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Ronald Guttman
Ronald Guttman (born 12 August 1952) is a Belgian actor, theatrical producer and film producer. Career Guttman was born in Uccle. He started appearing in French language productions in Europe in 1975, appearing in his first English-language film, '' Hanna K.'', in 1983. Guttman continues to work in both Europe and North America, predominantly in television, including ''Lost'', '' Lipstick Jungle'', ''Heroes'', ''The West Wing'', ''Mad Men'' and ''Hunters''. He had a recurring role as Alexander Cambias, Sr. on the daytime soap opera ''All My Children'' (20 episodes over 18 years) and spots on three series in the ''Law & Order'' franchise: ''Law & Order'', ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. In 2021, he had a recurring role as French gangster Jean Jehan in the Epix drama series ''Godfather of Harlem''. Guttman's performances also include numerous Off-Broadway productions, including '' The Fifth Column'', a play by Ernest Hemingway; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uccle
Uccle () or Ukkel () is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). It is generally considered an affluent area of the city and is particularly noted for its community of French immigrants. History According to legend, Uccle's church of St. Peter was dedicated by Pope Leo III in the year 803, with Charlemagne and Gerbald, Bishop of Liège, attending the ceremony. During the following centuries, several noble families built their manors and took residency there. The first mention of the name ''Woluesdal'', now evolved into ''Wolvendael'', dates from 1209. In 1467, Isabella of Portugal, wife of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, founded a Franciscan convent on Uccle's territory. Later, Uccle became the judiciary capital of the area including Brussels. Throughout the early stages of its history, however, the village of Uccle always had a predominantly rural chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Victims Unit
A Special Victims Unit (SVU) is a specialized division within some police departments. The detectives in this division typically investigate crimes involving sexual assault or victims of non-sexual crimes who require specialist handling such as the very young, the very elderly, or the disabled. United States New York City The New York City Police Department's Special Victims Division investigates sex crimes. It is housed in separate Borough Patrols (Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn). The Special Victims Division only investigates the following types of cases: * Any child under 11 years of age who is the victim of abuse by a parent or person legally responsible for the care of the child. * Any child under 13 years of age who is the victim of any sex crime or attempted sex crime. * Any victim of rape (all degrees) or attempted rape (all degrees). * Any victim of a criminal sexual act (all degrees) or attempted criminal sexual act (all degrees). * Victim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Rush
''August Rush'' is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. The screenplay is by Nick Castle and James V. Hart, with a story by Paul Castro and Castle. A co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea, it involves an 11-year-old musical prodigy living in an orphanage who runs away to New York City. He begins to unravel the mystery of who he is, all while his mother is searching for him and his father is searching for her. The many different sounds and rhythms he hears throughout his journey culminate in a major instrumental composition, which concludes the film ("August's Rhapsody"). Plot In 1995, Lyla Novacek is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under the strict rule of her father. Louis Connelly is the lead singer of an Irish rock band. They meet and have a one-night stand, but are unable to maintain contact. Lyla discovers that she is pregnant. Following an argument with her ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guru (2002 Film)
''The Guru'' is a 2002 sex comedy film written by Tracey Jackson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. The film centers on a dance teacher who comes to the United States from India to pursue a normal career but incidentally stumbles into a brief but high-profile career as a sex guru, a career based on a philosophy he learns from a pornographic actress. The film stars Jimi Mistry as the eponymous character, Heather Graham as the actress he learns from, and Marisa Tomei, who helps him reach his guru status among her socialite New York City friends. The film was a commercial success, grossing $24 million in worldwide box office against its budget of $11 million. Plot Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a dance teacher, leaves his native city Delhi, India, to seek his fortune in the United States. He is lured by the exaggerations of his cousin, Vijay, who has already moved to NYC. Seeking work as an actor, the naïve Ramu unknowingly lands a role in a pornographic film. That evening he ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27 Dresses
''27 Dresses'' is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, and starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden. The film was released in Australia on January 10, 2008, and in the United States on January 18. Plot Jane Nichols has been a bridesmaid for twenty-seven weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle, who disgusts her with his cynical views of marriage. Kevin and Jane share a cab home, where she forgets her day planner. Kevin snoops through the planner and resolves to return it to Jane. Meanwhile, Jane's sister Tess returns from a trip to Europe and quickly falls in love with Jane's boss George, on whom Jane has an unrequited crush. Tess feigns interest in George's passion for the outdoors and animal rights, and their courtship progresses rapidly. Soon, they announce plans to marry in only three weeks. Tess enlists Jane to be the wedding planner. Tess and George's nupti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tollbooth
