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Patrick Read Johnson
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Patrick Read Johnson is an American filmmaker, special effects artist and screenwriter. Born in Wadsworth, Illinois, he is best known for his work on the films Spaced Invaders, Angus, Babys Day Out, The Genesis Code. He also has written and produced films as Dragonheart. He first saw the film during Spring Break, sometime between late March and early April 1977, when ILM was scrambling to complete VFX shots, Johnson began developing 5-25-77 in 1999 after he met Gary Kurtz. In 2001, Johnson began seeking funding for 5-25-77, and didnt start shooting the film until 2004, an incomplete preview cut was exhibited in 2007 at Star Wars Celebration IV and at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008, where 5-25-77 won the Heineken Red Star Award. Johnson spent the summer of 2012 test-screening 5-25-77, his trip also becoming the subject of a documentary called Hearts of Dorkness, Patrick Read Johnson at the Internet Movie Database Patrick Read Johnson on Twitter
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Gary Kurtz
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Gary Douglas Kurtz is an American film producer whose list of credits includes American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal and Return to Oz. Kurtz also co-produced the 1989 science fiction adventure film Slipstream, which reunited him with Star Wars star Mark Hamill, during 1965, Kurtz was an assistant director on a Monte Hellman Western, Ride in the Whirlwind, starring Jack Nicholson for Proteus Films. He then served as manager on Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet with Basil Rathbone. Kurtz additionally worked as an assistant director and second director, as well as a camera operator for the second unit. Kurtz film career was interrupted between 1966 and 1969, when he served in the U. S. Marine Corps, Gary Kurtz and George Lucas first collaboration was on the 1973 film American Graffiti. Universal initially projected a $600,000 budget, but added an additional $175,000 once producer Francis Ford Coppola signed on to co-produce with Kurtz and this would allow the studio to advertise American Graffiti as From the Man Who Gave You The Godfather. Production proceeded with no input or interference from Universal. The film was released in the United States on August 1,1973 to sleeper hit reception, the film cost only $1.27 million to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million. It had only modest success outside the United States, but became a film in France. Universal reissued Graffiti in 1978 and earned an additional $63 million, at the end of its theatrical run, American Graffiti had one of the lowest cost-to-profit ratios of a motion picture ever. It was the film of all time in 1977, and. By the 1990s, American Graffiti had earned more than $200 million in box office gross, in December 1997, Variety reported that the film had earned an additional $55.13 million in rental revenue. American Graffiti went on to widespread critical acclaim. Based on 33 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of the critics enjoyed the film with a score of 8. 3/10. The consensus reads, One of the most influential of all teen films, American Graffiti is a funny, nostalgic, Kurtz and Coppola were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost to The Sting. Further nominations at the 46th Academy Awards included Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Kurtz and Coppola went on to win the Best Motion Picture at the 31st Golden Globe Awards, while Paul Le Mat won Most Promising Newcomer. Lucas was nominated for Best Director and Richard Dreyfuss was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, in 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. In 1973, at approximately the time as he began his collaboration with George Lucas, Kurtz formed his own company, Kinetographics, in San Rafael
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John Francis Daley
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John Francis Daley is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and musician. He plays keyboards and sings for the band Dayplayer, in 2011, Daley co-wrote the box office hit Horrible Bosses with his writing partner Jonathan M. Goldstein. Daley was born in Wheeling, Illinois, to R. F, Daley, an actor, and Nancy Daley, a piano teacher. His father is of Irish Catholic background, while his mother is Jewish and he grew up in Nyack, New York, where he played Danny in Nyack Middle Schools production of Grease. Daley began acting when he was cast as Young Tommy in the U. S. and he was #94 on VH1s 100 Greatest Teen Stars. In 2001, he co-directed a short film titled What Babies Do and he also wrote and starred in the comedy short Friday Night. In 2005, he appeared in the film Waiting. and in the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential, in 2007, Daley joined the cast of the Fox drama series Bones, portraying psychologist Lance Sweets. He co-wrote the season six episode The Truth in the Myth with his writing partner Jonathan Goldstein, Daley was also featured in the music video for Mercy Kiss by Abandoned Pools. In 2011, Daley and his writing partner Jonathan M. Goldstein wrote the black comedy Horrible Bosses, in 2013, Daley co-wrote The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with Goldstein, Daley also has a cameo in the film as a paramedic. In 2013, the two were hired to write Cal of the Wild for DreamWorks Studios, john plays Ben House in Rapture-Palooza. Daley went on to write the story for the sequel to Horrible Bosses, Daley and Goldstein co-wrote and co-directed the 2015 film Vacation, the latest installment of the National Lampoons Vacation film series, starring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate. In July 2015, Daley and Goldstein confirmed that they write the screenplay for the 2017 film Spider-Man. John Francis Daley at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Daley Mercy Kiss music video by Abandoned Pools, featuring Daley
