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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is a historic hotel located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. It opened its doors on May 15,1927, and is the oldest continually operating hotel in Los Angeles. The hotel was built in 1926, in what is known as the Golden Era of Los Angeles architecture and it was financed by a group that included Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Sid Grauman and it cost $2.5 million to complete and opened on May 15,1927. The hotel went into a decline in the 1950s, an owner around that time demolished its archways, covered up its elaborately painted ceilings and painted the entire hotel seafoam green. The million-dollar mural at the bottom of the hotels Tropicana Pool was painted by David Hockney in 1987, on August 13,1991, the City of Los Angeles declared the hotel building Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #545. In 1995, the hotel was purchased from Clarion Hotels by Goodwin Gaw, in 2005, the hotels management was taken over by the Thompson Hotel Group. A $30 million renovation of the hotel was embarked upon in 2005, led by the Dodd Mitchell Design Group, since 2015, the hotel has been run independently by its own management company. In 2015, the hotel completed a $25 million renovation with rooms designed by Yabu Pushelberg, the 12-story hotel has 300 guest rooms and 63 suites. It sits along the Hollywood Walk of Fame and across the street from the TCL Chinese Theatre, the building has a Spanish Colonial Revival Style interior, with leather sofas, wrought-iron chandeliers and colorful tiled fountains. The Marilyn Monroe suite is named for the actress, who lived at the hotel for two early in her career. Other accommodations include King Superior rooms and vintage 1950s poolside cabanas, the hotel has a total of eight restaurant, bars and lounges. 25 Degrees is a 24-hour hamburger restaurant located just off the hotel lobby, public Kitchen & Bar features American food in an Old Hollywood-style dining room. Tim Goodell is the chef of both restaurants. The Spare Room is a parlor and cocktail lounge, the Library Bar is a cocktail bar with cocktails made using locally sourced ingredients. Beachers Madhouse is a theater owned and operated by Jeff Beacher. Teddys, a nightclub located right off the lobby, was considered a celebrity haunt and it opened in 2005, was remodeled in 2012 and closed in 2015. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16,1929, a private ceremony open only to Academy members, it was hosted by Academy president Douglas Fairbanks and held three months after the winners were announced, with 270 people in attendance
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Shining Through
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It is based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen, the films tagline is, He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life, because she can speak German fluently, she becomes translator to Ed Leland, a humourless attorney, who is referred to as the pallbearer by his peers due to his lack of humor. She gradually comes to suspect that he hides dark secrets and she is proven right when, after America officially joins forces with the Allies, he emerges as a colonel in the OSS. She accompanies him to meetings in New York and Washington D. C. and before long. When he is suddenly posted away, she is left alone, reluctant to resume their affair, he does re-employ her. He and his colleagues abruptly need to replace a murdered agent in Berlin at very short notice and her mission is to bring back data on the V-1 flying bomb. They travel to Switzerland, where he hands her over to master spy Konrad Friedrichs, codenamed Sunflower. Despite being appalled at her dialect, he installs her in the basement of his Berlin mansion and introduces her to his niece, Margrete von Eberstein, a socialite also working as an Allied agent. Linda is planted as a cook in the household of a social-climbing Nazi and she is taken on as a nanny to the children of high-ranking Nazi officer Franz-Otto Dietrich, who had been a guest at the dinner. Unable to report back to Ed, she is taken to Dietrichs house and he brings home confidential documents she was sent to find. While frantically searching for them - intending to photograph them - she also locates her cousins, believed to be hiding in Berlin, through her contact, with the children in her care, she tracks down her relatives hiding place but is too late. They have already captured and the cellar is empty. As all hope is lost, air raid sirens blare in the city and residents, including her, the preceding attack causes the frightened children to reveal the existence of a hidden room, which Linda finds and secretly photographs Dietrichs top-secret papers. When Dietrich invites her to the opera the next evening, her cover is blown by Margretes mother, Margrete shoots her, wounding her, but she overpowers Margrete and kills her. Though in pain, she manages to slip down the laundry chute, badly wounded, Linda is found and rescued by Ed, who has come to Berlin in the guise of a high-ranking German officer. His bluff as a wounded officer fails to sway the border guards, however. Still carrying her, he struggles towards the border, the German sniper guarding it wounds him twice, but he manages to get himself and Linda across it before collapsing
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty, the film was released in the United States on February 21,1992. In 2006, Stallone stated that this was the worst movie he starred in. Joe Bomowski is a tough cop, when his seemingly frail mother Tutti comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life, it drives him crazy. After cleaning his gun with bleach and finding out she ruined it, she buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol, while taken to the police station, she refuses to work with and starts poking around in his police cases. The gun purchased was part of a taken from a burned building. At the end, when Tutti is going home, she recognizes a man at the airport. After he flees, Joe and Tutti follow him, where Tutti remembers that she saw him on Americas Most Wanted for shooting his mother, joseph Andrew Joe Bomowski Estelle Getty as Mrs. Tutti Bomowski JoBeth Williams as Lt. Gwen Harper Al Fann as Sgt. Lou Roger Rees as J. Parnell Martin Ferrero as Paulie Gailard Sartain as Munroe John Wesley as Sgt, tony J. Kenneth Campbell as Ross Ving Rhames as Mr. Stereo Richard Schiff as Gun Clerk Dennis Burkley as Mitchell Principal photography began on May 13,1991. Filming took place in and around Los Angeles, California, Santa Rosa, California & Long Beach, production wrapped on August 9,1991. The film