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Treasure Island (1999 Independent Film)
''Treasure Island'' is a 1999 American experimental independent film directed by Scott King. Described as a psychosexual black comedy, the story is about two war strategists on San Francisco’s Treasure Island naval base during World War II. It is inspired from an actual account of a counterintelligence ploy by two British officers. The film is shot in 16 mm and is in black and white. Plot Frank and Samuel are two American cryptographers on Treasure Island during WWII who decode letters and look for hidden meanings behind the words. As a counterintelligence ploy, they plan to drop a dead body off the coast of Japan before an invasion. To make the body convincing, the men decide to write letters to and from him, so the Japanese army will think he is a real person. As they write the letters, they begin to reveal things about their own lives and repressed desires. Frank, a bigamist, is married to two women and is pursuing a third wife. Samuel and his wife Penny are in a ménage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Offerman
Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and carpenter. He is best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom ''Parks and Recreation'', for which he received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy and was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Offerman is also known for his role in ''The Founder'', in which he portrays Richard McDonald, one of the brothers who developed the fast-food chain McDonald's. His first major television role following the end of ''Parks and Recreation'' was as Karl Weathers in the second season of the FX black comedy crime drama series '' Fargo'', for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Since 2018, Offerman has co-hosted the NBC reality competition series, '' Making It'', with Amy Poehler; he and Poehler hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black And White
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Photography Contemporary use Since the late 1960s, few mainstream films have been shot in black-and-white. The reasons are frequently commercial, as it is difficult to sell a film for television broadcasting if the film is not in color. 1961 was the last year in which the majority of Hollywood films were released in black and white. Computing In computing terminology, ''black-and-white'' is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white ones; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic. Biography Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for RCA Records before turning to writing pop music reviews and related articles for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, ''Blender'', ''The Village Voice'', ''The Atlantic'', and '' Vanity Fair'', among other publications. He first achieved prominence with his 1970s ''Rolling Stone'' work, where he tended to cover singer-songwriter and traditional pop artists. He joined the staff of ''The New York Times'' in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper's leading theatre and film critics. Holden's experiences as a journalist and executive with RCA led him to write the satirical novel ''Triple Platinum'', which was published by Dell Books in 1980. He is the recipient of the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gutrecht
Paul Gutrecht (born September 5, 1967) is an American psychotherapist who draws on his training, his life experience as a spouse & father, and his prior work in entertainment for use as appropriate in his clinical work. Personal life Gutrecht attended Cornell University from 1985 to 1989. Aside from his acting career, Gutrecht attended Antioch University Los Angeles from 2012 to 2013 and became a marriage and family therapist working in Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ... since 2016. His practice deals mostly with anxiety, anger-alleviation, substance use, communication, marriage enrichment and/or divorce-related issues. He works with individuals, couples and families, navigating anger, anxiety and depression, dealing with divorce, co-paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Papineau
Lisa Papineau is an American musician and songwriter. She has released four solo albums, and is the songwriter and vocalist for Los Angeles band Big Sir. Papineau is a frequent collaborator of Japanese composer Jun Miyake and has also written songs for and recorded with other bands and solo artists, including Air, M83, Halo Orbit, ME & LP, Renaud-Gabriel Pion, Jam Da Silva, Dinho Ouro Preto, Anubian Lights, Farflung, P.O.D., Omar Rodríguez-López, Scapegoat Wax, Scenario Rock, Arman Méliès, Mandrake, Sissy Bar, and Crooked Cowboy and the Freshwater Indians. Papineau received initial recognition when her band Pet, co-founded with composer Tyler Bates, was featured on '' The Crow: City of Angels'' soundtrack, and later the Blue Note Records soundtrack for ''The Last Time I Committed Suicide''. Pet's self-titled album was executive-produced by Tori Amos. Papineau was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She has multiple sclerosis. Discography *''Night Moves'' (Productions Spécia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Byington
