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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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Bill Cosby
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William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and singer. Cosbys start in comedy began at the hungry i in San Francisco and was followed by his landing a starring role in the 1960s television show I Spy. He was also a regular on the television series The Electric Company during the shows first two seasons. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in a number of films, after attending Temple University in the 1960s, he received his bachelors degree there in 1971. In 1973, he received a degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a tool in elementary schools. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family, Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations since about 2000. He surrendered to authorities on December 30,2015, and was released on $1 million bail, Cosby is scheduled to go on trial on or before June 5,2017. Cosby was born on July 12,1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he is one of four sons of Anna Pearl, a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr. who served as a mess steward in the U. S. Navy. During much of Cosbys early childhood, his father was away in the U. S. armed forces, as a student, he described himself as a class clown. Cosby was the captain of both the team and the track and field team at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia. Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying, at FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby began acting in plays as well as continuing his devotion to playing sports. Cosby went on to Philadelphias Central High School, a magnet and academically rigorous university prep school where he played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track. In addition, Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes and he transferred to Germantown High School, but failed the tenth grade. Instead of repeating, he got a job as an apprentice at a repair shop, which he liked. In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy, serving at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. During his four years in the Navy, Cosby served as a Hospital Corpsman working in therapy with Navy. He finished his equivalency diploma via correspondence courses and was awarded a track, there, he studied physical education while running track and playing fullback on the universitys football team
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Tom Selleck
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Thomas William Tom Selleck is an American actor and film producer. He is known for starring as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum and he also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2010, he has also been a primary cast member as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS. Selleck has appeared in more than 50 film and television roles since Magnum, P. I. including Three Men and a Baby, Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, Selleck also appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as A. J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas, Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha Selleck, a housewife, and Robert Dean Selleck, who was an executive and real estate investor. Selleck is of mostly English ancestry, including recent immigrant ancestors, Tom Sellecks father was of primarily English ancestry but also had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent. Through an entirely paternal line Selleck is a descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset. Through this line, Tom Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America, Sellecks family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood. He has a brother named Robert, a younger sister named Martha. Selleck graduated from Grant High School, in 1962, while working as a model, Selleck attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship where he played for the USC Trojans mens basketball team. He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of the Trojan Knights, while majoring in business administration, a drama coach suggested Selleck try acting. He then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, under Milton Katselas, Selleck served in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973. Sellecks first TV appearance was as a senior on The Dating Game in 1965. Soon after, he appeared in commercials for such as Pepsi-Cola. He began his career with bit parts in movies, including Myra Breckinridge, Coma. He also appeared in a number of TV series, mini-series, Selleck also had a recurring role in the 1970s as too good to be true private investigator Lance White in The Rockford Files. Lance was very trusting and always lucky, much to the annoyance of Jim Rockford, Sellecks character was based on one played in Garners earlier TV series Maverick by Wayde Preston in the episode The Saga of Waco Williams. Selleck, an accessible but relatively untested actor, spent years receiving little interest from the entertainment industry and his big break came when he was cast in the lead role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P. I
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The Chevy Chase Show
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The Chevy Chase Show is an American late night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Chevy Chase that aired in 1993 on Fox. The series was canceled after five weeks on the air, Fox originally asked country musician Dolly Parton to host a new late night program—the networks first since 1987s The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Parton turned the network down, and suggested Chase for the job, Chase reportedly signed a $3 million deal with Fox. Days before the premiere, the name of the venue where the show was recorded was changed from the Aquarius Theater to the Chevy Chase Theater. The Chevy Chase Show was one of several shows that various networks put on the air after Johnny Carson retired. The show premiered a week after the first Late Show with David Letterman, in keeping with the formula Carson and David Letterman had established, the show featured a house band that Chase called the best band in the world, the Tom Scott-led MBC Orchestra. Chase produced the show through his company, Cornelius Productions, the shows set featured a tank with live fish, basketball hoops, and shelves of toys. The programs lead-in featured a clay-animated Chase stealing letters from notable Los Angeles landmarks to spell the name of his show, as the credits rolled at the end of each episode, Chase was seen shooting basketballs at an onstage backstop. Television critic Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave the show an F, Time panned the show, Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing. The magazine criticized Chase for having recycled old material shamelessly, taking pratfalls, advertisers had been promised that the show would bring between five and six million viewers nightly. By contrast, the Late Show with David Letterman guaranteed fewer than four million viewers to their advertisers, the Chevy Chase Shows actual ratings were much lower, averaging fewer than three million viewers. Fewer than two million people tuned in during the final weeks. Salhany spoke about Chases first episodes, He was very nervous and it was uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch it. Chase issued a statement regarding the cancellation, in which he called the talk-show format very constraining and promoted his film, Cops. Chase had never intended the show to be a series, even if it had been successful. Although Fox dropped the show four weeks, it ran for a week after the cancellation announcement. The entire last week was dedicated to making light of the shows success, within 48 hours of the final show, workmen had already dismantled and painted over the Chevy Chase Theaters sign. The theater is now known as Nickelodeon on Sunset, Fox ran reruns of In Living Color in the former time slot of The Chevy Chase Show after the cancellation
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David Seltzer
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David Seltzer is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for The Omen and Bird on a Wire. Seltzers writing credits include the screenplays for The Omen, Prophecy, Six Weeks, My Giant, Dragonfly and Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and he wrote and directed Lucas, Punchline, Shining Through, and Nobodys Baby. Seltzer was reported to be writing an Untitled Earthquake Project for Hollywood director, abrams, the plot of which is closely guarded, though it has been confirmed that the film is not a remake of 1974s disaster film Earthquake. Seltzer is also working on a UK remake of Alfred Hitchcocks Strangers on a Train. The Dialogue, Learn from the Masters Interview David Seltzer at the Internet Movie Database
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Sylvester Stallone
