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The Secret Of My Success (1987 Film)
''The Secret of My Success'' (sometimes stylized as ''The Secret of My Succe$s'') is a 1987 American comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Ross and starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater. The screenplay was written by A.J. Carothers, Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. from a story written by Carothers. It was filmed on location in Manhattan. Plot Brantley Foster is a recent graduate of Kansas State University who moves to New York City, where he has accepted an entry-level job as a financier. Upon arriving, he discovers that the company for which he is supposed to work has been taken over by a rival corporation. As a result, Brantley is laid off before even starting work. After several interviews for another job, he is unsuccessful due to over- or underqualification, or having no experience. Brantley ends up working in the mailroom of the Pemrose Corporation, directed by his "uncle" Howard Prescott, a distant relative he's never met. Pemrose was founded by Howard's father-in-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Ross
Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in theater and film. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and a Tony Award. He is known for directing musical and comedies such as ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film), Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' (1969), ''The Owl and the Pussycat (film), The Owl and the Pussycat'' (1970), ''Play It Again, Sam (film), Play It Again, Sam'' (1972), '' The Sunshine Boys (1975 film), The Sunshine Boys'', ''Funny Lady'' (both 1975), ''The Goodbye Girl'' (1977), ''California Suite (film), California Suite'' (1978), and ''Pennies from Heaven (1981 film), Pennies From Heaven'' (1981). His later films include ''Footloose (1984 film), Footloose'' (1984), and ''Steel Magnolias'' (1989). For the drama ''The Turning Point (1977 film), The Turning Point'' (1977) he received two Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture and Academy Award for Best D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entry-level Job
An entry-level job is a job that is normally designed or designated for recent graduates of a given discipline and typically does not require prior experience in the field or profession. These roles may require some on-site training. Many entry-level jobs are part-time and do not include employee benefits. Recent graduates from high school or college usually take entry-level positions. Entry-level jobs targeted at college graduates often offer a higher salary than those targeted at high school graduates. These positions are more likely to require specific skills, knowledge, or experience. Most entry-level jobs offered to college graduates are full-time permanent positions and some offer more extensive graduate training programs. While entry-level jobs traditionally required no experience, the Great Recession produced a surplus of college graduates on the job market and eliminated many entry-level positions. See also * Employment * Labor union * Simultaneous recruiting of ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl (; born February 28, 1948) is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play ''Lost in Yonkers'' (1990) and supporting performance in the film ''The Fisher King'' (1991). Her other film credits include ''Big'' (1988), ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''Roseanna's Grave'' (1997), and '' Hustlers'' (2019). Early life and education Ruehl was born February 28, 1948 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, to Mercedes J. Ruehl, a schoolteacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban and Irish descent. The family frequently moved during her childhood owing to Vincent Ruehl's assignments with the FBI, and lived in other states including Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Margolis
Mark Margolis (; born November 26, 1939) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alberto "The Shadow" in '' Scarface'', Antonio Nappa in '' Oz'', and Hector Salamanca in '' Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul''. His performance in ''Breaking Bad'' was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2012. He regularly performs in the films of Darren Aronofsky, appearing in all but two of his films, and starring in his first film '' Pi'' (1998). Early life Margolis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Fanya (née Fried) and Isidore Margolis. He is from a Jewish family. Margolis was briefly a student at Temple University before dropping out and moving to New York City. At age 19, he was a student under Stella Adler at the Actors Studio. He was also later trained by Lee Strasberg and Barbara Loden. Career Margolis is noted for his supporting roles in '' Scarface'' (1983) '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1994), and the films of Darren Aronofsky: '' π'' (1998), ''Requiem for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Murney
Christopher Murney (born July 20, 1943) is an American actor and voice artist. Early life and education Murney was born in Narragansett, Rhode Island. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Fine Arts in theatre from Pennsylvania State University. Career Murney has worked on the stage, in television series, and in film. In television, he appeared as Buck Miller in 1994 and in 2001 on the soap opera ''One Life to Live'', as Buddy in 1977 ''The San Pedro Beach Bums'', voiced Union soldier, diarist and fellow Rhode Islander Elisha Hunt Rhodes in the PBS mini-series '' The Civil War'' (1990), and starred as Mackie Bloom in the first three seasons of ''Remember WENN''. In the movies, Murney has appeared in such films as 1977's ''Slap Shot'' as Tommy Hanrahan, 1985's ''The Last Dragon'' as Eddie Arcadian, 1986's ''Maximum Overdrive'', 1987's '' The Secret of My Success'', 1989's ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', 1990's '' Loose Cannons'', and in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Franz
