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100 Girls (comics)
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100 Girls is a comic book series created by Adam Gallardo and Todd Demong, and published by Arcana Studio. Sylvia Mark is a girl who feels like an outcast from the other kids her age. She skipped two grades, is strong, and has Olympic-level gymnastic agility. Sylvia also feels incomplete, and occasionally has strange dreams, night after night these dreams seem to be harbingers of something dark. What she does not know is that she is just one of one hundred girls created as part of a genetics experiment, eight girls were taken out of the facility, and grew up secretly across the country, Sylvia was one of them
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Jonathan Tucker
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Jonathan Moss Tucker is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Virgin Suicides, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostage, In the Valley of Elah and he has appeared in the television series The Black Donnellys and Parenthood. As of October 2014, he co-stars in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom created by Byron Balasco and his paternal great-grandfather was historian and ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes. His aunt and uncle, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University and his father is of Irish Catholic background and his mother is Jewish. Tucker was raised in Charlestown, Massachusetts, but attended The Park School in Brookline and he attended the Boston Ballet and played Fritz in their production of The Nutcracker for 5 years starting when he was in the third grade. He was featured in a Boston Ballet calendar and attended The Thacher School in Ojai, Tucker said of his ballet experience, Ballet is one of the more difficult rigors that Ive ever done. The Ballet instructors are some of the most intimidating people Ive met, Tucker first started off in film by appearing in the early 90s films Botte di Natale, Two If by Sea and Sleepers before being cast in the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides as Tim Weiner. He starred as Matthew in the 2000 comedy film 100 Girls, a year later, he co-starred in Sundance hit The Deep End with Tilda Swinton and Josh Lucas. In 2003, Tucker was cast in the much anticipated re-imagining of the 1974 horror film of the name, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre produced by Michael Bay. In 2004, he appeared in the films Stateside and Criminal, in the 2005 film Hostage, Tucker worked alongside Bruce Willis and Ben Foster. Tucker plays Dennis Cooper, one of the brothers that, along with their mysterious accomplice Mars, in 2008, he was cast in The Ruins, a thriller based on the best selling book by Scott Smith and directed by Sundance award-winner Carter Smith. Tucker said he practiced Transcendental Meditation to offset the loneliness while filming the movie in Australia and he portrayed emerging artist Patrick Angus in the 2009 film An Englishman in New York, opposite John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. The biographical drama chronicles Crisps later years spent in New York City and he played the role of Mayor Bob Little from 2011 to 2014. Tucker currently co-stars on the DirecTV drama series Kingdom, Tucker also appeared in the final five episodes of the TV series Justified on FX as the crazy-eyed Boon — a cross between Billy the Kid and Travis Bickle. Continuing his relationship with Bryan Fuller, Tucker next stars at Low-Key Lysmith in Starzs upcoming Neil Gamon adaption American Gods, Tucker co-wrote the song Champagne Problems on Nick Jonass 2016 album Last Year Was Complicated. Jonathan Tucker is married to Tara Tucker, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning economic historian Liaquat Ahamed and they were married on June 16,2012. Tucker is the founder of the Pegasus Fund, Jonathan Tucker at the Internet Movie Database Jonathan Tucker on Twitter
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Emmanuelle Chriqui
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Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui is a Canadian film and television actress. She is known for her performance on HBOs Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as Dalia and she is also known for her role on The Mentalist television series as Lorelei Martins, accomplice to Red John. In May 2010, she topped the AskMen. com Most Desirable Women of 2010 list, Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Sephardi Jewish parents from Morocco. Her mother, Liliane, was born in Casablanca, and her father, Albert, in Rabat and her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition. Chriqui has a brother, Serge, and an older sister. When she was almost two, her moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Markham, Ontario, a suburb northeast of the city and her mother, an aesthetician who once told Emmanuelle she would become an actress, died when Chriqui was sixteen years old. As a child, she took acting classes, for which her brother paid, Chriqui attended the drama program at Unionville High School. After high school, Chriqui decided to pursue a career in acting, Chriqui began acting as a 10-year-old in a McDonalds commercial. She moved to Vancouver in the mid-1990s, guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark, forever Knight, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor, Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her first Hollywood role was as a character in Detroit Rock City. Chriquis first feature role was in Chris Kochs Snow Day and she later appeared in several movies, such as 100 Girls, Wrong Turn, On the Line and In the Mix. She played Eve in the 2005 comedy National Lampoons Adam & Eve, Chriqui was nominated for a Best Actress DVD Exclusive Award for her performance in 100 Girls and was nominated, with Lance Bass, for a Choice Liplock Teen Choice Award in On the Line. In April 2008, she won the Standout Performance Trophy at the Young Hollywood Awards, Chriqui also starred in several music videos including Hinders Lips of an Angel, Zac Brown Bands Whatever It Is, and Charles Perrys I Could Be the Best Time of Your Life. She threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 8,2008, Chriqui was on the cover of the Autumn 2008 issue of Naked Eye. She appeared in the 2008 film Cadillac Records as Revetta Chess, Chriqui was seen in 2009 as one of several women whose lives interconnect in the comedy Women in Trouble and appeared in its 2010 sequel Elektra Luxx. In 2010, Chriqui joined Showtimes 2011 series, The Borgias and she is also the voice of Cheetara in the ThunderCats 2011 animated series. Emmanuelle Chriqui on Twitter Emmanuelle Chriqui at the Internet Movie Database
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Katherine Heigl
