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John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He currently portrays Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced.

This book is your ultimate resource for John Michael Higgins. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about John Michael Higgins's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: John Michael Higgins, A Mighty Wind, After the Sunset, Ally McBeal, Bad Teacher, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Best in Show (film), Bicentennial Man (film), Boston Legal, Brother's Keeper (TV series), David Letterman, For Your Consideration (film), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 film), G.I. Jane, Happily Divorced, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, La Bête, My Uncle Rafael, Riddler, Second Stage Theatre, Still Waiting..., Test Track, The Break-Up, Vampire's Kiss, Wag the Dog, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Walter Johnson High School, We Bought a Zoo, Wilfred (U.S. TV series), Yes Man (film) 157…and more pages!

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Contents

Articles John Michael Higgins A Mighty Wind After the Sunset Ally McBeal Bad Teacher Batman: The Brave and the Bold Best in Show (film) Bicentennial Man (film) Boston Legal

Brother's Keeper (TV series)

David Letterman For Your Consideration (film) Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 film) G.I. Jane Happily Divorced Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show La Bête My Uncle Rafael Riddler Second Stage Theatre Still Waiting... Test Track

The Break-Up

Vampire's Kiss Wag the Dog Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Walter Johnson High School We Bought a Zoo Wilfred (U.S. TV series) Yes Man (film)

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John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins BornFebruary 12, 1958 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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John Michael Higgins(born February 12, 1958) is an American actor whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO'sThe Late Shift,and a starring role in the American version ofKath & Kim. He currently portrays Peter Lovett in theTV Landoriginal sitcomHappily Divorced.

Early life Higgins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Known as "Mike Higgins" as he was growing up, he went to Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Amherst College in 1985, where he led the all-male a cappella group, The Zumbyes.

Career Higgins' numerous television credits include recurring characters onAlly McBeal,Brother's Keeper,Boston Legal andHoney, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. He played attorney Wayne Jarvis in five episodes ofArrested Development. Higgins arranged the dense vocal harmonies sung by the New Main Street Singers in 2003'sA Mighty Wind. Recently, Higgins has gained more recognition by being featured in the filmsFun with Dick and JaneandThe Break-Up, for which he also wrote vocal arrangements. His work as a voice actor includes the role of Judge Mentok inHarvey Birdman, Attorney at Lawand 2401 Penitent Tangent inHalo 2and Riddler inBatman: The Brave and the Bold. Higgins is also remembered for portraying David Letterman in the HBO made-for-TV movieThe Late Shift. Higgins could also be seen in the introductory video for the Epcot attraction Test Track. However, the ride was refurbished in 2012 and the introductory video room was removed. Higgins directs and appears on the stage from time to time as well. In 2004, he played Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the American premiere of David Hare'sStuff Happensat the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In 2003, he played the title role in A.R. Gurney'sBig Billat New York's Lincoln Center Theater. In 1991, Higgins was featured in Broadway'sLa Bêteand, in 2000, he was seen off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in a production of Edward Albee'sTiny Alice. He also originated the title role in Paul Rudnick'sJeffrey off-Broadway in 1994. Higgins has been featured in TV ads for DirecTV alongside fellow Christopher Guest co-star Ed Begley, Jr. and for Old Navy. He also stars in season 2 of TNT'sRaising the Baras an openly gay, rule-obsessed judge. Higgins also took part in Disney'sThe Suite Life On Decktaking the role as the obnoxious and secluded Mr. Tipton. Since 2011 Higgins has been cast inHappily Divorcedopposite Fran Drescher. He plays Fran's gay ex-husband, Peter Lovett, a character based on Drescher's real-life gay ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.

John Michael Higgins

Filmography The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Sequel(TBA) Pitch Perfect(2012) Wilfred (U.S.)(2012) Big Miracle(2012) A Cars Toon(2012) My Uncle Rafael(2012) We Bought a Zoo(2011) Bad Teacher(2011) Happily Divorced(2011 - present) Suite Life On Deck(2011) Psych(2010) Human Target(2010) Community(2009) Couples Retreat(2009) Fired Up(2009) The Ugly Truth(2009) Still Waiting...(2009) Numb3rs(2009) Yes Man(2008) Kath & Kim(2008) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story(2007) Fred Claus(2007) Evan Almighty(2007) For Your Consideration(2006) The Break-Up(2006) So NoTORIous(2006) Arrested Development Fun with Dick and Jane(2005) Joey English as a Second Language Blade: Trinity After the Sunset Halo 2(2004) Boston Legal Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Monk(2005) Game Over George Lopez (TV series) Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law A Mighty Wind Monte Walsh Teddy Bears' Picnic Ally McBeal The Man Who Wasn't There Frasier Bette

