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Ha Yu (actor)
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Wong Sing, better known by his stage name Ha Yu, is a Hong Kong actor who has been working on the television network TVB since the 1970s. Wong was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, in 1946 and he went to Hong Kong in 1962 and worked as a part-time actor during his studies there. Later, he joined the television station Rediffusion as an actor and he switched to another station, TVB, in 1974 and acted in a number of television series produced by TVB, especially in adaptations of wuxia novels by Gu Long. In early 1987, Wong co-hosted the variety show An Evening With the Stars aired on the Taiwanese television network TTV, in 2000, Wong returned to TVB and acted in some television series again. He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2005 TVB Anniversary Awards for his portrayal of a son in the sitcom My Family. In 2007, Wong acted in a few TVB dramas, most notably as Dai Bau in Heart of Greed and he won Best Actor at the 2008 TVB Anniversary Awards for his role as Gam Tai Jo in Moonlight Resonance. The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon Jianghu Dream Love for All Seasons Dragon Reloaded Kung Fu Mahjong 3 The Vampire Who Admires Me Perfect Rivals ATM
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Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities. In ancient times two types of surnames existed, namely xing or lineage names, and shi or clan names, Chinese family names are patrilineal, passed from father to children. Women do not normally change their surnames upon marriage, except in places with more Western influences such as Hong Kong, traditionally Chinese surnames have been exogamous. The colloquial expressions laobaixing and bǎixìng are used in Chinese to mean ordinary folks, prior to the Warring States period, only the ruling families and the aristocratic elite had surnames. Historically there was also a difference between clan names or xing and lineages names or shi, Xing were surnames held by the noble clans. They generally are composed of a nü radical which has taken by some as evidence they originated from matriarchal societies based on maternal lineages. Another hypothesis has been proposed by sinologist Léon Vandermeersch upon observation of the evolution of characters in oracular scripture from the Shang dynasty through the Zhou, the female radical seems to appear at the Zhou period next to Shang sinograms indicating an ethnic group or a tribe. This combination seems to designate specifically a female and could mean lady of such or such clan, prior to the Qin Dynasty China was largely a fengjian society. In this way, a nobleman would hold a shi and a xing, after the states of China were unified by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC, surnames gradually spread to the lower classes and the difference between xing and shi blurred. Many shi surnames survive to the present day, according to Kiang Kang-Hu, there are 18 sources from which Chinese surnames may be derived, while others suggested at least 24. The following are some of the sources, Xing, These were usually reserved for the central lineage of the royal family. Of these xings, only Jiang and Yao have survived in their form to modern days as frequently occurring surnames. Royal decree by the Emperor, such as Kuang, state name, Many nobles and commoners took the name of their state, either to show their continuing allegiance or as a matter of national and ethnic identity. These are some of the most common Chinese surnames, name of a fief or place of origin, Fiefdoms were often granted to collateral branches of the aristocracy and it was natural as part of the process of sub-surnaming for their names to be used. An example is Di, Marquis of Ouyangting, whose descendants took the surname Ouyang, there are some two hundred examples of this identified, often of two-character surnames, but few have survived to the present. Names of an ancestor, Like the previous example, this was also a common origin with close to 500 or 600 examples,200 of which are two-character surnames, often an ancestors courtesy name would be used. For example, Yuan Taotu took the character of his grandfathers courtesy name Boyuan as his surname. Sometimes titles granted to ancestors could also be taken as surnames, seniority within the family, In ancient usage, the characters of meng, zhong, shu and ji were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family
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Many village names in China are linked to surnames. Pictured is Jiajiayuan (贾家源), i.e. " Jia Family 's Spring", in Honggang Town, Tongshan County, Hubei
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Shanghai International Film Festival
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The Shanghai International Film Festival, abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia. Along with Tokyo International Film Festival, the SIFF is one of the biggest film festivals in Asia, the first festival was held from October 7 to 14,1993, and was held until 2001. In 2003 there was no due to the SARS outbreak. Since its beginning in 1993, Shanghai International Film Festival has grown to become an A-category international film festival, SIFF organized by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV and Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. It awards several Golden Goblet Awards for best film, best director, best actor/actress, SIFF Mart consists of the Film Market, China Film Pitch and Catch, and Co-production Film Pitch and Catch. The SIFFORUM is a communication platform, the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival was held from June 11 to June 19,2011 and was chaired by US director Barry Levinson. The most prestigious award given out at Shanghai is the Jin Jue for the Best Feature Film, voted by the reporters in the entertainment industry, the awards are aimed at promoting medium-and-small-budget homegrown movies and exposing talented young directors and actors. Voted by the reporters in the entertainment industry, the awards are aimed at celebrating international action movies and honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the genre
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Sebastian Bieniek at 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival press conference
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Donnie Yen at the 2007 festival
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Chen Hao at the 2007 festival
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Qingdao
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Qingdao is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China. It is the largest city in its province, administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over six districts and four county-level cities. As of 2014 Qingdao had a population of 9,046,200 with a population of 6,188,100. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west, qīng in Chinese means cyan or greenish-blue, while dǎo means island. Qingdao is a seaport, naval base, and industrial centre. The worlds longest sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, links the urban area of Qingdao with Huangdao district. It is also the site of the Tsingtao Brewery, the second largest brewery in China, in 2007, Qingdao was named as among Chinas top ten cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at the 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. In 2009, Qingdao was named Chinas most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness, jiāoào, former name during the Qing dynasty. Qindao, additional modern name for the area, refers according to locals to the shape of the coastline, Tsingtao, Postal romanization Tsingtau, German name during the concession period, written in German romanization of Chinese. Jiaozhou, a name which refers to the Jiaozhou Bay. Kiaochow, Kiauchau, Kiautschou, romanizations of Jiaozhou, human settlement in the area dates back 6,000 years. The Dongyi nationality, one of the important origins of the Chinese nation, lived here and created the Dawenkou, Longshan, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the town of Jimo was established, which was then the second largest one in the Shandong region. The area in which Qingdao is located today was named Jiaoao when it was administered by the Qing Dynasty on 14 June 1891, in 1891, the Qing government decided to make coastal Tsingtao a defense base against naval attack and began to improve Qingdaos existing fortifications. German naval officials observed and reported on this Chinese activity during a survey of Jiaozhou Bay in May 1897. Subsequently, German troops seized and occupied the fortification, China conceded the area to Germany the following year, and the Kiautschou Bay concession, as it became known, existed from 1898 to 1914. With an area of 552 square kilometres, it was located in the province of Shandong on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula in northern China. Jiaozhou was romanized as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English, the so-called Marktstrasse was nothing more than the old main street of the Chinese village of Tsingtao, and the buildings lining it were the former homes of fishermen and farmers. Having sold their property, they resettled their homes and fields in the further east
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Clockwise from top left: Qingdao skyline, St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao harbour by night, a temple at the base of Mount Lao, and May Fourth Square
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Sketch map of Tsingtao, circa 1906
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Main gate of Chinese munitions depot, taken over by imperial navy, 1898
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Administration/commercial building, harbor area, 1912
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Shandong
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Shandong is a coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China, and is part of the East China region. Shandongs Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and one of the sites with the longest history of continuous religious worship. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius, and was established as the center of Confucianism. Individually, the two Chinese characters in the name Shandong mean mountain and east, Shandong could hence be translated literally as east of the mountains and refers to the provinces location to the east of the Taihang Mountains. A common nickname for Shandong is Qílǔ, after the States of Qi and Lu that existed in the area during the Spring and Autumn period. Whereas the State of Qi was a power of its era. Lu, however, became renowned for being the home of Confucius, the cultural dominance of the State of Lu heritage is reflected in the official abbreviation for Shandong which is 鲁. English speakers in the 19th century called the province Shan-tung, the province is on the eastern edge of the North China Plain and in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and extends out to sea as the Shandong Peninsula. The earliest dynasties exerted varying degrees of control over western Shandong, over subsequent centuries, the Dongyi were eventually sinicized. During the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, at this time, Shandong was home to two major states, the state of Qi at Linzi and the state of Lu at Qufu. Lu is noted for being the home of Confucius, the state was, however, comparatively small, and eventually succumbed to the larger state of Chu from the south. The state of Qi was, on the hand, was a major power throughout the period. Cities it ruled included Linzi, Jimo and Ju, the Qin dynasty conquered Qi and founded the first centralized Chinese state in 221 BCE. The Han dynasty that followed created a number of commanderies supervised by two regions in what is now modern Shandong, Qingzhou in the north and Yanzhou in the south, during the division of the Three Kingdoms, Shandong belonged to the Cao Wei, which ruled over northern China. After the Three Kingdoms period, a period of unity under the Western Jin dynasty gave way to invasions by nomadic peoples from the north. Northern China, including Shandong, was overrun, Shandong stayed with the Northern Dynasties for the rest of this period. The Sui dynasty reestablished unity in 589, and the Tang dynasty presided over the golden age of China
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A Song -era monument to a legendary native of Shandong, the Yellow Emperor, at his supposed birthplace
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Map showing the location of Shandong Province
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Dezhou, Shandong.
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The sacred Mount Tai.
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In the Heat of the Sun
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In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 film directed and written by Jiang Wen. This was Jiang Wens first foray into directing after years as a leading man, the film is based on author Wang Shuos novel Wild Beast. The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution and it is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey, who is a teenage boy at the time. Jiang Wen cryptically suggested that famous movement during the Cultural revolution that most older people were sent to the countryside. China was actively preparing for military due to the Vietnam War, since Monkey and his friends were military children, their parents were off for military purposes. Most of the story happens during one summer, so the characters are even more free because there is no school. The events of that summer revolve around Monkeys dalliances with his male friends. However, Mi Lan falls in love with Monkeys friend, Liu Yiku and this film is significant in its unique perspective on the Cultural Revolution. It also acknowledges, as the narrator recalls, that he might have misremembered parts of his adolescence as stated in the prologue, Change has wiped out my memories. I cant tell whats imagined from whats real, as the director offers alternative or imagined versions to some events as people seek to romanticize their youthful memories, critic Raymond Zhou talked about this ambiguity in Jiang Wens movie, Ambiguity is a major characteristic. Though in many details, the movie reflects typical historical phenomenon of Cultural Revolution and that was why this movie was the one and only movie about the Cultural Revolution passed the censors during 1990s. The film was a co-production of three Chinese studios, and $2 million USD of the budget was generated from Hong Kong, derek Elley of Variety said that the film alters some 70% of the original novel and adds a mass of personal memories. The original title of film may be translated as Bright Sunny Days, han Dong - Ma Xiaojun Xia Yu - Ma Xiaojun. The character has the nickname Monkey in the film version, Monkey was the nickname of director Jiang Wen. Derek Elley of Variety says that Xia as Xiaojun has both an uncanny resemblance to Jiang himself and a combination of insolence and innocence. Feng Xiaogang - Mr. Hu, the teacher Geng Le - Liu Yiku Jiang Wen - Ma Xiaojun Ning Jing - Mi Lan Tao Hong - Yu Beibei. Larson states that Yu Beibei is a significant character in the first part of the film, all three enrolled in professional acting schools within a year of the films release and became successful actors. The Chinese version of the Soviet song Moscow Nights features prominently in the film, the film was commercially successful in China
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People's Republic of China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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Yinxu, ruins of an ancient palace dating from the Shang Dynasty (14th century BCE)
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Some of the thousands of life-size Terracotta Warriors of the Qin Dynasty, c. 210 BCE
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The Great Wall of China was built by several dynasties over two thousand years to protect the sedentary agricultural regions of the Chinese interior from incursions by nomadic pastoralists of the northern steppes.
