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Hollywood, California
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
Hollywood, California
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
Hollywood, California
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
Hollywood, California
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
Hollywood, California
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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17th Youth in Film Awards
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★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. Laura Morgan - Love Can Build a Bridge ★ Shawn Toovey - Dr. - Nickelodeon ★ Moriah Snyder Brittany Murphy Ivyann Schwan Jennifer Love Hewitt ★ Chris Allport Frankie J, the resulting response has been incredible. And its easy to see why, World Youth News pays 250 dollars for each story they use, according to Mick, thats no small potatoes in some countries. In Eastern Europe, for instance, a male takes home the equivalent of about 150 US dollars a month. And thats considered a good salary, now you get his kid who comes up with a story, videotapes it and sends it to us and we use it, that kids got 250 US dollars. Let me tell you, that kid is suddenly a real hero and it gives them a real sense of purpose and legitimacy, says Kris. We make ID cards for them--press badges, some of our kids have used those press badges to get into political rallies and things like that. Gaining Exposure As of right now, World Youth News is on two different cable networks three times a week, combined totals from both networks means WYN is currently in about 22 million homes. And thats just in the United States, european interest has been gaining steadily—20 countries are currently in negotiation. One, Saudi Arabia, has placed an order for 26 episodes. Success, however, has not been easy, when we first finished the pilot, we took it to a lot of people and they simply didnt know what to do with it. It wasnt like anything they had seen before and it wasnt exactly a news show and it wasnt exactly some kind of entertainment. Still, Mick and Kris knew they were on to something, says Mick, The teen market is the largest market in the world, end of story. Last year, American teens, which number about 30 million, says Kris, Besides that, they are the most accessible group--the easiest to talk to. Weve got it so theyre the ones who are doing the shooting and we dont see a lot of good things for teens and we really wanted this to be one of the good things. Making Plans But World Youth News is only part of their plan, as they expand, their intention is to create the World Youth Network. Right now, Mick says, we have a mini-CNN in place, weve got shooters all over the world who are sending us stories and whom we can contact to go and get a story for us. Our ultimate goal, however, is to expand into the on-line arena and that way, people can send their videos to us straight into our computers and the users out there can have direct access to that same information
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17th Youth in Film Awards
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Young Artist Award
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
Young Artist Award
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The Young Artist Award statuette
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Youth in Film Association
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
Youth in Film Association
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The Young Artist Award statuette
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Film actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
Film actor
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Actors from the
Comédie-Française c. 1720.
Film actor
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Actors
Jim Brochu and
Steve Schalchlin performing in the
play The Big Voice: God or Merman
Film actor
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Actress
Margaret Hughes c. 1670
Film actor
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Recording a radio play in the Netherlands (1949),
Spaarnestad Photo
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Television actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
Television actor
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Actors from the
Comédie-Française c. 1720.
Television actor
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Actors
Jim Brochu and
Steve Schalchlin performing in the
play The Big Voice: God or Merman
Television actor
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Actress
Margaret Hughes c. 1670
Television actor
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Recording a radio play in the Netherlands (1949),
Spaarnestad Photo
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Performing arts
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Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use paint/canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects, performing arts include several disciplines, each performed in front of a live audience. Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called performers, examples of these include actors, comedians, dancers, magicians, circus artists, musicians, and singers. Performing arts are supported by workers in related fields, such as songwriting, choreography. A performer who excels in acting, singing, and dancing is commonly referred to as a triple threat, well-known examples of historical triple threat artists include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Judy Garland. Performers often adapt their appearance, such as costumes and stage makeup, stage lighting. Performing arts may include dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry, circus arts, performance art, recitation and public speaking. There is also a form of fine art, in which the artists perform their work live to an audience. Most performance art also involves some form of art, perhaps in the creation of props. Dance was often referred to as an art during the Modern dance era. Theatre is the branch of performing arts, concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience, using a combination of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound, any one or more of these elements is performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative style of plays. In the context of performing arts, dance generally refers to movement, typically rhythmic and to music. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement to codified, in dance, the connection between the two concepts is stronger than in some other arts, and neither can exist without the other. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who practices this art is called a choreographer, music is an art form which combines pitch, rhythm, and dynamic in order to create sound. It can be performed using a variety of instruments and styles and is divided into genres, as an art form, music can occur in live or recorded formats, and can be planned or improvised. Starting in the 6th century BC, the Classical period of performing art began in Greece and these poets wrote plays which, in some cases, incorporated dance. The Hellenistic period began the use of comedy
Performing arts
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Dance is a type of performance art practiced all over the world.
Performing arts
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A
ballerina en pointe.
Performing arts
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Painting of a showing of
Commedia dell'arte - dated 1657.
Performing arts
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Isadora Duncan, one of the developers of
free dance.
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Radio broadcasting
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Radio broadcasting is a unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a radio format. Audio broadcasting also can be done via radio, local wire television networks, satellite radio. The signal types can be either analog audio or digital audio, the earliest radio stations were simply radiotelegraphy systems and did not carry audio. For audio broadcasts to be possible, electronic detection and amplification devices had to be incorporated, the thermionic valve was invented in 1904 by the English physicist John Ambrose Fleming. He developed a device he called an oscillation valve, the heated filament, or cathode, was capable of thermionic emission of electrons that would flow to the plate when it was at a higher voltage. Electrons, however, could not pass in the direction because the plate was not heated. Later known as the Fleming valve, it could be used as a rectifier of alternating current and this greatly improved the crystal set which rectified the radio signal using an early solid-state diode based on a crystal and a so-called cats whisker. However, what was required was an amplifier. The triode was patented on March 4,1906, by the Austrian Robert von Lieben independent from that, on October 25,1906 and it wasnt put to practical use until 1912 when its amplifying ability became recognized by researchers. By about 1920, valve technology had matured to the point where radio broadcasting was quickly becoming viable, however, an early audio transmission that could be termed a broadcast may have occurred on Christmas Eve in 1906 by Reginald Fessenden, although this is disputed. Charles Herrold started broadcasting in California in 1909 and was carrying audio by the next year, in The Hague, the Netherlands, PCGG started broadcasting on November 6,1919, making it, arguably the first commercial broadcasting station. In 1916, Frank Conrad, an engineer employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, began broadcasting from his Wilkinsburg. Later, the station was moved to the top of the Westinghouse factory building in East Pittsburgh, Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2,1920, as the first commercially licensed radio station in America. The commercial broadcasting designation came from the type of broadcast license, the first licensed broadcast in the United States came from KDKA itself, the results of the Harding/Cox Presidential Election. In 1920, wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in the UK from the Marconi Research Centre 2MT at Writtle near Chelmsford, England. A famous broadcast from Marconis New Street Works factory in Chelmsford was made by the famous soprano Dame Nellie Melba on 15 June 1920 and she was the first artist of international renown to participate in direct radio broadcasts. The 2MT station began to broadcast regular entertainment in 1922, the BBC was amalgamated in 1922 and received a Royal Charter in 1926, making it the first national broadcaster in the world, followed by Czech Radio and other European broadcasters in 1923
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Long wave radio broadcasting station,
Motala, Sweden
Radio broadcasting
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Slovak Radio Building,
Bratislava,
Slovakia (architects: Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling, 1967-1983)
Radio broadcasting
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Broadcasting tower in
Trondheim, Norway
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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The HFPA consists of about 90 members from approximately 55 countries with a combined following of more than 250 million. It conducts the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles every January that honor notable examples of cinema and television, the association was founded in 1943, by Los Angeles-based foreign journalists who wanted a more organized distributing process of cinema news to non-U. S. The first Golden Globes awardees were for the industry in early 1944 with a ceremony at 20th Century Fox. There, Jennifer Jones was awarded Best Actress honors for The Song of Bernadette which also won for Best Film, Awards were presented in the form of scrolls. The following year came up with the idea of presenting winners with a golden globe encircled with a strip of motion picture film. The separation ended in 1955 when the journalists reunited under the collective title The Hollywood Foreign Press Association with firm guidelines, in 1955, the Golden Globes began honoring achievements in television as well as in film. The first honorees in the Best Television Show category that year were Dinah Shore, Lucy & Desi, The American Comedy, membership meetings are held monthly, and the officers and directors are elected annually. A maximum of five journalists may be admitted to the each year. S. A. The HFPA does not release a list of publications for those articles. The HFPA is a organization that donates funds to entertainment-related charities. The Golden Globe Awards brings in about $10 million from its television broadcast each year, the HFPA hosts an annual Grants Banquet to distribute funds, $2.1 million was donated to non-profits in 2015. According to the HFPA, since 1990 more than $23.9 million has been donated to charity and used to fund scholarships, funds have also been used to restore more than 90 films, including King Kong and Woman on the Run. Official website Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association building facade in Los Angeles
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Maureen Dragone
