Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.
Martin, the oldest of three children, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947, the daughter of Sybil A. (née Manoogian) and John Papazian Martin. Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants who moved to the U.S. from Turkey to escape the Armenian Genocide. Her father owned Martin's Foods, a grocery store chain. Her maternal grandparents were Armenians from Yerevan and Istanbul.
She has two sons, Jack (born ca. 1980) and Joe (born 1983), with ex-husband Bob Dolman, a screenwriter. Through this marriage, she was the sister-in-law of Dolman's sister, actress Nancy, and her husband Martin Short.
Soon after graduating from Emerson College, she won a role in a touring company of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. After frequent visits to Toronto, she relocated from New York City to Toronto in 1970 and immediately found steady theater work.
Melissa De Sousa (born September 25, 1967) is an American actress. De Sousa was born in New York City, New York of Panamanian descent. She is an Afro-Latino.
Melissa De Sousa was raised in New York by Panamanian parents. She began ballet at a very young age studying under Joan Millin. She attended the High School of Performing Arts and acting naturally followed.
Her film credits include The Best Man, Miss Congeniality, 30 Years to Life, and Lockdown. Her television credits are ER, Married... With Children, Moesha, Living Single, and One on One.
De Sousa was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Film from the NAACP Image awards for her performamce in The Best Man. Her other credits include 30 Years to Life, an independent picture starring Allen Payne, Tracy Morgan and Erika Alexander; Lockdown, an independent picture with Richard T. Jones, executive produced by Master P.; Ride and the short films, The Fire This Time and Spark. De Sousa's television credits include Damon, ER, Married... with Children, Moesha, The Wayans Bros. and Living Single. De Sousa co-starred in UPN's Second Time Around, short-lived sitcom alongside future husband and wife Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker which lasted for one season only during the 2004-05 season. She was most recently seen as 'Lady Anne' in An Evening of Shakespare with Charles Dutton at the Hudson and the Court theatres in Los Angeles.
Damon was a US comedy television series starring Damon Wayans. The show lasted for eleven episodes between March and July 1998. It was created by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, and Damon Wayans and directed by John P. Whitesell.
Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach, Damon Wayans, Dick Blasucci
Sam Henry Kass and Brenda Hanes-Berg.
Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop, are reunited in Chicago. Things come easily to Damon, a clever but politically incorrect undercover cop. He has a quick wit, beautiful women and a challenging job. His older brother Bernard is a rent-a-cop home security officer who longs to be the real thing. Down on his luck and separated from his wife, he spends most of his time on Damon's couch. Down at the precinct, Captain Carol Czynencko is Damon's hard-as-nails boss who is trying to get in touch with her sensitive side; Stacy Phillips is a strong career-driven Latina who has a "no dating cops" rule; Carrol Fontain is a hypochondriac who makes his co-workers cringe with graphic descriptions of his problems; Jimmy Tortone is a Cuban con-artist who walks a fine line between shady and legit; and Billy Cavanaugh is a gung-ho, gullible new kid in the department who falls prey to everyone's practical jokes.
Damon Kyle Wayans ( /ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor, one of the Wayans family.
Wayans was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elvira, a homemaker and social worker, and Howell Wayans, a supermarket manager. He has five sisters, Elvira, Vonnie, Nadia, Kim, Diedre, and four brothers, actors Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Dwayne Wayans. He had a clubbed foot as a child. This attribute would also be given to his character in My Wife and Kids and his character on the cartoon series Waynehead. Wayans attended Murry Bergtraum High School.
Damon started doing stand-up comedy in 1982. His earliest film appearance was a brief cameo as an effeminate hotel employee in the 1984 Eddie Murphy film Beverly Hills Cop. He was briefly on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer, before getting fired for playing his character as a flamboyant gay cop instead of a straight cop. He went against the script during the live performance. In the SNL book Live From New York, it was stated that Wayans did this largely due to growing frustrations that his sketches were not being considered for the show and increasing stress. He also appeared in the syndicated TV series Solid Gold during the 1980s as a stand-up comedian. After that, he went on to co-create and appear in the TV-show In Living Color from 1990 to 1992, part of a team that was nominated for Emmy Awards all three years.
David Alan Grier (born June 30, 1955), also known as "D.A.G." (DAG), is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color.
Grier was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Aretas Ruth (née Dudley) and William Henry Grier, a psychiatrist and writer who co-wrote the book Black Rage. He graduated from Detroit's magnet high school, Cass Tech and received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Immediately after graduating, he landed the role of Jackie Robinson in the short-lived Broadway musical The First, directed by Martin Charnin and written by Joel Siegel.
