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Barry Bostwick
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Barry Knapp Bostwick is an American stage and screen actor. He is best known for portraying Brad Majors in the comedy horror The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Bostwick has also had success in musical theatre, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical The Robber Bridegroom. Bostwick was born in San Mateo, California and he is the son of Elizabeth Betty, a housewife, and Henry Bud Bostwick, a city planner and actor. His only sibling, Henry Pete Bostwick, was killed in a car accident on July 20,1973 and he also attended NYUs Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1968. Their sole album, released in 1970, was produced by Jeff Barry and his next stage appearance was in the 1971 rock opera Soon, which closed after three performances. In 1972, Bostwick originated the role of bad boy Danny Zuko in the production of Grease. This was followed by a role as Terr in the English-dubbed version of Fantastic Planet in 1973. He later starred with Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon in The Rocky Horror Picture Show portraying the character of Brad Majors and he also won a Tony Award for his performance in the 1977 musical The Robber Bridegroom. In 1981, Bostwick starred in the TV series adaptation of the 1978 movie Foul Play, with his role modeled after Chevy Chases, the following year, he starred in Megaforce. Bostwick starred, along with Carl Weintraub, as Rick Armstrong in the short-lived ABC sitcom Dads during the 1986-87 season. From 1996 to 2002, Bostwick portrayed Randall Winston, the mayor of New York City in the sitcom Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox and his successor, Charlie Sheen. In 2006, Bostwick replaced Peter Scolari as Mr. Tyler, since 2004, Bostwick has had a recurring role on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. Bostwick served as host of the nationally televised annual Capitol Fourth celebration on the National Mall in Washington, Bostwick was also seen in a Pepsi Twist commercial. In 2003, Bostwick appeared on Scrubs as a patient diagnosed with prostate cancer, in 2008, he appeared in an episode of TV series Ugly Betty as an attorney to the Meade family. In 2007, Bostwick gained a role, as Grandpa Clyde Flynn on the animated television series, Phineas. Bostwick is also the spokesperson for Optimum Voice, in June 2009 he played Father Jimmy, the ineffective exorcist in the independent horror comedy The Selling, written by Gabriel Diani and directed by Emily Lou. Other television credits include guest appearances in Charlies Angels, Hawaii Five-O, The Golden Palace, Grace Under Fire, and Las Vegas
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Samuel West
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Samuel Alexander Joseph West, also known as Sam West, is an English actor and director. He is best known for his role in the film Howards End, West was born in London, the elder son of actors Prunella Scales and Timothy West and the grandson of the late actor Lockwood West. He was educated at Alleyns School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, West works as an actor in a variety of dramatic media including theatre, film, television and radio. He has made a career as a director on stage and radio and he has narrated many television documentaries, including the acclaimed series The Nazis, A Warning from History. He often appears as reciter with orchestras and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002, in 2002, West made his stage directorial debut with The Ladys Not for Burning at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. He succeeded Michael Grandage as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005-2007, during his time as artistic director West revived the controversial The Romans in Britain and also directed As You Like It as part of the RSCs Complete Works Festival. His 2008 production of Waste at the Almeida Theatre was chosen by The Times as one of its Productions of the Decade, from November 2012 to January 2013 he appeared as Astrov in a production of Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre. He played Ivanov and Trigorin in the Chichester Festival Theatres Young Chekhov Season from September 2015, alongside Nina Sosanya, Anna Chancellor, for this role, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 1993 BAFTA Film Awards. Two years later he appeared with Thompson in the film Carrington. His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Franco Zeffirellis Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris and Van Helsing. In 2004, he appeared in the years highest rated mini-series on German television, Die Nibelungen, in 2012 he played King George VI in Hyde Park on Hudson. He is a face on television appearing in many long-running series, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead. He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies, a BBC production about the four British spies, starring alongside Toby Stephens, Tom Hollander and Rupert Penry-Jones. In 2010 he played Peter Scabius in the adaptation of William Boyds novel Any Human Heart. In addition, he appeared in the BBC Series As Time Goes By episode titled Well Always Have Paris playing the character named Terry and he plays Frank Edwards in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge, and Sir Walter Pole in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. In 2011 he made his directing debut with a production of Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3. In two films, Sam and his father have played the character at different ages. In Edward the Seventh, he and his brother Joseph played young sons of the title character, West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator for a concert of theirs in February 2002
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Maurice LaMarche
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Maurice LaMarche is a Canadian voice actor and former stand-up comedian. He is best known for voicing The Brain in Animaniacs and its spin-off as well as his Emmy-winning performances in Futurama, LaMarche was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but his family moved to Timmins, Ontario, very soon after he was born. LaMarches childhood was filled with his own world of cartoons. It was not until his year of high school that he learned of the popularity his talent for mimicry could garner him. This realization came from a performance in a high school variety night when a couple of friends urged him to enter. The act he performed at the variety night was celebrities as waiters which he used all the way up until the end of his stand-up career. At the age of 19, LaMarche took his school act to an open mic night in New York City, performing to a reaction in which, as he describes. This reaction was coupled with the backlash LaMarche received from fellow Canadian comedians who LaMarche describes as discouraging him from pursuing a career outside of Canada, three years later, at the age of 22, LaMarche moved straight to Los Angeles to further his stand-up career. This move, LaMarche says, would always be something he regretted doing instead of moving to New York, in retrospect, I thought it was a mistake. I think that a couple of years in New York would have made me a stronger comedian, over the next five years, LaMarches career would gradually progress, playing comedy clubs all over the U. S. On March 9,1987, LaMarches father was murdered, shot to death by a friend in a Toronto hotel lobby. This sent LaMarche into depression and alcoholism for the two years, effectively stalling his stand-up career. After getting sober on Inauguration Day in 1989, LaMarche embarked again into the world of his first love, standup comedy, in the early part of 1990. However, just as he was regaining lost momentum, tragedy struck once more, at this point, though he remained sober, LaMarche decided he just could not do standup comedy anymore. He says, at that point I just threw up my hands and went, Oh, I don’t have any funny left in me. LaMarches first entrance into the industry was in 1980 in Easter Fever and Take Me Up to the Ball Game. LaMarche did not venture into acting again until years later as a side endeavor during his full-time standup comedy career. LaMarche began on Inspector Gadget and went on to Dennis the Menace, Popeye and Son, following this, LaMarche worked on The Critic, Freakazoid. and The Tick before then reprising his role of Egon in Extreme Ghostbusters
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Jason Alexander
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Jay Scott Greenspan, known by his stage name Jason Alexander, is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and director. Alexander is best known for his prominent role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld, Other well-known roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film Pretty Woman and the title character in the animated series Duckman. Alexander has had a career on stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989. He appeared in the Los Angeles production of The Producers and he was the Artistic Director of Reprise. Broadways Best in Los Angeles, where he has directed several musicals, Alexander was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents Ruth Minnie, a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B. He has a half-sister, Karen Van Horne, and a half-brother, Alexander grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and is a 1977 graduate of Livingston High School. He attended Boston University but left the summer before his senior year and he was later given an honorary degree in 1995. He is a magician, and only switched to acting as a career when he realized that he was unlikely to succeed as a magician. Alexander began his career on the New York stage and is an accomplished singer and dancer. Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a run, opposite Martin Short. Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Alexander was recently named the Artistic Director of Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where he previously directed Sunday in the Park with George. He is scheduled to direct the revival of Damn Yankees at Reprise. In 2015, he replaced Larry David as the lead in Davids Broadway play Fish in the Dark, Alexander is best known as one of the key cast members of the award-winning television sitcom Seinfeld, in which he played George Costanza. He did, however, win a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his work, before Seinfeld, he starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom called Everythings Relative in 1987 which lasted six episodes. Concurrently with his Seinfeld role, Alexander provided the voice of the character in the cult animated series Duckman. Alexander also voiced Catbert, the director of human resources. Alexander made cameo appearances in the season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Alexander also appeared in the season of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Martin Short
