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Shake, Rattle And Rock! (1994 Film)
''Shake, Rattle and Rock!'' is a 1994 television film starring Renée Zellweger, Howie Mandel, and members of the Grammy Award, Grammy-nominated R&B band For Real. The film was produced by Lou Arkoff (son of B movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff) as part of the ''Rebel Highway'' series of television films made in a short-lived revival of American International Pictures that aired on the Showtime (TV network), Showtime television network. Plot In 1950s America, teenage rebellion comes easy when something like rock 'n' roll is viewed as sinful. Looking to have a good time while they're young, Susan (Renée Zellweger), Cookie (Patricia Childress) and Tony (Max Perlich) -- three teenagers from a small town -- start a nightclub where host Danny Klay (Howie Mandel) introduces the newest rock 'n' roll talent, and everyone can dance the night away. Of course, not everyone in town is happy with the new establishment. Cast Soundtrack * "The Girl Can't Help It (song), The Girl Can't Help It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush (born April 30, 1948) is an American director and producer of films, television and videos. He is a regular collaborator with Joe Dante. Early life Arkush grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He graduated in 1966 from Fort Lee High School. His experiences there served as the inspiration for the film '' Rock 'n' Roll High School'' (1979). He attended New York University Film School from 1967 to 1970. ''Septuagenarian Substitute Ball'', his senior film, starring John Ford Noonan, won third prize at the National Student Film Festival-1970. His teacher and faculty adviser was Martin Scorsese "whose knowledge and passion changed my life". While at NYU, he worked at The Fillmore East as an usher, stage crew member and in the psychedelic light show "Joe's Lights", performing with artists including The Who, Grateful Dead, Santana, Allman Bros, Miles Davis, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Virgil Fox and Fleetwood Mac in New York City and London. He returned to New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Childress
Patricia Childress is a film and television actress, director, producer and writer who lives in Los Angeles where she works with many of the entertainment industry's most respected talents. Childress is the recipient of two Emmy Awards. Life and career Childress was born in Dallas, Texas. Her career began while still in high school. She was active in the Drama Club at John Foster Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas. In 1993, she moved from her home in New York, where she studied visual arts at Marymount Manhattan College, to Los Angeles for an acting role in ''Reality Bites'' (1994), a movie written by her sister Helen Childress. Leaving behind her career as an artist, she continued acting, securing roles in television mini-series, award-winning films including ''As Good As It Gets,'' and '' Dead Man's Walk,'' a television film by writer Larry McMurty; Childress' work was commented on by the ''Los Angeles Times'' in a review appraising a "...sweetly compassionate performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Brown
Ruth Alston Brown (; January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a popular music, pop music style to rhythm and blues, R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long (Russ Morgan Song), So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "the house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for the old Yankee Stadium). Brown was a 1993 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s, Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts; these efforts led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Her performances in the Broadway musical ''Black and Blue (musical), Black and Blue'' earned Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957) is an American actress. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films ''Beaches'' (1988) and '' Sister Act'' (1992). Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films '' What's Love Got to Do With It'' (1993), ''Poetic Justice'' (1993), '' The Preacher's Wife'' (1996), '' The Brothers'' (2001), '' The Cookout'' (2004), '' Think Like a Man'' (2012) and in the sequel '' Think Like a Man Too'' (2014), '' Baggage Claim'' (2013) and '' The Wedding Ringer'' (2015), as well as in ''The Temptations'' miniseries (1998). Lewis is known unofficially as "The Mother of Black Hollywood" (also the name of her memoir) given her frequent matriarchal film and television roles. She also provided the voice for Mama Odie in Disney's animated feature ''The Princess and the Frog'' (2009), and Flo in Pixar's ''Cars'' series. Additional film roles include ''Dead President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dey Young
Anna Dey Young (born July 28, 1955) is an American actress and sculptor. Although having appeared in over 100 movies and television shows, she is perhaps best known for her role as the nasty saleswoman who refuses to help Julia Roberts in ''Pretty Woman''. Biography Young was born in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the daughter of Pauline Schloesser, a sociologist, and Donald E. Young. Her sister is Leigh Taylor-Young and her brother is Lance Young, a writer and producer in the film industry. Among Young's acting credits is the part of Kate Rambeau in '' Rock 'n' Roll High School'', a character she re-visited in the 1994 film '' Shake, Rattle and Rock!''. She has also appeared in films such as '' Strange Behavior'', '' The Running Man'', '' The Serpent and the Rainbow'', ''Spontaneous Combustion'', ''Pretty Woman'', '' No Place to Hide'', ''Conflict of Interest'', '' National Lampoon's Barely Legal'' and ''Flicka''. She has also performed in several guest roles in the ''Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Woronov
Mary Woronov (born December 8, 1943) is an American actress, writer, and Figurative art, figurative painter. She is primarily known as a cult film star because of her work with Andy Warhol and her roles in Roger Corman's cult films. Woronov has appeared in over 80 movies and on stage at Lincoln Center and off-Broadway productions as well as numerous times in mainstream American TV series, such as ''Charlie's Angels'' and ''Knight Rider (1982 TV series), Knight Rider''. She frequently co-starred with friend Paul Bartel; the pair appeared in 17 films together, often playing a married couple. Early life Woronov was born December 8, 1943, in the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, while it was temporarily operating as the Ream General Hospital during World War II. Woronov was born Preterm birth, premature and doctors initially did not believe she would survive infancy. At a young age, she relocated with her mother to Brooklyn Heights in New York City, where her mother married Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Dunn
