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What If (Drop Dead Diva)
The first season of '' Drop Dead Diva'' premiered on July 12, 2009, and concluded October 11, 2009, on Lifetime. Season one aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm ET for the entire season and consisted of 13 episodes. Storylines Jane/Deb After Deb dies in a car accident and Jane dies from being shot, Deb ascends to heaven where she meets Fred and pushes the return button on his desk so she could return to earth but unknowingly she returns in the body of Jane, a brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney. Deb wrestles with this new life. She has Jane's legal smarts but not her memories and brushes off odd behavior as aftereffects of Jane being shot. Her lack of Jane's memories does hurt at times such as when she sues a diet guru unaware until the trial that Jane did a commercial endorsing the product. In addition, Deb learned at Jane's Class of 1994 reunion that Jane was very unnoticed at high school and her prom date was gay. Deb also handles the sudden urge for treats and snacks she denie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifetime (TV Network)
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. , it is received by 93.8 million households in America. History Predecessors There were two television channels that preceded Lifetime in its current incarnation. Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services.(June 15, 1983Hearst-ABC, Viacom in Pact. New York Times.Lifetime Entertainment Services History . International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 32. St. James Press, 2000. Hosted on Funding Universe.com. Retrieved on December 4, 2013.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith Prince
Faith Prince (born August 6, 1957) is an American actress and singer, best known for her work on Broadway in musical theatre. She won the Tony Award as Best Actress in ''Guys and Dolls'' in 1992, and received three other Tony nominations. Life and career Prince was born in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she attended E.C. Glass High School, and later studied theater at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. She made her Broadway debut as the ''Gypsy'' character Tessie Tura in ''Jerome Robbins' Broadway'' (1989) and followed this with a role in the ill-fated '' Nick & Nora''. She was established as a Broadway star with her portrayal of Miss Adelaide in the 1992 revival of ''Guys and Dolls'', for which she won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award as Best Actress in a Musical. In 2001, Prince was once again nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her portrayal of Ella Peterson in the revival of '' Bells Are Ringing''. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurissa Tancharoen
Maurissa Tancharoen () in Los Angeles, California)Maurissa Tancharoen biographical information, DoctorHorrible.net. Retrieved 2008-02-21. is an American actress, producer and writer. Career Tancharoen's first paid script came in 2001 when she sold an untitled pitch in which two FBI agents investigate a gang in South Centr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama ''thirtysomething'' for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Mayron for her outstanding contributions to film and television. Personal life Mayron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norma (née Goodman), a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist. Her family is Jewish; her father is from a Sephardic background (the original surname was "Mizrahi"), while her mother is of Russian Jewish descent.‘Slap’ Happy Actor-director Melanie Mayron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Babbit
Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films ''But I'm a Cheerleader'', ''The Quiet'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee''. She has also directed episodes of television programs including ''Russian Doll (TV series), Russian Doll'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''United States of Tara'', ''Looking (TV series), Looking'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''The L Word'', ''Silicon Valley (TV series), Silicon Valley'', ''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'', and ''A_League_of_Their_Own_(2022_TV_series), A League of Their Own''. Early life and education Babbit was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland with her father, a lawyer and law school professor, and her mother who ran a treatment program for teenagers with drug and alcohol problems, before her death in 2006. The program was called New Directions, and it provided inspiration for the fictional "reparative therapy" (conversion therapy) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz (born November 10, 1938) is an American director and producer of theater, film and television. Life and career Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an African-American mother Katherine Frances Leslie (1917-1995), and Leo Albert Schultz (1913-2001), an insurance salesman of German descent. Shortly before his birth his parents married in Iowa, where both were listed as black on their marriage license. Mr. Schultz's occupation was listed as "Musician" at the time of his marriage. Michael Schultz, who was known as "Mike" growing up, attended Riverside High School in Milwaukee, where he was a very active student. He played baseball, football and participated in student theater productions. After his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Marquette University, he attended Princeton University, where in 1966 he directed his first play, a production of '' Waiting for Godot''. He joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Petrarca