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Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress, film producer and former fashion model. She played Izzie Stevens on ABCs medical drama Greys Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, Heigl has also had a prominent film career, with appearances in Knocked Up,27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, Killers, Life As We Know It and New Years Eve. She played the role on the short-lived NBC television series State of Affairs from 2014 to 2015. Heigl started her career as a model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting. She made her debut in That Night and later appeared in My Father the Hero as well as Under Siege 2. From 1999 to 2002, Heigl co-starred as Isabel Evans on the television series Roswell, additionally, she has established herself as a cover model, appearing in numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. Heigl is married to singer Josh Kelley, with whom she has two adopted daughters and a biological son, Heigl was born in Washington, D. C. in Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the youngest of four children of Nancy, a manager, and Paul Heigl. Her father is of German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry and her siblings are Meg, Jason, and Holt. In 1986, her older brother Jason died of injuries suffered in a car accident and his organs were donated by his family after death. Her brothers death led Heigls parents to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, when Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a number of photographs of her. After returning to her home in New York, her aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, within a few weeks, she signed with Wilhelmina Models as a child model. Soon after signing with the agency, a client slated Heigl for use in an advertisement where she made her debut. At the time, she was earning $75 an hour posing for Sears, Heigl first appeared in a national television spot for Cheerios cereal. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film, Heigl dropped out of New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood. In 1995, she starred in the Steven Seagal action thriller Under Siege 2, Heigl portrayed a 16-year-old traveller on a train across a mountain pass to visit the grave of her deceased father with uncle Casey Ryback, an ex-SEAL counter-terrorist expert. The main plotline has the train hijacked by mercenaries in Colorado, much of her work in the film was opposite Morris Chestnut, Sandra Taylor and Everett McGill. Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, after her high school graduation in 1997, she moved into a four-bedroom house in Malibu Canyon, California with her mother, who also became her manager
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Jaime Pressly
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Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl and she has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy, The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA, Dead or Alive, and I Love You, Man. She is currently in the cast of the CBS sitcom, Mom, Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue, a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman. In 1992, she moved with her family to Costa Mesa, California and she spent her childhood and early teenage years training as a gymnast, which led her to modeling jobs. At age fourteen, Pressly appeared on her first cover, Teen Magazine, at fifteen, she left school and went to Japan on a modeling contract. She succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of fifteen so she could travel to Japan, Pressly starred as Violet in the 1997 film Poison Ivy, The New Seduction. In 1998 she starred as Nikki on the short-lived TV series Push, from 1999-2001, she played Audrey on the drama series Jack and Jill. Pressly starred in the independent film Poor White Trash, playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake, in 2001, she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You. In 2002, she was ranked #8 in Stuff magazines 102 Sexiest Women in the World, in 2003, she launched a lingerie line, JAime, which later became a full sleepwear and ready-to-wear line. In 2006, Maxim magazine named her #34 on its annual list, Pressly posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy. She also appeared nude in the May 2006 issue of Allure, Pressly guest-starred in episodes of several TV shows. She appeared in an episode of the prank series Punkd, in 2005, Pressly was cast in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, as Joy Turner. In 2007, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show, Pressly sang Fever in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls. She has appeared in a number of videos, including The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band, Girls of Summer by Aerosmith. On May 31,2006, she hosted the first annual VH1 Rock Honors, Pressly was a producer, as well as a star, in the 2005 movie Death to the Supermodels. She hosted the October 7,2006, episode of Saturday Night Live, on December 3,2009, it was announced that she would guest-star on an upcoming episode of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. She would play a possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey and she reprised her role in the fifth-season premiere. She appeared in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, in July 2012, Pressly starred in Jimbo Lees Abby in the Summer
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Marissa Ribisi
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She is the twin sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi. Ribisi was born Santina Marissa Ribisi in Los Angeles, California and her mother, Gay, is a manager of actors and writers, and her father, Al Ribisi, is a musician. Ribisi began acting when she was nine years old and her twin brother, Giovanni, is also an actor. Like her husband and her brother, she is a Scientologist, Ribisi first appeared on television in 1988, playing a minor red-haired character named Ginger in Shell Get Over It, an episode of My Two Dads. This was followed by similar brief appearances in Baywatch, DEA, ribisis first role in a feature film was in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. She starred alongside Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg, who were then, like Ribisi, the actress played Cynthia, a socially marginalized girl who runs with two verbose outsiders. In 1998, Ribisi cowrote the film Some Girl and starred in it alongside Juliette Lewis, Michael Rapaport, the film, directed by Rory Kelly, relates the story of insecure young women searching for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles. She has had roles in the films True Crime, The Brady Bunch Movie, Pleasantville and she has also appeared in television shows such as Felicity, Friends, Grace Under Fire, and Watching Ellie, as well as the TV miniseries Tales of the City. She also appeared on the short-lived TV series Grown Ups from 1999 to 2000, in 2001 she played the role of Dora in the movie 100 Girls. In October 2007, Ribisi launched a line, Whitley Kros. Ribisi married musician and recording artist Beck in April 2004, shortly before giving birth to their son, the couples second child, daughter Tuesday, was born in 2007. Marissa Ribisi at the Internet Movie Database Her personal website, hosted by the Church of Scientology
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Lionsgate
