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The English Patient (Seinfeld)
"The English Patient" is the 151st episode of the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It was the 17th episode for the eighth season and aired on March 13, 1997. ''The English Patient'', central to Elaine's storyline in this episode, won Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards, eleven days after this episode aired. Plot At Monk's Café, a beautiful woman, Danielle, mistakes George for her boyfriend Neil. George becomes obsessed with the notion that he is so similar to Neil that, with only one minor change, he too could be dating women like Danielle. He repeatedly goes out with Danielle so he can press her for more information about Neil. Elaine and her date, Blaine go to the movies. She wants to see the comedy ''Sack Lunch'', but it is sold out, so they see ''The English Patient''. She finds it boring and stupid. Elaine's dislike for ''The English Patient'' alienates her from everyone. Not wishing to upset J. Peterman, when he asks if she likes the movie, she claims not to have seen it. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seinfeld
''Seinfeld'' ( ) is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and List of Seinfeld episodes, 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld (character), a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as "a show about nothing", often focusing on the slice of life, minutiae of daily life. Interspersed in earlier episodes are moments of stand-up comedy from the fictional Jerry Seinfeld, frequently using the episode's events for material. As a rising comedian in the late 1980s, Jerry Seinfeld was presented with an opportunity to create a show with NBC. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Talley
Jill Talley (born December 19, 1962) is an American actress and comedian. She is a main cast member on the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', in which she voices Karen Plankton. Her other voice roles include Sarah Dubois on Adult Swim's ''The Boondocks'' and Rita Loud on ''The Loud House''. Early life Talley was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Kennedy High School in 1981. Career In her twenties, Talley performed improv comedy in Chicago at the Improv Institute and The Second City. Talley and her husband, Tom Kenny, were both cast members of the cult short-lived FOX Network sketch comedy show ''The Edge'' from 1992 to 1993 and sketch comedy show ''Mr. Show'' from 1995 to 1998. They also appeared together in the May 1996 video for " Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins as a married couple who take a honeymoon on the moon. Since 1999, Jill Talley has played Karen Plankton on ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. She was promoted to a main cast member in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is often the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. There have been 581 films nominated for Best Picture and 94 winners. History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: ''Outstanding Picture'' and '' Unique and Artistic P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The English Patient (film)
''The English Patient'' is a 1996 epic romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz. The eponymous protagonist, a man burned beyond recognition who speaks with an English accent, recalls his history in a series of flashbacks, revealing to the audience his true identity and the love affair he was involved in before the war. He does not admit his identity or reveal the entire story to the nurse who cares for him and the man who suspects him until the end of the film. This form of exposition is very different from the book, where, under the influence of morphine, the patient talks about his past. The film ends with a definitive onscreen statement that it is a highly fictionalized account of László Almásy (died 1951) and other historical figures and events. The film received twelve nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seinfeld (season 8)
The eighth season of '' Seinfeld'', an American comedy television series began airing on September 19, 1996, and concluded on May 15, 1997, on NBC. The eighth season marked a turning point in the series. It is the first season where Seinfeld himself took creative control of the show after co-creator Larry David left. It is also the first season where the episodes no longer start with Jerry's stand-up routines. Seinfeld states that this is because he was too busy writing episodes to create additional stand-up material. As a result, the show began to remove itself from the 'show about nothing' format it had begun life as, and took a far more absurdist, surreal stylistic turn. Production ''Seinfeld'' was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and distributed by Columbia Pictures Television and Columbia TriStar Television (now Sony Pictures Television) and aired on NBC in the US. The executive producers were Jerry Seinfeld, George Shapiro, and Howard West with Tom Gammill and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Situation Comedy
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Seinfeld Episodes