David Petrarca (born November 10, 1965) is an American director and producer of theatre, television and film. He was director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from 1988 until 2005. His work as a director includes HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''Game of Thrones'', ''Big Love'', ''Hung'', and ''True Blood'' as well as ''Marco Polo'', ''Jessica Jones'' and numerous other projects for Netflix. Other recent projects include ''The Alienist'' and ''Warrior''. He worked as an executive producer on ''Those Who Kill'', ABC series ''Eli Stone'' and ''Drop Dead Diva''. He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel. He has taught at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his comedy roles. He has appeared as a series regular in television sitcoms ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''American Housewife'', and '' Outsourced'', along with notable recurring roles in '' Better Things'' and ''Veep.'' His film credits include ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Office Space'', '' EuroTrip'', and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. He has also had a prolific voiceover career, playing characters such as Hoss Delgado in ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', Zeta in ''The Zeta Project'', Tank in the film '' Surf's Up'', and provided the voice of Bruce Wayne / Batman in multiple animated films and television series, beginning in 2008 with '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold''. Early life Karl Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of Gretta Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; 1931–2014), a sculptor, and William B. Bader (1931–2016), a foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Moses
Mark W. Moses (born February 24, 1958) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Paul Young in the ABC comedy-drama ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2011) and as Herman "Duck" Phillips in the AMC period drama ''Mad Men'' (2007–2014). Early life Moses was born in New York City, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His father worked in advertising on Madison Avenue while they lived in New York. He has stated that he drew inspiration from his father when he landed the role of Duck Phillips on the hit show ''Mad Men''. Moses's parents moved to Saint Louis, Missouri while he was still in high school, so he stayed with family friends in Evanston to finish high school there. Moses attended Evanston Township High School where he was quarterback of the school's varsity football team. He then enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in English. Moses dropped out after a year to travel. He later enrolled at New York University, where he graduated with a deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Trilling
Lawrence Trilling is a television director who has worked on many popular shows, including ''Alias'', '' Felicity'', ''Invasion'', ''Monk'', ''Pushing Daisies'', '' Scrubs'', '' Roswell'', ''Goliath'', and '' Parenthood''. In 2017, Trilling was announced as showrunner for ''Goliath.'' Education Trilling graduated from Columbia University in 1988. Directing credits *''Condor'' **1.01 ''What Loneliness'' *'' Felicity'' ** 1.15 ''The Fugue'' ** 2.01 ''Sophomoric'' ** 2.06 ''The Love Bug'' ** 2.09 ''Portraits'' ** 2.20 ''Ben Was Here'' ** 3.04 ''Greeks and Geeks'' ** 3.10 ''Let's Get It On'' ** 3.12 ''Girlfight'' ** 3.16 ''It's Raining Men'' ** 4.03 ''Your Money or Your Wife'' ** 4.09 ''Lonelyhearts'' ** 4.11 ''A Perfect Match'' ** 4.19 ''The Power of the Ex'' ** 4.22 ''Back to the Future'' *''Alias'' ** 2.12 ''The Getaway'' ** 2.20 ''Countdown'' ** 3.04 ''A Missing Link'' ** 3.06 ''The Nemesis'' ** 3.11 ''Full Disclosure'' ** 3.14 ''Blowback'' ** 3.16 ''Taken'' ** 3.21 ''Legac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lange
Michael Lange (born March 1, 1950) is an American television director and record producer. Biography Early life Born and raised just outside New York City,MICHAEL LANGE: Director , Silly Music biography. Accessed on 2007-12-23. in Mamaroneck, New York and attending Mamaroneck High School where he was heavily involved in music and a bit in drama, Michael Lange first developed a taste for drama in college, where he served as both an actor and director in a number of productions.Lange, Michael MICHAEL LANGE: Director , Silly Music autobiography. Accessed on 2007-12-23. Although pressured by his parents to become a doctor, he went on to study theatre at |
