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Elliott Kastner
Elliott Kastner (January 7, 1930 – June 30, 2010) was an American film producer, whose best known credits include ''Where Eagles Dare'' (1968), '' The Long Goodbye'' (1973), ''The Missouri Breaks'' (1976), and ''Angel Heart'' (1987). Early life and education Kastner was born to a Jewish family in New York City. His father died when he was young and he was raised by his mother in Harlem. He attended the University of Miami and Columbia University. During the 1950s he was stationed with U.S. Eucom (United States European Command), in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France. Career Kastner worked in the mail room at the William Morris Agency in New York, becoming a literary agent. He moved to Los Angeles and became a talent agent at the Music Corporation of America (MCA). When that agency merged with Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, Lew Wasserman, the president of MCA, made Kastner vice president of production at Universal. He worked there for two years before becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, the law school on the main campus, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key with research facilities in southern Miami-Dade County. The University of Miami offers 138 undergraduate, 140 master's, and 67 doctoral degree programs. Since its founding in 1925, the university has attracted students from all 50 states and 173 foreign countries. With 16,954 faculty and staff as of 2021, the University of Miami is the second largest employer in Miami-Dade County. The university's main campus in Coral Gables spans , has over of buildings, and is located south of Downtown Miami, the heart of the nation's ninth largest and world' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Parks
Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940 – May 9, 2017) was an American singer and actor. He appeared in many films and made frequent television appearances, notably starring in the 1969–1970 series '' Then Came Bronson'', but was probably best known for his work in his later years with filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith. Personal life Parks was born in Corona, California. He drifted from job to job during his teenage years, including picking fruit, digging ditches, driving trucks, and fighting forest fires. Parks married five times. His first marriage in 1956 at age 16 to Louise Johnson lasted until 1958 and produced a daughter. His second marriage in 1964 to actress Jan Moriarty lasted only a few months, ending with her apparent suicide from an overdose. His third marriage in 1968 to Carolyn Kay Carson produced a son, James. His fourth marriage to Alston Fenci, whom he married in 1987, ended in divorce in 1996. In 1997 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet November (1968 Film)
''Sweet November'' is a 1968 American romantic comedy film written by Herman Raucher and starring Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley and Theodore Bikel. The film originally had been written as a stage play by Raucher, but before it was performed, Universal Pictures got wind of the project and paid Raucher $100,000 () to stop work on the play and adapt it as a screenplay.. A 2001 remake also titled '' Sweet November'' starred Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Plot Successful British box manufacturer Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) meets Sara Deever (Sandy Dennis) when they both take a driver's exam in New York City. She tries to get a few answers from him, but he gets expelled for cheating. They run into each other later and go out on a date. When they return to her apartment, Charlie meets Alonzo (Theodore Bikel), Sara's older, vegetarian friend. Then Richard (Sandy Baron) bursts in; he begs her to let him stay with her, but she has already packed his bag. After he leaves, Charlie as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress, model and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in '' The Double Man'' (1967), '' The Night They Raided Minsky's'' (1968), '' Machine Gun McCain'' (1969), ''Stiletto'' (1969) and the British crime film '' Get Carter'' (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films including the British horror film '' The Wicker Man'' (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974). Ekland continued to act throughout the remainder of the 1970s, having roles in films such as ''The Ultimate Thrill'' (1974), '' Royal Flash'' (1975), '' High Velocity'' (1976) and ''King Solomon's Treasure'' (1979), and into the 1980s starring in the likes of '' Fraternity Vacation'' (1985), '' Moon in Scorpio'' (1987) and ''Scandal'' (1989) although since the early 1990s her acting work has mainly consisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series ''The Goon Show'', featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in '' The Pink Panther'' series. Born in Southsea, Portsmouth, Sellers made his stage debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, when he was two weeks old. He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres. He first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain and the Far East. After the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ''ShowTime'', and eventually became a regular performer on v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bobo
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassian Elwes
Cassian Cary Elwes (born 7 August 1959) is a British independent film producer and talent agent. Early life and education Cassian Elwes was born on 7 August 1959 in London, England. He is the son of Dominic Elwes, a portrait painter, and Tessa Kennedy, an interior designer. He is the elder brother of actor Cary Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He is the stepson of Elliott Kastner, an American film producer. Career Elwes began his producing career with 1984's '' Oxford Blues'' starring Rob Lowe and Ally Sheedy and has enjoyed continuing success in film. His earlier roles include '' Men at Work'' with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, '' The Chase'' with Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, and Henry Rollins, and '' The Dark Backward'' with Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, and Rob Lowe. In 1989 he produced the independent film ''Never on Tuesday'' which featured a cast of cameos including Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Nicolas Cage, and Cary Elwes. '' The Hollywood R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah York
Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including ''Tom Jones'' (1963) and '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. An obituary in '' The Telegraph'' characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging sixties", who later "proved that she was a real actor of extraordinary emotional range". York's early films included '' The Greengage Summer'' (1961) and ''Freud'' (1962). She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for ''Images''. Her other film appearances included '' Sands of the Kalahari'' (1965), '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), '' The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty ( né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker, whose career spans over six decades. He was nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for '' Reds'' (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for ''Heaven Can Wait'' (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again for ''Reds''. Eight of the films he produced earned 53 Academy nominations. In 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty was nominated for 18 Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007. Among his Golden Globe nominated films are, his screen debut, ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961), ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967), ''Shampoo'' (1975) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaleidoscope (1966 Film)
''Kaleidoscope'' is a 1966 British comedy crime film starring Warren Beatty and Susannah York.''Variety'' film review; 7 September 1966, p. 6 The film had its world premiere on 8 September 1966 at the Warner Theatre in the West End of London. Plot After leaving his lover Angel McGinnis behind in London, rich playboy Barney Lincoln breaks into a playing card manufacturer in Geneva to mark the cards, and then proceeds to break the bank at major European casinos. Barney meets up with Angel again in Monte Carlo, where he wins a great deal of money, but her suspicions after he left England caused her to consult her father, a detective from Scotland Yard. He blackmails Barney into helping him catch a drug smuggler named Harry Dominion, who owns a casino and also has a weakness for high stakes poker. Cast Production It was the third film Jack Smight directed for Warners. Smight called the script "terrific... a little hard to believe, but nevertheless a jolly fun premise laced with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boys And Girls Together
''Boys and Girls Together'' is a 1964 novel by William Goldman. The title is taken from lyrics in the song, " The Sidewalks of New York". Background Goldman says his creative impulse behind the book was his desire to write a long novel: At the time, all of my friends were screwing up in New York, it seemed. It was going badly for everybody. The city was... affecting all of us, and I wanted to get that down. But writing that novel was a tremendous experience. It was three years of my life on and off. He later said "the pulse of the book... was the fact that nobody ut of his friendswas making it as I was and I knew I was fraudulent and I knew I'd be found out. It was very hard in those years. It was hard to be 25 or 7 or 8 and to be published when all of your other friends who were writers weren't." After writing 300 pages, Goldman took some time off to work on Broadway, and when he returned to the book he experienced writer's block, so he wrote another novel instead, '' No Way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Goldman
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969) and '' All the President's Men'' (1976). His other well-known works include his thriller novel '' Marathon Man'' (1974) and his cult classic comedy/fantasy novel '' The Princess Bride'' (1973), both of which he also adapted for film versions. Early life Goldman was born into a Jewish family in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, the second son of Marion (née Weil) and Maurice Clarence Goldman. Goldman's father initially was a successful businessman, working in Chicago and in a partnership, but he suffered from alcoholism, which cost him his business. He "came home to live and he was in his pajamas for the last five years of his life," according to Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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