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Martin Hayter Short CM is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. He is known for his work on the television programs SCTV, in 1999, he won a Tony Award for his lead performance in a Broadway revival of Little Me. He and his siblings were raised as Catholics and he had three older brothers, David, Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora. Shorts father was a Catholic immigrant from Crossmaglen, South Armagh who came to North America as a stowaway during the Irish War of Independence, Shorts mother was of English and Irish descent. She encouraged his creative endeavours. His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car accident in Montreal and his mother died of cancer in 1968, his father two years later of complications from a stroke. Short attended Westdale Secondary School and graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work in 1971. Among other members of that productions cast were Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and he was subsequently cast in several television shows and plays, including the drama Fortune and Mens Eyes. He worked solely in Canada through 1979, in 1979, Short starred in the U. S. sitcom The Associates about a group of young novice lawyers working at a Wall Street law firm. In 1980, he joined the cast of Im a Big Girl Now, Canova was offered the sitcom because of her success playing Corinne Tate Flotsky on ABCs Soap and left Soap shortly before Shorts newlywed wife Nancy Dolman joined it. Short was encouraged to pursue comedy by McMaster classmates Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas and he came to public notice when the group produced a show for television, Second City Television or SCTV, which ran for several years in Canada, then the United States. Short appeared on SCTV in 1982–83, current-events commentator Troy Soren Industrialist and art patron Bradley P. Short joined Saturday Night Live for the 1984–85 season and he helped revive the show with his many characters for season ten. Shorts appearance on SNL helped to revive the shows fanbase, which had flagged after the departure of Eddie Murphy and his SNL characters included numerous holdovers from his SCTV days. He also did impressions of celebrities as Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn. In addition to his work on SCTV and SNL, Short has starred in television specials. In 1985, Short starred in the one-hour Showtime special, Martin Short, Concert for the North Americas, in 1989, Short headlined another one-hour comedy special, this time for HBO, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood, Shorts classic send-up of all things Hollywood. It featured many of his characters including Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr, Short starred as Jiminy Glick on Comedy Centrals Primetime Glick
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DisneyToon Studios
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DisneyToon Studios, originally Disney MovieToons and was also Disney Video Premieres, is an American animation studio which creates direct-to-video and occasional theatrical animated feature films. The studio is a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios, with both being part of The Walt Disney Studios itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio has produced 47 feature films, beginning with DuckTales the Movie, Treasure of the Lost Lamp, its most recent is Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast. Disney MovieToons first feature production was in 1990 with DuckTales the Movie, Disney Television Animation hired a director of specials, Sharon Morrill, in 1993. Disney began producing direct-to-video sequels of Walt Disney Feature Animation films, with work handed out to both the Australian and Japanese animation units, the opening story was instead green lit for a direct-to-video release. Thus with The Return of Jafar and its success, the unit started. Then a second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Morrill was in charge of the above first Aladdin DTV film launching Disney Video Premiere. Morrill expanded the DTV market making it important for Disney thus the overseas Disney studios were increasing assigned to these features. Morrill was promoted to president of Direct to Video by November 1997. WDT would be headed by Charles Hirschhorn as president and consist of Disney Telefilms and Disney TV animation group including Disney MovieToons, the unit released a short in 1997, Redux Riding Hood, under the WDTA name that was nominated for an 1998 Academy Award. Morrill continued to lead the division as vice president. With the split, both DisneyToon and Disney Television Animation were issuing direct to video features, Disney closed Disney Animation Japan, one of the two remaining internal overseas studios DisneyToon worked with, in early June 2004 with Poohs Heffalump Movie to be its final DTS work. By March 2005, Morrill was promoted to president of DisneyToon, on July 25,2005, Disney announced that it was closing DisneyToon Studios Australia in October 2006, after 17 years of existence, with its final feature being Cinderella III, A Twist in Time. While DCP eyed other potential franchises, DTS looked to the Seven Dwarfs for a male centric franchise to counterbalance the female centric Fairies by 2005. John Lasseter joining Disney with the purchase of Pixar Animation Studios made it clear that he disliked DisneyToons undercutting the value of the animated films with the sequel and prequel. Following complications relating to the production of Tinker Bell, the film of DCPs Fairies franchise. Thus, Sharon Morill, president of the studio, moved to a new position in the company, on June 22,2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Alan Bergman, president of Disney Studios, with input from Ed Catmull and Lasseter. As chief creative officer, Lasseter called for the cancellation of all films in production or development at DisneyToon Studios
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Walt Disney Animation Japan
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These expanded the companys animation output into television, direct-to-video, and digital releases, in addition to its primary feature animation releases. Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, DisneyToon Studios and Lucasfilm Animation are parts of The Walt Disney Studios unit, for example, certain Studio Ghibli films were distributed by Disney internationally but never owned by the company. Also, Miramax, an operating unit of the Walt Disney Studios. In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters, TV Animation was transferred to Disney Channel Worldwide. Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres unit was transferred from Television Animation to Feature Animation, with Disneys acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC in 1996 came another animated unit, DIC Entertainment. DiC management arranged for DiC to become independent from Disney on November 17,2000, greengrass Productions is a unit of ABC at the time CC/ABC was acquired by Disney and produced some animation. Disney purchased Fox Family Worldwide on October 24,2001 for the Fox Family Channel and also received ownership of several units, including Saban Entertainment. Fox Family, Fox Kids international, Saban Entertainment and Saban International N. V. were renamed ABC Family, Jetix, Sensation Animation, the Saban library included the acquired Marvel Productions and Marvel Film Animation library. Its offices were in the backlot of the Disney-MGM Studios theme park, the company had primarily animated Brother Bear, Lilo & Stitch and Mulan. Walt Disney Animation placed Max Howard in charge of starting up it Florida animation studio in 1988, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida began operations in May 1989. The division was planned to work on featurettes and shorts that they could do on its own. 70 animators including Disney veteran supervising animator Mark Henn were hired by 1990, on October 7,1992, the Florida unit was incorporated. On April 22,1998, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida moved to a new $70 million facility at the Disney-MGM Studios, in June 1998, Florida divisions first feature film, Mulan, was released. The unit continued as a division with its form was merger out on September 30,1999. Andrew Millstein took charge of the division as vice president. In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters, additionally, Feature Animation was transferred under The Walt Disney Studios in January 2003. In June 2003,50 animators were laid off after Brother Bear finished up production, the division was developing A Few Good Ghosts until it was canceled in on November 15,2003. On January 12,2004, Disney Feature Animation President Stainton announced the shut down of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, some laid-off animators were offered transfers to the main studio while most chose to stay in Orlando or were recruited to work for rival animation studios
