:Not to be confused with tortes. A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard.

The categories of 'tart', 'flan', and 'pie' overlap, with no sharp distinctions, though 'pie' is the more common term in the United States.

Early medieval tarts generally had meat fillings, but later ones were often based on fruit and custard.

Tarte Tatin is an upside-down tart, of apples, other fruit, or onions.

Savoury tarts include quiche, a family of savoury tarts with a mostly custard filling; German zwiebelkuchen 'onion tart', and Swiss cheese tart made from Gruyere.

See also

Bakewell tart

Butter tart

Custard tart

Egg tart

Gypsy tart

Manchester tart

Meringue tart

Neenish tart

Pop-Tart

Treacle tart

Notes

Name	Brian Regan
Birth name	Brian Joseph Regan
Medium	Stand-up
Nationality	American
Notable work	Comedy Central Presents, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Short Attention Span Theater
Website	http://www.brianregan.com/

Brian Regan () is a stand-up comedian. Regan uses observational humor and his performances are relatively "clean" as he refrains from profanity and off-color humor. Regan's material typically covers everyday events, such as shipping a package with UPS and a visit to an optometrist. Regan makes frequent references to childhood, including little league baseball, grade school spelling bees, and science projects. His clean, off-center humor has been praised by critics and contemporaries alike and Regan enjoys a fanbase that crosses young tastemakers to middle-aged adults; he is respected in the comedy community for being a "universal comic," his work has been applauded by such diverse sources as Comedy Central, Slate, The Onion and The Wall Street Journal.

Fellow comedian Patton Oswalt wrote in his blog that Regan is "the best stand-up comedian working today," praising his versatility and ability to find new humor in classic comedy targets:

"Brian Regan's comedy stuns me. It stuns me because he can start down the road with a premise that EVERY COMEDIAN KNOWS has not one scrap of flesh left on its bones, and find a new angle of attack that yields prime cuts of comedic meat."

Recorded shows

Regan released his first CD, Brian Regan Live, in 1997. In 2004, Regan self-released a DVD of his performance at the Irvine Improv titled I Walked on the Moon.

In April 2007, Brian signed a deal with Comedy Central to star in two one-hour stand-up specials, release the specials on DVD, develop a show for the network, and headline a theater tour, “Brian Regan in Concert: A Comedy Central Live Event,” which began June 8, 2007.

Brian’s first one-hour special Standing Up debuted on Comedy Central on June 10, 2007. The special was recorded in April at The Barclay Theater in Irvine, CA and a DVD of the performance was released August 14, 2007. His second Comedy Central Special, entitled The Epitome of Hyperbole, premiered on September 6, 2008. A DVD of the performance was released September 9, 2008.

Brian's new performance, All By Myself, is available for download exclusively on his website.

Filmography

{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="4" | Films |- ! Year || Title || Role || Other Notes |- | rowspan="2" | 1992 || The A-List || Himself || (writer) |- | Something's Wrong with the Regan Boy || Himself || (writer) |- | rowspan="1" | 1993 || Short Attention Span Theater || Himself-Host || (1 episode) |- | rowspan="1" | 1998 || Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist || Himself || (2 episodes) |- | rowspan="2" | 2000 || Comedy Central Presents || Himself || (writer) |- | ''Open Mic || Himself || (deleted scenes) |- | rowspan="1" | 2002 || Comic Remix || Himself || (cameo) (1 episode) |- | rowspan="2" | 2004 || Shorties Watchin' Shorties || Himself || (2 episodes) |- | '' || Himself || (writer) (executive producer) |- | rowspan="1" | 2007 || || Himself || (writer) (executive producer) |- | rowspan="2" | 2008 || || Himself || (writer) (executive producer) |- | ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien || Himself || (1 episode) |- | rowspan="1" | 2010 || Late Show with David Letterman || Guest/Comedy Act || (24 episodes from 1995–2010) |}

References

External links

Brian Regan's official site

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Name	Paula Poundstone
Birth date	December 29, 1959
Birth place	Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, Television
Nationality	American
Active	1979–present
Genre	Observational comedy, Improvisational comedy
Subject	Everyday life, Motherhood
Notable work	Cats, Cops and Stuff Tonight Show The Rosie O'Donnell Show Mother Jones Science Court Home Movies
Website	PaulaPoundstone.com

Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian.

Personal life

Poundstone was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and her family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts. She adopted her first child, Thomas, in 1993. In 1997, she adopted two girls, Toshia and Allison. Later, she adopted another son, to whom she refers as "Thomas E."