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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Jiang Wen
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Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is grouped with the Sixth Generation that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimous debut film Red Sorghum. He is the brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu. Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a family of military personnel, in 1980, he entered Chinas foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. That same year, he started acting both on the stage and in films, in addition to these he also starred in Hibiscus Town, Black Snow, The Emperors Shadow and The Soong Sisters. Apart from Red Sorghum, Jiang also collaborated with Zhang Yimou for the 1997 film Keep Cool, Jiang wrote and directed his first film in 1994, In the Heat of the Sun, adapted from a novel by Wang Shuo. A tale set in the Cultural Revolution, it won for its lead actor Xia Yu the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival. Jiangs second feature film, Devils on the Doorstep, set during the Japanese occupation of China in the early 1940s, in 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. Jiang has also acted in television series, such as Da Qing Fengyun, Jiang was married to French actress Sandrine Chenivesse, with whom he has a daughter. He is now married to Chinese actress Zhou Yun and they have two sons, in 2013 he was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. Jiang co-starred in the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, released in December 2016, in the film, he portrays Baze Malbus, a native of the moon of Jedha who is drawn into the war against the Galactic Empire. Jiangs father is Jiang Hongqi, a veteran of the Korean War. Described as taciturn and bookish, he played a role in his sons 2011 film, Let the Bullets Fly. Jiang Wens mother Gao Yang — “a cheerful. Jiang Wen is the eldest son in the family, in addition to his brother, Jiang Wu, he has a younger sister. Close to his family, Jiang Wen has a bond with his parents, whenever he is on site for shooting or acting. Each movie he makes, he saves the best seats for them, even on artistic composition, he sometimes resorts to them for advice. It was his parents endorsement on the novel of A Native of Beijing in New York that propelled Jiang Wen into his performance
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Jiang Wen at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2008
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Venice Film Festival
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The film festival is part of the Venice Biennale, which was founded by the Venetian City Council in 1895. The film festival has taken place in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, since its inception the Venice Film Festival has grown into one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The 74th Venice International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 30 August to 9 September 2017, the first edition of the Venice Film Festival was carried out from the 6 to the 21 of August in 1932. The festival began with an idea of the president of the Venice Biennale Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata and Luciano De Feo, with good reason, the festival was considered the first international event of its type, receiving strong support from authorities. This first edition was held on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, and at that stage it was not a competitive event. The very first film to be shown in the history of the Festival was Rouben Mamoulians Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the second edition was held two years later, from 1 to 20 of August in 1934. For the first time it included a competition, at least 19 countries took part with over 300 accredited journalists. The Mussolini Cup was introduced for best foreign film and best Italian film, other awards were the Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment to best actor and actress. The prize for best foreign film went to Robert J. Flahertys Man of Aran and was a confirmation of the taste of the time for auteur documentaries, starting in 1935, the Festival became a yearly event under the direction of Ottavio Croze. The actors award was renamed Volpi Cup, in 1936 an international jury was nominated for the first time and in 1937 the new Cinema Palace, designed by the architect Luigi Quagliata, was inaugurated. The 1940s represent one of the most difficult moments for the review, the conclusion of the Second World War divides the decade in two. Before 1938 political pressures distorted and ruined the festival, in addition, few countries participated and there was an absolute monopoly of institutions and directors that were members of the Rome-Berlin Axis. The festival resumed full speed in 1946, after the war, with the return of normalcy, Venice once again became a great icon of the film world. In 1947 the festival was held at the Doges Palace, a most magnificent backdrop for hosting a record 90 thousand participants, surely it can be considered one of the greatest editions in the history of the festival. For the next twenty years the festival continued its development and expansion in accordance with the plan set in motion after the war. In 1963 the winds of change blow strongly during Luigi Chiarini’s directorship of the festival, during the years of his presidency, Chiarini aspired to renew the spirit and the structures of the festival, pushing for a total reorganization of the entire system. The social and political unrest of 1968 had strong repercussions on the Venice Bienniale, from 1969 to 1979 no prizes were awarded and the festival returned to the non-competitiveness of the first edition
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Venice Cinema Palace in 2009
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The Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco hosted the 1947 edition.
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The 65th Venice International Film Festival
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Beijing
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Beijing is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China and the worlds third most populous city proper. It is also one of the worlds most populous capital cities, the city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by population after Shanghai and is the nations political, cultural. It is home to the headquarters of most of Chinas largest state-owned companies, and is a hub for the national highway, expressway, railway. The citys history dates back three millennia, as the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A. D, the city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates. Its art treasures and universities have made it centre of culture, encyclopædia Britannica notes that few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China. Siheyuans, the traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are major tourist attractions and are common in urban Beijing. The city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, many of Beijings 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, of which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities in the world. Beijings Zhongguancun area is known as Chinas Silicon Valley and Chinas center of innovation. According to the 2016 InterNations Expat Insider Survey, Beijing ranked first in Asia in the subcategory Personal Finance Index, expats live primarily in urban districts such as Dongcheng and Chaoyang in the east, or in suburban districts such as Shunyi. Over the past 3,000 years, the city of Beijing has had other names. The name Beijing, which means Northern Capital, was applied to the city in 1403 during the Ming Dynasty to distinguish the city from Nanjing, the English spelling is based on the pinyin romanisation of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin. Those dialects preserve the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 京 as kjaeng, the single Chinese character abbreviation for Beijing is 京, which appears on automobile license plates in the city. The official Latin alphabet abbreviation for Beijing is BJ, the earliest traces of human habitation in the Beijing municipality were found in the caves of Dragon Bone Hill near the village of Zhoukoudian in Fangshan District, where Peking Man lived. Homo erectus fossils from the date to 230,000 to 250,000 years ago. Paleolithic Homo sapiens also lived more recently, about 27,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found neolithic settlements throughout the municipality, including in Wangfujing, the first walled city in Beijing was Ji, a city from the 11th to 7th century BC
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Clockwise from top: Beijing CBD skyline, Tiananmen, Temple of Heaven, National Center for the Performing Arts, and Beijing National Stadium
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The museum at Zhoukoudian
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The Tianning Pagoda, built around 1120.
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Longevity Hill in Beijing where Kublai Khan wrote his poem.
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The Painted Veil (2006 film)
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The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and this is the third film adaptation of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane is dazzled by Kitty Garstin and he proposes, she accepts, and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walters medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases and they find themselves ill-suited, with Kitty much more interested in parties and the social life of the British expatriates. Kitty meets Charles Townsend, a married British vice consul, when Walter discovers his wifes infidelity, he seeks to punish her by threatening to divorce her on the grounds of adultery, if she doesnt accompany him to a small village in a remote area of China. He has volunteered to treat victims of a cholera epidemic sweeping through the area. Kitty begs to be allowed to him quietly, but he refuses. She hopes Townsend will leave his wife Dorothy and marry her, when she proposes this possibility to Charles, he declines to accept, despite earlier claiming to love Kitty. She is compelled to travel to the inland region with her husband. Walter and Kitty barely speak to other and, except for a cook. After visiting an orphanage run by a group of French nuns, Kitty volunteers her services and she is surprised to learn from the Mother Superior that her husband loves children, especially babies. In this setting, she begins to see him in a new light as she learns what a selfless, when he sees her with the children, he in turn realizes she is not the shallow, selfish person he thought her to be. As Walters anger and Kittys unhappiness subside, their marriage begins to blossom in the midst of the epidemic crisis and she soon learns she is pregnant, but is unsure who the father is. Walter – in love with Kitty again – assures her it doesnt matter, the cholera epidemic takes many victims. He contracts the disease and Kitty lovingly nurses him, but he dies, bereft and pregnant, she leaves China. Five years later, Kitty appears well-dressed and happy in London shopping with her young son Walter and they meet Townsend by chance on the street, and he suggests that Kitty meet with him. Asking young Walter his age, he realizes from the reply that he might be the boys father, Kitty rejects his overtures and walks away
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Theatrical release poster
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Skateboard
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A skateboard is a type of sports equipment or toy used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. It usually consists of a specially designed maplewood board combined with a coating used for making smoother slides. Most skateboards are made with 7 plies of this wood, a skateboard is moved by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board, or by pumping ones legs in structures such as a bowl or half pipe. A skateboard can also be used by standing on the deck while on a downward slope and allowing gravity to propel the board. If the riders leading foot is their right foot, he/she is said to ride goofy, if the leading foot is their left foot. If the rider is regular but chooses to ride goofy, he/she is said to be riding in switch. Recently, electric skateboards have also appeared and these no longer require the propelling of the skateboard by means of the feet, rather an electric motor propels the board, fed by an electric battery. There is no governing body that declares any regulations on what constitutes a skateboard or the parts from which it is assembled. Historically, the skateboard has conformed both to contemporary trends and to the array of stunts performed by riders/users, who require a certain functionality from the board. Of course, the shape depends largely upon its desired function. Longboards are a type of skateboard with a wheelbase and larger, softer wheels. The two main types of skateboards are the longboard and the shortboard, the shape of the board is also important, the skateboard must be concaved to perform tricks. Longboards are usually faster and are used for cruising and racing. See, Skateboarding The following descriptions cover skateboard parts that are most prevalent in popular, many parts exist with exotic or alternative constructions. A traditional complete skateboard consists of the deck, trucks, wheels, bushings, nuts and bolts to fasten the truck, older decks also included plastic parts such as side, tail, and nose guards. Modern decks vary in size, but most are 7 to 10.5 inches wide, wider decks can be used for greater stability when skateboarding. Standard skateboard decks are usually between 28 and 33 inches long, the underside of the deck can be printed with a design by the manufacturer, blank, or decorated by any other means. Long boards are usually over 36 inches long, plastic penny boards are typically about 22 inches long