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Maureen Dragone was an American journalist and author. She was one of the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which presents the annual Golden Globe Awards. In 1978 she founded the Young Artist Association, which presents the annual Young Artist Awards, Dragone was born Maureen Laing in Phoenix, Arizona. She moved to North Hollywood, Los Angeles with her parents at the age of 10 and attended North Hollywood High School. Discussions regarding the formation of the HFPA, which presented the first annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 1944, are said to have taken place at the dining table in her childhood home. Dragone wrote for numerous newspapers and magazines and was said to have interviewed hundreds of celebrities throughout the course of her career. She was a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for more than 50 years and was regarded as the historian of the HFPA. In 2005, Dragone authored the book Who Makes the Golden Globes Go Around, which chronicled the history of the HFPA and its annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Prior to her death in 2013, she was the only living HFPA member to have attended all 70 Golden Globes ceremonies and was bestowed with a lifetime membership to the association. As of 2013, the Young Artist Awards and the Young Artist Foundation scholarship fund are still presented annually, Dragone lived in North Hollywood, Los Angeles for the majority of her life and was married to Michael Dragone until his death in 1986. She had two children, Michael, Jr. and Shirley and she had three grandchildren, Heather, Holly and Frank, and four great-grandchildren, Samantha, Don, Alexandra and Benjamin. In 1987, Dragone became the companion of Dan Kitchel, whom she would remain with for the next 25 years, in one of her final statements, Dragone was quoted as saying, I did everything that I ever wanted to do, and did it my way. Dragone died on February 8,2013 at a hospice in Los Angeles following a brief illness, after her death, a statement was posted on the HFPAs Golden Globes website, which read, She will be missed, and was loved by so many people. The Young Artist Association that she founded announced its plans to feature a memorial tribute at the 34th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony in her honor
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Maureen Dragone
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Lucas Black
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Lucas York Black is an American film and television actor. Since September 2014, he has played Special Agent Christopher LaSalle on CBS NCIS, Black was born in Decatur, Alabama, to Jan Gillespie, an office worker, and Larry Black, a museum employee. He has two siblings and was raised a Southern Baptist. He grew up in Speake, Alabama, played for the Speake Bobcats, Black made his film debut in Kevin Costners film The War. He subsequently was cast as Caleb Temple in CBS television series American Gothic, which ran from 1995 to 1996, and in the films Sling Blade, Ghosts of Mississippi, and The X-Files. Later Black starred as Conner Strong in the TV film Flash, Black played a supporting role as Oakley in the historical drama Cold Mountain and starred as Vernon, an autistic whos a prodigious pianist, in the indie musical drama Killer Diller. Later that year, he starred as Mike Winchell in the drama film Friday Night Lights. Black starred as Nat Banyon in the thriller film Deepwater. He described his part in the film as a fun role. He portrayed the Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese in the drama film 42, in 2014, Lucas was cast in the NCIS, New Orleans as a NCIS Special Agent Lasalle, a no-nonsense agent with a work hard, play hard motto. In 2015, he reprised his Tokyo Drift role in an appearance in the seventh film of The Fast. Black married Maggie OBrien, a lawyer, in 2010, Lucas Black at the Internet Movie Database Lucas Black at AllMovie
Lucas Black
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Black at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2009
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Sling Blade
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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. In addition to Thornton, it stars Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, the movie was adapted by Thornton from his short film and previous screenplay, Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade. Sling Blade proved to be a hit, launching Thornton into stardom. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, the music for the soundtrack was provided by French Canadian artist/producer Daniel Lanois. Karl Childers is an intellectually disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts committing the murders with a Kaiser blade, saying. I call it a kaiser blade, Karl says he thought the man was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a participant in the affair. Thanks to the doctor in charge of his institutionalization, Karl lands a job at a shop in the small town where he was born. He befriends 12-year-old Frank Wheatley and shares some of the details of his past, Frank reveals that his father was killed – hit by a train – leaving him and his mother on their own. He later admits that he lied, and that his father committed suicide, Frank introduces Karl to his mother, Linda, as well as her gay friend, Vaughan Cunningham, the manager of the dollar store where she is employed. Despite Vaughans concerns about Karls history in the hospital, Linda allows him to move into her garage. Karl quickly becomes a figure to Frank, who misses his father. Karl is haunted by the given to him by his parents when he was six or eight years old to dispose of his premature, unwanted. He visits his father, who has become a mentally unbalanced hermit living in the home where Karl grew up. Karls parents performed an abortion, causing the baby to come out too soon, and Karl was given a bloody towel wrapped around the baby, which survived the abortion. Karl was instructed to get rid of it, but when Karl detected movement inside the towel, he inspected it, while recounting this story to Frank, Frank asks why Karl just didnt keep the baby, but Karl replies he had no way to care for a baby
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Theatrical release poster
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Vincent Kartheiser
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Vincent Paul Kartheiser is an American actor best known for playing Pete Campbell in Mad Men and Connor in the WB TV series Angel. Kartheiser was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Janet Marie, who ran a nursery, and James Ralph Kartheiser, the youngest of six children, he has four sisters, Andrea, Colette, Elise and Theresa, and a brother, Nathan. Kartheiser attended Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, MN and he is of German, and to an extent Polish, Finnish, and Swedish ancestry. He made his debut with a bit role in the 1993 film Untamed Heart. Kartheiser found himself cast in mostly family fare, including The Indian in the Cupboard, the film led to Kartheiser getting the lead role in Masterminds the following year. He next portrayed Bobby, a drug-addicted, homeless street urchin in Larry Clarks Another Day in Paradise and he had two explicit sex scenes with Natasha Gregson, one of which was cut from the film in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. The film earned the young actor significant accolades, and he went on to appear in Strike. and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. Screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia was a moody, updated take on Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment, set in a modern high school. Kartheiser co-starred on the drama series Angel in 2002, playing Connor. Returning to film work, Kartheiser starred in the well-received coming-of-age drama Dandelion, Kartheiser played the role of ambitious young ad man Pete Campbell in the AMC television series Mad Men. Along with the rest of the shows cast, Kartheiser won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2009 and 2010. Kartheiser filmed his role as Fielding in the BBCs two-part adaptation of Martin Amis novel Money in the winter of 2009, the adaptation began airing on BBC Two on May 23,2010. Kartheisers short film, Fruit of Labor, made its Orange County debut at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2013. In the summer of 2013, he returned to his roots in Minneapolis to portray Mr. Darcy in an adaptation of Pride. Kartheiser dated The Hairy Bird co-star, Rachael Leigh Cook, for four months in 1998 and he began dating his Mad Men co-star Alexis Bledel in mid-2012. He and Bledel announced their engagement in March 2013, and were married in California in June 2014, the couple sold their Brooklyn duplex penthouse for $1.32 million in May 2016. In a 2010 interview with The Observer, Kartheiser revealed that he eschewed the extravagant lifestyle of a Hollywood celebrity in favor of simple living, vincent Kartheiser at the Internet Movie Database
Vincent Kartheiser
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Kartheiser at The Paley Center in 2014
Vincent Kartheiser
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Kartheiser in 2009
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Alaska (1996 film)
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Alaska is a 1996 action-adventure film that centers on two children who search through the Alaskan wilderness for their lost father. During their journey they find a bear that helps lead them to their father. However, a poacher with a desire to capture the bear follows close behind the kids, the movie was filmed primarily in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia in Canada and the city of Vancouver. The film was a box office bomb, grossing only $11,829,959 over a $24,000,000 budget and it received negative reviews upon its release. Jake Barnes is flying a plane over the Alaskan wilderness, while he is flying, he is communicating with a man named Charlie, who works for Quincy Air Service. Jessie Barnes and her friend Chip observing wildlife in their kayaks before her dinner, jessies father Jake begins telling her where he is flying from, at what time he left that location, and his air speed. Jessie calculates that her father is passing Devils Thumb, Jake then lands his plane on a lake, where Charlie is waiting to tie the plane up to the dock. His son, Sean scolds his father for moving their family to Alaska, as Jake was making an emergency run, his planes engines stalls, causing him to lose control and crash in the Alaska winderness. Frustrated by the lack of effort by the police, Sean. As they kayak through the waters of the Gulf of Alaska. They soon realize that the shore is home to a poachers’ camp and they then discover a live polar bear that has been locked in a cage. They let the polar bear run free, hoping that it will save itself, after the bear leaves their camp Colin Perry appears, in hunt of the polar bear that he believes is rightfully his property. Koontz then arrives and notices teeth marks in the frying pan, colin’s beliefs that the children stole the bear from his camp are confirmed when he finds his missing lighter next to their camping gear. Perry orders the kids to tell the bear to “come home”, the next day, Jessie and Sean continue in their search to find their missing father. They leave their kayak and begin searching on foot and they soon discover that the polar bear has once again followed them in their journey. Perry and Koontz, too, have followed the youngsters and this time they destroy the oars in their kayak, just then Charlie arrives in a helicopter in search of Jessie and Sean. Perry shows Charlie a piece of the oar and tells him that he found it 25 miles north of their current position, Charlie then departs in his helicopter in hopes of finding the children, who he believes to be in grave danger. Jessie safely reaches the bottom, but Sean slips and tumbles down the mountain, the two then continue their journey and find a log cabin in the woods
Alaska (1996 film)
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Theatrical release poster
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Sleepers
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Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterras 1995 novel of the same name. The film starred Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Lorenzo Shakes Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hells Kitchen, New York City in the mid-1960s. The local priest, Father Robert Bobby Carillo, serves as a figure to the boys. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, in the summer of 1967, their lives take a turn when they accidentally almost kill a man after pulling a prank on a hot dog vendor. As punishment, the boys are sentenced to the Wilkinson Home for Boys in Upstate New York, Tommy, Michael and John sentenced to 12-18 months, there, the boys are systematically abused and raped by guards Sean Nokes, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson, and Adam Styler. The horrifying abuse changes the boys and their friendship forever, during the boys stay at the facility, they participate in Wilkinsons annual football game between the guards and inmates, one that the latter lose on purpose to avoid reprisals from the former. Michael convinces Rizzo, an inmate, that they should play as hard as they can to show the guards they can fight back. Rizzo agrees, and helps to win the game, as a result of this, Shakes, Tommy, Michael, and John are all beaten and thrown into solitary confinement for several weeks, and the guards beat Rizzo to death. By the spring of 1968, shortly before Shakes release from Wilkinson, he insists that they should report the abuse. They all therefore vow never to speak of the horrors and abuse the guards put them through once they are all out, thirteen years later, John and Tommy, now career criminals, encounter Nokes by chance in a Hells Kitchen pub and kill him in front of witnesses. Michael, who has become an assistant district attorney, arranges to be assigned to the case and he and Shakes, who is writing for a newspaper, forge a plan to free John and Tommy and get revenge on the guards who abused them. They also hire Danny Snyder, a lawyer and alcoholic, to defend John. Michaels plan will work if he can discredit Nokes and place John. Ferguson, when called in court as a witness for Nokes character, is forced to admit that he, Nokes, to clinch the case, however, they need a key witness who can give John and Tommy an alibi. As a result, John and Tommy are acquitted, Michael, Shakes, John, Tommy and Carol meet at a bar to celebrate - the last time they would all be together again. Shakes remains a newspaper reporter, living in Hells Kitchen, Michael quits the district attorneys office, moves to the English countryside, becomes a carpenter and never marries. John drinks himself to death and Tommy is murdered, both die before age 30, Carol stays in the city as a social worker and has a son, whom she names after all of the four boys. As Marlboro/Mess hall guard Larry Hryb as Scorekeeper The film received positive reviews
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House Arrest (film)
