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David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009. He is the eldest of actor Kirk Douglas's four sons.
Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian-born actress Diana Dill. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas (born 1955) and Eric Douglas (1958–2004), from stepmother Anne Buydens.
Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actor. Reynolds is known for playing the role of Michael Bergen on ABC's sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1998–2001), Wade Wilson / Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in Green Lantern. He has also appeared in films such as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, The Change-Up, and Safe House.
Reynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, Jim, is a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tammy, is a retail salesperson. He is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a Roman Catholic. The youngest of four brothers, he graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver in 1994. He later attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, also in Vancouver, until dropping out.
Reynolds' career began in 1990 when he starred as "Billy" in the Canadian-produced teen soap Hillside, distributed in the United States by Nickelodeon as Fifteen. As an adult, Reynolds starred in the National Lampoon movie Van Wilder and the American television series Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, playing medical student Michael "Berg" Bergen. In 1993-94 he had a recurring role in The Odyssey as Macro. He also cameoed in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as a nurse, appeared in The In-Laws with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, as well as the Canadian production Foolproof.
Actors: Deron Sedy (actor), Deron Sedy (writer), Mike Standish (producer), Mike Standish (director), Troy Fischnaller (actor), Kate Czajkowski (actress), Dusty Warren (actor), Andrew Wiener (editor), Cory Nealy (actor), Andrew Wiener (producer), Cory Nealy (writer), Andrew Wiener (director), David Swidler (actor), Josh Knisely (actor), Josh Knisely (writer),
Plot: Spoofing the plot of "The Da Vinci Code," this seven-part animated series follows Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the mysterious murder of Michael Douglas at Mann's Chinese Theatre leads them to a conspiracy as old as Hollywood itself.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Richard Curtis (actor), Jack Dee (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), John Cleese (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Martin Clunes (actor), Steve Coogan (actor), David Bowie (actor), Richard Briers (actor), Simon Callow (actor), John Bluthal (actor), Jimmy Carr (actor), Bono (actor), Eric Clapton (actor), Declan Donnelly (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Bill Bailey (actor), Derren Brown (actor), Jimmy Carr (actor), Julian Clary (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Graham Norton (actor), Paul O'Grady (actor), Simon Pegg (actor), Jonathan Ross (actor), Johnny Vegas (actor), Jo Brand (actress), Dawn French (actress), Jessica Hynes (actress), Miranda Richardson (actress), Jack Dee (actor),
Genres: Comedy,