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Paul Heyman
Heyman was the lead writer for "SmackDown!" from July 2002 to February 2003. On Heyman's 2014 WWE documentary "Ladies and Gentleman, My Name is Paul Heyman", Heyman stated that the "SmackDown!" brand he was writing was beating "Raw" in ratings, merchandise and live show attendance during a time McMahon wanted real-life competition between the Raw and SmackDown! brands.
Harry Ackerman
He began his own production company, Harry Ackerman Prods, where he immediately signed an exclusive deal with Paramount TV to create TV series, specials and feature films on a co-production basis. He also went to work on network development for Hanna-Barbera Prods. He then joined Screen Gems, which later became Columbia Pictures Television, where he worked for 15 years, from 1958 until 1973. He worked on many TV shows while there, including, "Father Knows Best", "Bachelor Father" (for Universal), "Leave It to Beaver" (for Universal), "Dennis the Menace", "The Donna Reed Show", "Hazel", "Grindl", "Gidget", "Bewitched", "I Dream of Jeannie", "The Flying Nun", "The Monkees", and "The Partridge Family".
Playbox Theatre Company
"His Dark Materials" -
Playbox were the first company, after the National, to stage Pullman's epic. It starred Olivia Meguer, Calum Finlay, Ed Miller and Theodore Lamb.
The Bells (play)
In 1871, Irving began his association with the Lyceum Theatre with an engagement under the management of Hezekiah Bateman. The fortunes of the house were at a low ebb when the tide was turned by Irving's sudden success as Mathias in "The Bells," a property which Irving had found for himself. Bateman had been looking for a leading man when he saw Irving in a play, and the two discussed terms and possible roles for Irving, including a new version of "The Polish Jew", a play about a man haunted by a murder he has committed. The Lyceum Theatre season opened in September 1871, and the first two plays were box office failures. By late October Bateman was facing financial ruin. Again Irving urged him to stage "The Polish Jew", convinced that the play would be a dramatic and financial success. An unsuccessful version of the play was running at the Royal Alfred Theatre in Marylebone to meagre audiences, which failed to convince Bateman that another version could be a success; but Irving persuaded him and gave him a copy of "The Bells", by Leopold Lewis.
Paul Reiser
During his university years, Reiser was active in student theater productions at the Hinman Little Theater, an on-campus community theater organization located in Hinman College, Reiser's dorm community. It was later renamed the Hinman Production Company. He found his calling as a comedian while performing in New York clubs during university summer breaks.
Jay Wolpert
Wolpert left Goodson-Todman to form his own production company, and his first game show was the 1979 series "Whew!" for CBS. Wolpert produced the series with Burt Sugarman for most of its run. "Whew!" was canceled in 1980 and Wolpert did not return to television with a series until January 1983, despite shooting several pilots in the interim. On January 3, 1983, Wolpert's "Hit Man" debuted on NBC with Peter Tomarken as its host. "Hit Man" lasted thirteen weeks on the air.
Ron Harper (actor)
After serving in the US Navy, Harper returned to New York. After several disappointments, he earned a job as Paul Newman's understudy in "Sweet Bird of Youth" on Broadway in 1959. Moving to Hollywood, his first role was in 1960 in the NBC series "Tales of Wells Fargo". Steady television guest appearances followed, including a spot on NBC's "The Tall Man". In December 1960, he appeared in the episode "Duel at Parkison Town" of NBC's "Laramie".
The Public Enemy (professional wrestling)
The Public Enemy made their ECW debut in September 1993 at "UltraClash", as booker Paul Heyman gave them the gimmick of white guys who embraced and loved the growing hip hop culture of America. Heyman has stated that he got the inspiration to create The Public Enemy from a "Newsweek" article about the cultural changes occurring in America and the difficulty for young men living in places like Los Angeles during the early 1990s, with a quote that stated "The generation of today is more afraid of living than dying".
Paul Heyman
That same week, Heyman and Tod Gordon rechristened the promotion, eliminating the regional branding "Eastern" and declaring the promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling. They broke the company away from the NWA, and ECW became its own entity. Heyman encouraged wrestlers to express their true feelings about the WWF, the NWA, and WCW. Heyman bought out Gordon and became sole owner of ECW. During his time in ECW, Heyman found an ally in Vince McMahon's WWF. McMahon had sent some WWF wrestlers to ECW (under WWF payroll) to develop them and was interested in some ECW wrestlers, such as Terry Gordy and 2 Cold Scorpio. McMahon paid Heyman $1,000 per week to rent Scorpio.
In the final days of ECW, Heyman did not appear on the show and was replaced as the leader of the backstage and creative by ECW wrestler Tommy Dreamer. ECW entered into bankruptcy in 2001 (just weeks after WCW was sold to WWF for $2,000,000, after AOL Time Warner wrote off over $100 million in debt), with the company $7,000,000 in arrears, with over $3,000,000 owed to the company by InDemand pay per view.
Ben Iden Payne
In 1915, Payne produced the first staging of "Hobson's Choice" by Harold Brighouse for The Shubert Organization.In 1916 he directed John Barrymore in his first success in a serious role, in the American premiere of "Justice" by John Galsworthy. According to Angus L. Bowmer, founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a financial backer demanded that Barrymore be replaced, fearing a disastrous drinking binge. Payne replied, in effect, that if they replaced Barrymore they would have to find a new director. Barrymore stayed and the performance launched his career. "Justice" had been produced by John D. Williams, press agent for Charles Frohman. In 1917, Payne accepted a position as a stage director of the Charles Frohman Company, a leading American producing organization.
Paul W. Fairman
Paul Warren Fairman (1909-1969) was an editor and writer in a variety of genres under his own name and under pseudonyms. His detective story "Late Rain" was published in the February 1947 issue of "Mammoth Detective". He published his story "No Teeth for the Tiger" in the February 1950 issue of "Amazing Stories". Two years later, he was the founding editor of "If", but only edited four issues. In 1955, he became the editor of "Amazing Stories" and "Fantastic". He held that dual position until 1958. His science fiction short stories "Deadly City" and "The Cosmic Frame" were made into motion pictures.
Preston Heyman
With Sting
Sean Paul
Manager and producer Jeremy Harding heard about Sean Paul when Harding's brother told him about seeing someone at a small open mic event in Kingston who sounded a lot like the dancehall DJ and toaster Super Cat. Harding eventually met the singer when Paul came by his studio to ask for some advice. During the meeting Paul recorded a vocal over Harding's rhythm track and in the process created the song "Baby Girl". Paul began hanging out at the studio every day, and the pair collaborated on several more tracks. When they recorded "Infiltrate" they decided they had something good enough to get on the radio. As Sean Paul started to attract local attention, Harding began looking after his affairs. He later told HitQuarters that his support of Paul's fledgling career initially led him assuming the roles of "DJ, manager, road manager and security guard." Paul made a cameo appearance in the 1998 film "Belly" on stage performing. He made a successful collaboration with DMX and Mr. Vegas, "Top Shotter", to the soundtrack of the film. In 2000, Paul released his debut album, "Stage One" with VP Records.
