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Jim is a diminutive form of the forename "James". For individuals named Jim, see articles related to the name Jim.
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has played the small forward position for the Thunder, formerly the Seattle SuperSonics. Durant has won an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and an Olympic gold medal. He has also been selected to five All-NBA teams and seven All-Star teams.
Durant was a heavily recruited high school prospect. He attended the University of Texas for one season of college basketball, where he won numerous year-end awards and became the first ever freshman to be named Naismith College Player of the Year. In the 2007 NBA draft, he was selected second overall by the Seattle SuperSonics. After his rookie season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder. Durant helped lead Oklahoma City to the 2012 NBA Finals, losing to the Miami Heat in five games. In 2012, he starred in his first feature film, Thunderstruck.
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker and screenwriter. Often considered by audiences and commentators to be one of the greatest actors of all time, Pacino has had a career spanning more than fifty years, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. He is also one of few performers to have won a competitive Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award for acting, dubbed the "Triple Crown of Acting".
A method actor and former student of the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Actors Studio in New York City, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino made his feature film debut with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969) and gained favourable notices for his lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He achieved international acclaim and recognition for his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). He received his first Oscar nomination and would reprise the role in sequels Part II (1974) and Part III (1990). Pacino's performance as Corleone is now regarded as one of the greatest screen performances in film history.
Brock Edward Lesnar (/ˈlɛznər/; born July 12, 1977) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, professional American football player, and mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to WWE. Lesnar is a four-time WWE (World Heavyweight) Champion, a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, and an NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, making him the only person to have won a WWE championship, UFC championship, and NCAA championship in a career. He is also a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, making him a five-time world champion in professional wrestling.
After his successful amateur wrestling career at Bismarck State College and the University of Minnesota (106 victories and 5 losses), Lesnar signed with WWE (then the World Wrestling Federation) in 2000. He was assigned to its developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was a three-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion with Shelton Benjamin. After debuting on WWE's main roster in 2002, he won the WWE Championship on three separate occasions with victories over The Rock and Kurt Angle (twice). Lesnar won his first (Undisputed) WWE Championship five months after his main roster debut at the age of 25, becoming the youngest WWE Champion in history. He was also the 2002 King of the Ring and the 2003 Royal Rumble winner, making him the youngest King of the Ring and Royal Rumble winner as well. Following his match with Goldberg at WrestleMania XX, Lesnar left the WWE and pursued a career in the National Football League (NFL). He was named a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings but was cut prior to the start of the 2004–05 season. In 2005, Lesnar returned to professional wrestling and signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match. After a contractual dispute with NJPW, he also wrestled as IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF).
James Christopher "Jim" Gaffigan (born July 7, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and author. His humor largely revolves around fatherhood, observations, and (most notably) food. He is also regarded as a "clean" comic, using little profanity in his routines. He has had several successful comedy specials, including Mr. Universe and Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed, both of which received Grammy nominations. His memoir, Dad Is Fat (2013) and his most recent book, Food: A Love Story (2014), are both published by Crown Publishers. He co-created and currently stars in a TV Land television series based on his life called The Jim Gaffigan Show.
He collaborates extensively with his wife, Jeannie Gaffigan, and together they have five children. They are Catholics, a topic that comes up in his comedy, and live in Manhattan, New York.
Gaffigan was born on July 7, 1966 in Elgin, Illinois, and was raised in Chesterton, Indiana. He is the youngest of six children and often jokes about growing up in a large family. His father was a banker and the first in his family to attend college, and so encouraged his children to seek careers that promised job security. However, at about the age of five, his youngest son announced that when he grew up, he wanted to be an "actress," and as a teenager watched Saturday Night Live. Gaffigan attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, and after graduating, attended Purdue University for one year, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He transferred to Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he graduated in 1988 with a degree in Finance. He played football at Georgetown.
