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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Terminator 2, Judgment Day is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and it is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. A second, less advanced Terminator is also sent back in time to protect John, after a troubled pre-production characterized by legal disputes, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures emerged with the franchises property rights in early 1990. This paved the way for the completion of the screenplay by a Cameron-led production team, the production of Terminator 2 required a $102 million budget making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Much of the massive budget was spent on filming and special effects. The film was released on July 3,1991, in time for the U. S, Terminator 2 was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films. It received many accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup, in 1995, John Connor is living in Los Angeles with foster parents. Skynet sends a new Terminator, designated as T-1000, back in time to kill John, the T-1000 arrives under a freeway, kills a policeman and assumes his identity. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator to protect his young counterpart, the Terminator and the T-1000 converge on John in a shopping mall, and a chase ensues after which John and the Terminator escape together on a motorcycle. Fearing that the T-1000 will kill Sarah in order to get to him and they encounter Sarah as she is escaping from the hospital, although she is initially reluctant to trust the T-800. After the trio escapes from the T-1000 in a police car, in addition, it would create machines that will hunt and kill the remnants of humanity. Finding him at his home, she wounds him but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family, John and the Terminator arrive and inform Dyson of the future consequences of his work. They learn that much of his research has been engineered from the damaged CPU. Convincing him that these items and his designs must be destroyed, they break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the CPU, the police arrive and Dyson is shot, but he manages to trigger several explosives, destroying the lab and his research while sacrificing himself. The T-1000 relentlessly pursues the trio, eventually cornering them in a steel mill. The T-1000 and the Terminator engage in combat, with the advanced model severely damaging its adversary. The T-800 is seemingly shut down until its emergency back-up system brings it back online, the T-1000 nearly kills John and Sarah until the T-800 appears and shoots it into a vat of molten steel with an M79 grenade launcher, destroying it. John tosses the arm and CPU of the original Terminator into the vat as well, as Sarah expresses relief that the ordeal is over, the Terminator explains that to ensure that he is not used for reverse engineering he must also be destroyed
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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James Cameron
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James Francis Jim Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. He first found success with the science fiction action film The Terminator. He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens and he found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2, Judgment Day. After his film True Lies Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic, despite Avatar being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System, described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench and he is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever. In total, Camerons directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America, not adjusted for inflation, Camerons Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide, in March 2011, he was named Hollywoods top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron and his paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old. He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester, next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time. That way I could sit down and read it, and if theyd let me photocopy it, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977. When Cameron read Syd Fields book Screenplay, it occurred to him that science and art was possible. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and they dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running. He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis and he then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited, in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios, making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters Escape from New York, acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and consulted on the design of Android
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The Rocketeer (film)
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The film is based upon the character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, development for The Rocketeer started as far back as 1983, when Stevens sold the film rights. Steve Miner and William Dear considered directing The Rocketeer before Johnston signed on, screenwriters Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo had creative differences with Disney, which caused the film to languish in development hell. The studio also intended to change the trademark helmet design, Disney CEO Michael Eisner wanted a straight NASA-type helmet, Johnston also had to convince Disney to let him cast unknown actor Billy Campbell in the lead role. Filming for The Rocketeer lasted from September 19,1990 to January 22,1991, the visual effects sequences were created and designed by Industrial Light & Magic, and were supervised by animation director Wes Takahashi. The film was released on June 21,1991 and received favorable reviews from critics. As of 2012, new efforts were being made for a remake, in 1938 Los Angeles, two gangsters in Eddie Valentines gang steal a rocket pack from Howard Hughes. During their escape, they find themselves on an airfield, where they hide the rocket pack, ending in an accident while escaping. Stunt pilot Cliff Secords Gee Bee racer is totaled during the accident, he, Cliffs