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Clea Lewis
Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen Morgan (Ellen Degeneres)'s annoying friend Audrey Penney in the sitcom '' Ellen''. Lewis also played Margaret Redding on '' Royal Pains'' and Deirdre Kemp on ''The Americans''. She guest-starred in '' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, ''the pilot episode ''of Friends,'' and was a series regular on '' Flying Blind'' and '' Andy Barker, P.I.'' Additionally, she appeared in movies like '' The Rich Man's Wife'', '' Diabolique,'' and '' Perfect Stranger,'' and is also known for her theatre roles, including on Broadway in '' Absurd Person Singular'', and her voiceover work, such as in the movie '' Ice Age: The Meltdown'' and voicing Nicky Little in the Disney cartoon ''Pepper Ann''. Personal life Clea Lewis was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to a writer mother and a former vaudeville performer and lawyer father. Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. She has two sons with her h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 45,312 at the 2020 census. One of Cleveland's historic streetcar suburbs, it was founded as a village in 1903 and a city in 1921. History The area that is now the city of Cleveland Heights lies atop the Portage Escarpment. Until the late 1800s, the area remained largely timber and farmland, with a few orchards, quarries, and vineyards. The first road through the city, Mayfield Road, was not built until 1828. Some of the land was divided into farms, but it also had quarries in the 19th century. One of the early quarries was established by Duncan McFarland who mined bluestone. This led to the settlement that grew up around the quarry for the workers to live in to be referred to as Bluestone. There is still a road of this name in that area. In 1873, business magnate John D. Rockefeller acquired about in what is now the cities of East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, with a water cure hotel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pepper Ann
''Pepper Ann'' is an American animated television series created by Sue Rose and aired on Disney's One Saturday Morning on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It first premiered on September 13, 1997, and ended on November 30, 2001. It was the first Disney animated television series to be created by a woman. Mr. Warburton, Tom Warburton, who later created Cartoon Network's ''Codename: Kids Next Door'', served as the lead character designer for the series. Overview ''Pepper Ann'' centers on the trials and tribulations that occur during the titular character's adolescence and charts her ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. The character originated in a comic strip published in YM (magazine), ''YM'' magazine. Episodes Characters Main * Jennifer "Pepper Ann" Pearson (voiced by Kathleen Wilhoite) is the titular protagonist of the series, who is a bespectacled, quirky 12-year-old girl whose emotions come out in fantasies. Her conscience, Alter-Ego, often drives her insecuritie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Pilot (Friends)
"The Pilot" (also known as "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate", "The First One", and "The One Where It All Began") is the pilot episode and series premiere of the American television sitcom ''Friends''. The episode premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. It was written by the show's creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and directed by James Burrows. The pilot introduces six twenty-something friends who live and work in New York City: Monica Geller, a single sous chef in her mid 20s who is illegally subletting her grandmother's apartment; Ross Geller, Monica's older brother, a paleontologist whose marriage recently ended after he learned his wife, Carol, is a lesbian; Rachel Green, Monica's spoiled, self-centered, high-school best friend who has just left her fiancé at the altar and is financially cut off by her father; Chandler Bing, Ross's college roommate and best friend who lives across the hall from Monica; Joey Tribbiani, a struggling Italian-American actor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doogie Howser, M
Doogie may refer to: * '' Doogie Howser, M.D.'', an American medical drama that ran for four seasons on ABC * '' Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.'', an American family medical comedy-drama developed by Kourtney Kang * Doogie White (born 1960), Scottish rock vocalist See also * Dougie, a hip-hop dance * Dougie (given name) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Antarctica (2020 Film)
''Antarctica'' is a 2020 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Keith Bearden and starring Chloe Levine and Kimie Muroya. Cast *Chloe Levine as Kat *Kimie Muroya as Janet *Steve Lipman as Stevie D *Damian Young as Dr. Blake *Bubba Weiler as Rian *Clea Lewis as Diane *Laith Nakli as Vlad *Ajay Naidu as Principal Pepp *Jojo Gonzalez as Jaime Jimenez Release The film was released on December 4, 2020. Reception The film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews. John DeFore of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' gave the film a positive review and wrote "...Keith Bearden’s take on a teen-comedy model that always lives or dies by its stars’ chemistry." Bradley Gibson of ''Film Threat ''Film Threat'' is an American online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. ...'' rated the film a 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Life Of Crime (film)
