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Snow Wonder
''Snow Wonder'' is a 2005 American made-for-television drama film adapted from a Connie Willis short story. The film starred Michelle Krusiec, Camryn Manheim, Mary Tyler Moore, Jason Priestley, Josh Randall, and Eric Szmanda, and was produced by The Wolper Organization. It originally aired November 20, 2005 on CBS. Plot A freak snowstorm covers the entire world on Christmas Eve, changing the lives of five characters. Cast *Julie Ann Emery as Stacey *Jennifer Esposito as Pilar *Camryn Manheim as Bev *Poppy Montgomery as Paula *Jason Priestley as Warren *Josh Randall as Billy *David Sutcliffe as Jim *Eric Szmanda as Luke *Mary Tyler Moore as Aunt Lula *Michelle Krusiec as Joey *Vince Vieluf as Mario *Hunter Clary as Miguel Critical reception Writing for ''Variety'', critic Brian Lowry called the film "schmaltz" and "a sprawling mishmash of holiday stories", but said that the film "flits between them amiably enough". See also * List of Christmas films Many Christmas stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Vaccaro
Rodney Patrick Vaccaro (born April 24, 1952) is an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote ''Three to Tango'', a 1999 film which starred Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, and Dylan McDermott, and in 2001 won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special for ''Run the Wild Fields''. He has also written several plays and novels. Personal life Vaccaro was born in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was 12, his family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Vaccaro became involved in the local theater. Vaccaro credits his time spent at the Grand Rapids Actors' Theatre with making him into an artist and a writer. Vaccaro also spent time in France, where he worked with Francine Pascal, and in New York, where he studied at the Actors Studio and the Chekhov Studio. In 1990 he moved to Los Angeles, California. However, he continued to be involved in theater in Grand Rapids. Vaccaro is a graduate of Grand Rapids Junior College and of Western Michigan University. He has two daughters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Krusiec
Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec (born Ya-Huei Yang; ; October 2, 1974) is an American actress, writer and producer. Early life Krusiec was born in 1974 in Taiwan. She was adopted at age five and raised in America by her father's elder sister, who had married a Polish American. Krusiec's adoptive father renamed her Michelle Jacqueline, because he wanted her to have a French name. Krusiec studied English and theater at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating with a B.A. in 1996. She also studied Shakespeare and women's literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship. Career Television and voicework Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series ''Travelers'' in 1996. Along with Barbara Alvarez, Robin Kipp, Pearce Bunting, Patrick Michael, Foster Soloman, and later Lisa Clark, she traveled to over 50 different locations on the show. Krusiec played the 18-year-old Molly O'Brien in the '' Star Trek: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Network Films
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global. Its headquarters is at the CBS Building in New York City. It has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and the headquarters of owner Paramount Global at One Astor Plaza (both also in that city) and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. It is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Network in reference to the company's trademark symbol which has been in use since 1951. It has also been called the Tiffany Network which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in the former Tiffany and Company Building in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Christmas Films
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2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Christmas Films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Theatrical Christmas-themed films which received a theatrical release. File:It's a Wonderful Life.png, ''It's a Wonderful Life'' File:Meet Me In St Louis Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944.jpg, ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944 File:IngridBergmanTheBellsofSaintMarysTrailerScreenshot1945.jpg, Ingrid Bergman, '' The Bells of Saint Marys'', 1945 File:The Bishop's Wife (1948 poster).jpg, ''The Bishop's Wife'', 1948 ''A Christmas Carol'' adaptations ''The Nutcracker'' adaptations Christmas action films Christmas horror films Christmas Thriller films Short films Made-for-television and direct-to-video These are films that were made for television (including streamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schmaltz
Schmaltz (also spelled schmalz or shmalz) is rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat. It is an integral part of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, where it has been used for centuries in a wide array of dishes, such as chicken soup, latkes, matzah brei, chopped liver, matzah balls, fried chicken, and many others, either as a cooking fat, spread, or flavor enhancer. Etymology Schmaltz is a noun derived from the German verb ''schmelzen'', meaning "to melt". The verb can be traced back to the Germanic root "smeltan", which survives in the Modern English verb "to smelt". The term entered English usage through Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who used "schmaltz" to refer to kosher poultry fat; the word ''shmalts'' is the Yiddish word for rendered chicken fat. The English term "schmaltz" is derived from Yiddish and is cognate with the German term ''Schmalz'', which refers to any rendered fat of animal origin, including lard (more fully ''Schweineschmalz'') and clarified bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sutcliffe
David Sutcliffe (born June 8, 1969) is a Canadian-American retired actor. He is known for playing Christopher Hayden on the television series ''Gilmore Girls'' and Detective Aidan Black on the television series ''Cracked''. Early life Sutcliffe was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and raised in Grimsby and St. Catharines, Ontario. He studied English literature at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He was recruited to play varsity basketball at university, but had to give up the sport when he was diagnosed with a herniated disk. Career Sutcliffe has appeared in numerous television shows; his most notable roles are Adam Williams on ''Cold Feet'', Patrick Owen on '' I'm with Her'', Christopher Hayden on ''Gilmore Girls'', Officer Kevin Nelson on ''Private Practice'', Detective Aidan Black on ''Cracked'' and Dr. Len Barliss on ''Proof''. He was also in an episode of the show ''Nancy Drew'' in 1995, titled "Exile", playing the character of actor Tyler Reed. Sutcliffe's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day. Together, both days are considered one of the most culturally significant celebrations in Christendom and Western society. Christmas celebrations in the denominations of Western Christianity have long begun on Christmas Eve, due in part to the Christian liturgical day starting at sunset, a practice inherited from Jewish tradition and based on the story of Creation in the Book of Genesis: "And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day." Many churches still ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening; for example, the Nordic Lutheran churches. Since tradition holds that Jesus was born at night (based in Luke 2:6-8), Midnight Mass is celebrated on Christmas Eve, traditionally at midnight, in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Szmanda
Eric Kyle Szmanda (; born July 24, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for having played Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', a role he held from the show's beginning in 2000 until it ended in 2015. Early life and education Szmanda was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Elaine (née Enders) and Donald Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Robert. His great-uncle Ray Szmanda was the "Menard's Guy," a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menard's, a chain of hardware stores. When Eric was very young, the family moved to Mukwonago, Wisconsin. He attended Mukwonago High School and subsequently Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. While he was in school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois, to take a full-time job in the music business. Szmanda attended classes for four years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, and gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Randall
Joshua Reeve Randall (born January 27, 1972) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Mike Burton in the 2000–2004 NBC sitcom '' Ed'' and the recurring, later main role of Fire Captain Sean Beckett from 2021-2022 on Station 19. He had a recurring role on CBS' ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' as Doug Wilson in 2012. Early life and education Randall was born in Pacific Grove, California, to Randy (teacher) and Sharon (writer). He has a brother (Nathan) and sister (Joanna). Randall graduated from Monterey High School in Monterey, California. During his senior year, Randall was co-Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, ''The Galleon''. He also played basketball. His father Randy taught Chemistry and Physics at Monterey High. When Randy died in 1997 of colon cancer, the gym at Monterey High was named after him in memory shortly afterwards. His mother, Sharon, is a syndicated columnist. Randall wrote the foreword to her book "Birdbaths and Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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