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Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films, Stallones film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallones use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7,2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category, in 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles. He received critical raves, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and third Academy Award nomination, Stallones father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Stallones mother is of half French and half Russian Jewish descent and his younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. As a result, the left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue. Around the age of 4, Stallone was flat-footed and put in a tap dancing school by his mother and his father moved the family to Washington, D. C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school. His mother opened a gymnasium called Barbellas in 1954. Stallones parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he lived with his mother. When Stallone was 16, he scored poorly in school and his mother got him a job at her beauty salon. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College, Stallone had his first starring role in the soft core pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Studs. He was paid US$200 for two days work, Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actors words, it was either do that movie or rob someone, the film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallones newfound fame. While he was in Switzerland, Stallone got his start in films, playing an extra eating in a restaurant near to stars Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv, in the sports drama, Downhill Racer. In 1970, Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was re-cut and retitled Rebel, in the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmons character chases, tackles and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallones character is a pickpocket
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Melanie Griffith
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Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penns Night Moves. She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palmas Body Double, other roles include in John Schlesingers Pacific Heights, Milk Money, the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls, as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lynes Lolita, and Another Day in Paradise. She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day, and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, Griffith was born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive. She is of Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English descent and her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall. During her childhood and adolescent years, she lived part of the time in New York with her father and part-time in Antelope Valley, California, Griffith appeared in advertisements and briefly worked as a child model before abandoning the career, citing extreme shyness as the reason. While attending the Hollywood Professional School, Griffith was advanced in her studies, Griffith began acting at nine months of age in a commercial and later appeared as an extra in Smith. Her first major role was in Arthur Penns Night Moves, in which she did several racy nude scenes at the age of 17 and this drew attention to her and typecast her as a nymphet in films such as Smile, The Drowning Pool, and One on One. She was cast as Melanie, the daughter of her real mother, Tippi Hedren, in the film Roar. During the filming she was attacked by a lion and had 50 stitches to her face, it was feared she would lose an eye but in the end the wound was not disfiguring. She then appeared in the made-for-television movie Shes in the Army Now with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Bauer, whom she married shortly after the film premiered. Griffiths well-known drug and alcohol addictions stalled her career, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as an actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double. The film, although a failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. It led to her first starring role in Jonathan Demmes Something Wild, Griffith also starred in the science fiction film Cherry 2000, which went straight to video in 1988 but has also become a cult favorite. Griffiths performance was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Griffiths next major role was opposite Matthew Modine in the urban thriller Pacific Heights. Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls, in 1998 she appeared in Woody Allens Celebrity which featured an all-star cast. Later that year, she starred as a heroin user in the independent film Another Day in Paradise
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Estelle Getty
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Estelle Getty was an American actress and comedian, who appeared in film, television, and theatre. In her later years, after retiring from acting, she battled Lewy body dementia, Estelle Getty was born Estelle Scher on July 25,1923 to Sarah and Charles Scher in New York City. Her father was employed in the glass business and she had a sister, Roslyn, and a brother, David. Getty is best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls and her character was the Sicilian mother of Dorothy Zbornak, played by Beatrice Arthur, although Getty was, in fact, one year younger than Arthur. In 1988, the role earned Getty the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, during her time on The Golden Girls, Getty, along with Steve Delsohn, co-wrote an autobiography entitled If I Knew Then, What I Know Now. She further capitalized on her success by releasing a video for senior citizens in 1993. The new show saw the three remaining cast members from the original series invest in a Miami hotel, the series was cancelled after just one season. Getty reprised her role of Sophia once again for a guest appearance in Nurses and she appeared in the series for the final two seasons. Getty made numerous guest appearances on a variety of popular television series, including Fantasy Island, Cagney & Lacey, Blossom, Touched by an Angel, Mad About You. Her numerous film roles include Tootsie, Mask and Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot, alongside Sylvester Stallone, which earned her a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress. Getty attended Seward Park High School in New York City and she was married to Arthur Gettleman from December 21,1947 until his death in 2004. The couple had two sons, Carl Gettleman, who lives in California, and Barry Gettleman, who lives in Florida. In 1991, as reported in Star magazine, Getty helped to nurse her 29-year-old nephew Steven Scher. Because Schers parents lived in England and his friends were no longer able to care for him in Greensboro, North Carolina, Getty had him flown to California, in 2000, Getty stopped making public appearances after revealing she had Parkinsons disease and osteoporosis. In 2002, media reports claimed she was suffering from Alzheimers disease. Doctors later discovered she actually had Lewy body dementia, both the Parkinsons and Alzheimers diagnoses were incorrect, Golden Girls cast members who attempted to talk to her on the phone or in person found that she couldnt remember them, or anything about the show. Bea Arthur said that even during production of the series, Getty had so much trouble remembering her lines that they should have known something was wrong from the beginning, in 2003, Lifetime television hosted a Golden Girls reunion, The Golden Girls, Their Greatest Moments. In 2008, the show was awarded the Pop Culture award at the Sixth Annual TV Land Awards, Getty did not participate in either project due to declining health
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Pauly Shore
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Paul Montgomery Pauly Shore is an American actor, comedian, director, writer and producer. Shore is best known for his roles in comedy films in the 1990s including Encino Man, Son in Law. He also hosted a show on MTV in the late 1980s. Shores acting career has declined since the late 1990s, he has appeared only infrequently in a number of films and has primarily focused on stand-up comedy. Shore was born Paul Montgomery Shore, the son of Mitzi Shore, who founded The Comedy Store, and Sammy Shore, Shore was raised Jewish, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1986, inspired by his parents work in comedy and show business, a 17-year-old Shore made his stand-up debut at the Alley Cat Bistro in Culver City. Everyone else in school was filling out their SAT applications, but I just passed mine back, I knew I wasnt going to go to college. Shore was mentored by Sam Kinison and opened several of his sets, while touring the comedy club circuit, Shore cultivated an alter ego persona, The Weasel. The Weasel involved Shore speaking in a surfer parlance, heavily peppered with dudespeak slang such as edged, melons and grinding as well as his catchphrase, Hey, Shores big break came as an on-air MTV VJ, a position he held from 1989 to 1994. At the height of his MTV fame, Shore had his own show, Totally Pauly and he also released a music video, Lisa, Lisa, the One I Adore. In 1992, Shore starred in Encino Man, which was a modest hit, the films success propelled Shore to star in additional personalized vehicles, albeit less successful, Son in Law, In the Army Now, Jury Duty, and Bio-Dome. In 1997, Shore starred in the eponymous TV show Pauly, Shore makes a cameo appearance in the American rock band Limp Bizkit music video N2 Gether Now, as a pizza deliveryman, and a briefer appearance in Break Stuff. In 2003, Shore produced, wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical mockumentary, in 2010, Shore starred in Adopted, which sees him traveling to Africa to adopt a child. In addition, he has several short films and multiple projects in the works such as his MTV pilot called The Shores. Official website Official website of Adopted Pauly Shore at the Internet Movie Database
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Alan Menken
