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Tracy Pollan
Tracy Jo Pollan (born June 22, 1960), is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Ellen Reed on the sitcom ''Family Ties'' (1985–1987). Early life Pollan was born on Long Island, New York, the daughter of Corinne Elaine "Corky" (Staller), a magazine editor, and Stephen Michael Pollan, a financial consultant and writer. She was raised in Woodbury, New York. Pollan is from a Russian Jewish family and was raised in the faith. She attended Syosset High School and later graduated from the Dalton School in Manhattan, New York. She studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and later at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Personal life Pollan was in a five-year relationship with actor Kevin Bacon in the 1980s. She first met Michael J. Fox when she played the girlfriend of his character on ''Family Ties''; they worked together again on the set of '' Bright Lights, Big City'' a couple of years later and began a relationship. They married on July 16, 1988. They have four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the List of islands by population, 18th-most populous in the world. The island begins at New York Harbor approximately east of Manhattan Island and extends eastward about into the Atlantic Ocean and 23 miles wide at its most distant points. The island comprises four List of counties in New York, counties: Kings and Queens counties (the New York City Borough (New York City), boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County, New York, Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County occupies the eastern two thirds of the island. More than half of New York City's residents (58.4%) lived on Long Island as of 2020, in Brooklyn and in Queens. Culturally, many people in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People (magazine)
''People'' is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. It is published by Dotdash Meredith, a subsidiary of IAC. With a readership of 46.6 million adults in 2009, ''People'' had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in 2018 after its readership significantly declined to 35.9 million. ''People'' had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by ''Advertising Age'' in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation, and advertising.Martha Nelson Named Editor, The People Group , a January 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Holloway
Elizabeth Ann Holloway (''née'' Reynolds; born 1960) is an American speech pathologist and motivational speaker. She became widely known in the international media after her teenage daughter, Natalee, disappeared while she was on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. Following her daughter's disappearance, Holloway became a speaker on the topic of personal safety. She founded the International Safe Travels Foundation—to educate the public to help them travel more safely— and the Natalee Holloway Resource Center to aid families of missing persons. Background Early life and education Holloway was born Elizabeth Ann Reynolds and raised in the town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas to parents Ann (''née'' Nichols) and Paul Mundell Reynolds. She later lived and worked in Tennessee. She received her bachelor's degree in speech pathology with a minor in special education from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She continued her studies at Arkansas State University in Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalee Holloway (film)
''Natalee Holloway'' is a 2009 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon based on Beth Holloway's book about the 2005 disappearance of her daughter Natalee Holloway. The film stars Amy Gumenick as Natalee Holloway, Tracy Pollan as Beth Holloway-Twitty and Jacques Strydom as Joran van der Sloot. When it aired on the Lifetime Movie Network on April 19, 2009, the film scored the highest television ratings at that time in the network's history. Production In October 2008, the Lifetime Movie Network announced plans to create a television film based on Beth Holloway's bestselling book '' Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith''. The senior vice president of original movies, Tanya Lopez, stated in the announcement that the network was "pleased to be working closely with Natalee's mother" and that they intended to tell the story of Natalee Holloway's disappearance "sensitively and accurately." Jarett Wieselman of the ''New York Post'' questioned whether it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First To Die
''First to Die'' is a 2003 television miniseries based on the 2001 novel of the same name by James Patterson. The film stars Tracy Pollan, Pam Grier, Angie Everhart and Carly Pope as a group of women team up to investigate a string of murders. Plot Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan) teams up with three other professional women to investigate a serial killer who targets brides on their honeymoon. While trying to solve the biggest case of her career, she finds herself falling for her partner (Gil Bellows) and battling a life-threatening illness. Cast * Tracy Pollan as Detective Lindsay Boxer * Gil Bellows as Chris Raleigh * Carly Pope as Cindy Thomas * Megan Gallagher as Jill Barnett * Angie Everhart as Chessy Jenks * Mitch Pileggi as Warren Jacobi * Sean Young as Joanna Wade * Jerry Wasserman as Lt. Roth * Pam Grier as Claire Washburn * Byron Mann as Derek Lee * Robert Patrick as Nicholas Jenks * Kristina Copeland as Merrill Cale * John Reardon as David Brandt * Sony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hench At Home
Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American retired actor. Beginning his career in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom ''Family Ties'' (1982–1989). Fox is famous for his role as protagonist Marty McFly in the ''Back to the Future'' film trilogy (1985–1990), a critical and commercial success. He went on to headline several films throughout the 1980s and 90s, including ''Teen Wolf'' (1985), '' The Secret of My Success'' (1987), ''Casualties of War'' (1989), ''Doc Hollywood'' (1991), and ''The Frighteners'' (1996). Fox returned to television on the ABC sitcom ''Spin City'' in the lead role of Mike Flaherty from 1996 to 2000. In 1998, Fox disclosed his 1991 diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. He subsequently became an advocate for finding a cure and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 to help fund research. Worsening symptoms forced Fox to reduce his activities and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Raspberry Award For Worst Supporting Actress
The Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress is an award presented annually at the Golden Raspberry Awards (or "Razzies") to the worst supporting actress of the previous year. Nominees and winners are voted on by the Golden Raspberry Foundation, a group that anyone can join if they pay a yearly subscription fee. As it is intended to be a humorous award, males performing in drag are eligible to be nominated. On occasion, people featured in documentary films have also been nominated for "worst actress," though this process has been criticized. The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, along with the film(s) for which they were nominated and the character they played. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple wins 2 wins *Paris Hilton ('' House of Wax, Repo! The Genetic Opera'') *Madonna (''Four Rooms, Die Another Day'') Multiple nominations 5 nominations *Carmen Electra 4 nominations *Kelly Preston 3 nominations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Stranger Among Us
''A Stranger Among Us'' is a 1992 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. It is often cited as one of Lumet's two failures of the 1990s, the other being ''Guilty as Sin'' (1993). Despite the poor reviews suffered by both these films, Lumet received the 1993 D. W. Griffith Award of the Directors Guild of America. The film was also the first credited role for actor James Gandolfini. The shooting of the film was used as an example in Lumet’s book ''Making Movies''. Plot Hardened New York City homicide detective Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith), daughter of a divorced former cop, and her partner Nick (Jamey Sheridan) attempt to arrest two drug dealers. However, Nick is stabbed by one of the dealers, whom Emily wounds instead of alerting assistance at first. As a result, her superior Lt. Oliver (David Marg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Things (film)
''Fine Things'', also known as ''Danielle Steel's Fine Things'', is a 1990 romantic drama television film directed by Tom Moore. The film is based upon the 1987 novel of the same name written by Danielle Steel. Plot Bernard "Bernie" Fine is a highly successful businessman who moves from New York City to San Francisco for his work at the west coast Wolff's department store. One day, he meets Jane, a little girl who is lost while shopping at the store. Bernie approaches her, and helps her by paging her. They enjoy an ice cream sundae in his office while waiting for her mother, Liz O'Reilly, a single mother. Jane and her mom reunite shortly after, and she invites Bernie to join the two of them for lunch at their friend's beachhouse at Stinson. After a lengthy time of dating, Bernie and Liz decide to marry. Although his mother Ruth, a proud Jew, is not enthusiastic about Liz's religious background, she eventually comes to accept Liz as her new daughter-in-law. Soon, Liz becomes p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promised Land (1987 Film)
''Promised Land'' is a 1987 drama film written and directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan. The film is set in Utah. It was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival, and uses the drama over economic class and manhood to critique the Reagan Administration. The movie was referenced in the movie Dreamcatcher. Plot The film opens by following two American high school acquaintances, a few years after graduation. They are now suffering from deep anger and anguish, because they are not as successful as they hoped to be. David Hancock is the high school basketball star who gets into college on an athletic scholarship only to lose the scholarship to a better player. Unable to succeed in college based on his academic merit, he returns to his hometown, becomes a police officer and is slowly moving into a middle-class mediocrity with his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary Daley, who is in college and plans to major in the arts. Hancock is stil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Swenson
Kari Swenson (born 1961) is a veterinarian in Bozeman, Montana and former Biathlon, biathlete who earned a bronze medal as a member of the 1984 U.S. relay team competing in the first women's Biathlon World Championships 1984, Biathlon World Championships in Chamonix, France. Swenson placed fifth overall in the women's 10-km final, which, at the time, marked the best performance for a U.S. biathlete of either sex in 26 years of international biathlon competition. In 2015, Swenson and her 1984 teammates were inducted into the U.S. Biathlon Hall of Fame. Background In 1970, Swenson's father, Bob, former head of the Physics Department at Temple University, moved from a suburb in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife Janet and their three children, relocating to Bozeman where he became head of the Physics Department at Montana State University. Janet Swenson was a nurse and ski patrol volunteer, and Kari took up cross-country skiing in her youth. By 1984, Kari Swenson had become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baron And The Kid
The Baron and the Kid is an 1984 American made-for-television Drama film starring Johnny Cash. The film was directed by Gary Nelson. Plot William “The Baron” Addington (Johnny Cash) is a former pool pro whose lifetime of drinking has cost him his career and family. Trying to set himself straight, he quits drinking and begins to play pool for charity. When William comes across a young man named Billy Joe Stanley (Greg Webb) managed by Jack Streamer (Darren McGavin), the two team up. A series of chance revelations leads William to discover that Billy is his son. The two join a tournament before William reveals his true identity as Billy’s father. Cast Production Production was carried out by Gary Nelson. The movie was filmed in Atlanta,Georgia, as well as Norcross, Georgia, with scenes filmed in Cedartown. Reception The movie received mostly positive reviews, receiving an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 69% on Metacritic Metacritic is a website that rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
