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Cranston or Cranstoun is a Scottish surname originating in a clan that lived around Roxburgh in the Scottish Borders. It is a minor clan but has its own tartan and clan brooch.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.
His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".
Actors: Melissa L. Nichols (producer), Bob Willems (director), Scott Geiter (miscellaneous crew), Joe Grisaffi (actor), Bob Willems (editor), Joe Grisaffi (actor), Scott Geiter (miscellaneous crew), Melissa L. Nichols (actress), Bob Willems (producer), Phil Nichols (writer), Phil Nichols (actor), Phil Nichols (writer), Phil Nichols (producer), Phil Nichols (producer), Mel House (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Wim Wenders (miscellaneous crew), Blythe Danner (actress), Wayne Rogers (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Keir Dullea (actor), Sabine Hoffmann (editor), Peter Falk (actor), Robert Carradine (actor), Max Perlich (actor), George Kuchar (actor), Lyle Lovett (actor), John Carroll Lynch (actor), Arthur Dix (miscellaneous crew), Jason Patric (actor),
Plot: It's Tuesday in Cleveland; a storm arrives that will last three days. We watch rain fall as we listen to a DJ and the jazz he plays at WLOH. We also watch separate stories of a cab driver who's suffered a recent loss, a janitor who may lose his job, a junkie whose infant daughter is in the care of the woman's abusive father, a couple who argue after she won't let him give a restaurant dessert to a homeless man, a tile maker desperate for money to buy clay for a new job, and an alcoholic, prevaricating father whose adult son is long-suffering. Each is isolated, each seeks a connection; some find one.
Keywords: abusive-father, alcoholic, bed, cleveland-ohio, confrontation, coworker-relationship, death-of-son, desperation, desperation, dessertActors: Gary Daniels (actor), Gary Daniels (producer), Larry Bagby (actor), Evan Jacobs (writer), Christopher Stapleton (actor), Alan M. Solomon (producer), Darren Doane (director), Darren Doane (writer), Tsuyoshi Abe (actor), Melissa Morgan (actress), Matthew Reithmayr (writer), Matthew Reithmayr (actor), Hollywood Heard (actor), Paul Gunning (actor), Christopher Janney (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Gene Kelly (miscellaneous crew), Jasmine Guy (actress), George Kennedy (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Don Knotts (actor), Kathy Najimy (actress), David Kirschner (producer), Scott Bakula (actor), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Natalie Cole (actress), Rene Auberjonois (actor), David Johansen (actor), Adam D. Wright (miscellaneous crew), Ashley Peldon (actress),
Plot: Danny, an ambitious singing/dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, alternate-reality, animal, animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, apostrophe-in-title, behind-the-scenesActors: Kevin LaRosa (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Veluzat (miscellaneous crew), John J. Kelly (miscellaneous crew), Anna Nicole Smith (producer), Kevin LaRosa (miscellaneous crew), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Anna Nicole Smith (actress), Richard Pepin (producer), David Proval (actor), Scott McAboy (producer), Lee de Broux (actor), Paul Eiding (actor), Joseph Merhi (producer), Michael Collins (miscellaneous crew), Floyd Levine (actor),
Plot: A helicopter charter soon turns deadly when the female pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
Keywords: action-hero, action-heroine, anal-rape, anal-sex, attempted-rape, aviation, bare-breasts, blonde, bra, brawlActors: Mike Monty (actor), Henry Strzalkowski (actor), Andrew Stevens (actor), Nick Nicholson (actor), David Light (actor), Jim Moss (actor), Eric Hahn (actor), K.Y. Lim (producer), Teddy Page (writer), Teddy Page (director), Steve Rogers (actor), Ned Hourani (actor), Karen Sheperd (actress), David Anderson (actor), Jeff Griffith (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Bernard Hill (actor), Victor Glynn (producer), Matt Carroll (producer), Richard Moir (actor), Martin Armiger (composer), John Doyle (actor), Conor McDermottroe (actor), Jean Turnbull (costume designer), Chris Langman (director), Nikki Coghill (actress), John Misto (writer), Kelly Dingwall (actor), Thomas Keneally (writer), Harley Manners (producer), Lloyd Morris (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Bill Kerr (actor), Gerard Kennedy (actor), Terry Lee (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Rowland (composer), Gus Mercurio (actor), Patrick Ward (actor), Peter Whitford (actor), Mark Hembrow (actor), Terence Donovan (actor), Warwick Sims (actor), Nikki Coghill (actress), Nick Waters (actor), Barry Hill (actor), Geoff Burrowes (producer), Ken Snodgrass (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Crime,Actors: Ford Rainey (actor), Gregg Palmer (actor), John McKee (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Jack La Rue (actor), Howard Morris (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), Jim Bannon (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Phil Silvers (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Cisar (actor), Richard Denning (actor), John Dierkes (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Henry Hull (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Gerald Mohr (actor), Richard Reeves (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Hank Worden (actor), Dorothy Adams (actress), Patricia Medina (actress), Albert Glasser (composer), Carl K. Hittleman (writer), Carl K. Hittleman (director),
Plot: Dr. Bruce Merritt is enticed to Bitter Water by 'Doc' Medley, a phony poker swindler, who persuades Merritt to pay him $250 for the use of his 'medical practice.' Doc's daughter Angela vows to pay back Merritt's money. She gambles and loses to her ex-lover Slinger. They fight when she discovers the deck is marked. Merritt arrives and mistakes the meaning of her torn clothing. Disgraced, Angela leaves town with Slinger who, showing his appreciation, immediately holds up a bank and wounds Angela in the process. Merritt, learning that he had been mistaken about Angela, sends a messenger after Angela but Slinger shoots him. Grabbing the only loaded gun left, Angela keeps the killer at bay all night, but she faints and...
Keywords: sheriff