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Michael A. Goorjian is an award-winning American actor, filmmaker, and writer, known for his roles in “David’s Mother” (1994), “Slc Punk!” (1998), its sequel, “Punk’s Dead” (2016) and many other films, television series and theater productions. Goorjian received acclaim as a director for his mock-documentary “Oakland Underground” (1997) and the movie “Illusion” (2004), which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Kirk Douglas.

He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father is Armenian, his grandparents are survivors of the Armenian genocide, an experience that also shapes his latest comedy-drama “Amerikatsi”. The film centers around Charlie Bakhchinyan, played by Goorjian himself, an Armenian-American who repatriates to Soviet Armenia after World War II. Arrested for the crime of wearing a tie, he ends up in prison.

“Amerikatsi” won various awards and became an instant classic in Armenia where it was selected as the country’s entry for the...

Kirstie Alley has been known to star in films such as ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn’ (which gave her stardom). She’s also been known to star in the television show ‘Cheers.’ However, there is more to the actress than the average fan will know. Humble Beginnings Kirstie Louise Alley was born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas. She had an ordinary childhood. She had a father named Robert, who owned a lumber company. Kristie also had a mother named Lilian, a homemaker to Kirstie and her two other siblings. She was a cheerleader in high school. While she attempted to go to college, she thought heavily about acting for a living. In the early 1970s, she decided to move to Los Angeles to make her dream come true. While she was in L.A., she worked as an interior decorator. During her free time, she went to auditions...

“Going into making the film, I always had in my head that it would be great to get to represent the country and help it have more of a voice in terms of world cinema,” says Michael A. Goorjian, the writer, director and star of “Amerikatsi,” Armenia’s submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. “Not a lot of films have been made in Armenia, partially because it’s a post-Soviet country, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of the infrastructure for film fell away. It was one of our goals with the film to help showcase what’s possible in Armenia. I’m very excited about it.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

The film follows Charlie (Goorjian), who escapes the Armenian genocide as a boy by fleeing to the United States. When he returns as an adult and is arrested, he watches an...

As passionate fans of “The Masked Singer,” Gold Derby’s editors would like to offer our condolences to the friends and family of the celebrities who’ve passed away through the years. Fox’s wild and wacky reality TV show tasks famous faces with dressing up in extravagant costumes and singing for audience votes. The regular panelists are Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger, though special guest judges also pop up from time to time, including the late Leslie Jordan.

To honor the memories of the show’s fallen stars, tour our “The Masked Singer” deaths photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) that remembers all of the contestants we’ve lost.

See ‘The Masked Singer’: Most famous celebrities of all time

Jerry Springer as Beetle

February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023 (age 79)

Though he initially rose to fame thanks to his self-titled daytime talk show, which...

Things are really going well for Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson. The young comedian is in a strong, supportive relationship with girlfriend Cazzie David, and he recently opened up publicly about being "happy and sober for the first time in 8 years," in a heartfelt message on Instagram.

Davidson's newfound contentment was evident on Tuesday when he and David attended the Natural Resources Defense Council's Stand Up For The Planet Benefit gala in Los Angeles.

The couple stopped to talk with Et's Lauren Zima, and the 23-year-old comic couldn't have been sweeter about his ladylove.

"She's the most beautiful girl in the world, look how lucky I am. She's so smart, look how smart she is," Davidson marveled. "She is a very, very wonderful lady."

Watch: 'SNL's Pete Davidson Says He's 'Happy and Sober for the First Time in 8 Years' in Emotional Instagram Post

His 23-year-old girlfriend, who is the daughter of Seinfeld co-creator and frequent...

Family has always been the backbone of Days of Our Lives.

No matter what crazy things were going on, the Hortons and the Bradys stuck together. Weddings and funerals were important, emotional centerpieces because they were a time for family members to celebrate or mourn together.

But when Julie's son David died, the funeral paid only lip service to either him or his family, instead serving as a backdrop for all sorts of other things that the writers apparently thought were more important than mourning David.

First, there was the pre-funeral nonsense.

Claire and Ciara fought over the fact that Claire wasn't dressed yet, but the real problem between them is they both love their roommate Theo.

Love triangles in which two women are so invested in the same man that they forget why they were even friends are incredibly cliche, uninteresting, and obnoxious.

Days has not one, but two such triangles,...

Paul Bullock Dec 15, 2016

Our salute to Steven Spielberg at 70 moves to the 2000s: A.I, Munich, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can & Crystal Skull.

