Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (pronounced /ˈriːdʒɨs ˈfɪlbɨn/; born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called (somewhat tongue-in-cheek and alternately attributed to James Brown) "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera. His trademarks include his excited manner, his New York Bronx accent, his wit, and irreverent ad-libs. He is most widely known for Live with Regis and Kelly (which rose to fame as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee),Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,Million Dollar Password, and for hosting the first season of America's Got Talent.
On January 18, 2011, Philbin announced plans to leave Live with Regis and Kelly at the end of his contract. His final episode of Live aired on November 18, 2011.
Philbin was born in New York City. His father, Francis "Frank" Philbin, a U.S. Marine who served in the Pacific, was of Irish heritage. His mother, Filomena "Florence" (née Boscia), was of Arbëreshë (an Albanian minority population from southern Italy) heritage. They lived at 1990 Cruger Avenue in the Van Nest section of The Bronx. Philbin was raised Roman Catholic. He was supposedly named "Regis" because his father wished him to attend the prestigious Regis High School. It was long believed that Philbin was an only child, but on the February 1, 2007, broadcast of Live with Regis and Kelly, Philbin announced that he did have a brother, Frank M. Philbin (March 1, 1951 – January 27, 2007), who had died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma several days earlier. He said that his brother, 20 years younger than he, had asked him to not speak of him on television or in the press.
Actors: Rich Hall (actor), James Belushi (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Steve Carell (actor), Dana Carvey (actor), Tom Davis (actor), John Belushi (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Forte (actor), Ricky Gervais (actor), Christopher Guest (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Fred Armisen (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Will Forte (actor), Will Forte (actor), Will Forte (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: James Belushi (actor), John Belushi (actor), Jim Breuer (actor), Garth Brooks (actor), Dana Carvey (actor), Chevy Chase (actor), Chevy Chase (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Emilio Estevez (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Chris Farley (actor), Chris Farley (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor),
Plot: All the best game show parodies of Saturday Night Live come together in this video that features such hilarious game shows as Old French Whore, Sucker Punches, Jeopardy 1999!, Celebrity Jeopardy, Bensonhurst Dating Game, and much more! With hosts like Will Ferell, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Tom Hanks, Mike Myers, Billy Crystal, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and many more!
Keywords: celebrity-impersonation, fictional-game-show, insult, sketch-comedy, spoof, stupidityActors: Harvey Keitel (actor), Lex Lang (actor), John Farley (actor), Blake Clark (actor), Rhys Ifans (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Clint Howard (actor), Allen Covert (actor), Rodney Dangerfield (actor), Dana Carvey (actor), Lewis Arquette (actor), Jess Harnell (actor), Michael Deak (actor), Michael McKean (actor), Jon Lovitz (actor),
Plot: When somebody's mother is an angel and his father is the devil, life can be really confusing. For a sweet boy like Little Nicky, it just got a whole lot worse. His two evil brothers Adrian and Cassius have just escaped from Hell and are wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting earth. His dad is disintegrating and it's up to Nicky to save him and all of a humanity by midnight before one of his brothers becomes the new Satan.
Keywords: 2000s, absurd-humor, actor-playing-himself, angel, angry-mob, anti-hero, back-from-the-dead, backmasking-spoof, basketball, batActors: Anne Fletcher (actress), Kathie Lee Gifford (actress), Robert Prosky (actor), Gerard Plunkett (actor), Regis Philbin (actor), Alex Rocco (actor), C. Ernst Harth (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Eric Idle (actor), William MacDonald (actor), Corey Burton (actor), Jack Kehler (actor), Brendan Fraser (actor), John Davis (producer), Sarah Jessica Parker (actress),
Plot: Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?
Keywords: based-on-cartoon, based-on-tv-series, canada, chainsaw, character-name-in-title, dancer, destiny, explosion, festival, fireworkActors: Irwin Winkler (director), James Newton Howard (composer), Eli Wallach (actor), Jessica Lange (actress), Jack Warden (actor), Irwin Winkler (producer), Regis Philbin (actor), David Boston (actor), Michael Badalucco (actor), Barry Primus (actor), Alan King (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Michael Rispoli (actor), Dan Perri (miscellaneous crew), John 'JR' Craigmile (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He's a failed lawyer. She's a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can't seem to deal with their problems. The lawyer just failed winning a case in court against a famous boxing organizer and he wants revenge by catching the organizer on his own territory: boxing. Although he knows nothing about boxing, with his fine talk he finds the help of a couple of people like the brother of his new enemy. But the relationship with his waitress doesn't make things double as hard.
