Lee Reherman (born July 4, 1966) is a former American football player but a current actor and television host.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Reherman was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He played football at Cornell University and then played professionally with the Miami Dolphins. While at Cornell University, he was elected to the Sphinx Head Society and was a brother of Chi Psi Fraternity. After his pro football career ended, Lee received an MBA in Finance from UCLA as well as a Ph.D. in Economics. He is related to Louisville's Robert J. Howard family (Louisville, KY) as well as golfer Frank Beard, basketball star Ralph Beard, and football legend Mo Moorman.

Television[link]

During the time he was attending college, some of his classmates dared him to audition on the American television program American Gladiators. He got the job and became known as the gladiator, Hawk in 1993 through 1996. Lee was one of the show's most popular Gladiators and often interacted with his fans in the audience. After the show ended, he focused his career as an actor and has been seen in such TV programs such as the X-Files, Angel, Charmed and Caroline in the City, worked as color commentator on RollerJam with Ken Resnick (season one) and Rory Markas (seasons two and three) through 2001, and was also the host of the G4 competitive video game show, Arena (which has been on hiatus since the end of 2004) with Kevin Pereira. His favorite events on American Gladiators were Tug O War, Joust and Powerball (more notably Tug-O-War, as he can also be seen playing that game in several episodes of Family Challenge).

Reherman guest-starred in the Disney Channel cable-TV series "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" episode "Maddie Checks In" as "The Amputator" a professional wrestler, in "Cory in the House" episode "Model Behavior" as "the guy at boot camp", in "Hannah Montana" episode "Got To Get Her Out Of My House" as the housekeeper, and also in "That's So Raven" episode "Spa Day Afternoon" as the "tough body-guard". He also has appeared in several episodes of the show Overhaulin on the Discovery Channel as a helper to the host with the pranks involving those who have had their cars taken to be overhauled by Chip Foose. Currently, he is the host of SPEED Channel's Battle of the Supercars.

Reherman was in episode nine of the first season of Comedy Central's Workaholics.

Commercials[link]

• Reherman was in a commercial for Ice Breakers gum, playing one of Carmen Electra's bodyguards.
• Reherman also appears in a Capital One commercial where Santa Claus is designing his own credit card. He appears to be a "Security Elf" saying, "Mrs. Claus is a lucky woman, sir."

Video Games[link]

• Reherman cosplayed as, and will be voicing Typhon in the upcoming Firefall (video game)

References[link]

Eric Bentley (born September 14, 1916) is a British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and is a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame in recognition of his many years of cabaret performances.

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Bentley attended Oxford University, receiving his degree in 1938, and subsequently attended Yale University (B.Litt, 1939 and PhD., 1941), where he received the John Addison Porter Prize.^[1]

Beginning in 1953, Bentley taught at Columbia University and simultaneously was a theatre critic for The New Republic. Known for his blunt style of theatre criticism, Bentley incurred the wrath of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, both of whom threatened to sue him for his unfavorable reviews of their work. From 1960-1961, Bentley was the Norton professor at Harvard University.

Bentley is considered one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt Brecht, whom he met at UCLA as a young man and whose works he has translated extensively. He edited the Grove Press issue of Brecht's work, and recorded two albums of Brecht's songs for Folkways Records, most of which had never before been recorded in English.

In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.^[2]

Bentley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969.^[3] That same year, he declared his homosexuality. In an interview in the New York Times on November 12, 2006, he claimed he was married twice before coming out at age 53, at which time he left his post at Columbia to concentrate on writing. He has cited his homosexuality as an influence on his theater work, especially his play Lord Alfred's Lover, based on the life of Oscar Wilde.

He has written many critical books, including A Century of Hero-Worship, The Playwright as Thinker, Bernard Shaw, What Is Theatre?, The Life of the Drama, Theatre of War, Brecht Commentaries, and Thinking About the Playwright. In addition, he edited The Importance Of Scrutiny (1964), a collection of pieces from Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, the noted critical periodical, and Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968 (1971). His most-produced play, 1972's Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947-1958, was based on the transcripts collected in Thirty Years of Treason.[1].

Bentley became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City.

Critical works[link]

• 1944 A Century Of Hero Worship
• 1946 The Playwright As Thinker
• 1947 Bernard Shaw
• 1953 In Search of Theater
• 1956 What Is Theatre?
• 1964 The Life Of The Drama
• 1972 Theater Of War
• 1981 Brecht Commentaries
• 1987 Thinking About The Playwright

Discography[link]

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• "A Man's A Man" by Bertolt Brecht Year of Release 1963
• Bentley on Biermann: Songs and Poems of Wolf Biermann Year of Release 1968
• Bentley on Brecht: Songs and Poems of Bertolt Brecht Year of Release 1965
• Bertolt Brecht before the Committee on Un-American Activities: An Historical Encounter
• Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule Year of Release 1965
• Eric Bentley Sings The Queen of 42nd Street Year of Release 1970
• Songs of Hanns Eisler Year of Release 1964
• The Elephant Calf and Small Comments on Large Themes Year of Release 1968

Dramatic works[link]

• Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947-1958 (1972)
• Collected in Monstrous Martyrdoms (1985)
  • Lord Alfred's Lover (1979)
  • H for Hamlet (1985?^[5])
  • German Requiem

References[link]

External links[link]

• Columbia Fetes American Theater Legend Eric Bentley
• NY Times: Eric Bentley at 90
• Bentley Discography on Folkways Records

Byron Allen (born April 22, 1961) is an American comedian. He is the head of Entertainment Studios, a broadcast syndication company responsible for producing and distributing several television shows pertaining to stand-up comedy and the entertainment industry. Allen also hosts some of the shows himself.

Early life[link]

Byron Allen was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is one of many notable graduates from Fairfax High School in Hollywood, California. He began doing stand-up comedy as a teenager in Los Angeles.

Career[link]

In 1979, he was named one of the hosts of the weekly NBC television series Real People. After the series was canceled in 1984, he returned to stand-up comedy, and in 1989, became the host of a weekly syndicated late-night interview program in the mold of The Tonight Show called The Byron Allen Show, which ran until 1994. Two years later, he also started hosting and producing a seasonal music video countdown program syndicated to local TV stations called Jammin. This show later was renamed Kickin' It.

In 1993, his talk show, Entertainers with Byron Allen, premiered; it continues to the present day.^[1] Since then, Allen's Entertainment Studios production company (formerly CF Entertainment) has expanded its scope. Today, he produces and distributes almost two dozen lifestyle-related and interview programs for television syndication. He currently hosts Comics Unleashed, a comedic talk show. Allen's Entertainment Studios in 2010 lunched a fictional courtroom show America's Court with Judge Ross into daytime syndication, along with two education/information (E/I) programs.^[2]

Started in 2009, Allen created and developed "Comedy.TV". This weekly, one-hour long syndicated program features varying stand-up comedians. "We are thrilled to have a platform where the world’s best comedians can shine and make people laugh," says Allen.

Personal life[link]

Allen married Jennifer Lucas in 2007 and have two daughters, Chloe Ava (born on August 22, 2008)^[3] and Olivia Rose (born on April 7, 2010).^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Byron Allen at the Internet Movie Database
• Wihlborg, Ulrica (September 1, 2007). "Talk Show Host Byron Allen Marries TV Producer". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20054427,00.html. Retrieved 2008-06-16. 
• Entertainment Studios