Nora Dunn (born April 29, 1952) is an American actress and comedian. She first garnered popularity during her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1990. Following her departure from ''SNL'', she played Dr. Reynolds in ''The Nanny'' from 1998 to 1999, and she had a recurring role as Muriel in ''Home Economics'' from 2021 to 2022. Early life Dunn was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Margaret (née East), a nurse, and John Dunn, a musician and poet. She has two brothers, actor Kevin Dunn and Michael Dunn, a high school history teacher and football coach, as well as one sister, Cathy Zimmerman. She was raised in a Catholic family, and has Irish, English, Scottish and German ancestry. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Career ''Saturday Night Live'' Dunn joined ''SNL'' in 1985 with the return of Lorne Michaels as executive producer. The 1985–1986 season proved to be a ratings disaster, and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Boy (rapper)
Daniel O'Connor (born December 12, 1968), better known as Danny Boy or Danny Boy O'Connor, is an American rapper, art director, and the executive director of The Outsiders House Museum. O'Connor spent his childhood in New York, before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s. In the 1990s, O'Connor co-founded the rap group House of Pain, with fellow rapper Erik Schrody (Everlast) and DJ Leor Dimant ( DJ Lethal). Based on their cultural heritage they fashioned themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans. O'Connor played the role of art director, designing logos, branding, hype man, and co-rapper. In 1992, with the singles " Jump Around" and " Shamrocks and Shenanigans", their self-titled debut album, also known as ''Fine Malt Lyrics'', went platinum. They followed it up with '' Same as It Ever Was'' (1994), which went gold, and '' Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again'' (1996), before they all went their separate ways. O'Connor took part in several music projects, and continued do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riki Rachtman
David Andrew "Riki" Rachtman is an American television and radio personality. He is best known for his association with the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s hard rock and heavy metal scene, hosting MTV's ''Headbangers Ball'' from 1990 to the show's cancellation in 1995, and he was the owner of the Hollywood-based nightclub The Cathouse. Career Rock scene Riki Rachtman grew up in Van Nuys, California but later moved to the Hollywood Hills. At the age of 16, Rachtman auditioned to sing in the band the Angry Samoans, and the next year he was in a band called the Fairlanes. In the late 1980s, Rachtman was lead vocalist of the L.A. metal act Virgin. In the 1990s, he spent over a year in a band called Battery Club, which toured with The Offspring. Rachtman appears in '' Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie'', which is a 2016 documentary film directed by Drew Fortier about 80s LA hard rock band Bang Tango. Hosting Rachtman made appearances for MTV's heavy metal show ''Headba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Intveld
James Intveld (born November 12, 1959) is an American rockabilly musician, singer, songwriter, performer, actor, and film director from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early career Born in the Netherlands, Intveld's parents moved to California when he was one year old. James Intveld began entering talent contests as a country music-singing teenager at the Palomino Club located in North Hollywood, California. Intveld originally played in The Rockin' Shadows with his brother Ricky Intveld. The group disbanded when Ricky and bassist Patrick Woodward were asked by Ricky Nelson to join his backing band, the Stone Canyon Band. Both Intveld's brother and Patrick Woodward were killed in the 1985 plane crash An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that results serious injury, death, or significant destruction. An aviation incident is any operating event that compromises safety but does not escalate into an aviation accident. Pre ... which also took Nel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Graham
Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. He is best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two ''Star Trek'' series. He starred in '' Used Cars'' with Kurt Russell and voiced Franklin Sherman on ''The Critic''. Education Graham attended but did not graduate from Columbia University. At Columbia, he was the head of Columbia Players, the college theater company. His future co-worker, Brian De Palma, was also a former manager of the student group during his undergraduate years. Career Actor Film He has appeared in movies such as '' Used Cars'', ''TerrorVision'', '' National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', '' Child's Play 2'' and '' Greetings'', where he worked with Brian De Palma for the first time. He would again work with De Palma on '' Hi, Mom'' and ''Home Movies'', as well as '' Phantom of the Paradise'', where he played flamboyant glam-rocker Beef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendi Williams
For Real is an American R&B and soul quartet, that formed in 1990. In the latter part of that decade they were nominated for a Billboard Music Award and a Soul Train Music Award. The ladies have now reunited and are touring. Biography For Real secured their recording contract by accident. "We were picking up our manager from the airport. So we decided to greet him with an acappella song. Someone from A&M Records just happened to be in the airport and heard us perform. Not long after, we were signed," said Latanyia Baldwin. The band released their debut album, '' It's a Natural Thang'', with production from Brian McKnight on A&M Records in 1994, and it became a critical success, including a rare four stars from ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. Their first single, "You Don't Wanna Miss" hit #28 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart; the group's second single, "Easy to Love", peaked at #65 on the same chart. The third single, "You Don't Know Nothin'", peaked at #88 on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