Keywords: based-on-novel, color-remake-of-black-and-white-film, independent-film, neo-noir, new-york-city, remakeActors: Susan Ruttan (actress), Jon Avnet (producer), Gene Wilder (actor), Christine Lahti (actress), Mary Stuart Masterson (actress), Wendie Malick (actress), Robert Prosky (actor), Stephen Tobolowsky (actor), Al Cerullo (actor), Regis Philbin (actor), David Boston (actor), David Margulies (actor), Tony Devon (actor), Miles Goodman (composer), Jordan Kerner (producer),
Plot: When Duffy Bergman, a New York cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry -- yet love alone isn't enough to make them happy. Meg decides she wants to have a baby, a goal that initially makes Duffy frantic, but soon becomes his most important desire as well. When they are unable to have a baby, Meg begins concentrating on her career and the two slowly drift apart -- eventually separating. Later, when Duffy is speaking at a convention of the Delta Gamma sorority, he reveals that the Delta Gamma girls have always been his dream girls -- his Love Goddesses. There he meets the young and uninhibited Delta Gamma girl, Daphne Delillo. When Daphne moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their mutual attraction and Daphne's spontaneity spark an adventurous new relationship for Duffy. Now Duffy must decide which is more valuable to him -- the relationship he has given up, or the relationship he has always dreamed of having.
Keywords: adoption, baby, based-on-article, bulgarian, cartoonist, infertility, miscarriage, restaurant, weddingActors: Doris Roberts (actress), Norman Alden (actor), Mark Snow (composer), Edwin Avedissian (actor), Robby Benson (actor), Regis Philbin (actor), Ernie Hudson (actor), Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress), Martin Mull (actor), Michael Jablow (editor), Charles Rocket (actor), R.W. Goodwin (producer), Robert Pastorelli (actor), Thomas Ryan (actor), Tawny Kitaen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: John Alderman (actor), Regis Philbin (actor), Sybil Danning (actress), Andy Sidaris (writer), Shanna McCullough (actress), Andy Sidaris (director), Andy Sidaris (actor), Andy Sidaris (producer), Art Metrano (actor), Harry Hauss (actor), Brett Baxter Clark (actor), Darby Hinton (actor), Lynda Wiesmeier (actress), Bob Perkis (producer), Barbara Edwards (actress),
Plot: Cody Abiliene is a semi-successful private detective desperately in need of a big (and well-paying) case. When he's hired to solve the murder of Contessa Luciana's husband, he jumps at the chance. In between investigating the many women around the Contessa's estate, Abilene eventually uncovers a complex case of espionage and blackmail.
Keywords: adulterous-wife, adultery, b-movie, bare-breasts, bikini, black-panties, blackmail, blonde, breast-suckling, campActors: Regis Philbin (actor), Gene Wilder (actor), Sidney Miller (actor), Tony Randall (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Titos Vandis (actor), Burt Reynolds (actor), Norman Alden (actor), Woody Allen (actor), John Carradine (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Stanley Adams (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Lynn Redgrave (actress), Anthony Quayle (actor),
Plot: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court jester gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen and is, in the end, beheaded to "What Happens During Ejaculation?" in which we watch 'control central' during a successful seduction.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, actor-talks-to-audience, apartment, apartment-building, aphrodisiac, asterisk-in-title, based-on-book, bed, bedroom, brain(Burke, Johnston)
A long time ago
A million years BC
The best things in life
Were absolutely free.
But no one appreciated
A sky that was always blue.
And no one congratulated
A moon that was always new.
So it was planned that they would vanish now and them
And you must pay before you get them back again.
That's what storms were made for
And you shouldn't be afraid for
Every time it rains it rains
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find yor fortune falling
All over town.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers.
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree.
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me.