Hayman Island
Whitsundays’ fishermen Bob and Bert Hallam established the Great Barrier Reef Game Fish Angling Club in 1935, attracting local and international game fishing enthusiasts who arrived by coastal steamer. One of them was Zane Grey, American novelist, filmmaker and big game fisherman. Grey planted the first coconut palm on the island and, in 1936, Hayman became the idyllic tropical backdrop for his comedy drama, ‘White Death’.
Henny Youngman
Youngman had two children, Gary and Marilyn. Gary started his career screenwriting and directing, continuing to work in the film industry in various capacities. Gary is best known for his 1976 film "Rush It!".
Paul Newman
Newman's first film for Hollywood was "The Silver Chalice" (1954). The film was a box office failure and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it. In 1956, Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the role of Rocky Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me". In 1958, he starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in 1958, Newman starred in "The Long, Hot Summer" with Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film.
Thomas Meehan (writer)
In addition, Meehan was a long-time contributor of humor to "The New Yorker", including the famous short story "Yma Dream"; an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy; and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs"; a remake of "To Be or Not to Be"; and the family drama "One Magic Christmas". Meehan went on to work with Brooks on other projects on Broadway, perhaps the most notable of their adaptations was "The Producers", based on the 1967 film. The show became a Broadway hit that dominated the 2001 Tony Awards and ran for more than 2,500 performances.
Al Hayman
Al Hayman, also known as Raphael Hayman, (1847 – February 10, 1917) was the business partner of the better-known Charles Frohman who together with others established the Theatrical Syndicate. In addition to the financial backing, ownership and construction of new theaters and the early monopolisation of the booking networks, the Syndicate also produced a number of Broadway shows.
Hud (1963 film)
Hud is a 1963 American Drama Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures. "Hud" was filmed on location on the Texas Panhandle, including Claude, Texas. Its screenplay was by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. and was based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel, "Horseman, Pass By". The film's title character, Hud Bannon, was a minor character in the original screenplay but was reworked as the lead role. With its main character an antihero, "Hud" was later described as a revisionist Western.
Young Romance
Working for Hillman Periodicals, the two created a "teen-humor comic book called "My Date"", cover-dated March 1947, which contained within its pages "ground-breaking" stories concerned with "comparatively faithful depictions of teen-age life, centering especially on romantic experiences and aspirations." Arguably itself the first "romance comic," positive reaction to "My Date" allowed Simon to negotiate a deal with Crestwood publishers Teddy Epstein and Paul Blyer (or "Bleier") "before the four-issue run of "My Date" had run more than half its course", and to receive an unheard of 50% share of profits in return for producing their follow-up for that company.
Lena Nyman
Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's "491" (1964) and got her breakthrough in his "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1967), where she, in pseudo-documentary fashion, played a character of the same name as herself, and its sequel "I Am Curious (Blue)" (1968). She later participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, such as "Release the Prisoners to Spring" (1975) and "The Adventures of Picasso" (1978). Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" (1978).
Harry Richman
Eventually known for his nasal baritone, he started out and worked as a piano accompanist to such stars as Mae West and Nora Bayes. With Bayes' act he made his Broadway debut in 1922. He appeared in several editions of the George White's Scandals in the 1920s to acclaim. Becoming a name, he appeared in "Scandals" as Master of Ceremonies in 1926; where on opening night the first seven rows of the orchestra commanded $50 a seat ($700 in 2018 dollars). He appeared in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies.
Carl Hayman
Hayman reportedly became the best paid rugby union player in the world after joining Newcastle Falcons on a contract reportedly worth $NZ one million (£350,000); a year until 2010. This contract was partly funded by Northern Rock – Newcastle Falcons' sponsor. Hayman made his Falcons debut as a replacement in the EDF Energy Cup match at London Wasps on 1 December 2007.
August Wilson
Chicago's Goodman Theatre was the first theater in the world to produce the entire 10-play cycle, spanning from 1986 to 2007. Two of the Goodman's productions—"Seven Guitars" and "Gem of the Ocean"—were world premieres.
Israel Hicks produced the entire 10-play cycle from 1990 to 2009 for the Denver Center Theatre Company.
Geva Theatre Center produced all 10 plays in decade order from 2007 to 2011 as "August Wilson's American Century". The Huntington Theatre Company of Boston has produced all 10 plays, finishing in 2012. During Wilson's life he worked closely with The Huntington to produce the later plays. Pittsburgh Public Theater was the first theater company in Pittsburgh to produce the entire Century Cycle, including the world premiere of "King Hedley II" to open the O'Reilly Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Paul Gilmore
Gilmore reached full star status in late 1900 with his performance in "The Dawn of Freedom" at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York City. He performed relentlessly all over the country in scores of plays, often in roles that portrayed him as a swashbuckling lover. Audiences flocked to see him in productions such as "Captain Debonnaire," "The Mummy and the Hummingbird" and "The Boys of Company B."
Playground Entertainment
Playground’s first stage production was Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks by the late Nora Ephron, which tells the story of tabloid reporter Mike McAlary, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize. It won two Tony Awards and had six nominations. In 2014, Playground produced Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina, which was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Play, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris, which won four Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical. Playground was also involved in the production of Kenneth Branagh’s New York stage debut in Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory, and a co-producer of Jez Butterworth's "The River" starring Hugh Jackman.
Paul Heyman
At this time, Eddie Gilbert was a booker for a Philadelphia-based promotion, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Eastern Championship Wrestling, which he did under the ownership of a local pawn shop owner named Tod Gordon. Heyman came in to help Gilbert teach the younger wrestlers how to perform on interviews, but Gilbert's erratic behavior became too much for Gordon, who had a major falling out with Gilbert right before the "Ultra Clash" event on September 18, 1993. From that point forward, Heyman was in charge of the creative direction of the company. As Paul E. Dangerously, he managed a few wrestlers, including Sabu and 911.
Paul Whiteman
Whiteman then became far busier in radio. His shows were:In the 1940s and 1950s, after he had disbanded his orchestra, Whiteman worked as a music director for the ABC Radio Network. He also hosted "Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club" from Philadelphia on ABC-TV from 1949 to 1954. The show was seen for an hour the first two years, then as a half-hour segment on Saturday evenings. In 1952 a young Dick Clark read the commercials for sponsor Tootsie Roll. Whiteman's TV-Teen Club, along with Grady and Hurst's 950 Club, proved to be an inspiration for WFIL-TV's afternoon dance show called American Bandstand.
