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Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series "The Nanny" (1993–99), and for her nasal voice and thick New York accent.
Daniel Franzese
Daniel Franzese (born May 9, 1978) is an American actor, writer, director, comedian and activist best known for his roles in director Larry Clark’s "Bully" and as Damien in Tina Fey's 2004 feature film "Mean Girls". Franzese is the creator of several live comedy shows including the 2011 rock opera "Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera!" and his one-man stand-up performance "I've Never Really Made the Kind of Money to Become a Mess" in 2013.
Constance Drexel
Yet by all accounts, including the one provided by Constance Drexel to the Bureau of Investigation in 1918, she was born in Germany, apparently in the 1880s, many decades after Francis Drexel emigrated from Europe to Philadelphia in 1817. After she began broadcasting from Nazi Germany during wartime, at least one American syndicated columnist speculated that “Drexel” was a pseudonym.
Crunchy Black
Darnell Carlton (born August 20, 1974), better known by his stage name Crunchy Black, is an American rapper and Hype man. He was a longtime member of the Oscar-winning rap group Three 6 Mafia from the group’s founding until 2006. At the 78th Academy Awards in 2006, Three 6 Mafia and Frayser Boy won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". Crunchy left Three 6 Mafia over monetary disputes involving his desire to forward his solo career. Black’s debut solo album entitled "On My Own" was released on September 19, 2006. Crunchy has said this album was released by DJ Paul and Juicy J without his permission. Crunchy’s second solo album, "From Me To You" is also said to have been put out without his permission by DJ Paul and Juicy J. "From Me To You" reached 12 on the "Billboard" Top Heatseekers chart, 32 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and 10 on the "Billboard" Top Rap albums chart. "On My Own" reached 3 on the "Billboard" Top Heatseekers chart, 163 on the "Billboard" 200, 15 on the "Billboard" Independent Albums chart, 28 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and 13 on the "Billboard" Top Rap Albums chart.
Jack Drescher
Jack Drescher (born 1951) is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his work on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Wheelchair-bound mad scientist Dr. Durea (J. Carrol Naish), the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his mute, simple-minded assistant Groton (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Count Dracula (Roger Engel (producer Al Adamson's stockbroker) listed in the film's credits under the pseudonym "Zandor Vorkov") comes to the scientist, promising to help him revive the Frankenstein Monster (which he has exhumed from its secret grave in Oakmoor Cemetery) in return for Durea's serum, which he hopes will grant him immunity to sunlight.
Frank Stanley (cinematographer)
Frank Walter Stanley (May 5, 1922 – December 21, 1999) was an American cinematographer. He is best known for four Clint Eastwood films in a row: "Breezy" (1973), "Magnum Force" (1973), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974) and "The Eiger Sanction" (1975). During the filming of "The Eiger Sanction", shot in Switzerland, which required a great deal of precarious mountain-climbing cinematography,
Stanley fell during the shoot but survived. He used a wheelchair for some time and was taken out of action. Stanley, who later managed to complete filming after a delay under pressure from an unsympathetic Clint Eastwood, would later blame Eastwood for the accident due to a lack of preparation, describing him both as a director and an actor as "a very impatient man who doesn't really plan his pictures or do any homework. He figures he can go right in and sail through these things". Stanley was never hired by Eastwood or Malpaso Productions again. Bruce Surtees was Eastwood's regular cinematographer before and after this period, on a total of twelve films.
Nesthäkchen's Teenage Years
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin – January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series "Nesthäkchen" (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Richard Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss went on to star in the box office blockbusters "Jaws" (1975) and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), both directed by Steven Spielberg. He won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Actor at the 50th Academy Awards ceremony for his portrayal of a struggling actor in "The Goodbye Girl" (1977), becoming the youngest actor to do so (at the age of 30 years, 125 days old), besting Marlon Brando, who had won his first Oscar in 1955 at the age of 30 years 360 days old. This record stood for 25 years until it was broken in 2003 by Adrien Brody, who was three weeks shy of age 30 at the time of the 75th Academy Awards ceremony.
Fight Club
Director David Fincher said "Fight Club" is a coming of age film, like the 1967 film "The Graduate" but for people in their 30s. Fincher described the Narrator as an "everyman"; the character is identified in the script as "Jack", but left unnamed in the film. Fincher outlined the Narrator's background: "He's tried to do everything he was taught to do, tried to fit into the world by becoming the thing he isn't." He cannot find happiness, so he travels on a path to enlightenment in which he must "kill" his parents, god, and teacher. By the start of the film, he has "killed off" his parents. With Tyler Durden, he kills his god by doing things they are not supposed to do. To complete the process of maturing, the Narrator has to kill his teacher, Tyler Durden.
List of Happily Divorced episodes
"Happily Divorced" is an American sitcom created for TV Land by Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson, based upon their own real-life experiences. It is TV Land's third sitcom after "Hot in Cleveland" and "Retired at 35". Fran Drescher stars as Fran, a Los Angeles florist who finds out her husband Peter (John Michael Higgins), to whom she has been married for eighteen years, is gay. Naturally, they get a divorce but, because of their tight financial situation, they continue to live in the same house together. The series is based on Drescher and Jacobson's real-life divorce and his eventual coming out. The series ran from June 15, 2011 to February 13, 2013. On August 23, 2013, TV Land cancelled the series after two seasons. A total of thirty-four episodes were produced and aired.
Fran Allison
Frances Helen Allison (November 20, 1907 – June 13, 1989) was an American television and radio comedian, personality and singer. She is best known for her starring role on the weekday NBC-TV puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," which ran from 1947–57, occasionally returning to the air until the mid-1980s. The trio also hosted "The CBS Children's Film Festival", introducing international children's films, from 1967-77.
Milovan Glišić
Milovan Glišić was known mostly for his realist stories, but he also had a few which included horror motifs of Serbian folklore and superstition. The most famous one is "After Ninety Years" (1880), published some 17 years before Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Glišić based his story on the folktales and folk beliefs of villagers in the mountains of western Serbia along the Drina River valley. As such, it represents a treasure trove of ethnographic information and offers insights into authentic vampire lore before the creation of the modern pop culture vampire. The language Glišić employs is the vernacular of the common rural population in the mountainous regions of western Serbia along the Drina River valley in the 18th and 19th centuries. In contrast to the heavily ornamented and wordy prose so common among his contemporaries in Russia and the west, Glišić deliberately wrote in a sparse, plain, and raw style, accurately reflecting the mannerisms of village life and culture, an approach used by Mark Twain in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Similar to 19th century American author Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or "Rip Van Winkle", Glišić mined local folklore to retell the story of the vampire Sava Savanović. As such, the text presents a wealth of ethnographic material. Glišić offers valuable insights into the roles of women and children in the traditional patriarchal Serbian "zadruga", a family-based agricultural cooperative that formed the basis of village life. The role of alcohol in hospitality, causing and settling disputes is also quite evident. And village gossip plays an important role in the everyday life of both men and women. Of particular note is Glišić's description of the folk beliefs surrounding vampires, how they are found, how they are killed, the forms they take, their physical appearance, etc. In this, Glišić accurately reflects folk beliefs still present today in many rural areas of the Balkans.