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House Arrest is a 1996 American comedy film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollak. The film was directed by Harry Winer who has directed other films but is more prolific as a series director. The film boasts a very thorough supporting cast in Christopher McDonald, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, House Arrest was released on August 14,1996 and went on to gross just over $7 million at the box office. It was widely panned by critics, particularly Chicago critic Gene Siskel, House Arrest was shot at various locations in the U. S. states of California and Ohio. Monrovia, California was the location for several exterior house scenes while most interior shots were done at the CBS/Radford lot in Studio City, the story was set in Defiance, Ohio, although another town, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, actually doubled for it. The film is told through the perspective of Grover and TJ through the device known as a frame story. The two are shown in silhouette form watching the film, House Arrest, in a style nearly identical to that of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Grover interrupts the film to fast-forward to his scenes, but TJ protest prompts Grover to share his backstory. Showing the Beindorfs, Janet, Ned, Gregory whose nicknamed Grover, and Stacy and it is revealed that Janet and Ned are not happy and in fact separating although they tell their children it is not a divorce. Grover and Stacy first try to recreate their parents honeymoon in the basement of their house, the children then leave the basement telling their parents they must get another surprise for them upstairs. They go up, close the door, and nail it shut and they vow to keep it shut until their parents work out their problems. The next day, Grover tells his best friend Matt Finley what he has done, Krupp, the wealthy local bully, overhears the conversation. Matt goes over to the Beindorfs house to look at the work and is impressed. T. J. shows up to have a look and actually installs a newer and he and Matt then leave to collect their parents and bring them to the Beindorfs house to lock them up as well. Matts father Vic never keeps a wife for more than two years and T. J. s father Donald does not treat his wife Gwenna well. Matt also brings his bulldog Cosmo and his two brothers, Teddy and Jimmy and T. J. brings Spot, his pet boa constrictor. When Grover asks what is going on in response to his friends setting up camp at his house, Janet and Ned almost talk Grover into letting them all out but T. J. s father, Donald, threatens him with legal action. Grover finds out that his girl, Brooke Figler, is also having parental problems, her mother Cindy acts like a teenager
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Theatrical release poster
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Kevin Bishop
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Kevin Brian Bishop is an English actor and comedian, best known for The Kevin Bishop Show, which he co-wrote with Lee Hupfield. Bishops first role was in Grange Hill and his second role, at age 16, was as Ben Quayle in Silent Witness. He played Stupid Brian in My Family, he appeared in three episodes and he starred in Muppet Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins. In 2002, he played Dick in the pantomime, Dick Whittington and he appeared in Channel 4s satirical spoof documentary Being Tom Cruise, from Star Stories on 2 August 2007, in which he played film star Tom Cruise. In September 2014, Bishop starred in Fully Committed at the Menier Chocolate factory, a one-man show with Bishop playing forty characters. Bishops solo performance was well reviewed, in 2013, Bishop appeared in the American comedy series Super Fun Night, written by and starring Australian comedic actress Rebel Wilson. The show ran for one season, in August 2016, Bishop starred in the revival of classic 1970s BBC sitcom Porridge. He played the role of Fletch, grandson of Ronnie Barkers original main character, originally a one-off, the show was commissioned to full series in October. In 2016, it was announced that Bishop will star as Nigel Farage in a one-off BBC2 comedy entitled Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back. Interview with Kevin Bishop, myparkmag. co. uk Interview, EcranLarge. com,6 July 2005 Kevin Bishop at the Internet Movie Database BBC Interview
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Muppet Treasure Island
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Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical adventure comedy film based on Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island. It is the feature film to star The Muppets and was directed by Brian Henson. Similarly to its predecessor The Muppet Christmas Carol, the key roles were played by live-action actors, the live-action actors consisted of Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders, and Kevin Bishop in his feature film debut. Kermit the Frog appeared as Captain Abraham Smollett, Fozzie Bear as Squire Trelawney, Sam Eagle as Mr. Samuel Arrow, and Miss Piggy as the castaway Benjamina Gunn. Following their success as the narrators of The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Great Gonzo, the film was released on February 16,1996, one month before Muppets Tonight premiered on ABC. Jim Hawkins is an orphan who lives in the Admiral Benbow in England with his best friends Gonzo and Rizzo. Jim listens to the tales of Billy Bones, who tells of his captain, Captain Flint. One night, one of Bones crewmates Blind Pew arrives, giving Bones the black spot, Bones gives Jim the treasure map and reveals that he had been Flints first mate. Just before dying of an attack, he begs Jim to go after the treasure. An army of pirates attack the inn, destroying it, the trio takes the map to the half-wit Squire Trelawney, who arranges a voyage to find the treasure. The boys are enlisted aboard the Hispaniola as the boys, accompanied by Trelawney, Dr. Livesey. The ship is commanded by Captain Abraham Smollett and his overly strict first mate Mr. Arrow, the boys meet the cook Long John Silver, a one-legged man who Bones warned them of but Jim and Silver become good friends. The ship sets sail, but Smollett is suspicious of the crew, after Gonzo and Rizzo are kidnapped and tortured by three of the crew who have turned out to be pirates, he has the treasure map locked up for safe keeping. It is revealed that Silver and the pirates in the crew had been part of Flints crew. Silver fools Mr. Arrow into leaving the ship to test out a rowboat, Jim, Gonzo, and Rizzo discover Silvers treachery and inform Smollett. Arriving at Treasure Island, Smollett orders the entire crew save the officers to go ashore, planning to himself and non-pirate crew aboard the ship. However, his plan falls through when it is discovered that Silver has kidnapped Jim to have leverage against the captain, on the island, Silver invites Jim to join them in the treasure hunt using his late fathers compass. When Jim refuses, Silver forcibly takes the compass from him, Smollett, Gonzo, and Rizzo land on the island in an effort to rescue Jim
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Theatrical release poster by
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Michelle Trachtenberg
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Michelle Christine Trachtenberg /ˈtræktənbɜːrɡ/ is an American actress. She is known for portraying Nona F. Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Celeste in Six Feet Under, and Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl. She has also appeared in such as Harriet the Spy, Inspector Gadget, EuroTrip, Ice Princess, Black Christmas,17 Again, Cop Out, Weeds. Trachtenberg was born in New York City, the younger of two daughters of Lana, a manager, and Michael Trachtenberg, a fiber-optics engineer. Her father is German Jewish and her mother is Russian Jewish and she was raised with her older sister Irene in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she attended junior high school at The Bay Academy for the Arts and Sciences. She later attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at the age of three, in a commercial for Wisk detergent. She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials and she appeared in her first credited role as Nona F. Mecklenberg on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. During the same period she played Lily Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children, trachtenbergs film career began in 1996 with the title role in Harriet the Spy. During this time, she began a recurring role in season two of the television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, of which she later became a regular. She then starred in the television series Meego, which garnered her a Young Artist Award. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget and she also starred in the film Cant Be Heaven. In the summer of 2000, she took on the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and she also hosted the Discovery Kids series Truth or Scare from 2001 to 2003. After Buffy and Truth or Scare, Trachtenberg appeared in the comedy film EuroTrip and she also had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for whom Keith Charles served as a bodyguard. In March 2005, she played the character in Walt Disney Pictures comedy sports drama Ice Princess. In the film, Trachtenberg played a science whiz named Casey Carlyle, in April 2006, Trachtenberg guest-starred in the episode of House, Safe. She revealed on the December 22,2006, episode of Late Night with Conan OBrien that House was her favorite show, in November 2006, Trachtenberg guest starred in season six of the crime drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent. In the episode Weeping Willow, she played the role of Willow, in 2006, Trachtenberg starred in Black Christmas, the remake of the 1974 slasher of the same name. In 2007, she was cast as the lead in an ABC comedy pilot called The Hill, based on the newspaper of the same name in Washington
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Trachtenberg in June 2008
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Trachtenberg at the
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Harriet the Spy (film)
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Harriet the Spy is a 1996 American childrens comedy that adapts the 1964 novel of the same name by Louise Fitzhugh. The film stars Michelle Trachtenberg in her debut, and is the directorial debut of Bronwen Hughes. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies and Rastar, it was the first film under the Nickelodeon Movies banner, in theaters, the remade pilot episode of Hey Arnold. Harriet M. Welsch is an 11-year-old sixth grader and a young spy/writer who is best friends with Simon Sport Rocque and Janie Gibbs. She lives a life with her parents, Violetta and Ben and her nanny, Katherine Ole Golly. Harriet and her friends are enemies with a girl named Marion Hawthorne. For a while, Harriet lives life very well with being a spy, one night, being home alone with Harriet, Golly invites a friend, Mr. George Waldenstein, over. And after Golly accidentally burns their dinner, the three go out to dinner and a movie instead, where things turn into a disaster. Violetta fires Golly for letting Harriet stay out late, but then she realizes that she needs her to look after Harriet. Golly tells her, however, that she was planning to leave soon since she believes that Harriet is old enough to care of herself. After Harriet bids Golly goodbye, she becomes depressed and withdrawn and she even gets caught when investigating the home of Agatha K. Plummer. The next day, she plays with her friends at the park, everyone finds that theyre all cruel and hurtful, and even Sport and Janie turn their backs on Harriet. The kids then create a Spy-Catcher club and torment Harriet on her spy routes, after running into a police officer, and then getting zeroes on her schoolwork, Harriet gets her notebook taken away by her parents. Her parents tell Harriets teacher Miss Elson to search Harriet every day for notebooks, one day, during art, Rachel Hennessey accidentally pours blue paint all over Harriet. As a result of this, Harriet does things to get back at everyone individually, Harriets parents find out what she has done to her classmates and send her to be evaluated by a psychologist, who assures them that Harriet is fine. Then things start to get better again, Harriet gets her notebook back, and she even gets a surprise visit from Golly, who tells her that in order to make things right again, she has to do two things, apologize and lie. Harriet then tries to apologize to Sport and Janie, even though they reject her at first, through one article, she apologizes to everyone, including Marion, and all accept her apology. On opening night of the 6th grade pageant, Janie, Sport and Harriet light off a bomb as revenge on Marion
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Matilda (1996 film)
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Matilda is a 1996 American childrens fantasy comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, who also produced with Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, and Lucy Dahl. It was written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, based on Roald Dahls novel of the same name, mara Wilson, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris star. The film was released in the United States on August 2,1996, Matilda Wormwood is a genius, but her parents, Harry and Zinnia, ignore and mistreat her. At the age of 4, she discovers the library and walks there every day to read while her father is at work, her mother is playing bingo. At age six-and-a-half, Matilda begins to lose patience with her parents, in retaliation for her father constantly berating her, she adds hydrogen peroxide to his hair tonic, turning his hair an unhealthy blonde. He takes his children to his workshop, where he reveals that the cars he sells are faulty, Matilda accuses him of being dishonest and he belittles her, so she responds by putting super glue on his hat, forcing Zinnia to cut it off his head. She reads a borrowed copy of Moby-Dick, which Harry rips up while her family is watching television. When he forces her to watch them, she becomes increasingly angry. Miss Trunchbull is the principal of a rundown elementary school. Harry enrolls Matilda there, where she befriends several children and learns of Trunchbulls violent nature, Matildas teacher, Jennifer Honey, is a kind woman who adores her class and takes an immediate liking to Matilda. She requests to Trunchbull that Matilda be moved up to a higher class and that night, Miss Honey pays the Wormwoods a visit to encourage them to spend more time with Matilda, but they snub her. Trunchbull goes to Miss Honeys class for a checkup to belittle the students. As a prank, Lavender, one of Matildas friends, places a newt in Trunchbulls water jug to frighten her. Upon discovery of the newt, Trunchbull accuses Matilda, whose anger at the injustice leads her to tip the glass over, splashing water. Afterward, Miss Honey invites Matilda to her house for tea, when Miss Honey was five, her father died of an alleged suicide. Eventually, she moved into a small cottage, when Matildas telekinetic powers manifest again during an argument with her father, she trains herself to use them at her own will. She returns to Trunchbulls house and uses her telekinesis to wreak havoc in an attempt to scare her away and she almost flees, but Trunchbull finds Matildas hair ribbon and realizes that she was there. The following day, Trunchbull visits Miss Honeys class again to get Matilda to admit her guilt, Matilda uses her powers to write a message on the blackboard, posing as the ghost of Magnus, accusing Trunchbull of murdering him