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Austin Pendleton
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Austin Campbell Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor. Pendleton was born in Warren, Ohio, the son of Thorn Pendleton, who ran a company, and Frances Manchester Pendleton. Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, School of Drama, Pendleton first received critical acclaim in 1964 for his performance as Motel in the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof. He appeared in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, The Diary of Anne Frank, Goodtime Charley, wolfe at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York City. In 2007, he appeared as Friar Lawrence in the Public Theaters production of Shakespeares Romeo, Pendleton wrote the plays Uncle Bob, Booth, and Orsons Shadow, all of which were staged off-Broadway. As a director, Pendleton has worked extensively on and off-Broadway and his direction of Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton in Lillian Hellmans The Little Foxes garnered him a Tony Award nomination in 1981. Additional directing credits include The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt, Spoils of War by Michael Weller, in 2009 Pendleton directed Uncle Vanya, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, at the Classic Stage Company. The same year he directed Tennessee Williams autobiographical play Vieux Carré at The Pearl Theatre Company, in January and February 2010, Pendleton directed two plays, Bus Stop at The Olney Theatre and Golden Age at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. His 2011 directing of Three Sisters won him an Obie Award, in 2012 he directed a production of Detroit at the National Theatre in London, England. Pendleton served as Artistic Director for Circle Repertory Company with associate artistic director Lynne Thigpen and he currently teaches acting at the HB Studio and directing at The New School, both in Greenwich Village. Pendleton has been involved with the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago since directing Ralph Papes Say Goodnight, Gracie for the 1979-80 season and his acting credits at Steppenwolf include Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso, and Educating Rita. St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 30,2013
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Colleen Camp
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Other movies she appeared in included Apocalypse Now and Election. Camp was born in San Francisco and she had small early roles in films like Funny Lady with Barbra Streisand in 1975. She also appeared in the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death as his girlfriend, Ann, Camp went on to portray a Playmate in Francis Coppolas 1979 film Apocalypse Now, though most of her footage was cut from the initial theatrical release. She would later feature more heavily in Coppolas Redux cut and she was also the first actress to play Kristin Shepard, Linda Grays characters sister, in the primetime soap opera Dallas in 1979. Mary Crosby later was cast in this role, Camp has worked steadily in film comedies like Peter Bogdanovichs 1981 comedy They All Laughed, 1983s Valley Girl and the 1994 Michael J. Fox comedy Greedy. She often is cast as an officer, appearing in two of the Police Academy films. Camp has been nominated twice for the Worst Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award – first, in 1982, for The Seduction, in 1999, she had a small part as character Tracy Flicks overbearing mother in the film Election, with Reese Witherspoon as Tracy. She appeared in the episode Simple Explanation of House M. D. in 2009, while continuing to act in shows like HBOs Entourage, Camp is also making a name for herself as a producer. She appeared in David O. Russells American Hustle, Camp was married to John Goldwyn, a Paramount executive, from 1986 to 2001. Colleen Camp at the Internet Movie Database Colleen Camp at the TCM Movie Database Colleen Camp at AllMovie
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Neil Flynn
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Neil Richard Flynn is an American actor and comedian, known for his role as Janitor on the NBC/ABC medical comedy-drama Scrubs. He currently portrays Mike Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle, in many of his acting roles, he has portrayed a police officer. Flynn was born on the side of Chicago. He is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic and he moved to Waukegan, Illinois, at an early age. As a student at Waukegan East High School in 1978, he and he attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and participated on the Bradley University Speech Team. After graduating in 1982, Flynn returned to Chicago to pursue an acting career, in Chicago, he acted with the renowned Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters. Flynn was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award and he also performed at the Improv Olympic and the Second City Comedy Troupe. This role was used in a subplot of the Scrubs episode My Friend