Happily Divorced
Drescher plays Fran Lovett, a Los Angeles florist who is shocked when Peter, her husband of 18 years, comes out of the closet as gay. They divorce, but because of the poor economy, they cannot afford to live separately. She struggles with navigating the new parameters of their relationship while re-entering the dating pool.
Fran Drescher
Drescher and Jacobson created their own television show, "The Nanny", in 1993. The show aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, and Drescher became an instant star. In this sitcom, she played a woman named Fran Fine who casually became the nanny of Margaret ("Maggie") (played by Nicholle Tom), Brighton ("B") (played by Benjamin Salisbury), and Grace ("Gracie") Sheffield (played by Madeline Zima); with her wit and her charm, she endeared herself to their widower father: stuffy, composed, proper British gentleman, and Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy). She reprised her "This is Spinal Tap" character of Bobbi Flekman, a look-alike for her Fran Fine character, in Season 5, Episode 3 of "The Nanny".
Kenneth Anger
Upon release of the work, Anger was arrested on obscenity charges. He was acquitted, after the case went to the Supreme Court of California, which deemed it to be art rather than pornography. Anger made the claim to have been seventeen years old when he made it, despite the fact that he was actually twenty, presumably to present himself as more of an "enfant terrible". A homoerotic work lasting only 14 minutes, "Fireworks" revolves around a young man (played by Anger himself) associating with various navy sailors, who eventually turn on him, stripping him naked and beating him to death, ripping open his chest to find a compass inside. Several fireworks then explode, accompanied by a burning Christmas tree and the final shot shows the young man lying in bed next to another shirtless man. Of this film, Anger would later state in 1966 that "This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, American Christmas and the fourth of July." He would continuously alter and adapt the film up until 1980, with it finally being distributed on VHS in 1986.
The Nanny
The Nanny is an American television sitcom which originally aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashion queen from Flushing, New York who becomes the nanny of three children from the New York/British high society.
Jack Fritscher
Jack Fritscher (born June 20, 1939) is an American author, novelist, magazine journalist, photographer, videographer, university professor, and social activist known internationally for his fiction and non-fiction analyses of popular culture. As a pre-Stonewall activist he was an out and founding member of the American Popular Culture Association. Fritscher was the founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of "Drummer Magazine".
Jordan Fisher
Jordan William Fisher (born April 24, 1994) is an American singer, dancer, and actor. His self-titled EP was released by Hollywood Records on August 19, 2016. He has had recurring roles on the television series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Liv and Maddie", and supporting roles in the television films "Teen Beach Movie", "Teen Beach 2", and "", and is featured on the "Moana" soundtrack. He assumed the role of John Laurens/Philip Hamilton in the Broadway production of "Hamilton" on November 22, 2016. He played Noah Patrick in the TV series "Teen Wolf". Fisher and his dancing partner Lindsay Arnold won the 25th season of "Dancing with the Stars".
List of The Nanny characters
Francine Joy "Fran" Sheffield (née Fine) is the series' nasal-voiced main character, portrayed by actress Fran Drescher. Her character is bubbly, outgoing, and humorous but also caring and responsible of the kids and her job, and very well plays the mother figure for them. Fran frequently gets into trouble, but usually solves the problems herself through seemingly ridiculous antics or by relying on her street smarts. In the last season Fran and Maxwell have twins a boy and a girl named Jonah and Eve. Also in the last episode Fran, Maxwell, Grace, along with Niles, C.C., Sylvia, Morty, Yetta, Val, and Fred move to California.
Fran Drescher
She says her goal is to live in a time when women's mortality rates drop as their health care improves and early cancer detection increases.
Stefen Fangmeier
Stefen Markus Fangmeier (born 9 December 1960 in El Paso, Texas, United States) is an American visual effects supervisor of numerous major feature films, including "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events", "Saving Private Ryan", "", "Twister", "The Perfect Storm" and "". He also has been a second unit director for two films, "Dreamcatcher" (2003) and "Galaxy Quest" (1999). After more than 15 years of visual effects work, Fangmeier moved into feature film directing with his debut on "Eragon", which was released in 2006 and was a critical disappointment that upset many fans of the series, but was a modest financial success.
Dennis Jürgensen
Dennis Jürgensen (born 3 February 1961) is one of the most popular Danish writers for kids and young adults. A study among Danish kids from 11 to 18 years showed that 90% knew who he was and his fan club has almost 1000 members. In Denmark, a country of only about five and a half million inhabitants, that is a very significant size for a fanclub.
Fran Drescher
In September 2008, Drescher, a Democrat, was appointed as a U.S. diplomat by George W. Bush administration's Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri. Her official title was Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women's Health Issues. In traveling throughout the world, she will support U.S. public diplomacy efforts, including working with health organizations and women's groups to raise awareness of women's health issues, cancer awareness and detection, and patient empowerment and advocacy. Her first trip was in late September and included stops in Romania, Hungary, Serbia, and Poland.
Embalming (manga)
An eighteen-year-old whose parents were killed by a Frankenstein five years ago, along with Wraith's and Edel's. He was turned into a Frankenstein by Dr. Peaberry, for the purpose of destroying all the others. They travel to London on his quest to destroy all of the Frankensteins.
A German doctor who came to the Scottish Highlands to study the Frankenstein. She helps save Edel and then travels to London with Fury. 10 years ago she was in Polar Route and an assistant to Ashuhit's father, Doktor Richter, she used the Richter family's secret technology to turn Fury into a Frankenstein. Her quest is to destroy the eight special type Frankensteins created by Doktor Richter. Watsuki stated that the female Western doctor character "Elder" from "Rurouni Kenshin Cinema-ban" is a distant relative of Peaberry's.
