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Orgazmo
''Orgazmo'' is a 1997 American superhero sex comedy film written, directed and edited by Trey Parker and produced by Matt Stone, Jason McHugh, and Fran Rubel Kuzui. It stars Parker, Stone, Dian Bachar, Robyn Lynne, and Michael Dean Jacobs. The plot follows Joe Young (Parker), a devout Mormon missionary who, to pay for his and his fiancée's dream wedding and home, acts in a pornographic film as the superhero Orgazmo with his side-kick Choda Boy (Bachar). Plot Mormon missionary Joseph Young, assigned with his mission partner to Los Angeles, finds the city to be a hostile and unenthusiastic place for their work. The problems worsen when they knock on the door of sleazy porn director Maxxx Orbison and several security guards are sent to dispose of them. Joe defeats them all singlehandedly with a variety of martial arts skills. Impressed by his performance and bored by his current project's lead actor, Orbison attempts to hire Joe to play the title character and lead of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trey Parker
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (1997) and '' The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his creative partner Matt Stone. Parker was interested in film and music as a child and at high school and attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Stone. The two collaborated on various short films and co-starred in Parker’s feature-length musical '' Cannibal! The Musical'' (1993). Parker and Stone moved to Los Angeles, and Parker made his second feature-length film, ''Orgazmo'' (1997). Before the premiere of the film, ''South Park'' premiered on Comedy Central in August 1997. The duo possess full creative control of the show, and have produced music and video games based on it. A film based on the series, '' South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' (1999), was well-received by both critics and fans. Parker went on to write, produce, direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Stone
Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (since 1997) and ''The Book of Mormon (musical), The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his creative partner Trey Parker. Intrigued by a career in entertainment at a young age, he studied film and mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Parker. During their attendance, the two worked on various short films and starred in the feature-length musical ''Cannibal! The Musical'' (1993). Stone and Parker moved to Los Angeles and wrote their second film, ''Orgazmo'' (1997). Before its premiere, ''South Park'' aired on Comedy Central in August 1997 and was met with widespread praise. Following its success, the two directed a film based on the series, ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' (1999), which was met with positive critical reception. Outside of ''South Park'', Stone has written, produced, and starred in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Fran Rubel Kuzui is an American film director and producer. She directed the films '' Tokyo Pop'' (1988) and '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1992). She also produced the films ''Orgazmo'' (1997) and '' Telling Lies in America'' (1997). Biography Kuzui received her master's degree from New York University and was a script supervisor for a decade, prior to her first film, 1988's '' Tokyo Pop'', which she co-wrote and directed. The movie was shown at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim for its depiction of an American woman trying to make sense of the Japanese youth culture. She is best known as the director of the 1992 film '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (which was the basis for the television series). She discovered the screenplay of writer Joss Whedon, expanded the Buffy character with him, and together with producer Kaz Kuzui put together the financing to produce the picture. Kuzui served as an executive producer on the TV series and its spin-off '' Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason McHugh
Jason McHugh (born October 10, 1968) is an American television producer and actor, best known for his work with Trey Parker and Matt Stone. He produced both '' Cannibal! The Musical'' and ''Orgazmo'' and played Frank Miller in ''Cannibal!'' and part of the porno crew in ''Orgazmo''. He also has done incidental voices on Parker and Stone's hit animated show ''South Park''. McHugh wrote and directed Mindfield which was a text messaging prankster game created by Perry Farrell for Lollapalooza. He produced and acted in Les Claypool's mockumentary '' Electric Apricot'', working alongside Matt Stone Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (since 1997) and ''The Book of Mormon (musical), The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his cre ..., ''Cannibal'' star Dian Bachar, and ''South Park'' writer Kyle McCulloch. In 2008, he made his UK stage debut playing Mr. Mills in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dian Bachar
Dian Bachar is an American actor most notable for his roles in various films by or starring his friends Trey Parker and Matt Stone, such as '' Cannibal! The Musical'' (George Noon), ''Orgazmo'' (Ben Chapleski) and his most famous role as Kenny "Squeak" Scolari in 1998's '' BASEketball'', as well as making the occasional appearance on ''South Park''. Career In 1998, Bachar won a Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Beaux Arts Society, Inc. in the category of Actor, Debut Performance (Film) for his role in '' BASEketball'' and an award for Best Actor in the 2012 short film ''Coaching Me Softly'' at the 48-Hour Film Project. Due to his friendship with creators Parker and Stone, Bachar had provided several guest voices on their animated series ''South Park ''South Park'' is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central. The series revolves around four boysStan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Alongside producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, such as '' The Toxic Avenger'' (1984) and '' Tromeo and Juliet'' (1996). Many of the strategies employed by him at Troma have been credited with making the film industry significantly more accessible and decentralized. Early life Kaufman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Ruth ('' née'' Fried) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Sr., a lawyer. Career Early career Kaufman graduated from Yale University with the class of 1968, where he majored in Chinese studies. His fellow Yale classmates included Oliver Stone and George W. Bush. Originally intending to become a social worker, he became fast friends with student filmmaker Robert Edelstein and Eric Sherman (son of filmmaker Vincent Sherman), who introduced him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Jeremy
