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Splash, Too
''Splash, Too'' is a 1988 American made-for-television film sequel to the film ''Splash'' (1984) produced by The Walt Disney Company. Directed by Greg Antonacci and written by Bruce Franklin Singer. It stars Todd Waring as Allen Bauer and Amy Yasbeck as Madison Bauer. It was first broadcast in two parts on ''The Disney Sunday Movie'' on May 1 and May 8, 1988, on the ABC television network. Plot Set four years after the events of the first film, Allen Bauer (Todd Waring) and his wife, Madison (Amy Yasbeck) a mermaid, have been living on a deserted island hideaway. Allen is bored with life on the island and admits he misses New York City and his older brother, Freddie. Madison has the magical ability to view images in water and communicate by running her finger in a circular motion over it; she uses this method to show Allen how things are going on back in New York with Freddie (Donovan Scott). The family business, Bauer Produce, is in trouble since Allen left. Madison agrees to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Antonacci
Gregory Gerald Antonacci (February 2, 1947 – September 20, 2017) was an American television actor, director, producer, and writer. He portrayed Johnny Torrio in '' Boardwalk Empire'' in every season, from 2010 to 2014, and as Phil Leotardo's right-hand man Butch DeConcini in ''The Sopranos'' from 2006 to the series finale in 2007. Early life and career Antonacci was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. As a director, producer, and writer, he worked on a number of television series, including '' Busting Loose'', ''Brothers'', '' The Tortellis'', '' Perfect Strangers'', '' The Royal Family'', ''The John Larroquette Show'', ''Herman's Head'', ''It's a Living'', ''Soap'', and other series. As an actor, he had roles in ''The Rockford Files'', as Vinnie Morabito on '' Busting Loose'', Tony Manucci on '' Makin' It'', Butch DeConcini on ''The Sopranos,'' and Johnny Torrio on '' Boardwalk Empire''. In 1976, he played the role of Hector in " A Nun's Story" and " Good Time Girls" during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydromancy
Hydromancy (Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία, ''water-divination'',Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). ''A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. from ὕδωρ, ''water'', and μαντεία, ''divination'') is a method of divination by means of water, including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. The Jesuit M. A. Del Rio (1551–1608) described several methods of hydromancy. The first method described depicts a ring hanging by a string that is dipped into a vessel of water which was shaken. A judgment or prediction is made by the number of times which the ring strikes the sides of the vessel. A second method is when three pebbles are thrown into standing water and observations are made from the circles formed when the objects strike the water. The third method described depended upon the agitation of the water, this cust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division. Based on a concept by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1, 1989, as the Disney-MGM Studios (Theme) Park, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. Spanning , the park is dedicated to the imagined worlds from film, television, music, and theatre, drawing inspiration from the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood. Disney's Hollywood Studios was initially developed as both a theme park inspired by show business and an operating Film studio, production studio, with active film and television production services, an Walt Disney Animation Studios, animation facility branch, and a functioning backlot. Construction on the combined park and studio began in 1987, but was accel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginger Stanley
Ginger Stanley (December 19, 1931 – January 19, 2023) was an American model, actress and stunt woman. Stanley was best known for her stunt work in the horror films ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' (1954), swimming as a double for lead actress Julie Adams, and the movie's sequel, ''Revenge of the Creature'' (1955), swimming as a double for lead actress Lori Nelson. Biography Stanley was born in Sandersville, Georgia, on December 19, 1931. She left her home in Walhalla, South Carolina at the age of 15 and moved to Sebring, Florida to live with her older sister. While competing in a festival in Leesburg, Florida, she met Newt Perry, a swimming coach, promoter, and consultant for movies that used underwater scenes. He hired her to be a professional mermaid at the Weeki Wachee Springs tourist attraction. She worked there for 2 years. From 1953 to 1956, Stanley worked at Silver Springs as a swimmer and underwater performer with Bruce Mozert, a pioneer of underwater photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Peduto
Ralph Peduto (March 9, 1942 – May 12, 2014) was an American actor, playwright, writer and director. Peduto's film roles included ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' in 1993, '' The Rock'' in 1996, and ''Patch Adams'' in 1998, while his television credits included guest spots in '' Cheers'' and ''Hill Street Blues''. He ultimately appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, as forty television commercials. An acting teacher as well as an actor, Peduto founded Acting On Camera, an acting school in Santa Cruz, California. Life and career Peduto was born on March 9. 1942, in Jersey City, New Jersey, to a working-class Italian American family. He was the eldest of three children of James and Helen Peduto. He attended James J. Ferris High School and graduated from William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City (He was later inducted into Dickinson's Hall of Fame in 2000). Peduto enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed in South Korea during the Vietnam War era. He then attended Rutg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Travolta
