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Quicksilver Highway
''Quicksilver Highway'' is a 1997 television comedy horror film directed by Mick Garris. It is based on Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic" and Stephen King's 1992 short story "Chattery Teeth". The film was originally shown on television before being released on home media. Plot The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story "Chattery Teeth", about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells "The Body Politic", a story about a man whose hands rebel against him. Cast *Christopher Lloyd: Aaron Quicksilver *Matt Frewer: Charlie/Dr. Charles George * Raphael Sbarge: Kerry Parker/Bill Hogan *Melissa Lahlitah Crider: Olivia Harmon Parker/Lita Hogan * Silas Weir Mitchell: Bryan Adams *Bill Nunn: Len *Vero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chattery Teeth (short Story)
"Chattery Teeth" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in '' Cemetery Dance'' and was later collected in ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes''. Publication history Stephen King had been a regular reader of '' Cemetery Dance'', a horror magazine, and sent an unsolicited short story to be published there in 1992. The resulting publicity helped to raise their profile. Plot summary In the story, salesman Bill Hogan notices an odd pair of walking " Chattery Teeth" (odd due to their unusually large size and the fact that they are made of metal) in the display of a roadside convenience store in the Nevada desert. The store owner ends up giving Hogan the teeth, claiming they had been dropped and no longer work. Hogan is unable to dismiss another oddity: his sense that the teeth are somehow sentient and want to kill him. As he leaves the convenience store, Hogan reluctantly (having been robbed by a hitchhiker once before) gives a ride to a dishevel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nunn
William Goldwyn Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film '' Do the Right Thing'', Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi ''Spider-Man'' film trilogy and as Terrence "Pip" Phillips on '' The Job'' (2001–02). Early life Bill Nunn III was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Frances Nunn and William G. Nunn, Jr., a journalist and editor at the ''Pittsburgh Courier'' and a National Football League scout. His paternal grandfather was the first African American football player at George Westinghouse High School. While ball boys for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bill Nunn and current Steelers president Art Rooney II stole "Mean" Joe Greene's car during training camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. "Joe Greene showed up in a beautiful green Lincoln Continental, and me and Bill Nunn, Jr. were ball boys. Somehow Bill got the keys one night and we decided to take it for a rid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1981 to 1991. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as ''Hill Street Blues'', '' L.A. Law'', ''Law & Order'', '' ALF'', ''Family Ties'', ''The Cosby Show'', ''Cheers'', ''Seinfeld'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Wings'', ''Miami Vice'', ''Knight Rider'', ''The A-Team'', ''Saved by the Bell'', ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', ''St. Elsewhere'', and '' Night Court''. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom ''Punky Brewster''; he named the title character after a girl he had a crush on in school. He was also involved in the creation of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Beggars and Choosers''. Biography Early life and career Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine ''The Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Legends
An urban legend (sometimes contemporary legend, modern legend, urban myth, or urban tale) is a genre of folklore comprising stories or fallacious claims circulated as true, especially as having happened to a "friend of a friend" or a family member, often with horrifying, humorous, or cautionary elements. These legends can be entertaining but often concern mysterious peril or troubling events, such as disappearances and strange objects or entities. Urban legends may confirm moral standards, reflect prejudices, or be a way to make sense of societal anxieties. Urban legends in the past were most often circulated orally, but now can also be spread by any media. This includes newspapers, mobile news apps, e-mail, and most often, social media. Some urban legends have passed through the years/decades with only minor changes, in where the time period takes place. Generic urban legends are often altered to suit regional variations, but the lesson or moral remains majorly the same. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McTiernan
John Campbell McTiernan Jr. (born January 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his action films, especially ''Predator'' (1987), '' Die Hard'' (1988), and ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990). His later well-known films include the action-comedy-fantasy film ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), the action film sequel '' Die Hard with a Vengeance'' (1995), the heist-film remake '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1999), and '' The 13th Warrior'' (1999). His last completed feature film was the mystery-thriller ''Basic'', released in 2003. He pleaded guilty to perjury and lying to an FBI investigator in regard to his hiring of the private investigator Anthony Pellicano in late 2000 to illegally wiretap the phone calls of two people, one of whom was Charles Roven, a co-producer of his action film remake '' Rollerball'' (2002). He was incarcerated in federal prison from April 2013 to February 2014. During his imprisonment, he filed for bankruptcy amidst foreclosure proceedin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Artists Agency