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10,1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia and it owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. to take the company public. Beringers mining assets were sold off. Lionsgate then began a series of acquisitions to get into the film industry, the company bought a number of small production facilities and distributors, starting with Montreal-based Cinépix Film Properties and North Shore Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mandalay Television was acquired by Lionsgate from Peter Guber for a 4% Lionsgate stake, in 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, iMGs CEO Peter Strauss became president of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Lionsgates U. S. film & TV production & distribution subsidiary, Lions Gate Media subsidiary was also formed to produce for television. Completing its first year of operation, Lionsgate had revenue of $42.2 million with loss of $397,000, the company share price dropped to a low of $1.40. This limited the ability to make acquisitions via stock swaps. Lionsgate instead made its acquisition of Termite Art Productions, a reality-based television production company. Lionsgate created US based Avalanche Films and acquired half of Sterling Home Entertainment, again, Lionsgate registered losses in its second year of $9.3 million on revenues of $78.3 million with most of the losses were from its stake in Mandalay Pictures. Thus in the summer, Lionsgate placed its studios up for sale with no buyers, TV operations were changed to non-network hourlong series over riskier network shows and ended its relationship with Mandalay Television. The corporation sought out more capital and cash with a filing of a prospectus for the sale of preferred stock and common stock warrants. This led to Feltheimer taking over as CEO from Giustra thus the passed over Doroniuk left the company, Feltheimer increased film making including several $1 million films at Avalanche. However, Federgreen still remains one of the owners of the company and is extremely involved in the making of all their major movies. In June, Lionsgate acquired Trimark Holdings, Inc. for approximately $50 million in stock, Lionsgate continued making acquisitions during the decade to boost distribution and its film library. On December 15,2003, Lionsgate acquired Artisan Entertainment for $220 million, in 2004, Erik Nelson reacquired Termite Art and renamed it to Creative Differences
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Panties
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Panties in American English are a form of underwear worn by women. Panties are most often form-fitting, but may also be loose, typical components include an elastic waistband, a crotch panel to cover the genital area, and a pair of leg openings that, like the waistband, are often made of elastic. Various materials are used, but are chosen to be breathable. In Australia, mens underpants are often referred to as undies, the term is little used in the United States and Canada, where the term panties is usually favoured. In the UK, the pants is also used for both men and womens underwear. Panties are classified into various styles based on such as the amount of rear coverage, width at the sides. These categories are not necessarily distinct and usage may vary somewhat among brands, Briefs rise to the waist, or just below the navel, classic briefs feature sides that extend below the hip. Sometimes these are called granny panties by young women, high-cut briefs are designed with sides that are somewhat narrower. Control briefs are designed to offer support while giving a slimmer appearance and this type usually contains a stretch material such as spandex and may extend above the waist. Hipsters are worn lower down on the body, with the waistband around the hips, boyleg are styled after mens boxer briefs and have short legs extending below the crotch. Bikinis, like hipsters, sit at hip level, but the fabric of the sections is narrower. The crotch is extended to the back of the wearer and a strip of fabric fits between the buttocks, becoming wider towards the top. The G-string has a string at the back, which connects the crotch to the waistband. Panties are made of a variety of materials and fabrics, including satin, silk, PVC, cotton, nylon, mesh, lace, rawhide, leather, latex, lycra, and polyester. Construction typically consists of two pieces that are joined by seams at the crotch and sides, a gusset is often in the crotch, with the waistband. If wearing low shapewear, or a girdle, with attached garters, the earliest known use of underwear that resembles modern panties dates back to 4,400 B. C. during the Badari period in Egypt. Statuettes found in Badari tombs show the modern panty as it is known today, most modern cultures have created their own style of underwear, but modern panties closely resemble those that adorn Badarian statuettes. Bloomers Camiknickers French knickers Going commando Pantalettes Underwear fetishism Media related to Womens knickers at Wikimedia Commons
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Air conditioning
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Air conditioning is the process of removing heat from a confined space, thus cooling the air, and removing humidity. Air conditioning can be used in domestic and commercial environments. Air conditioners often use a fan to distribute the air to an occupied space such as a building or a car to improve thermal comfort. The cooling is achieved through a refrigeration cycle, but sometimes evaporation or free cooling is used. Air conditioning systems can also be based on desiccants and subterraneous pipes that can distribute the heated refrigerant to the ground for cooling. In the most general sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of technology that modifies the condition of air, in common usage, though, air conditioning refers to systems which cool air. In construction, a system of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning is referred to as heating, ventilation. Since prehistoric times, snow and ice were used for cooling, the business of harvesting ice during winter and storing for use in summer became popular towards the late 17th century. This practice was replaced by mechanical ice-making machines, the basic concept behind air conditioning is said to have been applied in ancient Egypt, where reeds were hung in windows and were moistened with trickling water. The evaporation of water cooled the air blowing through the window and this process also made the air more humid, which can be beneficial in a dry desert climate. In Ancient Rome, water from aqueducts was circulated through the walls of houses to cool them. Other techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. The 2nd-century Chinese inventor Ding Huan of the Han Dynasty invented a fan for air conditioning, with seven wheels 3 m in diameter. During the subsequent Song Dynasty, written sources mentioned the air conditioning rotary fan as even more widely used, in the 17th century, Cornelis Drebbel demonstrated Turning Summer into Winter for James I of England by adding salt to water. The introduction of air conditioning in the 1920s helped enable the great migration to the Sun Belt in the United States. In 1758, Benjamin Franklin and John Hadley, a professor at Cambridge University. Franklin and Hadley confirmed that evaporation of volatile liquids could be used to drive down the temperature of an object past the freezing point of water. They conducted their experiment with the bulb of a mercury thermometer as their object and they lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb down to −14 °C while the ambient temperature was 18 °C
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Janeite
