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Henry Ian Cusick
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Henry Ian Cusick is a Peruvian-born Scottish actor of television, film, and theatre. He is known for his role as Desmond Hume on the U. S. television series Lost and he starred in the ABC drama Scandal, as Stephen Finch, and is currently starring as Marcus Kane In the CW drama The 100. Cusick was born in Trujillo, Peru, to a Peruvian mother, Esperanza Chávez, when he was two, his family moved to Madrid, Spain, then Glasgow, before moving to Trinidad and Tobago, where they lived for ten years. There Cusick attended Presentation College, San Fernando and he moved to Paisley, Scotland, with his family at the age of fourteen. Cusick attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and was asked to resign in his year there. He got his first acting role at the Citizens Theatre as an understudy in the Christmas Panto playing a polar bear and he appeared in various productions for the Strathclyde Theatre Group in Glasgow. He is fluent in both English and Spanish, and was raised Roman Catholic, Cusick began his career as a classical theatre actor. His first leading roles on stage included, Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray with Rupert Everett, Hamlet in The Marovitz Hamlet, and Horner in The Country Wife. On screen, after appearing in recurring roles in series such as Casualty and The Book Group, he starred as Jesus Christ in the 2003 film The Visual Bible. His largest role to date came in 2005 when he was cast as Desmond Hume in the ABC series Lost, originally a recurring guest star in the second season, Cusick became a member of the main cast from seasons three to six. Cusick won the role when, while staying at the home of his friend Brian Cox, he met Coxs next-door neighbor, Carlton Cuse, Cusick stated he believes a seed planted, because they had been looking for either a Scottish or Irish character. He also appeared as Theo Stoller in two episodes of season 5 of 24 and the 2007 film Hitman and he stars in the direct-to-DVD film Dead Like Me, Life After Death, a continuation of the cult classic television show of the same name. Cusick appeared in two episodes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit in the season, playing Erik Weber. He was in ABCs Scandal in 2011, but left the following year and he also played Trent Marsh in Body of Proof and currently appears as Marcus Kane in The 100, which premiered in March 2014
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Jeffrey Jones
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Jeffrey Jones is an American actor best known for his roles as Joseph II in Amadeus, Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Buellers Day Off, and Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice. In 2002, Jones was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and he pleaded no contest to a felony charge, and was ordered to register as a sex offender. He then went to London in 1969 to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, followed by a stint with the Stratford Theatre in Stratford. Productions included, Cloud 9, A Flea in Her Ear, Romeo and Juliet and his transition from stage to film began in 1970. Jones began acting in small parts in film and television in the 1970s, in his best-known roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice, and Edward R. However, the actor is also widely respected and considered a boon wherever he appears. Jones portrays the Emperor as a superficial and self-absorbed ruler who cant tell the difference between a great opera and a one, according to one reviewer. He received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance, Joness performance as Edward R. Rooney in the 1986 film, Ferris Buellers Day Off, made him a cultural icon. Rooney, self-important and obsessed with catching the chronically truant Ferris Bueller, became a symbol of pomposity, the review likened Jones role as akin to that of Wile E. Coyote as a character who is fated to be unable to catch The Road Runner. Jones expressed concern about being remembered more for this role than his Emperor Joseph II in 1984s Amadeus, in the movie Beetlejuice, Jones played a supporting role, along with Catherine OHara, as co-owners of a haunted house. Jones went on to act in films by director Tim Burton, including Ed Wood in the role of The Amazing Criswell. Jones also appeared in The Hanoi Hilton, The Hunt for Red October, Howard the Duck, Houseguest, The Crucible, The Devil’s Advocate, and Stuart Little. In 1999 he co-starred with Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, and David Arquette in the cannibal western Ravenous, Jones appeared in the comedy film The Pest, as the evil German trying to hunt Pestario Pest Vargas. Other key roles include Mr. Spike in Stay Tuned and Dick Nelson in the 1992 comedy Mom, one of Joness earlier television roles was in an episode of the 1976 CBS series Sara. In 1986, he showcased his villain persona in the role of the sinister Mister Acme, in the satirical comedy miniseries Fresno, with Carol Burnett, Charles Grodin and Dabney Coleman. In 1995, Jones co-starred with Tyra Banks, Kathy Najimy and he also hosted Disneys D-TV Monster Hits musical special, as The Magic Mirror. He has had guest roles on a number of series, including Amazing Stories, Tales from the Crypt. In 1989, he starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom The People Next Door and he also appeared as newspaper publisher A. W. Merrick on the highly acclaimed HBO series Deadwood. Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Ruth and his mother was an art historian, who urged him towards a career in acting
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MarVista Entertainment
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MarVista Entertainment is an American independent film studio, based in Century City, Los Angeles, California. MarVista was founded in 2003 by Fernando and Joseph Szew as a distributor of third party programming. MVDE was launched in 2014 to handle distribution and licensing of the digital content in North America. Beginning after acquiring capital investments in 2011, the company began creating its own television. In 2016, MarVista and SpectreVision announced an agreement to co-produce four horror and thriller films over the following two years
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Hydraulic fracturing