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Thora Birch
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Thora Birch is an American actress. She had early roles in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day and in Purple People Eater and she also starred in other films, such as All I Want for Christmas, Patriot Games, Hocus Pocus, Monkey Trouble, Now and Then and Alaska. Her breakthrough role came in 1999 with the Academy Award winning film American Beauty and her performance was well received by both critics and audiences and brought Birch to international recognition. She later played the role in Ghost World for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared in independent films, such as Dark Corners, Train, Birch was born in Los Angeles, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors. Her parents, who have been her business managers throughout her career, are former adult film actors. Birch is of German Jewish, Scandinavian and Italian ancestry, the familys original surname was Biersch. Her name, Thora, is derived from the name of the Norse god of thunder and lightning, Thor, Birch appeared in commercials in the late 1980s for Burger King, California Raisins, Quaker Oats and Vlasic Pickles. Also in 1988, she guest-starred in an episode of Doogie Howser, M. D. and was cast as Molly in the NBC television series Day By Day, the show aired for two seasons on NBC and earned her two Young Artist Award nominations. In 1990, Birch had one of the roles in the sitcom Parenthood. It aired on NBC and was cancalled after one season, in the next year, she starred in the drama Paradise, with Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Elijah Wood. She won her role more than 4,000 other young hopefuls who auditioned for it. Roger Ebert felt she played her part with strong, simple charm, for the rest of the 1990s, Birch continued to find steady recognition as a child and teen actress through leading parts in numerous comedy and family feature films. She starred in the romantic comedy All I Want for Christmas, as a girl who plans to get her parents back together for Christmas. The film received reviews and moderate attention from audiences upon its theatrical premiere. In 1992, she played the daughter of Jack Ryan in the spy thriller Patriot Games, Birch appeared in the fantasy comedy Hocus Pocus, opposite Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. The film saw her play the younger sister of a boy who inadvertently ressurects a villainous trio of witches. Hocus Pocus rated average with reviewers and made a modest US$39 million in the US, in the 1994 comedy Monkey Trouble, Birch portrayed a girl who adopts a Capuchin monkey trained to pick pockets and burglarize houses
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Birch on
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Anna Paquin
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Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campions romantic drama film The Piano, despite having had little to no acting experience prior to getting the role. For her performance, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 and she played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the first installment. Paquin is also known for playing the role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood. Paquin has been married since 2010 to actor Stephen Moyer, with whom she has two children, Paquin has two older siblings, Andrew, a director, and Katya, whose partner is the Green Party of New Zealands former co-leader Russel Norman. Paquin is of Dutch, French and Irish descent, Paquins family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine and her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, while in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate School. She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the schools Community Service requirement by working in a soup kitchen and she studied at Columbia University for one year but has since been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career. Director Jane Campion was looking for a girl to play a main role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand. Paquins sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend, when The Piano was released in 1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of film festivals, and eventually became a popular film among a wide audience. Paquins debut performance in the film earned her the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history, behind Tatum ONeal. The Piano was made as a independent film and wasnt expected to be widely known. However, she was invited to the William Morris Agency, and she systematically refused them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI in 1994. She later made a series of commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg. She also appeared as a voice in a book entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994. In 1996, she appeared in two films, the first role was as young Jane in Jane Eyre. The other was a part in Fly Away Home playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves in with her father
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Paquin at the 2012
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Paquin at 25th Annual Paley Television Festival, April 2009
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Paquin at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010
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Fly Away Home
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Fly Away Home is a 1996 family drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels and Dana Delany, Fly Away Home was released on September 13,1996 by Columbia Pictures. Fly Away Home dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, when a construction crew destroys a small wilderness area near the Alden home, Amy finds a nest of goose eggs. Without Thomas, Susan, or her uncle David knowing, she takes the eggs, when the eggs have hatched, she is allowed to keep the goslings as pets. Thomas asks for help from local game warden Glen Seifert on how to care for the geese, Seifert comes over to the Alden house, and explains that the geese have imprinted on Amy as their mother. Thomas throws Seifert off his property, only for Seifert to threaten the Aldens that if the birds start flying, Thomas decides to use an ultralight aircraft to teach the birds to fly and show them their migratory routes, but quickly realizes the birds will only follow Amy. Aided by his friend Barry, Thomas teaches Amy how to fly an aircraft of her own. David mentions knowing someone running a bird sanctuary in North Carolina, the birds have to arrive before November 1, or the sanctuary will be torn down by developers who plan to turn it into a coastal housing development. Amy and Thomas practice flying the aircraft, but Igor, the weakest of the geese, while the group goes off to search for the bird, Glen Seifert returns to the Alden farm and confiscates the other geese. The next day, a plan is staged to free the geese. Making an emergency landing at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in upstate New York on the shore of Lake Ontario, Amy. They become national news, with residents cheering them on and offering the two a place to stay at night at each of their stops. Thirty miles before reaching the sanctuary, Thomas’s aircraft suffers a structural failure and crashes in a cornfield. After Amy takes off and begins to head toward the sanctuary, while waiting for the geese, Thomas, Susan, David, Barry and many animal enthusiasts stand up to developers who are waiting to start the excavation of the site. Amy eventually appears with the geese, much to the joy of the townspeople and Amy’s family, the townspeople and the Aldens celebrate their victory. The following spring, all 16 geese safely return to the Aldens farm on their own, to recreate the Alden home, principal photography took place in 1995, at two farms near Lindsay in southeastern Ontario. The township had also been the setting for A Christmas Story, the blacksmith shop constructed onsite for the filming of The Last Buffalo at Purple Hill, Ontario was re-used as part of the Alden homestead. Two gliders were featured in the film, The UFM Easy Riser, the Easy Riser first appears as a foot-launched biplane hang glider
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Theatrical release poster
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Thomas (
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An example of an ultralight on display at the
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Heather Matarazzo
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Heather Christina Marie Matarazzo is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was Dawn Wiener, a girl in the film Welcome to the Dollhouse. She played Lilly in The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 and her other movies include The Devils Advocate, Scream 3, Sorority Boys, Saved. and Hostel, Part 2. Matarazzo was born and raised in Oyster Bay, New York, the daughter of Camille, a homemaker, and Ray Matarazzo, Matarazzo is of Irish descent, and was adopted and raised by the Matarazzos, a strict Catholic Italian American family. Matarazzo began acting at the age of six, after commandeering the microphone at an AIDS benefit for children, in 1997, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Welcome to the Dollhouse. Matarazzo has expressed pleasure in being allowed to play interesting characters and she has commented that she is most proud of her performance in 1999s Our Guys, Outrage in Glen Ridge, in which she played a mentally challenged girl who is raped by football players. In 1999 to 2000 she portrayed Heather Wiseman in the short-lived TV series, Now, in 2000 she appeared in the teen romantic comedy film The Princess Diaries as Lilly Moscovitz and reprised her role in the 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement. Matarazzo has made appearances on several hit TV shows including Roseanne, Law & Order, The L Word, Greys Anatomy and Strangers With Candy. Matarazzo starred opposite Thaao Penghlis in the premiere of Charles Evereds play Class at Cape May Stage in Cape May, New Jersey in May. In 2011, Matarazzo announced that she would begin working on her directorial debut, on July 31,2008, Matarazzos publicist announced that Matarazzo was engaged to musician Caroline Murphy. She was the speaker at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of Bostons annual conference. In 2012, popular news outlets announced that Matarazzo and Murphy had split amicably. Matarazzo revealed that she was scheduled to be at a meeting on the 15th floor of One World Trade Center on September 11,2001, Heather Matarazzo at the Internet Movie Database Heather Matarazzo at Rotten Tomatoes Heather Matarazzo blog at Wordpress. com
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Heather Matarazzo at 2008 New York City Rally for
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Welcome to the Dollhouse
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Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 American coming-of-age black comedy film. An independent film, it launched the careers of Todd Solondz, eleven-and-a-half-year-old Dawn Wiener is a shy, unattractive, unpopular seventh grader living in a middle-class suburban community in New Jersey. Her seventeen-year-old brother Mark is a high school student who plays clarinet in a garage band. Dawns younger sister, eight-year-old Missy, is a spoiled, manipulative little girl who pesters Dawn and their mother dotes on Missy and sides with her in disputes with Dawn. Their father is a meek, immature, selfish man who sides with Dawns mother in arguments with Dawn, Dawns only friend is an effeminate fifth-grade boy named Ralphy, with whom she shares a dilapidated clubhouse in her backyard. At school, Dawn is ridiculed and her locker is covered in graffiti, after her teacher unfairly keeps her after school, she is threatened with rape by a bully named Brandon McCarthy, who also has trouble socializing. At home Dawns mother punishes her for calling Missy a lesbian, Dawn is suspended for three days after she accidentally hits a teacher in the eye with a spitball. Brandons first attempt to rape Dawn after school fails, but he orders her to him again. After she complies, he takes her to an abandoned field and he starts an earnest conversation with her and kisses her. Marks band is joined by Steve Rodgers, a charismatic and handsome aspiring teenage rock musician who agrees to play in the band in exchange for Marks help in school. Dawn decides to pursue him romantically after he spends time with her, Dawn and Brandon form an innocent romance, but Brandon is arrested and expelled for suspected drug dealing. Dawn visits his home and learns that he has an abusive and alcoholic widowed father, after kissing Dawn, Brandon runs away to avoid being sent to military school. After angrily rejecting Ralphy, Dawn is left with no friends, when she refuses to tear down her clubhouse to make room for her parents 20th wedding anniversary party, her mother has Mark and Missy destroy it and gives them her share of a cake. At the party, Dawn intends to proposition Steve, but gets cold feet and is contemptuously rebuffed, Steve plays with Missy, who pushes Dawn into a kiddie pool. That evening, the family watches a videotape of the party and that night, Dawn smashes the tape and briefly brandishes her hammer over Missy as she sleeps. A few weeks later, Dawns fathers car breaks down and her mother has to pick him up from work. Dawn is supposed to tell Missy to find a home from ballet class but chooses not to do so after arguing with her. When Missys tutu is found in Times Square, Dawn goes to New York City to find her