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Alan Irwin Menken is an American musical theatre and film score composer and pianist. Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and his scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for Little Shop of Horrors, Newsies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted, Tangled and Sausage Party and he is also known for his work on musical theatre works for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of these are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, Menken has collaborated with such lyricists as Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel. With eight Academy Award wins, Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman and he has also won eleven Grammy Awards, a Tony Award and other honors. Alan Irwin Menken was born on July 22,1949, at French Hospital in New York City, to Judith and his father was a boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, and his mother was an actress, dancer and playwright. Menken developed an interest in music at an age, taking piano. He began to compose at an early age, at age 9, at the New York Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Contest, his original composition Bouree was rated Superior and Excellent by the judges. He attended New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, Menken remembers, Id make up my own Bach fugues and Beethoven sonatas because I was bored with the piano and I didnt want to practice, so Id go off on tangents. He then enrolled at New York University and he graduated with a degree in Musicology in 1971 from the universitys Steinhardt School. Menken recalled, First, I was pre-med, I thought Id be a dentist like my Dad. Finally, I got a degree in music, but I didnt care about musicology and it wasnt until I joined BMI Workshop. Under Lehman Engel, and walked into a room with other composers that I knew this was it, Menken noted that Before college, I was writing songs to further my dream of being the next Bob Dylan. A lot of guitar songs – I was composing on piano before that, after college, he attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. After graduating, Menkens plan was to either a rock star or a recording artist. His interest in writing musicals increased when he joined the Broadcast Music, Musical Theatre Workshop and was mentored by Lehman Engel. From 1974 to 1978, he showcased various BMI workshop works, such as Midnight, Apartment House, Conversations with Pierre, Harry the Rat and he performed his material at clubs like The Ballroom, Reno Sweeny and Tramps. In 1976, John Wilson reported for The New York Times that members of Engels BMI Workshop began performing as part of the Broadway at the Ballroom series, featured Maury Yeston and Alan Menken, both playing their piano accompaniment and singing songs they have written for potential musicals
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
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Christopher Columbus, The Discovery is a 1992 American-British-Spanish historical adventure film directed by John Glen. It was the last project developed by the father and son team of Alexander. The film follows events after the fall of the Emirate of Granada, the film was released for the 500th anniversary of Columbus voyage. The premiere took place at almost the same time as 1492, Conquest of Paradise. Marlon Brando as Tomás de Torquemada Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand V Georges Corraface as Christopher Columbus, the role was originally intended for Timothy Dalton. Rachel Ward as Queen Isabella I, the role was originally intended for Isabella Rossellini. Dalton later filed a suit against the producers for breach of contract, Glen had previously directed Dalton in both of his appearances as James Bond, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. The film was not a success, debuting at #4. The film received negative reviews, with a rotten 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 29 reviews. Brandos performance in particular was singled out as his worst, the film was released on VHS format from Warner Home Video. It has not been released on DVD in North America, but is available in other regions on DVD. 1492, Conquest of Paradise, another big budget, all-star epic about Columbus also released in 1992, carry On Columbus – A comedy-film about Columbus released in 1992. The Magic Voyage, a film about Columbus also released in 1992. Christopher Columbus, The Discovery at the Internet Movie Database Christopher Columbus, The Discovery at Rotten Tomatoes Christopher Columbus, The Discovery at AllMovie
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Final Analysis
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Final Analysis is a 1992 American neo-noir drama directed by Phil Joanou and written by Wesley Strick. It stars Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, the executive producers were Gere and Maggie Wilde. The neo-noir style of Final Analysis imitates Hitchcockian thrillers like Vertigo, Isaac Barr is a top-notch, San Francisco-based Freudian psychiatrist, who has Diana Baylor on the patients couch. He is treating her for frightening and horrific childhood memories, which include images of her drunken father, one night, Heather Evans enters Barrs office and says that she is Dianas sister. She asks Barr for information about her sisters case and it is implied, as part of the treatment, that Isaac speak to Heather to find out more about her sisters past experiences and determine if she might provide information that Diana has forgotten. Not long after, Heather seduces Isaac, and an affair follows. However, there is a problem—Heather is married to Jimmy Evans and she also has a way of embarrassing Jimmy in public by taking a sip of wine and then flipping into an attack of pathological intoxication, which can end with the restaurant in shambles. It turns out that Heather is trying to involve unsuspecting Isaac in a plan to murder Jimmy and she is also using Diana as bait and wants Isaac framed for the murder. Richard Gere as Dr. Grusin George Murdock as Judge Costello Shirley Prestia as Dist, atty. Kaufman Tony Genaro as Hector Katherine Cortez as Woman Speaker Wood Moy as Dr. The first weeks gross was $6,411,441 and the receipts for the films run were $28,590,665. In its widest release the film was featured in 1,504 theaters across the United States, film critic Roger Ebert liked the screenplay and thought director Alfred Hitchcock, known for these types of thrillers, would have liked it as well. He wrote, Im a sucker for movies that look and feel like this, I like the pounding romantic music, the tempestuous sex scenes, the crafty ways that neurotic meddlers destroy the lives of their victims, and of course the handcrafted climax. Ebert also thought the movie was needlessly complex, ms. Thurman does well as a sort of upscale slavey. Tantalizing double-crosses mount right up to the final scene. Critic Kathleen Maher wrote, Joanou, with his puppy dog devotion to noir thrillers, hes mixed parts of Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, and Vertigo, but the result doesnt even live up to Dead Again. Maher also says shes seen Geres acting like this before, and added, rita Kempley, writing in The Washington Post, called the film an implausible psycho thriller and said director Joanou doesnt have any of his own ideas. The film has a rating at Rotten Tomatoes of 54% based on 24 reviews
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Newsies
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Newsies is a 1992 American musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega in his film directing debut. Loosely based on the New York City Newsboys Strike of 1899 and featuring original songs from composers Alan Menken. Redford, it stars Christian Bale, David Moscow, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, the film was an initial box office bomb and received negative reviews at the time of its release, but later gained a cult following on home video. It was later adapted into a stage adaptation on Broadway that was nominated for eight Tony Awards. In 1899, 17-year-old Jack Cowboy Kelly is one of many struggling newspaper hawkers in New York City, when David Jacobs and his younger brother Les join the newsies, Jack notices Davids intelligence and Les marketable cuteness and self-servingly takes them under his wing. Jack is invited to the Jacobs home, becomes enamored of their sister Sarah, attempting to outdo his business rival William Randolph Hearst, New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer raises the prices that the newsies must pay to buy newspapers from his distribution centers. Angered, Jack and David galvanize the other Manhattan newsies to go on strike, while the others spread the word to newsies in New Yorks other boroughs, Jack and Les confront Pulitzer and are thrown out of his office. Bryan Denton, a reporter for The Sun, takes an interest in the boys story, Jack and David take their cause to the Brooklyn newsies, but their leader Spot Conlon is reluctant to join the strike. This dejects the Manhattan newsies, but David riles them up until they ambush the distribution center, the newsies try to ward off strikebreakers, but the struggle turns violent and turns out to be a trap set by the Delanceys. Just as the newsies are about to be arrested, Spot Conlon arrives with the Brooklyn newsies, Denton puts the story on the front page of The Sun, and the newsies plan to hold a rally. Snyder informs Pulitzer that Jack is an escapee from the Refuge, Jack has breakfast with Sarah on the roof of the Jacobs apartment building, he tells her of his desire to flee to Santa Fe, and wonders if she would miss him. The police break up the rally and arrest the newsies, Snyder testifies against Jack and reveals to the others that Jacks real name is Francis Sullivan, his mother is deceased and his father incarcerated. Jack is sentence to four years of rehabilitation in the Refuge, Denton is reassigned as a war correspondent and can no longer report on the strike. Jack is taken to see Pulitzer, who offers to waive his sentence, when Pulitzer threatens to have the other newsies thrown into the Refuge, Jack complies. The boys attempt to rescue Jack, but he tells them to leave, the newsies are shocked and dismayed to see Jack report for work the next day. When the Delanceys attack the Jacobs children, Jack steps in to save them, the newsies learn from Denton that their strike has had little effect on public opinion, since the city thrives on child labor and Pulitzer has ordered newspapers not to report on the strike. Using an old printing press of Pulitzers, they publish a Newsie Banner which they distribute to child workers city-wide, Denton shares the paper with Governor Theodore Roosevelt, exposing the mistreatment of children at the Refuge. Numerous child laborers join the strike, bringing the citys workforce to a standstill, Jack and David confront Pulitzer, who finally gives in to their demands