Grier got his start on the National Public Radio radio drama adaptation of Star Wars in 1980. He was the voice of a nameless X-Wing fighter pilot during the Battle of Yavin.
Grier was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award for The First. He later starred as James "Thunder" Early in the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Grier made his film debut in 1983 in Streamers, directed by Robert Altman. He won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the film. He also appeared in the Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play and reprised his role in the film version A Soldier's Story. Grier also appeared as a geology professor at the fictitious Hillman College in the show A Different World where he was a crush of several of the girls on the show including lead character Denise Huxtable played by actress Lisa Bonet.
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Mac Giani (Mac Jay) is a notorious ladies man, who takes pleasure in seducing women and making them fall in love. He becomes a legend in the town, and well-skilled in breaking hearts. His skills earn the respect of two friends, who themselves experience the hardships of falling in and out of love, and become jaded about finding true love. In a twist of fate, their teacher becomes the student, as Mac unexpectedly falls in love, and must now confront his dark past, in order to save his dismal future.
Keywords: gigolo, haunted-by-the-past, heartbreak, italian-mafia, ladies-man, lover, mistrust, seduction
You have to break hearts before you get heartbroken
Roberto: We are f***ing Italian Mafia, and we can into anywhere we want!
Mac Giani: I came here to tell you everything about my life.::Sophia Marceloni: I already know everything about your miserable life.
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The government takes homeless people out of a small town and throws them out into the woods. After years of the homeless living in the woods, they become deadly scavengers. One day, a group of kids decides to cut school and end up breaking down in the same woods as the homeless people. The seniors must fight to survive and make it through the night.
Life in the fast lane is murder.
Damon: Sorry, Jen. I gotta run. 911 from the office.::Jenni: No, Damon. Not again.::Damon: I'm sorry, Jen, but it's crucial. The Collins case could mean a lot of money for us. I swear I'll make it up to you.::Jenni: I never see you. I hardly feel like I'm married anymore.::Damon: Yeah, well, I don't like it any better than you do, but my career has to come first. All right? At least for now. I'll be back as soon as I can.
Brandy: In bed, I'm one horny little bitch.
Brandy: [to Damon] I've been thinkin' about you. A lot. Now, a girl gets lonely. So what do you say? You, me, a little tussle in the tree house? Gotta be careful. 'Cause I, like, make a lotta noise when I fuck. Like, outta control. You may need to put something in my mouth.
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After the suicide of the teenager Allen Clark, his family decides to move from Chicago to the quiet Cradle Bay Island seeking a peaceful life for the siblings Steve and Lindsay Clark. When Steve joins the local high-school, the outcast Gavin Strick befriends Steve and introduces his also rejected friend Rachel Wagner to the newcomer. Gavin exposes to Steve in the refectory the punks, the nerds and the different tribes of the school and he defends the weird theory that a sinister force changes the behavior of the annoyingly perfect "Blue Ribbons", a group of good students that wear identical jackets and gather in the Yogurt Shoppe. Further he tells that he had witnessed the blue ribbon Andy Efkin killing their schoolmate Mary Jo that is missing and the local Officer Cox covering the murder. Steve does not believe on Gavin words, but when his friend is submitted to the treatment of Dr. Edgar Caldicott and immediately changes his behavior, joining the Blue Ribbons, Steve and Rachel decides to investigate the mystery discovering the dark secret of the perfect behavior.
Keywords: 1990s, albino, ankle-tattoo, bake-sale, bandaged-hand, bare-breasts, barge, beach, beating, beer
Perfection is every teenage student's co-pilot.
It doesn't matter if you're not perfect. You will be.
You'll never be the same.
In Cradle Bay... there's nothing more frightening than perfection.
Lorna Longley: Bad wrong, wrong bad, bad wrong, wrong bad.
[Blood running down her face]::Lorna Longley: I have to go home. I've got a big physics test tomorrow.
Chug Roman: Will you go out with me?::Rachel Wagner: No.::Chug Roman: WHY NOT?
Steve Clark: Tell me, Shannon, do you get yelled at when you talk about your dead grandfather?::Nathan Clark: Steve...::Steve Clark: 'Cause around here, people go crazy if you talk about a dead brother.
Betty Caldicott: Meet the musical little creatures that hide among the flowers.
Rachel: Gavin thinks some sinister force has taken over the Cradle Bay meatheads.::Steve: A sinister force?::Rachel: You know, evil. Nowhere to turn, no one to trust, altogether ooky.
Steve Clark: I had no idea the evil was this pervasive.
Gavin Strick: Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad.
Dorian Newberry: Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
Rachel Wagner: Sounds razor.
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A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
Keywords: bunny, reference-to-satan, satanism, supernatural-horror
Satan has chosen his victims. The battle with evil has begun.