By the end of the 1990s, Spielberg found himself in a position of unparalleled luxury. As an executive, he’d set up Amblin and DreamWorks and was enjoying success with both, while as a director he’d ridden through an uneven decade to achieve the critical success he’d longed for. Where do you go from there? What do you do when you’re the film-maker who’s done everything? Well, Spielberg himself never seemed sure of how to answer that question because during the first ten years of the new millennium he hopped from genre to genre, covering sci-fi and historical thriller, retro caper and fish-out-of-water comedy. It's one of the most eclectic decades of his career and, in my opinion at least, the...

Shannon Beador and her husband David have worked to rebuild their marriage since his infidelity threatened to tear it apart. And on this season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, the couple - who married in 2000 - appear to be in the best place ever. Now two years after David's affair was exposed, the Beadors have worked through their problems in therapy and say they've come out stronger for it. They even renewed their vows in front of their loved ones - and shared an intimate second honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas with viewers. But on Monday's episode, it...

Shannon Beador and her husband David have worked to rebuild their marriage since his infidelity threatened to tear it apart. And on this season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, the couple – who married in 2000 – appear to be in the best place ever.

Now two years after David's affair was exposed, the Beadors have worked through their problems in therapy and say they've come out stronger for it. They even renewed their vows in front of their loved ones – and shared an intimate second honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas with viewers.

But on Monday's episode, it appears one person...

Shannon Beador and her husband David have worked to rebuild their marriage since his infidelity threatened to tear it apart. And on this season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, the couple - who married in 2000 - appear to be in the best place ever. Now two years after David's affair was exposed, the Beadors have worked through their problems in therapy and say they've come out stronger for it. They even renewed their vows in front of their loved ones - and shared an intimate second honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas with viewers. But on Monday's episode, it...

It's as easy as A, B, C! In a heartwarming video, 2-year-old John David Marlin from Helena, Alabama, shows off his mastery of the alphabet - even the hard-to-say letter "W!" The footage shows John David repeating each letter after his mother. When he gets to "Z" the toddler giggles and gives himself an adorable round of applause. John David's mother, Hannah Marlin, says her son, who has Down syndrome, has been working on his ABCs for the past two weeks. "We were trying to get him to say them and he just started doing it so clearly!" Marlin, 23, tells People.

Téa Leoni is breaking her silence on her divorce from fellow actor and longtime husband David Duchovny.

Téa Leoni Talks Divorce

Leoni and Duchovny, after going back and forth with separations and reconciliations, finally decided to call it quits, filing for divorce back in June. While the couple cited “an irretrievable breakdown of the relationship” as the cause for the split, Leoni claims that despite the deterioration of their marriage, she’ll never be able to hate Duchovny.

"Listen, David gave me the two greatest gifts on the planet; I don't know how I could ever hate him,” Leoni, who has Kyd Miller, 12, and Madelaine West, 15, with the Silicone Valley star, told Parade. “We've always loved each other, and we adore these kids."

In their divorce filing, Leoni and Duchovny agreed to have joint legal custody of their children, with Leoni having primary physical custody.

Leoni is quick to point...

Sneak Peek footage from director Alexander Payne's Oscar-nominated 2013 comedy-drama "Nebraska", starring Bruce Dern ("The Cycle Savages")  and Will Forte:

"...'Woody Grant' (Dern),  found walking in traffic is stopped by a police officer and picked up by his son, 'David' (Forte), who learns that Woody wants to go to Lincoln, Nebraska to collect a $1 million sweepstakes prize he has won. 

"When David sees the sweepstakes letter, he realizes that it is a mail scam to make a person purchase magazine subscriptions. He returns Woody to his home, where David's mother 'Kate' (June Squibb) becomes annoyed by Woody insisting on collecting his money..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Nebraska"...

Director: Alexander Payne; Screenwriter: Bob Nelson; Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach; Running time: 114 mins; Certificate: 15

Alexander Payne is steadily crafting a body of work that will cement his place as one of America's great filmmakers. He skilfully dissects the small fish in that biggest of ponds - the United States - tracing the spirit of optimism and defeat through films like Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants and, now, Nebraska, a priceless gem of a comedy drama starring Bruce Dern.

The ageing process emphasises that gradual erosion of hope, as does the gritty monochrome print he employs here. And yet, much laugh-out-loud comedy is derived from the futility as Woody (Dern) drags his broken-down body across Middle America to present a certificate that names him the winner of a million dollars. His son David (SNL alumnus Will Forte) bangs his head against a wall...