A twenty-two-year-old nobleman from Ingolstadt, Germany, son of the number one Frankenstein researcher, and a member of Polar Route who specializes in maintaining Frankensteins. His right leg was torn off by John Doe, it is now a mechanical prosthetic that gives the limb super strength, holds ammo magazines, and has the ability to control electricity. His quest is to find a way to turn Elm fully back into a human.
A twenty-three-year-old German Frankenstein who travels to London with Ashuhit. Her body is that of a thirteen-year-old since that is the age at which she died. She was killed by John Doe and turned into a Frankenstein by Ashuhit's father since he was his girlfriend, though she doesn't know this. She has the ability of skin modification including; hardening it for protection, softening it to increase her jump, and uses it to speed up recovery from injuries. She can also turn her hand into a vacuum that sucks others' skin into it.
An eighteen-year-old whose parents were killed by a Frankenstein five years ago, along with Fury's and Edel's. After being mortally wounded by a Frankenstein, he is turned into one himself. He travels to London to study the Frankensteins.
The sixth special type Frankenstein created by Doktor Ricter, who has no recollection of his "true purpose" and travels with Rose. He killed Elm as soon as he was created. He has scars/stitched wounds on his left palm and on his chest, out of which comes some sort of blast that he uses to fight.
A woman who was told by the Polar Route to follow John Doe and make sure he never recovers his memory, she also maintains his body.
The real Edel Weiss, daughter of Lord Robert Weiss.
The fifth special type Frankenstein created by Doktor Ricter. She is a sensory-enhanced type.
Fran Drescher
In 2008, Drescher announced that she was developing a new sitcom entitled "The New Thirty", also starring Rosie O'Donnell. A series about two old high school friends coping with midlife crises, Drescher described the premature plot of the show as "kind of "Sex and the City" but we ain't getting any! It'll probably be more like "The Odd Couple"." The sitcom failed to materialize however. In 2010, Drescher returned to television with her own daytime talk show, "The Fran Drescher Tawk Show". While the program debuted to strong ratings, it ended its three-week test run to moderate success, resulting in its shelving. The following year, the sitcom "Happily Divorced", created by Drescher and her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, was picked up by TV Land for a ten-episode order. It premiered there June 15, 2011. The show was renewed in July 2011 for a second season of 12 episodes, which aired in spring 2012. On May 1, 2012, TV Land extended the second season and picked up 12 additional episodes, taking the second season total to 24. The back-order of season two debuted later in 2012. "Happily Divorced" was cancelled in August 2013.
Fritz Wepper
Fritz Wepper (born 17 August 1941, Munich, Germany) is a German film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series "Derrick" (1974-1998). Wepper is also remembered for his roles in the films "Cabaret" (1972) and "The Bridge" (1959) and as Mayor Wöller in the TV series "Um Himmels Willen" (since 2002).
Axel Dieter Jr.
Marcel Barthel (born July 8, 1990) is a German professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he competes in their developmental territory NXT UK, using his real name. He is best known for his work on the independent circuit in Germany, under the ring name Axel Dieter Jr. Since debuting in March 2008, Dieter worked almost exclusively in his home country of Germany, most notably for Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), with occasional appearances in the United Kingdom for Progress Wrestling. In wXw, Dieter was a two-time World Tag Team Champion and a one-time Unified World Wrestling Champion before signing with WWE in 2017.
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 18 February 1946 in Paris) is a French actor, comedian and author.
Dwight Frye
Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in "Dracula" (1931) and Fritz in "Frankenstein" (1931).
Fläsch
, the gender distribution of the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. The age distribution, , in Fläsch is; 79 children or 14.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 37 teenagers or 6.9% are 10 to 14, and 29 teenagers or 5.4% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 44 people or 8.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 121 people or 22.6% are 30 to 39, 83 people or 15.5% are 40 to 49, and 63 people or 11.8% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 43 people or 8.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 21 people or 3.9% are 70 to 79, there are 11 people or 2.1% who are 80 to 89, and there are 4 people or 0.7% who are 90 to 99.
Frank Dux
Frank William Dux (; born April 6, 1956) is a martial artist, fight choreographer and author. Dux states a ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and says he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. His alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film "Bloodsport" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dux's victory at the Kumite has been disputed, as has the existence of both the Kumite he described and Senzo Tanaka.
The Beautician and the Beast
Fran Drescher pitched and sold the concept and title for "The Beautician and the Beast". She was an executive producer for the film, which was handled through her company High School Sweethearts. The original title was "The King and Oy", a reference to the musical "The King and I". Joy was Drescher's first starring role in a feature film, though her first movie appearance was in the 1977 drama "Saturday Night Fever". Drescher chose to play a character similar to her earlier roles to encourage audiences to accept her transition to film. She modeled her transition from television to movies on the careers of John Travolta and Michael J. Fox. Director Ken Kwapis explained: "She has had to overcome a lot of skepticism about her voice, her abilities, the specificity of her comedy."
Julie Dreyfus
Julie Dreyfus (born January 24, 1966) is a French actress. Dreyfus is well known in Japan where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s. She has appeared on the TV show "Ryōri no Tetsujin" ("Iron Chef") as a guest and judge. She is best known to western audiences for her appearances in the Quentin Tarantino films "Kill Bill" and "Inglourious Basterds", in which she played Sofie Fatale and Francesca Mondino respectively. Aside from her native French she is fluent in Japanese and English.
Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Peter Marc Jacobson
Peter Marc Jacobson (born October 27, 1957) is an American television writer, director and producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the popular sitcom "The Nanny", which he created and wrote with his then wife actress Fran Drescher, who was the star of the series. He was often credited as Peter Marc in his early acting roles.Jacobson and Fran Drescher married in 1978 and moved to Los Angeles to launch their careers. Jacobson and Drescher divorced in 1999, after being separated for a number of years. The couple had no children. He came out as gay to her after their marriage ended. The couple developed the 2011 television series "Happily Divorced" for TV Land based on their lives.
Fran Drescher
On February 4, 2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in "Cinderella" as stepmother Madame.
Francine Smith
Francine was originally 43, but she became 45 years old in the episode "Tears of a Clooney". The episode starts with her 44th birthday, she attempts to get revenge on George Clooney for a year, and the episode ends with her 45th birthday. It's unknown whether or not the other characters aged as well, except for presumably Stan. He says in one episode that she is ten months younger than he is. However, in "May the Best Stan Win", Francine's year of birth is listed as being in 1966, and Stan's is shown to be 1962. This episode also retcons her turning 45, as it was made in 2010, and her being born in 1966 would make her 44. In "Shallow Vows", it says Francine's birthday is September 26, 1962 on her driver's license. This also retcons her age, as the episode was made in 2009, making her 47 at the time. In the same episode, she later tells Stan she was indeed born on September 26, making her a Libra.