Robert Byington (born April 29, 1966) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor living in Austin, Texas. He is most noted for his films ''RSO (Registered Sex Offender)'' (2008), ''Harmony and Me'' (2009), '' Somebody Up There Likes Me'' (2012), winner of The Special Jury Prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, ''7 Chinese Brothers'' (2015) starring Jason Schwartzman, Olympia Dukakis and Tunde Adebimpe, and ''Infinity Baby'' (2017) starring Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, and Martin Starr. His most recent film, ''Frances Ferguson'', premiered at South by Southwest in March 2019. Career Robert "Bob" Byington grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz and received a masters in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Byington directed his first film ''Shameless'' in 1996, and followed up with ''Olympia'' in 1998, which played on opening night of the South by Southwest Film Festival. He then entered a decade long "G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caveh Zahedi
Caveh Zahedi (; born April 29, 1960) is an American film director and actor. Early years Zahedi was born in Washington, D.C., to Iranian immigrant parents. He studied philosophy at Yale University. Upon graduation, Zahedi moved to Paris, France, to find funding for his films, but failed to interest any French producers in his projects about Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Eadweard Muybridge. He estranged himself from his idol, Jean-Luc Godard, after calling him at 3 A.M. He also produced an experimental music video of a Talking Heads song, which was rejected by David Byrne. Los Angeles Zahedi subsequently returned to Los Angeles to attend UCLA film school. In the UCLA graduate program he completed his first feature film, '' A Little Stiff'' (1991), with fellow student Greg Watkins. The film was an experimental narrative in which he re‑enacted his unrequited love for a UCLA art student, using real-life participants. ''A Little Stiff'' premiered at the Sundance Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Jane Turner is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. She has written such films as ''American Psycho'' and ''The Notorious Bettie Page'' and played the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in '' Preaching to the Perverted''. Early life Turner was born in Boston, and is the oldest of six children. Her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a member of the United States Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II. Turner spent the first eleven years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various communes around the U.S. with over 100 members who were devotees of Mel Lyman and who believed they would eventually live on Venus. Though Turner acknowledged that the Lyman Family had been portrayed as a cult she argued against using the word to describe them. In accordance with the customs of the Lyman Family, Turner was not raised by her mother, but she and her younger sister were eventually ejected from the Family after their mother chos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JP Manoux
Jean-Paul Christophe Manoux (born June 8, 1969) is an American actor, director and writer. He is perhaps best known for his work on multiple Disney television series. He played S.T.A.N. the android in ''Aaron Stone'', both Curtis the Caveman and Vice Principal Hackett in ''Phil of the Future'', and voiced Kuzco in ''The Emperor's New School''. Before fame, Manoux was a contestant on ''Jeopardy!'', ''Family Feud'', and ''Wheel of Fortune''. Early life Manoux was born in Fresno, California on June 8, 1969. He grew up in Santa Barbara, California, the eldest of seven children. He attended Thacher School in Ojai, California and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Upon graduating and moving to Hollywood, Manoux studied Improv and sketch comedy at L.A. Theatresports, ACME Comedy Theatre, The Groundlings School, and iO West. Career One of Manoux's early roles was as a regular performer on ''The Wayne Brady Show''. He went on from there to work extensively in television and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Raider-Wexler
Victor Raider-Wexler is an American film and television actor. He is best known for roles as Stan in the sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' (1996–2004), the dual roles of Mr. Kaplan and Mr. Kaufman in the sitcom ''The King of Queens'' (2001–2007), Igor in the 2000 family comedy film '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'' (2000) and Judge B. Duff in '' Dr. Dolittle 2'' (2001). His voice roles in animation and video games include Tonoyama in ''Burn-Up Excess'', Asimov in ''Geneshaft'', Ray in ''American Dad!'', Dr. Gennadi Volodnikov in ''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine'', Vendel in ''Tales of Arcadia'' and Fredric Estes in '' The Boss Baby: Back in Business''. Career Raider-Wexler started his career in the 1970s. He was the stage manager for the 1976 Broadway play '' Best Friend''. In the 1980s, Wexler began acting in episodes of series such as ''Kate & Allie'' and '' Crime Story''. However, Wexler's career really catapulted in the 1990s with around 45 credits in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the same sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions." Along with bisexuality and heterosexuality, homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Scientists do not yet know the exact cause of sexual orientation, but they theorize that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences and do not view it as a choice. Although no single theory on the cause of sexual orientation has yet gained widespread support, scientists favor biologically based theories. There is considerably more evidence supporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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