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is the home video distribution division of The Walt Disney Company. Disney began distributing videos under its own label in 1980 under the name Walt Disney Home Video, before Disney began releasing home video titles itself, it licensed some titles to MCA Discovision for their newly developed disc format, later called LaserDisc. According to the Blam Entertainment Group website, which has details of DiscoVision releases. One of these was the feature film Kidnapped, the others were compilations of Disney shorts. Disneys agreement with MCA ended in December 1981, in 1980, Disney established its own video distribution operation as part of Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company with Jim Jimirro as its first president. Home video was not considered to be a market by Disney at the time. WDTNT also handled the marketing of other ancillary items such as short 8 mm films for home use. Disneys first releases on tape were 13 titles that were licensed for rental to Fotomat on March 4,1980, initially in a four-city test, the agreement specified rental fees ranging from $7.95 to $13.95. Later, on December 30,1980, Mary Poppins was added to make 14 titles in all, from January 1 to March 31,1981, Disney had a License One — Get One Free promotion to encourage dealers to sign up. They also offered free use of a 7-minute Mickey Mouse Disco videocassette for customers who rented any title from an Authorized Rental Dealer from February through May 1981. Disney was unusual among the studios in offering a program for authorized rentals. Most of the studios involved in the videocassette market at the time were trying to find ways to stop dealers from renting out their movie tapes. Magnetic Video ceased doing business with Fotomat after Fotomat began renting Magnetic Video cassettes without authorization, disneys rental cassettes in blue cases looked completely different from sale cassettes, which were in white cases. In the late-1980s, Disney began seeking other outlets to distribute its video, and decided to ink deals with mass-merchant retailers such as Target, Caldor, in 1989, Disney sought to further control the distribution of its products by eliminating the use of rack jobbers. Around this time, the studio began partnering with major retailers for advertising campaigns, Buena Vista Home Video was incorporated on February 13,1987. In April 1996 due to ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment, Buena Vista Home Video was transferred out of the Disney Television, Buena Vista Home Video was renamed Buena Vista Home Entertainment in 1997. The first of the Disney animated features canon to be released on videocassette was Dumbo on June 28,1981, the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was released for rental and sale at the same time. Alice in Wonderland was released on October 15,1981, for rental only, Fun and Fancy Free was released in 1982 as Fun and Fancy Free Featuring, Mickey and the Beanstalk, to popularize on the more well-known segment from the film
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Animation
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Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon, animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation. Animation can be recorded with either analogue media, a book, motion picture film, video tape, digital media, including formats with animated GIF, Flash animation. To display animation, a camera, computer, or projector are used along with new technologies that are produced. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures, Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24,25,30, or 60 frames per second. Computer animation processes generating animated images with the general term computer-generated imagery, 3D animation uses computer graphics, while 2D animation is used for stylistic, low bandwidth and faster real-time renderings. An earthen goblet discovered at the site of the 5, 200-year-old Shahr-e Sūkhté in southeastern Iran, the artifact bears five sequential images depicting a Persian Desert Ibex jumping up to eat the leaves of a tree. They may, of course, refer to Chinese shadow puppets, in the 19th century, the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope were introduced. A thaumatrope is a toy with a small disk with different pictures on each side. The phenakistoscope was invented simultaneously by Belgian Joseph Plateau and Austrian Simon von Stampfer in 1831, the phenakistoscope consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radi evenly space around the center of the disk. John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph, the first animated projection was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888, on 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris. This film is notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. His films were not photographed, they were drawn directly onto the transparent strip, in 1900, more than 500,000 people had attended these screenings. Stuart Blackton, who, because of that, is considered the father of American animation, in Europe, the French artist, Émile Cohl, created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation creation methods - the 1908 Fantasmagorie. The film largely consisted of a figure moving about and encountering all manner of morphing objects. There were also sections of live action in which the hands would enter the scene. The film was created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, the author of the first puppet-animated film was the Russian-born director Wladyslaw Starewicz, known as Ladislas Starevich
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Musical film
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The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline. The musical film was a development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater, performers often treat their song, in a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the age of the musical film. Musical short films were made by Lee de Forest in 1923–24, beginning in 1926, thousands of Vitaphone shorts were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers. The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was the first to include a track including non-diegetic music and diegetic music. This feature-length film was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing Dirty Hands, Dirty Face, Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Blue Skies and My Mammy. Historian Scott Eyman wrote, As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights and she saw terror in all their faces, she said, as if they knew that the game they had been playing for years was finally over. Still, only isolated sequences featured live sound, most of the film had only a musical score. In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, theaters scrambled to install the new sound equipment and to hire Broadway composers to write musicals for the screen. The first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, included a sequence in a night club. The enthusiasm of audiences was so great that in less than an all the major studios were making sound pictures exclusively. The Broadway Melody had a plot about two sisters competing for a charming song-and-dance man. Advertised by MGM as the first All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing feature film, it was a hit, there was a rush by the studios to hire talent from the stage to star in lavishly filmed versions of Broadway hits. The Love Parade starred Maurice Chevalier and newcomer Jeanette MacDonald, written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton, Warner Brothers produced the first screen operetta, The Desert Song in 1929. They spared no expense and photographed a large percentage of the film in Technicolor and this was followed by the first all-color, all-talking musical feature which was entitled On with the Show
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
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The 17th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the story of a litter of dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil, who wants to use their fur to make into coats. Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their children from Cruella, all the while rescuing 84 additional puppies that were bought in pet shops and it was reissued to cinemas four times, in 1969,1979,1985 and 1991. The 1991 reissue was the twentieth highest earning film of the year for domestic earnings and it was remade into a live action film in 1996. Songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a flat in London, along with his dalmatian. Bored with bachelor life, Pongo decides to find a wife for Roger, while watching various female dog-human pairs out the window, he spots the perfect one, a woman named Anita and her female dalmatian, Perdita. He quickly gets Roger out of the house and drags him through the park to arrange a meeting and he and Anita fall in love and get married. Later, Perdita gives birth to a litter of fifteen puppies and that same night, they are visited by Cruella De Vil, a wealthy former schoolmate of Anitas. She offers to buy the litter, but Roger says they are not for sale. A few weeks later, she hires her henchmen, Jasper and Horace, when Scotland Yard is unable to find them, Pongo and Perdita use the Twilight bark, a canine gossip line, to ask for help from the other dogs in London. When Tibbs learns they are going to be made into dog-skin fur coats, upon receiving the message, Pongo and Perdita leave town to retrieve their puppies. Winter has come, and they have to cross the Stour River which is running fast, meanwhile, Tibbs overhears Cruella ordering Jasper and Horace to kill the puppies that night out of fear the police will soon find them. In response, Tibbs attempts to rescue them while Jasper and Horace are preoccupied watching television, Pongo and Perdita break in and confront Jasper and Horace just as they are about to kill the puppies. While the adult dogs attack them, Colonel and Tibbs guide the puppies from the house, after a happy reunion with their own puppies, Pongo and Perdita realize there are dozens of others with them,99 altogether including their own. Shocked at Cruellas plans, they decide to all of them, certain that Roger. They begin making their way back to London through deep snow, other animals help them along the way. Cruella, Jasper, and Horace chase them, in one town, they cover themselves with soot so they appear to be labrador retrievers, then pile inside a moving van bound for London. As it is leaving, melting snow clears off the soot, in a rage, she follows the van in her car and rams it, but Jasper and Horace, who try to cut it off from above, end up crashing into her. Both vehicles are smashed to smithereens and fall into a deep ravine, Cruella yells in frustration as the van drives away but Jasper finally gets the courage to tell her to shut up
