The film, released in 1990, starred Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita, and was written and directed by Alan Parker.

( Randy Quaid also received an Academy Award nomination before either of them, but that was before he became a Not Ready For Prime Time actor himself.

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, starring Kristy McNichol and Dennis Quaid was largely filmed in Crawfordville.

As originally written, the character of Meadows was a " helpless little guy ", but Ashby wanted to cast Quaid in the role, who was 6 ' 4 ".

Early on, Quaid was very nervous and wanted to make a good impression.

It was also nominated for three Academy Awards – Jack Nicholson for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Randy Quaid for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Robert Towne for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with none of them winning.

In addition, The Last Detail was nominated for two Golden Globes Awards – Nicholson for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama and Quaid for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

He wrote a screenplay and sent a copy to Quaid but said that he would not do it unless Nicholson was involved.

Quaid also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years, but he's perhaps best known for his roles in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies as well as Brokeback Mountain and Independence Day.

Randy Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale " Nita " ( née Jordan ), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician.

Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.

Quaid was nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA and an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail.

Shortly after starring in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation, Randy Quaid was also featured in Days of Thunder as comical NASCAR car owner and successful car salesman Tim Dailand, a determined businessman who expects his team to be top-notch for fans and sponsors.

Gilbert was set up with actor Bo Brinkman, a cousin of actors Randy Quaid and Dennis Quaid.

Soles, Ramis was reluctant to appear in the film and that Dennis Quaid had read for his part but Murray told him, " Look, I don ’ t want to work with anybody else.

Vance ultimately chose to leave SNL at the end of the season ( along with many other cast members from that season who were fired, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Terry Sweeney -- another homosexual cast member who was hired for the 1985-1986 cast, and the show's only gay male to be hired as of 2012 — and Anthony Michael Hall ).

The Bulls ’ second appearance on film was in the movie The Rookie which was released in 2002 and starred Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a baseball pitcher who is now retired.

In 1977, The Choirboys was adapted into a film starring Charles Durning, Perry King, James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Randy Quaid.

Jim James was also offered a record deal, but he declined the offer, disbanded Month of Sundays and formed a new band with Quaid, Blankenship and Glenn.

They also set up speakers through which Cohen would read Draco's lines for Quaid, which Quaid said " helped out a lot.

It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.

— see, for instance, Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology, Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd .. Other courts have determined that the shrinkwrap license agreement is valid and enforceable: see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, Microsoft v. Harmony Computers, Novell v. Network Trade Center, and Ariz. Cartridge Remanufacturers Ass ' n v. Lexmark Int ' l, Inc. may have some bearing as well.

Lean assembled an all-star cast for this film, including Marlon Brando, Paul Scofield, Anthony Quinn, Peter O ' Toole, Christopher Lambert, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Quaid, with Georges Corraface as the title character.

In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a film version of Postcards from the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.

Randall Rudy " Randy " Quaid ( born October 1, 1950 ) is an American actor nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA and an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail.

Quaid received both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his 2005 portrayal of talent manager Colonel Tom Parker in the critically acclaimed CBS television network mini-series Elvis.

Quaid also voiced the animated Colonel Sanders character in radio and television commercials for fast-food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In February 2008, a five-member hearing committee of Actors ' Equity Association, the labor union which represents American stage actors, banned Quaid for life and fined him more than $ 81, 000.

The film starred Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder, with Ryder also concurrently appearing in Nixon's video for, " Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child.

She also played a supportive housewife in the film The Rookie opposite Dennis Quaid for which she garnered generally good reviews.

At the sad little town Christmas dance, Jacy is invited by unsavory Lester Marlow ( Quaid ) to a naked indoor pool party at the home of Bobby Sheen ( Gary Brockette ), a wealthy boy who seems to offer better prospects than Duane.

It included a high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich ’ s director ’ s cut, two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall ; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich “ The Last Picture Show ”: A Look Back, ( 1999 ) and Picture This ( 1990 ), documentaries about the making of the film, A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, a 2009 Q & A, screen tests and location footage, and excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood.

* A majority of scenes from the 2002 Disney film The Rookie, directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Dennis Quaid and Rachel Griffiths were shot around and inside the Dell Diamond in Round Rock.

:* A majority of scenes from the 2002 Disney film The Rookie, directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Dennis Quaid and Rachel Griffiths were shot around and inside the Dell Diamond in Round Rock.

However, Miriam Flynn and Randy Quaid reprise their roles as cousins Catherine and Eddie, as they did in each film aside from European Vacation.

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows ( Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands ); a woman ( Gillian Anderson ) who accepts a date offer from a stranger ( Jon Stewart ); a gay man dying of AIDS ( Jay Mohr ) and his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ) who has struggled to accept him ; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub ( Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie ); a couple having an affair ( Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe ) and a man ( Dennis Quaid ) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar ( Patricia Clarkson ), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman.

There were also a number of other famous people from Athea, including the Ahern brothers of Olympian fame, David Quaid served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1897 – 1909 he fought at the battles of Belmont, The Modder River and the Relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899 – 1902, he later served with his regiment in India under Lord Kitchener.

Clark is obsessed with making everything go perfectly during the holiday season, but as soon as everyone arrives, things start going haywire, especially when the Griswolds receive some uninvited surprise guests from Kansas -- cousin Catherine ( Miriam Flynn ), her sloppy husband Eddie ( Randy Quaid ), and two of their kids, Rocky ( Cody Burger ) and Ruby Sue ( Ellen Hamilton Latzen ).

Far from Heaven is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson.

Edward Lachman's work in Far from Heaven also won best cinematography by a wide margin while Dennis Quaid, Patricia Clarkson and Dennis Haysbert were all recognized for their supporting performances in Far from Heaven, placing second, fourth and ninth, respectively.

Hudson was never promoted to repertory player in her tenure on the show ), Terry Sweeney, the first openly gay male cast member, and Anthony Michael Hall, yet another fresh face from Hollywood ( at 17, he is SNLs youngest male cast member and youngest cast member overall ), who had appeared with Quaid in Vacation and starred in The Breakfast Club earlier that year.

Goodman receives field reports from his friend " Tornado Tommy " ( Randy Quaid ) and assistance from new intern Sabrina Rogers ( Alicia Johnston ).

Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters.

The Last Detail, 1973, starring Jack Nicholson and Otis Young is a film that tells the story of two sailors assigned to a temporary detail transporting a prisoner ( Randy Quaid ) from Norfolk to Portsmouth to begin serving a sentence for theft.

Jake angrily punches Austin and Priscilla for what they had done to Janey, then punches Les for " being really weird " ( he also punches a plastic bag that happens to be floating next to Les ); afterwards he runs to Janey's house only to learn from her father ( Randy Quaid ) that she is going to Paris for art school.

Madge marries Jay ( Randy Quaid ), an older man who deflowered her, Deirdre no longer acts boy-crazy, and Jeannie graduates from high school and is about to head off to college.