Joseph Allen Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor, singer, producer, director and screenwriter. He is the older brother of actor John Travolta. Early life Travolta was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, a nearby suburb of New York City, where he attended Dwight Morrow High School. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke; 1912–1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in ''The Sunshine Sisters'', a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American. He is one of six children including actors John Travolta, Ellen Travolta and Margaret Travolta. He graduated from Paterson State College with a degree in special education in 1974. Career Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Marie Hupp
Jana Marie Hupp (born April 2, 1964) is an American actress. Born in Spokane, Washington, she studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Western Washington University and worked on stage in theatre productions in Seattle. She later relocated to Los Angeles and in 1985 made her feature debut in ''Vision Quest''. Her early television roles were on '' Scarecrow and Mrs King'' and ''My Sister Sam''. She had roles in '' Knots Landing'', ''Brooklyn South'' and ''Public Morals''. She appeared twice in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', playing different characters. She appeared as Mindy Hunter-Farber in the TV sitcom '' Friends''. She has also featured in the films ''Splash, Too'', ''In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers'', ''The Devil Takes a Holiday'' and '' Independence Day''. She is best known for her role on the NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Belack
Doris Belack (February 26, 1926 – October 4, 2011) was an American character actress of stage, film and television. Life and career Belack was born in 1926 in New York City, the younger daughter of Isaac and Bertha Belack, Jewish immigrants from Russia. She had one sibling, an older sister. In 1955, she performed on the record ''Poetry of the Negro'' with Sidney Poitier. The record was produced by her husband, Philip Rose. Belack has been misidentified as the first "Mrs. Fish" to Abe Vigoda's character on ''Barney Miller''. She was actually only a one-episode replacement for actress Florence Stanley, who played "Mrs. Fish" ("Bernice Fish"). Before that, Belack was seen mainly in soap operas; she originated the role of Anna Wolek Craig for nearly a decade on ''One Life to Live''. She also appeared in '' Another World'' (three different roles over the show's 35-year run), '' The Doctors'' (1980, as psychiatrist Dr. Claudia Howard) and ''The Edge of Night'' (1981, as Beth B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney Martin
Barney Martin (March 3, 1923 – March 21, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing Morty Seinfeld, father of Jerry, on the sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (1991-1998). He also played supporting roles in Mel Brooks' '' The Producers'' (1967), and the Dudley Moore comedy ''Arthur'' (1981). He also originated the role of Amos Hart (Mr. Cellophane) in the 1976 Broadway production of ''Chicago''. Early life Born in New York City, Martin served in the U.S. Army Air Force as a navigator during the Second World War before working as an NYPD officer for twenty years, working his way up to detective. He got his start as a comedian while still a police officer, providing deputy commissioners with humorous presentations. Martin once commented that many Jewish ''Seinfeld'' fans told him how much his character reminded them of their fathers. Martin himself was from an Irish Catholic family. Career Entering show business as a stand-in for Jackie Gleason in ''The Honeymooners'' in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dody Goodman
Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'', her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the beginning of each episode. She was a frequent guest on ''The Tonight Show'' in the 1950s, and cast member of ''The Mary Tyler Moore Hour'' in 1979. Aside from film and television appearances, she also voiced Miss Miller in the television series ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' and the film spin-off ''The Chipmunk Adventure''. Early life Born Dolores Goodman in Columbus, Ohio, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Y. Goodman. She had a sister, Rose, and a brother, Dexter Jr. She attended North High School in Columbus, Ohio (now Columbus International High School) and is a member of the Hall of Fame at North High School. Goodman attended Northwestern University, where she studied dramatics, and two ballet schools—the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). There are 40 extant species named as dolphins. Dolphins range in size from the and Maui's dolphin to the and orca. Various species of dolphins exhibit sexual dimorphism where the males are larger than females. They have streamlined bodies and two limbs that are modified into flippers. Though not quite as flexible as seals, some dolphins can briefly travel at speeds of per hour or leap about . Dolphins use their conical teeth to capture fast-moving prey. They have well-developed hearing which is adapted for both air and water. It is so well developed that some can survive even if they are blind. Some species are well adapted for diving to great depths. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Taggart
Rita Jean Taggart (born December 19, 1949) is an American film and television actress. She is known for playing Carla Bouvier on ''Night Court''. Biography Taggart was born in Salinas, California. She studied special education at San Francisco State College and studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. She was the third wife of cinematographer Haskell Wexler from 1989 until his death at age 93 in 2015. On television, Taggart portrayed Blanche on ''Steambath'', Marie Roscini in ''Hello, Larry'', Diane in '' Eye to Eye'', and Joan Foley in '' Almost Grown''. Her TV acting credits included guest role appearances on such shows as ''Rhoda'', ''Taxi'', ''Kate & Allie'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'', ''Quantum Leap'', ''Coach'', and ''Cagney and Lacey''. Her film credits include the made-for-TV movie ''James Dean'' (1976), ''Coming Home'' (1978), ''The China Syndrome'' (1979) and the TV movie ''Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home!'' (1983). She has most recently appeared in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