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Jim Cummings
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James Jonah Jim Cummings is an American voice actor and singer, who has appeared in almost 400 roles. He is known for voicing the character from Darkwing Duck, Dr. Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog. His other characters include Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and the Tasmanian Devil and he has performed in numerous Disney and DreamWorks animations including Aladdin, The Lion King, Balto, Antz, The Road to El Dorado, Shrek, and The Princess and the Frog. He attended Immaculate Conception and St. Columba grade schools as well as Ursuline High School and he later married and moved to Anaheim, California, where he managed a video store in the early 1980s, before launching his voice-acting career in late 1984. Cummings has two daughters with Stephanie Cummings, as well as two children from a previous marriage. Some of Cummings earliest vocal work was at Disney, where he replaced Hal Smith as the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh in 1988 and he began voicing Tigger in 1990, taking over for Paul Winchell after Winchell died in 2005. In 1991, he ventured to Warner Bros, animation and began voicing Tasmanian Devil on the animated series Taz-Mania. When actor Jeremy Irons, the voice of Scar in The Lion King, developed vocal problems during recording of the song Be Prepared, bobcat, Lucky Piquel, Other Characters Boo to You Too. Additional Voices Fish Hooks, Scientist #2 Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, frosty, Houngan, Sumo Santa Clive Barkers Jericho, Arnold Leach Crash Twinsanity, Skunk Disneys Dinosaur, Bruton Dr. B
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Dalmatian dog
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The Dalmatian is a breed of large dog, noted for its unique black or liver spotted coat and mainly used as a carriage dog in its early days. Its roots trace back to Croatia and its region of Dalmatia. Today, it is a family pet, and many dog enthusiasts enter Dalmatians into kennel club competitions. The Dalmatian is a large, well-defined, muscular dog with excellent endurance, when full grown, according to the American Kennel Club breed standard, it stands from 19 to 23 inches tall, with males usually slightly larger than females. The Kennel Club in the UK allows a height up to 24 inches, the body is as long from forechest to buttocks as it is tall at the withers, and the shoulders are laid back. The Dalmatians feet are round with well-arched toes, and the nails are usually white or the colour as the dogs spots. The thin ears taper towards the tip and are set fairly high, eye color varies between brown, amber, or blue, with some dogs having one blue eye and one brown eye, or other combinations. Dalmatian puppies are born with white coats and their first spots usually appear within 3 to 4 weeks after birth. After about a month, they have most of their spots, spots usually range in size from 30 to 60 mm, and are most commonly black or brown on a white background. Other, more colors, include blue, brindle, mosaic, tricolored. Patches of color anywhere on the body, mostly on the head or ears. The Dalmatian coat is short, fine, and dense, however. These individuals experience much less shedding than their counterparts, which shed considerably year-round. The standard varietys short, stiff hairs often weave into carpet, clothing, upholstery and nearly any kind of fabric. Weekly grooming with a hound mitt or curry can lessen the amount of hair Dalmatians shed, due to the minimal amount of oil in their coats, Dalmatians lack a dog smell and stay fairly clean relative to many other dog breeds. Dalmatians usually have litters of six to nine pups, but they have known to have larger litters on occasion. Puppies dont have spots in the beginning Dalmatians are a relatively healthy, like other breeds, Dalmatians display a propensity towards certain health problems specific to their breed, such as deafness, allergies and urinary stones. Reputable breeders have their puppies BAER tested to ensure the status of the hearing on their pups, the Dalmatian Club of America lists the average lifespan of a Dalmatian at between 11 and 13 years, although some can live as long as 15 to 16 years
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Cruella de Vil
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The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person who is very, very mean. Cruella ranked 39th on AFIs list 100 Years.100 Heroes, Cruellas name is a pun of the words cruel and devil, an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed Hell Hall. In some translations, for instance in Polish, Cruella De Vil is known as Cruella De Mon, in Italian, she is called Crudelia De Mon. In the French translation of the Disneys animated movie, she is referred as Cruella DEnfer, in Dutch, the name remains De Vil, while by coincidence the Dutch verb for skinning is Villen and Vil is the conjugation of this verb for the first person singular. She was a student with black and white plaits, and was expelled for drinking ink. However, she appears to be on terms with Mrs. Dearly when they encounter each other at the beginning of the novel. In all her incarnations, Cruella kidnaps 97 or 99 Dalmatian puppies for their fur, the One Hundred and One Dalmatians describes Cruella as the last of her prosperous and notorious family, with a personal net worth of GB£6 million. She is married to a furrier, whose first name is never mentioned, however, it is revealed that in contrast to the usual patriarchal custom, he has adopted his wifes surname as his own, in an effort to carry on her family name. Cruella is portrayed as the figure in the marriage, and her husband as a meek, subservient man who seldom speaks. When Cruella has guests for dinner, all of her food is strangely-colored, the flat is portrayed as a luxurious version of Hell, with all the rooms being made of marble and colored garishly in green, red or purple. Her guests also meet her abused white Persian cat whom Cruella admits she detests, upon a second visit to the house she picks up the mature puppies and treats them like clothing to be worn. Cruella also makes a appearance, albeit asleep, in Dodie Smiths sequel. Disney based its version of Cruella on the personality and mannerisms of Tallulah Bankhead, the cool detachment of the original character was replaced by a crazed mania, in which Cruella only barely clung to a sheen of glamour. For unexplained reasons, Cruellas cat and husband were omitted from the Disney version, Cruella drives a very distinctive automobile, colored red and black, based on a 1936 Alvis Speed 20 SD Drophead Coupe. In the film, Cruella has become wealthy off her collection of fur coats. She makes fun of Anita Radcliffe and her husband Roger for making a living from songwriting, Cruella desires to make a fur coat from the Radcliffes Dalmatians, and promises to return in three weeks to collect the puppies when they are born. Upon the night of the birth, Cruella is at first dismayed to find their coats completely spotless. Cruella makes an offer to buy the puppies, all the while mocking Roger for his career and splattering Roger
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Probation
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Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by a court instead of serving time in prison. In some jurisdictions, the term only applies to community sentences. In others, probation also includes supervision of those released from prison on parole. An offender on probation is ordered to follow certain conditions set forth by the court, during the period of probation an offender faces the threat of being incarcerated if found breaking the rules set by the court or probation officer. The probationer might be ordered as well to refrain from contact with the victims, with victims of similar crimes, or with known criminals. Additionally, the restrictions can include a ban on possession or use of alcoholic beverages, offenders on probation might be fitted with an electronic tag, which signals their whereabouts to officials. Also, offenders have been ordered to submit to repeat alcohol/drug testing or to participate in alcohol/drug or psychological treatment, the concept of probation, from the Latin, probatio, testing, has historical roots in the practice of judicial reprieve. In English common law, prior to the advent of democratic rule, at first, judges, most notably Peter Oxenbridge Thatcher of Boston, used release on recognizance or bail and simply refrained from taking any further action. In 1878 the mayor of Boston had hired a police officer. By the mid-19th century, however, many Federal Courts were using a judicial reprieve to suspend sentence, in 1916, the United States Supreme