Tim Talman
Talman made his Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" with Cathy Rigby, playing Cecco (Pirate/Indian). He has performed in the Broadway and touring companies of "The Who's Tommy" as The Lover with Alice Ripley, and "Miss Saigon". Talman worked with Pete Townsend, performing in 1st US National Tour of "The Who's Tommy". He originated the role as The Lover in "The Who's Tommy" in its European Premier in Offenbach Germany. He has also gone on tour with companies of "Man of La Mancha" and "West Side Story." In August 2007, Talman appeared in the Hollywood Bowl's concert presentation of "South Pacific". A few months later, he was cast in the Reprise! production of "Damn Yankees" at the UCLA Freud Playhouse.
Paul Simon
Since the early stages of the nineties, Simon was fully involved on "The Capeman", a musical that finally opened on January 29, 1998. Simon worked enthusiastically on the project for many years and described it as "a New York Puerto Rican story based on events that happened in 1959—events that I remembered." The musical tells the story of real-life Puerto Rican youth Salvador Agron, who wore a cape while committing two murders in 1959 New York, and went on to become a writer in prison. Featuring Marc Anthony as the young Agron and Rubén Blades as the older Agron, the play received terrible reviews and very poor box office receipts from the very beginning, and closed on March 28 after just 68 performances—a failure that reportedly cost Simon 11 million dollars.
Fireside Theatre
Fireside Theatre, a.k.a. Jane Wyman Presents, is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Productions were low budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned by critics, it remained in the top ten most popular shows for most of its run. It predated the other major pioneer of filmed TV in America, "I Love Lucy", by two years.
Louis Elliman
After a spell acquiring cinemas around the country, which were taken over by the Rank Organization, Louis went into film production. In 1957 he opened Ardmore Studios. With managing director Emmet Dalton he travelled to the US to promote the studios and to acquire foreign investment. The studios accordingly landed its first major foreign booking with 1959's "Shake Hands with the Devil", starring Oscar winner James Cagney and Dana Wynter. A year later progress was consolidated when Robert Mitchum appeared in Tay Garnett's ""A Terrible Beauty"". In 1961, Ardmore Studios hosted the controversial ""The Mark"", directed by Guy Green, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and earned its star, Stuart Whitman, an Oscar nomination. Other films produced at this time include Don Chaffey's "The Webster Boys" and ""Johnny Nobody"" with Cyril Cusack. Hammer Films also utilised the studios as a base for their production, "The Viking Queen". The studios went into receivership in 1963 but re-opened later.
Cady Huffman
Huffman first came to Broadway as a replacement cast member in the hit musical "La Cage aux Folles" (1985), and was quickly cast in Bob Fosse's "Big Deal," to be followed by a Tony-Award nomination for her performance in "The Will Rogers Follies" (1991). In 2001, she played the role of Ulla in the original cast of the Broadway musical "The Producers", by Mel Brooks. Huffman received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the role.
Richard X. Heyman
Heyman released his first indie EP, "Actual Size", a collection of six of his finest songs recorded on an 8-track Tascam machine in a home studio, in 1987, the same studio in which Richard would subsequently record his album "Living Room!!", released in 1988.
David Heyman
Heyman was born in London. He is the son of John Heyman, producer of the films "The Go-Between" and "Jesus", and Norma Heyman ("née" Parnell), an actress, and Academy Award-nominated producer of the films "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Mrs Henderson Presents". His paternal grandparents were German Jews who left Nazi Germany and emigrated to England prior to World War II, while his mother's family was English. He went to Westminster School and, following graduation, he decided to study abroad. He earned a degree in Art History from Harvard University in 1983.
Paul Thomas Anderson
While at the Sundance Feature Film Program, Anderson already had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first full-length feature, "Sydney", retitled "Hard Eight" (1996). Upon completion of the film, Rysher re-edited it. Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film to the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section. Anderson managed to get his version released but only after he retitled the film, and raised the $200,000 necessary to finish it; Anderson and stars Philip Baker Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow and John C. Reilly contributed the funding. The version that was released was Anderson's and the acclaim from the film launched his career. The story concerns Sydney Brown (Hall), an experienced gambler who takes John Finnegan (Reilly) under his wing, while John becomes romantically involved with a troubled waitress (Paltrow). The film also featured Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arrogant gambler, beginning a five-film collaboration between the pair. In his review of the film, "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Movies like "Hard Eight" remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us."
John Paul Young
At this point, Young's manager Dal Myles got him a role in the Melbourne production of "The Jesus Christ Revolution". The show opened and closed in six weeks. However, due to being seen in this production, Young received a telegram from Jim Sharman who wanted him to audition as Annas for Harry M. Miller's original Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar". The show premiered in Sydney on 4 May 1972, and, as well as established theatrical performers, the cast featured leading pop-rock artists: Trevor White, Robin Ramsay, Jon English, Doug Parkinson, Stevie Wright (ex-The Easybeats), Marcia Hines and Reg Livermore. Young remained with the production until it closed in February 1974; the production broke theatrical attendance records in its two-year season, and whilst it provided him with a public profile, it left him at a loose end when it concluded.
Paul Heyman
At Battleground, Punk pinned Ryback after a low blow. At Hell in a Cell, Punk defeated both Ryback and Heyman and after the match attacked Heyman on top of the cell, putting an end to their feud. On the November 11, 2013 episode of "Raw", Heyman stated that he was no longer with Ryback as Ryback never officially accepted his proposal to become a "Paul Heyman Guy". After that, CM Punk came out to once again beat Heyman with a kendo stick. The following night on "SmackDown", Heyman formally announced to Curtis Axel and Ryback that they were no longer Paul Heyman guys, therefore marking the end of Axel's association with Heyman as he continued to team with Ryback. Heyman returned on the December 30 episode of "Raw" alongside Brock Lesnar, who attacked Mark Henry. He stood by Lesnar as he feuded with Big Show and The Undertaker in the first four months of 2014. Lesnar ended The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania XXX; this was Undertaker's first loss at a WrestleMania, as he previously had a record of 21 wins.
On the "Raw" following WrestleMania, Cesaro revealed himself to be a "Paul Heyman Guy". Cesaro eventually declared himself no longer a "Paul Heyman Guy" on the July 21 episode of "Raw". After Triple H announced that Randy Orton would challenge John Cena at SummerSlam, Roman Reigns came out and fought with Orton backstage. Heyman then came out and told Triple H to implement "Plan C" which was the return of Lesnar, who would have a match against Cena at SummerSlam. Lesnar defeated Cena at the pay-per-view to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Paul Hartman
Along with Grace, Paul made his Broadway debut in "Ballyhoo of 1932" alongside Bob Hope, but the show was not a success. The two found success with Cole Porter's "Red Hot and Blue" a few years later, and continued to flourish on the Great White Way. The main premise of their act involved the crisp and witty Grace overwhelming the gangly, slack-jawed Paul, intermittently cut with dance numbers and musical comedy routines.