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Skateboarder doing a trick in the air
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An Independent brand skateboard truck
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Gleaming the Cube
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Gleaming the Cube is an American film released in 1989. It featured Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother, the skating technical advisor for the film was original Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Tony Hawk and Tommy Guerrero, then members of the Bones Brigade, future lead singer of The Aquabats and creator of Yo Gabba Gabba. Christian Jacobs, also appears in the film as Gremic, the film received a moderate release in the United States from 20th Century Fox. The title of the film refers to the cryptic question Have you ever gleemed inside a cube. that Garry Scott Davis asked Neil Blender in an interview in the December 1983 issue of Thrasher magazine. In the film, Christian Slater’s character defines “gleaming the cube” as “pushing your limits to the edge. ”The DVD contains an egg, by highlighting the skateboard on the main menu. Brian Kelly is a high school student in Orange County. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his reckless behavior. When Vinh discovers an error in VACRFs shipping records, he brings it to his boss Colonel Trac. But when Vinh tries to further, Colonel Trac abruptly fires him. Determined to find out the truth, Vinh sneaks into Westpac Medical Supplies, the responsible for VACRFs shipping. He is then taken to a motel and interrogated by Lawndale and Bobby Nguyen. When Colonel Trac himself arrives at the motel, it is revealed that he and Lawndale are conspirators in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons and ammunition to Vietnam. Convinced that Vinh poses no threat to their operation, Trac intends to set him free, the next morning, a housekeeper enters the room and finds Vinhs body hanging from a noose, purposely made to look like he committed suicide. After the funeral, Brian finds the same list of medical supplies Vinh was investigating in their room, while looking for someone to translate it, he encounters Bobby Nguyen who immediately begins to follow him. When Nguyen stops to use a pay phone, Brian slips unnoticed into the backseat of his car, in a secluded area, Nguyen meets with Trac and Lawndale and attempts to extort them for $50,000 and plane ticket to Bangkok in exchange for information on Brian. A struggle ensues, and Nguyen is inadvertently shot to death by Lawndale, when Trac and Lawndale depart, Brian flees to notify the police. However, when they arrive at the scene, the authorities find no trace of the crime, Brian confides in Detective Al Lucero, believing that his brother did not commit suicide
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Lucerne
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Lucerne is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the district of the same name. With a population of about 81,057 people, Lucerne is the most populous town in Central Switzerland, and a nexus of economics, transportation, culture, and media of this region. The citys urban area consists of 17 municipalities and towns located in three different cantons with a population of about 250,000 people. Owing to its location on the shores of Lake Lucerne and its outflow, one of the citys famous landmarks is the Chapel Bridge, a wooden bridge first erected in the 14th century. The official language of Lucerne is German, but the spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. After the fall of the Roman Empire beginning in the 6th century, in 1178 Lucerne acquired its independence from the jurisdiction of Murbach Abbey, and the founding of the city proper probably occurred that same year. The city gained importance as a strategically located gateway for the commerce from the Gotthard trade route. By 1290 Lucerne had become a self-sufficient city of size with about 3000 inhabitants. About this time King Rudolph I von Habsburg gained authority over the Monastery of St. Leodegar and its lands, the populace was not content with the increasing Habsburg influence, and Lucerne allied with neighboring towns to seek independence from their rule. Along with Lucerne, the three other forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden formed the eternal Swiss Confederacy, known as the Eidgenossenschaft, later the cities of Zürich, Zug and Bern joined the alliance. With the help of these additions, the rule of Austria over the area came to an end, the issue was settled by Lucerne’s victory over the Habsburgs in the Battle of Sempach in 1386. For Lucerne this victory ignited an era of expansion, the city shortly granted many rights to itself, rights which had been withheld by the Habsburgs until then. By this time the borders of Lucerne were approximately those of today, in 1415 Lucerne gained Reichsfreiheit from Emperor Sigismund and became a strong member of the Swiss confederacy. The city developed its infrastructure, raised taxes, and appointed its own local officials, the city’s population of 3000 dropped about 40% due to the Black Plague and several wars around 1350. In 1419 town records show the first witch trial against a male person, among the growing towns of the confederacy, Lucerne was especially popular in attracting new residents. As the confederacy broke up during Reformation after 1520, most cities became Protestant, after the victory of the Catholics over the Protestants in the Battle at Kappel in 1531, the Catholic towns dominated the confederacy. The future, however, belonged to the Protestant cities like Zürich, Bern and Basel, the former prominent position of Lucerne in the confederacy was lost forever
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Cala, My Dog!
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Cala, My Dog. is a 2003 Chinese comedy film directed by Lu Xuechang. The film had its premiere at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. The film follows a blue-collar worker in Beijing as he attempts to acquire a dog license in 18 hours for his beloved unlicensed Cala, the film was co-produced by the successful film director Feng Xiaogang. Though a comedy, Cala, My Dog. moves at a subdued pace, despite this, during its world premiere in Berlin, sales agents from Celestial Pictures billed the film as a more zany, traditional comedy. Lao Er lives a life as a laborer in Beijing with his wife Yu Lan, his son Liangliang and his beloved dog. Lao Ers life is thrown into turmoil when the government in an effort to control rabies, decrees that all unlicensed dogs are to be cast out of the city. Lao Er, determined to get his dog back, sends his son to coerce an uncle working in the pound to get the dog back, when that fails, he goes to his neighbor in order to use her dogs license to trick the pound. When that too fails, Lao Er becomes desperate, all dealing with a wife who becomes increasingly jealous over his visits to his neighbor. Ge You as Lao Er, the films protagonist, Lao Er, ding Jiali as Yu Lan, Lao Ers wife. Li Bin as Liangliang, Lao Ers son, Li Qinqin as Yang Li, Lao Ers neighbor and friend, her dog is the mother of Cala. Xia Yu as the police officer, Zhang Dali as Yang Lis ex-husband. The Story of Qiu Ju — Zhang Yimous 1992 satire presents another view on Chinese bureaucracy, admittedly one from an earlier decade. Cala, My Dog. at the Internet Movie Database Cala, My Dog. at AllMovie Cala, My Dog. at Rotten Tomatoes Cala, My Dog. from the Chinese Movie Database
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Electric Shadows
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Electric Shadows is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Xiao Jiang. The English title of the film is the translation for the Chinese term for movies or dian ying. Electric Shadows is the film of director Xiao Jiang, one of the few active female directors in China. Xiao and Cheng Qingsong wrote the screenplay, the film was produced by mainland Chinas Beijing Dadi Century and Hong Kongs Happy Pictures Culture Communication Company. The film begins when a young woman attacks a stranger. When he enters her apartment he discovers an apparent shrine to the 1930s actress Zhou Xuan, the films reverent attitude towards the power of film and particularly classic film has brought it comparison to, or at least reference to Italys Cinema Paradiso. Mao Xiaobing, a water delivery boy in Beijing, loves to watch movies. One day, however, while riding his bike, he is attacked by Ling-Ling, a young woman. Ling-Ling is promptly arrested, but refuses to say why she attacked Mao Xiaobing, asking him only to feed her fish, upon entering her apartment, however, Mao Xiaobing finds that Ling-Ling has created a veritable shrine to the 1930s film star, Zhou Xuan. When he stumbles upon her diary and begins reading, the film back to Ling-Lings mother as a young woman in Ningxia. Her mother had been working in radio when she became pregnant, branded a counter-revolutionary, she travels to the countryside where she befriends Pan, a movie-projectionist where the two eventually marry. Ling-Ling meanwhile, thinks that her father is a movie star of Zhou Xuans era. Mao Xiaobing had been hit by his father, and so Ling-Lings mother took care of him for some days, when Ling-Lings mother and Pan marry, Mao Xiaobing had been sent away to live with relatives by his father because Mao had been a troublemaker. Ling-Ling later recalls the time they were apart as miserable, saying also that the arrival of her brother was disgusting. Despite that, it is revealed that Ling-Ling learns to accept her younger brother. Mao Xiaobing later realizes that she has been watching over her parents, recalling the events, Pan explains that Bing-Bing had lied to their mother to get Ling-Ling out of the house. Both of them went up to the rooftop where she. After saying she would leave, Bing-Bing begs her not to leave, Pan then hits Ling-Ling for her brothers death, leaving her deaf in both ears
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Dragon Squad
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Dragon Squad is a 2005 Hong Kong action film co-written and directed by Daniel Lee, co-produced by Steven Seagal and starring Vanness Wu, Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn, Maggie Q, and Simon Yam. Interpol agent Wang Sun-Ho states that this is his first mission in a messy laundry hallway filled with fluff as if a gunfight had taken place there, the start shows a team of young INTERPOL agents arriving in Hong Kong to give testimony against recently captured crime boss Tiger Duen. They are greeted by Hon Sun, the one in charge of the case, however the escort of Tiger turns into a situation as the older Duen brother Panther Duen plans to rescue Tiger. The rescue attempt is aborted when the mistake a innocent civilian as the criminal attempting to break Tiger free. Meanwhile, an HKPD surveillance squad is eliminated by 5 operatives all of whom have military training, the real convoy transporting Tiger is ambushed and the operatives eliminate 7 officers on the scene. The INTERPOL agents arrive but fail to prevent their escape, causing Jie to lose his temper, Back at the HQ, Commander Hon Sun reprimands the agents for disobeying orders but lets them off the hook. Lok visits his brother while off duty, Ho decides to do some of his own investigations and Jun, Jie. It is revealed then that Petros is seeking revenge for the death of his brother Dominic, Kong Long was involved on a mission to take down Dominic and Tiger but because Kong didnt wait for backup it resulted in Tiger killing Dominic and the deaths of 6 officers. Later Lok, Ho and Suet save Kongs daughter from a fight in her own restaurant, the team then practice for their mission by improving their shooting accuracy in a local bar. After several team introductions and attempts from both sides to getting to know the players Captain Ko meets Petros in a cafe to initiate 2 phases of their mission. Ko will attempt to keep tabs on the INTERPOL agents while Petros will attempt to retrieve a microfilm which and it is rumoured to be in the hands of Panther Duen, and the only link is Yu Ching, Panthers girlfriend. As soon as Ko leaves the cafe, Petro randomly just happens to spot Ho walking down the street, Ho tries to hide his identity by pretending to be a visitor from out of town. Petros then retreats to a fortune teller temple where Ho attempts to take Petros down, Petros then finds Yu Ching being bullied and pretends to befriend her, Even letting himself get beaten up by 3 Chinese gangsters who finish their beating by throwing a dumpster on Petros. Yu Ching however is too trusting and even lets Petros into her house, meanwhile, it is revealed Ko has a rivalry with Kong which earned him his scar. Ko tries to kill Kong in a room with a machete to machete fight. Later Petros, Joe, Lee Chun Pei and Ko meet Panther for a deal for the microfilm and this only results in a gunfight with the operatives eliminating most of Panthers Triads. Ho and Lok arrive on the scene attempting to fight Ko but Ko just defeats them and leaves saying I dont have time for this and he later gets released on lack of evidence The Team then seeks advice from Kong on how to catch the operatives. Kong reluctly agrees to them hard