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Gideon's Crossing Best in Show(2000) Seven Days to Live Movie Stars Get Real Bicentennial Man(1999) Mad About You Brother's Keeper Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Guys Like Us From the Earth to the Moon(1998) Wag the Dog Party of Five G.I. Jane Seinfeld Cybill The Late Shift Mathnet Vampire's Kiss Miami Vice Test Track(attraction, Epcot)

External links [1] John Michael Higgins at the Internet Movie Database [2] 10 Questions: John Michael Higgins at Filmforce.ign.com [3] The Amherst College Zumbyes [4] John Michael Higgins in 'My Uncle Rafael'

References [1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383422/ [2] http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/357/357215p1.html [3] http://www.zumbyes.com/zumbyes.htm [4] http://myunclerafael.com/main/john-michael-higgins/

A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind Original theatrical poster Directed byChristopher Guest

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Catherine O'Hara Eugene Levy Christopher Guest Michael McKean Harry Shearer Jane Lynch Parker Posey Fred Willard

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Robert Leighton

Castle Rock Entertainment

Warner Bros.

Aprila16,a2003

91 minutes

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$18,750,246

A Mighty Windis a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands must reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. It was directed (and co-written) by Christopher Guest. The film is thought to reference the 2003 tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of [2] the folk groups that Leventhal had managed.

Guest co-stars and utilizes his company of actors from previous films such asThis Is Spinal Tap,Waiting for Guffman, andBest in Showfor this film. They include Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Paul Dooley, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Rachael Harris, Don Lake, Jane Lynch, Larry Miller, Jim Piddock, Deborah Theaker, and Parker Posey. Several characters in the film originated in a sketch written by Guest for Saturday Night Live in 1984.

A song composed for the film by McKean and wife Annette O'Toole was nominated for an Academy Award. Every song featured in the film (at least 13) was also written by the cast or Guest's long-term musical collaborator C J Vanston.

A Mighty Wind

Plot When influential folk music producer Irving Steinbloom dies, his children organize a memorial concert featuring his three most famous acts: The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey. The Folksmen trio consists of Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean). Their most famous folk song was "Old Joe's Place." The New Main Street Singers are the second generation of the original Main Street Singers, formed by George Menschell (Paul Dooley), the sole survivor of the original group. Menschell sings and holds a guitar he cannot play. Performers include Terry Bohner (John Michael Higgins) and his wife Laurie Bohner (Jane Lynch). Laurie is a former adult film star and with her husband is co-founder of Witches in Nature's Colors (WINC), a coven of modern-day witches that worships the power of color. Another member is Sissy Knox (Parker Posey), a former juvenile delinquent and daughter of one of the original Main Street Singers. They are managed by Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard), whose fifteen minutes of fame came by way of a failed 1970s TV sitcom,Wha' Happened?, which lasted less than one season. The group, which is otherwise entirely white, includes one Filipino American member, Mike Maryama (played by Mark Nonisa). Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Crabbe (Catherine O'Hara) are a romantic duo that released seven albums together until their traumatic break-up decades earlier. Their most famous song is "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," during which the pair would actually kiss on stage. After the three groups agree to the reunion performance, to be held at The Town Hall in New York and televised live on PBN (a reference to PBS), they begin rehearsals. The show itself goes off with only two hitches: two acts plan to play the same song, and Mitch temporarily disappears. In the finale, everyone joins together to sing "A Mighty Wind." Six months after the reunion, Mickey is performing "The Sure-Flo Song" at her husband's trade show booth. Mitch is writing poetry again, claiming to be in a "prolific phase." Folksman Mark Shubb is living life as a transgender woman, while still singing in her famous bass voice. LaFontaine is reviving an idea for a sitcom starring the New Main Street Singers. He wants to call it "Supreme Folk" and have each play Supreme Court judges by day, folk singers sharing a house by night.