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Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and it took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the units of Walt Disney Studios. Animated films such as those by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are released under this brand. Pirates of the Caribbean series is the corporations most successful franchise, the studios predecessor was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926, in 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a studio in Burbank. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Song of the South. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The Walt Disney Productions in April 1983 incorporated its film division as Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls, David Hoberman was promoted to president of production, Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion pictures at Walt Disney Studios and was replaced as Disney President by David Vogel. Vogel added the position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, then was promoted in 1998 to head up all live action motion picture units as president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Pirates of the Caribbean launched a film series and made the ride into a franchise. After four Pirates sequels, the franchise took in more than $5.4 billion worldwide, so, the corporation was looking for addition of the ride adaptations. In 2010, Disney released Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of the 1951 animated film of the name that became the second $1 billion-grossing film in the studios history. The film began a trend of fantasy genre films being green-lit. With sister units Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm successfully targeting the male market, with the success of Maleficent and Cinderella, the studio announced a whole series of live-action adaptations of animated films as being in early stages. The Jungle Book cemented this trend with a global near billion-dollar box office, some adaptations are sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels
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Kevin Costner
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Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Emmy Award, Costner has played Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Lt. John J. He directed, produced, and starred in The Postman, Costner was born January 18,1955 in Lynwood, California. He grew up in Compton, California and he is the youngest of three boys, the middle of whom died at birth. His mother, Sharon Rae, was a worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician. His fathers heritage originates with German immigrants to North Carolina in the 1700s and Costner also has English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and he instead enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and sang in the First Baptist Choir. He has stated that a viewing of the 1962 film How the West Was Won at the age of seven had formed his childhood. Spending his teenage years in parts of California as his fathers career progressed, Costner has described this as a period when he lost a lot of confidence. Costner lived in Ventura, then in Visalia, he attended Mt. Whitney High School and then moved to Orange County and he went on to earn a BA in marketing and finance from California State University, Fullerton in 1978. While at CSUF, he was a fraternity brother in Delta Chi. Costner became interested in acting while in his last year of college, Burton agreed to speak to Costner after he finished reading his book. Costner, who had been taking acting classes but had not told his wife about his desire to be an actor, watched Burton closely and approached when Burton gestured. Costner told Burton that he would prefer to avoid the drama that followed Burton, Burton replied, You have green eyes. After landing, Burtons limousine pulled up to the curb where Costner, Burton wished Costner luck, and the two would never meet again. Still, Costner credits Burton with partially contributing to his career, having agreed to undertake a job as a marketing executive, Costner began taking acting lessons five nights a week, with the support of his wife. His marketing job lasted 30 days, Costner allegedly made his film debut in the film Sizzle Beach, U. S. A. Although a biography claims it was filmed in the winter of 1978–79. Costner made a brief appearance in the Ron Howard film Night Shift. He is listed in the credits as Frat Boy No.1 and appears at the climax of a frat-style, blow-out party in the New York City morgue, Costner can be seen holding a beer and looking surprised at the sudden halt of celebration
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Michael Douglas
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. Douglass career includes a range of films in independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades. These awards include the Golden Globe Cecil B. Douglas is the son of Kirk Douglas. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California and his early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, in 1975 Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, after leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome and Romancing the Stone. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred and he reprised the role in the sequel Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Douglass subsequent film roles included, Black Rain, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, The American President, The Game, Traffic and Wonder Boys, Solitary Man, and Ant-Man. Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actors Kirk Douglas and his parents met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, and his father was born Issur Danielovitch and his mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, and had English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry. Douglas has a brother, Joel Douglas, and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas and Eric Douglas, from stepmother Anne Buydens. Douglas attended The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City, Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and he received his B. A. in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association. He studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City and his first TV breakthrough role came with a 1969 CBS-TV Playhouse special, The Experiment—and it was the only time he was billed as M. K. Douglas. Michael Douglas started his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in little known films such as Hail. Adam at 6 A. M. and Summertree, earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, Douglas later said that Malden became a mentor and someone he admired and loved deeply. After Douglas left the show, he had an association with his mentor until Maldens death on July 1,2009. In 2004, Douglas presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, in 1975, Douglas received from his father, Kirk Douglas, the rights to the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. The film follows a detective, Nick Curran, who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star. During the investigation Curran becomes involved in a torrid and intense relationship with the suspect, Catherine Tramell. Even before its release, Basic Instinct generated heated controversy due to its overt sexuality and it was strongly opposed by gay rights activists, who criticized the films depiction of homosexual relationships and the portrayal of a bisexual woman as a murderous narcissistic psychopath. In a 2006 interview, Stone alleged that the infamous leg-crossing scene in which her vulva was exposed was filmed without her knowledge, despite initial critical negativity and public protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most financially successful films of the 1990s, grossing $352 million worldwide. Several versions of the film have been released on videocassette, DVD, a 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2 starring Stone was made without Verhoevens involvement, but received negative reviews from critics and was unsuccessful at the box office. A retired rock star, Johnny Boz, is stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a blonde woman at his apartment. Homicide detective Nick Curran investigates, and the suspect is Catherine Tramell, Bozs bisexual girlfriend. It is concluded that either Catherine herself did it or someone trying to frame her out of spite, Tramell is uncooperative and taunting in the investigation, smoking in the interrogation room and exposing her bare genitalia in front of the officers. She presents alibis and passes a lie detector test, Nick, who accidentally shot two tourists while high on cocaine, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner, with whom he has had a sexual affair. Nick discovers that Catherine plans on using him as a detective in her latest book. Catherine becomes aware of Nicks past after paying Lt. Nielsen to look into Nicks psychiatric file, Nick publicly assaults Nielsen in his office and later becomes a prime suspect after Nielsen is killed. Nick suspects Catherine, and when he joins in her behavior in front of his co-workers, a torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game. Nick shows up at a club and witnesses her sniffing coke in a stall along with Roxy. Nick and Catherine begin to dance and make out at a club, later, observed by Roxy, they have sex in a bed. Roxy, jealous of Nick, attempts to run him over with Catherines car, Nick identifies the girl as Beth Garner, who acknowledges the encounter, but claims Catherine was the one who became obsessed. Nick discovers the pages of Catherines new book in which the fictional detective finds his partner lying dead with his legs protruding between the doors of an elevator. Catherine breaks off their affair, Nick becomes upset and suspicious, Nick later meets his partner Gus, who has arranged to meet with Catherines college roommate at an office building to find out what really went on between Catherine and Beth
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Jack Nicholson
