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Scott Atkinson
Scott Atkinson (July 23, 1966 – February 26, 2021) was an American actor and screenwriter from Pennsylvania best known for his many television roles, including recurring roles on ''Desperate Housewives, The Jamie Foxx Show, Commander in Chief (TV series), Commander in Chief, Providence (American TV series), Providence, NYPD Blue,'' and ''Lincoln Heights (TV series), Lincoln Heights'', along with notable guest roles on ''Frasier'' as Daphne's boyfriend Clive and ''Mad About You'' as Doug the Handyman. He was also known for several film roles and his screenwriting credits. Career His television roles include recurring roles and multi-episode arcs on ''The Jamie Foxx Show'' (as Hawkins in Season 4)'', Commander in Chief (TV series), Commander in Chief'' (Reporter Steve in Season 1), ''Providence (American TV series), Providence'' (Bill Graff in Season 3)'', NYPD Blue'' (Steve McClintock in Season 12)'','' ''Lincoln Heights (TV series), Lincoln Heights'' (Detective Briggs in Season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio to its west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest, New York to its north, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the nation with over 13 million residents as of 2020. It is the 33rd-largest state by area and ranks ninth among all states in population density. The southeastern Delaware Valley metropolitan area comprises and surrounds Philadelphia, the state's largest and nation's sixth most populous city. Another 2.37 million reside in Greater Pittsburgh in the southwest, centered around Pittsburgh, the state's second-largest and Western Pennsylvania's largest city. The state's su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfeiffer
''The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer'' ( ) is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from October 5 to October 26, 1998. Before it was even debuted, the series set off a storm of controversy because of a perceived light-hearted take on the issue of American slavery. Story A black English nobleman named Desmond Pfeiffer, chased out of the United Kingdom due to gambling debts, becomes President Abraham Lincoln's valet. In the show, he serves as the intelligent and erudite backbone of a Civil War-era White House populated by louts and drunkards. Cast * Chi McBride as Desmond Pfeiffer, Black English gentleman serving as President Lincoln's butler * Dann Florek as Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States * Christine Estabrook as Mary Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's wife * Max Baker as Nibblet, Pfeiffer's assistant * Kelly Connell as Ulysses S. Grant, general of the United States Army Controversy Before the series' premiere, several African-American activist groups, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Debtors
''The Debtors'' is an American comedy film starring Michael Caine, Randy Quaid, Udo Kier, Catherine McCormack, Scott Atkinson, and Scott Wilson and directed by Evi Quaid. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ... in 1999. Because of legal issues the film has still not been officially released. Plot People with various addictions meet up at the tables in Las Vegas. References External links * 1999 films Unreleased American films 1999 comedy films American comedy films Films scored by Simon Boswell Films set in the Las Vegas Valley Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley 1999 directorial debut films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{1990s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Path To War
''Path to War'' is a 2002 American biographical television film, produced by HBO and directed by John Frankenheimer. It was the final film directed by Frankenheimer, who died seven weeks after the film debuted on HBO. It was also the last film produced by Edgar J. Scherick during his lifetime—he died seven months after its initial airing on HBO. Plot The film deals directly with the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members. The starting events portrayed begin in January 1965 with LBJ at the Inaugural Ball and ends on March 31, 1968, when he announces to the nation that he will not run for re-election. At the start of the movie, President Johnson (Michael Gambon) is focusing on his "Great Society" which is a series of new laws and programs addressing social issues in the United States. These include civil rights, poverty, and education. In a cabinet meeting, he is pressured by General Earle Wheeler (Frederic Forre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Civil War
''The Second Civil War'' is a satirical black comedy film made for the HBO cable television network and first shown on March 15, 1997. Directed by Joe Dante, the film is a satire about anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States. The film stars James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Peña, and Denis Leary as reporters for a CNN-like cable network, "News Net" (referred to in on-screen graphics as "NN"); Phil Hartman as the U.S. President; James Coburn as his chief political advisor; and William Schallert as the Secretary of Defense. Brian Keith portrayed a general in one of his final movie roles. Plot The film is set in a future United States in which immigration has rapidly increased, resulting in a fractured polyglot society. The mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly by Chinese-Americans, and Alabama has a congressman from India. Politics have been openly reduced to a matter of catering to various ethnic groups for their votes, and media- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green
''The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green'' is a syndicated comic strip drawn by Eric Orner. Appearing in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender publications, the strip's title character is Ethan Green, a young gay man trying to balance his professional career as a personal assistant with his search for love. It was started in 1989 and ran for 15 years. In 2015, several years after retiring the strip, Orner published the compilation book ''The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green''. '''', June 26, 2015. Film adaptation< ...
