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Songcatcher
''Songcatcher'' is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although ''Songcatcher'' is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle. The film grossed $3 million in limited theatrical release in the United States, which was generally considered as a respectable result for an arthouse film release in 2001. Plot In 1907, Dr. Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), a professor of musicology, is denied a promotion at the university where she teaches. She impulsively visits her sister Eleanor ( Jane Adams), who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There, she discovers a treasure trove of traditional English and Scotch-Irish ballads, which have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Rossum
Emmanuelle Grey Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is an American actress, director, and singer. She is known for her portrayal of Fiona Gallagher in the television series '' Shameless'' (2011–2019). Since the mid-2010s, she has also directed and produced television, including the 2022 Peacock series ''Angelyne'' in which she also stars. Born and raised in New York City, she began professionally performing as a child with the Metropolitan Opera. Early on-screen roles included '' Genius'' (1999), '' Songcatcher'' (2000), '' Passionada'' (2002), and ''Nola'' (2003). At sixteen, she was cast in her breakthrough role in ''Mystic River'' (2003). Rossum starred in the 2004 sci-fi film '' The Day After Tomorrow'', and also received critical acclaim for her performance in the leading role of Christine Daaé in the film adaptation of '' The Phantom of the Opera'' (2004). She is also well known for acting in the films ''Poseidon'' (2006), '' Dragonball: Evolution'' (2009), '' Inside'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Greenwald
Maggie Greenwald is an American filmmaker. Most recognized as an independent writer and director, Greenwald’s most notable films include ''Sophie and the Rising Sun'' (2016), starring an ensemble cast that included Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Lorraine Toussaint and Diane Ladd, ''Songcatcher'' (2000) starring Aidan Quinn and Janet McTeer and introducing Emmy Rossum, and '' The Ballad of Little Jo'' (1993), starring Suzy Amis and Ian McKellen. She also directed an adaptation of Jim Thompson's '' The Kill-Off'' featuring an ensemble cast that included Cathy Haase and the film debut of Jorja Fox. Career Greenwald’s first feature film, ''Home Remedy'' (1987), from her original screenplay, premiered at the Munich Film Festival before screening at the London and Torino Film Festivals, and opening at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. The next film she directed was ''The Kill-Off'' (1989), which she adapted from Jim Thompson’s noir novel of the same name. Acqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961"Ms Janet McTeer, OBE" . ''Derbrett's People of Today''. Retrieved 31 December 2015. ''Births, Marriages, & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''; at ancestry.com) is an English actress. She began her career training at the before earning acclaim for playing diverse roles on stage and screen in both period pieces and modern dramas. She's received numerous accolades including a , a |
Hazel Dickens
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro- union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." ''The New York Times'' extolled her as "a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music." With Alice Gerrard, Dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album. Career Hazel Dickens was born in Montcalm, Mercer County, West Virginia on June 1, 1925, the eighth of eleven siblings in a mining family of 6 boys and 5 girls. Many of Hazel's relatives were miners, including her brothers, cousins, and, eventually, her brothers-in-law. In the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris DeMent
Iris Luella DeMent (born January 5, 1961) is an American two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and musician . DeMent's musical style includes elements of folk, country and gospel. Early life DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, the 14th and youngest child of Pat DeMent (1910–1992) and wife Flora Mae (1918–2011). Iris's mother had harbored dreams of going to Nashville and starting a singing career. Although she put those plans on hold to get married, her singing voice was an inspiration and influence for her youngest daughter Iris. DeMent was raised in a Pentecostal household. Her family moved from Arkansas to the Los Angeles area when she was three. While growing up, she was exposed to and influenced by country and gospel music. Singing at age five as one of "the little DeMent sisters", Iris had a bad experience when she forgot her words during her first performance, which caused her to avoid performing in public for some time. Music and career DeMent was inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mansfield
David Mansfield (born September 13, 1956) is an American musician and composer. Mansfield was raised in Leonia, New Jersey. His father, Newton Mansfield was a first violinist in the New York Philharmonic. David played guitar, pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his first band, called Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends, which also included two sons of Tony Bennett. Bob Dylan asked Mansfield to tour with him on his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour; he remained in Dylan's band through their 1978 world tour. After the Revue ended in 1976, Mansfield and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band. The band released three albums, '' The Alpha Band'' in 1977, '' Spark in the Dark'' in 1977, and '' The Statue Makers of Hollywood'' in 1978. While Mansfield in 1978 was working on the album, ''The Statue Makers of Hollywood'' with The Alpha Band, he appeared as a guitarist on '' Desire Wire'' by a struggling pop/rock artist Cindy Bullens that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Adams (actress, Born 1965)