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John Joseph Jack Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker, who has performed for over 60 years. Nicholson is known for playing a range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of antiheroes. In many of his films, he has played the eternal outsider, Nicholsons 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academys history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and he also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment. Nicholson is one of three actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001, in 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institutes Life Achievement Award. He played Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubricks horror film The Shining, the Joker in Tim Burtons superhero film Batman, other films include the legal drama A Few Good Men, the Sean Penn-directed mystery film The Pledge, and the comedy-drama About Schmidt. Nicholson was born on April 22,1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, Nicholsons mother was of Irish, English, and German descent. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo in 1936, before realizing that he was already married, biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jacks Life that Latvian-born Eddie King, Junes manager, may have been Nicholsons biological father, rather than Furcillo. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was, in 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his sister, June, was actually his mother, and his other sister, Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died, on finding out, Nicholson said it was a pretty dramatic event, but it wasnt what Id call traumatizing. I was pretty well psychologically formed. Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey and he was raised in his mothers Roman Catholic religion. Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, nick, as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted class clown by the Class of 1954. He was in every day for a whole school year. A theatre and an award at the school are named in his honor. In 2004, Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine and he served a tour of duty in the Air National Guard. Nicholson first came to Hollywood in 1954, when he was 17 and he took a job as an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio
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Hoffa
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Hoffa is a 1992 French-American biographical crime film directed by Danny DeVito and written by David Mamet, based on the life of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Most of the story is told in flashbacks before ending with Hoffas mysterious disappearance, jack Nicholson plays Hoffa, and DeVito plays Robert Ciaro, an amalgamation of several Hoffa associates over the years. Reilly, Robert Prosky, Kevin Anderson, Armand Assante, and J. T. Walsh in supporting roles, the original music score is by David Newman. Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the lot of a roadhouse diner on July 30,1975. Others are late for a meeting, asked if he wants to leave, Hoffa gives Ciaro a scornful glance. In 1935, a young Hoffa approaches a parked truck, inside of which driver Ciaro is taking a nap, Hoffa pitches the benefits of joining the Teamsters and gives Ciaro a business card, on which he has written, Give this man whatever he needs. A few days later, Ciaro reports to work to find Hoffa attempting to organize the workers, Hoffa blurts out theyd ridden 85 miles together, and Ciaro is fired. Ciaro later accosts Hoffa with a Bowie knife, but Hoffas associate Billy Flynn pulls a gun, Ciaro joins the pair in the arson bombing of a laundry whose owner has refused to cooperate with the Teamsters. Flynn is badly burned and dies, Ciaro succeeds him as Hoffas right-hand man. During a Teamsters strike, strikers fight with non-union workers and police, Ciaro, who speaks Italian, comes along and translates. An alliance between the Teamsters and the mob is formed, Hoffa meets Carol DAllesandro, who would become his closest mob ally. Hoffa rises to the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and his illegal activities include the use of Teamster funds to make loans to the mob. At a Congressional hearing, Hoffa is questioned by Robert F. Kennedy regarding his suspicious union activities, a loud and bitter feud between Kennedy and Hoffa grows, especially after John F. Kennedy is elected President and Bobby becomes Attorney General. Hoffa, on a trip with DAllesandro, discusses ways to exploit the unions pension fund. Having no paper with them, the plans are sketched on the back of a hunting license, subsequently, Hoffa is betrayed by a junior associate, Peter Connelly, who testifies at Hoffas trial. The critical evidence against Hoffa is the license on which the plans to raid the Teamsters pension fund were written. Hoffa surrenders to federal officials and serves time in a Pennsylvania federal prison while Connellys uncle, Frank Fitzsimmons, Ciaro, also convicted and imprisoned, is freed and immediately begins working for Hoffas release. DAllesandro suggests that the Teamsters endorse Richard M. Nixon for President, so that in exchange for Teamster endorsement, Hoffa will receive a presidential pardon
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Man Trouble
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Man Trouble is a 1992 romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Ellen Barkin. It was directed by Bob Rafelson, and written by Carole Eastman, the film is the fifth collaboration between Nicholson and Rafelson. Beverly DAngelo and Harry Dean Stanton co-star, Harry Bliss runs a guard dog service and is going through counseling with his wife, Adele. Joan doesnt feel safe there, either, because shes harassed by Andys ex-lovers and she hires a guard dog from Harrys company, and soon Harry is providing more than protection for the beautiful singer. Harry is a liar who, because of his profession. Joan is soft and vulnerable as she is badgered by her husband, harassed by unknown callers, menaced by men from her sisters past. It currently holds a 7% Rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews, varietys review said that Jack Nicholson fans should feel cheated by Man Trouble, an insultingly trivial star vehicle. After some initial business attracted by his name on the marquee, Nicholson plays a grouchy dog-trainer who slowly loosens up in the presence of romantically challenged opera singer Barkin, who needs to get some canine security after a series of death threats. Obviously intended to be a bright and breezy romantic-comedy thriller, it ends up a mangy old mutt of a movie thanks to a charmless script, according to Time Out Magazine, The trouble is, the film never seems to know where its headed. Not quite a romance, a thriller or a comedy, its a movie with an identity crisis. Barkin, playing against type, produces a shrill caricature of femininity, while Rafelson indulges Nicholsons familiar soft-spoken laxity, Jack Nicholson earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor for his performances in both this film and Hoffa, but lost the trophy to Sylvester Stallone for Stop. Man Trouble at the Internet Movie Database Man Trouble at Box Office Mojo
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Jimmy Hoffa
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James Riddle Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union from 1958 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975, at age 62, Hoffa was a union activist from a young age and an important regional figure with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union by his mid-20s. By 1952 Hoffa had risen to national vice-president of the IBT and he secured the first national agreement for teamsters rates in 1964. Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the years of his Teamsters work. He was convicted of tampering, attempted bribery, and fraud in 1964. He was imprisoned in 1967 and sentenced to 13 years, after exhausting the appeal process, in mid-1971, he resigned as president of the union, an action that was part of a pardon agreement with President Richard Nixon, to facilitate his release later that year. Nixon blocked Hoffa from union activities until 1980, Hoffa, hoping to regain support and to return to IBT leadership, unsuccessfully attempted to overturn this order. Hoffa vanished in late July 1975, having last been seen outside the Machus Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant and his disappearance gave rise to many theories as to what happened to him. A collection of related to Hoffa is cared for by the Special Collections Research Center of George Washington University. The collection contains a variety of materials, including newspaper and magazine articles, trial transcripts, copies of congressional hearings, Hoffa was born in Brazil, Indiana on February 14,1913, to Indiana natives John and Viola Hoffa. His father, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, died in 1920 when Hoffa was 7 years old, the family moved to Detroit in 1924, where Hoffa was raised and lived the rest of his life. Hoffa left school at age 14 and began working full-time manual labor jobs, the couple had two children, a daughter, Barbara Ann Crancer, and a son, James P. Hoffa. The Hoffas paid $6,800 in 1939 for a modest home in northwest Detroit, the family later owned a simple summer lakefront cottage in Orion Township, north of Detroit. Barbara retired as an Associate Circuit Judge in St. Louis County, Missouri and she retired from that post in March 2011. James has served as president of the Teamsters Union since 1999, the workers were displeased with this situation and tried to organize a union to better their lot. Although Hoffa was young, his bravery and approachability in this role impressed fellow workers, the Teamsters union, founded in 1903, had 75,000 members in 1933. Three years later, there were 420,000, and the number grew steadily during World War II, the Teamsters organized truck drivers and warehousemen, first throughout the Midwest, and then nationwide. This process, which several years starting in the early 1930s
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Folks!