Court, in the Killets Decision, held that a Federal Judge was without power to suspend a sentence indefinitely. This decision led to the passing of the National Probation Act of 1925, thereby, allowing courts to suspend the imposition of incarceration, Probation developed from the efforts of a philanthropist, John Augustus, who looked for ways to rehabilitate the behavior of criminals. Massachusetts developed the first statewide probation system in 1878, and by 1920,21 other states had followed suit, with the passage of the National Probation Act on March 5,1925, signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the U. S. Federal Probation Service was established. Known as the Interstate Compact For the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers, by 1951, all the states in the United States of America had a working probation system and ratified the Interstate Compact Agreement. In 1959, the new states of Alaska and Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, in the United States, most probation agencies have armed officers. In 39 states, territories and federal probation, such arming is either mandated or optional, arming is allowed in an increasing number of jurisdictions. Probation officers are officers who possess limited police powers. Intensive probation, home detention, GPS monitoring, Computer Management These are highly intrusive forms of probation in which the offender is very closely monitored and it is common for violent criminals, higher-ranking gang members, habitual offenders, and sex offenders to be supervised at this level. Under terms of this kind of probation, a client may not change their living address, GPS monitoring and home detention are common in juvenile cases, even if the underlying delinquency is minor
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Restraining order
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In the United States, every state has some form of domestic violence restraining order law, and many states also have specific restraining order laws for stalking and sexual assault. The court will order the party to refrain from certain actions and/or require compliance with certain provisions. Failure to comply is a violation of the order which can result in the arrest, violations in some jurisdictions may also constitute criminal or civil contempt of court. All protective order statutes permit the court to instruct an alleged abuser to stay a distance away from someone, their home, their workplace or their school. Alleged victims generally may also request the court to order that all contact, whether it be by telephone, notes, mail, fax, email or delivery of flowers or gifts, courts can also instruct an alleged abuser to not hurt or threaten someone. Many jurisdictions also allow the court to make decisions about the care, courts can order an alleged abuser to stay away from and have no contact with the children, the childrens doctors, daycare, school or after-school job. Most courts can make temporary child custody decisions, some can issue visitation or child support orders. An alleged victim can also ask the court to order supervised visitation, or to specify a safe arrangement for transferring the children back, many US states—such as Oregon and Pennsylvania along with many others—use a standard of preponderance of the evidence. Other states use different standards such as Wisconsin which requires that restraining orders be based on reasonable grounds, judges have some incentives to err on the side of granting restraining orders. If a judge should grant an order against someone who might not warrant it. If, on the hand, the judge denies a restraining order and the plaintiff is killed or injured, sour publicity. Show cause, if any, why said temporary civil protection order should not be made permanent and that is, Colorado courts place the burden of proof on the accused to establish his or her innocence, rather than requiring the accuser to prove his or her case. Hawaii similarly requires the defendant to prove his or her own innocence, the low burden of proof for restraining orders has led to some high-profile cases involving stalkers of celebrities obtaining restraining orders against their targets. The judge later admitted that he granted the order not on the merits of the case. Another criticism is that restraining orders are used in divorce cases for tactical advantage. Some attorneys offer to have restraining orders dropped in exchange for concessions in such proceedings. There have also been cases of abusers obtaining restraining orders against their victims, experts disagree on whether restraining orders are effective in preventing further harassment. However, a 2002 analysis of 32 U. S, other studies have found that restraining orders offer little or no deterrent against future interpersonal violence
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Beatnik
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Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. Elements of the beatnik trope included pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anticonformist youth gathering in New York at that time. In 1954, Nolan Miller published his novel, Why I Am So Beat. The adjective beat was introduced to the group by Herbert Huncke, Beat came from underworld slang—the world of hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves, where Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac sought inspiration. Beat was slang for beaten down or downtrodden, but to Kerouac and Ginsberg, other adjectives discussed by Holmes and Kerouac were found and furtive. Kerouac felt he had identified a new trend analogous to the influential Lost Generation, wed even heard old 1910 Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer. It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didnt gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization, Kerouac explained what he meant by beat at a Brandeis Forum, Is There A Beat Generation. On November 8,1958, at New Yorks Hunter College Playhouse, panelists for the seminar were Kerouac, James A. Wechsler, Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu, and author Kingsley Amis. Wechsler, Montague, and Amis all wore suits, while Kerouac was clad in jeans, ankle boots. Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, Kerouacs address was later published as The Origins of the Beat Generation. The vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific, people began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the avatar of all this. Suburban couples could have beatnik parties on Saturday nights and drink too much, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters noted that the term Beat was appropriated to become a Madison Avenue marketing tool, The term caught on because it could mean anything. It could even be exploited in the affluent wake of the decade’s extraordinary technological inventions, almost immediately, for example, advertisements by hip record companies in New York used the idea of the Beat Generation to sell their new long playing vinyl records. And most are certain that their readers, or viewers, are of limited ability and must have things explained simply. Thus, the reporters in the media tried to relate something that was new to already preexisting frameworks and images that were only vaguely appropriate in their efforts to explain and simplify. With a variety of oversimplified and conventional formulas at their disposal, they back on the nearest stereotypical approximation of what the phenomenon resembled. And even worse, they did not see it clearly and completely at that, and in this, they were aided and abetted by the Poetic Establishment of the day. The consequence is, that though we may know now that these images do not accurately reflect the reality of the Beat movement
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Dog food
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Dog food refers to food specifically intended for consumption by dogs. Like all carnivores, dogs have sharp, pointed teeth, and have short gastrointestinal tracts better suited for the consumption of meat, in the United States alone, dog owners spent over $8.6 billion on commercially manufactured dog food in 2007. Some people make their own dog food, feed their dogs meals made from ingredients purchased in grocery or health food stores or give their dogs a raw food diet. Nam si tam laxa rura sunt, ut sustineant pecorum greges, sin autem surculo consitus ager sine pascuo est, farreo vel triticeo pane satiandi sunt, admixto tamen liquore coctae fabae, sed tepido, nam fervens rabiem creat. Provisions of victuals are almost the same for both, if the fields are so large as to sustain herds of animals, barley meal mixed with whey is a convenient food. But if it is an orchard without grain, spelt or wheat bread is fed mixed with the liquid from cooked beans, but warm, for boiling creates rabies. In the Avesta, written from 224 to 651 CE, Azura Mazda advises, Bring ye unto him milk and fat with meat, in France, the word pâtée began to appear in the 18th century and referred to a paste originally given to poultry. In 1756, a dictionary indicates it was made of a mixture of bread crumbs and little pieces of meat given to pets. In 1781, an encyclopedia mentioned an earlier practice of removing the liver, heart, and blood of a stag and mixing it with milk, cheese, and bread. In regard to their food, carrion is by no means proper for them and it must hurt their sense of smelling, on which the excellence of these dogs greatly depends. Barley meal, the dross of wheatflour, or both mixed together, with broth or skimd milk, is very proper food. In the season of hunting dogs, it is proper to feed them in the evening before. If you stop for your own refreshment in the day, you should also refresh your dogs with a little milk and bread. A mixture of both is therefore his proper food, but of the former he requires a portion. It was not until the mid-1800s that the world saw its first food made specifically for dogs, an American electrician, James Spratt, concocted the first dog treat. Living in London at the time, he witnessed dogs around a shipyard eating scraps of discarded biscuits, shortly thereafter he introduced his dog food, made up of wheat meals, vegetables and meat. By 1890 production had begun in the United States and became known as Spratt’s Patent Limited. In later years, dog biscuit was sometimes treated as synonymous with dog food and this same dog food won no less than three awards, including a gold medal, at the Exposition in Paris which has just closed
