One part comedy show, one part game show, 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' brought the whimsy and energy of improvisational comedy clubs into homes across America. Sure, the points didn't matter, and there were no actual prizes handed out. Nonetheless, it was riveting television with whip-smart comedians spinning wild narratives and creating kooky characters off the top of their heads!
Then: Gabriel Iglesias was 24-years-old when he joined 'All That' for its sixth season. Prior to that, he was a struggling comedian, and the show marked his first big break.
Then: Lori Beth Denberg had been performing in community theater and school plays since the age of six, but it wasn't until she was 18 that she landed her first professional gig, on Nickelodeon's 'All That.' She was a cast member on the show for four years, most memorably as the tell-it-like-it-is host of 'Vital Information.'
Since 1981, MTV has been a taste-maker, influencing teens and tweens in the ways of music, fashion, movies and social awareness. And if you're old enough to remember when MTV actually centered its programming on showing music videos, then you're old enough to feel nostalgia over the wide array of beautiful people who served as VJs over the past thirty-some years.
The title of the 1989 family comedy 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' pretty much explains the plot.
In the movie, an inventor played by Rick Moranis ends up shrinking his two children and two neighborhood kids to a quarter-of-an-inch tall and then has to figure out how to un-shrink them.
So our faces are red. When we published our 'Then and Now' feature on the '90s sports classic 'The Little Giants' a couple weeks ago, we forgot about Marcus Toji, who played the team's kicker who was also named Marcus.
Then: Venus DeMilo Thomas was 14 when she was cast in Nickelodeon's summer camp classic 'Salute Your Shorts.' Previously, she had a small part on TV shows 'Parker Lewis Can't Lose' and 'Alice' and in the TV movie 'Never Forget.'
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‘A Good Day to Die Hard,’ the fifth movie in the franchise in which John McClane is tasked with stopping a diabolical mad man (as per usual), opens on Valentine’s Day.
Like a slew of similar youth sports movies in the ‘90s, the soccer flick ‘The Big Green’ featured a team of misfits who overcame the odds to become champions.
In this case the odds were really stacked against the tykes, as they didn't even know the rules of soccer at first
Following the success of his 'Star Wars' trilogy, George Lucas chose to collaborate with Ron Howard on a family-friendly fantasy film about a little but brave man forced by fate into a grand adventure. The result was 1988's 'Willow.' Ultimately the film earned mixed reviews and was deemed only a moderate box office success, yet it became a beloved touchstone of countless childhoods.