''The Tollbooth'' is a 2004 coming-of-age film directed by Debra Kirschner and starring Marla Sokoloff. The plot concerns a young artist struggling to forge her own identity in the big city, while her Jewish parents keep watch from just over the bridge in Brooklyn. Plot Recently out of art school, Sarabeth ( Marla Sokoloff) gets a job as a waitress and begins her struggle as a New York City artist. With her angsty and cynical personality, she doesn't have much patience for her family—a nagging mother, a father who is always misquoting Kafka, one sister who just got pregnant with her sweet but dopey husband, and another sister who is 'perfect' until she announces she's a lesbian at Rosh Hashanah dinner. Her boyfriend Simon (robert Mcelhenney)'s choice to live in the suburbs with a great sound system instead of hip and unpredictable New York has given Sarabeth doubts about their future together. She uses her canvas as an escape, where she can make sense of it all. Though fru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Basis Of Sex
''On the Basis of Sex'' is a 2018 American biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Directed by Mimi Leder and written by Daniel Stiepleman (Ginsburg's real-life nephew), it stars Felicity Jones as Ginsburg. Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Jack Reynor, Cailee Spaeny, Sam Waterston, and Kathy Bates feature in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 25, 2018, by Focus Features. ''On the Basis of Sex'' received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised Jones' performance, the film's intricacy and its pacing at a dramatic level. Other critics felt the biopic was predictable, over-packaged and hagiographic. Made on a $20 million budget, ''On the Basis of Sex'' grossed $38.8 million at the box office. Plot In 1956, Ruth Bader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunt For Red October (film)
''The Hunt for Red October'' is a 1990 American submarine spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan, produced by Mace Neufeld, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. The film is an adaptation of Tom Clancy's 1984 bestselling The Hunt for Red October, novel of the same name. It is the first installment of the Jack Ryan (film series), film series with the protagonist Jack Ryan (character), Jack Ryan. The story is set during the late Cold War era and involves a rogue Soviet Union, Soviet naval captain who wishes to defection, defect to the United States with his officers and the Soviet Navy's newest and most advanced ballistic missile submarine, a fictional improvement on the Soviet Typhoon-class submarine. A Central Intelligence Agency, CIA analyst correctly deduces his motive and must prove his theory to the United States Navy, U.S. Navy before a violent confrontation between the Soviet and the American navies spirals out of contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coastal Disturbances
''Coastal Disturbances'' is a play by Tina Howe, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1986 and transferred to Broadway. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Play. The play takes place on a beach in Massachusetts. Background Howe said that she "really wanted to write a love story... I think I've gone to great pains to bury my romantic and sexual side, and that I've been exploring my fanciful, artistic side. I thought it was time to try to face those deeper longings." ''Coastal Disturbances'' focuses on lovers trying to come to terms with each other. Production history The play opened Off-Broadway in a Second Stage Theatre production at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre on November 19, 1986, and ran for 45 performances. Directed by Carole Rothman, the cast featured Annette Bening (Holly Dancer), Timothy Daly (Leo Hart) and Rosemary Murphy (M. J. Adams). It transferred to Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre on February 14, 1987, in previews, opening on March 4, 1987, and closing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Howe
Tina Howe (born November 21, 1937) is an American playwright. In a career that spans more than four decades, Howe's best-known works include ''Museum'', '' The Art of Dining'', ''Painting Churches'', ''Coastal Disturbances'', and ''Pride's Crossing''. Her plays have won numerous awards, including the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for ''Pride's Crossing'', which was also a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ''Coastal Disturbances'' was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Early life Howe comes from a literary family. Her grandfather, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, published over 50 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1925. Her father Quincy Howe wrote and broadcast the evening news on CBS Radio from 1942 to 1947, and then on ABC television. He was the author of the three-volume history, ''A World History of Our Own Times''. Her uncle, Mark DeWolfe Howe taught constitutional law at Harvard Law School and was Oliver Wendel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he was a reporter for a few months for ''The Kansas City Star'' before leaving for the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front to enlist as an ambulance driver in World War I. In 1918, he was se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories
''The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on October 14, 1938. It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, ''The Fifth Column'', and 49 short stories. Many of the stories included in the collection appear in other collections, including ''In Our Time'', '' Men Without Women'', ''Winner Take Nothing'' and '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro''. Contents ''The Fifth Column'' is set during the Spanish Civil War. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic. The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology. The play was slated for production in 1938, however, setbacks with the Broadway producers delayed production. In 1940 a version of the play was produced on Broadway by the Theater Guild. This production was heavily edited by Benjamin Glazer with significant revisions to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