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Fur clothing
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Fur clothing is clothing made of furry animal hides. Fur is one of the oldest forms of clothing, thought to have widely used as hominids first expanded outside Africa. Some view fur as luxurious and warm, however others reject it due to moral beliefs, the term a fur is often used to refer to a coat, wrap, or shawl made from the fur of animals. Controversy exists regarding the wearing of fur coats, due to animal cruelty concerns, Fur is generally thought to have been among the first materials used for clothing and bodily decoration. The exact date when fur was first used in clothing is debated and it is known that several species of hominoids including Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis used fur clothing. Fur is still worn in most mild and cool climates around the world due to its superior warmth, from the days of early European settlement, up until the development of modern clothing alternatives, fur clothing was popular in Canada during the cold winters. The invention of synthetic textiles for insulating clothing led to fur clothing falling out of fashion. Fur is still used by people and developed societies, due to its availability. The Inuit peoples of the Arctic relied on fur for most of their clothing, and it forms a part of traditional clothing in Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Scandinavia. It is also associated with glamour and lavish spending. A number of consumers and designers—notably British fashion designer and outspoken animal rights activist Stella McCartney—reject fur due to moral beliefs and perceived cruelty to animals. Animal furs used in garments and trim may be dyed bright colors or with patterns, often to exotic animal pelts, alternatively they may be left their original pattern. Fur may be shorn down to imitate the feel of velvet, some of these are more highly prized than others, and there are many grades and colors. In Europe and Asia, cheap and plentiful dog and cat fur is sold under different names to disguise the origin from shoppers in the United States, such as dog fur being labeled Mongolian Wolf. One example of this was a coat being labeled as having fur from a raccoon, the manufacturing of fur clothing involves obtaining animal pelts where the hair is left on. Workers exposed to fur dust created during fur processing have been shown to have reduced pulmonary function in direct proportion to their length of exposure, in contrast, leather made from any animal hide involves removing the fur from the skin and using only the tanned skin. However, the use of wool involves shearing the animals hair from the living animal, fake fur designates any synthetic material that attempts to mimic the appearance and feel of real fur. The chemical treatment of fur to increase its felting quality is known as carroting, a furrier is a person who makes fur products such as fur garments, fur blankets etc. and repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in furs of animals
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River Thames
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The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and it also flows through Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary, the Thames drains the whole of Greater London. Its tidal section, reaching up to Teddington Lock, includes most of its London stretch and has a rise, in Scotland, the Tay achieves more than double the average discharge from a drainage basin that is 60% smaller. Along its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs and its catchment area covers a large part of South Eastern and a small part of Western England and the river is fed by 38 named tributaries. The river contains over 80 islands, in 2010, the Thames won the largest environmental award in the world – the $350,000 International Riverprize. The Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic Celtic name for the river, Tamesas, recorded in Latin as Tamesis and yielding modern Welsh Tafwys Thames. It has also suggested that it is not of Celtic origin. A place by the river, rather than the river itself, indirect evidence for the antiquity of the name Thames is provided by a Roman potsherd found at Oxford, bearing the inscription Tamesubugus fecit. It is believed that Tamesubugus name was derived from that of the river, tamese was referred to as a place, not a river in the Ravenna Cosmography. The rivers name has always pronounced with a simple t /t/, the Middle English spelling was typically Temese. A similar spelling from 1210, Tamisiam, is found in the Magna Carta, the Thames through Oxford is sometimes called the Isis. Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as River Thames or Isis down to Dorchester, richard Coates suggests that while the river was as a whole called the Thames, part of it, where it was too wide to ford, was called *lowonida. An alternative, and simpler proposal, is that London may also be a Germanic word, for merchant seamen, the Thames has long been just the London River. Londoners often refer to it simply as the river in such as south of the river. Thames Valley Police is a body that takes its name from the river. The marks of human activity, in cases dating back to Pre-Roman Britain, are visible at various points along the river
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Pembroke Welsh Corgi
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The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is a cattle herding dog breed which originated in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is one of two known as a Welsh Corgi. The other is the Cardigan Welsh Corgi, and both descend from the line that is the northern spitz-type dog, another theory is that Pembrokes are descended from the Swedish Vallhunds, which were crossed with the local Welsh herding dogs. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is the younger of the two Corgi breeds and is a separate and distinct breed from the Cardigan, the corgi is one of the smallest dogs in the Herding Group. Pembroke Welsh Corgis are famed for being the preferred breed of Queen Elizabeth II and these dogs have been favored by British royalty for more than seventy years, but among British Commoners, have recently fallen into decline in terms of popularity and demand. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi has been ranked at #11 in Stanley Corens The Intelligence of Dogs, according to the American Kennel Club, Pembroke Welsh Corgis were ranked 20th most popular breed of dog in 2015. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi has erect ears which are proportional to the triangle of the head. The ears should also be firm, medium in size, the head should be foxy in shape and appearance. Pembroke Welsh Corgis differ from the closely related Cardigan Welsh Corgi by being shorter in length, having smaller ears, and being slightly straighter of leg. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi has a saddle, somewhat lighter markings on each side of the withers caused by changes in the thickness, length. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi sheds mostly in the spring and fall and may shed annually, Breed faults exist, some which may acknowledge genetic health conditions such as fluffies which are Corgis with very long coats, and bluies, which have a dilute color. Some Pembroke Welsh Corgis are born with their naturally short or missing. Others may have their tails docked between 2–5 days old due to tradition or as a measure of conformation to the Breed Standard. Artificial docking was born of necessity given the Pembrokes function as a dog in the United Kingdom. According to Tax Law, any companion canine was considered a luxury, dog owners, however, who kept dogs for working purposes such as herding were exempt from the tax. In order to claim the exemption, owners had to ensure the dogs sported docked or bobbed tails, the Kennel Club, the United Kennel Club, and the FCI allow intact tails in Conformation shows. The AKC Standard states tails should be docked no longer than 2 inches, in many countries, docking has been deemed illegal. Pembroke Welsh Corgis are very affectionate, love to be involved in the family and they have a great desire to please their owners, thus making them eager to learn and train
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Timothy Bentinck