received negative reviews, and has a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Washington Post called it your worst nightmare but stated that the concept is actually better for Stallone than the premises of his earlier awful romps, Rhinestone and Oscar. Clifford Terry wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the plays like an extended sitcom-perhaps four episodes of Shes the Sheriff. Or My Mom Will Shoot, Sylvester Stallone actually delivers the title line, thats how numbingly awful this is. Give it half a star for being in focus, the film found more success on VHS and DVD. It is moronic beyond comprehension, an exercise in desperation during which even Sylvester Stallone, siskel stated that if the script of this picture were submitted to The Golden Girls television show staff it would be summarily dismissed as too flimsy for a half-hour sitcom. It was also the winner of three Golden Raspberry Awards, for Stallone as Worst Actor, Getty as Worst Supporting Actress, Sylvester Stallone has stated that Stop. Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst film he had starred in
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The Bodyguard (1992 film)
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The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic thriller film directed by Mick Jackson, written by Lawrence Kasdan, and starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service agent-turned-bodyguard who is hired to protect Houstons character, Kasdan wrote the film in the mid 1970s, originally as a vehicle for Ryan ONeal and Diana Ross. The film was Houstons acting debut and was the film worldwide in 1992. The soundtrack became the soundtrack of all time, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. Rachel Marron is an Academy Award-nominated music superstar who is being stalked, things get dangerously out of hand when a bomb disguised as a doll explodes in her dressing room. Rachels manager, Bill Devaney, seeks the services of a bodyguard, Frank Farmer. He is a successful private bodyguard, mostly protecting corporate VIPs. Formerly he was a Secret Service agent who served as part of the protection detail during two presidencies. Frank is reluctant to accept the offer to guard Rachel as he sees her as a diva who is oblivious to the threats against her life. Franks concerns are quickly realized when Rachel looks upon Frank as being paranoid, Rachels existing bodyguard Tony resents Franks presence. But at a concert where Rachel is performing, a riot breaks out, as a result, the two develop a closer relationship. Frank tries to remain professional, but the two sleep together, however, recognizing that this compromises his ability to protect his client, Frank breaks off their affair. Hurt, Rachel begins to defy Franks painstaking security measures and she even goes as far as attempting to sleep with his former Secret Service colleague Greg Portman. But after she has contact with her stalker via a threatening phone call. She finally recognizes the seriousness of the situation and cancels the rest of her tour, Frank, Rachel, Rachels driver Henry, Rachels son Fletcher, and her sister Nicki then travel to a large lakefront cabin in the mountains, the home of Frank’s father, Herb. The next day, Fletcher is almost killed when a bomb explodes inside the boat he rode moments before, after finding footprints around the cabin and sabotaged automobiles, Frank realizes that Rachels stalker has followed them. After securing the house for the night, Frank learns that Rachels obsessive stalker, angry and drunk, Nicki admits that during a drug-induced fit of jealousy she hired a hitman to kill Rachel, but that the letters from the stalker came before that. However, she cannot call it off because she not know the killers identity
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Golden Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Film industry
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The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i. e. Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. Hollywood is the oldest film industry of the world and the largest in terms of box office gross, other centers include Hong Kong and in Europe the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany are the countries that lead movie production. The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.3 billion in 2015. The top three continents/regions by box office gross were, Asia-Pacific with US$14.1 billion, North America with US$11.1 billion and Europe, distinct from the centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced in other than the one in which the company which pays for the film is located. For example, many U. S. movies are filmed in Canada, many Nigerian movies are filmed in Ghana, while many Indian movies are filmed in the Americas, Europe, Singapore etc. The cinema of the United States, often referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. The United States cinema is the oldest film industry in the world which originated more than 121 years ago and also the largest film industry in terms of revenue. Hollywood is the nexus of the U. S. film industry with established film study facilities such as the American Film Institute, LA Film School. However, four of the six film studios are owned by East Coast companies. Today, American film studios collectively generate several hundred movies every year, only The Walt Disney Company — which owns the Walt Disney Studios — is fully based in Southern California. And while Sony Pictures Entertainment is headquartered in Culver City, California, its parent company, most shooting now takes place in California, New York, Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina. Hollywood is the most popular film industry with the highest number of screens, between 2009-2015, Hollywood consistently grossed $10 billion annually. Jenkins used his Phantoscope to project his film before an audience of family, friends, the film featured a vaudeville dancer performing a Butterfly Dance. Jenkins and his new partner Thomas Armat modified the Phantoscope for exhibitions in temporary theaters at the Cotton States Exposition in the fall of 1895, the Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison, who changed the name of the projector to Edisons Vitascope. Nestor Studios was Hollywoods first movie studio, founded on October 27,1911 It was built by David Horsley for Nestor Motion Picture Company and it was then owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley. The first motion picture stage in Hollywood was built behind the tavern, other East Coast studios had moved production to Los Angeles, prior to Nestors move west
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