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Blake Bashoff
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Blake Warren Bashoff is an American television and motion picture actor, known for his role as Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening. He has also appeared in a number of guest roles on television series, Bashoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Irene and Kenneth Ken Bashoff. Bashoff started acting at the age of 10, working primarily in commercials and he moved to Hollywood after graduating from George Washington High School in 1999. He had a role in the CW hit show One Tree Hill in its first season, Bashoff appeared in Bushwhacked, Big Bully, and The New Swiss Family Robinson in 1998. After taking a break from acting, he received a role on Judging Amy, playing the character of Eric Black. In 2000, he played the role of Jesse in Youre Invited to Mary-Kate and he has since appeared in Deuces Wild and Minority Report, and has a minor recurring role in One Tree Hill. He also appeared in an episode of Charmed, The Bare Witch Project, as Duncan, then he plays the role of Josh Cooper, a victims son, in the seventh episode of season four in the series NCIS. In October 2006, he landed a role as Karl in the television series Lost. Karl was shot and killed in the Season 4 episode entitled Meet Kevin Johnson, on December 18,2007, Bashoff made his Broadway debut in the role of Moritz Stiefel in the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, replacing John Gallagher, Jr. His last Broadway performance was on August 2,2008 and he was replaced on Broadway by former ensemble member and Moritz understudy Gerard Canonico. Bashoff reprised his role as Moritz on the first National Tour of Spring Awakening and he ended his run with the Spring Awakening National Touring Cast on August 16,2009 and was replaced by Taylor Trensch. Bashoff also appears in the 2008 film Together Again for the First Time and he played Mark, Peggy Olsons boyfriend, on season 4 of Mad Men. Blake Bashoff at the Internet Movie Database Blake Bashoff at AllMovie BroadwayWorld. com interview with Blake Bashoff, April 8,2009 BroadwayWorld. com interview with Blake Bashoff, March 5,2009
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Bashoff at the stage door of Spring Awakening following a performance as Moritz Stiefel, 2009
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Big Bully (film)
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Big Bully is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold. The film was directed by Steve Miner and featured Don Knotts, growing up in Hastings, Minnesota, young David Leary was bullied by Roscoe Bigger, nicknamed Fang because of a pointed tooth. David is ecstatic when his parents announce theyre moving to Oakland, David informs teachers about Fang stealing a moon rock and Fang is arrested. Twenty-six years later, David is divorced and raising his troubled son Ben as a single parent, not having much success as a writer, Davids old school offers him a job teaching creative writing for the semester. He meets his neighbors Art and Betty Lundstrum and begins rekindling a relationship with his old flame Victoria and he also encounters the school librarian Mrs. Rumpert who is still waiting for David to return Green Eggs and Ham to the library. After Ben begins picking on a kid named Kirby, David meets the boys father Ross Bigger when both are called to the office of Principal Kokelar, following a fire drill, David meets with his old friend Ulf, a firefighter. When meeting with Ulf, Alan and Gerry at a bar, David learns that after Ross got out of juvenile hall, when Ross learns who David is, he reembarks on his old routine of bullying him to make himself feel better. Ross drops his mild-mannered and pushover attitude and begins taking charge in his classroom, Davids son begins bullying Rosss son, but after a discussion they become friends. Ross begins to intimidate until David becomes paranoid, and begins freaking out another teacher, Clark, who thinks he is on crack. Later that night, they meet at the old see-saw where Ross reaffirms that David has never stood up for himself at which point David admits snitching to get Ross put in Juvenile hall. After a game of cat-and-mouse in the school hours, David flees to his hiding place he used when he was a child. Ross chases him onto a waterfall and tells David that he thought of him as a friend. David hits him with a piece of driftwood causing Ross to fall into the river, fearing that he has killed his enemy, David tries to turn himself over to the police only to find that the cops are out. Ulf drives David to his home while he tries to find Ross body, after a talk with Art, David attempts to go to sleep only to discover Ross alive and well. The two men once again until Kirby and Ben come in and reveal that theyve made up. Ross reveals he stole the moon rock because he wanted to be an astronaut and it was also shown that during their recent fight, Ross fang was chipped. With nothing left for him in Hastings, Davids semester teaching job was over, David begins to pack up and move to New York. He has Victoria return Green Eggs and Ham to the library for him
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Gregory Smith (actor)
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Gregory Edward Smith is a Canadian-American actor, writer and director. Smith was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Terrea, a teacher from the USA, and Maurice Smith, smiths mother appeared in several of the films that his father produced during the 1980s. Smith has two brothers, Andrew and Douglas, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Smith is both a Canadian citizen and a US citizen. He is of mostly English and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, Smith began acting when he was fourteen months old, and appeared in a Tide television commercial and in store catalogues. After a role in the 1994 childrens film Andre, he starred in the 1995 direct-to-video release Leapin’ Leprechauns. and its 1996 sequel, Spellbreaker, also in 1996, Smith appeared opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in Harriet the Spy. His role on the show was described by The Independent Weekly as one of the best portrayals of a thoughtful, for this role, Smith won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV series Leading Young Actor in 2003. During Everwoods filming, Smith owned a home on location in Park City, in 2005, Smith appeared in the comedy-drama film Kids in America, which had a regional release in the U. S. During the film, Smith shared the longest on-screen kiss with Stephanie Sherrin and he also played in Zenon as Greg. In 2007, Smith had a role in The Seeker. In 2008, Smith produced the direct release-to-DVD film Wieners, Smith returned to TV in the series Rookie Blue as Officer Dov Epstein. The series premiered on both ABC and Global TV in Canada on June 24,2010, making his television directing debut, he also directed five episodes. On 18 March 2010, he was cast by Jim Sheridan for his 2011 thriller film Dream House and he played Slick, the sadistic psychopath, in the 2011 independent film Hobo with a Shotgun. Smith made his directing debut in 2013 with his short film Method. Making his television directing debut, along with his role on the show. In 2015, Smith directed two episodes of the CWs Arrow and that year, he also directed several episodes of the Canadian supernatural medical drama Saving Hope. He directed an episode of the Medical drama once again in 2017, in 2016, Smith directed two episodes of the premiere season of CWs Legends of Tomorrow. Gregory Smith at the Internet Movie Database Exclusive, EVERWOOD’s Gregory Smith Returning to TV
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Gregory Smith at the InStyle Party,
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Brawley Nolte
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Nicholas King Nick Nolte is an American actor and former model. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and he went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Affliction and Warrior. His other film appearances include The Deep,48 Hrs, down and Out in Beverly Hills, Another 48 Hrs. Everybody Wins, Cape Fear, Lorenzos Oil, The Thin Red Line, Hulk, The Good Thief, Hotel Rwanda, Tropic Thunder, A Walk in the Woods and The Ridiculous 6. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves, Nolte was born February 8,1941 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Franklin Arthur Nolte, was a son who ran away from home. His mother, Helen, was a department store buyer and his ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish and Swiss-German. Noltes maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation and his maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University. He has a sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross. Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa and he studied at Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High, but was expelled for fighting and hiding beer before practice, at Eastern Arizona, Nolte lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end in basketball with forward, and as a catcher on the baseball team. Poor grades eventually ended his studies, at which point his career in began in earnest. While in college, Nolte worked for the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha, Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1992, Nolte was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Nolte first starred in the television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man, based on Irwin Shaws 1970 best-selling novel. Later he appeared in forty films, playing a wide variety of characters. Diversity of character, and his athleticism, and gravelly voice are signatures of his career. In 1973, he guest-starred in the Griff episode, Who Framed Billy the Kid. as Billy Randolph, a football player accused of murder. He co-starred with Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake
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Nolte at the 2000
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Nolte as Tom Jordache in Rich Man, Poor Man
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Ransom (1996 film)
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Ransom is a 1996 American crime thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon. The film stars Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Brawley Nolte, Delroy Lindo, Liev Schreiber, Evan Handler, Donnie Wahlberg, Gibson was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The original story came from a 1954 episode of The United States Steel Hour titled Fearful Decision, in 1956, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume into the feature film Ransom. Starring Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, and Leslie Nielsen, the film was also influenced by Ed McBains police procedural novel Kings Ransom. The film received positive reviews, and was a major financial success. While multi-millionaire Tom Mullen and his wife Kate attend a fair, their son Sean is kidnapped. Sean is taken to an apartment by Maris, a caterer for the Mullens, along with criminals Clark, Cubby and Miles, and Detective Jimmy Shaker, Mariss boyfriend, Tom and Kate receive an e-mail from the kidnappers demanding $2,000,000. Tom calls the FBI, who begin operating from his New York City penthouse under Special Agent Lonnie Hawkins, in private, Tom voices his belief that a union machinist, Jackie Brown, who is in prison following one of Mullens business scandals, may have been behind it. They visit Brown in prison, but he denies any involvement with the kidnapping. Tom agrees to the FBIs instructions for delivering the ransom, receiving a phone call from Shaker, who is electronically disguising his voice, Tom follows his instructions. He meets Cubby in a New Jersey quarry but refuses to hand the money over when Cubby fails to give him the directions Shaker had promised him, a fight ensues and the FBI intervene and shoot Cubby. He dies before he can reveal Seans location, Shaker later arranges another drop off. Despite the pleadings of Kate and FBI Special Agent Lonnie Hawkins, Tom sticks to his plan, Shaker lures Kate to a meeting where he tells her to pay the ransom or Sean will die. Tom responds by increasing the bounty to $4,000,000, Shaker calls Tom and demands to be paid, but Tom still refuses, and Shaker fires a gunshot after Tom hears Sean scream for help, leading Tom and Kate to believe their son is dead. The NYPD arrive and find Shaker with Sean, believing Shaker found, Hawkins informs Tom and Kate and they are reunited with their son while Shaker is hospitalized. Shaker later pays Tom a visit to claim the reward and leave the country before investigators discover his connection with Maris, Tom and Sean, however, recognize Shaker as the kidnapper, and Shaker realizes this. Though his initial plan is to everyone in the apartment, Tom persuades him to accompany him to the bank to gain the money. On the way, however, Tom discreetly alerts Hawkins and the police and FBI converge on Tom, a chase ensues in which Tom and Shaker grapple furiously before falling through a shop window, severely injuring both and impaling Shaker through the neck
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Jack (1996 film)