Frasier Crane
Robert Bianco from "USA Today" considered Frasier Crane masculine in the days of "Fred Astaire and William Powell" instead of recent "beer-belching" days of the reality show, "Survivor". Bianco found series of Frasier's love life repetitive and "tiring". Gillian Flynn from "Entertainment Weekly" considered Frasier Crane's "diction" an inspiration of "Fringe"'s Walter Bishop (John Noble), who has an addition of "daffiness" of roles portrayed by actor Christopher Lloyd. Joe Sixpack, a pseudonymous name for writer Don Russell, called Frasier an "insufferable twerp". An internet user from Ken Levine's blog considered Frasier a successor to more prestigious, experienced Bostonian medical doctor and surgeon Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) from the television series "M*A*S*H". However, Levine did not acknowledge it when Frasier was the new character in "Cheers" in 1984. (Coincidentally, in the "Frasier" episode "Fathers and Son" (2003), actor Stiers, portrayer of Winchester, appears as Hester Crane's former lab assistant Leland Barton, who is suspected as Frasier and Niles' biological father.)
"Television Without Pity" called Frasier "snooty and pretentious", even if he may be "smart" on television and a "rare" species of all characters. Steve Silverman from "Screen Junkies" praised Kelsey Grammer's performance as Frasier Crane but found them "predictable". Silverman thought that Grammer did not deserve an Emmy, especially in 1998. In note, Silverman deemed the character Frasier as "a windbag with a sense of humor" and "a whining schoolboy with a series of lame excuses." Lance Mannion from his "Typepad" blog depicted Grammer as partially responsible for turning "Cheers" "from a light romantic into farce" by physical comedy.
Werner Herzog
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular."
He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by "Time" magazine in 2009.
Herzog was born Werner Stipetić in Munich, to Elizabeth Stipetić, an Austrian of Croatian descent, and Dietrich Herzog, who was German. When Werner was two weeks old, his mother took refuge in the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang (in the Chiemgau Alps), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during a bombing raid in World War II. In Sachrang, Herzog grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. He never saw films, and did not even know of the existence of cinema until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang. When Herzog was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth. Werner later adopted his father's surname "Herzog" (German for "duke"), which he thought sounded more impressive for a filmmaker.
Karl Frisch
Karl Frisch (born February 21, 1978 in Inglewood, CA) is a syndicated columnist and Democratic strategist who has worked for numerous candidates and political organizations since 1996. He served as multimedia communications director and member of the renowned web-team for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign. In 2005, Frisch worked as press secretary for Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) on the House Rules Committee. Most recently, in 2006 he served as communications director of Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Ohio and then as press secretary of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Prior to his work with progressives and Democrats, Frisch worked in Republican politics for several years before switching parties following the 2000 presidential primaries. During his time as a Republican, Frisch worked for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), now-Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), former Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA) among others. A Los Angeles area native, Frisch now lives in Washington, DC where he currently serves as director of media relations at Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting alleged conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Frisch is openly gay. He is an inaugural member of the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.
Jonathan Liebesman
In 2002, he directed his debut feature "Darkness Falls" at the age of 26. Although the film suffered from generally weak reviews, it opened at no. 1 at the US box office. The film grossed over $32.5 million at the US box office, and a further $15 million worldwide. The film was nominated for Best Horror/Thriller at the Teen Choice Awards in 2003, while the film's star, Emma Caulfield, won Face of the Future from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films that year.
Heart &amp; Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser
The film features re-creations from Loesser's early life, home movies, archival footage, performance clips, and interviews with Jo Sullivan Loesser and three of his children: author Susan Loesser, theater owner and manager John Loesser, and actress Emily Loesser. The film also notes Frank Loesser's influence on American popular song through interviews with Broadway and Hollywood veterans James Burrows, Cy Feuer, Stephen Schwartz, Maury Yeston, Jerry Herman, Richard Adler, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Isabel Bigley, Charles Nelson Reilly, Robert Morse, and Matthew Broderick, among others. Frank Loesser was a chronic cigarette smoker and died from lung cancer at 59.
The film garnered positive reviews in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Palm Beach Post, and Time.com, among others. In 2007, it won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in the non-fiction category. The film was re-broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on June 29, 2010, the centennial of Loesser's birth.
Jason Fuchs
Jason Isaac Fuchs (born March 5, 1986) is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for writing "" (2012), "Pan" (2015) and "Wonder Woman" (2017). In January 2015, Fuchs was included on the "Forbes" 30 Under 30 list.
Frank Chu
Frank Chu (born March 24, 1960) is one of San Francisco's best-known eccentrics. Since 1999 or earlier, Chu has been campaigning to impeach an array of former U.S. Presidents he considers guilty of collaborating with a nefarious network of alien populations called the "12 Galaxies" to film him against his will, to broadcast this footage intergalactically, and to embezzle the royalties he is owed as a television and movie star. Chu lives in Oakland, and commutes daily to San Francisco and nearby locales in order to reach the largest audience of passers-by and television news crews for his street protests about this labor dispute. He produces a new sign weekly through Signographics in San Francisco and supports himself through sign sponsorships and small donations from his supporters and with help from his family.
Frank Ferrer
Frank Ferrer (born March 25, 1966) is an American rock drummer. Ferrer is best known as the drummer for American rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has played, toured, and recorded since 2006. Ferrer was also a member of The Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love as well as The Beautiful. He has recorded and worked with several high profile musicians including Robi "Draco" Rosa, Tool, Gordon Gano, PJ Harvey, Tommy Stinson, Nena, Frank Black of The Pixies, Neil Young, Perry Farrell and Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Genscher was born on 21 March 1927 in Reideburg (Province of Saxony-Anhalt), now a part of Halle, in what later became East Germany. He was the son of Hilda Kreime and Kurt Genscher. His father, a lawyer, died when Genscher was nine years old. In 1943, he was drafted to serve as a member of the Air Force Support Personnel ("Luftwaffenhelfer") at the age of 16. At age 17, close to the end of the war, he and his fellow soldiers became members of the Nazi Party due to a collective application ("Sammelantrag") by his Wehrmacht unit. He later said he was unaware of it at the time.