Paul Heyman
In 1988, Heyman jumped to Jim Crockett Promotions, where Dangerously again managed the Original Midnight Express in a feud with the new Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) and their manager, Jim Cornette, as well as managing "Mean" Mark Callous. He settled into the role of an announcer, joining Jim Ross to call the matches on WTBS' "World Championship Wrestling" and other programming. Heyman admitted he learned more working with Ross than from his previous mentors. While in-between stints in WCW, Heyman went to work for ICW as a writer, but was fired on his first day in the middle of his first TV taping.
John Chapman (screenwriter)
Initially a stage manager and understudy at the Whitehall Theatre for the first two years of "Reluctant Heroes", the first Whitehall farce, he subsequently spent a few years in weekly rep before returning to Brian Rix's company with his first play. "Dry Rot" (1954), which is about dishonest bookmakers, had a four-year run with 1,475 performances. Ray Cooney joined the cast in 1956 and first met the author at this time. Chapman followed "Dry Rot" with "Simple Spymen" (1958), which was staged 1,404 times over a three-year run.
Paul Heller
His production company, Paul Heller Productions produced "First Monday in October", starring Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh, and more recently the critically acclaimed British film, "Withnail & I", written and directed by Bruce Robinson. He was the ground breaker in the cable TV feature market, producing the first made-for-cable feature film, "Falcon's Gold", and then, Showtime's, "Pygmalion", starring Peter O'Toole and Margot Kidder.
Arthur Penn
After making a name for himself as a director of quality television dramas, Penn made his feature debut with a western, "The Left Handed Gun" (1958) for Warner Brothers. A retelling of the Billy the Kid legend, it was distinguished by Paul Newman's sharp portrayal of the outlaw as a psychologically troubled youth (the role was originally intended for the archetypal portrayer of troubled teens, James Dean). The production completed in only 23 days, but Warner Brothers reedited the film against his wishes with a new ending he disapproved of. The film subsequently failed upon release in North America, but was well received in Europe.
Sherman Yellen
Yellen's first play was "New Gods For Lovers", which was produced at the HB Playhouse in New York. This play, entered in a playwrighting competition, won the Hallmark Award, and he began to write television drama for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, and for NBC television, creating such shows as "A Cry of Angels," "Beauty and the Beast" (Emmy nomination and Christopher Award) and the breakthrough drama about AIDS, "An Early Frost" (Emmy Award).
Paul Heyman
He portrayed a sports announcer in 2002's "Rollerball". Heyman was later chosen by "I Am Legend" executive producer Michael Tadross to play "Gino" in the film adaptation of the long-running Off-Broadway show "Tony n' Tina's Wedding", after a family emergency forced the original actor to pull out.
Aaron Spelling
Spelling sold his first script to "Jane Wyman Presents" in 1954. He guest starred that same year as a dogcatcher in the premiere episode of the CBS situation comedy, "Willy", starring June Havoc as a young lawyer in New Hampshire, who later relocates to New York City to represent a vaudeville troupe. Two years later, Spelling began to achieve considerable experience as a producer and additional credits as a script writer working on the Four Star television series "Zane Grey Theater", which aired between 1956 and 1961. Of the 149 episodes in that series, he wrote no fewer than twenty of the teleplays and produced a significant number of others.
Paul McCartney
In July 2005, he performed at the Live 8 event in Hyde Park, London, opening the show with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (with U2) and closing it with "Drive My Car" (with George Michael), "Helter Skelter", and "The Long and Winding Road". In September, he released the rock album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard", for which he provided most of the instrumentation. In 2006, McCartney released the classical work "Ecce Cor Meum". The rock album "Memory Almost Full" followed in 2007. In 2008, he released his third Fireman album, "Electric Arguments". Also in 2008, he performed at a concert in Liverpool to celebrate the city's year as European Capital of Culture. In 2009, after a four-year break, he returned to touring and has since performed over 80 shows. More than forty-five years after the Beatles first appeared on American television during "The Ed Sullivan Show", he returned to the same New York theatre to perform on "Late Show with David Letterman". On 9 September 2009, EMI reissued the Beatles catalogue following a four-year digital remastering effort, releasing a music video game called "" the same day.
Paul Simon
In the late 1990s, Simon wrote and produced a Broadway musical called "The Capeman", which lost $11 million during its 1998 run. In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to "Songs From the Capeman" with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Simon himself appeared during the BAM shows, performing "Trailways Bus" and "Late In the Evening". In August 2010, "The Capeman" was staged for three nights in the Delacorte Theatre in New York's Central Park. The production was directed by Diane Paulus and produced in conjunction with the Public Theater.
Paul Hammond (ballet dancer)
Inspired as a teenager by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Hammond started dancing at the age of 17, studying ballet with Mischa Burlakov, Helene Kirsova and Leon Kellaway. From his early twenties, Hammond held numerous senior roles with premier Australian ballet companies. As Principal and Soloist with the Kirsova Ballet, Australia's first professional ballet company, Hammond danced the principal roles in various productions including "Les Sylphides", "Hansel & Gretel", "Swan Lake" and "Harlequin". He went on to become a Leading Soloist with the Borovansky Ballet — the precursor to the Australian Ballet — for over a decade, and danced in major roles in a range of productions including "Symphonie Fantastique", "Beau Danube", "Petrouchka", "Scheherazade", "The Outlaw", "Sleeping Princess" and "Giselle". Edouard Borovansky’s 1951 production of "The Sleeping Princess", in which Hammond appeared as Carabosse, received great critical acclaim and was billed as 'an important milestone in the history of ballet in Australia'.
John Heyman
In the early 1970s, Heyman began to render financial services to major film studios, and is widely credited with creating "structured financing" in the film industry. As a result of his efforts, some $4 billion has been provided to co-finance more than 150 films and television programs, including "Awakenings" (Columbia), "Black Rain" (Paramount), "Chinatown" (Paramount), "Edward Scissorhands" (Fox), "Grease" (Paramount), "" (Warner), "Heaven Can Wait" (Paramount), "Home Alone" (Fox), "Looking For Mr Goodbar" (Paramount), "The Man Who Would Be King" (Allied Artists), "Marathon Man" (Paramount), "The Odessa File" (Columbia), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (Fox), "Saturday Night Fever" (Paramount), "" (Paramount), "Trail of the Pink Panther" (MGM), and "Victor/Victoria" (MGM).