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The term Janeite has been both embraced by devotees of the works of Jane Austen and used as a term of opprobrium. According to Austen scholar Claudia Johnson Janeitism is the self-consciously idolatrous enthusiasm for Jane, the term Janeite was originally coined by the literary scholar George Saintsbury in his 1894 introduction to a new edition of Pride and Prejudice. As Austen scholar Deidre Lynch explains, he meant to equip himself with a badge of honor he could jubilantly pin to his own lapel, in the early twentieth century, Janeitism was principally a male enthusiasm shared among publishers, professors, and literati. Rudyard Kipling even published a story entitled The Janeites about a group of World War I soldiers who were secretly fans of Austens novels. During the 1930s and 1940s, when Austens works were canonized and accepted within the academy and it was used to signify those who appreciated Austen in the wrong way and the term, according to Lynch, is now used almost exclusively about and against other people. Johnson noted Janeites are derided and marginalized by dominant cultural institutions bent on legitimizing their own objects, at the same time, Austen remains a topic of serious academic inquiry at top global universities in a way to which very recent subcultures are only just beginning to aspire. Lynch has described committed Janeites as members of a cult, comparing their travels to places Austen lived or places described in her novels or their adaptations as pilgrimages, Johnson, Claudia L. Austen cults and cultures. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, MacDonald, Gina and Andrew MacDonald, eds
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austens plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of social standing. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. With the publications of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma and she wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. Her novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously, a significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1869, fifty-two years after her death, when her nephews publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider audience. Austen has inspired a number of critical essays and literary anthologies. Her novels have inspired many films, from 1940s Pride and Prejudice to more recent productions, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austens use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary have earned her great and historical importance to critics and scholars. The Bank of England has confirmed that the face of the new plastic £10 note will be Austen, the notes are expected to be released in summer 2017. There is little information about Jane Austens life except the few letters that survive. During her lifetime Austen wrote approximately 3,000 letters but only about 160 survive, many of the letters were written to Austens older sister Cassandra, who in 1843 burned the greater part of them and cut pieces out of those she kept. Cassandra believed that in the interest of tact and Janes penchant for forthrightness, the paucity of record of Austens life leaves modern biographers little to work with. The situation was compounded as successive generations of the family expunged and sanitized the already opaque details of Austens biography, Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on 16 December 1775. She was born a month later than her parents expected, her father wrote of her arrival in a letter that her mother certainly expected to have brought to bed a month ago. He added that her arrival was particularly welcome as a companion to her sister. The winter of 1776 was particularly harsh and it was not until 5 April that she was baptised at the church with the single name Jane. For much of Janes life, George Austen served as the rector of the Anglican parishes at Steventon, and he came from an old, respected, and wealthy family of wool merchants. Over the centuries as each generation of eldest sons received inheritances their wealth was consolidated and he and his two sisters were orphaned as children and had to be taken in by relatives. His sister Philadelphia went to India to find a husband and George entered St Johns College, Oxford on a fellowship and she came from the prominent Leigh family, her father was rector at All Souls College, Oxford, where she grew up among the gentry
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Machismo
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Machismo is the sense of being manly and self-reliant, the concept associated with a strong sense of masculine pride, an exaggerated masculinity. It is associated with a responsibility to provide for, protect. In American political usage, William Safire said that it refers to the, condescension of the swaggering male, the trappings of manliness used to dominate women and keep them in their place. The word macho has a history in both Spain and Portugal as well as in Spanish and Portuguese languages. It was originally associated with the societal role men were expected to play in their communities, most particularly. Macho in Portuguese and Spanish is a masculine term, derived from the Latin mascŭlus meaning male. Machos in Iberian-descended cultures are expected to possess and display bravery, courage and strength as well as wisdom and leadership, during the womens liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the term began to be used by Latin American feminists to describe male aggression and violence. The term was used by Latina feminists and scholars to criticize the patriarchal structure of gendered relations in Latino communities and their goal was to describe a particular Latin American brand of patriarchy. The English word machismo derives from the identical Spanish and Portuguese word, gender roles make an important part of human identity as we conduct our identities through our historical and current social actions. In the play A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller and he wants to be the best of the men around him and when beaten, becomes very agitated and increasingly irrational. Caballerismo or caballerosidad in Spanish, or cavalheirismo in Portuguese, is a Latin American understanding of manliness that focuses more on honour, the literal meaning of caballero is horseman but more metaphoric meanings are knight and gentleman. Latin American scholars have noted that positive descriptors of machismo resemble the characteristics associated with the concept of caballerismo, studies show Latin American men understand masculinity to involve considerable childcare responsibilities, politeness, respect for womens autonomy, and non-violent attitudes and behaviors. In this way, machismo comes to both positive and negative understanding of Latin American male identity within the immigrant context. Therefore, machismo, like all social constructions of identity, should be understood as having multiple layers, the word caballerismo originates from the Spanish word for horseman, caballero. Caballerismo refers to a chivalric code of behavior. It was also associated with the class of knights in the feudal system, in Spanish, caballero referred to a land-owning colonial gentleman of high station who was master of estates and/or ranches. There is controversy surrounding the concept of Machismo as originally from Spanish, however, the word machismo does resemble words in Spanish and Portuguese language which is the cause why it is often associated with Spain and Portugal. For example, the use of caballerismo, Cavalheirismo, to only the positive characteristics of machismo contains colonial connotations regarding the historical colonial power relations
