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My Mother, The Fiend
"My Mother, the Fiend" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American mystery television series ''Veronica Mars'' and the thirty-first episode overall. Directed by Nick Marck, the episode was co-written by Phil Klemmer and Dayna Lynne North. It was first aired on November 30, 2005, on UPN. The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective. In this episode, Veronica finds her mother's old high school records and starts digging into her mother's past, discovering information about the Kane family in the process. Meanwhile, Beaver (Kyle Gallner) proposes a business plan to help Kendall (Charisma Carpenter). "My Mother, the Fiend" features the third and final appearance by Alyson Hannigan on the show. The show's crew found it difficult to work an episode into Hannigan's schedule because of other projects. The episode was accompanied by an alternate ending, a publici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Mars
''Veronica Mars'' is an American teen neo-noir Mystery fiction, mystery Drama (film and television), drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas (writer), Rob Thomas. The series is set in the fictional city, fictional town of Neptune, California, and stars Kristen Bell as the eponymous character. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW, airing for three seasons total. ''Veronica Mars'' was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Silver Pictures Television, Stu Segall Productions, and Rob Thomas Productions. Joel Silver and Thomas were executive producers for the entire run of the series, while Diane Ruggiero was promoted in the third season. The character Veronica Mars (character), Veronica Mars is a student who progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father. In each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Detective
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI; also known as a private detective, an inquiry agent or informally a private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases. History In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, "Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l'Industrie" ("The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry") and hired ex-convicts. Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. Official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case. Vidocq later sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Clemenson
Christian Dayton Clemenson (born March 17, 1958) is an American actor. He is well known for his portrayal of Jerry "Hands" Espenson in the television series ''Boston Legal'', for which he was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has appeared in a number of highly acclaimed films, including ''Hannah and Her Sisters'', '' Broadcast News'', ''Apollo 13'' and ''The Big Lebowski'', and portrayed Tom Burnett in Paul Greengrass' '' United 93''. He starred in '' American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson'' as prosecutor William Hodgman. Early life Clemenson was born and raised in Humboldt, Iowa, the son of drug store owners Ruth Alzora (Dayton) and Ernest Arnold Clemenson. In his early teens, he delivered the ''Des Moines Register'', which had a long tradition of awarding scholarships to top East Coast preparatory schools to a select few " paper boys." Clemenson, a straight-A junior high school student, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Saw God (Veronica Mars)
"Rat Saw God" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American mystery television series ''Veronica Mars'', and the twenty-eighth episode overall. Written by Phil Klemmer and John Enbom and directed by Kevin Bray, the episode premiered on UPN on November 9, 2005. The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective. In this episode, Abel Koontz (Christian Clemenson) returns and requests Veronica's help in finding his daughter. Meanwhile, Logan (Jason Dohring) is arrested for his supposed stabbing of a biker gang member, and Keith (Enrico Colantoni) loses the Sheriff's election. Synopsis Veronica waits with Keith at an election party, where tensions are high due to the results being extremely close. Sheriff Lamb (Michael Muhney) is nosing ahead when a man walks up to Lamb and says he made the anonymous call from the bridge where Felix Toombs was stabbed. Keith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sign Language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with #Non-manual elements, non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible, although there are similarities among different sign languages. Linguists consider both spoken and signed communication to be types of natural language, meaning that both emerged through an abstract, protracted aging process and evolved over time without meticulous planning. This is supported by the fact that there is substantial overlap between the neural substrates of sign and spoken language processing, despite the obvious differences in modality. Sign language should not be confused with body language, a type of non verbal communicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Colantoni
Enrico Colantoni (born February 14, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor and director, best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom '' Just Shoot Me!'', Keith Mars on the television series ''Veronica Mars'', Louis Utz on the short-lived sitcom '' Hope & Gloria'', crime lord Carl Elias on '' Person of Interest'', and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series '' Flashpoint''. He has also had supporting roles in such films as '' The Wrong Guy'', '' Galaxy Quest'', '' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'', '' Contagion'', and '' A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'', and guest appearances on ''Monk'', '' Numb3rs'', '' Party Down'', ''Stargate SG-1'', and '' Bones''. He also starred as Allen Conner in '' Remedy'', played Laura Hollis's father in season three of the online web series ''Carmilla'', and played Vincent Brambilla on TV program ''Allegiance''. On the stage, he also acted in the Off-Broadway play ''Fear'' at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Early life Colantoni was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Secor