Paul Pry (play)
The following year, in 1826, the play was produced in New York City at the Park Theatre, featuring Thomas Hilson. It was first produced in Australia in October 1835 at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, when Joseph Simmons took the title role.
Paul Henning
Writing proved the more lucrative of the two, and he abandoned singing, eventually writing for such series as "Fibber McGee & Molly" and "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", and later such television series as "The Dennis Day Show", "The Real McCoys," and "The Andy Griffith Show". Henning was also the creator, writer, and producer of "The Bob Cummings Show", where he first met many of the actors who appeared in his later series. Another series produced by Henning was "The Ray Bolger Show". He also wrote or co-wrote feature films such as "Lover Come Back" (1961), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), and he wrote for "Bedtime Story" (1964).
Nigel Harman
By the age of 8 he already had a manager and in 1984 he made his first major television appearance in the BBC1 drama series "Tenko" which was followed by appearances in "Alas Smith and Jones" (1986) and "The Honey Siege" (1987). He then turned his hand to larger theatre roles, appearing in productions such as "Privates on Parade", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Summer Holiday". He trained at Arts Educational Schools in London and was in the original cast of world hit "Mamma Mia!". He also performed in musicals on cruise ships for six and a half months, but told Paul O'Grady that he hated the experience.
Alan Heyman
Among the odd jobs that Heyman took to support himself and his wife during his music studies in the 1960s, he composed film scores for various films set in South Korea; by 1968, he had nearly a dozen such credits to his name, mostly documentaries. One non-documentary one was "Northeast of Seoul", a 1972 thriller directed by David Lowell Rich. His English translation of Im Sok-jae's "Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of Korean Mudangs", sponsored by the Korea Literature Translation Association, was published by Asian Humanities Press in 2003. In the last years of his life, Heyman worked on what he described as his "magnum opus", translating historical materials relating to the past half-century of the Korean National Folk Arts Festival.
Carl Foreman
On his return to Hollywood, Foreman became associated with producer Stanley Kramer. Kramer produced Foreman's next credited script, "So This Is New York" (1948), starring comedian Henry Morgan, for The Enterprise Studios and directed by Richard Fleischer. It was a mild success. Foreman then wrote a movie for Fleischer at RKO, "The Clay Pigeon" (1949).
Paul Newman
Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953, on the production of "Picnic" on Broadway, it was Newman's debut and Woodward was an understudy. Shortly after filming "The Long, Hot Summer" in 1957, he divorced Witte. He married Woodward early in 1958. The Newmans moved to 11th Street in Manhattan, before buying a home and starting a family in Westport, Connecticut. They were one of the very first Hollywood movie star couples to choose to raise their families outside California. They remained married for 50 years, until his death in 2008. They had three daughters: Elinor "Nell" Teresa (b. 1959), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (b. 1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. 1965). Newman was well known for his devotion to his wife and family. When once asked about his reputation for fidelity, he famously quipped, "Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?" He also said that he never met anyone who had as much to lose as he did. In his profile on "60 Minutes" he admitted he once left Woodward after a fight, walked around the outside of the house, knocked on the front door and explained to Joanne he had nowhere to go. Newman directed Nell alongside her mother in the films "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds".
Paul Keating (actor)
In 2015 Paul starred as Elliot Garfield in the first London production of the original Broadway version of the Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon musical The Goodbye Girl. The production was directed by Adam Lenson and ran for four weeks Upstairs at The Gatehouse.
Everyman (1901 play)
Everyman is a modern play produced by Charles Frohman and directed by Ben Greet that is based on the medieval morality play of the same name. The modern play was first performed in 1901 in Britain, and opened in the United States in 1902 on the Broadway stage. The play had a Broadway run of 75 performances, with tours over the next several years that included four Broadway revivals.
George Herriman
"Krazy Kat" gained an appreciative audience in the world of the arts. The character debuted in film in 1916. The first animated films starring a cat were produced by Hearst's International Film Service, though without Herriman's direct involvement. In 1922, Adolph Bolm choreographed a jazz-pantomime "Krazy Kat" ballet written by John Alden Carpenter. It was first performed in New York in 1922 by Ballet Intime, and Herriman illustrated the libretto and designed the costumes and scenario. While it was not a great success, the critics Deems Taylor, Stark Young and Henrietta Straus wrote favorably about it. The strip itself was the subject of an article by literary critic Gilbert Seldes called "Golla, Golla the Comic Strip's Art", which appeared in the May 1922 issue of "Vanity Fair". Seldes expanded this article as part of his book on the popular arts, "The Seven Lively Arts" (1924), in which Seldes argued against conservative tendencies that excluded artists in the popular arts, such as Herriman and Chaplin, from being considered alongside traditional artists. "Krazy Kat" was the subject of a chapter entitled "The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself", which is the most famous piece of writing about the strip and the earliest example of a critic from the world of high art giving legitimacy to the comic strip medium. "Vanity Fair" inducted Herriman into its Hall of Fame in the April 1923 issue.
Harry Sherman
Sherman arrived in Hollywood full-time in 1926, and worked at both Pathe and MGM before striking out on his own as an independent producer. He brought the popular Hopalong Cassidy character to the big screen in 1935, and would go on to produce 50+ more films in the series before turning duties over to Hopalong actor William Boyd. Sherman took pride in his clean-cut stories and righteous characters. He died in 1952 after entering the hospital for abdominal surgery.
Paul Gayten
In 1956 he decided to quit as a touring bandleader and joined Chess Records as a talent scout, producer, promotion man, songwriter and part-time musician and recording artist. He discovered Clarence "Frogman" Henry and produced his first hit, "Ain't Got No Home", in 1956, later going on to co-write and produce his biggest hit, "But I Do", in 1961. At Chess, Gayten produced Bobby Charles' "Later Alligator" and played piano on Chuck Berry’s "Carol". In 1956 he also had one of the biggest hits of his own career with "The Music Goes Round And Round", followed up by "Nervous Boogie".
Louis M. Heyward
Heyward's first credit for AIP was "Pajama Party" (1964), one of many Beach Party films made by the company. Heyward would subsequently write several more similar teen-themed AIP comedies, as well as horror films and science fiction thrillers. His best known work includes "Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine". Heyward also began to be involved on the production side of things for AIP.
Guy Sprung
Guy co-founded Half Moon Theatre in 1972 with Maurice Colbourne and Michael Irving and was the first Artistic Director. He directed the opening production of "In the Jungle of the Cities". Other productions he directed included "Will Wat, If Not, What Will?", "Fall In and Follow Me", "Get Off My Back", "Ripper!", "The 3p Off Opera" and "Paddy". He also directed the community productions "Spare Us a Copper" and "Driving Us Up the Wall."
