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Rumor Has It (film)
''Rumor Has It'' (stylized as ''Rumor Has It...'' in the U.S. market) is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine and Mark Ruffalo. The concept of the screenplay by Ted Griffin is that a woman learns that her mother and grandmother may be the inspiration for the 1963 novel ''The Graduate'' by Charles Webb. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office disappointment, grossing $88.9 million against its $70 million budget. Plot In 1997, Sarah Huttinger, an obituary and wedding announcement writer for ''The New York Times'', returns to her hometown of Pasadena, California, for her younger sister Annie's wedding, accompanied by her fiancé, lawyer Jeff Daly. When Sarah tells her grandmother Katharine Richelieu that she is unsure about getting married, Katharine lets slip that her late daughter, Sarah's mother Jocelyn, ran off to Cabo San Lucas a week before her own wedding. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Reiner
Robert Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and liberal activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael Stivic, Mike "Meathead" Stivic on the CBS sitcom ''All in the Family'' (1971–1979), a performance that earned him two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Awards. His other acting credits include ''Throw Momma from the Train'' (1987), ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993), ''Bullets Over Broadway'' (1994), ''The First Wives Club'' (1996), ''Primary Colors (film), Primary Colors'' (1998), ''EDtv'' (1999), ''Everyone's Hero'' (2006), and ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013). Reiner made his directorial film debut with heavy metal mockumentary ''This Is Spinal Tap'' (1984). He then earned acclaim directing the romantic comedy ''The Sure Thing'' (1985), coming of age drama ''Stand by Me (film), Stand by Me'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Graduate (novel)
''The Graduate'' is a 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. It tells the story of Benjamin Braddock, who, while pondering his future after his graduation, has an affair with the older Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, before falling in love with their daughter, Elaine. The novella was adapted into the highly successful iconic 1967 Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Mike Nichols, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role and Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson. Webb has stated he never felt comfortable with the attention the film brought him because he felt it distracted from his status as a serious artist. He did not receive any royalties from the film and has stated he is glad it happened that way. On the episode of the AMC television series ''Movies That Shook the World'' devoted to the film adaptation, Webb revealed the identity of the real-life inspiration for Mrs. Robinson: Jane Ericson (spel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hamilton (actor)
George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American actor. For his debut performance in ''Crime and Punishment U.S.A.'' (1959), Hamilton won a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two Golden Globe nominations. Hamilton began his film career in 1958, and although he has a substantial body of work in film and television, he is perhaps most famous for his debonair style, perpetual suntan, and commercials for Ritz Crackers. Bo Derek wrote in her autobiography that "there was an ongoing contest between John Derek and George Hamilton as to who had the most tan!" Early life Hamilton was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent his early years with his mother, Annie Lucille Stevens (Hamilton), known as "Teeny" in Blytheville, Arkansas. He attended Beverly Hills Unified School District, Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, California. In 1950, his mother sent him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress. Kathy Bates filmography, Her work spans over five decades, and List of awards and nominations received by Kathy Bates, her accolades include an Academy Awards, Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Awards, Tony Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Bates studied theater at Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on-screen role in ''Taking Off (film), Taking Off'' (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage role was in the play ''Vanities'' (1976). She garnered a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Tony Award Best Lead Actress in a Play for the Marsha Norman play '''night, Mother'' (1983), and won an Obie Award for her role in Terrence McNally's ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Vogel
Michael James Vogel (born July 17, 1979) is an American actor. Vogel began acting in 2001 and has appeared in several films and series, including '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', '' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'', '' Grind'', '' Poseidon'', '' Blue Valentine'', '' The Help'', '' Bates Motel'', '' Cloverfield'', '' Under the Dome'' and '' The Case for Christ''. He starred as the lead in the NBC military drama series '' The Brave'' for the 2017–18 season. Early life and career Vogel was born in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, to Kathy and Jim Vogel, and was raised in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania. He is of German descent. Both of his grandfathers fought in World War II; one was a tank commander who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and the other was a Seabee in the Navy. Vogel has two younger siblings: a brother, Daniel Aaron, and a sister, Kristin. He attended William Tennent High School, where he was on the freshman wrestling team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sandvoss
