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Christopher Allen Darden (born April 7, 1956) is an American lawyer, writer, lecturer and practicing attorney. He was a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles County District Attorney, where he was assigned to the prosecution of O. J. Simpson. Darden gained fame during the O. J. Simpson murder case when he asked Simpson to try on the once-blood-soaked gloves.
Darden received his B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration from San Jose State University (1977) and his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (1980).
During his tenure as a prosecutor, Darden was the Assistant Head Deputy Attorney of the Special Investigations Division where he tried 27 homicide cases.
After leaving the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in 1995, Darden joined the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught criminal law. That same year, he was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles specializing in criminal procedure and trial advocacy. He left the law school in 1999 and immediately started his own firm, Darden & Associates, Inc., specializing in criminal defense and civil litigation. He is currently of Counsel to THE FOXX FIRM, PLC, a private criminal defense and civil litigation firm in Culver City, California.
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta's acting career declined in the early 1980s and continued to deteriorate for the rest of the decade. His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction, and he has since continued starring in Hollywood films, including Face/Off, Ladder 49, and Wild Hogs. Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty.
Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995), was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke, January 1912 – December 1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta, have all acted. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American; he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975.
Actors: Myke Wilson (producer), Tom Doherty (director), Eric Smigiel (editor), Jayson Phommavongsa (composer), Jordan Goodwin (editor), Chelsea Foss Ralston (actress), Adam Mizner (actor), Adam Mizner (composer), Jermaine Hall (writer), Brian Samuelson (actor), Kevin Poole (actor), David Mortenson (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Sting (actor), Paula Abdul (actress), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Elton John (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Paul McCartney (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), David Hill (actor), Bono (actor), Sacha Baron Cohen (actor), Snoop Dogg (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Sacha Baron Cohen (producer), Slash (actor),
Plot: Brüno is a gay Austrian fashion guru. He has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. After he disgraces himself in front of his Funkyzeit fan base, he is ruined in German speaking Europe. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. Accompanying him to the US is Lutz, his former assistant's assistant. Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Brüno's greatness. Brüno goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires.
Keywords: abortion-joke, adoption, anal-sex, arab-stereotype, austria, austrian, autism, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, based-on-tv-seriesActors: Sting (actor), Paula Abdul (actress), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Elton John (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Paul McCartney (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), David Hill (actor), Bono (actor), Sacha Baron Cohen (actor), Snoop Dogg (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Sacha Baron Cohen (producer), Slash (actor),
Plot: Brüno is a gay Austrian fashion guru. He has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. After he disgraces himself in front of his Funkyzeit fan base, he is ruined in German speaking Europe. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. Accompanying him to the US is Lutz, his former assistant's assistant. Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Brüno's greatness. Brüno goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires.
Keywords: abortion-joke, adoption, anal-sex, arab-stereotype, austria, austrian, autism, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, based-on-tv-seriesActors: Shehzad Khan (actor), Andrew Starke (editor), Andrew Starke (producer), Pete Tombs (producer), Pete Tombs (writer), Rehan (actor), Stephen Thrower (composer), Sharmilee (actress), Omar Khan (writer), Omar Khan (writer), Omar Khan (director), Adnan Malik (actor), Omar Khan (producer), Mir Shabbir (miscellaneous crew), Mir Shabbir (actor),
Plot: After lying to their parents and running off to see a rock concert, five teenagers leave their suburb neighborhood of Islamabad and travel into the wild only to have their van break down and they get set upon by not only flesh eating zombies, but a ghoulish hitchhiker, and a blood-soaked, burqa-wearing killer.
Keywords: avenger, blood, bowels, burqa, car, car-radio, chase, cigarette-smoking, creek, dead-birdActors: Jordan Crowder (director), Jordan Crowder (producer), Jordan Crowder (writer), Jordan Crowder (actor), Jordan Crowder (editor), Steven Crowder (actor), Kristian Matte (actor), Julian Di Nardo (actor), John G. Goodman (actor), Nathalie Goodman (actress), Shaun Collins (actor),
Plot: HORROR FRIENDS spoofs the comedy in Friends as deftly as it lampoons the horror of "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Friday the 13th," "Carrie," "Silence of the Lambs" and "Halloween."
Keywords: cult-film, fan-film, halloween-spoof, independent-film, parody, spoof, viral, youtubeActors: Edwin Reyes (actor), Jaclyn Jose (actress), Beverly Salviejo (actress), Lani Mercado (actress), Joyce Bernal (director), Neil Ryan Sese (actor), John Arcilla (actor), Chuckie Dreyfuss (composer), Joross Gamboa (actor), Sarah Geronimo (actress), Michiko Yamamoto (writer), Michelle Madrigal (actress), Giselle Sanchez (actress), Roxanne Guinoo (actress), Jason Abalos (actor),
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