederick Charles "Tom" Adams (9 March 1938 – 11 December 2014) was an English actor with roles in adventure, horror and mystery films and several TV shows. He was best known for his role as Daniel Fogarty in several series of ''The Onedin Line''. Early life Adams was born in Poplar, London and his father was a commercial chauffeur. After school he did national service in the Coldstream Guards, then joined the Unity Theatre, London. He adopted the stage name of Tom Adams and taught English and drama at the Cardinal Griffin secondary modern school, Poplar, in the 1960s between acting jobs with repertory companies.Tom Adams obituary at Daily Express Retrieved 20 December 2014 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford David
Clifford David (June 30, 1928 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and coach. His career began in the 1950s, with early live television appearances leading to roles in Broadway musicals. He also played character roles in television series, feature films, and theatre. He is most recognized for his singing performances on several original Broadway cast albums. Early life David was born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest son of Farris and Lily (née Abdow). His uncle was Metropolitan archdiocese Samuel David of Toledo, the archbishop of a diocese of Syrian Orthodox parishes. Samuel David's chanting of the Byzantine mass was world-renowned, and Clifford, inspired by his uncle's voice, went to New York City to pursue music and theater. Career A protégé of Lee Strasberg, David made his Broadway debut as Scipio in Albert Camus' ''Caligula'' directed by Sidney Lumet. He also played Pasquale in ''The Aspern Papers'', directed by Margaret Webster, Antipholus in the 1963 O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (; born August 19, 1965) is an American actress, producer and director. For her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama ''The Closer'', she won a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also had a recurring role as Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine''. Sedgwick was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance in '' Something to Talk About'' (1995). Her other film roles include Oliver Stone's ''Born on the Fourth of July'' (1989), Cameron Crowe's ''Singles'' (1992), ''Heart and Souls'' (1993), ''Phenomenon'' (1996), ''What's Cooking'' (2000), ''Secondhand Lions'' (2003), '' The Game Plan'' (2007), ''The Possession'' (2012), and ''The Edge of Seventeen'' (2016). Early life Sedgwick was born in New York City, the daughter of Patricia (née Rosenwald), a speech teacher and educational/family therapist and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. Her mother was Jewish and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Jones
Mickey Jones (June 10, 1941 – February 7, 2018) was an American musician and actor. He played drums with acts such as Trini Lopez and Bob Dylan, with whom he played on his 1966 world tour. He became a founding member of The First Edition with singer Kenny Rogers, and played on all of their albums. Overall, Jones played on 17 gold records from his musical career of over two decades. After the break-up of The First Edition in 1976, Jones concentrated on his career as a character actor, where he made many appearances in film and television. Early life and career Mickey Jones was born on June 10, 1941, in Houston, Texas, to Fred Edward Jones, a U.S. Navy officer, and Frances Marie (née Vieregge) Jones, a homemaker. His sister, Cheryl Marie, died in 2006. Jones attended Sunset High School in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. It was during this time that he obtained and learned to play his first set of drums. After sitting in with several local bands, Jones and four sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrne Piven
Bernard Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City. He was known as Byrne Piven. Life and career Piven was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania the son of Katie (née Balaban) and Samuel Piven, who were Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants. He came to Chicago in 1954 and met Joyce Hiller at the University of Chicago. They were married a short time later. In the 1950s, the Pivens were two of the founding members of the Playwrights Theatre Club, along with Paul Sills and David Shepard. Playwrights featured such budding stars as Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Ed Asner and Barbara Harris. In the mid-1950s, the Pivens moved to New York, where they studied with Uta Hagen. Piven played the leads in several New York Shakespeare Festival productions. He was also part of the Obie Award-winning cast of ''A House Remembered''. They returned to Chicago in 1967 to rejoin Sills, Shel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond O'Connor
Raymond O'Connor (born September 13, 1952) is an American character actor. Career Raymond O'Connor has been in a number of films, some small roles and some large roles as well. His first role was in the 1985 mini series '' Kane & Abel''. O'Connor has made guest appearances on some TV shows, such as ''Seinfeld'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', '' Sister, Sister'', ''Silk Stalkings'' and ''Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...'' (in the 5th-season episode " A View from the Gallery" as Mack). Filmography Movies Television References External links * 1955 births Living people American male film actors American male television actors {{US-screen-actor-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Verkaik
__NOTOC__ The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1989, the 35th anniversary year of the publication. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. January Fawna MacLaren (born December 18, 1965, in Santa Monica, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for January 1989. She was selected as Playboy's 35th Anniversary Playmate after a nationwide search. She was paid $35,000 for her centerfold. Several years later, she appeared in one of ''Playboys ''Wet & Wild'' home videos. February Simone Fleurice Eden (born Simone Howe on June 14, 1970, in Arcadia, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for its February 1989 issue. She is the first Playmate whose mother (Carol Eden) had also been a Playmate of the Month: as a result, the two appeared together on an episode of the 2006 revival of the TV series ''I've Got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński (; born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and director of film and television. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his films since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Spielberg's holocaust drama ''Schindler's List'' and World War II epic ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998). He has also received Academy Award nominations for '' Amistad'' (1997), '' The Diving Bell & the Butterfly'' (2007) ''War Horse'' (2011), ''Lincoln'' (2012), and ''West Side Story'' (2021). He has also received five British Academy Film Award nominations, and six American Society of Cinematographers Award nominations. In addition to his collaborations with Spielberg, he has also worked with Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, and Julian Schnabel. Kamiński has also moved into the field of directing, first with the horror film ''Lost Souls'' (2000), and later television series like ''The Event'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act III Communications
Act III Communications is a media and entertainment company owned by TV producer Norman Lear. It was started in 1985 following Lear's sale of Embassy Communications to The Coca-Cola Company. In a Wall St. Journal interview in 1988, Lear explained the name by noting that in a Shakespeare play there are always more than three acts and that he expects there to be an Act IV and V. Act III is Lear's business vehicle and is unconnected to his other activities as a political activist and philanthropist. Act III notable investments and ventures Among the many activities of Act III Communications are a minority interest in Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP); an ownership interest in Concord Music Group (later merged with VRP to create Village Roadshow Entertainment Group); Act III Broadcasting; Act III Theatres; Act III Publishing; and Act III Television, a joint venture formed with Columbia Pictures Television in February 1989; and Act III Merchandising which handles the merchandising for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Himmelman
Peter Himmelman (born November 23, 1959, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Himmelman is also the founder of Big Muse, a company which helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative potential. He is married to Maria Dylan, a lawyer and adopted daughter of Bob Dylan. They have four children. Career Himmelman garnered his first solo deal on Island Records in 1985 after a video for the song "Eleventh Confession" made its way onto regular rotation on MTV. His first release entitled ''This Father's Day'' was composed for Himmelman's father David. In the early '90s, he achieved significant alternative radio play with songs including "The Woman With The Strength of 10000 Men", from his ''From Strength To Strength'' release. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 for his song "Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