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Jack is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film co-stars Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby, Williams plays the role of Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster than normal as a result of Werner syndrome, a form of progeria. The film begins with Karen Powell going into labor during a Halloween party and being rushed to the hospital by her husband, Brian, and their friends. Although the delivery is successful, the baby is premature, born after only ten weeks of pregnancy and he scares them away by dipping a fake eye into slime and throwing it at them from his window. He is extremely childish as a consequence of his secluded life and he has only had contact with his parents and tutor, Lawrence Woodruff, who introduces the idea that he should go to public school. His parents initially balk at the idea of him doing so because he could be emotionally hurt, when he first attends school, he is exploited by the other kids to win at basketball against bullies, and eventually to get adult magazines and other such items. As time goes by, he is accepted by them, beginning with Louis and he attempts to be normal there, for example, when he deals with his first crush, heartbreak, and the relationship with his teacher, Miss Marquez. Realizing the dangers it might entail for his health, his parents decide to withdraw him from school and he sneaks out of the house and goes to a bar, where he gets drunk and befriends a man named Paulie, and tries to hit on Dolores, Louiss mother. However, he gets into a fight with a bully and are both arrested. Dolores bails Jack out, leaving the other guy to suffer in jail, upon returning home, he locks himself in his room and doesnt go out for weeks. Karen speculates that perhaps he realized the fragility of his life and is now scared of facing the world again. He also doubts the need to study as he realizes that he wouldnt have the time to use any of the knowledge, meanwhile, his friends continue coming to his house, hoping that he will come out and play, but he refuses. Finally, Louis has an idea, he brings the class over as they take turns yelling Can Jack come out. And participate in games and fun activities right in front of the yard. The next day he decides to go back to school, seven years later, an elderly-looking Jack and his four best friends are at their high school graduation. He delivers the speech, in which he reminds his classmates that life is short. Rotten Tomatoes, an aggregator, reports that 17% of 30 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. Todd McCarthy of Variety called it a tedious, uneventful fantasy that wastes the talents of the filmmakers, the film theme is Star, performed by Canadian rocker Bryan Adams
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Vanessa Lee Chester
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Vanessa Lee Chester is an American television and film actress. Chester rose to fame as an actor for her roles in A Little Princess and Harriet the Spy, before gaining worldwide recognition for her role in Steven Spielbergs The Lost World. Chester made her debut in the comedy CB4 starring Chris Rock. The following year, she appeared in a role in Alfonso Cuaróns A Little Princess. In 1996, she appeared opposite Michelle Trachtenberg as Janie in the Nickelodeon film Harriet the Spy, the following year, she was cast in a lead role as Kelly in Steven Spielbergs The Lost World, Jurassic Park, playing the daughter of Ian Malcolm. The film was a box office hit, grossing over $600 million worldwide, Chester later worked mostly in television, most notably appearing in Malcolm in the Middle and The West Wing. She was nominated for a Saturn Award, Image Award, Young Artist Award, in early 2012 Chester began work on an unnamed film by Ty Hodges. Vanessa Lee Chester at the Internet Movie Database
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Vanessa Lee Chester
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Claire Danes
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Danes gained recognition with her role as Angela Chase in the acclaimed 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and she made her film debut the same year in Little Women. From 1998 to 2000, Danes attended Yale University before dropping out to return to acting and she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000, and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 revival of Pygmalion. She is married to actor Hugh Dancy, with whom she has one child, Danes was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes, and a photographer, Christopher Danes. She has a brother, Asa, who is a lawyer. Danes parents met when they were studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, during Danes childhood her father worked as a general contractor for 20 years, working on residential buildings in a company he ran called Overall Construction in New York. He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant and he is the son of Gibson Andrew Danes, a former dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1968. Danes is named after her grandmother, Claire Danes, who died in 1953. The family lived in a loft on Crosby Street. 3 and PS11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school, Danes attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City. She attended The Dalton School for one year of school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica. Danes said they moved two days after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, director Oliver Stone wrote a letter of recommendation. After studying for two years as a major, she dropped out to focus on her film career. Danes started studying dance when she was six years old, Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of ten. She appeared in theater and video productions in New York City, although she continued to dance, Danes said that her focus shifted to acting by the time she was nine years old
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Danes at the 2015
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Danes at the
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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
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The original score was composed by James Horner. The screenplay was adapted by David E. Kelley from the play of the name by Michael Brady. On the second anniversary of Gillians death, David invites her sister, Esther Wheeler and she insists on bringing a female friend named Kevin Dollof whom she hopes David will become romantically interested in. He, however, ignores her in proceeding with a celebration of Gillians birthday. The film currently holds a rating of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews, emanuel Levy in Variety described the film as a bargain-basement Ghost, a hybrid of an earnest, inspirational play and a sleek, calculated Lifetime telepic. Janet Maslin in the New York Times wrote, Its not easy for the storys tear-jerking potential to be realized when its characters express their pain as if they were writing greeting cards. The Washington Post wrote that, for all the moonlight and magic, many critics found it difficult to accept the basic premise, that the main characters continued mourning of his deceased wife was so detrimental to those around him. The Los Angeles Times wrote, Despite its apparent parallels to Ghost, throughout Ghost, we were made to feel desperate for a reunion of Patrick Swayzes roaming spirit with a mourning Demi Moore. In Gillian, the purpose is to get David to give up the ghost. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle thought the film lacked dramatic impetus, the grieving husband never quite seems crazy enough -, and everyone stays a nice person. In fact, typical of the films undramatic choices - its ungenerous unwillingness to commit to the extreme - the husband knows she is an illusion, and the sister-in-law, far from evil, is merely concerned. So why are we watching these people, one aspect of the film that garnered unanimous praise was the performance of Claire Danes as the troubled daughter. Variety wrote, Danes proves again that one of the most naturally gifted actresses of her generation. The New York Times described her as especially expressive in the later scenes, demonstrating a rare ability to seem fresh. The Los Angeles Times wrote, Danes is terrific playing a teenager trying to understand her fathers problems while feeling the first stirrings of passion in herself. According to the Washington Post, the gifted actress steals the show, Claire Danes won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress. To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday at the Internet Movie Database To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday at AllMovie To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday at Rotten Tomatoes
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Flipper (1996 film)
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Flipper is a 1996 adventure film remake of the 1963 film of the same name, starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood. The movie is about a boy who has to spend the summer with his uncle, although he expects to have another boring summer, he encounters a dolphin whom he names Flipper and with whom he forms a friendship. Sandy Ricks is sent off for the summer to stay with his Uncle Porter in the town of Coral Key. Initially, Sandy is unenthusiastic and disappointed that he isnt going to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and his mood remains unchanged even after meeting Kathy, a local shopkeeper with whom his uncle carries on a flirtatious relationship, and Kim, a girl his own age. While out on Porters fishing trawler, they meet Porters enemy, nearby, a pod of dolphins is frolicking near Dirks boat. As a big game fisherman, Dirk Moran makes it plain that he hates just about every other fish-eating animal on earth. The next day, Porter and Sandy are paid a visit by the sheriff and that night, Sandy and Kim set out on a dinghy to look for Flipper. They fail to locate the dolphin, but see dumping of barrels off of Dirk Morans boat, the next morning, as Kim arrives looking for Sandy, Sonny, Porters pet brown pelican, comes running, as if asking her to follow him. Sonny leads Kim to Flipper who is beached on the shore and they manage to cure Flipper anyhow. Kathy determines that Flipper has been poisoned by toxic waste, which is shown to have been ruining the local fishing. The group uses Flippers ability of echolocation and a camera attached to his head to help them locate the barrels of toxic waste. Flipper also manages to locate the rest of his pod, and reunites them, in the process. Porter rushes back to alert the sheriff about the barrels, Sandy, however becomes concerned that something has happened to Flipper, without informing anyone except Kathys young son, Marvin, who sets off in the dinghy to find him. Sandy barely survives an encounter with Dirk Morans boat, which dismantles the dinghy and he sees an approaching dorsal fin and thinks it is Flipper, but it is actually a hammerhead shark. Sandy swims for his life towards Dirks boat, as the shark is about to attack Sandy, Flipper appears and starts nose-butting the shark in the gills. There is a moment when the shark proves stronger than Flipper. Dirks Moran is arrested by the sheriff for illegally dumping toxic waste, the next day, when Sandys mom and younger sibling Super hot Elijah Wood arrive to pick him up, there is a commotion. It is Flipper, who has come to see Sandy off, animatronic dolphins, designed by Walt Conti and his team, had to be used extensively, such as in scenes where Flipper interacts with the human characters, or is shown swimming along
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First Kid
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First Kid is a 1996 Disney comedy film directed by David Mickey Evans and starring Sinbad and Brock Pierce. It was mostly filmed in Richmond, Virginia, Woods is later fired because of his mistreatment of Luke. Simms sees this assignment as undesirable, but a stepping stone to protecting the President. He fails to connect with the boy at first, and Luke continues to misbehave, after seeing Luke get beat up by the school bully Rob, his parents punished him for the fight, even though he didnt start the fight. Because of the re-election, they cant risk Luke going out of public for a month while his parents are in Africa, Simms feels sorry for him - he had felt alone as a teenager, too - and they become friends. Simms, a golden gloves boxing champion, agrees to sneak Luke out against the wishes of the chief of security Morton. Meanwhile, Luke agonizes over asking the cutest girl, Katie, to the school dance, which he finally does successfully with Simmss help. On the night of the dance, a backpack is left outside of the White House and Luke is not allowed to go due to the security risk, Simms pities him and, breaking the rules again, he takes him to the dance. There, Rob tries to attack Luke again while Simms is distracted, after that, Secret Service agents bust the school dance and retrieve Luke. Simms is fired and not allowed to speak with Luke, who is crushed that his friend has abandoned him. Luke, under house arrest and with a device attached to him, receives advice from an online friend, Mongoose12, on how to escape the White House. Luke agrees, but it is revealed that Mongoose12 was in fact former agent Woods, when Luke goes missing, Simms is given another chance to protect him. With the help of his friend Harold, he quickly tracks Luke to the mall, in a standoff, Woods says he was planning on returning Luke to the President so he could be a hero and get his job back but now he wants to kill him instead. He blames Luke for making him lose his job, and even his wife, Woods tries to shoot Simms, but he takes cover and once Woods is out of bullets, Simms brings him down with a right uppercut. As other agents arrive, Woods tries to shoot Luke with a revolver but Simms jumps in front of Luke. Woods is also shot and subdued by other arriving Secret Service agents for abduction, assault, arson, and attempted murder. In the final scene of the film, Simms is offered Presidential duty which he declines in order to stay with Luke full time, so he can also spend more time Lukes biology teacher. Luke is relieved of his last punishment, and while playing hockey with friends, hits in Simms in the forehead with the puck
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Jonathan Lipnicki
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Jonathan William Lipnicki is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jerry Maguire, Stuart Little, The Little Vampire, Stuart Little 2. Lipnicki was born in Westlake Village, California, son of Joseph and he has an older sister, Alexis. Lipnicki was educated at Agoura High School, a secondary school in the city of Agoura Hills in Los Angeles County in California. Lipnicki made his debut in 1996s Jerry Maguire as the son of Renée Zellwegers character. He subsequently appeared on The Single Guy, The Jeff Foxworthy Show as well as episodes of Dawsons Creek, in 1999, he starred in the film Stuart Little, playing a boy whose family adopts a talking mouse, a role he reprised in the films 2002 sequel. Lipnicki has also appeared in the preview of Jamie Kennedys Blowin Up. He appeared on the comedy Motherlover on the YOMYOMF Network, I’m not saying no and I’m not saying yes. In 2001, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation named Lipnicki one of its “Heroes of 2001” at the age of ten, jonathan Lipnicki at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Jerry Maguire
