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Scrooged
''Scrooged'' is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella '' A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens, ''Scrooged'' is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard. ''Scrooged'' was filmed on a $32 million budget over three months in New York City and Hollywood. Murray returned to acting for the film after taking a four-year hiatus following the success of ''Ghostbusters'', which he found overwhelming. Murray worked with Glazer and O'Donoghue on reworking the script before agreeing to join the project. The production was tumultuous, as Murray and Donner had different visions for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Murray
William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan delivery. He rose to fame on ''The National Lampoon Radio Hour'' (1973–1974) before becoming a national presence on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1977 to 1980, where he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. He starred in comedy films including '' Meatballs'' (1979), ''Caddyshack'' (1980), ''Stripes'' (1981), ''Tootsie'' (1982), ''Ghostbusters'' (1984), ''Scrooged'' (1988), ''What About Bob?'' (1991), '' Groundhog Day'' (1993), '' Kingpin'' (1996), ''The Man Who Knew Too Little'' (1997), '' Charlie's Angels'' (2000), and ''Osmosis Jones'' (2001). His only directorial credit is ''Quick Change'' (1990), which he co-directed with Howard Franklin. Murray's performance in Sofia Coppola's '' Lost in Translation'' (2003) earned him a Golden Globe and a British Academy Film Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He has frequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021) was an American filmmaker whose notable works included some of the most financially-successful films during the New Hollywood era. According to film historian Michael Barson, Donner was "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters". His career spanned over 50 years, crossing multiple genres and filmmaking trends. Donner began in 1957 as a television director. By the 1960s, Donner had directed episodes of ''The Rifleman'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' The Fugitive'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Banana Splits'' and many others. He made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama ''X-15'' in 1961, but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film ''The Omen'' in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film ''Superman'' in 1978, which provided an inspiration for the fantasy film genre to eventually gain artistic respectability and commercial dominanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 – November 8, 1994) was an American writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor, was a major contributor to ''National Lampoon'' magazine, and was the first head writer of ''Saturday Night Live''. He was also the first performer to utter a line on that series. Early life O'Donoghue was born Michael Henry Donohue in Sauquoit, New York. His father, Michael, worked as an engineer, while his mother, Barbara, stayed home to raise him. O'Donoghue's early career included work as a playwright and stage actor at the University of Rochester where he drifted in and out of school beginning in 1959. His first published writing appeared in the school's humor magazine ''Ugh!'' After a brief time working as a writer in San Francisco, California, O'Donoghue returned to Rochester and participated in regional theater. During this period, he formed a group called Bread and Circuses specifically to perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress. She became known in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as '' Hester Street'' (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress), ''Dog Day Afternoon'', ''Annie Hall'', ''The Princess Bride'' and ''Scrooged''. Kane appeared on the television series ''Taxi'' in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical ''Wicked'', both in touring productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2020, she was a main cast member on the Netflix series ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper. During the Star Trek Day 2022 streaming event, it was announced Kane would be joining the Season 2 cast of '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.'' Early life Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put A Little Love In Your Heart
"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. In the U.S., it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 in August 1969 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In late 1969, the song reached number 1 on South Africa's hit parade. The song rivalled the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love". In 1988, Annie Lennox and Al Green released a cover version of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" which reached number 9 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Charts Annie Lennox and Al Green version In 1988, Annie Lennox and Al Green recorded a version that was released as the ending theme song to the 1988 film ''Scrooged''. The song reached number 9 in the US on the Hot 100 in January 1989 and climbed all the way to number 2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, as well as becoming a Top 40 hit in several countries wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Allen
Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress. After making her film debut in ''Animal House'' (1978), she portrayed Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), a role she later reprised for ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' (2008). She also co-starred in ''Starman'' (1984) and ''Scrooged'' (1988). Her stage work has included performances on Broadway, and she has directed both stage and film productions. Early life Allen was born in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia ( Howell), a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. Her father's job forced the family to move often. "I grew up moving almost every year and so I was always the new kid in school and always, in a way, was deprived of ever really having any lasting friendships", Allen said in 1987. Although Allen says her father was very much involved in the fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobcat Goldthwait
Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait (born May 26, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter, known for his black comedy stand-up act, delivered through an energetic stage persona with an unusual raspy and high-pitched voice. He came to prominence with his stand-up specials ''An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait—Share the Warmth'' and ''Bob Goldthwait—Is He Like That All the Time?'' and his acting roles, including Zed in the ''Police Academy'' franchise and Eliot Loudermilk in ''Scrooged''. Since 2012, he has been a regular panelist on the radio-quiz show, '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''. Goldthwait has written and directed a number of films and television series, most notably the black comedies ''Shakes the Clown'' (1991), in which he also starred, '' Sleeping Dogs Lie'' (2006), ''World's Greatest Dad'' (2009), ''God Bless America'' (2011), and the horror film '' Willow Creek'' (2013); episodes of ''Chappelle's Show'', ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''Jimmy Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard (; born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards (tying the record for the most acting Emmys won by an African-American performer, along with Regina King), a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked Woodard seventeenth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century". She is also known for her work as a political activist and producer. Woodard is a founder of Artists for a New South Africa, an organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country. She is a board member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Woodard began her acting career in theater. After her breakthrough role in the Off-Broadway play ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf'' (1977), she made her film debut in ''Remember My N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Murray
Joel Murray (born April 17, 1963) is an American comedy actor. He is well known for his roles in the television series ''Mad Men'', ''Grand'', '' Love & War'', ''Dharma & Greg'', '' Still Standing'', and '' Shameless''. He has also appeared in films including ''God Bless America'' and ''Monsters University''. Early life Murray was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois, the son of Lucille (née Collins; 19211988), a mail room clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II (19211967), a lumber salesman. He grew up in an Irish Catholic family. One of nine siblings, he is the younger brother of actors Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, and John Murray. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan, who toured the U.S. portraying St. Catherine of Siena. His brother Ed died in 2020. Their father died in 1967 at the age of 46 from complications of diabetes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Murray (born October 31, 1945), known professionally by his stage name as Brian Doyle-Murray, is an American actor, voice-actor and screenwriter. He has appeared with his younger brother, actor/comedian Bill Murray, in several movies, including ''Caddyshack'', ''Scrooged'', '' Ghostbusters II'', '' Groundhog Day'', and ''The Razor's Edge''. He co-starred on the TBS sitcom ''Sullivan & Son'', where he played the foul-mouthed Hank Murphy. He also appeared in the Nickelodeon animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' as The Flying Dutchman, the Cartoon Network original animated series ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' as Coach Tiffany Gills, ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' as Captain K'nuckles, a recurring role as Don Ehlert on the ABC sitcom '' The Middle'', and Bob Kruger in the AMC dramedy ''Lodge 49''. Doyle-Murray has been nominated for three Emmy Awards in 1978, 1979, and 1980 for his work on ''Saturday Night Live'' in the category Primetime Emmy Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Linson
Art Linson (born 16 March 1942) is an American producer, screenwriter and author. Life and career Linson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles law school. After law school, Linson worked in the music business, managing Spirit and Nils Lofgren and founding Spin Dizzy Records. Linson's first film as a producer was ''Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins'' (1975). He had a sizable hit the following year with ''Car Wash''. Over the next several years, he produced the critically acclaimed ''American Hot Wax'' (1978) and ''Melvin and Howard'' (1980). He made his directorial debut in 1980 with ''Where the Buffalo Roam'', starring Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson, which received withering reviews. However, he rebounded in 1982 with ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'', a now-classic comedy which launched the careers of actors Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since the 1990s, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, with achievements including the scores of 17 Burton films such as '' Batman'', ''Batman Returns'', ''Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland'', and ''Dumbo''; Raimi's '' Darkman'' (1990), '' A Simple Plan'' (1998), '' Spider-Man'', ''Spider-Man 2'', ''Oz the Great and Powerful'', and ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness''; and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films ''Good Will Hunting'' and ''Milk''. He wrote music for all of the ''Men in Black'' and ''Fifty Shades of Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
