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The Deuce (TV Series)
''The Deuce'' is an American drama television series created by David Simon and George Pelecanos, set in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. The series' pilot began filming in October 2015 and was commissioned in January 2016. It is broadcast by HBO in the United States and premiered on September 10, 2017. HBO made the pilot available through its video-on-demand services and affiliates on August 25, 2017. ''The Deuce'' features a large ensemble cast including James Franco playing twins and Maggie Gyllenhaal as an ambitious sex worker who becomes a film director. It tells the story of the Golden Age of Porn, the legalization and rise of the porn industry in New York City that began in the 1970s. Themes explored include government and police corruption, the violence of the drug epidemic, and the real-estate booms and busts that coincided with the change. The show's title is derived from the nickname for 42nd Street between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue. On September 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' and Buster Keaton's ''The General (1926 film), The General'' are examples of popular early American works set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Luccardi
Olivia Luccardi (born May 17, 1989) is an American actress and producer. She is known for her roles as Alice Woods in Syfy's horror anthology series '' Channel Zero: Butcher's Block'' and as Yara Davis in the supernatural thriller film ''It Follows''. Early life Luccardi was born to Patricia (née Bowden), a hair and makeup stylist, and Giuseppe Luccardi, a fashion photographer. Luccardi's childhood was spent in Brooklyn, but she went to high school in Chatham, New York. Luccardi revealed she was bullied throughout school. Career After high school, Luccardi moved to Manhattan. Luccardi worked for Webster Hall, formerly a nightclub, and its ''Quarterly Art Soiree'', for four years until March 2013. In ''Girls'', she "played a foulmouthed little Staten Island mall rat". Luccardi's other notable roles include the american thriller film ''Money Monster'', the independent comedy drama film ''Person to Person'', Netflix's comedy-drama series '' Orange Is the New Black'', and HB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Kostroff Noble
Nina Kostroff Noble is an American television producer. Early life and education Noble is the daughter of Pat Curtice, who worked as an assistant director on commercials, and Larry Kostroff, who worked in the film industry in various positions including as producer of films like 1968's ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,'' 1973's ''The Last Detail,'' 1982's '' The Year of Living Dangerously'' and 1983's ''WarGames.'' Noble says she spent her childhood on movie sets, growing up on location. She has a degree in sociology. Career Before entering television she worked extensively in film. Initially she was a production assistant and then became a second assistant director after joining the Directors Guild of America in 1984. She worked as a freelance assistant director for ten years and worked with several notable film-makers including Alan Parker, Paul Mazursky, Ron Shelton, Stephen Frears, Paul Verhoeven and Ivan Reitman. In 1995, Noble began producing and production managing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle MacLaren
Michelle Maxwell MacLaren is a Canadian television director and producer. She has directed episodes of ''The X-Files'', ''Better Call Saul'', '' Breaking Bad'', '' The Walking Dead'', '' Game of Thrones'', and ''Westworld''. MacLaren won two back-to-back Primetime Emmy Awards for producing '' Breaking Bad'' in 2013 and 2014. Early life MacLaren grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. MacLaren is a cousin of television anchor Ashleigh Banfield. Career MacLaren made her directorial debut on the season nine episode of ''The X-Files'', "John Doe", which was written by her future '' Breaking Bad'' collaborator Vince Gilligan. She approaches shooting action sequences as mathematical deconstruction and likes using multiple cameras and wide lenses. She was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, all for ''Breaking Bad'': one for directing the episode "One Minute" (season 3, episode 7) in 2010, one for directing the episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Price (writer)
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books '' The Wanderers'' (1974), '' Clockers'' (1992) and '' Lush Life'' (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. Price has also written screenplays for television dramas such as ''The Wire'', '' The Outsider'', ''The Night Of,'' and '' The Deuce''. For writing ''The Color of Money'' (1986) , a feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, Price received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life and education Price was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Harriet (Rosenbaum) and Milton Price, a window dresser. A self-described "lower middle class Jewish kid", he grew up in a housing project in the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette Gilchrist