Actors: Peter Benson (director), Teryl Rothery (actress), Peter Benson (writer), Peter Benson (writer), Lochlyn Munro (actor), Michael Eklund (actor), Zak Santiago (actor), Peter Benson (producer), Peter Benson (actor), Aleks Paunovic (actor), Alistair Abell (actor), Viv Leacock (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), David Milchard (actor), Benjamin Ayres (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jake Seal (producer), Iain Cash (actor), Jake Abraham (actor), Andrew McKee (editor), Philip Olivier (actor), Joe Scott (writer), Joe Scott (director), Errol Smith (actor), Lindzi Germain (actress), Adi Alfa (actress), Gary Bird (actor), Alexandra Johnston (actress), Karina O'Malley (actress), Lesley Wright (producer), Tisha Merry (actress),
Genres: Music, Musical,Actors: Edward L. Plumb (producer), Andrea Monier (actress), Dave Parke (actor), Caryn Richman (actress), Olivia Alexander (actress), Aaron Burt (actor), David Abramsky (actor), Harrison Barth (editor), Carrie Glaser (costume designer), Harrison Barth (producer), Noah Rieke (director), Noah Rieke (editor), Noah Rieke (producer), Gary Abrams (actor), Gary Abrams (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: David Magdael (miscellaneous crew), Christopher L. Perez (miscellaneous crew), Anne Stulz (miscellaneous crew), Michael Donaldson (miscellaneous crew), Ronald L. Carr (miscellaneous crew), Alison Lees-Taylor (actress), Ashley Lambert (actress), Stuart Neumann (miscellaneous crew), Lee Armstrong (actor), Eli Jane (actress), Justin Shilton (actor), Kimberly Ables Jindra (actress), Soojin Chung (producer), Soojin Chung (miscellaneous crew), Annet Mahendru (actress),
Plot: In this black comedy, Jim is an unsatisfied middle aged man on vacation with his family at Disney World. While his family frolics through the park and is enthralled with the sights and sounds of Disney, Jim is busy following two French women he lusts for. The park environment soon turns to something more sinister as Jim discovers. Jim must protect his adventurous kids, angry and suspicious wife, and defend himself against the happiest place on Earth.
Keywords: adultery, bare-breasts, castle-thunder, disneyworld, drinking, family-vacation, fired-from-job, hallucination, lust, marital-strifeActors: C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi (writer), C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi (editor), C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi (director), C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi (producer), Faruk Lasaki (producer), Benjamin Stockton (producer), Oge Ugwu (producer), Beatoven (composer), Fiery (actor), Ella Uche (actor), Jean Abbey (actor),
Plot: A young man who appears to have it all meets the woman of his fantasy, they share a magical passion, till everything crashes for the young man. Their union stands, but unknown to him there is a much greater force at work. A grander scheming beyond his and her wildest imaginations.
