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Biography: Brooke Adams [Top] Brooke Adams is an actress. Adams attended the High School for the Performing Arts & the School of American Ballet. After playing small roles in television & low-budget movies, Adams performances in Days of Heaven & the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers brought her positive reviews. She has also starred in the films Cuba, The Dead Zone, Key Exchange & Gas Food Lodging. From 1995 she temporarily retired from film-making due to family responsibilities & a dearth of good roles, resuming her career c. 2002. In 2002 she received rave reviews for her performance in the romantic comedy Made-Up, which was written by her sister, actress Lynne Adams & directed by her husband Tony Shalhoub, star of Monk. Adams most recently appeared in the films At Last & The Legend of Lucy Keyes & starred on Broadway in The Cherry Orchard. She & Shalhoub have two daughters. Brooke Adams at the Internet Movie Database.
Posters Of Invasion Of The Body SnatchersEditors Choice: The Dead Zone, Cuba, Days Of Heaven, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Shock Waves, Murder On Flight 502, Sometimes They Come Back, View DVDology Biography: Sally Kirkland [Top] Sally Kirkland is an American actress. Born in New York City, she is the goddaughter of actress Shelley Winters. She was named for fashion editor Sally Kirkland ; her mother was also a fashion editor, at Vogue & LIFE magazines. Kirkland was a student of Lee Strasberg & a member of the Andy Warhol coterie. She began acting Off-Broadway in 1962 & has been said to have been the first actress to appear nude in legitimate theater, in a 1968 production of Sweet Eros. After several small roles in such films as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born & Private Benjamin, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1987 for Anna. Kirkland was unable to follow up the nomination with much success, however, although she did appear on television frequently, including the series Valley of the Dolls & the soap opera Days of Our Lives. She also had a small role in Edtv. She is a minister in the Church of The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness & teaches drama, yoga & meditation.
Editors Choice: View DVDology Biography: Bob Rafelson [Top] Robert Rafelson is an American film director, writer & producer. He is most famous for directing & co-writing the film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of The Monkees. Rafelson & Nicholson have been collaborators for over thirty years, resulting in six movies including The Postman Always Rings Twice & Blood & Wine. Rafelsons career has been erratic since the early 1980s, having directed only a handful of barely-distributed films.
Posters Of HeadEditors Choice: No Good Deed, Poodle Springs, Man Trouble, Mountains Of The Moon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Five Easy Pieces, The Monkees, Head, View DVDology Biography: Joe Dante [Top]
Biography: Norman Jewison [Top] Norman Jewison is a Canadian actor, film director & producer. He was born & raised in Toronto & attended Victoria College. As a young man in the 1950s he embarked on a trip through the United States south where he was appaled by the open racism & inequality. This experience gave him a life long concern with racial issues discrimination that can be clearly seen in many of his films including his most acclaimed In the Heat of the Night. He has been nominated for the best director Academy Award on a number of occasions, but has never won. In 1998, he was awarded The Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award, awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production. In 1981 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada & was promoted to Companion in 1991. In 1988, Jewison founded the Canadian Film Centre, an advanced film & television training institute located in Toronto, Ontario.
Posters Of The StatementEditors Choice: The Statement, Dinner With Friends, The Hurricane, Only You, A Soldiers Story, Agnes Of God, Moonstruck, And Justice For All, View DVDology Biography: Peter Bogdanovich [Top] Peter Bogdanovich is an American film director, born in Kingston, New York. Bogdanovich was a film critic before deciding to try his hand at directing. His most famous film is The Last Picture Show. The film received eight Academy Awards nominations & won two of them. It was reedited for video release in 1991. Texasville. he was a principal supporting character in his first feature & most recently had a recurring guest role on the television series The Sopranos as Dr Melfi s analyst. He was involved in an eight-year relationship with Cybill Shepherd from 1971 to 1978 & dated Dorothy Stratten in 1980. When the 1983 Bob Fosse film Star 80 was made about the Stratten murder case was filmed, Bogdanovich was fictionalized as the character Aram Nicholas. Bogdanovich was later married to Strattens sister Louise from 1988 to 2001. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.
Editors Choice: Mask, Nickelodeon, The Last Picture Show, Daisy Miller, Targets, Noises Off, The Main Event, View DVDology Additional Articles & Resources: [Top] Peter Bogdanovich: | IMDB Filmography | Wikipedia Article * |
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