Paul Freeman (actor)
He began his career in advertising and teaching, and landed small roles in the theatre, appearing in productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hamlet". He then went on to play starring roles in the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and later co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1974, along with director Max Stafford-Clark.
Peter Ackerman (playwright)
For the stage Ackerman’s debut play, "Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight", was performed off-Broadway in New York and at Soho Rep in London. The play was audio presentation for L.A. Theatre Works and appeared on member National Public Radio stations in North America. He also adapted it for DirecTV. He was commissioned by NPR to write another radio play, "I’d Rather Eat Pants", which was broadcast as a short serial on Morning Edition. He also authored the play, "The Urn" and his adaptation of "The Pajama Game" starring Harry Connick Jr., won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival on Broadway. He has also written the children’s books "The Lonely Typewriter", and "The Lonely Phone Booth" which was produced as a musical at the Manhattan Children’s Theatre.
Hell in a Cell (2013)
Another major feud playing out in the WWE pitted CM Punk against Paul Heyman and his wrestler clients, whom he dubs "Paul Heyman guys". At the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in July, while still posing as his supporter, Heyman turned on Punk and cost him the Money in the Bank ladder match for a future WWE Championship match. This started a rivalry that soon brought Heyman's client, Brock Lesnar, into the fray, leading to a No Disqualification match between Lesnar and Punk at SummerSlam, which the former won with Heyman's help. At Night of Champions the next month, in a 2-on-1 handicap elimination no disqualification match, Punk eliminated Curtis Axel (another Heyman's client), before beating down Heyman himself. However, Ryback interfered in the match and put Punk through a table, allowing Heyman to pin him and win the match. As the newest "Paul Heyman guy", Ryback faced Punk at Battleground, but lost the match, when Punk pinned him after hitting a low blow behind the referee's back. This loss irked both Heyman and Ryback, and it was officially announced on WWE.com on October 9, that Punk will face off against Ryback in a rematch at Hell in a Cell. On the October 14 episode of "Raw", Heyman attempted to convince Maddox to turn the encounter into a 2-on-1 handicap match, with Axel teaming with Ryback. Instead, Maddox set up a "beat the clock" contest in two matches featuring Punk and Ryback individually, with the wrestler to win his match in shorter time than the other to pick the stipulation for their match at Hell in a Cell. Though Ryback defeated R-Truth in a time of 5:44, Punk defeated Axel with 11 seconds to spare, thus "beating the clock". As result of this victory, Punk himself added Heyman to the match as Ryback's partner, additionally making it a Hell in a Cell match, at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view.
Paul Williams (director)
He was a founding partner in 1966 of Pressman Williams Enterprises, with Edward Pressman, that produced such films as Terrence Malick's first film "Badlands", Brian DePalma's early films "Sisters" and "Phantom of the Paradise", and others. As an actor, he appeared several TV movies, and a few films that he also directed, including "The November Men" (1994) and "Mirage" (1996) and he has collaborated with director Henry Jaglom "Tracks" and writer Stephen Eckelberry, as well as Eckelberry's wife Karen Black "Breaking Up with Paul".
Paul Heyman
Heyman announced Michael McGillicutty as the newest "Paul Heyman guy" on the May 20 "Raw" and gave him the new name of Curtis Axel. On the May 27 episode of "Raw", Heyman appeared on the "Highlight Reel" with Chris Jericho, where Jericho challenged CM Punk to a match at Payback which Heyman accepted on Punk's behalf. The next week, Heyman and Jericho signed the contract to make it official. The same week on "SmackDown", Jericho faced off against Curtis Axel. As Jericho was closing in on the victory, Heyman stood on the announcers table and yelled "It's clobbering time". Punk's music began to play, distracting Jericho long enough for Axel to pick up the victory.
At Payback, Heyman coached Axel during his match with Wade Barrett and The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship with Axel winning the match and the title. Heyman accompanied Punk to the ring later in the show for his match with Chris Jericho. After "Payback", a WWE.com exclusive video aired with Punk telling Heyman that he is his friend and not his client. On the June 17 episode of "Raw", Punk challenged Alberto Del Rio, mentioning that he did not want Heyman managing him anymore. Following Punk's match, he was attacked by Lesnar. The next week on "Raw", Punk demanded answers from Heyman, who swore he did not ask Lesnar to attack him. Punk forgave Heyman and then faced Darren Young and, following his win, was attacked by Titus O'Neil until Curtis Axel saved him, to Punk's chagrin. Heyman announced that he would team with Axel against The Prime Time Players the next week, again to Punk's disapproval.
Paul Heyman
In WWE, Heyman has managed a record five WWE Champions: Brock Lesnar, Big Show, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, and CM Punk. Critics have praised his abilities at managing and on the microphone. Heyman has also competed sporadically in the ring, most notably when he participated in the WWE Championship main event match in 2002 Rebellion pay-per-view.
Dave Freeman (British writer)
Alongside his success with Benny Hill, he contributed to sketch-based programmes such as "The Ted Ray Show" (1955–59), and "Great Scott – It's Maynard" (starring the comedy duo Terry Scott and Bill Maynard, 1955–56). In 1955 he joined Associated London Scripts, an agency representing the leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. There he teamed up with John Junkin and Terry Nation to write two series for Elsie and Doris Waters, Gert and Daisy. He then went on to contribute sketches to Spike Milligan's "The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d" (1956) starring Peter Sellers, the first successful attempt to transform the comedy of "The Goon Show" from radio to television.
Paul Yee
Paul Yee's first book, titled "Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter! And Other Stories" and illustrated by Sky Lee, was published in 1983 by James Lorimer & Company. He has stated that his career as a writer is "a fluke" as it was Lorimer that approached Yee, wanting a knowledgeable person to create a book set in Vancouver's Chinatown neighborhood. Since then, he has published over twenty-five distinct works - including children's books, young adult books, short stories, and non-fiction books for adults. One of his books for children, "Ghost Train", was adapted as a play by Betty Quan and performed by the Young Peoples Theatre in Toronto in 2001. Yee's first original play, "Jade in the Coal", premiered at the Frederic Wood Theatre in Vancouver on November 25, 2010. In 2011, he created a poem to accompany the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra's performance of an original composition by Jin Zhang. The piece was translated from English to Chinese and performed in both languages by Tommy Tao.