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Getting Home
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Getting Home is a 2007 Chinese comedy/drama film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Chinese comedian Zhao Benshan. It is episodic and follows two workers in their 50s, Zhao and Liu, along the way, Zhao meets a variety of figures, played by several of Chinas better known character actors. Getting Home is Zhang Yangs fifth feature film and it was produced by Filmko Entertainment of Hong Kong and the Beijing Jinqianshengshi Culture Media company of the Peoples Republic of China. International sales and distribution was by Fortissimo Films out of Amsterdam, Getting Homes original title derives from a Chinese proverb meaning A falling leaf returns to its roots. It is apparently based on a true story and this marked the first collaboration between Zhang and Filmko but the fifth with Fortissimo. Though the film documents Zhaos journey from Shenzhen to Chongqing, the majority of shooting took place in Yunnan, Getting Home had its Western debut in the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival on February 11,2007, as part of the festivals Panorama series. There it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, since Berlin, Getting Home has made the rounds in the festival circuit, including Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival, Deauville and the New York Asian Film Festival. One critic notes that the film is a pitched and quite heartwarming drama about friendship and promises. Several magazines, including Variety and thats Beijing praised the performance of Zhao Benshan in particular as finely calibrated, Getting Home at the Internet Movie Database Getting Home at AllMovie Getting Home at Rotten Tomatoes Getting Home at the Chinese Movie Database Getting Home from distributor Fortissimo Films
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China Radio International
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China Radio International is the Peoples Republic of China state-owned international radio broadcaster, currently headquartered in Babaoshan, a subdistrict of Beijing. Formerly Radio Beijing, and originally Radio Peking, it was founded on December 3,1941, CRI also publishes online dailies called Beijing News and Beijing International. CRI adopts the PRC Governments stance on issues such as the Political status of Taiwan. CRI claims that it endeavours to promote relations between the PRC and the world. And it is trying to employ new media to compete with international media. Unlike those broadcasters, CRIs control via indirect majority ownership or financial support of stations in various nations is not published. Its overseas reporting involves 65 languages, CRI has the most comprehensive foreign service in Asia. Radio was first introduced in China in the 1920s and 1930s, however, few households had radio receivers. A few cities had commercial stations, most usage of radio was for political purpose, frequently on a local area level. The Chinese Communist Party first used radio in Yanan in March 1940 with a transmitter imported from Moscow, xinhua New Chinese Radio went on the air from Yanan on December 30,1940. The station moved from the Taihang Mountains to the capital, Peking and its name was changed to Radio Peking on April 10,1950 and to Radio Beijing in 1983. On January 1,1993 the name of the station was again changed and its online broadcasting platform—— China International Broadcasting Network（CIBN）was formally established in 2011. CRI broadcasts via shortwave radio, satellite and the Internet in English, there are also numerous AM and FM relays. Shortwave broadcasts in English are targeted at North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, CRI maintains direct shortwave broadcasts to developed, media-rich countries in North America and Europe, even as major Western broadcasters reduce or discontinue such broadcasts. At the beginning of 1984, it started to broadcast home service to the Beijing area on AM and its aim is to make CRI News Radio a first-class national news radio brand and its slogans are First News, News First, On-the-Spot China, Live World etc. CRI News Radio can be online and in Beijing on the radio on 90.5 FM, in Tianjin 90.6 FM, in Chongqing 91.7 FM, in Guangdong, Hong Kong. Tángrénjiē, a programme about overseas Chinese Weather forecasts around China Sports This broadcast was originally targeted at London in the United Kingdom, in 2006, they removed the London reference, which was part of the introduction as Ni hao London. The programme sounds like a kindergarten English lesson in the USA using very simple sentences, the analogy is similar to Christmas music broadcasts in the United States
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Fu Biao
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Fu Biao was a Chinese actor. Fu Biao was born in the family of an officer on September 27,1963. After graduating from school, he entered a film academy in Beijing to learn acting. As a film actor, he acted for the first time in the Shanghai Triad, from 1997 he acted in several New Year films directed by Feng Xiaogang and became a recognizable actor. Fu Biao married actress Zhang Qiufang in 1989 and they portrayed a married couple in several films, including The Dream Factory, Rhapsody of Spring, Happy Times, and several TV series, including Promise of Fate and Wife which they co-starred. Zhang Qiufang also had a role in Sorry Baby. In 2006, Zhang published a memoir Yin Ji about her marriage with Fu, the book also included some of Fus writing after his cancer diagnosis, as well as commemorative essays by family members and some of their celebrity friends. Fu Biaos son Fu Zien, born in 1991, graduated from Beijing Film Academys Directing Institute, Fu Biao at the Internet Movie Database
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Zhang Hanyu
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Zhang Hanyu is a Chinese actor. Zhang graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Drama in 1988 and he started his career by doing Mandarin voice dubbing for films such as Shark Tale, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and Troy. He was called Feng Xiaogangs imperial dragon casing, and earned the appreciation of Feng, in 2007, Zhang was cast as a lead character for the first time in the war drama film Assembly, which grossed a record 260 million RMB in box office earnings. Zhangs performance propelled him to fame and placed him among the ranks of first-class Chinese film stars, in 2008, Zhang also won the Best Actor Award at the 29th Hundred Flowers Awards and the Best Leading Actor Award at the Golden Horse Film Awards. The following year, Zhang won the Outstanding Actor Award at the Huabiao Awards, Zhang Hanyu at the Internet Movie Database Zhang Hanyus blog on Sina. com
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Donnie Yen
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Donnie Yen, also known as Yen Ji-dan, is a Chinese actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, and multiple-time world wushu tournament champion. Yen is credited by many for contributing to the popularisation of the martial arts style known as Wing Chun. He played Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2008 film Ip Man and this has led to an increase in the number of people taking up Wing Chun, leading to hundreds of new Wing Chun schools being opened up in mainland China and other parts of Asia. Ip Chun, the eldest son of Ip Man, even mentioned that he is grateful to Yen for making his family art popular, Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of Chinese culture by choreographing MMA in many of his recent films. Seen as one of the most popular stars in Asia of the early 2000s. Yen earned HK$220 million from four films and six advertisements in 2013, Yen was born in Guangzhou, China. Yens mother, Bow-sim Mark, is a Fu Style Wudangquan and Tai Chi grandmaster, when he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong and then to Boston when he was 11. His younger sister, Chris Yen, is also a martial artist and actress, at a young age, under the influence of his mother, Yen developed an interest in martial arts and began experimenting with various styles, including tai chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts. Yen then started karate when he was nine, Yen focused on practising wushu seriously at the age of fourteen after dropping out of school. His parents were concerned that he was spending too much time in Bostons Combat Zone, when Yen decided to return to the United States, he made a side-trip to Hong Kong, where he met action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. Yen finally started taekwondo at around the age of sixteen, Yen also came from a family of musicians. His mother is a soprano, in addition to being a martial arts teacher in Boston, from a young age, he was taught by his parents to play musical instruments, including the piano. He also knows hip-hop dancing and breakdancing, Yens first step into the film industry was in 1984 when he landed his first starring role in the 1984 film Drunken Tai Chi. After filming Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage, Yen made his role as General Nap-lan in Once Upon a Time in China II. Yen had a role in the film Iron Monkey in 1993. Yen and Li appeared together again in the 2002 film, Hero, where Yen played a fighter who fought with Lis character. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 Academy Awards. In 1995, Yen starred as Chen Zhen in the television series Fist of Fury produced by ATV, Yen reprised his role as Chen Zhen in the 2010 film Legend of the Fist, The Return of Chen Zhen
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Nick Cheung
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Nick Cheung Ka-fai is a Hong Kong actor and director. He is a former Royal Hong Kong Police officer for four years and he then worked for Danny Lees film production company. His film debut is Thank you, Sir. as a student at the Royal Hong Kong Cadet School, from 1989 to 1994, he worked at the television station ATV World. Later, he left ATV and joined another station, TVB and he left TVB in 2001, and worked mainly on films. His fame was built on Wong Jings comedy at first, and he was nominated for his first Hong Kong film award in 1999, and won his first award in 2009 for his role in Beast Stalker. He has been nominated many times at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Cheung met Hong Kong actress Esther Kwan while he was still working at ATV. They married on 8 December 2003 in Australia and their daughter, Brittany Cheung, was born on 24 January 2006. Cheung earned 75 million HKD in 2014, Cheung has also provided Cantonese voice dubs for foreign films and television programmes. Giant Robot Magazine Issue 63,2009 Nick Cheung at the Internet Movie Database Nick Cheung Ka-Fai at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Nick Cheung on LoveHKFilm. com Nick Cheung at the Hong Kong Cinemagic
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Ko Chun-hsiung
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Ko Chun-hsiung was a Taiwanese actor, director and politician. He had been acting since the 1960s and had appeared in more than 200 films and his career accolades included three Golden Horse Awards, two Asia Pacific Film Festival Awards for Best Actor, a Panama International Film Festival Award for Best Actor. In 2005, Chinese Film Association of Performance Art named Ko on the list of 100 Outstanding Artists in Chinese Film, Ko began his career by appearing in small roles before 1965. In 1967, Ko starred as Feng Ze in Ching-Zue Bais Lonely Seventeen, in 1974, Ko starred as Zhang Zizhong in the historical film The Everlasting Glory, which earned Ko his second Best Actor Award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. In 1976, Ko acted in the historical film Eight Hundred Heroes directed by Shan-si Ting, playing the role of Xie Jinyuan, Ko won the Best Actor Award at the 1979 Golden Horse Awards for his performance in A Teacher of Great Soldiers. In 1981, Ko self-directed and performed in My Grandfather, which earned him a Best Actor Award at the Panama International Film Festival. In 1989, Ko starred as Duan Yihu, reuniting him with co-star Jackie Chan, who played Guo Zhenhua, in the comedy film Miracles. In 1999, Ko filmed in Cao Cao, he received the Best Actor Award at the 36th Golden Horse Awards, in 2012, Ko participated in the Taiwanese-language television drama Feng Shui Family. Ko became involved in politics in 1990, in 1996, Ko stood unsuccessfully in the Provisional Legislative Council Election in British Hong Kong. From 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2008, Ko served as the Legislative Yuan, in 2007, Ko joined the Taiwan Farmers Party, but was not reelected in the 2008 legislative elections. Originally wed to actress Chang Meiyao in 1970, he became the father of two children, Ko Yishan and Ko Pinyin and they divorced in 2004, as Ko was involved in an affair with Tsai Qinghua, who Ko married the next year. Kos second marriage produced two children, Ko Jianyu and Ko Zier. Chang, Kos first wife, died in 2012, Ko died on 6 December 2015 at Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei, a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Chun Hsiung Ko at the Internet Movie Database O Chun-Hung at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Ko Chun Hsiung at AllMovie
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Ko Chun-hsiung in Taipei in 2007.
