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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
Big Bully (film)
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Theatrical poster
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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
Gregory Smith (actor)
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Gregory Smith at the InStyle Party,
Toronto Film Festival, 2012
