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Tammara Billik
Tammara M. "Tammy" Billik (born June 21, 1962 in Palo Alto, California) is an American Hollywood casting director who has cast hundreds of roles in television. Her best-known casting decision is when she and veteran casting director Marc Hirschfeld cast Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy for Fox Broadcasting's cult hit, '' Married... with Children''. In 1997, she also cast "The Puppy Episode" of the ABC series '' Ellen'' which saw Laura Dern, Emma Thompson, Sean Penn and many others as part of Ellen DeGeneres' history-making, coming-out experience. Career Billik began her casting career working on movies including '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and '' E.T.'' As a casting assistant, she worked with top Casting Directors includinMike Fenton [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was established in 1894 by the American industrialist Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University in memory of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and borders East Palo Alto, California, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, California, Mountain View, Los Altos, California, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, California, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, California, Stanford, Portola Valley, California, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park. At the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 68,572. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive cities in the United States in which to live, and its residents are among the most educated in the country. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. For 51 years, they comprised vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and vocalist-bassist Dusty Hill, until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues guitar style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section. They are popular for their live performances, sly and humorous lyrics, and the matching appearances of Gibbons and Hill, who wore sunglasses, hats and long beards. ZZ Top formed after the demise of Moving Sidewalks, Gibbons' previous band, in 1969. Within a year, they signed with London Records and released ''ZZ Top's First Album'' (1971). Subsequent releases, such as ''Tres Hombres'' (1973) and ''Fandango!'' (1975), and the singles " La Grange" and " Tush", gained extensive radio airplay. By the mid-1970s, ZZ Top had become renowned in North America for its live act, including the Worldwide Texas Tour (1976— 1977), which was a critical and commercial success. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress. As a child actress, she gained recognition for starring as Kelly Bundy in the Fox sitcom '' Married... with Children'' (1987–1997). Applegate established a successful film and television career in her adult years, winning a Primetime Emmy Award from seven nominations as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. Applegate starred in the title role of the NBC sitcom ''Jesse'' (1998–2000), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' (2002–2003). For her role in the Broadway revival of ''Sweet Charity'' (2005), she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She went on to star in the ABC sitcom ''Samantha Who?'' (2007–2009), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations; the NBC sitcom '' Up All Night'' (2011–2012); and the Netfl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Who
''Samantha Who?'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from October 15, 2007, to July 23, 2009. The series was created by Cecelia Ahern and Donald Todd, who also served as producers. Although highly rated during its first season, the sitcom lost momentum and viewers throughout its second season, and ABC canceled the show in May 2009 before the remaining seven episodes were burned off the 2008–09 TV schedule. The series was produced by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Touchstone Television partnered with ABC Studios and executive produced by Christina Applegate, Donald Todd, Peter Traugott, Bob Kushell, Alex Reid, and Marco Pennette. Plot The show centered on Samantha Newly (Christina Applegate), a 30-year-old vice president of a real estate firm who develops retrograde amnesia after a hit and run accident. After awakening, she progressively realizes to her dismay that she had been selfish and unlikable before her accident, and therefore sets out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ant (comedian)
Anthony Steven Kalloniatis (born August 23, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, best known by his stage name Ant. Career Ant performed at comedy clubs across the US beginning in 1991. In 1995, he was a semi-regular cast member on the WB series ''Unhappily Ever After'', spending four seasons on the sitcom. Ant appeared as a contestant on ''Last Comic Standing'', competing in seasons two and three. He was the host of VH1 reality series ''Celebrity Fit Club'' and was a regular judge of talent on '' Steve Harvey's Big Time''. His television series '' U.S. of Ant'' premiered on MTV's gay-targeted Logo cable channel in the summer of 2006. Ant also frequently appeared as a commentator on shows such as VH1's ''Best Week Ever'' and CNBC's ''Dennis Miller'', and was a regular guest on ''The Tyra Banks Show'', ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' as well as ''The Howard Stern Show''. In 2007, he appeared along with Snoop Dogg as a guest star on MTVs sketch comedy show ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristanna Loken