Set in the wide expanses of middle America, Alexander Payne's Nebraska still manages to feel small and claustrophobic a lot of the time. While in some ways the film is charming and gentle, it's largely acidic and sour. The motivations at the heart of the film are love, but the weathered and worn souls that inhabit Payne's windswept, black-and-white landscape, conjuring memories of Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, are either too tired or too afraid to admit they even care any longer. The weight of this burden is not only seen on the characters' faces but felt by the audience throughout. Meet Woody (Bruce Dern), the grumbling, aged soul at the center of Payne's story. He received a "winning" sweepstakes mailer, the kind most of us know to throw away, and now believes he's the winner of one million dollars. Tucking his winning ticket into his left breast pocket,...

Kirstie Alley is happy to show it's not all laughs where she's concerned.

Best-known for such high-spirited ventures as "Cheers" -- for which she won an Emmy -- and her two stints on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," the actress has more humor in her future with her upcoming TV Land sitcom "Kirstie."

First, though, she makes a dramatic stop: Saturday's (Aug. 18) new Lifetime movie "Baby Sellers" casts her as an adoption-agency chief using questionable means to acquire youngsters for childless couples.

"The last couple of years have just been a ball," the ever-lively Alley tells Zap2it. "When 'Dancing With the Stars' first came up for me, every person on my team said, 'Don't do it.' Well, that always makes me rise to the challenge. I realized, 'This could be a huge mistake, or it could be glorious.' And it was a challenge I couldn't resist.

Child radio star of the 1940s and 50s best remembered for playing Richmal Crompton's Just William

David Spenser, who has died aged 79, was the pre-eminent child radio star of the 1940s and 50s and will be best remembered for his portrayal on air of Just William. The author Richmal Crompton cast him in the role, in a series of dramatisations of her novels about the raucous but endearing 11-year-old outlaw.

This was in 1948, when David turned 14 and was already a seasoned radio actor – performing more than one play a week, he once told me. He had come into acting through a ruse set up by his ambitious mother and a BBC friend: he was lured into Broadcasting House and found himself in a studio being auditioned by the Children's Hour producer Josephine Plummer. For playing the lead in Just William he received the standard juvenile fee of four guineas...

Set in the wide expanses of middle America, Alexander Payne's Nebraska still manages to feel small and claustrophobic a lot of the time. While in some ways the film is charming and gentle, it's largely acidic and sour. The motivations at the heart of the film are love, but the weathered and worn souls that inhabit Payne's windswept, black-and-white landscape, conjuring memories of Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, are either too tired or too afraid to admit they even care any longer. The weight of this burden is not only seen on the characters' faces but felt by the audience throughout. Meet Woody (Bruce Dern), the grumbling, aged soul at the center of Payne's story. He received a "winning" sweepstakes mailer, the kind most of us know to throw away, and now believes he's the winner of one million dollars. Tucking his winning ticket into his left breast pocket,...

Brooklyn Beckham celebrated his 14th birthday with a family meal on Sunday (03.03.13). Victoria and David Beckham treated their eldest son to a lavish dinner at Michelin-starred restaurant Locanda Locatelli in London a day ahead of his special day today (04.03.13), with his siblings Romeo, 10, Cruz, eight and 19-month-old Harper alongside him. David, 37, drove his family to the eatery, where they were met by their close friend Tana Ramsay - wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who arrived with the couple's children Matilda, 10, 12-year-old twins Jack and Holly, and Megan, 14. Brooklyn's grandparents - Victoria's parents Jackie and Tony and David's mother Sandra - also joined in the celebrations, which were given a personal touch by red...

Victoria Beckham cheered her husband, David Beckham, on from the stands of Parc de Princes stadium during his first Saint-Germain soccer match yesterday in Paris. Victoria was accompanied by David's mother, Sandra Beckham, for David's successful debut - he helped his new team to victory by scoring the final goal in their 2-0 victory over Marseille. Besides winning his first game, Sunday marked a special occasion for David and his team as he became the 400th player to represent Saint-Germain. The combination left David overjoyed, and he shared his gratitude, saying, "We have played better but it was very important to win. Today was the perfect day. Not only because I'm the 400th player in the history of the club but also because I'm part of a very special team. The welcome from the supporters was unbelievable, and I want to say thank you to them." Although Victoria was there to support her husband,...

