White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 American comedy-drama sports movie in which Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson star. The earlier stars as Sidney Deane, and the latter acts as Billy Hoyle, between whom a partnership forms. In this comedy-drama, the subject is basketball around Los Angeles. Rosie Perez acts as Billy's girlfriend Gloria.
Ashfield, New South Wales
Ashfield is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is about 9 kilometres south-west of the business centre of Sydney. The local government of the suburbs around Ashfield is called the Ashfield Council.
The people that live in Ashfield are from many places. 15% of people in Ashfield were born in China.
The number of people living in Ashfield is high in comparison to other suburbs of the same size. Many apartment buildings in Ashfield were built after World War II. Many houses in Ashfield were built around 1900.
The oldest building in Ashfield is a church called St John's. The building was started in 1840.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 July 13, 2012) was an American movie producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1989 for his work in "Driving Miss Daisy". He has also won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, and a Hollywood Film Award. Zanuck and David Brown were one of the most successful movie producers in Hollywood in the 1960s and in the 1970s.
Zanuck was born on December 13, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, to actress Virginia Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck. He was educated at Stanford University.
Zanuck was married to Lili Gentle from 1958 until they divorced in 1968. Later he married Linda Harrison from 1969 until they divorced in 1978. Lastly he married Lili Fini Zanuck from 1978 until his death in 2012. He has two children.
Zanuck died on July 13, 2012 from a heart attack in his Beverly Hills, California home. He is survived by his wife, they had no children. More than 130 people attended his funeral.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and television director and producer. He is an Emmy Award winning actor.
Schiff was born on May 27, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland to Charlotte Schiff and to Edward Schiff. He was educated at City College of New York.
Schiff's career started in 1983. He has appeared in more than 100 movies. He played Professor Emil Hamilton in the 2013 movie "Man of Steel". Schiff is mostly known for his role Toby Ziegler on "The West Wing". He also starred in "" and in "Skinner".
Schiff has been married to Sheila Kelley since 1996. They have 2 children, Gus and Ruby. Schiff is a Democrat who endorsed John Kerry, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders during their runs for President of the United States.
Lee Byung-chull
Lee Byung-chull (Korean:이병철;李秉喆, February 12, 1910 – November 19, 1987) was a South Korean businessman and trader. He was a founder of Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries and many Samsung group companies.
Clive Dunn
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn OBE (9 January 1920 – 6 November 2012) was an English actor, comedian, singer, artist, and author. Dunn is most known for his role as Lance-Corporal Jones, the butcher (meat-cutter) in "Dad's Army".
Dunn was born and grew up in Covent Garden, London, in the United Kingdom. He went to school at Sevenoaks and at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. As a child, he almost died from problems after his family got a doctor to remove his third nipple.
Dunn spent four years as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany during World War II. He married Priscilla Morgan in 1959. They had two daughters, Jessica and Polly. Dunn and his family moved to Portugal where he spent his time painting until he became blind. In 1975, he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Dunn died on the morning of 6 November 2012, in a hospital in Algarve, Portugal, from problems after a surgery. He was 92 years old. He had worked in acting for almost 50 years.
Al B. Sure!
Albert Joseph Brown III (born June 4, 1968) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B. Sure!, he was one of the most popular new jack swing singers and producers. His hits included "Rescue Me" and "Nite and Day".
Ralph Tresvant
Ralph Tresvant (born May 16, 1968) is an American musician and recording artist. He was once a member of New Edition. He left the group around 1989 or 1990 and started his solo music career, with R&B songs like "Sensitivity".
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is an American movie and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are "", "", "", "Without a Trace", "Cold Case", and "The Amazing Race". Some of his best known movies include "Beverly Hills Cop", "Flashdance", "Top Gun", "The Rock", "Con Air", "Armageddon", "Bad Boys", "Enemy of the State", "Black Hawk Down", "Pearl Harbor", "Pirates of the Caribbean", and the "National Treasure" franchise. He is also one of the Board of Directors at ZeniMax Media.
Many of his movies were produced by Paramount and Disney. Many of his television series were co-produced by Warner Bros. and CBS Television Studios.
As of 2010, Bruckheimer has produced over 40 feature movies. He is regarded in the industry as one of the most successful movie producers of all time. Bruckheimer has been nicknamed "Mr. Blockbuster", due to his track record of commercially successful, high-grossing movies. Overall, his movies have brought in over $13 billion to Hollywood. They have also launched the careers of numerous actors and directors.
In 2007, he was ranked #39 on Forbes Celebrity 100 List, up from #42 in 2006. With reported annual earnings of $120 million,
he was the 10th highest money-earner on the 2006 Forbes Celebrity 100 List.
The editors of "Entertainment Weekly" named Bruckheimer the #1 most-powerful person in Hollywood in 2003.
His projects have been honored with 41 Academy Award nominations (six wins), eight Grammy Award nominations (five wins), 23 Golden Globe nominations (four wins), 77 Emmy Award nominations (seventeen wins), eight People's Choice nominations (four wins), and numerous MTV Awards, including one for Best Picture of the Decade.
Bruckheimer received the ShoWest Producer of the Year Award in 1998 and in 2000 the Producers Guild honored him with the David O. Selznick Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Bruckheimer has been married twice. His first wife was Bonnie Bruckheimer. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his second wife, novelist Linda Bruckheimer. He also has one stepdaughter, Alexandra. The couple also owns a farm in Bloomfield, Kentucky, about southeast of Louisville. They also own another in Ojai, south of Santa Barbara.
Bruckheimer has been named as one of the investors of a new sports arena in Las Vegas. He has been rumored to be the leading choice by the National Hockey League to own an expansion hockey team that would play in the proposed arena.
Bernard Fox
Bernard Fox (Bernard Lawson May 11, 1927 – December 14, 2016) was a Welsh retired television, stage, voice, and movie actor who has appeared in 50 movies and his career has lasted more than 49 years, until retiring in 2004. His uncle was late actor Wilfred Lawson.
Fox was born on May 11, 1927 in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales to Queenie (née Barrett) and to Gerald Lawson. His acting career career began when he was just 18 months old and later his television career began in 1955 and is known for his role as Dr. Bombay in "Bewitched" and as Captain Critterton in "Hogan's Heroes". And he is also known for his movie roles mostly as Archibald Gracie IV in James Cameron's "Titanic". His final film was "".