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Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced and directed by Cameron Crowe, and stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renée Zellweger. Produced in part by long time Simpsons producer James L. Brooks, it was inspired by sports agent Leigh Steinberg and it was released in North American theaters on December 13,1996, produced by Gracie Films and distributed by TriStar Pictures. The film received acclaim, with critics praising its acting and writing. The film was a success, bringing in more than $273 million worldwide. It was the ninth top-grossing film of 1996, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Tom Cruise, with Cuba Gooding Jr. winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for three Golden Globes, with Tom Cruise winning for Best Actor, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, with Cuba Gooding Jr. winning Best Supporting Actor. Jerry Maguire is a glossy 35-year-old sports agent working for Sports Management International, in turn, SMI management decides to send Bob Sugar, Jerrys protégé, to fire him. Jerry and Sugar call all of Jerrys clients to try convincing them not to hire the services of the other, Jerry speaks to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell, one of his clients who is disgruntled with his contract. Rod tests Jerrys resolve through a long telephone conversation while Sugar is able to convince the rest of Jerrys clients to stick with SMI instead. Leaving the office, Jerry announces that he start his own agency and asks if anyone is willing to join him. Meanwhile, Frank Cush Cushman, a quarterback prospect who expects to be the number one pick in the NFL Draft. However, Sugar is able to convince Cushman and his father to sign with SMI over Jerry the night before the draft, cushmans father implies they decided to sign with Sugar over Jerry when they saw Jerry attending to Tidwell, an African-American player, versus his son. After an argument, Jerry breaks up with his disgruntled fiancée Avery and he then turns to Dorothy, becoming closer to her young son, Ray, and eventually starts a relationship with her. Dorothy contemplates moving to San Diego as she has a job offer there, however she. Jerry concentrates all his efforts on Rod, now his only client, meanwhile, Jerrys marriage with Dorothy gradually deteriorates and they eventually separate. During a Monday Night Football game between the Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys, Rod plays well but appears to receive an injury when catching a touchdown. He recovers, however, and dances for the cheering crowd. Jerry then flies home to meet Dorothy
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One Fine Day (film)
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The title comes from the 1963 song One Fine Day by The Chiffons. Michelle Pfeiffer served as a producer on this film, which was made in association with her company Via Rosa Productions. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, Melanie Parker is an architect and divorced single mother to son, Sammy. The children arrive just a moment too late to go on a field trip. Their parents are forced to accept that, on top of hectically busy schedules, Melanie must make an architectural design presentation to an important client. Jack has to find a source for a scoop on the New York mayors mob connections, Sammy causes havoc at Melanies office with toy cars, causing her to trip and break her scale model display. In frustration, Melanie takes Sammy to a center, where she coincidentally comes across Jack trying to convince Maggie to stay. They create impromptu costumes for the children, utilizing his imagination and she takes her model to a shop to get quickly repaired. Having left for a meeting, Melanie panics when she receives a call from Sammy about another child having a psychedelic drug. She phones Jack in desperation and asks him to pick up both kids and he agrees, on the condition that she take over their care at 3,15 while he chases down a potential news source. While in Melanies care, Maggie goes missing from a store, Melanie breaks down in despair at the police station, files a missing child report, and then goes to a mayoral press conference to find Jack. He is notified by the police that Maggie has been found and he had earlier tracked down its source, just as she was leaving a beauty salon in a limousine. Although they have been antagonistic, Melanie and Jack work together to get both Sammy and Maggie, by taxi, to a soccer game. She insists that she will have time first to do her presentation to the new clients and she begins her pitch over drinks at the 21 Club lounge, but upon seeing Sammy in high spirits, she realizes that she cares more about him than her job. Bravely insisting that she must leave immediately to be him, she fully expects to be fired. At the game, Melanie meets her ex-husband, Eddie, who admits that he lied to Sammy and that he will be going on tour as a drummer with Bruce Springsteen. That evening, Jack wants a reason to visit Melanies apartment, at Melanies apartment, the children watch TV while she and Jack share an awkward first kiss. She goes to the bathroom to freshen up, when she returns and she joins him and they fall asleep together, with the children happily observing
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Jake Lloyd
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He reprised this role in six subsequent Star Wars video games. Jake Matthew Lloyd was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, the son of EMT William Bill Lloyd and he attended Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana and graduated from there in 2007. Lloyd began his career in 1996, playing Jimmy Sweet in 4 episodes of ER. He was then cast as Jake Warren in Unhook the Stars and he got his big break playing Jamie Langston in Jingle All the Way. He also played Mark Armstrong in Apollo 11, after retiring from acting in 2001, Lloyd continued to make appearances at sci-fi and comic-book festivals. In 2012, he announced he was directing a documentary highlighting the Tibetan refugees in India, Lloyd left Hollywood for Chicago, Illinois, and dropped out after a semester at Columbia College Chicago, where he studied film and psychology. Lloyd currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 17,2015, Lloyd was arrested for reckless driving, driving without a license, and resisting arrest. His mother, Lisa, stated that he suffers from schizophrenia and she added that he attacked her at her Indianapolis home three months previously, also due to his struggles with the condition. In April 2016, he was transferred to a facility after being diagnosed with schizophrenia
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Jake Lloyd in 2007
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Unhook the Stars
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Unhook the Stars is a 1996 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring his mother Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, and Gérard Depardieu. Rowlands plays Mildred, a widow who befriends the wayward Monica, a mother from across the street. Throughout the film, Monica and J. J. inadvertently teach Mildred valuable life lessons about herself, Rowlands and Tomei both received SAG Award nominations for their performances. The films title refers to a song of the name by Cyndi Lauper. Mildred is a living with her rebellious, irresponsible twentysomething daughter Annie in Salt Lake City. One day after a fight, Annie goes to live as a vagrant with her boyfriend and her wayward neighbor Monica knocks on Mildreds door, begging her to watch her young son, J. J so she can go to her work shift. Monica has kicked her husband, Frankie, out of their house. Mildred agrees to watch J. J. and offers to babysit, Mildred establishes a close relationship with J. J. and Monica, and J. J. eventually comes to refer to her as Auntie Mildred. Mildred reads to him, takes him to the park, at Thanksgiving, Mildred has Monica and J. J. over for dinner as well as her yuppie son Ethan and his wife Jeannie. Jeannie is perturbed by Monicas brash behavior and cursing, though Ethan, Ethan suggests that Mildred should move to San Francisco with him and Jeannie. Mildred spends Christmas with Monica and J. J. and babysits him on New Years Eve. On Valentines Day, Frankie comes to Monicas house in the middle of the night and begs to reunite with her, Monica leaves the bar without telling Mildred, and Big Tommy gives Mildred a ride home. Mildred goes to visit Ethan and Jeannie in San Francisco, where he invites her to live on the top floor of their luxurious house overlooking the Bay Area, Mildred ultimately refuses Ethans offer, which enrages him. Mildred returns home to find that Monica and Frankie have reconciled, one night, Mildred returns home to find Annie there. Annie asks Mildred if she could return home, saying that she now has a job and is applying to college, Mildred tells Annie that she has sold the house, and has to be out by the end of the month. Mildred goes on a date with Tommy, and confesses she doesnt know where shes moving to, while Monica helps Mildred pack her house, she tells her how much Frankie has improved as a husband, but senses Mildred being distant. Frankie brings J. J. over, and he asks to talk to Mildred in private, J. J. gives her a drawing and thanks her for taking care of him, and the three say their goodbyes. Annie drives Mildred to the airport, though Mildred refuses to tell her shes going, saying its a secret
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Haley Joel Osment
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Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. Night Shyamalans thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielbergs A. I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leders Pay It Forward and he made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short-lived revival of David Mamets play American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer. Osment is also known for his voice-roles of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts video games, as well as his recent roles in comedies such as Sex Ed. Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Theresa, a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment and he has one sibling, actress Emily Osment, who is almost four years his junior. Osments parents have described his childhood as a “good old-fashioned Southern upbringing” and his father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son. Osment was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, as a child, he wrestled and played basketball, football, and golf. Osments acting career began at the age of four, when his mother took him to a new IKEA store, Osment put his name down and got called back for an audition. Asked to describe the biggest thing he had seen, Osment described an IMAX theater screen and won the part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial. The commercial launched his career, and later year he starred in the ABC TV sitcom Thunder Alley. His first feature role was as Forrest Gumps son, also named Forrest Gump. He also had a part in another 1994 film, Mixed Nuts. In addition, he made numerous guest appearances on shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, Osment first achieved stardom in 1999, when he appeared in The Sixth Sense, co-starring Bruce Willis. For his portrayal of Cole Sear, a child, Osment won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. One of Osments lines in The Sixth Sense, I see dead people, became a catchphrase and is often repeated or parodied on television programs. The phrase is #44 on the American Film Institutes list of 100 Movie Quotes and he made three minor guest appearances on the animated TV series Family Guy in 2000 and 2001. The 2000 Academy Awards ceremony honored another future co-star, Kevin Spacey, the following year, he appeared in Steven Spielbergs Artificial Intelligence, A. I. cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood. This role earned him his second Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor, in reviewing the movie, critic Roger Ebert claimed that, Osment, who is onscreen in almost every scene, is one of the best actors now working
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Osment at the
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Osment in 2001
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Bogus (film)
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Bogus is a 1996 American fantasy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, and Haley Joel Osment. It features magic tricks with magician Whit Haydn as consultant and it did poorly at the box office and Goldberg was nominated for a Razzie Award for her performance. It was filmed in Canada and New Jersey, a fantasy, it tells the story of seven-year-old Albert Franklin, the son of a Las Vegas magicians widowed assistant. His mother dies suddenly in a car accident and Albert, who is now an orphan, is sent to New Jersey to live with his mothers foster sister, Harriet. The plot revolves around Albert, and his friend named Bogus, a French magician. Gradually Harriet, who can also see Bogus, comes to terms with her new situation as well, Clay Thrasher Stefan Batory as M. Clay Fisher Although portrayed as Newark, NJ, part of the film was filmed in Van Vorst Park neighborhood of Downtown Jersey City. Bogus opened at #11 in its opening weekend with $1,895,593, rotten Tomatoes reports that 40% of 15 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, the average rating is 4. 9/10. Leonard Klady of Variety wrote, Sweetly sentimental and anachronistically whimsical, janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, Jewison lays on the dry ice and special effects without adding emotion to a slow, hackneyed story. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 3/4 stars and called it a charming, Bogus at the Internet Movie Database Bogus at AllMovie Bogus at Box Office Mojo
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Dunston Checks In