Late in the war, Genscher was deployed as a soldier in General Walther Wenck's 12th Army, which ostensibly was directed to relieve the siege of Berlin. After the German surrender he was an American and British prisoner of war, but was released after two months. Following World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig (1946–1949) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party (LDPD) in 1946.
The Beautician and the Beast
The Beautician and the Beast is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis. It stars Fran Drescher as a New York City beautician who is hired, under the false assumption she is a science teacher, to tutor the four children of a dictator, played by Timothy Dalton, of a fictional Eastern European nation. Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Lisa Jakub, Michael Lerner, Adam LaVorgna, Phyllis Newman, and Heather DeLoach appear in supporting roles. Produced by Drescher's company High School Sweethearts in partnership with Paramount Pictures, "The Beautician and the Beast" is her first starring role in a film, and part of her attempt to transition from television to film.
List of The Nanny characters
Grace's age is not consistent throughout the series. In the season 2 episode "Everybody Needs a Bubby" (September 1994), Maxwell mentions that Grace is seven years old, but in the season 3 episode "The Grandmas" (January 1996), Grace tells Fran she's ten years old. Grace mentions to Fran when the latter is reminiscing about the November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, that she was "only four" when the Wall fell and so can't share Fran's nostalgia potentially consistent with her age of ten in "The Grandmas".
Frantz Massenat
Frantz Massenat (born January 17, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for EWE Baskets Oldenburg. In his collegiate career at Drexel University, He was named to the First Team All-CAA following the 2011-12 season as a sophomore, leading the Drexel Dragons to 2012 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament where they were narrowly defeated by Virginia Commonwealth University. Massenat started in every game of his collegiate career at Drexel. Following his senior season, he ranked sixth on Drexel's career scoring list with 1,646 points, and his 548 career assists ranked third all-time at Drexel and ninth in CAA history.
House of D
An American artist living a bohemian existence in Paris, Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) is trying to make sense of his troubled adult life by reflecting upon his extraordinary childhood. Prompted by his son's 13th birthday, Tom experiences a flashback to Greenwich Village in 1973, as 13-year-old Tommy (Anton Yelchin) is on the brink of becoming a man. While his bereaved single mother (Téa Leoni) mourns the death of his father, Tommy escapes grief by causing trouble at school and making afternoon deliveries with his best friend Pappas (Robin Williams), a mentally challenged janitor. Following the romantic advice offered by Lady (Erykah Badu) – incarcerated in the infamous New York Women's House of Detention for shadowy reasons – Tommy experiences his first taste of love. Yet when an unexpected tragedy radically alters his world, Tommy must take a life-defining choice – one that will compel the adult Tom, thirty years later, to confront his unfinished past."House of D" was given a score of 10% on Rotten Tomatoes with a consensus calling it "A sincere but inept coming of age story." Box Office Mojo gives the reviews a C+. Many critics attribute the poor reception to the fact that Duchovny wrote and directed the movie, which gave it a lack of creative direction and caused it to meander and to lose focus.
Hans-Jürgen Döscher
Hans-Jürgen Döscher (born November 18, 1943 in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg) is a German historian. Döscher has written many articles about Nazism and anti-Semitism, mostly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has made nine television documentaries including programs about foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the 1997 series "Hitler's Helpers" on German TV network ZDF.
Frank Perry
Frank Joseph Perry Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American stage director and filmmaker. The 1962 independent film "David and Lisa" was nominated for two Academy Awards for best director (Frank Perry) and best screenplay (written by his then-wife, Eleanor Perry). The couple would go on to collaborate on five more films including the cult classic "The Swimmer" starring Burt Lancaster, "Diary of a Mad Housewife" starring Carrie Snodgress, and the Emmy Award–nominated "A Christmas Memory", which was based on a short story by Truman Capote and also adapted by his wife Eleanor. Frank Perry went on to form Corsair Pictures, which was privately financed by United Artists Theatres, producing two film flops, "Miss Firecracker" and "A Shock to the System", before folding. His later films include the Razzie Award–nominee Joan Crawford bio drama "Mommie Dearest" and the documentary "On the Bridge", about his battle with prostate cancer. Author Justin Bozung, who has been researching the filmmaker's life since 2013, is currently writing the official biography of Frank Perry titled "Character Is Story: The Life & Films of Frank Perry." The book is due out in 2019.
Fran Drescher
In 1991, Drescher co-starred on the short-lived CBS sitcom "Princesses". In the early-to-mid 1990s, she voiced "Peggy" from "The P Pals" on PBS (the woman with the flower on her hat).
Jeaniene Frost
Vlad Tepesh born in the 15th century and turned into a vampire in his early thirties. Widower and also lost a child, he is very powerful and can control fire.
His is about 6 foot, lean, long brown hair, hazel eyes and has scarred hands, he is also very ruthless and sometimes cruel to enemies. Former prince of Romania and Dracula is based on him.
Uncle Kracker
Matthew Shafer (born June 6, 1974), also known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper and musician known for his country and rock music. He was a turntablist for Kid Rock's backing group Twisted Brown Trucker and since 1999 has recorded as a solo artist. His singles "Follow Me" and "Drift Away" were top 10 hits on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
Fran Drescher
Drescher appeared in "Jack" (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, "The Beautician and the Beast" (1997) (for which she was also executive producer) and "Picking Up the Pieces" (2000) co-starring Woody Allen. She was also the voice of "Pearl" in "Shark Bait" (2006).
Ian Dench
Ian Alec Harvey Dench (born 7 August 1964, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English songwriter and musician. Dench was the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with "Unbelievable" in 1991. It was voted one of BBC Radio 2's 'Greatest Guitar Riffs'.
Fran Drescher
On September 7, 2014, Drescher and controversial scientist/politician, Shiva Ayyadurai, participated in a ceremony at Drescher's beach house. Both tweeted that they had married and the event was widely reported as such. Ayyadurai later said it was not "a formal wedding or marriage", but a celebration of their "friendship in a spiritual ceremony with close friends and her family." The couple parted ways two years later.
Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales. She is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show "French and Saunders" with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley". French has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders.
Frank Mechaly
Frank Mechaly (born May 9, 1975) in Marseille, France and raised in St. Tropez, is a jeans designer and brand maker, specializing in premium denim. Though he has successfully launched a number of brands including Sacred Blue and Blue Cult, he is probably best known as the founder and creator of 575 DENIM (now being renamed May75 brand) which has been embraced by celebrities such as Cameron Diaz who made a point of publicly acknowledging her affinity for the jeans during an appearance on "Saturday Night Live". Mechaly has now launched his much-anticipated new brand of premium denim called RockStar.