girlfriend is aspiring actress Jenny Blake, who has a bit part in Sinclairs latest film. On the set, Sinclair overhears Cliff attempting to tell Jenny about the rocket pack, afterward, at a local air show, Cliff uses the rocket pack to rescue his friend Malcolm, who is drunkenly piloting a biplane. The newsreel press and Valentines gangsters all see him in the airshow audience, Sinclair sends Lothar to Cliff and Peevys home to find the rocket pack. The FBI arrives, but Cliff and Peevy escape, while Lothar steals its detailed schematics drawn up by Peevy. Later, at the diner, Cliff and Peevy are trapped by several Valentine mobsters, they learn that Jenny had a date with Sinclair. The diner patrons overpower the gangsters, while a bullet ricochet punctures the rockets fuel tank, Cliff proceeds to the South Seas Club, where he tells Jenny about his new alter ego. The Valentine gang arrives, and Jenny is kidnapped by Sinclair in the ensuing melée, at Sinclairs home, Jenny discovers that he is a Nazi secret agent and knocks him out. She is later detained and forced to leave a message for Cliff to bring the pack to the Griffith Observatory in exchange for her life. Just before he is arrested by the FBI and taken to Hughes and Peevy, the FBI agents mention that they are tracking a Nazi spy in Hollywood, whom Cliff realizes to be Sinclair. When Hughes demands the return of the pack, Cliff explains that he needs it to rescue Jenny, he escapes
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John Connor
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John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise. In the narrative of his universe, John Connor is a messianic figure who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet following Judgment Day. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second, in the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. In The Terminator, John is mentioned and is the basis of the film, the Terminator is attempting to kill Sarah Connor because she will be his mother, but does not make a physical appearance. However, at the end of the film, Sarah is shown to be pregnant with John, John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2, Judgment Day which takes place in 1995, played by Edward Furlong. He was a 10-year-old juvenile delinquent living with foster parents while his mother was at a hospital for the mentally insane, one day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T-1000 and the T-800 - a reprogrammed android sent by Johns future self, fight over him. This starts a sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000. Later that night, his mother out and he and the T-800 go to save her. John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human and he teaches him sayings like hasta la vista, baby. Also, John Connor is briefly seen as an adult, played by Michael Edwards, in this battle scene, his face is heavily scarred. Dalton Abbot, also played John as a toddler in a dream sequence, the alternate ending for Terminator 2, Judgment Day depicts Sarah Connor alive and well on August 29,2029. John Connor has become a U. S. senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity. While Sarah states that Judgment Day has been averted, John accepts that he still has a destiny to make a difference, in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, which takes place in 2003, John Connor, portrayed by Nick Stahl, is now a young adult. John has been living off-the-grid after the events of the second film and his mother eventually developed terminal leukemia and died. In the film, John crosses paths with Katherine Kate Brewster and he is attacked by a T-X Terminator, which was sent from the future. Unlike its predecessors, the T-Xs objective was to terminate his future officers as secondary targets because Johns location was unknown, when it encounters John it changes its priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. A protector T-850 is also sent back in time to protect John and it is via the radios in this bunker that John begins to organize the resistance. Since Judgment Day, John has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope, the story features a new character named Marcus Wright, and a younger Kyle Reese
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American romantic action adventure film. The film, an iteration of the legendary English folk tale, was directed by Kevin Reynolds, the film grossed over $390 million worldwide, ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of 1991. For his role as George, Sheriff of Nottingham, Rickman received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Robin of Locksley – an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart, King of England in the Third Crusade – is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade, Peter Dubois. Facing the amputation of his hand by the Ayyubid prison guards, Robin escapes with Peter, Robin, Peter, and Azeem escape through a sewer and into an alley, but Peter is shot and mortally wounded by an archer. Before making his last stand against the guards, he has Robin swear to protect his sister. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who has vowed to accompany him until Azeems life-debt to Robin is repaid. In England, with King Richard still away, the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham rules over the land, aided by his cousin, Guy of Gisbourne, the witch Mortianna, and the corrupt Bishop of Hereford. At Locksley Castle, Robins father, who is loyal to King Richard, is killed by the Sheriffs men after refusing to join them, Robin returns to England to find his father dead, his home in ruins, and the Sheriff and his men oppressing the people. After telling Marian of Peters demise, and while fleeing the Sheriffs forces afterwards, Robin and Azeem encounter a band of outlaws hiding in Sherwood Forest, among the band is Will Scarlet, who holds a belligerent grudge against Robin. Robin ultimately assumes command of the group, encourages his men to fight against Nottingham and they rob soldiers and convoys that pass through the forest, then distribute the stolen wealth among the poor. One of their targets is Friar Tuck, who subsequently joins these Merry Men. Marian begins to sympathize with the band and renders Robin any aid she can muster, Robins successes infuriate the Sheriff, who increases the mistreatment of the people, resulting in greater local support for Robin Hood. The Sheriff kills Gisbourne for his failure to prevent the looting of several convoys, the Sheriff manages to locate the outlaws hideout and launches an attack, destroying the forest refuge and capturing most of the outlaws. He confines Marian when she tries to help from France. In order to consolidate his claim to the throne, the Sheriff proposes to Marian, nevertheless, several of the rebels are due to be executed by hanging as part of the wedding celebration. Among the captured is Will Scarlet, who makes a deal with the Sheriff to find, will meets back with Robin and a handful of his most trusted aides who survived the assault by the Celts. Instead of attacking Robin, Will informs him of the Sheriffs plans to marry Marian, will continues to display anger against Robin, which motivates Robin to question why Will hates him so much
