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Elizabeth Laime
Elizabeth Laime (born September 19, 1979) is an American writer, actress and podcast host. She currently hosts the podcast '' Totally Laime'' formerly of the Earwolf network. Her former podcasts include ''Totally Married'', a relationship advice show, and ''Totally Mommy'', a show about parenting. She has written for the TruTV comedy series '' I'm Sorry'', the NBC series '' The Village''. and the ABC series A Million Little Things. Early life Laime was born on September 19, 1979 in Houston, Texas. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri when she was ten and stayed there until she was eighteen. On December 19, 1998 Laime's mother died from pancreatic cancer. At the time of her mother's death Laime was at her debutante ball, an event that her mother insisted that she go through with despite her condition. Upon leaving her mother Laime realized that, "I knew (crying) when I was saying goodbye to her that I was like saying goodbye." Ten months later, on the anniversary of her parents' weddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston (; ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas, the Southern United States#Major cities, most populous city in the Southern United States, the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the List of North American cities by population, sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat and largest city of Harris County, Texas, Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the List of Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022, a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019, and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million, ''USA Today'' is ranked as the first by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States. It has been shown to maintain a generally center-left audience, in regards to political persuasion. ''USA Today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Gun Control
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. Most countries have a restrictive firearm guiding policy, with only a few legislations being categorized as permissive. Jurisdictions that regulate access to firearms typically restrict access to only certain categories of firearms and then to restrict the categories of persons who will be granted a license to have access to a firearm. In some countries, such as the United States, gun control may be legislated at either a federal level or a local state level. Terminology and context Gun control refers to domestic regulation of firearm manufacture, trade, possession, use, and transport, specifically with regard to the class of weapons referred to as small arms (revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles, and carbines, assault rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns). Usage of the term ''g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Broadly speaking, and particularly in popular discourse, the term "animal rights" is often used synonymously with "animal protection" or "animal liberation". More narrowly, "animal rights" refers to the idea that many animals have fundamental rights to be treated with respect as individuals—rights to life, liberty, and freedom from torture that may not be overridden by considerations of aggregate welfare. Many advocates for animal rights oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone. This idea, known as speciesism, is considered by them to be a prejudice as irrational as any other. They maintain that animals should no lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban agglomeration in the United States. The region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties. The Colorado Desert and the Colorado River are located on Southern California's eastern border with Arizona, and San Bernardino County shares a border with Nevada to the northeast. Southern California's southern border with Baja California is part of the Mexico–United States border. Constituent metropolitan areas Southern California includes the heavily built-up urban area which stretches along the Pacific coast from Ventura through Greater Los Angeles down to Greater San Diego (the contiguous urban area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Neff
Lucas Neff (born November 7, 1985) is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Fox sitcom '' Raising Hope'' (2010-2014). Most recently, he starred in the CBS sitcom '' Carol's Second Act'' (2019) and co-starred as Duncan on ''Monsters at Work'' (2021) for Disney+. Personal life Neff was born and raised in the Andersonville area of Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Meade Palidofsky, is the founder of Storycatchers Theatre and his father, Alan, is a lawyer and novelist. He is of Irish and Jewish descent. He graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in 2004 and with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008. He started acting when he was mistakenly assigned to the performing arts department at UIC. After college, he took classes at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Neff has a younger brother. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He and Australian actress Caitlin Stasey were married in 2016, and divor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Denbo