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Folks. is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Tom Selleck. Its tagline is, Jon Aldrich is about to face to face with the most terrifying force known to man. his parents. It earned a Razzie Award nomination for Selleck as Worst Actor, Jon tries to get his sister, Arlene, to take care of their parents, but she wont even open the door. As a result, his father, Harry, and his mother, Mildred, have to move in with him and that is the moment that his good life starts going downhill. The company Jon works for was apparently doing illegal things which he knew nothing of, the problems for him continue to mount up as Harry continues to cause all kinds of trouble and, as a result of it, the family becomes broke. His wife, Audrey, moves out with the kids, furthermore, as a result of his severe senility, Harry continues to unintentionally injure Jon, causing him to get hearing loss, a broken hand, and a broken foot when a car runs over it. Plus, Harry puts the lives of Jons kids and himself in danger at one point by jaywalking in an intersection one morning while trying to take them for a walk with him without letting anyone know. Jon talks with Mildred who also says that she and Harry never wanted to be a burden on him and she then tells him that they have discussed it, and they want him to help them die so he can collect the insurance money. He is totally against this at first but after a while he changes his tune and he refuses at first because she would not even open the door for them but he eventually caves in and lets them stay. She also joins in on the attempts to help their parents die, hoping for a cut of the insurance money. Things slowly start looking up for Jon as Audrey eventually shows up to him that she was wrong for leaving. Upon her arrival she realizes all the injuries he has suffered since she saw him last, Jon eventually gets their lives on track. He and Audrey buy a house and his parents move in with them, Arlene is now with a man who knows how to handle her bad behaving children. At the end we find out that Harry hasnt been yelling McDonalds because he was hungry. Noted the Los Angeles Times, If gays and lesbians think theyre getting a bad rap in the movies, first Stop. or My Mom Will Shoot, now Folks. Where are the Gray Panthers when you need them, the New York Times noted that its screenwriter is best known as the screenwriter of Wheres Poppa. and he may be aspiring to comparably dark humor. But Folks tries to be tender and vicious simultaneously, and that makes for an impossible mix, a more mean-spiritedly funny actor might have carried this material better, but Mr. Selleck strives for the cuddly rather than the caustic. Mr. Ameche, mugging furiously, affects a jaw-jutting blank look, the film was not a box office success
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A Stranger Among Us
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A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of a police officers experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and it is often cited as one of Lumets two failures of the 1990s, the other being Guilty as Sin. Despite the poor reviews suffered by both these films, Lumet received the 1993 D. W. Griffith Award of the Directors Guild of America, the film was also the first credited role for actor James Gandolfini. Some aspects of the plot recall the 1977 murder of diamond dealer Pinchos Jaroslawicz, Emily Eden, a hardened New York City homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter. To do so, she lives with the family of the Hasidic rebbe and he says to her, You and I have something in common, We are both intimately familiar with evil. It does something to your soul, while living with the rebbes family, she takes a liking to his son, Ariel, a young man who works as a diamond-cutter but teaches in the yeshiva and is expected to follow his father as the next rebbe. In addition to keeping all 613 Mitzvot, he is waiting for his intended, or basherte and they are the subjects of an arranged marriage, but he believes that she is his soul mate, chosen by God. He is also studying the Kabbalah, which is regarded as daring for a man under 40. Its discussion of sexual intimacy is restrained but specific, as well as a metaphor for the relationship between Man and God. This is all Emily needs to solve the case and arrest Mara as an accessory to murder, after Emily attempts to negotiate, Mara knocks her out, and Ariel shoots Mara with Emilys gun. Ariel comments that sometimes an evil deed has a good result. The film ends with the wedding of Ariel and his basherte, Shayna Singer, oliver Rena Sofer - Shayna A Stranger Among Us received negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews, some of the criticism of A Stranger Among Us is based on comparisons with the Academy Award-winning film Witness, which has a superficially similar plot. Similarly, Lumets earlier film Fail-Safe was unfavorably compared to Dr. Strangelove, griffiths performance in the lead role has also been heavily criticized, for which her role won her the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, while Tracy Pollan was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress. A Stranger Among Us at the Internet Movie Database A Stranger Among Us at AllMovie A Stranger Among Us at Rotten Tomatoes A Stranger Among Us at Box Office Mojo
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Kim Basinger
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Kimila Ann Kim Basinger is an American actress, singer and former fashion model. Following a successful modeling career in New York during the 1970s and she starred in several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity, before making her feature debut in the 1981 drama Hard Country. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynn Bracken in the 1997 film L. A. Confidential. For her role in L. A. Confidential, she won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include I Dreamed of Africa,8 Mile, The Door in the Floor, Cellular, The Nice Guys, Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia, on December 8,1953. Her mother, Ann Lee, was a model, actress and her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager, as a U. S. Army soldier, he landed in Normandy on D-Day. The third of five children, she has two brothers, James Michael Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara, basingers ancestry includes English, German, Swedish, and Scots-Irish. Basinger has described herself as shy, which had a major effect on her during her childhood. She has said that her shyness was so extreme that she would faint if asked to speak in class, Basinger studied ballet from about age three to her mid-teens. By her mid-teens, she grew in confidence and successfully auditioned for the cheerleading team. At 17, she entered the Americas Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant, although she lost in the state pageant to Sue Whitted, who competed as Georgias Junior Miss, her beauty was profiled in the national program. She had competed at the level for the Breck Scholarship and was featured in an ad for Breck in a joint portrait with her mother. She was subsequently offered a contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. She turned it down in favor of singing and acting, and enrolled at the University of Georgia, but soon reconsidered and went to New York to become a Ford model. Despite earning $1,000 a day, Basinger never enjoyed modeling, saying It was very hard to go from one booking to another and always have to deal with the way I looked. Basinger has said that even as a model, when others relished looking in the mirror before appearing, she abhorred it, not long after her Ford deal, Basinger appeared on the cover of magazines. She appeared in hundreds of advertisements throughout the early 1970s, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl and she alternated between modeling and attending acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as performing in Greenwich Village clubs as a singer. In 1976, after five years as a girl, Basinger quit modeling
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Cool World
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Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the world he thinks he created, and is seduced by one of the characters. Cool World marked Bakshis return to films after nine years. During production, Bakshis original screenplay was scrapped by producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. and heavily rewritten by Michael Grais, reviews praised the films visuals, but criticized the story and characters, as well as the combination of live-action and animation, which some critics felt was unconvincing. The film would eventually only half its production budget. In 1945, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother in Las Vegas, riding a motorcycle that he won in Italy, Frank and his mother are struck by a drunk couple. Frank survives, but his mother dies, as an ambulance takes her away, Frank is transported to Cool World, an animated city of weird landscapes and random cartoon violence. He was inadvertently teleported by Dr. Vincent Whiskers, a doctor who created a spike that was supposed to him to the real world. Whiskers finds Frank useful enough to run things in the Cool World while he is gone to the real world, forty seven years later, Jack Deebs, a cartoonist, is detained after murdering a man he found in bed with his wife. He creates the highly acclaimed book series Cool World, which features the femme fatale Holli Would. On the night before his release, Holli summons Jack into the Cool World, after he sees her dance, Jack is teleported back to the real world. It turns out that Holli wants to enter the world, but is forbidden to do so by Frank. After he is released, Jack is transported to the Cool World once again and meets Holli and her goons Slash, Mash, Bash and they have been encouraging his misled beliefs that he himself created the Cool World. In reality, Holli has simply been bringing him there, and Jack created his book series on what hes seen there. Meanwhile, Frank is about to go on a date with his longtime girlfriend Lonette when his partner Nails the Spider tells him about Jacks presence. Holli and the Goons take Jack to the local Slash Club where Mash uses his motives persuade the bouncer Chico to let Jack into the club. While in the club, Jack is then confronted by Frank who puts him against the wall as Jack claims he has no knowledge of drawing Frank. While confiscating his fountain pen and stating that he is with the Cool World Police Department and he further advises Jack not to get involved with Holli before Jack returns to the real world