Photographer celebrated for his informal portraits of artists, actors and musicians

David Farrell, who has died aged 93, was known primarily for his photographic portraits of the most prominent artists, actors, authors and, particularly, musicians of his time. These ranged from classical performers such as Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar and Jacqueline du Pré to Louis Armstrong, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He would take his portable darkroom with him to filming locations, where he photographed Albert Finney, Julie Christie, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, among others. His main body of work dates from the mid-1950s to the 1980s, by which time he was working primarily in cinema, but he continued with his photography well into the digital age.

Taking Henri Cartier-Bresson's "humanitarian" photography as his model, Farrell specialised in taking portraits in informal situations – he preferred to photograph artists at home or in the studio, rather than in...

Victoria Beckham arrived in London on Saturday and immediately set out to do some shopping. Victoria was without her traveling partner Harper Beckham, who accompanied her on the flight earlier in the day. Victoria stopped in William Vintage on Marylebone Street and left with multiple garment bags. The designer and busy mom of four recently debuted her Victoria Beckham Spring 2013 collection at Nyfw with solid reviews for her ladylike silhouettes, sheer panels, and vivid colorblocking. Victoria's design studios are located in the UK, so it's possible she's getting an early jump on her next major collection that will likely show during NYC's Fall Fashion Week in February. Today, it was Harper's turn to explore the city - she was spotted out for a walk with David's mother Sandra Beckham. View Slideshow ›...

Since Mondays are just the worst, we here at Zap2it have decided to give your week a much-needed wake-up call with 10 TV teasers -- just to remind you that when the work day is over, your DVR waits to welcome you home.

For this week's Monday Kickstart, we've got some "American Horror Story" scoop to ponder, a "Bones" case hint, something missing from the "Scandal" premiere, and more.

"American Horror Story": If you've kept up with "American Horror Story" buzz, you already know that this season takes place in an institution for the criminally insane in 1964. What you may not know is that in the sixth episode, we'll flash forward to 2012. We'll leave the theorizing to you...

"Anger Management": In episode 12, titled "Charlie is an Expert Witness," we'll meet Sherry, a Public Defender who hires expert witnesses to testify at trials. Charlie is hoping to get the gig,...

There are a lot of personalities that make up NBC's new comedy "The New Normal" (premieres Tues., Sept. 11, 9:30 p.m. Et on NBC).

Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) are a committed gay couple making the decision to have a baby, and Goldie (Georgia King) is the single mom -- her precocious daughter Shania is played by Bebe Wood -- who wants to help them start their family. And then there's the opposite ends of the sass spectrum in their respective lives, with a saucy personal assistant named Rocky (NeNe Leakes) and a very vocally conservative grandma (Ellen Barkin), who doesn't want her granddaughter mixed up in this kind of liberal mess.

Reining it all in is showrunner Ali Adler, who's best known for working on shows like "Chuck" and, most recently, "Glee," the show that teamed her up with her "New Normal" co-creator Ryan Murphy.

Now that...

Paula Lane has admitted that she does not want Coronation Street's David Platt to be left heartbroken by her character Kylie Turner. The pair's wedding day arrives in tonight's double bill of the soap, just a few weeks after they first shocked the residents of Weatherfield by announcing their engagement. Although David's mother Gail has repeatedly branded Kylie a gold-digger, the feisty troublemaker has always insisted that she genuinely loves David (Jack P. Shepherd). Pondering whether Kylie is telling the truth, Lane told the Daily Star: "I hope she doesn't break David's heart. But the writers can come up with anything they want!" Discussing the viewer reaction to Kylie, the actress explained that "people (more)...

Kirstie Alley and the choreographers of "Dancing With the Stars" have something in common -- they have each contended for eight Emmy Awards. However, while Kirstie Alley took home Best Comedy Actress for "Cheers" in 1992 and Best TV Movie/Mini Actress for "David's Mother" in 1994, the dance designers have never waltzed off with an Emmy. In 2006 -- its first year of eligiblity -- "Dancing With the Stars" earned three bids for Cheryl Burke, Tony Dovolani and Nick Kosovich but they were all bested by the team of Charles Kaplow, Kenny Ortega and Bonnie Story who choreographed "High School Musical." In 2007, there was a three-way tie as both Mia Michaels and Wade Robson won for separate routines on "So You Think You Can Dance" while John DeLuca and Rob Marshall prevailed for "Tony Bennett: An American Classic" leaving Louis van Amstel of "Dancing With the Stars" the sole loser. In 2008, Wade R.

