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Amy Stock-Poynton
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Date of Birth 13 December 1958, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Birth Name Amy Stoch Spouse Robert Poynton (26 September 1987 - 2004) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Met her husband, Robert Poynton, while filming "Days of Our Lives" (1965) in 1986. As Bobby puts it, "I killed her on the show and married her in real life". Mother of Robert Poynton IV. Her ex-husband, Robert Poynton, went on to perform with the sixties singing group, The Lettermen, in 1990. Best known for playing Missy (Bill's stepmother) in the comedy classic Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Though often cast as dimwitted blondes, she holds a BA in Theatre from Ashland College, an MA in Theatre from CSUN, and a PhD in Theatre History from the University of Illinois. Was pregnant during the shooting of Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993). By the end of the shoot, they had to film her from the waste up to avoid showing the bump. Fulfilling a promise she made to Ed McMahon while competing on Star Search in the early 1980s, Amy Stock obtained her PhD in Theatre History from the University of Illinois in 2012, writing a dissertation on the American stage director and theorist, Herbert Blau.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music Feels As Unstuck in Time As Its Characters
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Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Keanu Reeves, and Alex Winter in Bill & Ted Face the MusicPhoto: Patti Perret/Orion Pictures/
Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) are not stoners, but they do seem like they could and maybe even should be, which is why Reeves felt compelled to clarify the point in a recent interview. Pot feels like such a handy explanation for the characters’ indomitable state of dazed good-naturedness, even when confronted with time-travel and the afterlife, that the association has lingered even though the pair never actually smoke any of it. Bill and Ted are the most wholesome of a run of late-’80s-early-’90s dirtbag duos like Beavis and Butthead and Wayne and Garth, but they’re also relics of a stretch of time in which California stereotypes alone could amount to half of a premise for a film or a TV show. The joke at the center of the Bill & Ted franchise is that two genial doofuses from the San Gabriel Valley turn out to be the most important people in all of humanity, and because of that, the high points of history and metaphysics get filtered through the cultural contourlessness of a sunny SoCal suburb.
It’s a joke that’s held up unconscionably well over the years. The pleasures of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey have endured, a few tossed-off homophobic slurs aside, because of how unapologetically silly the movies are. They’re about saving the world, but there’s so little urgency to them that the way Bill & Ted Face the Music has stumbled into existence nearly three decades later comes across as entirely fitting. The new movie, from director Dean Parisot and returning screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, picks up with Bill and Ted still in San Dimas, where they’ve grown into fathers and husbands who live next door to one another on a serene cul-de-sac 1989 film by Stephen Herek Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fictioncomedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The first installment of the Bill & Ted franchise, it stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin. It follows Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school history presentation. It received positive reviews and was a modest box office success, grossing $40 million against a $10 million budget. Winter and Reeves reprised their roles in two sequels: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). In 2688, humanity exists as a utopian society due to the inspiration of the music and philosophy of the Two Great Ones: William "Bill" S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan. One of the citizens, Rufus, is tasked by the leaders to travel back to San Dimas, California in 1988 using a phone booth-shaped time machine to ensure that the young Bill and Ted, two dim-witted high school students, successfully pass history class. If they fail, Ted's father, police Captain Logan, plans to ship Ted to a military school in Alaska, ending Bill and Ted's fledgling band, Wyld Stallyns, and altering history. Rufus finds the two teens at a Circle K convenience store, struggling to finish their history report, in which they must describe how historical figures would view the present San Dimas. Rufus offers help before another phone-booth time machine arrives and future versions of Bill and Ted step out. After assuring the present-day Bill and Ted that Rufus's claims are valid and that they can trust him, they disappear in the time booth. Rufus shows Bill and Ted how to operate the time booth, taking them back to 1805, where they find Napoleon Bonaparte leading his forces against Austria. As Rufus, Bill, and Ted return to the .Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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