Poundstone was a foster mother to several other children until 2001, when she was barred from the foster care program following a conviction of child endangerment for driving under the influence with a child passenger. Since then she has used the incident—and the resulting publicity—as the source for some of her comedic material.

Poundstone labels herself asexual. She stated her asexuality in an interview with the Dallas Voice in June 2007, saying "I'm totally an asexual human being. I haven't dated anyone". In her memoirs she wrote, Poundstone frequently refers to cats in her comedy and on her website. She shares her home with numerous cats and supports Alley Cat Allies, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to transforming communities to protect and improve the lives of cats.

On her website, Poundstone states that she is an atheist.

Career

Poundstone attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, but dropped out to pursue a show business career. Her jobs have included busing tables and working as a bicycle messenger. She started doing stand-up comedy on open-mic nights in Boston in 1979, eventually relocating to California. She usually performs dressed in a suit and tie. In 1984, Poundstone was cast in the movie Hyperspace but she did not follow through on a potential acting career. Instead she became better known as a comedian and began appearing on several talk shows. In 1989, she won the American Comedy Award for "Best Female Stand-Up Comic." In 1990, she wrote and starred in an HBO special called Cats, Cops and Stuff, for which she won a CableACE Award. She worked as a political correspondent for the Tonight Show during the 1992 US Presidential campaign and did the same for The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 1996.

In 1993, Poundstone won a second CableACE Award, began writing a regular column, "Hey, Paula!" for Mother Jones (1993–1998), and had a variety show, The Paula Poundstone Show, on ABC (which lasted only two episodes). She was also a regular panelist for the game shows Hollywood Squares and To Tell the Truth.

She has also done some voiceover work, voicing Judge Stone on Science Court (also known as Squigglevision), an edutainment cartoon series done in the Squigglevision style and aired on Saturday mornings on ABC Kids in 1997. Staying with Tom Snyder Productions (makers of Science Court) she was also made the voice of Home Movies mom character Paula Small for the show's first five episodes, which aired on UPN. Between the show's 1999 UPN cancellation and 2000 revival on Cartoon Network she chose to leave the show, being replaced by Janine Ditullio. The character's name and some of her appearance were modeled after Poundstone.

She is number 88 on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time, and number 7 on Maxim magazine's list of "Worst Comedians of All Time."

She had her own Bravo special as part of their three-part Funny Girls series, along with Caroline Rhea and Joan Rivers, titled "Look What the Cat Dragged In."

Around the same time as her Bravo special, Poundstone also released her first book, There Is Nothing in this Book That I Meant to Say. Described as an autobiography that is "part memoir, part monologue," the book intertwines historical biographies with anecdotes from her own life.

She has appeared frequently as a panelist on the radio news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on National Public Radio. Also, she is a regular guest on A Prairie Home Companion, often appearing in shows in Los Angeles or at joke shows.

Poundstone released her first comedy CD, "I Heart Jokes," in 2009.

Arrest

In 2001, Poundstone was arrested on a felony warrant for three counts of committing a lewd act on an unidentified girl under age 14. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office also stated that Poundstone was charged with endangering two other unidentified girls and two boys. Few details were released, but the prosecutor indicated that the charges were a result of an incident in which Poundstone was driving her children while intoxicated. She accepted a plea agreement and pleaded "no contest" to felony child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge of inflicting injury on a child. In exchange, the three charges of lewd conduct were dropped by prosecutors.

Poundstone was sentenced to five years probation and 180 days in an alcohol rehabilitation program. Following completion of the program, she was granted full custody of her adopted children but permanently lost custody of two other children who were in her home as part of the foster care system.

Poundstone's troubles were referred to in the South Park episode "Super Best Friends" and in the Family Guy episodes "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" and "Ocean's Three and a Half".

References

External links

Poundstone's first column in Mother Jones

Los Angeles Times interview by Candace A. Wedlan

Radio interview with Poundstone on The Sound of Young America:MP3 Link

Interview with Poundstone on the Feast of Fools (podcast)

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Name	Daryl Hannah
Caption	Hannah in 2009, at TED.com
Birth name	Daryl Christine Hannah
Birth date	December 03, 1960
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1978–present

Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street, and Roxanne, and in 2003 appeared in Kill Bill.

Early life

Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Wexler, a producer, and Don Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother subsequently married Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer. She grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah and half-sister Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Illinois.

Hannah is missing part of her left index finger, having lost it in an accident at age three.

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. She was very shy and diagnosed as borderline autistic. Hannah attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the soccer team) before enrolling at the University of Southern California.