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Liu Ye (actor)
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Liu Ye is a Chinese actor. Liu began his career as a student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a postman in one of his first films, Postmen in the Mountains. Shortly after his graduation, Liu won Best Actor at the 38th Golden Horse Awards for his performance as a homosexual man in Lan Yu. Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in The Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. In addition, several of Lius films have featured in many international film festivals, for example Lan Yu, Balzac. Instead of making use of his physical appearance to become a teen idol. He has been praised and roped in by directors such as Stanley Kwan, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and John Woo. Lius first Hollywood film Dark Matter, based on the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, was screened at international film festivals in 2007. Starring opposite Meryl Streep, Liu played the role of a Chinese physics postgraduate named Liu Xing, Dark Matter won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States in April 2008. Lius first villainous role was in Connected, a remake of the American film Cellular, Liu starred in Lu Chuans 2009 film City of Life and Death, which pays tribute to the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. In the 2011 film The Founding of a Party, it was reported that Liu was required to gain 10 kg in order to play a 30-year-old Mao Zedong, Liu married French photographer Anais Martane in Beijing on July 5,2009. Their first child, a son named Noé, was born on October 10,2010 in France, a few years after, they had a daughter called Nina. Liu Ye at the Internet Movie Database
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Volpi Cup for Best Actor
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The Volpi Cup is the principal award given to actors at the Venice Film Festival and is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film Festival. ‡ – indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award The festival was officially competitive for the first time in 1934. The acting award was named Grande medaglia doro dellAssociazione Nazionale Fascista dello Spettacolo per il migliore attore, after a four-year hiatus caused by the war, the festival was once again competitive in 1947. The acting award in the immediate post-war period was named Premio Internazionale per il migliore attore, the winners did not receive cup-shaped awards but were instead given rectangular plaques. In 1988, for the first time in 20 years, the most recognizable prizes of the festival were re-established, the two acting award was officially named Coppa Volpi per la migliore interpretazione maschile. The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935 from La Biennale website Enrico Lancia, I premi del cinema, Gremese Editore,1998
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Jack Lemmon holding his Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival in 1992
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Wallace Beery
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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American film actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies during a 36-year career and his contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stipulated in 1932 that he would be paid $1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world. He was the brother of actor Noah Beery Sr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr. Beery was born in Clay County, Missouri, the youngest of three sons born to Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald, he and his brothers William C. Beery and Noah Beery became Hollywood actors, the Beery family left the farm in the 1890s and moved to nearby Kansas City, Missouri, where the father was a police officer. Wallace Beery attended the Chase School in Kansas City and took lessons as well. He ran away from home twice, the first time returning after a time, quitting school. Beery ran away from home a second time at age 16 and he left two years later, after being clawed by a leopard. Wallace Beery joined his brother Noah in New York City in 1904, finding work in opera as a baritone. His most notable role came in 1907 when he starred in The Yankee Tourist to good reviews. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios, cast as Sweedie, later, he worked for the Essanay Studios location in Niles, California. In 1915, Beery starred with Gloria Swanson, whom he married the following year, Beery began playing villains, and in 1917 portrayed Pancho Villa in Patria at a time when Villa was still active in Mexico. Beery reprised the role seventeen years later in Viva Villa, the same year, he made Min and Bill, the movie that vaulted him into the box office first rank. In 1931 he starred in The Champ, and shared the Best Actor Oscar with Fredric March, though March received one vote more than Beery, Academy rules at the time—since rescinded—defined results within one vote of each other as ties. He starred in several comedies with Marie Dressler and later, after Dresslers death, Marjorie Main, in 1943 his brother Noah Beery Sr. appeared with him in the war-time propaganda film Salute to the Marines, followed by Bad Bascomb and The Mighty McGurk. Beerys first wife was teenaged actress Gloria Swanson, the two had co-starred in Sweedie Goes to College and married in 1916. Although Beery had enjoyed popularity with his Sweedie shorts, his career had taken a dip, according to Swansons autobiography, Beery raped her on their wedding night, and later tricked her into swallowing an abortifacient when she was pregnant, which caused her to lose their child. In 1924, Beery married actress Rita Gilman, the couple adopted Carol Ann, daughter of Rita Beerys cousin. In December 1937, A few days before he passed away, in December 1939, the unmarried Beery adopted a seven-month-old infant girl Phyllis Ann
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Ermete Zacconi
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Ermete Zacconi was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina Bagni and he had lead roles in plays by William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Alfred de Musset, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg. His most notable roles include Lemigrante, Summer Rain, Processo e morte di Socrate. Ermete Zacconi at the Internet Movie Database
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Ernst Deutsch
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Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian, was an Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclevers Expressionist play The Son in Dresden was praised, Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegeners The Golem, How He Came into the World in 1920. He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds 1949 film noir, Deutsch was the son of Prague-based German merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise. He married childhood friend Anuschka Fuchsin in 1922, anuschkas cousin, Herbert Fuchs of Robettin, was the brother-in-law of author Franz Werfel. Deutsch grew up in Prague, and attended high school and he was a skilled tennis player, ranking seventh on the Austro-Hungarian tennis list. After high school, Deutsch served in the army and he was a childhood friend of Franz Werfel. In 1914, Deutsch made his debut for Berthold Viertel at the Peoples Theatre in Vienna. After a short season in Prague, Edgar Licho hired him for the Albert Theatre in Dresden, in Dresden, Deutsch played Franz Moor in Schillers The Robbers and Moritz Stiefel in Frank Wedekinds Spring Awakening. His performance in the role of Hasenclevers The Son, which premiered on 8 October 1916, established him as an Expressionist actor. In 1917, Deutsch went to the Volksbühne in Berlin and he appeared until 1933 on a number of stages in the city, gave guest performances in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna, and participated in a tour of South America. Beginning in 1916, Deutsch appeared in 42 silent films, in April 1933, he left Germany due to Nazi antisemitism. Deutsch returned to Vienna and Prague, gave guest performances in Zurich, Brussels, in 1938 he emigrated to New York City and played briefly on Broadway in 1939 before moving to Hollywood, where he became an American citizen. Beginning 1942 he appeared as Ernest Dorian in Hollywood films, primarily as Nazis, after a 1946 stay in Buenos Aires, Deutsch returned to Vienna via Paris the following year. In Vienna, he became a member of the Burgtheater, at the National Theatre Deutsch appeared in The Helpers of God, about Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, in 1948. Three years later he moved back to Berlin, appearing at the Schiller and Schlossparktheater, Deutsch also toured in Germany and abroad. Deutschs film roles included Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds film noir, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and he received the Volpi Cup as Best Actor at the 9th Venice International Film Festival in 1948 Venice Film Festival for his performance in Der Prozeß. Deutschs performances in the role of Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan the Wise. He played Nathan for more than 2,000 performances, Deutsch died on 22 March 1969 in Berlin, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Berlin highway
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Ernst Deutsch (in his gym, 1931)
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The Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst
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Jean Gabin
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Jean Gabin was a French actor and sometime singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in classic films including Pépé le Moko, La grande illusion, Le Quai des brumes, La bête humaine, Le jour se lève. Gabin was made a member of the Légion dhonneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema, Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe entertainer whose stage name was Gabin. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, the son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of roles before going into the military. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and his performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin easily made the transition to talkies, in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance, playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine. He was then cast as a hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera. The following year he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko and that same year he starred in the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. He was divorced from his wife in 1939. In the late 1930s Gabin was flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time he turned them all down, after the German occupation of France in 1940, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. During his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a romance with actress Marlene Dietrich which lasted until 1948. However, his films in America – Moontide and The Impostor, Gabin was a difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role, after Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved. Undaunted, he joined General Charles de Gaulles Free French Forces and earned the Médaille militaire, following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. He was hired by Marcel Carné in 1946 to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again
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Gabin and Jacques Prévert in 1961.
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The Musée Jean Gabin.
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Fredric March
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Fredric March was a distinguished stage actor and one of Hollywoods most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s. March is the actor to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher, a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, March attended the Winslow Elementary School, Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant. March received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway and he returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop Yr. Obedient Husband, but after the success of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth he focused as much on Broadway theatre as Hollywood. He also had successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961. He also starred in films as I Married a Witch and Another Part of the Forest during this period. On March 25,1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, marchs neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. In 1957, March was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind, in which he played a version of famous orator. Marchs Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracys Clarence Darrow-inspired character, the recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh, as the complicated Irish saloon keeper. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975 and he died from prostate cancer, at age 77, in Los Angeles, California, he was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut. Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party, biographies of March include Fredric March, Craftsman First, Star Second by Deborah C. Peterson, and Fredric March, A Consummate Actor by Charles Tranberg, Fredric March at the Internet Movie Database Fredric March at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs of Fredric March
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Warner Baxter, June Lang and March in The Road to Glory (1936)
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March with Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)
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Henry Drummond (Tracy, left) and Matthew Harrison Brady (March), right) in Inherit the Wind. Previously, March had taken the role in The Desperate Hours originally offered to Tracy. Both men had also played Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
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Kenneth More
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Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE was an English film and stage actor. Raised to stardom by the car based film-comedy Genevieve, he appeared in many roles as a carefree. His biggest hits from this period include Raising a Riot, Reach for the Sky and he starred in Doctor in the House, the first of the popular Doctor film series. He also enjoyed a revival in the much-acclaimed TV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, having spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, after he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsburys, when More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium. He went to Canada, intending to work as a fur trapper and he was soon promoted to playing straight man in the Revudeville comedy routines, appearing in his first sketch in August 1935. He played there for a year, which led to regular work in repertory, including Newcastle, performing in plays such as Burke and Hare. He continued this work until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, More received a commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and saw active service aboard the cruiser HMS Aurora and the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious. On demobilisation in 1946 he worked for the Wolverhampton repertory company, then appeared on stage in the West End in And No Birds Sing, then played Badger in a TV adaptation of Toad of Toad Hall. He was seen by Noël Coward playing a role on stage in Power Without Glory. His earliest bit parts in films date from before the war, for a small role in Scott of the Antarctic, he was paid ₤500. His parts grew larger and he achieved a notable success in The Way Things Go with Ronald Squire. Roland Culver recommended More audition for a part in a new play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea, he was successful and achieved tremendous critical acclaim in the role of Freddie. Director Henry Cornelius approached More during the run of The Deep Blue Sea, the resulting film was a success at the British box office, as was Doctor in the House, for which More received a BAFTA Award as best newcomer. The Deep Blue Sea was adapted for television in 1954 and seen by an audience of 11 million, More signed a five-year contract with Sir Alexander Korda at £10,000 a year. The first film was never made and the second with another actor, Korda also wanted More to star in a new version of The Four Feathers, Storm Over the Nile but he turned it down. However More did accept Kordas offer to appear in an adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea gaining the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance
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Kenneth More in 1969
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Bourvil
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For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His father was killed in the First World War before Bourvil was born, as a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, the name of which inspired his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943, after a battle with Kahlers syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines, bourvils characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more roles such as the handyman in LArbre de Noël. In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, one can also note his role of Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables, and his last role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melvilles Le Cercle rouge. In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the recording of Offenbachs The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens
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André Bourvil in 1967