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Stereotype
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In social psychology, a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality, however, this is only a fundamental psychological definition of a stereotype. Within psychology and spanning across other disciplines, there are different conceptualizations, some of these definitions share commonalities, though each one may also harbor unique aspects that may contradict the others. The term stereotype derives from the Greek words στερεός, firm, solid and τύπος, impression, the term comes from the printing trade and was first adopted in 1798 by Firmin Didot to describe a printing plate that duplicated any typography. The duplicate printing plate, or the stereotype, is used for printing instead of the original, outside of printing, the first reference to stereotype was in 1850, as a noun that meant image perpetuated without change. However, it was not until 1922 that stereotype was first used in the psychological sense by American journalist Walter Lippmann in his work Public Opinion. Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination are understood as related but different concepts, although related, the three concepts can exist independently of each other. Studies of stereotype content examine what people think of others, rather than the reasons, early theories of stereotype content proposed by social psychologists such as Gordon Allport assumed that stereotypes of outgroups reflected uniform antipathy. For instance, Katz and Braly argued in their classic 1933 study that ethnic stereotypes were uniformly negative, by contrast, a newer model of stereotype content theorizes that stereotypes are frequently ambivalent and vary along two dimensions, warmth and competence. Warmth and competence are respectively predicted by lack of competition and status, groups that do not compete with the in-group for the same resources are perceived as warm, whereas high-status groups are considered competent. The groups within each of the four combinations of high and low levels of warmth, the model explains the phenomenon that some out-groups are admired but disliked, whereas others are liked but disrespected. This model was tested on a variety of national and international samples and was found to reliably predict stereotype content. Early studies suggested that stereotypes were only used by rigid, repressed, stereotyping can serve cognitive functions on an interpersonal level, and social functions on an intergroup level. For stereotyping to function on a level, an individual must see themselves as part of a group. Craig McGarty, Russell Spears, and Vincent Y, Yzerbyt argued that the cognitive functions of stereotyping are best understood in relation to its social functions, and vice versa. Stereotypes can help make sense of the world and they are a form of categorization that helps to simplify and systematize information. Thus, information is easily identified, recalled, predicted. Stereotypes are categories of objects or people, between stereotypes, objects or people are as different from each other as possible
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Ponytail
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It gets its name from its resemblance to the undocked tail of a horse or pony. Ponytails are most commonly gathered at the middle of the back of the head, depending on fashions, they may also be worn at the side of the head which is worn over one ear, or on the very top of the head. If the hair is divided so that it hangs in two sections they are called ponytails or pigtails, if left loose, and pigtails, plaits or braids if plaited, unbraided ponytails worn above each ear are sometimes called dog-ears. It is common for those who wear tight ponytails to experience traction alopecia, sometimes it can cause a headache. Women complying with European fashion of the Georgian period and to the 20th century rarely were seen outside of the boudoir with their hair in such a style as a ponytail. Today, both women and girls wear their hair in ponytails in informal and office settings or when exercising. It is a choice as it keeps hair out of the eyes. It will keep the hair off the neck as well, a ponytail can also be a fashion statement, sometimes meaning sporty, other times a low pony tail sends signals of a chic personality. In the late 18th century, men often tied their ponytails with a black ribbon, in the late 1980s, a short ponytail was seen as an impudent, edgy look for men who wanted to individualize, but keep their hair flat and functional. Steven Seagals ponytail in Marked for Death is an example of such, at that time, it was commonly known by the French word for tail, queue. It was a hairstyle for men in all European armies until the early 19th century. The British Army was the first to dispense with it, queue was also the word used to refer to the waist-length pigtail which the ruling Manchus made Han Chinese men wear during the Qing Dynasty in China. The first equation of state for hair was developed by C F van Wyk in 1946, scientists in the UK have formulated a mathematical model that predicts the shape of a ponytail given the length and random curvature of a sample of individual hairs. The Ponytail Shape Equation provides an understanding of how a ponytail is swelled by the pressure which arises from interactions between the component hairs. The researchers developed a general theory for a bundle of hairs. The equation itself is a fourth order non linear differential equation, the Rapunzel number is a ratio used in this equation to calculate the effects of gravity on hair relative to its length. This number determines whether a ponytail looks like a fan or whether it arcs over, a short ponytail of springy hair with a low Rapunzel number, fans outward. A long ponytail with a high Rapunzel number, hangs down and it is now also known why joggers ponytails swing side to side
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Goatee
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A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on a mans chin but not his cheeks. The exact nature of the style has varied according to time, until the late 20th century, the term goatee was used to refer solely to a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin—as on the chin of a goat, hence the term goatee. The style dates back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, where the god Pan was traditionally depicted with one, the goatee became popular again in the late 19th century, becoming one of the characterizing physical traits of the bohemians in Paris. In the U. S. the style popular around the time of the American Civil War. Numerous wartime figures from the era wore variations on the goatee, including Abraham Lincoln, the goatee would not enjoy widespread popularity again until the 1940s, when it became a defining trait of the beatniks in post-World War II U. S. The style remained popular amongst the culture until the 1960s before falling out of favor again. In the 1990s, goatees with incorporated mustaches became fashionable for men across all classes and professions. Goatees have also used to signify a characters transformation from positive or neutral to evil. The use of goatees to designate evil characters has become enough of a trope that researchers from the University of Warwick conducted a study to assess the reasons for its prevalence. In media depicting members of counter-cultures, goatees have also used to differentiate between average characters and those belonging to some subgroup. Examples include Bob Denver in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, whose goatee serves to him as a beatnik, Shaggy Rogers in Scooby Doo. Darrell Abbott Buffalo Bill August Borms Thomas H. Carter Charles I of Great Britain Louis C. K, kurt Cobain Charles Dickens Benjamin Disraeli Guy Fawkes Rob Halford James Hetfield David Hilbert Henry M. David Brent Professor Calculus Flexo, Benders evil twin. Krebs Count von Count Beard Moustache Sideburns Soul patch Vandyke beard