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Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the injection of fracking fluid into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum. When the hydraulic pressure is removed from the well, small grains of hydraulic fracturing proppants hold the fractures open, Hydraulic fracturing began as an experiment in 1947, and the first commercially successful application followed in 1950. As of 2012,2.5 million frac jobs had been performed worldwide on oil and gas wells, such treatment is generally necessary to achieve adequate flow rates in shale gas, tight gas, tight oil, and coal seam gas wells. Some hydraulic fractures can form naturally in certain veins or dikes, Hydraulic fracturing is highly controversial in many countries. Its proponents advocate the benefits of more extensively accessible hydrocarbons. For these reasons, hydraulic fracturing is under scrutiny, restricted in some countries. The European Union is drafting regulations that would permit the application of hydraulic fracturing. Fracturing rocks at great depth frequently becomes suppressed by pressure due to the weight of the rock strata. This suppression process is significant in tensile fractures which require the walls of the fracture to move against this pressure. Fracturing occurs when stress is overcome by the pressure of fluids within the rock. The minimum principal stress becomes tensile and exceeds the strength of the material. In natural examples, such as dikes or vein-filled fractures, the orientations can be used to infer past states of stress, most mineral vein systems are a result of repeated natural fracturing during periods of relatively high pore fluid pressure. One example of repeated natural fracturing is in the effects of seismic activity. Stress levels rise and fall episodically, and earthquakes can cause large volumes of water to be expelled from fluid-filled fractures. This process is referred to as seismic pumping, minor intrusions in the upper part of the crust, such as dikes, propagate in the form of fluid-filled cracks. In such cases, the fluid is magma, in sedimentary rocks with a significant water content, fluid at fracture tip will be steam. Fracturing as a method to stimulate shallow, hard rock oil wells dates back to the 1860s, dynamite or nitroglycerin detonations were used to increase oil and natural gas production from petroleum bearing formations
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Cameron Richardson
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Cameron Richardson is an American actress and model, who portrayed Chloe Carter on the CBS television series Harpers Island. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Richardson grew up in New Jersey, in 1997, she graduated from Old Bridge High School in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. She moved to New York City to pursue modeling, and her agents suggested acting, Cameron was called Cam-Bones due to her very thin physique. Richardson modeled for Mademoiselle, Interview, Cosmopolitan, and other fashion magazines and she appeared on the cover of Ocean Drive in 2006. She was cover model for the January–February 2008 issue of Womens Health Magazine and she has modeled clothes for American Eagle Outfitters, GAP, Lucky Brand Jeans, Chic Jeans, and Roxy amongst others. She advertised Dasani bottled water from The Coca-Cola Company, as of 2010, she can be seen modeling for Forever 21s maternity line. Richardson appeared in a 2004 advertising campaign for burger chain Carls Jr. /Hardees in which she ate a Western style burger while riding a bull to the tune of Slow Ride by Foghat. Richardson guest starred on the FOX television show House and she played 15-year-old supermodel Alex, having herself been a model before getting into acting. She is known for her role as Paula Hargrove in Point Pleasant, in 2009, she was a series regular on Harpers Island, a murder mystery television series. Promotions for the series describe her character Chloe as The Flirt, Richardson appeared in the film Alvin and the Chipmunks. In 2012, Richardson appeared in an episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Richardson was ranked #76 in Stuff magazines 102 Sexiest Women In The World. She was named #52 on the Maxim Hot 100 of 2005 list and she appeared on the list until 2009 when she ranked #76. In 2002, she appeared in the video for the Incubus song Are You In. She appears in the music videos I Dont Want This Night to End. In March 2010 a visibly pregnant Richardson was photographed at the opening of the Odd Molly flagship store, Richardson gave birth to a baby boy named Milo in late 2010. Cameron Richardson at the Internet Movie Database Cameron Richardson at the Fashion Model Directory Cameron Richardson at AskMen. com Cameron Richardson at Maxim. com
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David Chokachi
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David Chokachi is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role in the TV series Witchblade, Baywatch, Chokachi was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He attended Tabor Academy, a boarding prep school in Marion. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a degree in political science and his father is an Iraqi Turk and his mother is Finnish. Chokachi began his career in 1995 on Baywatch as Cody Madison. In 1999, he left Baywatch and took up the role of Jake McCartey in the TV series Witchblade, following that, he appeared in various TV series and made-for-TV movies. Chokachi then landed the role of main character Justin Healy on The Ns 2006 TV series Beyond The Break and he also appeared on VH1s Confessions of a Teen Idol, a reality show in which former teen idols attempt to revitalize their careers. Chokachi was one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997, David Chokachi at the Internet Movie Database Official website Biography
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Joey Luthman
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Joseph Gregory Wagner Joey Luthman is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Rad Ferris on the series Weeds. Joey was born at Southview Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, on January 14,1997 and he began acting at age 5. His first performance was in Nuncrackers at the Dayton Playhouse, in Dayton and his siblings, Jonathan Shine, Julien Shine and Lauren Shine were also in this production. Official website Joey Luthman at the Internet Movie Database
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David Barrera
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David Barrera is an American actor. He is best known for his latest role as Gunnery Sgt, ray Casey Kasem Griego in Generation Kill. Barrera is a graduate of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School in San Juan and this high school is part of the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District. David Barrera graduate of Southern Methodist University Dallas Texas, went on to study at the University of California, in San Diego, Barrera appeared in Universals family comedy Evan Almighty, further he worked on films like Infinity, No Way Back and The United States of Leland. In 2015, Barrera guest starred in the episode, Flicker, Barrera is married to actress Maria Canals-Barrera since 1999, with whom he has two daughters. While at the University of California, San Diego graduate acting program he was awarded the Princess Grace Award in acting, david Barrera at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