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He is also Viscount Woodstock, Baron Cirencester and a mediatised Count of the Holy Roman Empire, although he does not use any of his titles. The son of the non-conformist intellectual Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, he was born on a station in Tasmania. He attended a prep school, Harrow School, and the University of East Anglia. After graduation he trained in acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bentinck has been an actor since 1978 and is best known for the roles of David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers and Tom Lacey in the BBC drama series By the Sword Divided. Bentinck has a wealth of theatre, television and film credits and he was the original Minister in The Thick of It and starred with David Jason in The Royal Bodyguard in 2012. As himself, Bentinck has appeared on Call My Bluff, won a round of University Challenge, Celebrity Mastermind, Pointless Celebrities, Bentinck has revoiced Gérard Depardieu in the film Nouvelle France, and Chow Yung Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Bentinck tours a show, Love Your Chocolates, - a mixture of stories, comedy songs and multi-media. He writes regular articles for The Mail on Sunday and his book, Avant Garde A Clue. In March 2015 his childrens book, Colin The Campervan, was published by FBS Publishing, the sequel will be out in December 2015. He has made guest appearances in several Big Finish audio dramas and he is also an inventor with several patents to his name, as well as a programmer/web site designer, musician, and writer. In 2016, he played the role of Frederick Forsyth in the BBC television film Reg, on the death of the 9th and last Duke of Portland in 1990, Bentincks father Henry, a sixth cousin of the Duke, succeeded to the earldom of Portland. In 1997, Tim Bentinck succeeded his father, although he took his seat in the House of Lords, Bentinck did not speak there before losing the right to do so as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. Apart from a tour of the United States on English Eccentrics. On 29 December 1732, the Hon. William Bentinck, Baron Bentinck of the Duchy of Guelders, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire as Count Bentinck, by Imperial Letters Patent. This title continues to be held by Tim Bentinck and his heirs, under the Royal Warrant of 27 April 1932 on Foreign Titles, the special allowance granted to the Bentinck family enabling the use of the Holy Roman Empire title in the United Kingdom has now expired. His sister Anna Bentinck is an actress
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Jodi Benson
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Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson is an American voice actress, actress and soprano singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the voice of Disneys Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequel, prequel. Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2, the 2010 Academy Award winning movie Toy Story 3, for her contributions to the Disney company, Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011. She also gave voice to the spirited Weebo in Disneys live action Flubber, for Warner Bros. she created the voice of Thumbelina, a Don Bluth animated feature film with songs by Barry Manilow. She appeared as Patrick Dempseys assistant Sam, in Disney’s live-action feature film Enchanted, while being a Disney Legend, she also voiced Jane Doe and Patsy Smiles in Cartoon Networks Camp Lazlo. She also voiced the character Tula in Foxs Pirates of Dark water series, bensons debut on Broadway was in the 1983 Kenny Ortega-directed Marilyn, An American Fable. Other Broadway credits include a role in the Broadway musical Smile. Howard Ashman, the lyricist of Smile, would go on to write the lyrics for The Little Mermaid. She describes the song Disneyland at the Smile Reunion concert held on Sept.22,2014, This is the first piece of the puzzle of my life, Benson also sings Disneyland on a compilation CD called Unsung Musicals. In 1989, Benson appeared in the Broadway musical, Welcome to the Club, alongside Samuel E. Wright, in 1992, Benson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Polly Baker in Crazy For You. She played the narrator in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1998, Benson also played the Queen in a one-night concert version of Rodgers & Hammersteins Cinderella at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in May 2010. She was at the 2012 SYTA conference singing her signature song Part of Your World on Monday, Benson has been the guest artist for the Candlelight Processional for 5 years at Walt Disney World including December 10–13,2012. She joined the 2013 Spring Pops on May 14–15,2013 as a guest soloist with the Boston Pops, Benson can be heard on over a dozen recordings and has a six-part DVD series entitled Baby Faith from the creators of Baby Einstein. J. Sparkles, and the series Sofia the First for Disney as well as many others. She starred in the Kennedy Center Honors for Ginger Rogers, and in Disneys Premiere in Central Park with Pocahontas, The Walt Disney World 25th Anniversary Spectacular, Benson is the resident guest soloist for the Walt Disney Company/Disney Cruise Line and ambassador for feature animation. On June 6,2016, Benson performed the role of Ariel at the Hollywood Bowls concert performance of The Little Mermaid, in the 1980s, Benson first heard of the audition for The Little Mermaid through lyricist and playwright Howard Ashman. The two had just worked together in the Broadway show Smile until its run ended early, after hearing the demo for Part of Your World, she sang a small part of it on tape where it was later sent to Disney executives. Before her audition for The Little Mermaid, she was primarily a stage actress and it was Ashmans first Disney project
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Kasha Kropinski
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Kasha Kropinski is a South African-born film and television actress, voice over artist and a classical ballerina. Kasha was born in South Africa, the daughter of Jacek Kropiński, Jacek is a filmmaker and Debbie is a former international model. Kasha started out at the age of 6, performing lead roles on stage with a Cape Town theatre troupe and her roles included Christopher Robin, Peter Rabbit, Noddy, Mowgli, Frankie Fox in Fantastic Mr Fox, earning high praise from theatre critics. At this time, Kasha also gained distinction in her Trinity College London Drama exams, concurrently, Kasha also performed in Ballet Eisteddfods and earned 5 gold medal awards. At the age of 9, Kasha and her parents moved to Los Angeles where she began doing guest roles on TV, Angel, Without a Trace, State of Grace, Crossing Jordan, ER, The Shield, Dirt, and Zoey 101. She also did ADR work for features Big Fish, The Hunted, The Village and she voiced the puppy Penny in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians II, Patchs London Adventure and Miss Holly in Disney’s Prep and Landing Holiday Special. She also continued with her ballet and danced roles in the 2003 and 2004 productions of the Nutcracker ballets, on graduating from Carpenter Avenue Elementary School in Studio City, she received the President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence. Due to her ballet and acting schedule, she continued her schooling via a program where she was offered to join the National Honor Society. At the age of 11, Kasha was chosen to perform the role in the proposed Andrew Lippa musical, A Little Princess. When she returned to Los Angeles, she was cast in the South African film The Story of an African Farm, as one of the lead characters Lyndall, playing opposite Richard E. Grant and Armin Mueller-Stahl. This movie was based on the literary work by Olive Schreiner and filmed in the Little Karoo semi-desert outside Cape Town. She appeared in the 2009 movie Fame in the role of Ballerina, in the summer of 2009, Kasha attended the LAMDA summer school in London, England, and on returning to Los Angeles, danced two roles in the ballet Cinderella. She appeared in one to four. Harris The Village Big Fish The Cat in the Hat Official website Kasha Kropinski at the Internet Movie Database
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Tara Strong
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Tara Strong is a Canadian–American actress who has done work in numerous films and television series, both live-action and animated. Her portrayals have garnered nominations in the Annie Awards and Daytime Emmys, Strong was born on February 12,1973, in Toronto, Ontario to Syd and Lucy Charendoff. Her family, Jews who lived in Russia, had emigrated to Canada after escaping the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and her parents ran a candy and novelty store called The Wiz, and Syd had also worked as a pharmacist. She and her older sister Marla were raised in Toronto, at age four, she became interested in acting and volunteered to be a soloist at a school production. She worked with the Yiddish Theater, though she did not know the Yiddish language and her first professional role was Gracie in Limelight Theaters production of The Music Man at age 13. She had a guest role in the action series T. and T and her first major cartoon role was the title role in Hello Kittys Furry Tale Theater. She starred in the short-lived CBC Television sitcom Mosquito Lake and she took improv classes at The Second City in Toronto and continued acting in both animated and live-action shows and films, before moving to Los Angeles in January 1994. She also voiced Patty Putty on the Garbage Pail Kids Series and she has appeared in live roles in National Lampoons Senior Trip, Sabrina Goes to Rome, Sabrina Down Under, and The Last White Dishwasher. In January 2013, she voiced the character Plum in Cartoon Hangovers Bravest Warriors and she has the role of the character Miss Collins in Nickelodeons live-action series Big Time Rush. In 2004, she won an Interactive Achievement Award for her role as Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2, to me, thats what it is all about. Strong has been nominated five times for Annie Awards, in 2013, Strong won the Shorty Award for Best #Actress for her use of social media. The Behind the Voice Actors website selected her for a BTVA Voice Acting Award for Voice Actress of the Year for 2013, Strong was the roommate of actress Neve Campbell. They both auditioned for the role of Julia in the 1990s TV series Party of Five. However, Strong appeared in an episode as the character Lorna, in 1999, she met Craig Strong, a former American actor-turned real estate agent, they married on May 14,2000. They have two sons, Sammy and Aden and their family resides in Los Angeles, where they run VoiceStarz, an Internet-based company that teaches people how to get into the voice-over business. Strong and her husband developed and patented a line of baby bottles with caps that their user can set to note the date for breast milk storage. She was involved with a charity group called Bronies for Good where she helped raise funds for a family whose daughter had a brain tumor, in 2012, during the BronyCon event in New Jersey, she attended a lunch with fans from the military. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present, encyclopedia of Television Shows,1925 through 2010