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Slut
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Slut is generally a term for a woman or girl who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous. It is usually used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of disparagement and it originally meant a dirty, slovenly woman, and is rarely used to refer to men, generally requiring clarification by use of the terms male slut or man whore. The first recorded use of the word was in Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales and he says, Why is thy lord so sluttish, I thee pray, And is of power better clothes to bey. He is referring to the mans untidy appearance, the word has also been used to refer to dust bunnies, which were called slut bunnies. There have been attempts to reclaim the word for girls and women, the common denotative meanings are a sexually promiscuous woman, or an immoral or dissolute woman, prostitute. These definitions identify a slut as a woman of low character—a person who lacks the ability or chooses not to exercise a power of discernment to order her affairs. Similar terms used for men are cad, rake, male slut, man whore, himbo, womanizer, stud, the adjective slutty carries a similar connotation, but can be applied both to people and to clothing and accessories, such as Halloween costumes. Although the ultimate origin of the word slut is unknown, it first appeared in Middle English in 1402 as slutte, with the meaning a dirty, untidy, or slovenly woman. Even earlier, Geoffrey Chaucer used the word sluttish to describe a slovenly man, the modern sense of a sexually promiscuous woman dates to at least 1450. The word was used around 1450 in the late Middle English language. It was used to describe a woman as dirty, or refer to her as a prostitute, harlot, the word slut also took a similar form around the same era in the Norwegian language as slutr sleet, also known as an impure liquor. Another early meaning was kitchen maid or drudge, a meaning retained as late as the 18th century, when hard knots of dough found in bread were referred to as sluts pennies. A notable example of use is Samuel Pepyss diary description of his servant girl as an admirable slut who pleases us mightily. Slut and slutishness occur in Shakespeares comedy As You Like It, in the nineteenth century, the word was used as a euphemism in place of bitch in the sense of a female dog. Today, the term slut has a presence in popular culture and pornography. An exact male equivalent of the term does not exist, the lack of a comparably popular term for men highlights the double standard in societal expectations between males and females, as negative terms for sexually promiscuous males are rare. Out of the 220 terms ascribed to females and 20 terms ascribed to males, all terms are disapproving while some male terms signal approval or praise, these include stud, player. While colloquial terms such as male slut or man whore are used in popular culture, there are, however, alternative terms that can be used to criticize men for their sexuality
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Kristina Anapau
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Kristina Anapau is an American actress and writer. She is known for her roles as Maurella on the HBO series True Blood, Kristina Elizabeth Anapau Roper was born in Hawaii. She graduated from school at age 15 and began her studies at University of Hawaii that same year. Before gaining success as an actress, Anapau had intended to become a classical ballerina and she is a classically trained pianist and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Skidmore College in New York. In 2002, convinced acting was her calling card, Anapau reappeared in front of the lens. She also starred as Cassidy Merteuil in the Sony Pictures/Newmarket Films release, also during this time, Anapau guest starred and recurred on many noteworthy television productions, including House, M. D. CSI, NY, Monk, Without A Trace, and Knight Rider. Anapau also starred opposite comedian Dane Cook in the Sony Television produced pilot, in 2009, Anapau was cast in Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, and Vincent Cassel. The film went on to gross over $300 million worldwide and was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, Darren is a genius whose focus and discipline on set is contagious, Anapau said in an interview, reflecting on her work in the 2010 film. To say that working on Black Swan was inspiring would be an understatement, Anapau then completed several independent films including The Speak, in which she stars opposite Tom Sizemore, and the paranormal thriller 5 Souls, which she also co-produced. She appeared on the AMC series The Glades and then went on to land the role of faerie, Maurella, in Alan Balls HBO hit series, True Blood, recurring from season 4 through the present. In 2012, Anapau appeared on the NBC show Grimm, where she played Megan Marston, Anapau stars as Theresa in Tedi Sarafians paranormal feature Altergeist, and as Lisa Westbrook in the sci-fi action film BlackJacks, both set for a 2013 release. There is a lot of freedom to cross back and forth within the industry now, Anapau made her debut as the faerie Maurella on episode of 11 of True Bloods fourth season, and reprised the role in the fifth. The actress told The Huffington Post in an interview that It was such a privilege to join the cast of True Blood. I was a huge Alan Ball fan prior to joining the show-- Im so fortunate to work with an group of people, immensely talented actors. Anapau has graced the cover of the Holiday 2012 issues of both Modern Luxury and Status LA magazine and she has also been a cover model for Stuff magazine. She was also one of Stuff magazines 103 Sexiest Women in the World, tierney Eastway They Shoot Divas, Dont They. Galina True Blood Maurella The Speak, Theresa She won the Copper Wing Award at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival for Best Ensemble for Self Medicated. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble for Black Swan, Kristina won the Actress No Ka Oi award at the 2011 Big Island Film Festival
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Anya Marina