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It was written by John Hopkins and Bruce Graham and directed by Ken Kwapis. The story begins on Wednesday March 22,1995, at that moment, Lord Rutledge a jewel thief, arrives with an orangutan named Dunston, intending to steal the guests jewelry. Dunston and his deceased brother Samson were both trained in thievery their entire lives, now Dunston has been wanting to escape from Rutledges poor treatment and life of crime ever since. Meanwhile, Dunston flees from Rutledge and is found by Kyle. After realizing Dunstons presence, Robert calls for an animal control specialist named Buck LaFarge to remove Dunston from the hotel, Rutledge searches the hotel for Dunston, and after locating him, ties Kyle up. Dunston and Kyle escape to the ballroom where the Crystal Ball is taking place, obtaining a picture of Rutledge, Dunston, Kyle and Brian show the picture to their dad, and Robert is infuriated when Kyle says Rutledge tied him up. Brian and Kyle search for Dunston, avoiding LaFarge and Mrs. Dubrow, while Robert, Robert eventually manages to stand up to Mrs. Dubrow, but is fired in the process. However, it out that Lionel Spalding, who had been humiliated and injured by Dunstons antics, was the critic all along. As a result, he reduces the Majestic to a one-star hotel. Rutledge is arrested and LaFarge apologizes to Dunston, who punches him. In the end, Robert, Kyle and Brian relocate to Bali, to manage a Majestic hotel there and they invite Mr. Spalding over with a complementary room and meals to make up for all the trouble he experienced and assure him that nothing will go wrong this time. However, in the last scene, Dunston causes further trouble by dropping a large coconut which falls on his head. According to an article published in the Chicago Tribune, The cast is talented, the action is silly. Faye Dunaways performance in the film and in The Chamber earned her a Stinkers Bad Movie Award nomination and a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress. The film was nominated at the 18th Youth in Film Awards for Best Family Feature Film, Musical or Comedy. The film was successful at the box office in India, where it was dubbed as Ek Bandar Hotel Ke Andar, Dunston Checks In was released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on VHS on May 28,1996. It was released on DVD on May 28,2002 and October 11,2011, Dunston Checks In at the Internet Movie Database Dunston Checks In at Rotten Tomatoes Dunston Checks In at Box Office Mojo
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Independence Day (1996 film)
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Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a attack by an extraterrestrial race of unknown origin. Along with the rest of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4 – Independence Day in the United States. While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life. He and Dean Devlin decided to incorporate a large-scale attack having noticed that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Shooting began in July 1995 in New York City, and the film was completed on June 20,1996. The film grossed over $817.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1996, and briefly, as of June 2016, it ranks 55th on the list of highest-grossing films, and was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and sci-fi resurgence of the mid-1990s. The film has an rating of 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, a sequel, Independence Day, Resurgence, was released on June 24,2016. David Levinson, an MIT-trained satellite technician, decodes a signal embedded in the satellite transmissions that he determines is a timer counting down to a coordinated attack. Whitmore, the Levinsons, and a few others narrowly escape aboard Air Force One as the capital is destroyed, on July 3, international leaders begin ordering individual counterattacks. Their aviation forces attack destroyer ships positioned above the ruins of the cities, each destroyer launches a swarm of attack fighters, which wipe out the human fighter squadrons. He subdues the injured pilot and flags down a convoy of refugees. They transport the alien to nearby Area 51 where Whitmores group has landed. Area 51 houses the refurbished alien fighter and three alien corpses recovered from the crash, when eccentric scientist Brackish Okun examines the alien captured by Hiller, it regains consciousness and attacks. It telepathically invades Okuns mind and uses his vocal cords to communicate with Whitmore before launching an attack against him. Whitmore sees visions of the plans, their entire civilization travels from planet to planet, exterminating all indigenous life. On July 4, Levinson demonstrates that the key to defeating the aliens lies in deactivating their force fields and he proposes using the refurbished alien fighter to implement the plan, which Hiller volunteers to pilot
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F/A-18 Hornets of
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A World War II training aircraft with a camera mounted on its front navigated through the walls of the
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The shot of the White House's destruction was the focus of the film's marketing campaign. A fleeing helicopter was added to the shot in the final print.
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Mae Whitman
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Mae Margaret Whitman is an American actress, voice actress and singer. After making her debut in When a Man Loves a Woman, she had other supporting roles in films such as One Fine Day, Independence Day. Thereafter, Whitman ventured into television, with her most notable roles including Ann Veal on the Fox sitcom Arrested Development and she also had supporting roles in the films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Whitman made her leading role debut in The Duff. Whitman was born on June 9,1988 in Los Angeles, California, the child of Pat Musick, a voice artist, and Jeffrey Whitman. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and she attended Ribet Academy, but later transferred to Whitefish Bay High School, where she graduated from. Whitman is of English and German ancestry and she started her career with a voice-over for a Tyson Chicken commercial at the age of three. Acting coach Andrew Magarian helped her memorize lines as she could not read, in 1994, at the age of six, Whitman made her film debut, acting alongside Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman, playing Ryans youngest daughter, Casey Green. She beat 700 other girls who were interested in the part, in 1996, Whitman appeared in two films, Independence Day as the Presidents daughter, and One Fine Day playing George Clooneys daughter, Maggie Taylor. The same year, Whitman guest starred in the episode The One Where Rachel Quits of the sitcom Friends, in 1998, she was Sandra Bullocks daughter, Bernice Pruitt, in Hope Floats. During several guest appearances from 1998 until 2001, Whitman played the role of Chloe Madison on JAG, in 2001 and 2002, Whitman starred in the Fox Family series State of Grace in which she portrayed Grace from a Catholic background who befriends Hannah, a Jewish girl. From 2004 to 2006, Whitman had a role on Arrested Development. Whitman appeared in the 2006 series Thief for FX Networks, playing the stepdaughter of Nick Atwater, Whitman made several high-profile guest appearances in 2006 and 2007. She also appeared on Desperate Housewives in the episode Nice She Aint as Sarah, Whitman also had a recurring role on Chicago Hope, playing the daughter of Dr. Kate Austin, in the series later years. Whitman was initially cast in the 2007 series remake of The Bionic Woman, on June 27,2007, TV Guide reported that Whitman was being replaced in the role of Jaimes sister, and Lucy Hale was cast as Whitmans replacement the following July. An NBC spokesperson confirmed this, stating, The decision was purely creatively driven and it is very common to change storylines, characters, actors after the initial pilot is shot. The sister characters hearing was restored after this recasting at the request of an NBC executive and she also appeared in the season nine episode Streetwise of Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, as an on-the-street-mother who adopts street children forming a homeless family. Whitman gave voice to Katara of the Water Tribe in the animated show Avatar, The Last Airbender and she has appeared in the HBO series In Treatment as Rosie
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Mae Whitman at the premiere of
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Mae Whitman at the 2010
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Phenomenon (film)
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In the film, an amiable, small-town everyman is inexplicably transformed into a genius with telekinetic powers. The original music score was composed by Thomas Newman and it was filmed in Auburn, Colfax, Davis, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sonoma County, and Treasure Island, all in Northern California. George Malley is a kind but average auto mechanic in a town in Northern California. While celebrating his 37th birthday at a bar with his best friend, Nate. A ball of shining bright white lights moves around in the sky, grows closer and hits him in the head, making a loud sound, when he comes to and re-enters the bar, he learns that nobody else saw the lights nor did they hear the sound. Doc notices something is amiss when George quickly achieves a checkmate in their chess game, George begins to exhibit remarkable levels of intelligence. He easily absorbs vast amounts of information, formulates new, revolutionary ideas, as well as developing psychokinesis, not needing sleep, he spends each night reading multiple books. George tries to use his new intelligence for the good of his community and he correctly predicts an earthquake without any equipment. When Doc is called to aid a sick Portuguese man, George learns the language in minutes and he then uses his telekinesis to rescue the mans young relative. During this time of upheaval the townsfolk become wary, but George finds support from Doc, Nate and from a relationship with a single mother, Lace. George also sets a plan in place to help Nate get together with the mother of the Portuguese boy he rescued, George invites Lace to join him on a trip to UC Berkeley to meet with seismologist Professor Ringold about Georges earthquake prediction. Instead, the FBI takes George and Nate into custody over his code-breaking and he breaks more codes, then astounds Dr. Nierdof by easily answering a series of difficult quizzes and exams. When George threatens to talk to the press, he is finally released, returning to the local bar, George becomes frustrated with friends questions about his abilities, and he causes a large mirror to break via telekinesis. Lace visits him to provide a shave and a haircut and their innocent intimacy scares her since she has tried so hard to not like him, but it encourages him to stop avoiding the townsfolk. He goes to the county fair to ease fear with a demonstration of his powers, George is knocked to the ground, where he again sees the balls of light, before losing consciousness. With Lace and Nate there for support, Doc explains that George has a brain tumor. This has caused the lights and stimulated Georges phenomenal brain functions and they have called Dr. Wellin, a leading brain surgeon, to see if an operation can save Georges life. Dr. Wellin later determines there is only a 1 in 500 chance of survival, when George refuses, saying he still has work to do, the doctor has him declared mentally unfit and held against his will
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
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The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 American neo noir action film directed and produced by Renny Harlin, written and produced by Shane Black and starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. Samantha Caine is a schoolteacher in the town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, with her boyfriend Hal. Eight years earlier, she was washed ashore on a New Jersey beach, pregnant with Caitlin. Having never remembered her real name or any part of her life from before day, Samantha has hired a number of private investigators to try to discover her past. During the Christmas holidays, Samantha is involved in a car accident and suffers a concussion. Some time later, they are attacked by One-Eyed Jack, a convict who escaped from jail after seeing Samanthas face on television, but she demonstrates the prowess to subdue and kill Jack bare-handed. Worried that she may scare Caitlin, Samantha leaves with Mitch, the suitcase contains a note directing the two to Dr. Nathan Waldman, who they arrange to meet at a train station, unaware that unknown agents are tracing the doctors calls. En route, Samantha discovers the bottom of the suitcase contains a disassembled sniper rifle which she can expertly reassemble, along with other weapons. At the station, Samantha and Mitch go to meet Dr. Waldman and are attacked by a number of agents, the doctor reveals that he knows Samantha is really an expert CIA assassin, Charlene Elizabeth Charly Baltimore, who had disappeared eight years prior. Unsure if they can trust him, Samantha and Mitch leave Waldman behind and seek another contact named on a note within the suitcase, Luke, Samantha escapes, kills Luke, and escapes with Mitch. First however, she has a quick snazzy blond makeover to her old self, Mitch helps her to recognize the importance of her daughter to her. Charly implores Timothy not to hurt Caitlin, after realizing that Timothy is actually Caitlins biological father, Charly and Mitch attack the staging area, forcing Timothy to launch the attack early, meanwhile Caitlin escapes and accidentally locks herself in a cage on the truck carrying the chemical bomb. Mitch is gravely injured in the attack, but gives Charly cover to chase to the truck. She overpowers the driver, diverting it out onto an empty bridge before it overturns. Charly and Timothy fight, but she overpowers him and knocks Timothy out on top of the truck, badly injured, Charly frees Caitlin and tells her to clear the bridge, but Timothys agents prevent her from leaving. They just manage to escape the blast by the skin of their cars bumper, as they dodge flaming cars raining down on them. For his part, Mitch enjoys the publicity attracted by his role in the crisis, and is last seen being interviewed by Larry King on television, where they discuss Perkins, who was indicted for treason. In the films opening release, it grossed $9,065,363 from 2,245 theaters, in the United States and Canada, the film grossed $33,447,612
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