Elizabeth Franz (born Betty Jean Frankovich) is an American stage and television actress. Life and career Franz was born Betty Jean Frankovich in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a factory worker. She won a Tony Award for her role as Linda Loman in the 1999 production of ''Death of a Salesman'', which also earned her nominations for ''Drama Desk'' and Outer Critics Circle awards, and she won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award, Boston's Elliot Norton Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award for a tour of the same production. In 2004–05, she appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London, in the Sam Shepard play ''Buried Child''. She has starred in numerous ''Off-Broadway'' and regional theater productions, including the American premiere of Frank McGuinness's ''Bird Sanctuary''. She also appeared in '' Long Day's Journey into Night'', ''The Glass Menagerie'', ''The Comedy of Errors'', ''Madwoman of Chaillot'', ''The Lion in Winter'', ''A View from the Bridge'', ''The Matchmaker'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Snyder
Drew Snyder (born September 25, 1946 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his roles in films such as ''Commando, Firestarter,'' and ''Cruel Intentions'', a well as numerous guest and recurring roles in several well-known television series including ''American Horror Story'', ''NYPD Blue'', and ''Life Goes On''. Selected filmography * ''Kojak'' (1977) – Stuart Bayliss * ''The Incredible Hulk'' (1979) – Croft * ''Night School'' (1981) – Vincent Millett * ''CHiPs'' (1981) – Joshua * ''Death Wish II'' (1982) – Deputy Commissioner Hawkins * '' Another World'' (1982) – Sam Egan * ''Magnum, P.I.'' (1982) – Jack Curry * ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' (1982) – Coach * ''WarGames'' (1983) – Ayers * '' Space Raiders'' (1983) – Aldebarian * ''Emerald Point N.A.S.'' (1984) – Malcolm Endicott * ''Hill Street Blues'' (1984) – Hit Man * '' Purple Hearts'' (1984) – Lieutenant Colonel Larimore * '' Firestarter'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Ann Susi
Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 – November 11, 2014) was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. Her best known roles were probably her first and last; she debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker''. More than three decades and countless supporting roles later, her level of celebrity was elevated for having provided the voice of recurring off-screen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series ''The Big Bang Theory''. Career Susi made her first on-screen appearance in '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', where she played the recurring role of intern Monique Marmelstein. Other television and film credits included: ''McMillan & Wife'', '' Coyote Ugly'', ''Just Go with It'', ''The Big Bang Theory'', ''Cheers'', ''Becker'', the 1990 biker comedy ''Masters of Menace'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''That '70s Show'', ''Out of Practice'', ''Cats & Dogs'', '' Just Shoot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Bamman
Gerald G. Bamman (born September 18, 1941) is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for playing Uncle Frank in the films ''Home Alone'' (1990) and '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'' (1992), and has also guest starred in several television series. Early and personal life Bamman was born on September 18, 1941 in Independence, Kansas, the son of Mary M. (née Farrell) and Harry W. Bamman. He studied at St. Francis de Sales School and later graduated from New York University with a MFA degree. Bamman was married to director Emily Mann on August 12, 1981, but is now divorced from her. They have one son, Nicholas, born in 1983. Career Bamman appeared in the Michael J. Fox film '' The Secret of My Success'' (1987) and also appeared with Fran Brill and Alyssa Milano in ''Old Enough'' (1984). He had a minor role in ''Cocktail'' (1988) before portraying his most notable character, Uncle Frank McCallister in ''Home Alone'' and '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'' in 1990 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' as Francis Muldoon and as Herman Munster in ''The Munsters'', as well as his later film roles in '' The Cotton Club'', ''Pet Sematary '' and ''My Cousin Vinny''. Early life Gwynne was born on July 10, 1926, in New York City, the son of Frederick Walker Gwynne (1884–1935), a partner in the securities firm Gwynne Brothers, and his wife Dorothy Ficken Gwynne, who, before her marriage, was a successful artist known for her " Sunny Jim" comic character."Gwynne family genealogy" Rootsweb.com. His paternal grandfather Walker Gwynne was an |
John Pankow
John Pankow (born April 28, 1954) is an American actor. He began his career on-stage in New York, in numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway plays including Peter Shaffer's ''Amadeus'', John Patrick Shanley's ''Italian American Reconciliation,'' and Brian Friel's ''Aristocrats.'' After a starring role in William Friedkin's '' To Live and Die in L.A.,'' he began appearing regularly in film and on television, playing Ira Buchman for all eight seasons of ''Mad About You'' and later Merc Lapidus on ''Episodes.'' Early life and education Pankow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Catholic family of German and Irish descent, the sixth of nine siblings. His elder brother is trombonist/composer James Pankow, a founding member of the rock group Chicago. Pankow grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, and attended Maine South High School and Northeastern Illinois University. He left the university in his junior year after he attended a performance of David Mamet's ''The American Buffalo'' at the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corporate Raid
In business, a corporate raid is the process of buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management. The measures might include replacing top executives, downsizing operations, or liquidating the company. Corporate raids were particularly common between the 1970s and the 1990s in the United States. By the end of the 1980s, management of many large publicly traded corporations had adopted legal countermeasures designed to thwart potential hostile takeovers and corporate raids, including poison pills, golden parachutes, and increases in debt levels on the company's balance sheet. In later years, some corporate raiding practices have been used by "activist shareholders", who purchase equity stakes in a corporation to influence its board of directors and put public pressur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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