''Life of Crime'' is a 2013 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Daniel Schechter (director), Daniel Schechter, based on Elmore Leonard's novel ''The Switch'' (1978), which includes characters later revisited in his novel ''Rum Punch'' (1992), which was adapted into the Quentin Tarantino film ''Jackie Brown'' (1997). ''Life of Crime'' was screened on the closing night 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival and released in theaters on August 29, 2014 by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Plot As the movie opens in late-1970's Detroit, Louis and his friend Ordell lure the man who just robbed Louis of 27 dollars into the street to run him over and recover the cash. The two plan to kidnap Mickey, wife of corrupt real estate developer Frank Dawson, and ransom her for $1million, knowing Frank must avoid police involvement or risk exposure of his real estate crimes. Louis re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is a 2009 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to '' Ice Age: The Meltdown'' (2006) and the third installment in the ''Ice Age'' film series. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Mike Thurmeier, from a screenplay written by Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss, and Yoni Brenner, based on a story conceived by Jason Carter Eaton. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first two films and Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah reprise their roles from ''The Meltdown'', with Simon Pegg joining them in the role of a weasel named Buck. In the film, while Manny and Ellie are preparing for their baby, Sid the Sloth is kidnapped by a female ''Tyrannosaurus'' after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the herd to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs underneath th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (film)
''Confessions of a Shopaholic'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy film based on the first two entries in the '' Shopaholic'' series of novels by Sophie Kinsella. Directed by P. J. Hogan, the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist and Hugh Dancy as her boss. Plot Shopping addict Rebecca Bloomwood lives in New York City with her best friend Suze and works as a journalist for a gardening magazine, but dreams of joining fashion magazine ''Alette''. On the way to an interview with ''Alette'', she tries to purchase a green scarf, but her credit card is declined. Rebecca offers to buy all the hot dogs from a hot dog stand with a check if the vendor gives her back change in cash, claiming that the scarf is a gift for her sick aunt. The vendor refuses, but another customer gives her the $20 she needs for the scarf. Rebecca arrives and learns that the position has been filled internally, but that there is an open position with the financial magazine ''Successful Saving''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Motherhood (2009 Film)
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of gestational surrogacy. A biological mother is the female genetic contributor to the creation of the infant, through sexual intercourse or egg donation. A biological mother may have legal obligations to a child not raised by her, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive mother is a female who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative mother is a female whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established. A stepmother is a non-biological female parent married to a child's preexisting parent, and may form a family unit but generally does not have the legal rights and responsibilities of a parent in relation to the child. A father is the male counterpart of a mother. Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hero (1992 Film)
''Hero'' (released in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Australia as ''Accidental Hero'') is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. It was written by David Webb Peoples, from a story written by Peoples, Laura Ziskin and Alvin Sargent, and stars Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy García, and Joan Cusack. Following '' The Grifters'' (1990), it was the second American feature film by British filmmaker Frears. Plot Bernie LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors, including TV reporter Gale Gayley, at an airplane crash. At the same time, he also steals her purse, losing a shoe in the process. After his car breaks down, he flags down John Bubber, a homeless Vietnam War veteran, and tells him about the rescue at the crash site, giving him his remaining shoe. When Gale's television station news director, Deke, offers $1 million to the "Angel of Flight 104", Bernie realizes he can't claim the reward, due to his arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Princess Diaries
''The Princess Diaries'' is a series of epistolary young adult novels written by Meg Cabot, and is also the title of the first volume, published in 2000. The series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List. The series revolves around Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis, a teenager in New York City who discovers that she is the princess of a small European principality called Genovia. The series follows Mia's life throughout high school in the 2000s and juggling regular teenage life with being a royal princess. The books are noted for containing many pop culture references from the 2000s that influence some of the plot. Meg Cabot quotes the series' inspiration on her website stating: "I was inspired to write ''The Princess Diaries'' when my mom, after the death of my father, began dating one of my teachers; they later went on to get married just as Mia's mom does in the book! I have always had a 'thing' for princesses (my parents used to joke that when I was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