Stephen "Max" James Sandvoss (born 1980) is an American businessman, farmer, and former actor. Early life and education Sandvoss was born in New York City, New York. His mother, Joyce, is American-born, and his father, Rolf Herman George Sandvoss, was Swiss-born. After attending school in the suburbs of New York City, and in Connecticut, Sandvoss studied Chinese, thinking about going into international business, but changed his studies to poetry and prose writing, graduating cum laude from Harvard University in 2002. Career Sandvoss’ break as an actor came in 2003 when he landed the role of a football star competing against Will Estes in the NBC drama series ''American Dreams'' and as the main character in the independent film ''Latter Days'' in the same year. His second feature film was 2005's ''Rumor Has It…, Rumor Has It'', starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Mark Ruffalo and Shirley MacLaine. Sandvoss was also cast in the short film ''Waning Moon'', directed by L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher McDonald
Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955) is an American actor. McDonald is best known for playing the villainous professional golfer Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy '' Happy Gilmore'', a role he’d later reprise in 2025’s sequel '' Happy Gilmore 2''. Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in ''Grease 2'' (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiancée Geena Davis in '' Thelma & Louise'' (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation , and Tappy Tibbons in '' Requiem for a Dream'' (2000). Along with numerous independent and small-budget film roles, he played supporting characters in box-office hits , , , '' The House Bunny'' (2008) and . On television, McDonald was a series regular on network TV shows '' Walter & Emily'' (1991–1992, NBC), ''Good Advice'' (1993–1994, CBS), ''Family Law'' (1999–2002, CBS), '' Cracking Up'' (2004, FOX) and '' Harry's Law'', (2011–2012, NBC). McDonald has portrayed several no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately south of San Francisco. Its population was 11,795 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Immediately north of Half Moon Bay is Pillar Point Harbor and the unincorporated community of Princeton-by-the-Sea, California, Princeton-by-the-Sea. Half Moon Bay is known for Mavericks, California, Mavericks, a big-wave surf location. It is called Half Moon Bay because of its crescent shape. Originally an agricultural outpost to Mission San Francisco de Asís, the town was founded in the 1840s first as San Benito, and then as its Anglo fishing community grew, it was renamed Spanishtown. In 1874, it was again renamed Half Moon Bay. After rail and road connections in the early 1900s, the town grew. The foggy weather of the coast made the town a popular destination for booze-running during Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition. The city's infrastructure is he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Testicular
A testicle or testis ( testes) is the gonad in all male bilaterians, including humans, and is homologous to the ovary in females. Its primary functions are the production of sperm and the secretion of androgens, primarily testosterone. The release of testosterone is regulated by luteinizing hormone (LH) from the anterior pituitary gland. Sperm production is controlled by follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) from the anterior pituitary gland and by testosterone produced within the gonads. Structure Appearance Males have two testicles of similar size contained within the scrotum, which is an extension of the abdominal wall. Scrotal asymmetry, in which one testicle extends farther down into the scrotum than the other, is common. This is because of the differences in the vasculature's anatomy. For 85% of men, the right testis hangs lower than the left one. Measurement and volume The volume of the testicle can be estimated by palpating it and comparing it to ellipsoids (an orch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley. The term "Silicon Valley" refers to the area in which high-tech business has proliferated in Northern California, and it also serves as a general metonymy, metonym for California's high-tech business sector. The cities of Sunnyvale, California, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, California, Mountain View, Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park are frequently cited as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Other major Silicon Valley cities are San Jose, California, San Jose, Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, Redwood City, California, Redwood City and Cupertino, California, Cupertino. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third-highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zürich, Switzerland, and Oslo, Norway), accor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas (, "Luke the Evangelist, Saint Luke Cape (geography), Cape"), also known simply as Cabo, is a Resort town, resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican Political divisions of Mexico, state of Baja California Sur. As of the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694.2020 Census of Mexico. Cabo San Lucas and the neighboring San José del Cabo are collectively known as Los Cabos. Together, they form a metropolitan area of 351,111 inhabitants.2020 Census of Mexico. Rated as one of Mexico's top tourist destinations, Cabo San Lucas is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, Balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and marine life. The Los Cabos Corridor has become a heavily trafficked Tourism, vacation destination for tourists, with numerous resorts and timeshares along the coast between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. The waters around Cabo are home to a variety of marine wildlife including Batoidea, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
