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Captain Ron
''Captain Ron'' is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, produced by David Permut, and co-written by John Dwyer and Thom Eberhardt for Touchstone Pictures. It stars Kurt Russell as the eponymous sailor with a quirky personality and a checkered past, alongside Martin Short and Mary Kay Place who hire him to sail a yacht through the Caribbean. It earned negative reviews and was a box-office disappointment. Plot Martin Harvey is a middle-aged office worker who lives in Chicago with his wife, Katherine, 16-year-old daughter, Caroline, and 11-year-old son, Ben. When he learns his recently deceased uncle has bequeathed him a 60-foot yacht once owned by Clark Gable, he decides to take his family to the island of St. Pomme de Terre ("Saint Potato") to retrieve it so he can sell it. Katherine resists the idea, but agrees after Caroline announces she has just become engaged. When the Harveys arrive at the island, they discover that the yacht, the ''Wanderer'', is in ter ...
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Thom Eberhardt
Thomas Everett "Thom" Eberhardt (born March 7, 1947) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Eberhardt has won two awards and two nominations. He is most noted for his work on ''Without a Clue'', ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'', and the cult classic ''Night of the Comet''. Eberhardt, formerly a member of Writers Guild of America West, left and maintained financial core status in 2008. Partial filmography TV movies * ''Twice Upon a Time (1998 TV Movie), Twice Upon a Time'' (1998) * ''Ratz'' (2000) (Also writer) References External links

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Moron (psychology)
Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability.Rafter, Nicole Hahn (1998). ''Creating Born Criminals.'' University of Illinois Press, The term was closely tied with the Eugenics in the United States, American eugenics movement.Edwin Black, Black, Edwin (2004). ''War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race.'' Thunder's Mouth Press, Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term. It is similar to imbecile and idiot. Origin and uses "Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. GoddardTrent, James W. Jr. (2017). ''Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States''. Oxford University Press, from the Ancient Greek word ''Wiktionary:μωρός, μωρός'' (''moros''), which meant "dull" and used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of bet ...
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Walt Disney Studios (division)
The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions. Founded on October 16, 1923, and based mainly at Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), the namesake studio lot in Burbank, California, it is the seventh-oldest global film studio and the fifth-oldest in the United States, a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and one of the "Big Five" major film studios. Walt Disney Studios has prominent film production companies including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the majority of the content produced by these studios for both theatrical exhibition and Disney Streaming, the company's streaming services. In 2019, Disney posted an industry record of $13.2 billion at the global box office. The studio ow ...
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Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter and actor. His songs include " Diana", “ You Are My Destiny", “Lonely Boy", " Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and " (You're) Having My Baby". Anka also wrote the theme for ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''; one of Tom Jones' biggest hits, " She's a Lady"; and the English lyrics to Claude François and Jacques Revaux's music for Frank Sinatra's signature song " My Way", which has been recorded by many, including Elvis Presley. He co-wrote three songs with Michael Jackson: " This Is It" (originally titled "I Never Heard") " Love Never Felt So Good", and " Don't Matter to Me", which became posthumous hits for Jackson in 2009, 2014, and 2018, respectively. Early life Paul Albert Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to Camelia (née Tannis) and Andrew Emile "Andy" Anka Sr., who owned a restaurant called the Locanda. According to Anka's autobiography, ''My Way'', both of his parents we ...
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Roselyn Sanchez
Rosalyn and the similar name Rosalynn are feminine given names. Notable people and characters with the names include: People named Rosalyn * Rosalyn Baker (born 1946), American politician * Rosalyn Barton (born 1938), Australian diver * Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), American feminist historian * Rosalyn W. Berne, American writer and ethicist * Rosalyn Bird, Canadian politician * Rosalyn Borden (1932–2003), American actress and singer * Rosalyn Boulter (1917–1997), English actress * Rosalyn Bryant (born 1956), American sprinter * Rosalyn Dance (born 1948), American politician * Rosalyn Benjamin Darling (born c.1950), American sociologist * Rosalyn Deutsche, American art historian and critic * Rosalyn Diprose, Australian philosopher * Rosalyn Drexler (born 1926), American artist and writer * Rosalyn Fairbank (born 1960), South African tennis player * Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (born 1987), American basketball analyst * Rosalyn Henderson-Myers, American politician * Rosalyn Higgins, L ...