Creative Artists Agency LLC (CAA) is an American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles, California. It is regarded as an influential company in the talent agency business and manages numerous clients. In March 2016, CAA had 1,800 employees. History Creative Artists Agency (CAA) was formed by five agents at the William Morris Agency in 1975. At a dinner, Michael Ovitz, Michael S. Rosenfeld, Ronald Meyer, Rowland Perkins, and William Haber decided to create their own agency. The agents were fired by William Morris before they could obtain financing. CAA was incorporated in Delaware and had a $35,000 line of credit and a $21,000 bank loan and rented a small Century City office. Within a week, they sold a game show called '' Rhyme and Reason'', the '' Rich Little Show'', and ''The Jackson 5ive''. An early plan was to form a medium-sized full-service agency, share proceeds equally, and do without nameplates on doors or formal titles or individual client lists, with gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American comedy and fantasy filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the comedy films that he has directed – such as ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' (1977), ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978), ''The Blues Brothers'' (1980), '' An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), ''Trading Places'' (1983), '' Three Amigos'' (1986), ''Coming to America'' (1988) and ''Beverly Hills Cop III'' (1994), for directing Michael Jackson's music videos for "Thriller" (1983) and "Black or White" (1991). Early life Landis was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine (''née'' Magaziner) and Marshall Landis, an interior designer and decorator. Landis and his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was four months old. Though spending his childhood in California, Landis still refers to Chicago as his home town; he is a fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. When Landis was a young boy, he watched '' The 7th Voya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Zimmer
Constance Zimmer (born October 11, 1970) is an American actress. She rose to prominence for playing Dana Gordon in the television series '' Entourage'' (2005–2011) and Claire Simms in the television series ''Boston Legal'' (2006–2007). She went on to appear in many television series, notably '' Love Bites'' (2011) and '' House of Cards'' (2013–2018). Zimmer gained recognition for her role in the television series '' Unreal'' (2015–2018), for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2016. Early life and education Zimmer was born in Seattle, Washington, to German migrant parents from the former East Prussia. She speaks fluent German, saying in a 2015 interview that although her parents spoke English with her as a child, she spent six weeks of every summer in Germany, with her grandmother who only spoke German. Zimmer decided to pursue a career in acting after she fell in love with the craft as a high school student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Knight (actor)
William Frederick Knight (December 6, 1933 – November 8, 2022), sometimes credited as William Knight, William Frederick, or Frederick Knight, was an American voice actor who lent his voice to the English dubs of anime and video games. He was often cast in the role of a wise old man, such as in ''Ghost in the Shell'' (as Daisuke Aramaki), ''The Big O'' (as Gordon Rosewater), ''Paranoia Agent'' (as the old man), and ''Eureka Seven'' (as Kuzemi, one of the three Sages). Knight died in North Hollywood, California on November 8, 2022, at the age of 88. Voice roles Anime * '' Amazing Nurse Nanako'' – General, Griffith * '' Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran'' – Denkichi's Master * '' Cowboy Bebop'' – Old Man (Session 2: "Stray Dog Strut") * ''DearS'' – Grandfather * '' El Hazard – The Magnificent World'' – Dr. Schtalubaugh * '' El Hazard 2 – The Magnificent World'' – Dr. Schtalubaugh * '' El Hazard: The Alternative World'' – Dr. Schtalubaugh * '' El Hazard: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hart (actor)
Christopher Hart (born February 22, 1961) is a Canadian actor and magician whose roles include Thing, the disembodied hand, in the 1991, 1993, and 1998 movies ''The Addams Family'', ''Addams Family Values'', and '' Addams Family Reunion''. Early life Christopher Hart was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, to an English mother and Canadian father. He was raised in Los Angeles, where he was educated in Catholic schools. At the age of eight he became intrigued after discovering a magic book at the local library. It was at this same time that the television series "The Magician" starring Bill Bixby was on the air and further fueled his passion for magic. Career At sixteen, after an extensive audition and interview process, Hart was accepted into the Magic Castle's elite junior program. As a teenager, he earned extra money working in a cemetery as a grave digger and was nicknamed Lurch due to his tall, lanky frame. Soon realizing that it was a dead-end job, Hart accepted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Grevioux
Kevin Grevioux (; born September 9, 1962) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and comic book writer. He is best known for his role as Raze in the ''Underworld'' film series, which he co-created, as well as his voicework in the cartoon '' Young Justice'' as the villain Black Beetle. Education Grevioux graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1987 with a degree in microbiology with minors in both chemistry and psychology, afterwards attending graduate school working towards a master's degree in genetic engineering. Grevioux began taking screenwriting and cinematography classes as well, and after his first semester of grad school had finished, he moved to Los Angeles to begin to work as a writer in earnest. He has written several spec scripts in various genres. He also started a graphic novel company called Darkstorm Comic Studios in 2003. Career As an actor, he has been seen in such films as ''The Mask'', ''Steel'', ''Congo'', Tim Burton's ''Planet o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