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Lorraine Bracco
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Lorraine Bracco is an American actress. She also appeared as Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles, Bracco was born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge. She is the daughter of Eileen and Salvatore Bracco, Sr and she has a sister, Elizabeth Bracco, and brother, Salvatore Jr. Her mother was from England and met her father during World War II, Eileen came with Salvatore to the United States as a War bride. Bracco grew up in Westbury, on Maxwell Drive on Long Island and she graduated from Hicksville High School in 1972. Her father was of Italian descent, while her mother was born in England to French parents, Bracco is fluent in English, French and Italian. In 1974, Bracco moved to France, where she became a model for Jean-Paul Gaultier. While there, she was introduced to the director and novelist Lina Wertmüller, in the early 1970s, Wertmüller recruited Bracco in a new film production titled Camorra. She dressed me up like an Italian woman of no means, a street woman clad in disheveled clothes, hair unkempt and all that, and threw me on the set. I mean, Lina accentuated my eyes with dark make-up, the way Sophia Loren used to appear in those roles in the 60s. And yes, I learned a lot from her, shes a master of her profession, and Ive been blessed not only with her, but also with so many masters, recounted Bracco to Daniel Simone during a 2007 interview. Bracco acted in several French-language films and she also once worked as a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg. She appeared as Paul Guilfoyles hostage in the first season Crime Story episode, Hide and her sister Elizabeth played a hostage in the series pilot. Her other films include Someone to Watch Over Me, Riding in Cars with Boys, The Basketball Diaries, Medicine Man, Radio Flyer and she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress. Bracco is the owner of Bracco Wines, with association of Straight-Up Brands LLC and her line of wines was featured on the Season 1 finale of Bravos show Top Chef in 2006. She appeared as a guest judge for the two-episode finale and she also appeared as a special judge on Top Chef, All Stars in the episode titled An Offer They Cant Refuse, which featured Italian cuisine. Bracco appeared on a season 6 episode of Throwdown, with Bobby Flay as a guest judge for the ravioli throwdown. During the audition process for The Sopranos, David Chase wanted her to read for the female role of Carmela Soprano
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Medicine Man (film)
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Medicine Man is a 1992 American romantic adventure film directed by American action director John McTiernan. The film stars Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco, and features a score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith. A pharmaceutical company sends biochemist Dr. Rae Crane into the Amazonian rainforest to locate researcher Robert Campbell, after his wife, Crane is bringing equipment and supplies, but Campbell is upset the research partner is not forthcoming. He tries to send Crane home, but she demurs, as she has been assigned to determine whether Campbells research deserves continued funding, Campbell has found a cure for cancer, but attempts to synthesize the compound have failed. A logging company is building a road headed straight for the village, threatening to expose the native population to potentially lethal foreign pathogens, in fact, Campbells wife left him because he could not forgive himself for the tragedy. Upon encountering Campbells entourage, the man flees in fear. Though he is reluctant to pursue the man further, Crane convinces him circumstances demand that he must. Campbell rescues Crane from a fall, then locates the medicine man, unfortunately, the medicine man reveals that the flowers have no juju—power to heal. Father and son agree to another time. Back at the village, Crane initially refuses to allow Campbell to inoculate the boy with the last of the serum until more can be synthesized, but when the boys condition worsens, she gives in and the boy is inoculated. The next morning, the boy is better but the village is in tumult, the logging road is nearly finished. Campbell appeals to the workers to halt construction until he can conclude his research. A fight results and a bulldozer catches fire, destroying the village, the next day, Crane promises to send Campbell new equipment and the research assistant hed originally requested. She is about to return home when she meets the medicine man and he symbolically passes on his mantle to Campbell, and Crane accepts an invitation to continue working with him in exchange for recognition for co-discovering the source of the compound. Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Rae Crane José Wilker as Dr. Miguel Ornega The music for Medicine Man was composed and conducted by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith. The score, a blend of orchestra, synthetic elements, the soundtrack was released February 4,1994 through Varèse Sarabande and features fourteen tracks. Medicine Man maintains a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews, Lorraine Braccos performance in the film earned her a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. The movie debuted at No.1, the following week it was knocked out of the top spot by Waynes World
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Whitney Houston
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time, Houston is one of pop musics best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No.1 Billboard Hot 100 hits and she is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houstons debut album, Whitney Houston, became the debut album by a woman in history. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1986, and ranked it at number 254 on the magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, Whitney, became the first album by a woman to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Houstons first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard. The films original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and its lead single, I Will Always Love You, won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act to sell more than a million copies of an album within a week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the albums of all time. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale, the Preachers Wife soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history. On February 11,2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, the official coroners report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American, Whitney Houston was born on August 9,1963 in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. and her elder brother Michael is a singer, and her elder half-brother is former basketball player Gary Garland. Her parents were both African American, through her mother, Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Her godmother was Darlene Love and her aunt was Aretha Franklin. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the moved to a middle-class area in East Orange, New Jersey
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Sean Young
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Mary Sean Young is an American actress. She is best known for her performances in the films Blade Runner, Dune, No Way Out, Wall Street, Cousins and Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. She was born as Mary Sean Young in Louisville, Kentucky, daughter of Donald Young Jr. a television producer and journalist, and Lee Guthrie, a screenwriter, public relations executive, and journalist. Young graduated from Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, followed by the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen and she also attended the School of American Ballet in New York. Before becoming an actress, Young worked as a model and dancer, Young began her film career in 1980 in the film Jane Austen in Manhattan, followed by a role in the 1981 film Stripes. She then played the lead, Rachael, alongside Harrison Ford in the classic science fiction film Blade Runner. On television in 1986, Young played the lead opposite Lenny Von Dohlen in Under the Biltmore Clock. The following year, she had a role in the film Wall Street as the wife of Michael Douglass character. Her role was intended to be larger, but was significantly reduced due to clashes with Oliver Stone. One of her most prominent roles was as the lover of a ruthless Washington politician in 1987s No Way Out, other notable credits include Dune, Fatal Instinct, and Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend. In 1988, Young appeared in The Boost with James Woods, Woods later sued her for harassing him and his then-fiancée, alleging that, in addition to other disruptive behavior, Young left a disfigured doll on his doorstep. Young denied the allegations and claimed that Woods filed the lawsuit out of spite, Young stated, It was a crush being turned down, thats all. The suit was settled out of court in 1989, Young was awarded $227,000 to cover her legal costs. Young was next cast as Vicki Vale in Tim Burtons 1989 film Batman, Young was cast as Tess Trueheart in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy. However, she was dismissed in favor of Glenne Headly for not appearing maternal in the role, Young later claimed her dismissal was punishment for her having rebuffed Warren Beattys advances, a claim Beatty denies. In 1991, she was awarded the Worst Actress and the Worst Supporting Actress Razzies for her roles in A Kiss Before Dying and she played a supporting role in the 1994 comedy Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. She also played Helen Hyde in the 1995 comedy Dr. Jekyll, during most of the 1990s, she resided in Sedona, Arizona, and her career cooled. In 1997, however, Young reprised her role as Rachael in the 1997 Blade Runner video game and her face was scanned and reproduced in 3D, one of the first times such technology was used in a game
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King Ferdinand of Spain