Production In an interview about the film, Annette O'Toole claimed that many of the songs were written when plane groundings in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks meant she and husband Michael McKean had to drive from their home in Los Angeles to Vancouver, where O'Toole's television seriesSmallvillewas being filmed. In the commentary for the DVD release, Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy noted that, in a scene cut from the finished movie, it is explained that Menschell cannot play the guitar. However, just before a performance of the original Main Street Singers, he stained his shirt front and covered it up by holding a guitar for the performance, something he continued to do for all subsequent performances. The Town Hall scenes were filmed at the restored Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.

Reception The film received mostly positive reviews. Movie review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 88% of critics gave the movie a positive review, with the consensus, "Though not as uproariously funny as Guest's previous movies, A Mighty Wind is also more heartfelt." Roger Moore called the film "mature, heartfelt and keenly observed." Roger Ebert, on the other hand, stated that "The edge is missing from Guest's usual style," giving the film two-and-a-half stars out of four.

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One of the songs from the movie, "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, and was performed at the 76th Academy Awards by Levy and O'Hara (in character). The title song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media at the 46th Grammy Awards.

Box office The film had a moderate intake for its opening day in April 2003, grossing $307,931 in total. It went on to gross [3] $2,112,140 in 133 theatres for an average of $15,880 per theatre. With a domestic total of $17,583,468 and a foreign total of $969,240, the film brought in a total of $18,750,246 during its theatrical run.

Promotional tour To promote the September 2003 release of the film on DVD, the cast of the film performed in character in a six-city tour in the fall of 2003. The tour dates were: Philadelphia (Tower Theater, September 19), New York City (Town Hall, September 20), Washington, D.C. (The 9:30 Club, September 21), Boston (Orpheum Theater, September 22), [4][5] San Francisco (Warfield Theater, November 9) and Seattle (McCaw Hall, November 14).

References [1] "The Numbers" (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2003/MWIND.php). Nash Information Services, LLC. . Retrieved 27 April 2012. [2] Fox, Margalit (2005-10-06). "Harold Leventhal, Promoter of Folk Music, Dies at 86" (http:/ /query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage. html?res=9405E0D61130F935A35753C1A9639C8B63). New York Times. . [3] "IMDb,A Mighty Wind" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310281/business). Amazon.com. . Retrieved 27 April 2012. [4] Righi, Len (2003-09-18). "Mighty Wind' tour whipping up renewed excitement" (http:/ /articles.mcall.com/2003-09-18/entertainment/ 3483532_1_mighty-wig-wind). The Morning Call. . [5] "A Mighty Wind Cast Reunites For Tour" (http:/ /www.glidemagazine.com/articles/48285/a-mighty-wind-cast-reunites-for-tour.html). Glide Magazine. 2003-09-08. .

External links A Mighty Wind(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310281/) at the Internet Movie Database A Mighty Wind(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mighty_wind/) at Rotten Tomatoes A Mighty Wind(http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mightywind.htm) at Box Office Mojo Christopher Guest interview forAMighty Wind(http://www.iofilm.co.uk/feats/interviews/m/mighty_wind. shtml)

After the Sunset

International poster Directed byBrett Ratner

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Pierce Brosnan Salma Hayek Woody Harrelson Don Cheadle

Lalo Schifrin

Dante Spinotti

Mark Helfrich

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After the Sunsetis a 2004 action comedy film starring Pierce Brosnan as Max Burdett, a master thief caught in a cat-and-mouse game with FBI agent Stan Lloyd played by Woody Harrelson. The film was directed by Brett Ratner and shot in the Bahamas.

Plot After the Sunsetbegins with master thief Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and his beautiful accomplice, Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), stealing the second of three famous diamonds known as the Napoleon diamonds from FBI Agent Stanley P Lloyd (Woody Harrelson). Max however is shot by Lloyd before he passes out from being gassed by them. Max survives and tells Lola to get the diamond. She does and leaves a one dollar bill in its place. They then retire to Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Their financial future is set, their career in crime a thing of the past. However, Agent Lloyd refuses to believe their retreat into domesticity. After six months, Lloyd shows up, breaks into Max's house, and starts searching for evidence: taking the bullet he shot Max with. Max arrives and points a gun at him while he is relaxing, prompting Lloyd to draw his. They lower their guns and Lloyd accuses Burdett of hiding out in the same place where a cruise ship is displaying the final Napoleon diamond and the only one he hadn't stolen. He thinks the two are planning to lift the third Napoleon diamond, and complete the set. Max denies this and Lloyd leaves with a