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 by Allan Warren
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Alec Guinness – 1938
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Guinness with Rita Tushingham in Doctor Zhivago
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The graves of Sir Alec Guinness and his wife in Petersfield, Hampshire
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John Mills
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Sir John Mills, CBE was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional and he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ryans Daughter. Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Norfolk but grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the son of Edith, a box office manager, and Lewis Mills. His spent his years in the village of Belton where his father was the headmaster of the village school. He first felt the thrill of performing at a concert in the hall when six years old. He lived in a modest house in Gainsborough Road Felixstowe until 1929 and his older sister was Annette Mills, remembered as presenter of BBC Televisions Muffin the Mule. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich before finding employment in London as a traveller for the Sanitas Disinfectant Company. In September 1939, at the start of the Second World War and he was later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, but in 1942 he received a medical discharge because of a stomach ulcer. Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional début at the London Hippodrome in The Five OClock Girl in 1929 and he also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film début in The Midshipmaid, and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, in 1942, he starred in Noël Cowards In Which We Serve. Mills took the lead in Great Expectations in 1946, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Captain Scott in Scott of the Antarctic. After Morning Departure he made a series of films but bounced back with war dramas, such as The Colditz Story, Above Us the Waves. From 1959 through the mid-1960s, Mills starred in films alongside his daughter Hayley. Their first film together was the 1959 crime drama Tiger Bay, as Colonel Barrow in Tunes of Glory, Mills won the best Actor Award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter — a complete departure from his usual style – Mills won an Best Supporting Actor Oscar and his most famous television role was probably as the title character in Quatermass for ITV in 1979. Mills also starred as Gus, The Theatre Cat in the version of the musical Cats in 1998. The film was produced and written by Jonathan Mills, directed and edited by Marcus Dillistone, millss last cinema appearance was playing a tramp in Lights 2, the cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. They had last worked together on Scott of the Antarctic in 1948 and their combined age was 186 years, a cinema record
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The Wick on Richmond Hill in Richmond, Greater London, was the family home for many years
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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films and he achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, his debut being The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, who had directed him in theatre plays various times before. He became a leading Free Cinema figure, and has maintained a career in theatre, film. Finney was born in the Charlestown area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England and he was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In February 1956 John Fernald, principal of RADA, gave Finney his first major role as Shakespeares Troilus in the Vanbrugh Theatres student production of Ian Dallas play The Face of Love. Finney graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus, replacing a sick Laurence Olivier. This led to a series of Angry Young Man roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Leans production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful, however, Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for producer Sam Spiegel and chose not to accept the role. The success of Tom Jones saw British exhibitors vote Finney the ninth most popular star at the box office in 1963, after Charlie Bubbles, which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage. During this period, one of his film roles was as Agatha Christies Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney became so known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent he said and he also sings in Tim Burtons Corpse Bride. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head, Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played The Judge during the performance of The Trial. Even with his success on the big screen, Finney never abandoned his stage performances and he continued his association with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, where he performed in the mid-1960s in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Chekovs The Cherry Orchard. He won an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986 and has won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor, in 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor. He also played the role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish. The show ran for two series from 2000 until 2003, by his first wife, Jane Wenham, he has a son, Simon, who works in the film industry as a camera operator. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to French actress Anouk Aimée, in May 2011, Finney disclosed that he had been receiving treatment for kidney cancer
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Albert Finney in 1966
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Matthew Modine
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Matthew Avery Modine is an American film actor. Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores, a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters. He is a nephew of a stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters, the Modines moved to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended secondary school. After graduation, Matthew moved to New York City to pursue his interests in art, Modines first film role was in John Sayles film Baby Its You. His performance caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest, Modine appeared in the sex comedy Private School, co-starring Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. Modine played Mel Gibsons brother in Mrs. Soffel and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parkers Birdy, the actor also famously turned down the role of LT Pete Maverick Mitchell in Top Gun, because he felt the films pro-military stance went against his politics. Modine may be best known for his role as Private Joker, subsequently, Modine played the dangerous young criminal Treat in Alan Pakulas film adaptation of Lyle Kesslers stageplay Orphans. Modine played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demmes screwball comedy Married to the Mob opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1990, he led the cast of Memphis Belle, a fictionalized account of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress. Modine has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award, first, for his performance in And the Band Played On, in 1995, he appeared opposite Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film Cutthroat Island. Modine made his directorial debut with If. Rabbit, which came after the success of three short films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, When I Was a Boy, Smoking written by David Sedaris, the dark comedy, I Think I Thought, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells the story of a Thinker who ends up in Thinkers Anonymous, other short films include To Kill an American, Cowboy, and The Love Film. In 2011, he completed Jesus Was a Commie, an avant garde-dialectical conversation about the world, Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of I Think I Thought. Modines short films have played internationally, in 2003, he guest starred in The West Wing episode, The Long Goodbye. He portrayed the character Marco, who went to school with C. J. Cregg. Modine agreed to take the role because he is a friend of Janneys. That same year, he played Fritz Gerlich in the CBS miniseries Hitler, in 2004, Modine appeared in Funky Monkey as ex-football star turned spy Alec McCall, who teams up with super-chimp Clemens and his friend Michael Dean to take down the villainous Flick
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Modine at a New York Knicks vs Miami Heat game in May 2012
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Modine in April 2006
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Naseeruddin Shah
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Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian film and stage actor and director, and a prominent figure in Indian parallel cinema. Shah has won awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and an award at the Venice Film Festival. The Government of India has honoured him with the Padma Shri, Shah has also appeared in the Pakistani Film Industry, Lollywood, through the films Khuda Kay Liye and Zinda Bhaag. Shah was born into a Muslim family in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India and he is a descendant of a 19th-century Sayyid Afghan warlord Jan-Fishan Khan, who participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War and helped the British in the subsequent Indian Rebellion of 1857. Shah did his schooling at St. Anselms Ajmer and St Josephs College and he graduated in arts from Aligarh Muslim University in 1971 and attended National School of Drama in Delhi. He has been successful in mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as in Parallel Cinema and he has appeared in international films, notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. His elder brother, Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah PVSM, SM, VSM, is current Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, shahs nephew Salim Shah is also a TV and film actor. Shah has acted in such as Nishant, Aakrosh, Sparsh, Mirch Masala, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai, Trikal, Bhavni Bhavai, Junoon, Mandi. Ardh Satya, Katha, and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, to name a few, Shah became active in mainstream Bollywood cinema with the 1980 film Hum Paanch. In 1982, he acted in the film Dil Aakhir Dil Hai directed by Ismail Shroff, One of his most important films, Masoom, was released in 1983 and was shot at St Josephs College, Nainital. His next major success in films was the 1986 multi-starrer film Karma where he acted alongside veteran Dilip Kumar. Starring roles for such as Ijaazat, Jalwa and Hero Hiralal followed. In 1988 he played opposite his wife Ratna Pathak as Inspector Ghote and he acted with Aditya Pancholi in films like Maalamaal and Game. He has acted in several multi-starrer Bollywood films as well, such as Ghulami, Tridev, in 1994, he acted as the villain in Mohra, his 100th film as an actor. He forayed into Malayalam cinema the same year, through T. V. Chandrans critically well acclaimed drama Ponthan Mada, the film portrayed the irrational bonding of a feudal serf and a colonial landlord. He strongly believed that the distinction between art and commercial films had largely reduced, especially with the directors of the former also making commercial films. Shah won critical acclaim by playing the role of Mohit, the coach to a deaf and mute boy in Iqbal. His portrayal of Nemo was very close to the design of the graphic novel and he worked in Vishal Bhardwajs Indian adaptation of Shakespeares Macbeth, titled Maqbool, in 2003, and Rajiv Rais Asambhav opposite Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra in 2004
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Naseeruddin Shah in 2011
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Naseeruddin Shah playing Pozzo in Motley's production of Waiting for Godot at The Doon School, 2009.
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Naseeruddin Shah with wife Ratna Pathak Shah, 2010 at Lahore.
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Don Ameche
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Don Ameche was an American actor and voice artist. After touring in vaudeville, he featured in many biographical films and he continued to appear on Broadway, as well as on radio and TV, where he was host and commentator for International Showtime, covering circus and ice-shows all over Europe. Ameche was married to his wife Honore for 54 years, Ameche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon. Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 31,1908 and his father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Italy from Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of Scottish, Irish and he had three brothers, Umberto, James, and Louis, and four sisters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Anna. Ameche attended Marquette University, Loras College, and the University of Wisconsin, Ameche had intended to study law, but he found theatricals more interesting and decided on a stage career. He was instrumental in forming and leading the group the year before play began. Ameche was married to Honore Prendergast from 1932 until her death in 1986, one, Ron Ameche, owned a restaurant, Ameches Pumpernickel in Coralville, Iowa. He had two daughters, Connie and Bonnie, Ameches younger brother, Jim Ameche, was also a well-known actor. His brother Bert was an architect who worked for the U. S. Navy in Port Hueneme, California, and then the U. S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, California. He enjoyed the experience and got a lead in Jerry For Short in New York, followed by a tour in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until she dropped him from the act. He made his debut in 1935, and by the late 1930s, had established himself as a major actor in Hollywood. He appeared in films as Alexanders Ragtime Band, and as the title character in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. In the 1940 film Go West, Groucho Marx proclaims, Telephone and this is 1870, Don Ameche hasnt invented the telephone yet. While in the 1941 film Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwycks character discusses the ameche slang usage, Do you know what this means, another highlight was co-starring with Gene Tierney in Ernst Lubitschs Heaven Can Wait in 1943, a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1940, he was voted the 21st-most-popular star in Hollywood, in 1944 he reportedly earned $247,677 for 1943, making him the second highest earner at 20th Century Fox after Spyros Skouras. Ameche played so many roles based on people that on one of his radio broadcasts, Fred Allen joked. Soon afterwards, in Its in the Bag. which starred Allen, Ameche and fellow veteran actor Ralph Bellamy were eventually cast in John Landis Trading Places in 1983, playing rich brothers intent on ruining an innocent man for the sake of a one-dollar bet
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Ameche on the set of International Showtime in September 1964
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Ameche and Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio (1941)
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Ameche as the host of International Showtime in 1962
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Ameche in the 1938 film Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Joe Mantegna
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Joseph Anthony Joe Mantegna, Jr. is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor. Mantegna began his career on the stage in 1969 with the musical Hair, expanding to film and television, Mantegna is best known for his roles in box office hits including Three Amigos, The Godfather Part III, Forget Paris and Up Close & Personal. As of the 2015–2016 TV season, he stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. Since the 1991 episode Bart the Murderer, Mantegna has had a role on the animated series The Simpsons as mob boss Fat Tony. Mantegna has starred in the series First Monday and Joan of Arcadia and he earned Emmy Award nominations for his roles in three different miniseries, The Last Don, The Rat Pack, and The Starter Wife. He has also served as producer for various movies and television movies, including Corduroy, Hoods. Parkers fictional detective Spenser in three movies between 1999 and 2001, and has narrated several audiobook readings of the Spenser novels. An avid firearm enthusiast, he is the host of MidwayUSAs Gun Stories on the cable television Outdoor Channel and his daughter Gia Mantegna is also an actor. Mantegna was raised Catholic and attended J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero and he studied acting at the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University from 1967 to 1969. While still a man in Chicago, he played bass in a band called The Apocryphals, which later played with another local group, The Missing Links. Mantegna is still close to the original members of Chicago. Mantegna made his debut in the 1969 stage production of Hair. He co-wrote Bleacher Bums, a play which was first performed at Chicagos Organic Theater Company. In the movie Xanadu, he had a role which was cut, although since his name is in the films credits. Mantegna won a Tony award for his portrayal of Richard Roma in David Mamets play Glengarry Glen Ross and he has had a long and successful association with Mamet, appearing in a number of his works. Mantegna made his film debut in Medusa Challenger. He played womanizing dentist Bruce Fleckstein in Compromising Positions and he starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1985 called Shelter Skelter. His other early roles were supporting performances in The Money Pit, Weeds
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Mantegna at an Evening Parade reception at Marine Barracks Washington, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2014.