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Ferdinand II, called the Catholic, was King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479 until his death. As a consequence of his marriage to Isabella I, he was King of Castile as Ferdinand V from 1474 until her death in 1504 and he was recognised as regent of Castile for his daughter and heir, Joanna, from 1508 until his own death. In 1504, after a war with France, he became King of Naples as Ferdinand III, reuniting Naples with Sicily permanently, in 1512, he became King of Navarre by conquest. Ferdinand is today best known for his role in inaugurating the discovery of the New World, since he and that year he also fought the final war with Granada which expunged the last Islamic state on Iberian soil, thus bringing to a close the centuries-long Reconquista. At his death he was succeeded by Joanna, who co-ruled with her son, Charles V, Ferdinand was born in Sada Palace, Sos del Rey Católico, Kingdom of Aragon, as the son of John II of Aragon by his second wife, Juana Enríquez. He married Infanta Isabella, the half-sister and heiress of Henry IV of Castile, on 19 October 1469 in Valladolid, Kingdom of Castile, Isabella also belonged to the royal House of Trastámara, and the two were cousins by descent from John I of Castile. They were married with a prenuptial agreement on sharing power. He became jure uxoris King of Castile when Isabella succeeded her brother in 1474 to be crowned as Queen Isabella I of Castile. The two young monarchs were initially obliged to fight a war against Joan of Castile, the purported daughter of Henry IV. When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile, for the first time since the 8th century, this union created a single political unit referred to as España, the root of which is the ancient name Hispania. The various states were not formally administered as a single unit, the completion of the Reconquista was not the only significant act performed by Ferdinand and Isabella in that year. That document was signed with the defeated Moorish Emir of Granada Muhammad XII and it allowed Mudéjar Moors and converso Marrano Jews to stay, while expelling all unconverted Jews from Castile and Aragon. 1492 was also the year in which the monarchs commissioned Christopher Columbus to find a maritime route for access to Asia. In 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world beyond Europe between Portugal and Castile for conquest and dominion purposes – by a north–south line drawn down the Atlantic Ocean. Ferdinand violated the 1492 Alhambra Decree peace treaty in 1502 by dismissing the clearly guaranteed religious freedom for Mudéjar Muslims, Ferdinand forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert, converso Moriscos, to Catholicism, or else be expelled. Some of the Muslims who remained were mudéjar artisans, who could design and this was also practised by the Spanish inquisitors on the converso Marrano Jewish population of Spain. The main architect behind the Spanish Inquisition was King Ferdinand II, Ferdinand destroyed over ten thousand Arabic manuscripts in Granada alone, burning them. The latter part of Ferdinands life was taken up with disputes with successive Kings of France over control of Italy
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Alan Alda
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Alan Alda is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. He has also appeared in feature films, most notably in Crimes and Misdemeanors as pretentious television producer Lester. Senator Owen Brewster, the latter of which saw Alda nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for 14 years, he served as the host of Scientific American Frontiers, a television show that explored cutting-edge advances in science and technology. He serves on the board of the World Science Festival and is a judge for Math-O-Vision and his father, Robert Alda, was an actor and singer, and his mother, Joan Browne, was a homemaker and former beauty-pageant winner. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry and his adopted surname, Alda, is a portmanteau of ALphonso and DAbruzzo. When Alda was seven years old, he contracted polio, to combat the disease, his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles. Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, in 1956, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fordham College of Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Aldas half-brother, Antony Alda, born that year, also became an actor, during Aldas junior year, he studied in Paris, acted in a play in Rome, and performed with his father on television in Amsterdam. In college, he was a member of the ROTC, and after graduation, he served for a year at Fort Benning, in 1956, while attending Fordham, he met Arlene Weiss, who was attending Hunter College. They bonded at a friends dinner party, when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor. A year after his graduation, on March 15, they were married and they have three daughters, Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. Two of his eight grandchildren are aspiring actors, the Aldas have been longtime residents of Leonia, New Jersey. Alda began his career in the 1950s, as a member of the Compass Players comedy revue and he continued to play Felix the Owl for the 1964-5 Broadway season. In 1966, he starred in the musical The Apple Tree on Broadway, although from away, Alan Alda says he became a Mainer in 1957 when he played at the Kennebunkport Playhouse. He made his Hollywood acting debut as a player in Gone are the Days. – a film version of the highly successful Broadway play Purlie Victorious, during this time, Alda frequently appeared as a panelist on the 1968 revival of Whats My Line. He also appeared as a panelist on Ive Got a Secret during its 1972 syndication revival, in early 1972, Alda auditioned for and was selected to play the role of Hawkeye Pierce in the TV adaptation of the 1970 film MASH
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Whispers in the Dark (film)
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Whispers in the Dark is a 1992 American thriller about a psychiatrist whose patients lover may be a serial killer. The film starred Annabella Sciorra, Jamey Sheridan, Alan Alda, Jill Clayburgh, John Leguizamo, Deborah Unger, the film was released by Paramount Pictures on August 7,1992. It was nominated for a Razzie Award for Alan Alda as Worst Supporting Actor, the confessions of a sadomasochistic sexually obsessed patient disclosed as fantasies during Manhattan psychiatrist sessions begin to permeate the troubled doctors subconscious as erotic dreams. This leads to a love affair. At the same time a series of shocking murders occur with evidence suggesting it is her new lover/patient, Annabella Sciorra as Ann Hecker Jamey Sheridan as Doug McDowell Anthony LaPaglia as Det. Morgenstern Jill Clayburgh as Sarah Green John Leguizamo as Fast Johnny C, principal photography began on October 21,1991. Filming took place in and around Manhattan, New York, the place for Ann Deckers apartment was filmed at 500 5th Avenue in Manhattan. The lake house at the end was filmed at Nantucket, Massachusetts, production was completed on January 18,1992. The New York Times said, in its worst moments, is exploitative, more often, it is so loopy it should have been played for laughs. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C- grade, but then this movie has so many of them—including a hot-footed cop played by Anthony LaPaglia and a psychiatrist friend of Anns played by Alan Alda—that practically need a trawler to get through it. It has a total of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was released on August 7,1992, in 1,188 theatres, making $3.2 million in its opening weekend. While it gross over $11 million, it was not considered to be financially successful, Whispers in the Dark at the Internet Movie Database Whispers in the Dark at Box Office Mojo
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Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American actor, film director and activist. He is credited with bringing realism to film acting and he helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s. Julius Caesar, The Wild One, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Last Tango in Paris, Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the Civil Rights Movement and various Native American movements. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata, Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewiczs 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeares Julius Caesar, and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara, an adaption of James Micheners 1954 novel. Brando was included in a list of Top Ten Money Making Stars three times in the 1950s, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, the 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando. The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time, Brando took a four-year hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks. After this, he was content with being a highly paid actor in cameo roles, such as in Superman and The Formula. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million and 11. 75% of the profits for 13 days work on Superman. Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named in 1999 by Time magazine as one of its 100 Most Important People of the Century. He died of respiratory failure on July 1,2004, at age 80, Brando was born on April 3,1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr. a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and Dorothy Julia. Brando had two sisters, Jocelyn Brando and Frances. His ancestry included German, Dutch, English, and Irish and his patrilineal immigrant ancestor, Johann Wilhelm Brandau, arrived in New York in the early 1700s from the Palatinate in Germany. Brando was raised a Christian Scientist, however, she was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband. In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando expressed sadness when writing about his mother, dodie and Brandos father eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Brando harbored far more enmity for his father, stating, I was his namesake and he enjoyed telling me I couldnt do anything right. He had a habit of telling me I would never amount to anything, Brandos parents moved to Evanston, Illinois, when his fathers work took him to Chicago, but separated when Brando was 11 years old. His mother took the three children to Santa Ana, California, where they lived with her mother, in 1937, Brandos parents reconciled and moved together to Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago
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