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Will Young
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His double A-sided debut single Anything Is Possible / Evergreen was released two weeks after the shows finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in place in World Idol performing his single Light My Fire. As a teenager, Young studied politics at the University of Exeter before moving to London, Young put his studies on hold in late 2001 to become a contestant on Pop Idol. After winning the competition the year, he released his debut album From Now On which went straight to number one. Fridays Child followed and enjoyed success, eventually going platinum five times in the UK. His following albums Keep On and Let It Go and Echoes also went multi-platinum and his albums have spawned many songs that have accomplished top ten positions in the UK, four of which went to the number one spot. Young has also undertaken numerous concert tours and he has also accumulated multiple honours, including two BRIT Awards from 12 nominations, and the estimated worldwide sale of over eight million albums. Youngs net worth was estimated at £13.5 million in April 2012, alongside his music career, Young has acted in film, on stage and in television. For his performance in the 2013 London revival of the musical Cabaret and he has also participated in philanthropy and released books Anything is Possible, On Camera, Off Duty and his autobiography Funny Peculiar. Will Young was born on 20 January 1979 in Wokingham, and is the second-oldest child of Robin Young, a director of an engineering firm, and Annabel Young. Born six weeks prematurely, he is ten minutes older than his twin brother and he also has an older sister, Emma. Young was born into an affluent, middle-class family, whose ancestry has strong ties to the British government. Aretas was later stationed in Trinidad and eventually took charge of the Trinidadian government, aretas became the sixth Governor of Prince Edward Island in 1831, and three years later was knighted by King William IV. His first appearance on stage was at the age of four when he played a fir tree in a production and had one line to speak. At Horris Hill, Young was head chorister in the school choir, at thirteen, Young and his brother were enrolled in Wellington College, Crowthorne, a public boarding school. Young appeared in school productions and often gave speeches in assembly. He became captain of the basketball and athletics teams, and also represented the school in the triple jump, long jump, football. The only sport he says he felt uncomfortable playing was cricket, Young left school with ten GCSEs, but achieved disappointing A-Level results and had to enroll in DOverbroecks College, Oxford, to re-sit his exams
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Blu-ray
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Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition, the plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs and quadruple layers are available for BD-XL re-writer drives, the name Blu-ray refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats, high-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray discs with up to 2160p resolution, at up to 60 frames per second. DVD discs had been limited to a resolution of 480p or 576p. The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, Sony unveiled the first Blu-ray disc prototypes in October 2000, and the first prototype player was released in April 2003 in Japan. Afterwards, it continued to be developed until its release in June 2006. During the high definition disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008. According to Media Research, high-definition software sales in the US were slower in the first two years than DVD software sales, Blu-ray faces competition from video on demand and the continued sale of DVDs. As of January 2016, 44% of U. S. broadband households had a Blu-ray player, the information density of the DVD format was limited by the wavelength of the laser diodes used. Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis, Sony started two projects in collaboration with Philips applying the new diodes, UDO, and DVR Blue, a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-ray Disc. The core technologies of the formats are similar, the first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. A trademark for the Blue Disc logo was filed February 9,2001, on February 19,2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members. The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10,2003, the Sony BDZ-S77, but there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player. On October 4,2004, the name Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004
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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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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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The Big Cartoon DataBase
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The Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts. The BCDB project began in 1996 as a list of Disney animated features on creator Dave Kochs local computer, in 2003, BCDB became a 501 non-profit corporation. On June 24,2009, it was announced by creator Dave Koch on his BCDB forums that the site had 100,000 titles. One feature of the BCDB is its Top Rated page which provides a listing of the top 25 animated films as voted by the users of the website. Ratings are shown based on top score as well as the cartoons that receive the highest number of votes, users are given the option of rating a movie from 1 to 10. To safeguard against attempts to skew the data, the DataBase employs data filters, the BCDB also has a lowest-20 rated cartoons feature which, based on the same data, shows the least liked cartoons in the database. BCDB also includes a linked, online forum, where users express their opinions about cartoons, the forum is available to all registered users, and is actively moderated by a team of moderators and administrators. Other features include items related to the animation industry and the recently added image gallery. In 2005, Apple Hot News wrote The Big Cartoon Database is the place to find in depth information about any cartoon ever made. The BCDB is used as a reference by such sources as Hartford Courant, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oakland Tribune, Beacon News, USA Today, ques Official Internet Yellow Pages rates the site as 5 stars
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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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Dodie Smith
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Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith was an English childrens novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking, the Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version, I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as one of the nations 100 best-loved novels by the British public as part of the BBCs The Big Read. Smith was born on 3 May 1896 in Whitefield, near Bury in Lancashire and her parents were Ernest and Ella Smith. Ernest was a manager, he died in 1898, when Dodie was two years old. Dodie and her mother relocated to Old Trafford to live with her grandparents, William, dodies childhood home, known as Kingston House, was at 609 Stretford Road. It faced the Manchester Ship Canal, and she lived with her mother, maternal grandparents, in her autobiography Look Back with Love, she credits her grandfather William as one of three reasons she became a playwright. He was an avid theatregoer, and they had long talks about Shakespeare, the second reason, her uncle Harold Furber, an amateur actor, read plays with her and introduced her to contemporary drama. Thirdly, her mother had wanted to be an actress, an ambition frustrated except for walk-on parts, Smith wrote her first play at the age of ten, and she began acting in minor roles during her teens at the Manchester Athenaeum Dramatic Society. Presently there is a plaque commemorating the building where Dorothy grew up. The formative years of Dorothys childhood were spent at this house, in 1910 Ella remarried and moved to London with her new husband and the 14-year-old Dodie, who attended school in both Manchester and at St Pauls Girls School. In 1914 Dodie entered the Academy of Dramatic Art and her first role came in Arthur Wing Pineros play Playgoers. Other roles after RADA included a Chinese girl in Mr. Wu, a maid in Ye Gods, and a young mother in Niobe, which was directed by Basil Dean. During her mothers illness while dying of breast cancer, Dodie, in 1923, she accepted a job in Heal and Sons furniture store in London and became the toy buyer. She wrote her first play, Autumn Crocus, in 1931 using the pseudonym C. L and its success, and the discovery of her identity by journalists, inspired the newspaper headline, Shopgirl Writes Play. The show starred Fay Compton and Francis Lederer, Smiths fourth play Call it a Day was acted by the Theatre Guild on 28 January 1936 and ran for 194 performances. It ran in London for 509 performances, the longest run of any of Smiths plays to date and it was compared favourably to George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferbers play Dinner at Eight and Edward Knoblocks Grand Hotel by Joseph Wood Krutch. He also said of the production that it stays pretty consistently on the level of comedy, after the success of Call it a Day, Smith was able to purchase The Barretts, a cottage near the village of Finchingfield, Essex