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Anya Marina is a singer-songwriter, based in New York City. Anya Marina was born Anya Marina Kroth in Ann Arbor, Michigan and was raised in Cupertino and her parents are both University professors, who teach Psychology and Russian Literature. She moved to Los Angeles as an actress and attended classes at the British American Drama Academy. She has acted on television and in films, at university, she worked as a DJ on KSCU, the Universitys radio station, and was the lead singer in the popular Bay Area band. After graduating in 1997, Anya appeared on The Howard Stern Show as Anya the Au Pair, in San Diego Marina played her first open mic night and began to write her own songs. She developed a show that included anecdotes and frank stories told between songs, and continued working as a DJ on the radio in San Diego while playing around town and, later. Her recorded debut was a five-song EP called Exercises in Racketeering, which led to a full-length album, Miss Halfway. Anya subsequently opened for Jason Mraz, Juliana Hatfield and Rhett Miller among others and she was named one of the Best Unsigned acts by the San Diego CityBeat. Miss Halfway was produced by Scott Russo, the frontman for rockers Unwritten Law, the record eventually earned a San Diego Music Award for Best Recording. On January 20,2009, Marina released her album, Slow & Steady Seduction. The album was produced by Brian Karscig from Louis XIV and Britt Daniel from Spoon, the music video for the albums first single, Move You, was directed by Scott Coffey. On June 8,2009, the video for All The Same To Me, directed by Josh Forbes, in the summer of 2009, Anya was nominated for 3 San Diego Music Awards, Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. On September 10,2009, Move You won the award for Song of the Year, beating out fellow nominees including Jack Tempchin and her song Satellite Heart was featured on the Twilight Saga, New Moon soundtrack. Satellite Heart was released October 8,2009, with the video, later that same month, she performed the song at multiple venues on the nationwide New Moon Talent Tour. Marina co-hosted the live MySpace broadcast of the New Moon premiere, Anya was highlighted in an article by CNN. com as an artist poised on the edge of breakout success due to her involvement in the soundtrack. Marinas cover of Whatever You Like, originally by rapper T. I. was featured on the November 9,2009 episode of Gossip Girl, They Shoot Humphreys, Dont They. In 2009, Marina moved to Portland, Oregon to write and record the album Felony Flats and it was released three years later. In 2012, Marina moved to New York City to write and she co-hosts a humorous podcast about relationships with roommate and comedian Nikki Glaser and comedian Phil Hanley called We Know Nothing
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Eric Szmanda
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Eric Kyle Szmanda is an American actor. He played Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Szmanda was born in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, to Elaine and Donald Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Kyle. He attended Mukwonago High School and graduated at the age of nineteen from Caroll College and he went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, where he attended classes for four years. While he was in school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois and his great-uncle Ray Szmanda is the Menards Guy, a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menards hardware stores. He remained on the show until it ended after the season in September 2015. Campaign for Burma and traveled to Thailand to see the conditions of Burmese refugees who have fled their native country, dominic Leary Dangerous Attraction Szmanda also appeared in Marilyn Mansons music video AINT. Eric Szmanda Bio at CBS - CSI, Crime Scene Investigation Eric Szmanda at the Internet Movie Database
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Strawberry 100%
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Strawberry 100% is a Japanese harem manga series written and illustrated by Mizuki Kawashita. The series licensing rights were acquired by Viz Media, first publishing the series in Germany after partnering with publishing house Tokyopop. The series was released in North America, with the latest English release being the fourteenth volume on October 5,2010. The manga was adapted into an anime and several OVAs by Japanese animation studio Madhouse. The anime aired on Animax and TV Asahi from April 2005 to July 2005, a sequel manga has been planned and is set to run in the Shōnen Jump Giga manga anthology. Strawberry 100% chronicles the years of Junpei Manaka, a student and aspiring movie director. She leaves before he can talk to her, but he finds a nearby, belonging to Aya Toujou. The two become friends with the ambition of turning great stories into movies. Thinking that Tsukasa Nishino, the most popular girl in his school, might be the girl, he asks her out in a bold confession at the chin-up bar. He later realizes Tsukasa is not the girl but chooses to continue their relationship anyway. He places into Izumizaka High, but learns that Aya has given up an offer to the prestigious Oumi Academy to attend Izumizaka with him, at Izumizaka, Junpei encounters a feisty girl named Satsuki Kitaoji. The two become friends because of common interests, but Satsuki falls in love with him, Junpei tries to join the film club but learns it has been disbanded. He revives the club thanks to Aya, Satsuki, and his school friends as members. Junpei also discovers that his childhood friend Yu Minamoto is moving into his familys home, the film club make one film each year, each written by Aya and directed by Junpei, which is screened at the school festival. Satsuki stars in their first film, Tsukasa is the heroine of their second film, over the course of his high school life Junpei experiences many awkward moments involving the four girls in his life. Even though he is seeing Tsukasa, he also has feelings for Aya, eventually, Tsukasa grows impatient and breaks up with him. During this time Junpei and Ayas mutual feelings start to grow, things get more complicated as the students enter their third year and face education and career choices. Tsukasa plans to become a patissier in Paris and Aya decides to go to the same college Junpei has chosen and she even goes to the same cram school as him even though their friends disagree with her decision to give up better schools just to help Junpei make films
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Manga
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Manga are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art, the term manga in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning. Manga as a term used outside Japan refers to comics published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages read manga, many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥406 billion market in Japan in 2007. Manga have also gained a significant worldwide audience, in Europe and the Middle East the market was worth $250 million in 2012. In 2008, in the U. S. and Canada, the market was valued at $175 million, the markets in France. Manga stories are printed in black-and-white, although some full-color manga exist. In Japan, manga are usually serialized in manga magazines, often containing many stories. If the series is successful, collected chapters may be republished in tankōbon volumes, frequently but not exclusively, a manga artist typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company. If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run, sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films. Manga-influenced comics, among original works, exist in parts of the world, particularly in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan. The word manga comes from the Japanese word 漫画, composed of the two kanji 漫 meaning whimsical or impromptu and 画 meaning pictures, rakuten Kitazawa first used the word manga in the modern sense. In Japanese, manga refers to all kinds of cartooning, comics, among English speakers, manga has the stricter meaning of Japanese comics, in parallel to the usage of anime in and outside Japan. The term ani-manga is used to describe comics produced from animation cels, writers on manga history have described two broad and complementary processes shaping modern manga. One view emphasizes events occurring during and after the U. S, occupation of Japan, and stresses U. S. cultural influences, including U. S. comics and images and themes from U. S. television, film, and cartoons. Regardless of its source, an explosion of artistic creativity certainly occurred in the period, involving manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka. Astro Boy quickly became popular in Japan and elsewhere