Jane Adams (born 1965) is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of ''I Hate Hamlet'' in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of ''An Inspector Calls''. Her film roles include ''Happiness'' (1998), ''Wonder Boys'' (2000), '' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004), and '' Little Children'' (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'' (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the HBO series '' Hung'' (2009–11). Early life Jane Adams was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Janice, an administrative assistant, and William Adams, an engineer. She has a younger brother, Jonathan, and was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and Bellevue, Washington. Adams attended the University of Washington, where she studied political science, and the Cornish College of the Arts, where she took theater. She attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Patrick Kelly
David Patrick Kelly (born January 23, 1951) is an American actor, musician and lyricist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is best known for his role as the main antagonist, Luther, in the cult film '' The Warriors'' (1979). Kelly is also known for his collaborations with Spike Lee, in the films '' Malcolm X'' (1992), ''Crooklyn'' (1994), and '' Chi-Raq'' (2015), and with David Lynch, appearing in '' Wild at Heart'' (1990) as well as ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–91) and its 2017 revival. Kelly's other credits include roles in ''48 Hrs.'' (1982), '' Commando'' (1985), '' The Crow'' (1994), '' The Funeral'' and '' Last Man Standing'' (both 1996), '' The Longest Yard'' (2005), as President Harry S. Truman in ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006), and a recurring role in '' The Blacklist'' (2015). Early life Kelly was born in Detroit, Michigan to Margaret Elizabeth (Murphy) and Robert Corby Kelly, an accountant. His father received a Bronze Star Medal for service dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Goodwin (actor)
Michael W. Goodwin (b. October 9, 1941, in Virginia, Minnesota) is an American character actor. He has appeared in a number of Aaron Spelling-produced television programs, and a number of films which take place during the American Civil War. Goodwin appeared as recurring character Scott Bradley on the soap opera '' Another World'' in the late 1970s. Shortly thereafter, he did theatre in his native Minnesota, appearing in Friedrich Schiller's verse play, '' Mary Stuart'', at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, with Barbara Bryne in the cast. He also appeared in George Bernard Shaw's play, '' Arms and the Man'' at the Guthrie, directed by Michael Langham. He starred in the television series '' Strike Force'' (1981–1982, produced by Aaron Spelling) and ''The Hamptons'' (1983). He guest-starred on such Aaron Spelling productions as '' Charlie's Angels'', ''The Love Boat'', '' Matt Houston'', ''Dynasty'', ''Finder of Lost Loves'', and '' Sizzle''. In 2012–2014, he was cast i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor who made his film debut in '' Reckless'' (1984). He has starred in over 80 feature films, including ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' (1985), '' The Mission'' (1986), ''Stakeout'' (1987), ''Avalon'' (1990), '' Benny & Joon'' (1993), ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994), '' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'' (1994), ''Michael Collins'' (1996), ''Practical Magic'' (1998), ''Song for a Raggy Boy'' (2003), and ''Unknown'' (2011). Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work in '' An Early Frost'' (1985) and ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' (2007). He played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson in the CBS television series ''Elementary'' (2012–2019). Early life Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish Catholic parents. He was raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, but also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muse Watson
Muse Watson (born July 20, 1948) is an American stage and screen actor. He became known for his roles as Ben Willis, the primary antagonist in the ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' franchise, Charles Westmoreland on the Fox television series ''Prison Break'' and Mike Franks in CBS television series '' NCIS''. Early life Watson was born on July 20, 1948, in Alexandria, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in a production of Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. During and after his years at Berea, he worked in outdoor dramas, dinner theaters, and small repertory groups. Career His theater credits include acting as Hamlet in ''Hamlet'', Stanley in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', Pale in '' Burn This'', and Cervantes in ''Man of La Mancha.'' He also directed a production of '' Ain't Misbehavin'''. In 1989, with a new trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appalachian People
Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, ''Appalachia'' typically refers only to the cultural region of the central and southern portions of the range, from the Catskill Mountains of New York southwest to the Blue Ridge Mountains which run southwest from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia, and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. In 2020, the region was home to an estimated 26.1 million people, of which roughly 80% are white. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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