Tom Eyen
According to "The New York Times", "Eyen was called the Neil Simon of Off-Off-Broadway at one point when he had four plays running simultaneously." In 1973, Eyen co-wrote the book for and directed one of Broadway's most notorious flops, the Paul Jabara disco musical "Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It)", which closed after seven previews. The lead character, a flamboyant entertainer, was inspired by Midler, who was apparently offered and refused the role. Following this setback, Eyen began commuting to Los Angeles to write for television. He contributed writing to the 1976/1977 satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", produced by Norman Lear. In 1978, Eyen earned an Emmy Award nomination for writing Midler's first television special, "Ol' Red Hair is Back".
Alan Heyman
Heyman was initially nervous whether he could find success in his chosen field, but his confidence and reputation grew after a 1962 performance he gave, the first in which a foreigner had performed Korean traditional music on stage. He recalled that "the audience was flabbergasted. They couldn't believe that they were seeing a foreigner perform Korean music." He even performed for South Korean president Yun Bo-seon. In 1964, with the sponsorship of the Asia Society, he organised a twenty-seven city tour of the U.S. for traditional Korean music group Sam Chun Li. Among the highlights, they performed at the Lincoln Center and on national television on "The Tonight Show". However, the tour's success was damaged by negative rumours about their shows spread by a rival musical group, which resulted in cancellations by 17 out of 27 universities where they had scheduled performances; their sponsors refused to pay the musicians their contracted wages, and Heyman had to make up the difference out of his own pocket.
Norma Heyman
Born Norma Pownall, she married British film producer and talent agent John Heyman in 1960. Norma and John had two children, including David Heyman, the founder of Heyday Films and producer of all eight films in the "Harry Potter" film series. John Heyman and Norma Heyman divorced during the 1960s after his affair with actress Joanna Shimkus.
WWE ECW
Former ECW owner Paul Heyman served as the on-air "ECW Representative" (a reference to how Heyman had been identified on "Monday Night Raw" back in 1997). According to an interview in the UK newspaper "The Sun", Heyman wrote the show's weekly scripts and submitted them to writers for possible changes, and then Vince McMahon for final approval. Following December to Dismember, Heyman was relieved from both his on and off-air duties with World Wrestling Entertainment.
Sam Rosen (actor)
One of Rosen's earliest film roles, if not his first was playing a white rapist in "The Hymens Parable" which was directed by Jon Springer. Then he appeared as Eddie in the Bill Semans directed "Herman U. S. A." which was released in 2001.
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film "The Color of Money", a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), "Harper" (1966) and "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), as well as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "The Verdict" (1982). He voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's "Cars" as his final acting performance, with voice recordings being used in "Cars 3" (2017).
Paul Reiser
Reiser starred as one of two possible fathers of a teenage girl in the TV sitcom "My Two Dads" (1987–90), and later came to prominence in North America as Paul Buchman in "Mad About You" (1992–99), a comedy series he co-created, in which Helen Hunt co-starred as his on-screen wife. He was also the co-composer of the show's theme song, "The Final Frontier" (with Don Was), and performed the piano for the theme's recording. Reiser's role in "Mad About You" earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, an American Comedy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For the show's final season, Reiser and Hunt received $1 million ($ million today) per episode.
Carl-Emil Lohmann
He started to show interest in theater from early age and started theater with his sister Sofie Lohmann by attending performing arts school named Scene Kunst Skoler in Roskilde, Denmark from the age of seven. Since then he starred in six musical theater shows including: Love Never Dies (As Gustave), Evita (As Fredrich), Billy Elliott (As Billy Elliot), Sound of Music, Jekyl & Hyde and Annie Get your Gun (As Little Jake) at Det Ny Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark. He also appeared in the as young Erik in 2014.
Paul Heyman
In 1991, WCW needed to re-structure its "heels", so Heyman returned to the role as spokesman and ringside manager as the manager of the Dangerous Alliance (a new version of the Four Horsemen), with Rick Rude as the centerpiece of the stable. According to Heyman, he and Stone Cold Steve Austin learned their craft from Rude. Heyman led Rude to the United States title and the Anderson-Eaton tag team to the Tag Team titles. The Dangerous Alliance dominated WCW through most of 1992.
Paul Heyman
On the September 3 episode of "Raw", after CM Punk attacked John Cena, Heyman was seen driving the car Punk had entered. This began an alliance between CM Punk and Heyman. Heyman began accompanying Punk to the ring for his matches and promos. Because of the events of the previous weeks, on the February 11 episode of "Raw", Heyman addressed the audience intending to resign from the company. CM Punk, however, convinced Heyman to not only stay with the company, but also to be in Punk's corner at the upcoming Elimination Chamber pay-per-view for his WWE Championship match. Around this time, Heyman quietly cut off his signature ponytail.
David Heyman
David Jonathan Heyman (born 26 July 1961) is an English film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. In 1999, he secured the film rights to the "Harry Potter" film series and went on to produce all eight instalments, becoming one of the most central crew members over the course of the eight films. In 2013, as the producer of "Gravity", he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a BAFTA Award for Best British Film, his second collaboration with director Alfonso Cuarón after "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
John Heyman
After two years of National Service in the Army, Heyman returned to Oxford to read law. During a summer vacation, he obtained free tickets to a Radio Luxembourg show. Having been chosen as a contestant he won £93, more money than he thought existed in the world, and he returned to Oxford as the question writer for the show "Double Your Money", which would run in the top ten for thirteen years on the new Independent Television Network in England. He also sold a number of other television concepts. In 1955 Heyman started full-time work in the entertainment industry and by the age of 22 was Head of Public Relations at Associated Television, one of the two founder companies of the ITV. By then he was working on five of the network’s television programs, three of which were rated among ITV’s top ten.
Hank Nelken
Nelken wrote and directed "Fifteen Minutes", a short film that premiered at the USC First Look Festival. Afterwards, he partnered with Greg DePaul. From 1998 to 2001, Nelken and DePaul wrote several screenplays, including "Saving Silverman" released in 2001. Afterwards, Nelken and DePaul split and Nelken wrote "Mama's Boy", a spec screenplay that was purchased in 2003 by Warner Brothers. "Mama's Boy" was produced in 2007 by Warner Independent Pictures and starred Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Jeff Daniels and Anna Faris. A spec project, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", got turned "Are We Done Yet?" starring Ice Cube, a sequel to "Are We There Yet?".
Paul Heyman
Heyman has a daughter named Azalea (born July 31, 2002) and a son named Jacob (born May 28, 2004).
Paul Hartman
The Hartmans' success led them to Hollywood, but Paul only saw limited success there, most prominently appearing alongside Frank Sinatra and Victor Borge in 1943's "Higher and Higher". Upon the Hartmans' return to Broadway, they resolved to take charge and write their own revue. Their 1948 play, "Angel in the Wings," was a smash success, and both Hartmans were named best lead performer at the first ever Tony Awards held that same year.