Career

Hannah made her film debut in 1978 with a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury. She turned down many roles early on in her career, including the role of Emmeline Lestrange for The Blue Lagoon (that ultimately went to Brooke Shields). Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts. That same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers. She then was cast as a blonde mermaid in Ron Howard's 1984 fantasy Splash, which starred Tom Hanks and was a major financial success, establishing Hannah as a high-profile film actress.

Hannah's successes in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from Steel Magnolias and the Academy Award-winning Wall Street (for which she received her Razzie Award) to the 1986 film version of the best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear. Also in 1986 Hannah co-starred with Robert Redford and Debra Winger in Legal Eagles. She starred in the title role of Fred Schepisi's 1987 film Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, a performance described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert.

She also appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village with co-stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts and played the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men comedies. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Manliest Stars in Film History." That year she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds. Of her most recent roles, the most memorable may be that of the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in this film and her appearances in Speedway Junky, Northfork, Michael Radford's Dancing at the Blue Iguana, John Sayles' Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been described by some as a comeback.

Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film, "The Last Supper," which won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed, produced and was cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes. It aired on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO and was about the research Hannah did for her role as a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Hannah currently has several projects in post-production, including Shannon's Rainbow and A Closed Book.

She appeared in Robbie Williams' video for the song "Feel", portraying Williams' love interest.

Daryl Hannah is also well known as a theatre actress appearing in Seven Year Itch and reprising Marilyn Monroe's staring role in 2000 at London's West End, although reviews of the plays most commened Daryl Hannah's performance as good with Lizzie Loveridge of Curtain Up! saying that the play was the "perfect vehicle" for Daryl to "show her talents as a comedienne. She was also in the plays Cord and First Target in the same year.

Personal life

Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner created two board games, "Love It Or Hate It" and "LIEbrary", with Hannah previewing the latter on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show in 2005.

Hannah, an active environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog called DHLoveLife on sustainable solutions. She is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog. Her home runs on solar power and is built with green materials. She drives a car that runs on biodiesel. In late 2006, she volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's "Convenient Truths" contest. On December 4, 2008, Hannah joined Sea Shepherd's crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin, as part of Operation Musashi. at the Academy Awards 1988]] Hannah has never married, although she had long-term relationships with singer Jackson Browne and John F. Kennedy, Jr. She is the sister-in-law of music producer Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page.

On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested, along with Taran Noah Smith, for her involvement with over 350 farmers, their families and supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the nation's largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles. She chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm for three weeks to protest the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner. The farm had been established in the wake of the 1992 LA riots to allow people in the city to grow food for themselves. However, the land's new owner, who had paid $5 million for it, sought to evict the farmers to build a warehouse. He had asked for $16 million to sell it but turned down the offer when the activists raised that amount. Hannah was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with 44 other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing". She spent some time in jail.

Hannah has also worked to help end sexual slavery and has been traveling around the world to make a documentary.

Daryl Hannah was among 31 people arrested on June 23, 2009 in a protest against mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, part of a wider campaign to stop the practice in the region. The protesters, who also included NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen, were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat in the middle of State Route 3 outside Massey Energy's Goals Coal preparation plant on Tuesday, the The Charleston Gazette reported. In a Democracy Now! phone interview on June 24, 2009, Ms. Hannah spoke briefly on why she went to West Virginia and risked arrest.