''Seinfeld'' is an American television sitcom created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. ''Seinfeld'' has been described by some as a "show about nothing", similar to the self-parodying "show within a show" of fourth-season episode "The Pilot". Jerry Seinfeld is the lead character and played as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side, the show features a host of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, which include George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, who are portrayed by Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards, respectively. The series debuted on July 5, 1989, on NBC, as ''The Seinfeld Chronicles''. The pilot episode was met with poor reviews, and as a result, NBC passed on the show. However, NBC executive Rick Ludwin believed the series had potential and therefore gave ''Seinfeld'' a budget to create four more episodes, which formed the rest of season 1 and began airing on May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nap
"The Nap" is the 152nd episode of the sitcom '' Seinfeld''. This was the 18th episode for the eighth season. It aired on April 10, 1997. In this episode, Elaine's boyfriend gets her an ergonomic mattress, Jerry has his kitchen redesigned by a contractor who annoys him by asking for his preference on every aspect, and George takes naps under his desk at work. Larry David returned as recurring character George Steinbrenner, whom he would play in two other episodes near the end of this season and in the show's final episode. Plot Kramer takes up swimming. Finding the local pool too crowded, he begins swimming in the East River. On their first date, Hal tells Elaine he has been very careful about his back since injuring it. Later, he sends her an ergonomic mattress. Assuming he got it for himself, she is offended at the presumption of sex after one date and gives the mattress to Kramer. When she confronts Hal, he tells her that he meant the mattress for her use and even had it cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pothole
"The Pothole" is the 150th episode of the sitcom '' Seinfeld''. This was the 16th episode for the eighth season. It aired on February 20, 1997. In the episode, Jerry is unwilling to kiss his girlfriend after she unknowingly brushes her teeth with a toothbrush that fell in the toilet, George tries to recover his keys from a paved-over pothole, Kramer adopts a highway and handles the maintenance work himself, and Elaine moves into a janitor's closet so that she can get delivery from a favored Chinese restaurant. This episode earned Andy Ackerman an Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction. Jerry Seinfeld, in an appearance on ''The Tonight Show'' the night before the episode aired, declared "The Pothole" to be one of the best episodes of the series. Plot Jerry accidentally knocks his girlfriend Jenna's toothbrush into the toilet, and she uses it before he can tell her. Since she is as fastidious about cleanliness as him, he is afraid to tell her afterwards. He directs Jenna to ster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Miller (actor)
Jeff Miller may refer to: *Jeff Miller (California politician) (born 1963), member of the California State Assembly *Jeff Miller (Florida politician) (born 1959), U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district *Jeff Miller (American businessman) (born 1964), CEO and Chairman of the Board of Halliburton * Jeff Miller (Tennessee politician) (born 1962), Republican member of the Tennessee Senate * Jeff Miller (rugby union) (born 1962), Australian rugby union player * Jeff Miller (writer) (born 1979), Canadian zine publisher and writer *Jeff Miller (Lassie), a fictional character in the long-running television series ''Lassie'' See also *Jeff Millar (1942–2012), American cartoonist and film critic *Jeffrey Miller (other) *Geoffrey Miller (other) Geoffrey Miller may refer to: *Geoff Miller (born 1952), English cricketer * Geoff Miller (diplomat) (born 193?), former Australian public servant and diplomat * Geoff Miller (priest) (born 1956), archdeacon o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Garcia (actor)
Juan Garcia may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Juan García de Zéspedes (c. 1619–1678), Mexican composer * Juan García de Salazar (c. 1639–1710), Spanish composer * Juan Francisco García (composer) (1892–1974), Dominican Merengue musician * Juan García Esquivel (1918–2002), Mexican band leader * Juan García Larrondo (born 1965), Spanish playwright * Juan Garcia (guitarist) (born 1966), American musician, guitarist for Los Angeles thrash-metallers Agent Steel and Evildead * Juan Carlos García (actor) (born 1971), Venezuelan actor and model * Juan Garcia (poet), 1990 Prix Alain-Grandbois * Juan Garcia (actor), see the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode " Lineage" * Juan García Cortes, fictional character in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' Law and politics * Juan García Gruber (1904–1997), Venezuelan writer and diplomat * Juan García Ducós (fl. 1917–1928), Puerto Rican politician * Juan Manuel García Passalacqua (1937–2010), Puerto Rican lawyer, pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