Kristanna Loken (born October 8, 1979) is a Norwegian American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003), ''BloodRayne'' (2005) and ''Bounty Killer'' (2013) and on the TV series ''Painkiller Jane'' (2007), ''The L Word'' (2007–2008) and ''Burn Notice'' (2011–2012). Early life Loken was born October 8, 1979, in Ghent, New York, the daughter of Rande (née Porath), a model, and Merlin "Chris" Loken, a writer and apple farmer. She is of half German and half Norwegian ancestry. Her parents were from Wisconsin. She grew up on her parents' fruit farm in Upstate New York. Career After her mother encouraged her to become a model, Loken participated at the 1994 Elite Model Look in which she placed third runner-up. Loken started her acting career in 1994 as the third actress to play Danielle 'Dani' Andropoulos on an episode of ''As the World Turns''. She later appeared in several television shows and films, including regu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Hodge
Stephanie Hodge (born December 24, 1956) is an American actress and stand-up comedian, known for her roles as Nurse Sandy Miller in the NBC sitcom ''Nurses'' from 1991 to 1993, and as Jennie Malloy on the WB sitcom ''Unhappily Ever After'' from 1995 to 1998. Early life and career Hodge was born in Wilmington, Ohio, the daughter of a college professor and schoolteacher. She attended Wilmington College and Ohio University in Athens, OH. In 1980s, she began working as a stand-up comedian, and appeared in films including ''Big Top Pee-wee'' (1988) and ''I, Madman'' (1989). In 1990, Hodge made her television debut with co-starring role on the short-lived CBS sitcom '' Sugar and Spice''. Later, she starred alongside Cynthia Stevenson in the syndicated variety comedy '' My Talk Show''. In 1991, she released her stand-up comedy special, ''Stephanie Hodge: Straight Up''. In 1991, Hodge went to star in the NBC sitcom ''Nurses'', the spin-off of for '' The Golden Girls''. The show was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Pierson
Geoff Pierson is an American actor known for his starring television roles on '' Dexter'', ''Unhappily Ever After'', '' Grace Under Fire'', '' 24'', '' Ryan's Hope'', and '' Designated Survivor''. He has guest-starred in dozens of other TV shows. Career Pierson appeared with George C. Scott on Broadway in ''Tricks Of The Trade'', before continuing on to do several New York soap operas and many regional theater plays. Some notable theatrical roles include Angelo in '' Measure For Measure'' at the Yale Rep, Stanley in '' A Streetcar Named Desire'' at the Penn Ctr. Stage, Bobby in '' Speed The Plough'' at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Ricky in '' Glengarry Glen Ross'' and Teach in ''American Buffalo'' at the Virginia Stage Company. His most prominent daytime role was as Frank Ryan on '' Ryan's Hope'', a role he played from February 1983 through September 1985. Pierson's first high-profile prime-time television role was as Jack Malloy, the head of a dysfunctional family, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Cox
Nicole Avery Cox (born June 2, 1978) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series ''Unhappily Ever After'', ''Las Vegas'', ''The Norm Show'', and ''Nikki''. Career Cox began her career at the age of four, when she appeared as a dancer in several ballet productions and TV specials. She began acting at the age of ten, making appearances in several movies and guest-starring on shows such as ''Baywatch'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''Mama's Family'', ''Eerie, Indiana'', and '' Blossom''. She also appeared in '' General Hospital'' from 1993 to 1995, and had a recurring role on the Saturday morning program ''California Dreams''. Her appearances on various TV shows led to her first prime-time role as Tiffany Malloy on the sitcom ''Unhappily Ever After'', which ran on The WB from 1995–1999 for a total of five seasons. Her brother Matthew guest-starred on a handful of episodes, including one where he wore a "Ghostface" mask (the type of mask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Connolly (actor)
Kevin Connolly (born March 5, 1974) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Eric Murphy in the HBO series ''Entourage (U.S. TV series), Entourage'', and his role as the eldest son Ryan Malloy in the 1990s television sitcom ''Unhappily Ever After''. Connolly is also a director, having directed many episodes of television as well as the films ''Gardener of Eden'', ''Dear Eleanor'', and ''Gotti (2018 film), Gotti.'' Life and career Connolly was born either in New York City, New York,, or in Patchogue, New York, (sources differ) and raised in Medford, New York, on Long Island. His mother, Eileen, is of Irish American, Irish descent. He has an older brother, Tim, a police detective for Suffolk County, New York police. Connolly graduated from Patchogue-Medford High School in 1992. He began his career at age six, appearing in television commercials, including the "Betcha bite a chip" campaign for Chips Ahoy!. In 1990, he landed his first film role, as Chicki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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