Lafayette Gilchrist (born August 3, 1967) is an American jazz pianist and composer. As of January 2014, he lived in Baltimore. He has had a long association with saxophonist David Murray, with whom he has toured internationally.Himes, Geoffrey (June 13, 2013"Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes at the Maryland Traditions Festival" ''The Washington Post''. Gilchrist leads an octet/nonet named the New Volcanoes, and a trio called Inside Out (with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Eric Kennedy). Gilchrist acknowledges multiple influences on his music: "I come from hip-hop culture, ..I'm not a rapper. I'm not a DJ. I'm not a dancer. But I feed off of all that. All of that's part of what I grew up in, what I grew up around." Early life Gilchrist was born in Washington, D.C. on August 3, 1967; he also grew up there.Whitehead, Kevin (January 20, 2014"Lafayette Gilchrist: An Old Soul, at Ease in a Modern World" npr.org His mother, Janice Taylor Murdock, worked for the Federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American Rock music, rock band co-founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American New wave music, new wave scene of the mid-1970s in New York. Their first two albums contained strong elements of Punk rock, punk and new wave, and although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground music, underground band in the U.S. until the release of ''Parallel Lines'' in 1978. Over the next five years, the band achieved several hit singles including "Heart of Glass (song), Heart of Glass," "Call Me (Blondie song), Call Me," "Atomic (song), Atomic," "The Tide Is High," and "Rapture (Blondie song), Rapture". The band became noted for its eclectic mix of musical styles, also incorporating elements of disco, pop music, pop, reggae, and early hip hop music, rap music. Blondie disbanded after the release of its sixth studio album, ''The Hunter (Blondie album), The Hunter'', in 1982. Debbie Harry con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming (Blondie Song)
"Dreaming" is a song by American new wave band Blondie. Released in 1979, the song was the opening track from their fourth album ''Eat to the Beat''. Written by guitarist Chris Stein and singer Debbie Harry and partially inspired by ABBA's "Dancing Queen," the song also features an active drum performance by drummer Clem Burke, who did not expect the final recording to feature his busy drum track. "Dreaming" was released as the lead single from ''Eat to the Beat'' in September 1979, reaching number two on the UK singles chart and number 27 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The band saw this as a disappointing performance, though the song remained one of the band's highest charting singles to that point. The song's single release was also accompanied by a music video. The song has since become one of Blondie's most famous tracks, appearing on several compilation albums and becoming a mainstay of the band's live setlist. It has since seen critical acclaim and several music writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Bergman
Natalie Bergman is an American singer-songwriter. She is one half of the duo Wild Belle, along with her brother Elliot Bergman. Her debut solo album, ''Mercy'', was released on Third Man Records on May 7, 2021. She is based in Los Angeles. Early life Bergman was raised in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to Judson and Susan Bergman. She is the niece of late actress Anne Heche. She attended Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Bergman is a devout Christian. Career After moving to New York, Bergman started out as a member of her brother Elliot's band Nomo, adding vocals to the 2011 Nomo and Shawn Lee single "Upside Down". She was fired from Nomo, but then she and Elliot formed the psychedelic pop duo Wild Belle. Wild Belle has released three albums: '' Isles'' (2013), '' Dreamland'' (2016), and '' Everybody One of a Kind'' (2019). In 2019, Bergman's father and stepmother were killed by a drunk driver in a car accid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in 2020, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist, Best British Male Artist. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Costello number 80 on its Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Costello began his career as part of London's Pub rock (United Kingdom), pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement that emerged in the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album ''My Aim Is True'' was released in 1977. Shortly after recording it, he formed the Attractions as his backing band. His second album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Year's Girl (song)
"This Year's Girl" is a song written by new wave musician Elvis Costello and performed by Costello and the Attractions for his 1978 album ''This Year's Model''. Inspired by the Rolling Stones song " Stupid Girl", the song's lyrics criticizing fashion saw some critics allege misogyny, a theme which Costello strongly denied was present in the song in subsequent interviews. Released on ''This Year's Model'' and on a single in the US, the song has since seen positive critical reception and has been included in compilation albums and in Costello's live setlists. The song has also been featured as the theme song to the second season of '' The Deuce'', featuring additional vocals by Natalie Bergman. Background "This Year's Girl" was written by Costello as an "answer song" to the 1966 Rolling Stones song, " Stupid Girl". He explained the relationship between the songs, "My lyrics might have been tough on the girl but it was full of regret and a little sympathy, while the Jagger/Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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