Pittsfield

Allen Hotel is an historic hotel on Wendell Avenue in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The hotel was built in 1914 and added to the National Historic Register in 1983.

Wollison-Shipton Building is a historic building at 142-156 North Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It is listed in the National Register as being... designed by "Wilson,Neil Henry", but what is probably meant is architect H. Neil Wilson.
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William Russell Allen House is a historic house at 359 East Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was designed by H. Neill Wilson. It was built in... 1886 and added to the National Historic Register in 1980. Built as a summer cottage for Allen, a Missouri railroad and a granite quarry owner, it is "a rare example of American Queen Anne Style architecture because of its terra cotta tile exterior, the hand-painted ceiling, the fireplaces with polished onyx marble and Casting bronze, and stained glass windows.
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Charles Whittlesey Power House is a historic house at 575 South Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1912 and added to the... National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell , known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent... film Surrender Dorothy. She is best known for her roles in the films Definitely, Maybe, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, W., Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, and The Uninvited. She also starred in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and its sequels. She is starring as Effie Trinket, in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel, The Hunger Games. It will be released on March 23, 2012. On television, Banks currently stars in the recurring role of Avery Jessup on the sitcom 30 Rock, which gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award. Previously, Banks had starred in the recurring role of Dr. Kim Briggs on Scrubs from 2006 to 2009. Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann and Mark Mitchell. Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank. As a girl, she loved playing baseball and riding horses. She played little league until she broke her leg sliding into third at a game. Looking for something else, she tried the school play.
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Mabel Mercer was an English-born cabaret singer who performed in the United States, Britain, and Europe with the greats in jazz and cabaret. She was... a featured performer at Chez Bricktop in Paris, owned by the hostess Bricktop, and performed in such clubs as Le Ruban Bleu, Tony's, the RSVP, the Carlyle, the St. Regis Hotel, and eventually her own room, the Byline Club. Among those who frequently attended Mercer's shows was Frank Sinatra, who made no secret of his emulating her phrasing and story-telling techniques. Mercer was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. Her mother was a young, white English music hall performer, and her father was a black American jazz musician whom Mabel never knew. At age fourteen, she left her convent school in Manchester, and toured Britain and Europe with her aunt in vaudeville and music hall engagements. In 1928, she was an unknown member of the black chorus in the London production of Show Boat, but she had become the toast of Paris by the 1930s, with admirers who included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cole Porter.
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Robin Thomas is an American film and television actor. He was born Robin Thomas Grossman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His best-known television... roles are as Mark Singleton in the soap opera Another World , and as Geoffrey Wells on the 1980s series Who's the Boss?. He has also had recurring roles in series such as Murphy Brown , Matlock and The Division . Thomas's best-known film roles were as Steve Carlson in the 1986 film About Last Night and as Vice Principal Phil Gills in the 1987 comedy Summer School. Thomas has made many guest appearances on TV shows, including Misfits of Science, Midnight Caller, Party of Five, and Queer as Folk. Two of his biggest screen roles were in Missing Brendan, with Edward Asner, and Ambulance Girl, in which he co-starred with Kathy Bates and Gordon Pinsent.
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Adrian Kayvan Pasdar is an American actor, voice artist, and film director. He is known for playing Jim Profit on the TV series Profit, for his... roles in Near Dark, Carlito's Way, Mysterious Ways and as Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. Additionally, he directed the feature film Cement. Pasdar is the current voice of Iron Man in Marvel Anime, as well as in the upcoming animated series, Ultimate Spider-Man. Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His father, Homayoon Pasdar, was an Iranian immigrant and cardiac surgeon, with a practice near Philadelphia. His mother, Rosemarie , was born in Königsberg/Kaliningrad, a German city until 1945, now part of Russia. She worked as a nurse before becoming an English teacher and travel agent in France. Pasdar graduated from Marple Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and received a football scholarship to the University of Florida to play linebacker. He was badly injured in a car accident during his freshman year.
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Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell , known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent... film Surrender Dorothy. She is best known for her roles in the films Definitely, Maybe, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, W., Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, and The Uninvited. She also starred in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and its sequels. She is starring as Effie Trinket, in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel, The Hunger Games. It will be released on March 23, 2012. On television, Banks currently stars in the recurring role of Avery Jessup on the sitcom 30 Rock, which gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award. Previously, Banks had starred in the recurring role of Dr. Kim Briggs on Scrubs from 2006 to 2009. Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann and Mark Mitchell. Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank. As a girl, she loved playing baseball and riding horses. She played little league until she broke her leg sliding into third at a game. Looking for something else, she tried the school play.
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Benjamin Noah "Ben" Silverman is the founder and CEO of Electus, a next generation entertainment studio staked by IAC's Barry Diller. From... 2007-2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He is also an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer of such shows as The Office, Ugly Betty, The Tudors, and The Biggest Loser. Silverman was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to a Reform Jewish family. Raised in Manhattan, Silverman is a 1992 magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in history. His mother, Mary Silverman, was a programming executive whose career included stints at the Disney Channel, BBC, USA Network, Lifetime Television, and Court TV. His father Stanley Silverman is an award-winning music composer/arranger. Formerly, Silverman was in charge of the international packaging division at the William Morris Agency, where he was the company's youngest division head, packaging more than 25 television series, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Weakest Link, Big Brother, and Queer as Folk.
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Marc Gafni is an American author and former Modern Orthodox rabbi, who was once associated with the Jewish Renewal movement. He is no longer... associated with the movement after ongoing personal and theological controversies. In 2004 and 2005 articles in Haaretz, he is described as promoting a balance between the erotic and the ethical in Judaism. He is best known for his teachings on the relationship between spirituality and eroticsm, and his claim that all failure of ethics result from a collapse of Eros. Eros is defined by Gafni in his teaching as interiority, presence, yearning and interconnectivity. He also is described as promoting the integration of the feminine godhead with the masculine godhead through their integration in the lived life of every individual. He has referred to this process as Yichud. Gafni, also known as Mordechai Gafni, Mark Gafni, Marc Winiarz, Mordechai Winiarz, and Mordechai Winyarz, was born to Holocaust survivors in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Gafni was educated at Modern-Orthodox yeshivas in the New York area.
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James C. Burns is an actor.