Jamie Denbo (born July 24, 1973) is an Americans, American actress, writer, comedian and half of the comedy duo Ronna and Beverly with Jessica Chaffin. She also co-starred in the FX (TV channel), FX series ''Terriers (TV series), Terriers'' and appeared in ''Spy (2015 film), Spy'', ''The Heat (film), The Heat'' and ''Ghostbusters (2016 film), Ghostbusters'' (2016). Early life Denbo was born and raised in suburban Boston, in Swampscott, Massachusetts, Swampscott, Massachusetts. She is an only child. Her mother is from Montreal, and her father is from New Jersey near Philadelphia; both parents were raised in Orthodox Jewish households. Denbo attended a Jewish day school from kindergarten to sixth grade. Several of her summers were spent at Camp Tel Noar in Hampstead, New Hampshire where she starred as Wendy in ''Peter Pan'' and appeared in several other plays. Denbo attended college at Boston University, where she participated in improvisational comedy. Career Early in her caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Ritter
Jason Morgan Ritter (born February 17, 1980) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Kevin Girardi in the television series '' Joan of Arcadia'', Ethan Haas in '' The Class'', Sean Walker in the NBC series '' The Event'', Dipper Pines in '' Gravity Falls'', and Pat Rollins in ''Raising Dion''. He also played the recurring role of Mark Cyr in the NBC television series '' Parenthood'', for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. In 2017, Ritter starred in the ABC comedy series '' Kevin (Probably) Saves the World''. He voiced the character Ryder in ''Frozen II''. Early life Ritter was born on February 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, California to actors Nancy Morgan and John Ritter. He is the grandson of actors Tex Ritter (who died six years before Ritter was born) and Dorothy Fay. His stepmother is actress Amy Yasbeck. Ritter has three siblings including actor Tyler Ritter. Ritter first appeared in the opening credits of his father's show '' Three's Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tami Sagher
Tami Sagher is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress. Biography A native of Chicago, Sagher studied mathematics at the University of Chicago before joining Boom Chicago and then Second City. Career TV Sagher has written for the TV shows ''30 Rock'', ''Psych,'' ''MADtv'' and ''Inside Amy Schumer''. She was a staff writer on the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'', leaving before the show's final season. Sagher then spent two seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series ''Orange is the New Black''. From 2020 to 2021, Sagher was a writer-executive producer on the Hulu series '' Shrill.'' National Public Radio In addition, Sagher has contributed to ''This American Life''. Performance Her performing includes playing an improv performer in ''Don't Think Twice'', starring in the short film ''The Shabbos Goy'', as well as various appearances on TV sitcoms and sketch shows. In particular, she appeared in Season 5 of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. Honors Sagher has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Diane Raphael
June Diane Raphael ( ; born January 4, 1980) is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has starred in TV comedy programs ''Burning Love'', Adult Swim's '' NTSF:SD:SUV::'', and ''Grace and Frankie''. Notable film work includes supporting roles in ''Year One'' and '' Unfinished Business'', as well as her 2013 Sundance film '' Ass Backwards'', which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. She is self-credited as the inventor of podcasts, and currently co-hosts both '' How Did This Get Made?'' alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer, and ''The Deep Dive'' with Jessica St. Clair. Early life Raphael was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York, to Diane and John Raphael, where she graduated from South Side High School in 1998. She is of Irish descent, and was raised Catholic. She has two older sisters, Lauren and Deanna. Raphael attended New York University (NYU), where she studied acting at NYU's Tisch School of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Wilson
Cathryn Rose "Casey" Wilson (born October 24, 1980) is an American actress, comedienne, and screenwriter. She starred as Penny Hartz in the ABC comedy series ''Happy Endings'' for which she was twice nominated to the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and has since starred in comedies such as Showtime's '' Black Monday'', Apple TV's ''The Shrink Next Door'', Hulu's '' The Hotwives'' and '' Marry Me'' on NBC. Other notable work includes supporting roles in films such as '' Gone Girl'', ''Julie & Julia'', and '' The Meddler'', recurring in the HBO series '' Mrs. Fletcher'', the Amazon comedy '' One Mississippi'', and the Netflix series '' Atypical'', and her 2013 Sundance film '' Ass Backwards'', which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner June Diane Raphael. Wilson co-hosts (alongside Danielle Schneider) the Earwolf podcast ''Bitch Sesh''. Wilson made her first major television appearances with a two-season stint a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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