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Mantegna in May 2008
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Massimo Troisi
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Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, film director, and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 film Il Postino, Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near Naples. His father was a train engineer, some of his family experiences were later told in his first movies. After high school, Troisi wrote some inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Troisi started his career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called I Saraceni and, later. His mates were De Caro and Arena and they gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla and Luna Park. Troisi soon gained the status of leader of the trio and he was noted for his use of facial mimicry and of apparently confused speech—in these he drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, and Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. Troisi wrote, directed, and starred in his first film and he achieved wide success and critical praise, establishing himself as one of the most talented new Italian directors of the 1980s. Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisis youth. Scusate il ritardo, similar to the one, was released in 1983. After some small acting roles, in 1987 Troisi directed Le vie del Signore sono finite, the movie won a Silver Ribbon for best screenplay. In the following years, he starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni, in Ettore Scolas Splendor, Che ora è. and his last movie as director was Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse, again centering on the everyday difficulties of love between a man and a woman. Troisi came to fame through the success of Il Postino. Troisi died in 1994 of an attack in his sisters house in Ostia twelve hours after the main filming on Il Postino had finished. It was reported that he postponed surgery to complete the film and he was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. He is one of seven actors to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. A good friend of the musician and singer Pino Daniele, he wrote lyrics for his music or adapted his poetry for it. Eduardo De Filippo, father of Neapolitan theatre of the 20th century, said of him that he was an actor of the future
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Oleg Borisov
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Oleg Ivanovich Borisov was a well-known Russian film and theatre actor, whose honors included the title of Peoples Artist of the USSR, two USSR State Prizes as well as the Volpi Cup. Oleg Borisov was born Albert Ivanovich Borisov on 8 November 1929 in Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia and his given name was Albert, which was chosen by his mother in honor of the Belgian prince Albert, who visited Moscow in 1929. His mother, Nadezhda Andreevna, was an engineer. His father, Ivan Borisov, was a wounded World War II veteran, young Oleg Borisov was fond of acting and theatre, he was known as a good impersonator and comedian among his classmates at school. However, during the Second World War young Oleg Borisov was a driver at a collective farm near Moscow. At the same time he was involved in acting at his school drama class. After World War II Borisov graduated from a school and applied to study at the Moscow Art Theatre. He passed a series of tests and was admitted to the Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting in 1947. While a student Borisov was regarded for his talent as a comedian, in 1951, Borisov graduated from the MKhAT School of Acting, and joined the troupe of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama in Kiev. In 1954 he married Alla Romanovna, the daughter of director of the Lesya Ukrainka Theatre and their son, Yuri Borisov, was born in 1956. In 1964, director Georgi Tovstonogov invited Oleg Borisov to join the troupe of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, from 1964–1983 Borisov was a permanent member of the troupe at BDT in Leningrad. At that time he was invited by director Lev Dodin to perform the leading role in Krotkaya an adaptation of the eponymous short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In 1955, Borisov made his debut at the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev, Ukraine. His best known roles in film were such works as Gudionov in Sluga by Vadim Abdrashitov, for several years Borisov was suffering from restrictions in the Soviet film industry, because he did not comply with the ridiculous rules of political obedience. The main reason was that Borisov never wanted to be a member of the Soviet Communist party, only director Vadim Abdrashitov was brave enough to brake the Soviet censorship rules. He cast Borisov for the roles in his films Ostanovilsya poyezd. Oleg Borisov was a example of a rare, beautiful. He had to be untamed and free of any control in order to play his best roles
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Oleg Borisov in the film Ostanovilsya poyezd, 1982
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Chris Penn
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Christopher Shannon Chris Penn was an American film and television actor. Penn was found dead in his condominium on January 24,2006, an autopsy revealed the primary cause for his death was nonspecific cardiomyopathy. Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three born to Leo Penn, an actor and director, and Eileen Ryan, an actress. His paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, and his mother was a Roman Catholic of Italian, according to Penns mother, Leo Penn may have had distant Sephardic ancestry, as the familys surname was originally Piñón. His brothers are actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio and made his film debut in 1979’s Charlie and the Talking Buzzard, starring Christopher Hanks. In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in the high school football drama All the Right Moves as the best friend of Tom Cruises character. Penn, who had a belt in karate, appeared in the 1989 motion picture Best of the Best as Travis Brickley. The film also starred James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Penn reprised his role in 1993s Best of the Best 2. Two of his memorable performances were in Reservoir Dogs as Nice Guy Eddie. In 1996 he won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Funeral, in 1990, Chris was cast in a season one episode of The Young Riders. He appeared as a villain and was killed by Josh Brolins character William Hickok, in Robert Altmans 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled swimming pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wifes profession to which Penns character is sometimes obliged to listen. He also appeared as a guy in a criminal conspiracy in Murder by Numbers. Penn appears in Jay-Zs Can I Get A.1998 music video as a bartender who mixes drinks and dances. In 2001, Penn was meant to appear in American Pie 2 as Steve Stiflers father, however, they appeared on the deleted scene reel from the movies DVD. Penn then went on to co-star opposite Peter Berg as the brothers of Corky in Corky Romano. In 2003, he appeared on the Will & Grace episode, Fanilow, as Barry Manilows tour director, Penn was featured in an episode of the television crime drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent during the 2004–2005 season. He was also featured on the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto, Penn played himself on a 2005 episode of the HBO series Entourage. He appeared in The Darwin Awards, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one day after his death, Penn was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium on January 24,2006, aged 40
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Chris Penn in Corky Romano (2001)
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Wesley Snipes
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer and martial artist. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Cant Jump and he formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate, Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Maryann, a teachers assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York and he attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts but moved back to Florida before he could graduate. After graduating from Jones High School in Orlando, Snipes returned to New York and he also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition and he made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the TV show Miami Vice as a pimp in the episode Streetwise. In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jacksons nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video Bad and that same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek, The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton. Snipes performance in the music video Bad caught the eye of director Spike Lee, Snipes turned down a small role in Lees Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo Better Blues and he then played Thomas Flanagan in King of New York opposite Christopher Walken. He played the drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City and he also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen, Snipes has appeared in dramas like The Waterdance and Disappearing Acts. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 54th Venice Film Festival for his performance in New Line Cinemas One Night Stand, in 1998, Snipes had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. The film turned into a series and he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase. In 2005, Snipes sued New Line Cinema, and David S. Goyer, director of Blade, Trinity, the suit was later settled, but no details were released. He has discussed reprising the role of Blade as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he later appeared in The Contractor, filmed in Bulgaria and the UK, Gallowwalkers, released in 2012, and Game Of Death. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lees 2008 war film Miracle at St. Anna but had to leave the film due to tax problems, his role eventually went to Derek Luke. Snipes made a performance in Brooklyns Finest as Casanova Caz Phillips
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Snipes in September 2009
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Snipes signing autographs at Comic Con International in 2010
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Snipes with Ethan Hawke in 2009.
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Snipes with wife Nakyung Park in 2009.
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Sean Penn
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Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River and the biopic Milk, Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, Penn made his feature film directorial debut with The Indian Runner, followed by the drama film The Crossing Guard and the mystery film The Pledge. Penn directed one of the 11 segments of 110901 September 11 and his fourth feature film, the biographical drama survival movie Into the Wild, garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In January 2016, Penn published an interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán in Rolling Stone, Penn was born in Los Angeles County, California, to actor and director Leo Penn, and actress Eileen Ryan. His older brother is musician Michael Penn and his younger brother, actor Chris Penn, died in 2006. His paternal grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, while his mother is a Catholic of Irish, Penn was raised in a secular home and attended Santa Monica High School. He began making films with some of his childhood friends, including actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Penn appeared in a 1974 episode of the Little House on the Prairie television series as an extra when his father, Leo, Penn launched his film career with the action-drama Taps, where he played a military high school cadet. A year later, he appeared in the hit comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in the role of surfer-stoner Jeff Spicoli, next, Penn appeared as Mick OBrien, a troubled youth, in the drama Bad Boys. The role earned Penn favorable reviews and jump-started his career as a serious actor, Penn played Andrew Daulton Lee in the film The Falcon and the Snowman, which closely followed an actual criminal case. Lee was a drug dealer by trade, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and originally sentenced to life in prison. Penn starred in the drama At Close Range which received critical acclaim and he stopped acting for a few years in the early 1990s, having been dissatisfied with the industry, and focused on making his directing debut. The Academy Awards first recognized his work in nominating him for playing a racist murderer on death row in the drama film Dead Man Walking and he was nominated again for his comedic performance as an egotistical jazz guitarist in the film Sweet and Lowdown. He received his nomination after portraying a mentally handicapped father in I am Sam. Penn finally won for his role in the Boston crime-drama Mystic River, in 2004, Penn played Samuel Bicke, a character based on Samuel Byck, who in 1974 attempted and failed to assassinate President Richard Nixon, in The Assassination of Richard Nixon. The same year, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, next, Penn portrayed governor Willie Stark in an adaptation of Robert Penn Warrens classic 1946 American novel All the Kings Men. The film was a critical and commercial failure, named by a 2010 Forbes article as the biggest flop in the last five years, the film also earned Penn his fifth nomination and second win for the Academy Award for Best Actor
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Penn at the premiere of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 2013 New York Film Festival
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At the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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Penn with Robin Wright in September 2006
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Penn at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2007
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Stefano Accorsi
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Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor. He graduated from Bolognas Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema, in 1995 he played the lead in Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo, one of his best known films. In 1998 he worked with Daniele Luchetti in I Piccoli Maestri, in the same year he won three prizes for his role in Radiofreccia, directed by rock star Luciano Ligabue, including David di Donatello for Best Actor. He was the lead in the successful film Lultimo bacio and he won the leading role in Maria de Medeiros’ Capitães de Abril, and has worked with director Nanni Moretti in The Sons Room. In 2001, Accorsi also had the role in Ferzan Özpeteks Le fate ignoranti. This film was a big success in Italy and in Turkey, and Accorsi and he also starred in David Blairs Tabloid TV and in Marco Pontis Santa Maradona. Then Accorsi acted in the TV film Il giovane Casanova by Giacomo Battiato and he didnt make any more films for about a year, during which time he went to France. He went to the Venice International Film Festival 2003 as a member of the jury, in 2004 he shot two movies, Ovunque sei, directed by Michele Placido, where he plays the role of an emergency care doctor, and Lamore ritrovato, directed by Carlo Mazzacurati. Accorsi works with Diane Kruger in Les Brigades du Tigre and with Julie Depardieu in La Faute à Fidel and he then acts in Un baiser sil vous plaît in 2007 and its sequel Baciami ancora in 2010. Accorsi was engaged to Corsican supermodel Laetitia Casta and they have one son and one daughter together, Orlando, born on 21 September 2006 and Athena, born on 29 August 2009. Fratelli e sorelle Un Posto Voci notturne Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo La mia generazione Vesna va veloce Naja I piccoli maestri Radiofreccia Più leggero non basta Ormai è fatta
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David Strathairn