Georges-François Hirsch
Georges-François Hirsch (born 5 October 1944 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris) is a French stage director.
Fran Harris
Fran Harris (born March 12, 1965 in Dallas, Texas) is an American television personality, sportscaster, and former professional and college basketball player who has won championships in high school, in college, and in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). After not playing competitively for nearly 8 years, she beat out more than 200 athletes to earn a spot in the inaugural season of the WNBA for the Houston Comets. Harris played basketball at The University of Texas, where she captained the team that won the 1986 national championship and led the team to the first ever NCAA undefeated season going 34-0. In 2010, Harris was the host of "Home Rules", a transformational television series on HGTV. She’s currently an announcer for the ESPN family of networks, serial entrepreneur and author who’s appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, "Oprah’s Radio Network", NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show" and numerous other television and radio networks.
Fran Drescher
Drescher's first break was a small role as the dancer Connie in the blockbuster movie "Saturday Night Fever" (1977), in which she delivered the line "So, are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?" to John Travolta's character. A year later, she began to gain more attention in films such as "American Hot Wax" (1978) and "Summer of Fear" (1978). She also took on a rare dramatic role in the 1981 Miloš Forman film, "Ragtime".
Frank Madsen
Frank Bruun Madsen (born 1962 in Kalundborg, Denmark) is a Danish author, illustrator and comics artist. He is married to another Danish comics artist, Sussi Bech. Together they produce a weekly satirical comic strip "Eks Libris" for the literary supplement of Weekendavisen. Frank is also the author of Kurt Dunder, an adventure comic created in the ligne claire style, and three comic albums with LEGOs science fiction character Jim Spaceborn. Awarded the Hanne Hansen Prize in 2017. Two times nominated for the Claus Deleuran Prize (best comics author, 2016 and 2017).
Marcel Fratzscher
Marcel Fratzscher (born January 25, 1971) is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he has been president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. According to a ranking in "Handelsblatt", Fratzscher is one of the most influential German-speaking economists.
Natasha (Sesame Street)
Natasha made her first appearance on Sesame Street during season 18 as the child of monsters Humphrey and Ingrid. One of Natasha's primary character traits is her fast crawling. Throughout the series other characters such as Oscar the Grouch and Snuffy have been shown babysitting her. An episode of the series found Fran Drescher (The Nanny) being a candidate to babysit Natasha. The characters are most often shown having difficulty taking care of her due to her speed and doing the opposite of what she is told.
James Franco
In 2014, a 17-year-old girl posted screenshots of alleged messages between her and Franco on Instagram. The messages showed that Franco, who was 35 at the time, tried to meet her in a hotel room after she told him she was 17. Franco sent multiple pictures of himself to prove his real identity. Franco admitted on "Live! With Kelly and Michael" that he had written the messages. His actions were legal (the age of consent in New York is seventeen) but he was criticized by the media because of the wide age gap. He initially responded to the scandal with the tweet, "I HOPE PARENTS KEEP THEIR TEENS AWAY FROM ME. Thank you." He later stated he was "embarrassed" and "I learned my lesson."
John Franzese
John "Sonny" Franzese, Sr. (born February 6, 1917) is a powerful Italian-American mobster who is a longtime member of the Colombo crime family. Franzese's career in organized crime spans over six decades and he served as underboss of the Colombo crime family. At the time of his release on June 23, 2017, he was the oldest federal prisoner in the United States and the only centenarian in federal custody. Franzese is currently the oldest living gangster in the world. Arguably, Franzese has been famous as the current oldest member of the American Mafia. Franzese is listed as an associate producer of the 2002 film "This Thing of Ours", which stars James Caan. He also helped finance the $22,000 pornographic film "Deep Throat" which generated $30–50 million dollars, and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", a horror film which earned over $30 million from a $300,000 investment.
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich (; born November 10, 1955) is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely known for his disaster films. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 11th-highest-grossing director of all time. He began his work in the film industry by directing the film "The Noah's Ark Principle" (1984) as part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister. He is a collector of art and an active campaigner for the LGBT community, and is openly gay. He is also a campaigner for awareness of global warming and human rights.
Phresher
Kashaun Rameek Rutling (born May 16, 1989), known professionally as Phresher (stylized as PHresher), is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He is of Trinidadian descent, and is best known for the singles "Wait a Minute" featuring Remy Ma and "Right Now" featuring Cardi B. "Wait a Minute" has since amassed over 18 million views on YouTube due to the early discovery, management and executive production of Michael Caseau for The Young 'N Grateful Group; responsible for artist development, strategic planning and viral growth of Phresher and the singles. Following the April 2016 inception of Young 'N Grateful, Phresher's second most notable highlight was his 2017 feature on Eminem's song "Chloraseptic.” In 2018, a remixed version of Chloraseptic was released featuring 2 Chainz.
Fran Drescher
Drescher was born on September 30, 1957, in Kew Gardens Hills, New York, the daughter of Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Morty Drescher, a naval systems analyst. Her family is from Southeast and Central Europe. Her maternal great-grandmother Yetta was born in Focșani, Romania, and emigrated to the United States, while her father's family came from Poland. She has an older sister, Nadine.
Nesthäkchen's Youngest
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series. The books, the six-part TV series "Nesthäkchen" (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
August Diehl
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in "Inglourious Basterds" and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie "Salt", as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film "The Counterfeiters" (2007). He plays the title role in Raoul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" (2017).
Frank Springer
Frank Springer (December 6, 1929 – April 2, 2009) was an American comics artist best known for Marvel Comics' "Dazzler" and "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.". As well, in collaboration with writer Michael O'Donoghue, Springer created one of the first adult-oriented comics features on American newsstands: "The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" in the magazine "Evergreen Review". A multiple winner of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award, Springer was a president of the Society and a founding member of the , its Long Island chapter.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Rapper Darius Weems had the disease and used his notoriety to raise awareness and funds for treatment. He died at the age of 27. His brother also suffered from the disease until his death at age 19. "Darius Goes West" is a documentary that depicts his journey of growth and acceptance of having the disease. A book entitled "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving", was released in 2012, written by Jonathan Evison. Netflix produced a film, titled "The Fundamentals of Caring", in 2016 based on the novel. Both media depict a young man suffering from the disease.
