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Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023-present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This will another attempt to adapt Tim Sharp's famous coming-of-age novel, "The Spectacular Now," in the form of a TV that will be streaming on HBO Max. The show will have very similar themes and plot points that the novel was originally based on. When teenager Sutter Keely is having a hard time with his girlfriend and embracing his wild side while getting drunk and going to parties. It's not until he meets a beautiful, blonde nerd by the name of Aimee. Thinking that he can change her ways from being this shy nerd to a social person, he sets off on doing that. However, his relationship with other people soon began to wither away as he's already having a relationship with Aimee. Maybe she's the one changing him and realizing that he needs to change his own ways in order for him to take a ride straight inti the heart of the spectacular now.