Kyle Ivan Secor (born May 31, 1957) is an American television and film actor. He is known for portraying Detective Tim Bayliss on the crime drama series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999). Early years Secor was born in Tacoma, Washington as the youngest boy in a family of three boys. He grew up in nearby Federal Way and graduated from Federal Way High School in 1975. His father worked in sales. As a boy, he wanted to be a professional basketball player, and at 6'4" had the height and build, but his dreams of going pro or becoming a professional were hindered as he suffered extreme near-sightedness, so he was forced to look elsewhere for a career. Career After attending a community college, Secor moved to Los Angeles. There, he performed in plays such as '' And a Nightingale Sang'' at the Santa Monica Playhouse (1986), ''Look Homeward, Angel'' (1986) and ''In the Jungle of Cities'' (1987) at the Pasadena Playhouse. Secor's first major television role was the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Dunn
Edward Wilkes Dunn (born June 19, 1980) is an American lawyer and former American actor best known for his portrayal of Duncan Kane in the Rob Thomas television series ''Veronica Mars''. Early life and education Dunn was born Edward Wilkes Dunn on June 19, 1980, in Torquay, Victoria, Australia. He has a sister, Laura. His family moved to Durham, North Carolina where he spent most of his childhood. He attended Phillips Academy, a preparatory high school in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1999. At Phillips Academy, Dunn became involved in theatre, playing the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's ''The Zoo Story'' and the lead character of Alceste in Molière's ''The Misanthrope'', directed by Kevin Heelan. Dunn attended Northwestern University, where he studied theatre and political science. He graduated cum laude, earning a Juris Doctor, from Boston College Law School in 2013. Career Acting Dunn was cast as a series regular for the first season of ''Veronica Mars'' as Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letter (alphabet), letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf education and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a number of sign languages. There are about forty manual alphabets around the world. Historically, manual alphabets have had a number of additional applications—including use as ciphers, as mnemonics and in silent religious settings. Forms of manual alphabets As with other forms of manual communication, fingerspelling can be comprehended visually or tactile signing, tactually. The simplest visual form of fingerspelling is tracing the shape of letters in the air and the simplest tactual form is tracing them on the hand. Fingerspelling can be one-handed such as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-hande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deaf
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written with a lower case ''d''. It later came to be used in a cultural context to refer to those who primarily communicate with a deafness aid or through sign language regardless of hearing ability, often capitalized as ''Deaf'' and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. The two definitions overlap but are not identical, as hearing loss includes cases that are not severe enough to impact spoken language comprehension, while cultural Deafness includes hearing people who use sign language, such as children of deaf adults. Medical context In a medical context, deafness is defined as a degree of hearing difficulties such that a person is unable to understand speech, even in the presence of amplification. In profound deafness, even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Dohring
Jason William Dohring (born March 30, 1982) is an American actor, known for his roles as Logan Echolls in ''Veronica Mars'' (2004–2007, 2019) and its 2014 film continuation, Josef Kostan in ''Moonlight'' (2007), Adam Carpenter in '' Ringer'' (2011), Detective Will Kinney in '' The Originals'' (2013), Chase Graves in '' iZombie'' (2015), and Terra in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. Career Dohring starred as protagonist Logan Echolls in ''Veronica Mars'' from 2004 to 2007. Following its cancellation, Dohring found work with Warner Bros. and CBS, co-starring as Josef Kostan in the television series ''Moonlight''. In October 2008, it was announced that Dohring would return to television as Spencer in the HBO comedy series ''Washingtonienne''. On February 10, 2010, Dohring stated in an interview that he would be voicing a character in a Disney video game that was released in Japan that January; the game was later revealed to be ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' by Square Enix and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Capra
Francis Cordero Capra (born April 27, 1983) is an American actor. He has played the roles of Max Connor in ''Kazaam'', and Eli "Weevil" Navarro in the TV series ''Veronica Mars''. Personal life Capra attended Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School. Career Capra began his acting career in 1993 with ''A Bronx Tale'' in which he played the 9-year-old version of the lead character. He played the character of Eli "Weevil" Navarro on the television series ''Veronica Mars'' and had a small guest role on '' The O.C.'' He appeared on ''The Closer'', '' Lincoln Heights'', ''Criminal Minds'', '' Friday Night Lights'' and in the film '' Crank''. Capra starred in ''Kazaam'', ''A Simple Wish'' and '' Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home''. He portrayed Jesse Murphy on the television show '' Heroes''. Capra has a production company called Take Off Productions with actor De'Aundre Bonds. Awards and nominations * 1994 – Nominated for a Young Artist Award at the Young Artist Awards for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