The Butcher Boy (1997 film)
The film is set in Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father, an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic. Francie spends most of his time with his best friend Joe Purcell talking about "gangsters, cowboys and Indians, comic-book monsters and the early-1960s threat of nuclear annihilation." However, when Francie's growing conflict with another boy, Phillip Nugent, and his mother begins to go too far, he ends up at reform school. Here, he is molested by Father Sullivan, and finds solace only in his fantasies about a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary. He returns home to find Joe has outgrown him and befriended Phillip Nugent. Before long, his father has drunk himself to death. Faced with being left completely alone in the world, Francie loses his grip on reality and lashes out with uncontrollable brutality, which shocks his provincial hometown.This was the final film produced by Geffen Pictures, which distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen Pictures would be sold to Universal Studios years later.
David &quot;Shark&quot; Fralick
David Fralick (born October 16, 1962) is an American actor who portrayed the recurring character of Larry Warton on "The Young and the Restless" from 1995 to 1996, and again from 1999 to 2005. He play the title character in the 1996 horror movie "Uncle Sam". He performed as Graffiti in the 2000 movie "Lockdown". He starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the 2000 remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds" and Jean-Claude Van Damme in "Desert Heat".
Fran Drescher
In April 2014, Drescher presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Denzel Washington, after raising donations at her Broadway show "Cinderella". Drescher became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery so that she could legally officiate LGBT wedding ceremonies.
Fran Drescher
After separating in 1996, Drescher and Jacobson divorced in 1999. They had no children. Drescher stated, "I would have been able to conceive but not hold on." Drescher has worked to support LGBT rights issues after her former husband came out. Drescher has stated that the primary reason for the divorce was her need to change directions in life. Drescher and Jacobson remain friends and business partners. She has stated that "we choose to be in each other's lives in any capacity. Our love is unique, rare, and unconditional; unless he's being annoying."
List of The Saga of Darren Shan characters
Close friends with Darren, and also known as the snake-boy, or the snake-man as he grows older, is a performer at the Cirque Du Freak. He helped Mr. Crepsley and Darren defeat Murlough in the third book, but was injured permanently when Murlough ripped scales off of Evra's right shoulder. He became one of Darren's best friends, yet because Evra ages normally and Darren ages 1/5 the normal rate, their bond thins as time goes on. Near the end of the last book, as Darren watches the Cirque Du Freak once more, he comments that it would be too difficult to watch the snake-boy 
perform, reflecting on the pain that would later befall him. Evra was born to normal parents, but they were horrified when they saw him, and left him at an orphanage at the age of two (although in the movie he claimed Mr Tall found him in a dumpster when he was two days old), where he was picked on by the other children. When he was four, he was sold to a traveling circus where he was abused, locked in a glass tank, and forced to feel ugly, useless, and freakish. Seven years later, when he was eleven, he was rescued by Mr. Tall, joined the Cirque Du Freak, and stayed for the rest of his life. In book 12 he almost killed Steve himself for revenge for killing Shancus (his oldest son) but is stopped by Mr. Tiny. Evra speaks with an American accent and is shy, which Darren thinks is due to his abusive childhood. He is described as slender, with long yellow and green hair and is around 14–15 years old in books 1,2 and 3. After a time skip of several years, Darren returns to find that Evra has fallen in love with another freak named Merla who throws her ears like boomerangs and has three children, Shancus (who was named after Darren, was the oldest, and considered Darren his godfather even though he wasn't), Urcha (he always felt different because he was the only one without the snake skin) and Lilia (the smallest). Shancus performs with him at the Cirque until he died when Steve snapped his neck and hung him in a noose.
Happily Divorced
Happily Divorced is an American sitcom created by Fran Drescher and her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson. Inspired by their experiences, the series, which became TV Land's third original scripted series following "Hot in Cleveland" and "Retired at 35", ran from June 15, 2011, to February 13, 2013, and revolves around a Los Angeles florist who finds out her husband of 18 years is gay. The series was canceled after two seasons on August 23, 2013.
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993, and concluding on May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions) in association with Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Network Television. The series was created as a spin-off of "Cheers", continuing the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle and started building a new life as a radio advice show host while reconnecting with his father and brother and making new friends. "Frasier" stars Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, and John Mahoney. The show was critically acclaimed, with the show itself and the cast winning thirty-seven Emmy Awards, a record at the time for a scripted series. It also won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years.
Isabel Drescher
Drescher took her first skating lessons at the age of 5 in a public skating session in Unna, Germany and afterwards went to the club training sessions that took place twice a week. At age 7 she passed the necessary test to become part of the North Rhine-Westphalian skating team and started taking lessons at the regional training centre in Dortmund where she trained until September 2009. She moved to Berlin and switched coach to Viola Striegler after many problems with her former coach Martina Dieck in September 2009, only one week after the Junior Grand Prix in Poland. In autumn 2010, Drescher returned to Dortmund and resumed training with Martina Dieck. Drescher represents the TSCE Dortmund.
Jürgen Fitschen
Jürgen Fitschen (born September 1 1948 in Harsefeld, Germany), sometimes rendered "Juergen Fitschen" in English, is a German banker who served as co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2016. He served alongside Anshu Jain until 2015 and John Cryan from 2015. He was President of the Association of German Banks from 2013 to 2016.
Daniel Drescher
Daniel Drescher (born 7 October 1989) is an Austrian footballer who plays for SKN St. Pölten in the Austrian Bundesliga and is noted for his tackling abilities and aerial prowess.
Tanner Richie
In 2005, Tanner shared the screen with Fran Drescher in her WB Show, "Living With Fran". In 2006, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Television Series (Comedy or Drama) as a guest starring young actor for "Nip/Tuck". Other notable roles include Simon Stevens in the Hallmark TV movie "Love's Unending Legacy" (2007), a voice feature in "The Cleveland Show," and co-star roles in "Numb3rs", "Threshold", and "Gilmore Girls".
Fran Drescher
A uterine cancer survivor, Drescher is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist, and is noted for her work as a Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women's Health Issues for the U.S. State Department. Divorced from writer and producer Peter Marc Jacobson, she currently lives in Malibu, California.
Sammy Drechsel
Sammy Drechsel (25 April 1925 in Berlin – 19 January 1986 in Munich), born Karl-Heinz Kamke, was a German political comedian, journalist and sports reporter. In 1956, together with Dieter Hildebrandt, he created the "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft", one of Germany's most successful and influential sites of political cabaret, for which he was producer and director up to his death. From 1950 to his death he also worked as a sports reporter for the Bavarian "Bayrischer Rundfunk". He also became well known for his 1955 book "Elf Freunde müsst ihr sein" ("You Ought to be Eleven Friends"), which targeted an adolescent audience. (The book has also become available as an audiobook, produced by his long-time friend Hildebrandt.) One of Drechsel's last appearances was in the German TV series "Kir Royal", directed by Helmut Dietl, which was completed shortly before his death.