Keywords: africa, doll, dream, grime, hollywood-california, nigeria, nightmare, wildernessActors: Rhys Muldoon (actor), James Hunter (writer), James Hunter (editor), James Hunter (director), Leah Baulch (actress), Simon Weaving (producer), Simon Weaving (writer), Oliver Ackland (actor), Liam Budge (composer), Indy Anderson (actor), Simon Koloadin (editor),
Plot: Hoping to rekindle the close relationship they once shared, Jim finds the courage to confront his father more than a decade after being separated, but finds only a tortured, broken man. Rhys Muldoon (The Saviour, The Secret Life of Us) and Oliver Ackland (Wasted on the Young, The Slap) star in this dramatic tale of separation and redemption.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: John C. McGinley (actor), Ralph Manza (actor), Jon Tenney (actor), Erik Palladino (actor), Angela Paton (actress), John Otrin (actor), John Otrin (producer), James Acheson (actor), Julianne Phillips (actress), Julianne Phillips (actress), Stephen Vittoria (director), Tracy Zigler (producer), Stephen Vittoria (producer), Stephen Vittoria (writer), Tracy Zigler (editor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Mimi Rogers (actress), Sam Wanamaker (actor), Kim Hunter (actress), Bonnie Bartlett (actress), Andy Romano (actor), David Spielberg (actor), Elliott Gould (actor), John Capodice (actor), Nicholas Guest (actor), Biff Yeager (actor), Clancy Brown (actor), David Cowgill (actor), Eric Balfour (actor), Paul Wendkos (director), David Shire (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Buck Adams (actor), Don Fernando (actor), Buddy Love (actor), Peter North (actor), Keisha (actress), Robin Lee (actress), Janette Littledove (actress), Hal Freeman (producer), Hal Freeman (director), Gail Force (actress), Dana Dylan (actress), Philip Dennis Connors (writer), Vito Cassalli (editor), Rolando Smith (miscellaneous crew), Carmen White (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Eddie Acuff (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), George Chandler (actor), Davison Clark (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Eddie Coke (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor),
Plot: In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens is an ambitious reporter of The Evening News. One day, he is celebrating with his colleagues and he tells his friend Pop Benson that he would like to know the news in advance before it happens. While they are walking on the street, they see a poster of the clairvoyant Cigolini and his gorgeous niece Sylvia Smith and they decide to go to a theater to see the show. Larry flirts with Sylvia and on his way back home, he overhears Pop on the street and the old man tells that he is waiting for him and gives a newspaper to him. Larry does not give much attention and puts the newspaper in the pocket of his jacket. On the next morning, he finds that the newspaper is an edition of the next day. Larry uses the information to scoop about a hold up in the opera house, becoming the prime suspect of Inspector Mulrooney. Larry dates Sylvia and Pop gives another edition of The Evening News of the next day. Larry becomes a successful reporter and is promoted and has a raise on his job. He plans to marry Sylvia and decides to find the winners of the horse race. But soon he also learns that he will die on the next day. Now he questions whether the future can be changed.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, 50th-anniversary, based-on-novel, based-on-play, chase-on-the-roof, disappearance, fake-suicide, falling-down-a-chimney, horse-raceWell I was eating my breakfast late one Tuesday night,
when I witnessed an event that really couldn't have been right.
My bacon eggs and biscuits were as tasty as could be,
when much to my surprise they started talking to me.
Well I almost lost my stomach on the kitchen floor,
'cause I'd never eaten something that could talk to me before.
But I said that I was sorry, and they said it was OK
and just to be polite I sat down to hear what they had to say...
REFRAIN: They said, "Son you've got a message from the powers that be,
and as we speak they're making deals for you with MTV,
So write a song about a girlie on your electric guitar,
and leave it to the boys on top to make you into a Rock'n'Roll
star...
I gotta tell ya I was startled when I heard that news,
I got to thinkin' it may be time to start a-cuttin' back on booze,
but my breakfast it kept tellin' me my head was clear,
so just to be quite sure I went and grabbed another beer.
Boy, that beer sure tasted good,
and when I finished, wha'd'ya know,
my bacon eggs and biscuits yelled, "I told you so!"
So I picked up my guitar and wrote a couple of tunes,
wrote most of 'em about this crazy guy named Jim that I knew...
(REFRAIN)
On the advice of my breakfast,
I took my songs into town,
and I spent some time and money tryin' to get that trendy sound...
Somethin' hip and somethin' groovy's just what I was lookin' for,
and when I got the sound I wanted I took my record to the stores.
Well the store clerks, they all told me that my chances were real slim,
that my songs were kinda stupid, and who the hell is Jim?
So I gave 'em each a copy, and I headed on my way,
guess that's just what I get for talkin' to my breakfast anyway...
(REFRAIN)
Well I never got too famous,
and I never was a star..
sorry, Jim old buddy,
who cares where the hell y'are.
I've got the sky, I've got the mountains,
and with a little beer I'm set,
and I eat Bacon, Eggs, and Biscuits
every goddamn chance I get.
(REFRAIN X 2)