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Valérie Quennessen
Valérie Quennessen (3 December 1957 – 19 March 1989) was a French theatre and film actress. Biography Quennessen was born near Paris in Boulogne-Billancourt, of Jewish French/Polish parentage, and dedicated much of her childhood to pursuing her dream of becoming an acrobat. She quickly reached a level of competence and received an award for her expertise at the age of ten. By her teens, she had given up acrobatics and enrolled in acting classes, not because she particularly wanted to get into show business, but to help her overcome social anxiety. She found that she not only overcame her shyness via acting, but she also enjoyed performing. She studied drama first briefly at the '' École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre'', then at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique, in Paris, from 1976 to 1979, and appeared in several theater productions, notably ''Chers Zoiseaux'', by Jean Anouilh, which premiered in 1976, and Pirandello's ''Nuova colonia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. It is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department and thus the seat of the larger arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt. It is also part of the Métropole du Grand Paris. Boulogne-Billancourt includes one island in the Seine: Île Seguin. Boulogne-Billancourt is one of the wealthiest regions in the Parisian area and in France. Formerly an important industrial site, it has successfully reconverted into business services and is now home to major communication companies headquartered in the Val de Seine Central business district, business district. Etymology The original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon Seine"). Before the 14th century, Boulogne was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Winger
Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films '' An Officer and a Gentleman'' (1982), '' Terms of Endearment'' (1983), and '' Shadowlands'' (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for ''Terms of Endearment'', and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for '' A Dangerous Woman'' (1993). Winger's other films include '' Urban Cowboy'' (1980), '' Legal Eagles'' (1986), '' Black Widow'' (1987), '' Betrayed'' (1988), '' The Sheltering Sky'' (1990), '' Forget Paris'' (1995), and '' Rachel Getting Married'' (2008). In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play '' The Anarchist''. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014, and starred in the Netflix original television series '' The Ranch'' (2016–2020). Early ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A13 Autoroute
Autoroute 13, or ''L'Autoroute de Normandie'' links Paris to Caen, Calvados. The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 (Porte de Paris) exchange junction on the Boulevard Périphérique (Caen). The A13 is France's oldest motorway (opening in 1946) and is intensively used between Paris and Normandy for both commuting and holiday makers. The A13 is operated by the SANEF Paris Normandie from Buchelay toll onwards, whilst the Parisian stretch of motorway is operated by the Île-de-France Council. Its total length is . The A13 is toll-free within the Île-de-France region and between junctions 21 and 24 to the south of Rouen. History The France carried out its first studies in 1927 to create the ''l'Autoroute de l'Ouest'' that was to connect the capital to Normandy. In addition, Le Havre and Cherbourg were important stopovers for luxury liners at a time when there were few commercial aircraft. Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akrotiri (prehistoric City)
Akrotiri (Greek language, Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced ) is the site of a Cycladic Culture, Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greece, Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri, Santorini, Akrotiri. The settlement was destroyed in the Minoan eruption, Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many objects and artworks. Akrotiri has been excavated since 1967 after earlier excavations on Santorini. History The earliest evidence for human habitation of Akrotiri can be traced back as early as the fifth millennium BCE when it was a small fishing and farming village. By the end of the third millennium, this community developed and expanded significantly. One factor for Akrotiri's growth may be the trade relations it established with other Aegean civilization, cultures in the Aegean, as evidenced in fragments of foreign pottery at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa Bay Times