Actor David Nelson has died at the age of 74. David was best known for his role on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV), a family show created by his parents which drew it's plot lines from many of the Nelson's real life experiences. The series ran from 1952 to 1966 and featured David's father, the famous band leader Ozzie Nelson, David's mother, singer Harriet Hilliard, and his teen idol brother, Rick Nelson. David was the last remaining member of his television family. The pioneer actor passed away at his home in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday following a battle with colon cancer. Throughout his career, David added other TV credits to his resume, appearing in such shows as High School USA (TV), The Love Boat (TV), and Up in Smoke (TV). He also directed several television series, including a number of episodes from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV...

Hello everyone, my name is Jacob and I am new to SpoilerTV; I know Lost ended two weeks ago, but I have written an overview of the finale that I would love to share with you fellow fans. The thought that anyone would even consider reading this is reason enough for me to post this here, so I hope you enjoy and would love it if you left a comment to let me know what you thought. Hopefully, you'll enjoy.

So, onto Lost - the journey may have come to a close, but I'm sure I don't just speak for myself when I say that the legacy of Lost will live on for a long time yet. If you are reading this you will soon come to know that I think Lost is the greatest. The question is: did the finale live up to my expectations? As with most television shows,...

What do we want from a story?

How do we experience them? A story is infinitely more than a series of narrative points strung together in order; if it weren't, there would be no difference between reading Romeo and Juliet and having me tell you, "A boy meets a girl. Their parents hate each other. They sleep together and try to run away, but it backfires. They wind up committing suicide." There's more to a story than just what happens: There are the people, the places, and the relationships that give it color and depth.

But there's a flip side to that, or rather, an opposite end on a continuum. One extreme is pure fact; the other is pure emotion. The best stories land somewhere in the middle, creating memorable characters and moving them through a narrative that's by turns engaging, moving, and ultimately coherent, if not in terms of...

"Lost" tends to have really strong penultimate episodes each season, in part because the show's natural ups and downs are best suited to the set-up, with the characters at their lowest, and the conclusion, as they band together to fight whatever enemy is currently giving them trouble. This week's episode, "What They Died For," was a solid episode that moved a lot of plot in an hour, but also did it in some surprising ways: The Los Angeles timeline has been the season's main gimmick, and it will apparently now be tied into the series finale in a big way. But other moments -- notably the brevity with which Jacob dispelled certain rumors -- were refreshing in their candor and helped the story feel more real. Overall, another solid set-up of all the pieces for the final play.

The Los Angeles Timeline

The action opens with a close-up of Jack's eye.

"The Last Recruit" was the third straight episode of "Lost" to keep adding fuel to the fire, which just goes to show you how much I disliked the episode a few weeks back that was all about Jin and Sun. (Thankfully, their big moment this week wasn't overdone, though I could've really gotten used to Sun living life as a mute.) These past few seasons, the show's inhabited a gray area between miniseries and episodic drama, with story lines too tightly condensed for regular series but spread over too many episodes to be classified a telefilm. Basically, the show's a really solidly paced action/sci-fi hybrid, and one of the more entertaining rides on TV. As it gradually draws to a close, things are only moving faster.

The Los Angeles Timeline

After weaving in and out of each other for weeks, the L.A. timeline strands are beginning to pull together,...

This week's "Lost," entitled "Lighthouse," was about as solid as a transitional episode could be for this final season. Every episode will likely provide answers or clues about major mysteries (actually, every episode has answers, it's just that they raise more questions, which irks some people but is kind of just the way life goes, kid), and if last week's "The Substitute" was a chance to really dig deeper into the Locke/Enemy story, this week's episode was a chance to push the pieces forward a little with the remaining survivors spread across the island. Plus we got to see Claire go wolfshit insane. Not a bad little hour of TV.

The Los Angeles Timeline

Jack arrives at his apartment, probably right after landing at Lax, and cleans up a little. In the process, he notices a scar on his abdomen that looks relatively fresh. He calls his mom to...

Episode Title: "Lighthouse"

Written By: Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof

Story: Hurley (Jorge Garcia) is once again visited by the late Jacob (Mark Pellegrino), who tells the unlucky lottery winner that he has to visit a lighthouse on the island — and he has to bring Jack (Matthew Fox) with him. Elsewhere on the island, Claire (Emilie de Ravin) proves to Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) just how far off the deep end she is thanks to her trusty axe and a little bit of help from her "friend."

In the sideways reality, Jack attempts to locate his father's missing body, but he resolves a different family issue instead — an issue that's quite surprising for the viewers back home.

All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues: The differences between island time and the sideways reality continue to grow with the biggest change yet — Sideways Jack is a father. His son, David, is a...