Filmography

{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- | 1978 || The Fury || Pam || |- | 1981 || Hard Country || Loretta || |- |rowspan="2"| 1982 || Blade Runner || Pris Stratton || |- | Summer Lovers || Cathy Featherstone || |- | 1983 || The Final Terror || Windy || |- |rowspan="3"| 1984 || Reckless || Tracey Prescott || |- | Splash || Madison || Saturn Award for Best Actress |- | The Pope of Greenwich Village || Diane || |- |rowspan="2"| 1986 || The Clan of the Cave Bear || Ayla || |- | Legal Eagles || Chelsea Deardon || |- |rowspan="2"| 1987 || Roxanne || Roxanne Kowalski || |- | Wall Street || Darien Taylor || |- | 1988 || High Spirits || Mary Plunkett Brogan || |- |rowspan="2"| 1989 || Crimes and Misdemeanors||Lisa Crosley||uncredited |- | Steel Magnolias || Annelle Dupuy Desoto || |- | 1990 || Crazy People || Kathy || |- | 1991 || At Play in the Fields of the Lord || Andy Huben || |- | 1992 || Memoirs of an Invisible Man || Alice Monroe || |- |rowspan="2"| 1993 || Grumpy Old Men ||Melanie|| |- | Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman || Nancy Archer || TV film |- | 1994 || The Little Rascals||Miss June Crabtree|| |- |rowspan="2"| 1995 || The Tie That Binds || Leann Netherwood || |- | Grumpier Old Men || Melanie Gustafson || |- |rowspan="2"| 1996 || Two Much || Liz Kerner || |- | The Last Days of Frankie the Fly || Margaret || |- | 1997 || The Last Don || Athena Aquitane || TV Mini-Series |- |rowspan="5"| 1998 || The Gingerbread Man||Lois Harlan|| |- | The Real Blonde || Kelly || |- | Addams Family Reunion || Morticia Addams || direct-to-video |- | Rear Window || Claudia Henderson || TV film |- | Hi-Life || Maggie || |- |rowspan="3"|1999 || My Favorite Martian||Lizzie|| |- | Speedway Junky ||Veronica|| |- | Diplomatic Siege || Erica Long || |- |rowspan="3"| 2000 || Cord||Anne White||direct-to-video |- | Wildflowers || Sabine || |- | First Target||Alex McGregor|| TV film |- |rowspan="4"| 2001 || Jackpot||Bobbi|| |- | Dancing at the Blue Iguana || Angel || |- | || Thespee || TV film |- | Cowboy Up || Celia Jones || aka Ring of Fire |- |rowspan="3"| 2002 || A Walk to Remember || Cynthia Carter || |- | Searching for Debra Winger|| Herself || |- | Hard Cash || Virginia || |- |rowspan="5"| 2003 || Northfork || Flower Hercules || |- | The Job || CJ March || |- | Casa de los babys || Skipper || |- | The Big Empty || Stella || |- | Kill Bill, Volume 1 || Elle Driver ("California Mountain Snake") || |- |rowspan="4"| 2004 || Kill Bill, Volume 2 || Elle Driver ("California Mountain Snake") || Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture |- | Silver City || Maddy Pilager || |- | Whore || Adriana || |- | Careful What You Wish For || Store Patron || short film |- |rowspan=4| 2006 || Love Is the Drug || Sandra Brand || |- | Final Days of Planet Earth || Liz Quinlan || TV film |- | Keeping Up with the Steins || Sacred Feather/Sandy || |- | Olè || Maggie Granger || |- |rowspan="2"| 2007 || The Poet || Marlene Konig || |- | All the Good Ones are Married || Alex || TV film |- |rowspan="7"|2008 || Vice || Salt || |- | Storm Seekers || Leah Kaplan || TV film |- | Kung Fu Killer || Jane || TV film |- | The Garden || Herself || |- | Shark Swarm || Brooke Wilder || TV film |- | The Cycle || Carrie || aka The Devil's Ground |- | Dark Honeymoon || Jan || |- |2009 || Shannon's Rainbow || Dr. Rita Baker || |- |rowspan="2"| 2010 || A Closed Book || Jane Ryder || Bahamas Film Award for Best Actress |- | Eldorado || The Stranger || 3-D Film
post-production |- |rowspan="4"| 2011 || Garbage || Daryl ||post-production |- | A Fonder Heart || Margaret Boone||pre-production |- | Palominas || Louisa Green || pre-production (rumoured) |- | Chupacubra || Actress || pre-production (rumoured) |- |rowspan="1"| 2014 || Kill Bill Vol.3 || Elle Driver ||pre-production
announced |}

As Director

{| border="2" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" ! Year !! Title !! Notes |- | 1994 || The Last Supper || Also writer and co-producer
Berlin International Film Festival For Best Short Film |- | 2001 || Strip Notes || Video Documentary |}

In the theatre

{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- |rowspan="2"| 2000 || Seven Year Itch || The Girl || Made famous by Marilyn Monroe
Helped Daryl Hannah overcome stage fright. |- | Cord || Anne White || |}

Awards

Best Short—The Berlin Film Festival "The Last Supper", 1994

Best Fight—MTV Movie Awards Kill Bill Vol. 2, 2005

Best Supporting Actress—Saturn Award Kill Bill Vol. 2, 2004

Best Actress—Saturn Award Splash, 1984

Influencer Of The Year Award—National Biodiesel Board, 2004

Ongoing Commitment Award—Environmental Media Award, 2004

Environmental Activism—Water Quality Awards, 2006

Environmental Preservation—Artivist Awards, 2006

References

External links

Daryl Hannah's Weekly Environmental Video Blog - DHLoveLife.com

10/03/03, IGN Films

"SWINDLE Magazine Interview" with Daryl Hannah

Liebrary, Daryl Hannah's Board Game

Daryl Hannah interview from Democracy Now!, August 27, 2008

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