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David Russell Strathairn is an American actor. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and he is also recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012s The Bourne Legacy. He played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and he was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for his role in the TV film Temple Grandin. Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the second of three children of Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr. a physician and Mary Frances, a nurse. Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and he studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida, and briefly worked as a clown in a traveling circus. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 biopic Good Night. The film explored Murrows clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy over McCarthys Communist witch-hunt in the 1950s, Strathairn also received Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance. In 2010, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of Dr. Carlock in the HBO television film Temple Grandin, Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist, in The River Wild as a husband and he has worked with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles. He made his debut in Return of the Secaucus 7. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the men in black in the 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet, Strathairn created the role of Edwin Booth with Maryann Plunkett in a workshop production of Booth. A House Divided, by W. Stuart McDowell, at The Players in New York, Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn starred in the episode, Out Where the Buses Dont Run. In 2006 he did an ad for then congressional candidate Kirsten Gillibrand. He reprised his role as Edward R. Murrow in a similar to the one from Good Night, and Good Luck. Strathairn plays the role in the 2007 independent film, Steel Toes. The film is based on Gows stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia and he played a role in the summer 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum and appeared in Paramount Pictures childrens film The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer and he first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One
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Strathairn at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
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Colin Firth
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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE is an English actor. His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide, Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firths most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The Kings Speech and this led to roles in films such as The English Patient, Bridget Joness Diary, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually. In 2009, Firth received widespread acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which Firth gained his first Academy Award nomination. Firth starred in the spy movie Kingsman, The Secret Service in 2014. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012. He has campaigned for the rights of tribal peoples, and is a member of Survival International. Firth has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees rights, and he commissioned and is credited as a co-author on a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations. Firth was born in the village of Grayshott, Hampshire, to parents who were both academics and teachers, Firth is the eldest of three children, he has a sister, Kate, an actress and voice coach, and a brother, Jonathan, an actor. Both of his parents were raised in India, because his grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather. As a child, Firth travelled a lot due to his parents work and he also lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11, which he has described as a difficult time. On returning to England, he attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School and he was still an outsider and was the target of bullying. To counter this, he adopted the working class Hampshire accent. By the time he was 14, Firth had already decided to be a professional actor, until further education, he was not academically inclined, later saying in an interview, I didnt like school. I just thought it was boring and mediocre and nothing they taught me seemed to be of any interest at all, after his sixth form years, Firth moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. There, he made contacts in the acting world, from which he got a job in the wardrobe department at the National Theatre. From there, he went on to study at Drama Centre London, in 1984, Firth made his film debut in the role of Tommy Judd, Guy Bennetts straight, Marxist school friend in the screen adaptation of the play. This was the start of longstanding public feud between Firth and Everett, which was later resolved and he starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in Lost Empires, a TV adaptation of J. B
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Firth at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International
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Firth at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
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Firth with Helena Bonham Carter filming The King's Speech in December 2009, which became his most critically acclaimed role to date.
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Firth with wife Livia Firth in January 2011
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Vincent Gallo
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Vincent Vito Gallo, Jr. is an American actor, director, model, musician and painter. In the early 2000s, he released solo recordings on Warp Records. Vincent Gallo was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Janet, a hair-dresser, both of his parents emigrated from Sicily, Italy. During Gallos artistic period in the 1980s, when he worked as a musician and painter in New York City and he made the short film If You Feel Froggy, Jump and appeared in the 1981 film Downtown 81 with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1984, Gallo acted in The Way It Is by Eric Mitchell, after starring in the obscure 1989 film Docs Kingdom, he began acting in small parts in more well-known films such as Goodfellas, The House of the Spirits, and The Perez Family. French director Claire Denis hired Gallo to act in films such as the short film Keep It for Yourself. Go Home, and its follow-up feature Nénette et Boni, in 1998, his directorial debut film Buffalo 66 was nominated for, but did not win, an award for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. Gallo made this drama for $1.5 M, serving as writer, director, lead actor, the release of Buffalo 66 gained him a solid fan base. In 2003, Gallo starred in and directed the film The Brown Bunny, which chronicles a motorcycle racers cross-country road trip, according to Andrea LeVasseur of Allmovie, The Brown Bunny premiered to much derision at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert stated that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader and put a hex on Ebert, wishing him colon cancer. Ebert then responded – paraphrasing a statement made by Winston Churchill – that, although I am fat, one day I will be thin, Gallo and Ebert later made up, and Ebert ended up giving a thumbs up to the finished version of The Brown Bunny. In 2010, Gallo won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his role in Essential Killing, Gallo plays the two largest roles in the film, the English-speaking Sheriff and the Italian speaking assassin. He co-starred with Kōichi Satō and Yoo Ji-tae in Junji Sakamotos 2013 film, at the age of 16, Gallo moved to New York City and was a later member of the band Gray, with visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gray played at such as Maxs Kansas City, CBGBs, Hurrahs. A few of Grays recordings appear on the soundtrack for the film Downtown 81, Gallo played in a band called Bohack which recorded an album entitled It Took Several Wives. When Bohack disbanded, Gallo turned his attention to acting, directing and he wrote songs for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Buffalo 66. He played in a band with Lukas Haas called Bunny. On August 3,2013 Vincent Gallo headlined the 3rd Annual San Frandelic Summer Fest in San Francisco, Gallo directed music videos for the songs Going Inside by John Frusciante, and Anemone by LArc-en-Ciel
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Gallo in 2004
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, bullies. Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts and he began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started to appear in films in 1992. He began to play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote. The feature Jack Goes Boating marked his debut as a filmmaker, Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced and his performances in three Broadway plays – True West, Long Days Journey into Night, and Death of a Salesman – all led to Tony Award nominations. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as an adult, and relapsed in 2013 after many years of sobriety. Hoffman was born on July 23,1967, in the Rochester suburb of Fairport and his mother, Marilyn OConnor, came from nearby Waterloo and worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming a lawyer and eventually a family court judge. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of Geneva, New York, along with one brother, Gordy, Hoffman had two sisters, Jill and Emily. Hoffman was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Mass as a child and his parents divorced when he was nine, leaving the children to be raised primarily by their mother. Hoffmans childhood passion was sports, particularly wrestling and baseball, and he recalled in 2008, I was changed – permanently changed – by that experience. It was like a miracle to me, Hoffman developed a love for the theater, and proceeded to attend regularly with his mother, who was a lifelong enthusiast. He remembered that productions of Quilters and Alms for the Middle Class, at the age of 14, Hoffman suffered a neck injury that ended his sporting activity, and he began to consider acting. Encouraged by his mother, he joined a club. Acting gradually became a passion for Hoffman, I loved the camaraderie of it, the people, and thats when I decided it was what I wanted to do. At the age of 17, he was selected to attend the 1984 New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs, Miller later commented on Hoffmans popularity at the time, We were attracted to the fact that he was genuinely serious about what he was doing. Hoffman applied for several drama degree programs and was accepted to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, between starting on the program and graduating from Fairport High School, he continued his training at the Circle in the Square Theatres summer program. Hoffman had positive memories of his time at NYU, where he supported himself by working as an usher, with friends, he co-founded the Bullstoi Ensemble acting troupe
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Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Paris premiere of The Ides of March in October 2011
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The village of Fairport, New York, Hoffman's hometown
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Hoffman opposite Robert De Niro in Flawless (1999) as drag queen Rusty Zimmerman.
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Hoffman at Cannes in 2002 promoting Punch-Drunk Love
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican–born American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, Phoenix started acting in television shows with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix. His first major release was in the comedy-drama film Parenthood. During his period as an actor he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He received international attention for his portrayal of Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, to this date, he and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. Aside from his career, he has also ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films. He has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line, Phoenix is a social activist, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is also known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals, Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the U. S. mainland. He is the third of five children, including River, Rain, Liberty and Summer and he also has a half-sister named Jodean from a previous relationship of his fathers. Phoenixs father, John Lee Bottom, originally from Fontana, California, was a lapsed Catholic, of English, Phoenixs mother, Arlyn, was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. Arlyn left her family in 1968 and moved to California, later meeting Phoenixs father while hitchhiking and they married in 1969, then later joined a religious group, the Children of God, and began traveling throughout South America. His parents eventually became disenchanted with the Children of God, they made the decision to leave the group and they changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning. Around this time, Joaquín began calling himself Leaf, desiring to have a name like his siblings. Leaf became the name he used as a actor, until at age 15. He first used it as a credit in his big comeback film To Die For. In order to provide food and financial support for the family, in Los Angeles, his mother started working as a secretary for NBC, and his father worked as a landscaper. He went on to himself as a child actor before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico
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Phoenix at the New York Film Festival in 2014
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Phoenix in Cannes for The Yards in May 2000.
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The cast of Her at the New York Film Festival in 2013.
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Adam Driver
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Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warrens Profession, in 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar. Driver has appeared in supporting roles in a range of films, including Lincoln, Frances Ha. He starred in While Were Young and won the Volpi Cup for his role in Hungry Hearts, as well as several best actor awards for his performance in Jim Jarmuschs Paterson. Driver gained worldwide attention and acclaim for playing the villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars, The Force Awakens and he is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military, both in the US and abroad. Driver was born in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, on November 19,1983, the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal and his fathers family is from Arkansas and his mothers family is from Indiana. His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church, when Driver was seven years old, he moved with his mother and older sister April to her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, where he grew up. Driver had an upbringing, and sang in choir at church. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Driver joined the United States Marine Corps and was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion and he served for two years and eight months with no deployments before breaking his sternum while mountain biking. He was medically discharged before his unit deployed to Iraq for the Iraq War, after leaving the Marine Corps, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year, he transferred to the Juilliard School to study drama. Driver said that he was seen as an intimidating and volatile figure to his classmates and he was a member of the Drama Divisions Group 38, along with his future wife Joanne Tucker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009, following his graduation from Juilliard, Driver began acting in New York City, appearing in both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Like many other aspiring actors, he worked as a busboy. Driver appeared in television shows and short films. He made his film debut in Clint Eastwoods J. Edgar. In 2012, Driver was cast in the current HBO hit comedy-drama series Girls, to date, he has received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role. Apart from appearing in the short film Not Waving But Drowning and he played Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln and played Lev Shapiro in Noah Baumbachs Frances Ha. Driver appeared in four films in 2013, Bluebird, The F Word, as musician Al Cody in the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis, for his role in Hungry Hearts, Driver won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival
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Driver at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Driver with wife Joanne Tucker at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival
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