The ''Tampa Bay Times'', called the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year for the first time in its history, one of which was for its PolitiFact project. History The newspaper traces its origin to the ''West Hillsborough Times'', a weekly newspaper established in Dunedin, Florida, on the Pinellas Peninsula in 1884. At the time, neither St. Petersburg nor Pinellas County existed; the peninsula was part of Hillsborough County. The paper was published weekly in the back of a pharmacy and had a circulation of 480. It subsequently changed ownership six times in seventeen years. In December 1884, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress and environmental activist. She made her film debut in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film ''The Fury (1978 film), The Fury'' (1978). She has starred in various films across the years, including as Pris Stratton in Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller ''Blade Runner'' (1982) and as Cathy Featherstone in Randal Kleiser's romantic comedy ''Summer Lovers'' (1982), as the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy-romantic comedy ''Splash (film), Splash'' (1984), Roxanne Kowalski in the romantic comedy ''Roxanne (film), Roxanne'' (1987), Darien Taylor in Oliver Stone's drama ''Wall Street (1987 film), Wall Street'' (1987), and Annelle Dupuy Desoto in the comedy-drama ''Steel Magnolias'' (1989). In 2005, Hannah won a Saturn Award for her role as one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's martial arts action film ''Kill Bill: Vol. 2''. In 2015, she appeared in the Netflix series ''Sense8'' as Angelica Turing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gallagher
Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series '' The O.C.'' from 2003 to 2007, and recurring roles in television such as Deputy Chief William Dodds on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, '' Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama '' Californication'', Nick on the Netflix series '' Grace & Frankie'', and Director of Clandestine Services (DCS) Arthur Campbell on ''Covert Affairs''. He also is known for his roles in the films '' Bob Roberts'' (1992), '' The Player'' (1992), '' Short Cuts'' (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995),'' American Beauty'' (1999), '' Mr. Deeds'' (2002), and '' Palm Springs'' (2020). In musical theatre, his best-known role is that of Sky Masterson in the 1992 Broadway revival of '' Guys and Dolls''. Early life Gallagher was born in New York City. His mother, Mary Ann (née O'Shea), was a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santorini
Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 15,480. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia, and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, Anydros, and Christiana. The total land area is . Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit. It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc. The volcanic arc is approximately long and wide. The region first became volcanically active around 3–4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around Akrotiri. One of the largest volcanic eruptions in reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Lovers
''Summer Lovers'' is a 1982 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, and Valerie Quennessen. It was filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris. ''Summer Lovers'' features the songs "Hard to Say I'm Sorry", a number-one single for Chicago, and " I'm So Excited" by the Pointer Sisters. The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Plot Recent college graduates and high school sweethearts Michael Pappas and Cathy Featherstone, a young American couple, spend their summer vacation at a rented hillside villa on the Greek island of Santorini. When they visit a nude beach crowded with other young tourists, Michael explores a nearby cave and notices a young woman sunbathing topless, with whom he exchanges glances. The next day, using binoculars, he spots the same woman standing outside a villa across the hill. Later, on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randal Kleiser
John Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the films ''Grease (film), Grease'' (1978), ''The Blue Lagoon (1980 film), The Blue Lagoon'' (1980), ''Flight of the Navigator'' (1986) and ''White Fang (1991 film), White Fang'' (1991). Biography John Randal Kleiser was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the son of Harriet Kelly (née Means) and Dr. John Raymond Kleiser. He has two younger brothers. Kleiser attended Radnor High School on the Philadelphia Main Line. As a freshman at the University of Southern California, he appeared in George Lucas' student film ''Freiheit (film), Freiheit''. (Kleiser also lived in the house that Lucas was renting at the time.) Kleiser graduated in 1968. His award-winning Master's thesis film, the 1973 short ''Peege'' about a grandson's bond with his ailing grandmother, launched his career and was selected for preservation by the United States Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profile action films. Governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger, He served as the List of governors of California, 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Schwarzenegger began Strength training, lifting weights at age 15 and won the Universe Championships, Mr. Universe title aged 20, and subsequently the Mr. Olympia title seven times. He is tied with Phil Heath for the joint-second number of all-time Mr. Olympia wins, behind Ronnie Coleman and Lee Haney, who are joint-first with eight wins each. Nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, he is regarded as one of the greatest Bodybuilding, bodybuilders of all time. He has written books and articles about bodybuilding, including the autobiographical ''Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder'' (1977) and ''The New Encyclopedia of Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