Paul Kaye
Kaye's other television credits include "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge", an episode of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology series "Inside No. 9", Netflix's first original TV series "Lilyhammer", the BAFTA winning "Murder in Successville", BBC miniseries "Three Girls", Sky comedy "Zapped", "Drunk History", "The Windsors", "Urban Myths", "" and the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens".
Art Heyman
Heyman's success in college led to him being selected first in the 1963 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. During his first season with the team, he averaged 15.4 points per game and made the NBA All-Rookie Team.
Preston Heyman
Although principally known for his musical career, Heyman's first experiences of show business came as a child actor and student of Corona Theatre School, while studying there appearing in the movies Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Goodbye Mr Chips with Peter O'Toole, Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968) with Jerry Lewis, and Salt and Pepper Starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Rat Pack Star Peter Lawford, as well as in an episode of Z-Cars.
Barry Newman
Newman then went on to star in the New York production of the longest running play on the British stage, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap." After numerous parts on Broadway, in the musical "What makes Sammy Run", Sidney Kingsley's "Night Live, America Hurrah," to name a few, Newman went on to do TV and movies. While working at nights on Broadway in "What Makes Sammy Run," Newman starred as attorney John Barnes in the daytime drama, The Edge of Night for two years. Earlier, Newman also co-starred in his first film, the gangster potboiler, "Pretty Boy Floyd" (1960) but he made his breakthrough with his first starring role in "The Lawyer" (1970), directed by Sidney Furie, for which Newman received critical acclaim. Newman then went on to star in the 1971 cult movie "Vanishing Point", as Kowalski, followed by starring roles in 20th Century Fox's "Salzburg Connection", and Paramount's "Fear Is The Key." In 1974 he starred in the hit NBC TV Series "Petrocelli".
Hendrik Bouman
He made his conducting debut in the première of the mass by Alain Pierard at the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal in 1985. The following year he founded the period orchestra Les Nations de Montréal, which he directed in 1987 in the 20th-century premiere of the opera "Amadis de Gaule" for the tricentenary of Lully with soloists and choir of the Atélier de l'Opéra de l'Université Laval.[2] The concert was broadcast 'live' by Radio Canada and subsequently by Radio France and Swiss Radio. He directed his orchestra in programmes of 18th Century music for a public of 5000 in the prestigious Concerts Populaire d'Été de la Ville de Montréal.[3] He made his American conducting debut with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Choir in performances of Handel's "Messiah" in 1990. [4]
Paul Heyman
Heyman became a broadcaster for the WWF, replacing Jerry Lawler who quit due to a dispute when his wife was fired in February 2001. During that time, he resumed his storyline rivalry with Jim Ross. In July, while retaining his commentator role, Heyman recreated ECW as a stable, which then immediately merged with Shane McMahon's WCW to form the Alliance during the Invasion angle. Heyman was "fired" following the 2001 Survivor Series when the Alliance lost a do or die match that marked the end of the invasion angle.
Sean Paul
Films
Paul Heyman
At the urging of Bigelow, Heyman made his managerial debut on January 2, 1987, initially appearing on the Northeast independent circuit before moving to a more high-profile stint with Championship Wrestling from Florida in February 1987. There, he joined forces with Kevin Sullivan and Oliver Humperdink, and acquired the name Paul E. Dangerously because of his resemblance to Michael Keaton's character in "Johnny Dangerously". After CWF was absorbed by Jim Crockett Promotions, Bigelow brought him to Memphis and the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) to manage Tommy Rich and Austin Idol in a heated feud with Jerry Lawler, a war which later carried over to the American Wrestling Association (AWA), with the Original Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose) taking over for Idol and the face-turned Rich.
Hiram Sherman
Additional theatre credits include the inaugural Mercury Theatre productions "Caesar" and "The Shoemaker's Holiday", "Very Warm for May", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Boyd's Daughter" (which he also directed) and "Mary, Mary". He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Two's Company" and "How Now, Dow Jones". He appeared in London's West End as Matthew Cuthbert in the British premiere of Anne of Green Gables.
Medieval theatre
The first modern stage production of "Everyman" did not appear until July 1901, when The Elizabethan Stage Society of William Poel gave three outdoor performances at the Charterhouse in London. Poel then partnered with British actor Ben Greet to produce the play throughout Britain, with runs on the American Broadway stage from 1902 to 1918, and concurrent tours throughout North America. These productions differed from past performances in that women were cast in the title role, rather than men. Film adaptations of the 1901 version of the play appeared in 1913 and 1914, with the 1913 film being presented with an early color two-process pioneered by Kinemacolor.
Dawn Marie Psaltis
Psaltis starred in "The Vampire Carmilla", a 1999 independent film. In 2008, she appeared in the second installment of Paul Heyman's "The Heyman Hustle" video blog, which featured her and Heyman on the streets of New York City in winter, with Psaltis wearing only a bikini under a fur coat. She then went on to tell Heyman that she feels like a woman and started giving a homeless person a handjob while whistling "Zippty Doo Dah".
Paul Freeman (conductor)
Paul Freeman can be considered one of the most successful recording conductors from the United States. He has a nine-LP series that follows the history of Black symphonic composers from 1750 to the present day. This series garnered a lot of attention on the Columbia Records label during the 1970s. Freeman also collaborated with pianist Derek Han to record all of the piano concertos of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. In his work with numerous orchestras, Freeman has been a part of over a dozen televised productions in North America and Europe. Also, Freeman has been nominated for two Emmy Awards.
Terry Jackman
He commenced work at the age of fifteen at Birch Carroll & Coyle, where he worked for twenty years, the last five as that company's chief executive. Between 1976 and 1985, Jackman was managing director of Hoyts Theatres. After exiting Hoyts he was involved in marketing Paul Hogan's first Crocodile Dundee film and was an investor in the movie. In 1989 he established Pacific Cinemas Pty Ltd, which has interests in five complexes in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. He is chairman and sole proprietor of the group.
Cy Coleman
Coleman's career as a Broadway composer began when he and Leigh collaborated on "Wildcat" (1960), which marked the Broadway debut of movie/television comedienne Lucille Ball. The score included the hit tune "Hey, Look Me Over".When Ball became ill, she left the show, and it closed. Next for the two was "Little Me", with a book by Neil Simon based on the novel of the same name by Patrick Dennis. The show introduced "Real Live Girl" and "I've Got Your Number," which became popular standards.
John Heyman
In 1963 Heyman started to work as a film producer and has to date produced some 15 films, among them "The Go-Between" and "The Hireling", which both won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. He co-financed a further 150 films. In 1964 he also co-produced the longest running "Hamlet" in Broadway history, starring Richard Burton and directed by John Gielgud. In 1965 Heyman produced "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad", starring Hermione Gingold in London’s West End.