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Elvira's Haunted Hills
''Elvira's Haunted Hills'' is a 2001 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Irvin and written by Cassandra Peterson and John Paragon. It is the second film starring Peterson in the title role (credited as Elvira), after the 1988 theatrical release '' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.'' The film also stars Richard O'Brien and Mary Scheer. The film opened on the July 5, 2001 weekend at the Laemmle Fairfax Cinemas in Los Angeles after premiering at the International Rocky Horror Fan Convention on 23 June 2001. It was released direct-to-video on 31 October 2002. Plot In 1851 in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, Elvira and her maidservant Zou Zou (Mary Jo Smith), on their way to a can-can revue in Paris, get kicked out of an inn for a slight monetary discrepancy. After making their way out of the village, they are rescued by Dr. Bradley Bradley (Scott Atkinson), who takes them to stay at Castle Hellsubus, in the hills high above the village. While there, Elvira meets the resid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as both a charming, and vulnerable romantic lead and has since transitioned into a dramatic character actor. Among his numerous accolades, he has received a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, Volpi Cup, and an Honorary César. , his films had grossed a total of nearly US$3 billion worldwide. In 2022 ''Time Out'' magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's Greatest Actors of all time. Grant first received attention for his early roles in acclaimed costume dramas such as Merchant-Ivory's '' Maurice'' (1987), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and '' The Remains of the Day'' (1993), as well as '' Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) and '' Restoration'' (1995). Grant then reached global stardom as a leading man in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy film '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), whereupon he received the Golden Globe Award and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Keenan (writer)
Joe Keenan (born July 14, 1958) is an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist. Early life Keenan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into an Irish American Catholic family. He has a twin brother, John, and two other siblings, Ronald and Geraldine. He grew up in the blue collar neighborhood of Cambridgeport. Keenan attended Boston College High School and Columbia College. Early career In 1991 '' Cheers'' creators James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles, having read Keenan's novel ''Blue Heaven,'' invited Keenan to create a new sitcom for their production company. The resulting pilot, ''Gloria Vane'', starring JoBeth Williams, was not picked up by a network, but it led to a writing post on ''Frasier''. In 1992, his first play, ''The Times'', a musical that charts the course of a seventeen-year marriage between Liz, an actress, and Ted, a writer, won the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1993, the ly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frasier (season 4)
The fourth season of ''Frasier'' originally aired from September 17, 1996, to May 20, 1997, on NBC, consisting a total of 24 episodes. Cast Main * Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane * Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon * David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane * Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle * Dan Butler as Bulldog * John Mahoney as Martin Crane Special guest *Robert Prosky as T.H. Houghton *Marsha Mason as Sherry *Patricia Wettig as Stephanie *James Earl Jones as Norman * Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith *Linda Hamilton as Laura Special appearance by *Bobby Sherman as himself Recurring *Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton Guest *Trevor Einhorn as Frederick *Jane Lynch as Cynthia *Jane Kaczmarek as Maureen *Željko Ivanek as Dr. Arnold Shaw *Lisa Darr as Laura * Megan Mullally as Beth *Rosemary Murphy as Carol Larkin *Lois Smith as Moira *Harriet Sansom Harris as Bebe Glazer *Kathryn Joosten as Vera *Patrick Kerr as Noel Shempsky The main character of the American television sitcom ''Frasier'' is Frasier Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Mrs
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of Queens
''The King of Queens'' is an American television sitcom that ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes. The series was created by Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt, who also served as the show's executive producer, and stars Kevin James and Leah Remini as Doug Heffernan, Doug and Carrie Heffernan, a working-class couple living in Rego Park, Queens, Rego Park, Queens, New York City. All the episodes were filmed in front of a live studio audience. ''The King of Queens'' was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions (1998–2007), CBS Paramount Network Television (2007), in association with Columbia TriStar Television (1998–2002), and Sony Pictures Television (2002–07). It was filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. The ninth and final season concluded with a double-length China Syndrome (The King of Queens), finale episode in 2007. In May 2017, Kevin James and Leah Remini reunited in the 2016 tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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