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953) is an American former Pornographic film actor, pornographic actor, and actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", Jeremy was ranked by AVN (magazine), ''AVN'' at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also made a number of non-pornographic media appearances, and director Scott J. Gill filmed a documentary about him and his legacy, ''Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy'', released in 2001. Jeremy was accused of sexual assault more than a dozen times between 2017 and 2020, for incidents stretching back to 2004. Upon further investigation, in August 2021, he was indicted on 30 sexual-assault counts involving 21 victims including 12 counts of forcible rape. He was initially jailed awaiting trial, but in January 2023, a judge found him mentally unfit to stand trial due to "incurable neurocognitive decline"; he was released to a private residence in November 2023. Early life Ronald Jeremy Hyatt was born in Queens, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toddy Walters
Toddy Elizabeth Walters (born October 24, 1969, in Denver, Colorado) is an actress, singer and songwriter. Career A Denver native, Toddy Walters has been a singer, songwriter and actor for the majority of her life. Walters went to the University of Colorado, where she met Trey Parker, who was casting for his first live action film, '' Cannibal! The Musical''. She was cast in the role of Polly Pry. Parker and Walters dated over the course of the film's production, as well as that of Parker's next film, ''Orgazmo'', a much larger-scale production. The two eventually broke up, but Walters still made appearances in Parker and Stone's animated series, ''South Park'', in the series' feature film adaptation playing Winona Ryder, as well as their short lived series '' That's My Bush''. As a singer/songwriter, her debut album ''Grotto'', produced at Denver's Sleeping Brotherhood studios, was released in 1997. Walters moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and worked in the entertainment industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary (LDS Church)
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—often referred to as Mormon missionaries—are volunteer representatives of the church who engage variously in Proselytism, proselytizing, church service, humanitarian aid, and community service. Missionaries of the church may be male (''Elder missionaries'') or female (''Sister missionaries'') and may serve on a full- or part-time basis, depending on the assignment. Missionaries are organized geographically into Mission (LDS Church), missions, which could be any one of the List of missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 449 missions organized worldwide. This is one of the practices that the LDS Church is well-known for. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, reporting that it had more than 74,000 full-time missionaries and 31,000 service missionaries worldwide at the end of 2024. Most full-time LDS mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Hardcore
Paul F. Little (August 10, 1956 – March 27, 2023) was an American pornographic actor, producer, and director better known by his stage name Max Hardcore. He rose to prominence in 1992 with the film series ''The Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore'', which in 1994 was awarded the X-Rated Critics Organization's award for Best Amateur or Pro-Am series.THE BEST OF 1994 (1995 Show) , retrieved October 1, 2014. Gerrie Lim, formerly a writer for AVN (magazine), AVN (''Adult Video News'') has classified Hardcore's works as gonzo pornography and "testing the limits of acceptability". He was a member of the List of members of the XRCO Hall of Fame, X-Rated Critics Organization's Hall of Fame.http://www.dirtybob.com/xrco/hall.htm , retrieved October 1, 2014. He spent two and a half years in prison (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Robb
Paul Jason Robb is an American synthesizer player, producer, songwriter and one of the founding members of the band Information Society. Biography Robb was a member of Information Society from its inception in the early 1980s until 1992 (after its third release '' Peace and Love, Inc.''). When Information Society's contract with Tommy Boy/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records ended, Paul (who at the time had a new infant) chose to work in films and commercials, winning two Clio Awards for BMW ads in the process. In 1996, he started a record company called Hakatak International. Hakatak featured his one-man industrial-tinged band Think Tank, as well as a trip hop- and world music-flavored collaboration with Minneapolis folk singer Barbara Cohen named Brother Sun Sister Moon. When trip hop briefly gained mainstream popularity following the release of Portishead's '' Dummy'', Brother Sun Sister Moon recorded for Virgin Records, causing the temporary dissolution of Hakatak in June 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Toronto International Film Festival
The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF. Awards Programmes Gala Opening Night * '' The Sweet Hereafter'' by Atom Egoyan Gala Closing Night * '' Seven Years in Tibet'' by Jean-Jacques Annaud Gala Presentations * '' The Apostle'' by Robert Duvall * '' Artemisia'' by Agnès Merlet * '' The Assignment'' by Christian Duguay * '' Chinese Box'' by Wayne Wang * ''The Edge'' by Lee Tamahori * '' Eve's Bayou'' by Kasi Lemmons * '' FairyTale: A True Story'' by Charles Sturridge * ''Gattaca'' by Andrew Niccol * '' In & Out'' by Frank Oz * '' L.A. Confidential'' by Curtis Hanson * '' Marquise'' by Véra Belmont * '' Men with Guns'' by John Sayles * ''Mrs Dalloway'' by Marleen Gorris * '' Regeneration'' by Gillies MacKinnon * '' Swept from the Sea'' by Beeban Kidron * '' Washington Square'' by Agnieszka Holland * '' The Wings of the Dove'' by Iain Softley Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