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Child's Play 3
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Childs Play 3 is a 1991 American supernatural slasher film directed by Jack Bender and written by Don Mancini. It is the installment in the Childs Play series, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky. Although released only one later, the story takes place eight years following the events of 1990s Childs Play 2. It was executive produced by David Kirschner who produced first two Childs Play films, the film was followed by Bride of Chucky. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls and recycles Chuckys remains, however, the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray still inhabits the remains, and Chucky is soon revived. Chucky is unwittingly given to Play Pals CEO Mr. Sullivan and he then uses computer records to relocate Andy Barclay. Still troubled by his past encounters with Chucky, 16-year-old Andy Barclay has been sent to Kent Military Academy after having failed to cope in several foster homes, colonel Cochran, the schools commandant, begrudgingly enrolls Andy, but advises him to forget his fantasies about the doll. Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst, Ronald Tyler, and Kristin DeSilva, Shelton, a lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets, especially Andy. Shortly after Andy arrives, Tyler is asked to deliver a package to his room, Tyler realizes that the package contains a Good Guy doll and, excited, takes it to the cellar to open it, only to have Chucky burst free from the package. Cochran throws Chucky into a truck, but Chucky escapes by luring the driver into the trucks compactor. That night, Chucky attacks Andy and tells him his plans for taking over Tylers soul, before Andy can attack Chucky, Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy tries to get the back by sneaking into Sheltons room. Upon realizing the doll has vanished, Shelton suspects it stolen, Andy unsuccessfully tries to warn Tyler about Chucky. At one point, Chucky lures Tyler into playing hide-and-seek in Cochrans office, however, they are interrupted by De Silva and, moments later, Cochran himself. When the cadets leave, Cochran is suddenly confronted by a knife-wielding Chucky, the resulting shock causes Cochran to suffer a fatal heart attack. Chucky later kills the cruel camp barber Sergeant Botnick by slashing his neck with a razor before saying Presto, despite Cochrans death, Sgt. Clark declares that the schools annual war games will proceed as planned, with Andy and Shelton on the same team. However, Chucky secretly replaces the blank paint bullets of the Red team with live ammunition, when the simulation begins, Chucky accosts Tyler, then threatens the boy when he refuses to take part. Tyler stabs Chucky with a knife and flees, trying to find Andy
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Saturn Award
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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Linda Hamilton
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She also starred as Vicky in the cult classic horror film Children of the Corn. Hamilton had a role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBCs Chuck. Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland, hamiltons father, Carroll Stanford Hamilton, a physician, died when she was five, and her mother later married a police chief. Hamilton has a twin sister, one older sister and one younger brother. She has said that she was raised in a boring, white Anglo-Saxon family. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, with Leslie and she studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. Hamilton has said that her professor at Washington College told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress. In New York, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg, hamiltons acting debut came first on television, followed by a major role as Lisa Rogers in the prime-time soap opera Secrets of Midland Heights. Her big-screen debut was in the thriller TAG, The Assassination Game and as a result, she was listed as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1982 in John Willis Screen World, Vol.34. She also shared a role in the CBS made-for-TV movie Country Gold, with Loni Anderson. Hamilton played the role in Children of the Corn, based on the horror short story by Stephen King. The movie, which made $14 million at the box office, was panned by critics, hamiltons next role was in The Terminator, opposite Michael Biehn, in 1984. The movie was a huge commercial and critical success. Following The Terminator, Hamilton starred in Black Moon Rising, a thriller with Tommy Lee Jones. She then returned to television as a guest-star in the mystery series Murder, She Wrote, Hamilton next starred opposite Ron Perlman in the TV series Beauty and the Beast. The series was acclaimed, and she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Hamilton left the series in 1989 and it ended in 1990, Hamilton returned to the big screen in 1990 with Michael Caine in Mr. Destiny and in 1991 with Terminator 2, Judgment Day, the sequel to The Terminator. The latter was a smash at the box office, grossing over $500 million, Hamilton underwent intense physical training to emphasize the characters transformation from the first film
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