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Tom McGowan
Thomas McGowan (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He first became known for his stage career both on and off Broadway. In 1991, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut performance in '' La Bête''. In 2011, McGowan was chosen to step into the role of the Wizard in '' Wicked'' on Broadway. In 2014, McGowan starred in Harvey Fierstein's original Broadway play '' Casa Valentina'' which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Since then he has appeared in the Broadway revivals of '' She Loves Me'' (2016) and ''Kiss Me, Kate'' (2019). He is also known for his recurring role on the Emmy Award winning NBC show ''Frasier'', as KACL station manager Kenny Daly. He has also appeared on a variety of shows including ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''The Practice'', '' ER'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''Modern Family'', ''Veep'' and ''The Good Fight''. He ...
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Dan Butler
Daniel Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954) is an American actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series ''Frasier'' (1993–2004), later reprising the role in 2024; Art in ''Roseanne'' (1991–1992); for the voice of Mr. Simmons on the ''Nickelodeon'' TV show ''Hey Arnold!'' (1997–2002), later reprising the role in '' Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie'' (2017); and for film roles in '' Enemy of the State'' (1998) and '' Sniper 2'' (2001). Education Butler was born in Huntington, Indiana, and raised in Fort Wayne. He is the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Andrew Butler, a pharmacist. While a drama student at Purdue University Fort Wayne in 1975, he received the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship, sponsored by the Kennedy Center. From 1976 to 1978, he trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Career Butler is best known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe in the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'', appearing in every season but one between 1993 and 2 ...
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Sunshine Logroño
Emmanuel Logroño (born November 1, 1951), better known as Sunshine Logroño, is an American actor. Logroño has worked in Puerto Rican media for close to five decades. Early years Born in New York to a Puerto Rican mother, Logroño moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico along with his family when he was nine years old. He was soon recognized as a multifaceted entertainer by his schoolteachers and classmates. His nickname "Sunshine" came from a short stint (1973) as a disc jockey for San Juan-based WBMJ-AM, Puerto Rico's first rock and roll station (another WBMJ disc jockey at the time, Raymond Broussard, better known as ''Moonshadow'', later became the co-host of El Vacilón de la Mañana, a very popular Spanish language morning radio talk show in New York City). Sunshine was also heard in 1974 as a part of the new announcing crew at "The New WRAI" 1520, a station created by Bill Thompson and "Radio Man" after the format change from English to Spanish at WBMJ. Besides his short stint ...
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Benjamin Salisbury
Benjamin David Salisbury (born October 19, 1980) is an American actor and dancer best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom ''The Nanny'' from 1993 to 1999. Early life and education Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 19, 1980, to parents David Arthur Salisbury and Mindy Jo (née Schneidewind) Salisbury. In 1998, he graduated from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, and enrolled in American University in Washington, D.C., that fall. He has two older sisters and a younger brother. Salisbury said he first got into acting when he was in a play at 9 years old. In 2000, he was an intern for House minority leader Richard Gephardt. Career An accomplished dancer, Salisbury would often treat ''The Nanny'' studio audiences to improvisational routines when the cameras were not rolling. Most of Salisbury's career was on ''The Nanny'' from 1993 to 1999. In 1996, he won best actor in a comedy series at the Young Artist Aw ...
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Meadow Sisto
Meadow Sisto is a former American actress mostly known for playing Caroline in the 1992 film ''Captain Ron''. Sisto is the daughter of Dick Sisto, a jazz vibist and Reedy Gibbs, an actress. Her younger brother, Jeremy Sisto, is also an actor. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ... and works as a healing foods chef. Filmography Film Television References External links * 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from California American film actresses American television actresses Living people People from Grass Valley, California American people of Italian descent {{US-screen-actor-1970s-stub ...
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and Admiralty law, law enforcement military branch, service branch of the armed forces of the United States. It is one of the country's eight Uniformed services of the United States, uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the United States military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters and a Federal government of the United States, federal regulatory agency mission as part of its duties. It is the largest coast guard in the world, rivaling the capabilities and size of most Navy, navies. The U.S. Coast Guard protects the United States' borders and economic and security interests abroad; and defends its sovereignty by safeguarding sea lines of communication and commerce across U.S. territorial waters and its Exclusive economic zone, Exclusive Economic Zone. Due to ever-ex ...
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ...
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