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Jonathan M. Woodward
Jonathan Mark Woodward (born November 20, 1973) is an American actor. He is the younger of two sons of an architect and a literacy teacher. He is a graduate of New York University at the Experimental Theatre Wing, 1998. He performed with Big Dance Company at Dance Theater Workshop, HERE Arts Center and the Viewpoints Conference in New York as well as the Exit and Via Festivals in France and the Polverigi Festival in Italy. He also appeared as Dr. Jason Posner in the 2001 film '' Wit'', which was based on the play of the same name written by Margaret Edson. Woodward is one several actors to have crossed over onto three series created by Joss Whedon: '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', and '' Firefly''. He appeared as Holden Webster in the '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episode "Conversations with Dead People", as Knox in the fourth and fifth seasons of the series ''Angel'', and as Tracey in the '' Firefly'' episode " The Message". All three characters appear friendly or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow, Idaho
Moscow ( ) is a city in North Central Idaho, United States. Located along the state border with Washington, it had a population of 25,435 at the 2020 census. The county seat and largest city of Latah County, Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, the state's land-grant institution and primary research university. It is the principal city in the Moscow, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Latah County. The city contains over 60% of the county's population, and while the university is Moscow's dominant employer, the city also serves as an agricultural and commercial hub for the Palouse region. Along with the rest of the Idaho Panhandle, Moscow is in the Pacific Time Zone. The elevation of its city center is above sea level. Two major highways serve the city, passing through the city center: US-95 (north-south) and ID-8 (east-west). The Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport, west, provides limited commercial air service. The local newspaper is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversations With Dead People
"Conversations with Dead People" is the seventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. It is the only episode other than " Once More, with Feeling" where the title appears on screen. Plot Several encounters take place around Sunnydale on one night, which are told in real time. Uniquely among ''Buffy'' episodes, the main characters do not interact with one another. According to the staff writers, this was intended to enforce the idea of "being alone." On patrol in the Sunnydale cemetery, Buffy encounters a newly-risen vampire. After a brief struggle, he abruptly stops, having recognized her as an old high school classmate. Buffy is surprised to discover that the vampire is Holden "Webs" Webster, a classmate that she barely remembers until he casually begins reminiscing. Webs, a psychology major in life, proceeds to psychoanalyze Buffy, and she opens up to him about her innermost conflicts and feelings of isolation. Webs offe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1973 Births
Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (1969, 1973) and Vice President of the United States (1953, 1957). * January 22 ** George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship. ** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria; 176 people are killed. * January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. February * February 8 – A m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Busch
Adam Richard Busch (born July 6, 1978) is an American actor, film director and singer best known starring as Warren Mears on the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Career Busch was born in East Meadow, New York. His first film role came in the movie '' Léon: The Professional''. Early roles include Noah Allen from Nickelodeon's ''the Mystery Files of Shelby Woo'', and an episode of ''Law & Order''. He also had a small part as a nerdy AV geek in the bank-robbing cheerleader movie ''Sugar & Spice''. Busch appeared on Fox Network's brief series '' The Jury'' in Summer 2004, which ran for ten episodes, and has been seen in a character role on ''House''. In 2006 he portrayed the Orthodox Jewish rap artist, Sholom Glickstein, in the Paul Weitz film, "American Dreamz". He had a recurring role in the Kelsey Grammer situation comedy, '' Back to You''. He made a guest appearance on '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles''. He also had a guest spot on ''Are You Scared 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Benson
Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, singer, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1999–2002), and has also directed, produced and starred in her own films '' Chance'' (2002) and '' Lovers, Liars & Lunatics'' (2006). She also starred in the movie '' Kiss the Bride'' (2007). She co-directed the film '' Drones'' (2010) with fellow ''Buffy'' cast member Adam Busch. Benson also starred as a waitress in the horror movie '' The Killing Jar'' (2010). Early life Benson was born January 8, 1977, in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Diane and Edward Benson, a psychiatrist. She has a younger sister, Danielle, who is an artist. Her father is Jewish and her mother was raised Southern Baptist; Benson grew up attending a Reform synagogue in Alabama. As a child, Benson studied music and dance, and performed in the Birmingham Children's Ballet, as well as in local theater. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drones (2010 Film)
''Drones'' is a 2010 office comedy film directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch, who describe it as "''The Office'' meets '' Close Encounters''". Cast * Jonathan M. Woodward as Brian * Samm Levine as Clark * James Urbaniak as Pete * Dave Allen as Cooperman * Tangi Miller as Miryam * Marc Evan Jackson as Ian * Angela Bettis as Amy * Paul F. Tompkins as Jafe Production ''Drones'' was filmed in the Baton Rouge area. Release ''Drones'' premiered A première, also spelled premiere, is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first ... at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival in January 2010. References External links * * * 2010 films 2010 comedy films American comedy films 2010s English-language films Films shot in Louisiana American independent films Workplace comedy films Films directed by Amber Benson 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Message (Firefly)
"The Message" is the twelfth episode of the science fiction television series '' Firefly'' created by Joss Whedon. It was the fourteenth and final episode produced during the show's production, but was placed before " Heart of Gold" and "Objects in Space" on the home video releases. "The Message" was the second of three episodes along with "Trash" and "Heart of Gold", that were not broadcast in the original 2002 Fox run and later aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 15, 2003. A former Independent soldier, who had served with Mal and Zoe in the Unification War, returns in a dramatic manner, with a vicious Alliance officer chasing after him for some unusual smuggled goods. Synopsis The show opens on a space station, and a barker extolling an exhibit featuring "proof of alien life". Inside the exhibit, Simon and Kaylee stare at a tall, illuminated cylinder that holds a strange and apparently dead creature. The doctor declares that it is a mutated cow fetus, not an alien. Simon u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Firefly (TV Series) Characters
This page lists characters from the television series ''Firefly''. Major characters Malcolm Reynolds Malcolm Reynolds ("Mal"), played by Nathan Fillion, is owner and captain of the Firefly-class spaceship ''Serenity'', and was a volunteer in the war between the Alliance and the Independents (aka "Browncoats"). He got the name for his spaceship from a famous battle he fought and commanded in, the Battle of Serenity Valley. When asked why he named his ship after a lost battle, Zoe comments "Once you're in Serenity, you never leave. You just learn how to live there." He is fiercely loyal to those he calls his crew. Malcolm's main mission is to keep his crew alive and to keep his ship flying. As ''Firefly'' writer Tim Minear stated in an interview: "It's just about getting by. That's always been the mission statement of what the show is—getting by." In "Serenity", Mal says of himself: "f theWind blows northerly, I go North." Screens from ''Serenity'' suggest that Mal was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Minor Angel Characters
This article features minor fictional characters who appear as guest stars on the television program ''Angel'', ordered alphabetically. For the show's main characters, please see the article list of ''Angel'' characters. A Alonna Gunn Alonna Gunn (played by Michele Kelly) was the sister of Charles Gunn, and the most important person in his life. The siblings took care of each other while growing up in the "Badlands" (a fictional neighborhood in Los Angeles). Alonna was turned into a vampire in her first appearance (" War Zone"). Gunn eventually found Alonna as a vampire and confronted her, but was ultimately forced to stake her with Angel looking on. Alonna continued to appear in future episodes in Gunn's memory, flashbacks, and dreams. She was also mentioned in many episodes including " That Old Gang of Mine". It was the death of Alonna that made Gunn receptive to Angel's help and also caused him to drift away from his old crew, as he was tired of seeing his friends "picked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefly (TV Series)
''Firefly'' is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of '' Serenity'', a "''Firefly''-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on ''Serenity''. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things." The show explores the lives of a group of people, some of whom fought on the losing side of a civil war, who make a living on the fringes of society as part of the pioneer culture of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. Accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