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-American computer programmer, writer, journalist and political commentator. He formerly wrote a column in "National Review" before moving to a staff position at the white supremacist website VDARE, where he continues to work. He has also written for the "New English Review". His columns cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race. Derbyshire's 1996 novel, "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream", was a "New York Times" "Notable Book of the Year". His 2004 non-fiction book, "Prime Obsession", won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize. A political book, "", was released in September 2009. Derbyshire has been described as a figure within the alt-right movement, and also considers himself to be part of it.
Marcel Hirscher
Marcel Hirscher (born 2 March 1989) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He competes primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of a record 7 consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has also won nine medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships (six gold) a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics and two gold medals in the combined and giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Due to his record number of overall titles, many years of extreme dominance of both slalom and giant slalom and of the men's overall ranking, he is considered by many, including his rivals Henrik Kristoffersen, Kjetil Jansrud and Alexis Pinturault, to be the best alpine skier in history.
Ferdinand Bruckner
Ferdinand Bruckner (born Theodor Tagger; 26 August 1891, in Sofia, Bulgaria – 5 December 1958, in Berlin) was an Austrian-German writer and theater manager. Although his works are relatively rarely revived, "Krankheit der Jugend" was put on at the Cottesloe stage of London's Royal National Theatre in 2009, under the title "Pains of Youth". It was directed by Katie Mitchell and was met with very mixed reviews.
The Fran Drescher Show
Drescher described what she would bring to the program: "I'm thrilled to be able to bring "The Fran Drescher Tawk Show" to daytime TV, which fits me hand in glove," and added that "It will cover all of my passions, everything from pedicures to politics. America will have a chance to see the real Fran Drescher, beyond "The Nanny". I'm the girl next door, a self-made woman who has been to hell and back a few times."
Grandpa (The Munsters)
The character's full name is given as "Vladimir Dracula, Count of Transylvania". A running gag in both the original series and follow up "The Munsters Today" is his extreme age - his car, the DRAG-U-LA bearing his gravestone - reading "born 1367–?". Grandpa talks of having personally known various figures throughout history, including Nero, King Arthur, Richard the Lionheart and Jack the Ripper. Grandpa declares his age as 378 years in the episode "Grandpa's Lost Wife" (airdate: February 3, 1966), placing his date of birth in the year 1588. In "The Munsters Today" episode "Its My Party and I'll Die if I Want To" (airdate: October 2, 1991) Grandpa celebrates his 402nd birthday. The family uses a time machine and brings back significant people from his life, including his friend Genghis Khan, brother Yorga (played by Sandy Baron who played Grandpa in the 1995 TV movie "The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas"), a former girlfriend "Shirley Zlebnik", and his overbearing Mother (played by actress Ruth Buzzi).
Jack Fritscher
Fritscher was raised in Peoria, Illinois. His father was the child of Socialist Austrian-Catholic immigrant stonemasons (arrived in 1885) and his mother was the grandchild of Irish-Catholic immigrant steelworkers (arrived in 1847). His uncle and namesake was the noted World War II Catholic army chaplain, Father John B. Day. Born during the Great Depression and growing up during World War II in rental housing, Fritscher was part of the gay generation who in their teens, during the 1950s, rebelled against conformity through the birth of pop culture and the Beats. In their twenties, during the 1960s, these gay youth marched for peace and civil rights, and in their thirties, during the 1970s, they worked to secure the cultural and aesthetic foundations of modern gay liberation in its first decade after the Stonewall riots.
UHF (film)
Fran Drescher was selected for the role of Pamela Finklestein, in part for her established comedy as well as her nasally voice that made for a humorous contrast for a news anchor.
Claude VonStroke
Barclay Macbride Crenshaw (born July 7, 1971), who is known by the stage name Claude VonStroke, is an American house and techno producer based in Los Angeles. He owns Dirtybird Records based in San Francisco. In July 2006 he released his debut album, "Beware of the Bird". He has produced a 'Fabric' mix, which was released in May 2009, and has also appeared on Pete Tong's Essential Mix Radio show. In 2009, he released his second studio album, Bird Brain. In 2016, he was named America's Best DJ in Pioneer DJ and DJ Times’ annual poll. The rankings, which are based upon fan votes, both online and in-person, favored the beloved Dirtybird ringleader over global powerhouses such as Kaskade, The Chainsmokers, and Bassnectar. In 2017, he was nominated at the Electronic Music Awards for both DJ of the Year and Radio Show of the Year for "The Birdhouse".
Fred Wilder
Fred Wilder (born November 14, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, painter, and musician. His early career was devoted to painting, and creating electronic music including soundscape. His filmography as writer director includes the films Scream Karl (2006), and Karl Bites (2006), which feature the robot Fast Karl. Zombees (2008), and Vampire Flesh a Poem (2009), both of which are experimental films driven by poetry. Wilder's films are known for surreal otherworldly and dreamlike images and he often incorporates stop motion animation with live action scenes.
Fireball (anime)
Drossel was manufactured as having the mind of a 14-year-old girl, with Gedächtnis' being that of a 50-year-old man; neither's age is explicitly stated, although both are known to be at least 2,800 years old - Gedächtnis stated that he entered service with the von Flugel family 2,800 years ago, and that it has been his duty to remain by Drossel's side for all of that time. Both Gedächtnis and Drossel move and speak in markedly unconventional ways, for example: instantly replying to each other at inhumanly fast speeds; freezing in postures until a new one is assumed (this is especially true of Drossel, what with her many princess-stereotype poses); replying in seemingly unrelated ways (although this may be due merely to the series' nonsensical nature). They remark upon how illogical human speech seems to them and act in what could be said to be an unemotional manner (although some emotional elements are retained for the sake of comedy and dramatic convention).
Chester Drescher
Chester Drescher (1981–2000) was a performing dog and Fran Drescher's Pomeranian. He played C.C. Babcock's dog on "The Nanny", who seemed to like nanny Fran Fine better than he did C.C. He was also in the 1990 film "Cadillac Man".
Renée Taylor
Renée Taylor (née Renée Wexler; March 19, 1933) is an American actress and writer. She is known for playing Fran Drescher's title character's outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series "The Nanny".