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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
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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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Eight Days a Week (film)
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Eight Days a Week is a 1997 comedy film written and directed by Michael Davis. The title is taken from the Beatles song of the same name, the film features Dishwallas 1996 hit Counting Blue Cars. Peter is infatuated with his friend and next-door neighbor Erica. Based on advice from his grandfather, Peter decides to camp on Ericas lawn until she realizes that she loves him, during his summer-long wait, he frequently comments on their neighborhood
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Monster Man (film)
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Monster Man is a 2003 American comedy horror film written and directed by Michael Davis and stars Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks, and Michael Bailey Smith. In Latin America was released with the title Wrong Turn 2 Adam, after an encounter with a hearse, the two stop at a pub. They see a monster truck rally on TV and Harley mocks the people watching it, as they are driving away, a giant monster truck drives them off the road. Later on, they have to siphon gasoline from an abandoned RV, however, it is revealed that the RV has a mutilated body inside and the RV is surrounded by truck tracks that form a pentagram. Adam sees the driver and Harley urinates in the cab of the monster truck before they speed away. At a hotel, Adam and Harley wake up with roadkill in their beds, Sarah eventually has sex with Adam. Later, they witness the monster truck run over a man, and they meet a man missing an arm who tells them the creature in the monster truck takes peoples limbs, afterwards, the three drive through a ghost town with many scarecrows. They find a diner at the end of the town and begin to eat, after being chased by the man in the monster truck, their car is destroyed. Adam, Harley, and Sarah run into the woods and the man follows them and he finally catches up with them and shoves Harley into a tree, supposedly killing him, and kidnaps Sarah. Adam follows him to a covered with pentagrams, severed limbs. Adam finally finds Sarah and tries to escape, but Sarah knocks him unconscious, Sarah and the man, Bob, are brother and sister. They tie Adam to a table while the corpse with the midsection, Fred, explains that Bob accidentally ran him over, crushing his midsection. Sarah says she stitched Fred up and used magic to bring him back to life. Fred explains that they can use other peoples limbs to add to his own body as long as the donor stays alive, Sarah says that they needed someone easy to prepare and Adam was the right person. Previous events begin to make sense to Adam, Adam manages to escape and kills Sarah by slashing her throat. He also cuts Fred in half when he gets up and starts to attack him, outside, Bob chases Adam, but is run over by his own monster truck driven by Harley. Harley remarks he was playing dead and apologizes to Adam for everything he did to him since the beginning of the film and he offers Adam the chance to drive Bobs monster truck, to which Adam happily agrees. Adam then runs over Bob with the truck repeatedly for hours
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Shoot 'Em Up (film)
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Shoot Em Up is a 2007 action film, starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci. The film is about a drifter who rescues a newborn from being killed by an assassin, the drifter flees from the gang, enlisting the help of a prostitute to keep the baby safe as he unravels the conspiracy. The film was written and directed by Michael Davis and produced by Susan Montford, Don Murphy, the film was released on September 7,2007. Despite receiving generally positive reviews, the film underperformed at the box office and it went on to become a cult film. At a bus stop in a part of town, a drifter named Smith sees a pregnant woman fleeing a hitman. Following them into a warehouse, Smith murders the hitman by stabbing him in the face with a carrot, as more thugs arrive, the woman starts to give birth, and Smith is forced to deliver the womans baby during a shootout. Pursued by head assassin Karl Hertz, the woman is shot and killed, leaving the baby in a park, Smith hopes someone will adopt the child, only for a passing woman to be killed by a shot from Hertzs sniper rifle. Realizing Hertz is trying to kill the baby, Smith saves him, Hertz arrives at the brothel shortly after and tortures Donna for information, only for Smith to return and kill Hertzs henchmen. Taking Donna to his hideout, Smith realizes that the baby stops crying when he hears heavy metal music, followed by Hertz, Smith is then forced to shoot his way out of his hideout, before he and Donna head to a nearby club. Hiding in a room, Smith and Donna are attacked by masked men during sex. Before he pursues this clue, Smith takes Donna and Oliver to a war museum, Smith booby-traps the entire facility, allowing him to kill the thugs and escape. Smith soon notices an article on Senator Harry Rutledge, a presidential candidate campaigning for stricter gun laws, Smith deduces Rutledge has cancer and requires a bone marrow transplant, which is why he had surrogates impregnated with his sperm, and why Hertz and Hammerson want Oliver dead. If the infants die, the Senator will not receive a donation, Smith tells Donna to leave town, before Smith contacts one of Rutledges henchmen to request an appointment. Meeting aboard a plane, the Senator confirms Smiths suspicions, only for Smith to notice dog hair on his trousers, discerning the hair belongs to Duchess, and that the Senator struck a deal with Hammerson, Smith takes Rutledge hostage, only for Hertz and Hammerson to appear. Escaping from Hertz, Smith kills the Senator and leaps from the aircraft with a parachute, killing several pursuing henchmen, Smith is shot and, after safely landing, soon collapses due to his injuries. Smith subsequently awakes in Hammersons mansion, Hertz tortures Smith, breaking his fingers to learn where he sent Donna and Oliver. As Hertz prepares to cut Smiths eyes, Smith manages to break free, cornered and struggling to use his gun, Smith places live rounds between his broken fingers and, by detonating them using a fireplace, shoots and critically wounds Hertz. As Smith and Hertz both grab pistols and struggle to kill each other, Smith manages to fire first and kill Hertz, boarding a bus with Duchess, Smith soon stops at an ice-cream parlor, where he finds Donna working as a waitress while watching Oliver