the Doctor when J. D. notices Flynns character in the film, and believes that Flynns Janitor character is the actor in the film. In 2008, he worked with Harrison Ford again, playing a law enforcement official as FBI agent Smith in Indiana Jones. Flynn had a role in Mean Girls as the father of Lindsay Lohans character. He had a role in Major League as a longshoreman and fan of the Cleveland Indians. Flynn had a role on Phil Hendries animated pilot that was not picked up by FOX and he was also the first baseman in the movie Rookie of the Year. Flynn once appeared in an episode of The Drew Carey Show and he appeared on an episode of Seinfeld, playing a police officer. For Scrubs, Flynn auditioned for the role of Dr. Cox, but was given the role of Janitor, instead. Flynn was originally only cast for the first episode, but he became a regular, playing a character only as the Janitor. His name is not revealed in the series until the Season 8 finale when, upon J. D. s first time asking about it, he simply says his name is Glenn Matthews. When the Janitor confirms he was in the movie at the end of the episode, Flynn was a series regular with Scrubs through the first eight seasons. The Middle was picked up, although he did guest star in the Season 9 premiere of Scrubs, Flynn plays Heck family patriarch Mike Heck on the ABC show, The Middle
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Alan Parsons
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Alan Parsons is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Parsons own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also successful commercially. In October 1967, at the age of 19, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios and he was known for doing more than what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineers duties. He considered himself to be a director, likening his contribution to recordings to what Stanley Kubrick contributed to film. It is also heard in Parsons influence on the Hollies He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother and The Air That I Breathe, sharp departures from their popular 1960s hits Stay, Just One Look, Stop. Parsons was also known to have swapped shifts during the engineering of Dark Side of the Moon so he could work entirely on the project and their hits included January and Magic. He also mixed the album by the American band Ambrosia. Parsons was nominated for a Grammy Award for both of these albums, the Project consisted of a revolving group of studio musicians and vocalists, most notably the members of Pilot and the members of Ambrosia. Unlike most rock groups, the Alan Parsons Project never performed live during its heyday and its only live performance during its original incarnation was in 1990, with Woolfson present but behind the scenes. After releasing ten albums, the last in 1987, the Project terminated in 1990 after Parsons and Woolfson split, Parsons continued to release work in his own name and in collaboration with other musicians. Parsons and his band now regularly tour many parts of the world, although an accomplished vocalist, keyboardist, bassist, guitarist and flautist, Parsons only sang infrequent and incidental parts on his albums. While his keyboard playing was very audible on the Alan Parsons Project albums, during the late 1990s, Parsons career travelled an interesting full circle. Having started out in the industry at the Abbey Road Studios in London as an assistant engineer in the late 1960s. He reportedly managed to combine this role with the demands of a performing and recording schedule. Parsons also continued with his production work for other bands. Of all his collaborators, guitarist Ian Bairnson worked with Parsons the longest, including Parsons post-Woolfson albums, Try Anything Once, On Air, in 1998, Parsons became Vice-President of EMI Studios Group including the Abbey Road Studios. He soon left the post, deciding to return to more creative endeavours, Parsons remained as a creative consultant and associate producer for the group. As well as receiving gold and platinum awards from many nations, Parsons has received ten Grammy Award nominations for engineering, in 2007 he received a nomination for Best Surround Sound Album for A Valid Path
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Coming of age
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Coming of age is a young persons transition from being a child to being an adult. The certain age at which this takes place changes in society. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual or spiritual event, in the past, and in some societies today, such a change is associated with the age of sexual maturity, especially menarche and spermarche. In others, it is associated with an age of religious responsibility, particularly in western societies, modern legal conventions which stipulate points in late adolescence or early adulthood are the focus of the transition. In either case, many cultures retain ceremonies to confirm the coming of age, Coming of age is often a topic of fiction, in the form of a coming-of-age story. In written literature, a novel which deals with the psychological and moral growth often associated with coming of age is called a bildungsroman. Similar stories that are told in film are called coming-of-age films, turning 15, the age of maturity, as the Bahai faith terms it, is a time when a child is considered spiritually mature. Declared Bahais that have reached the age of maturity are expected to begin observing certain Bahai laws, such as obligatory prayer, theravada boys, typically just under the age of 20 years, undergo a Shinbyu ceremony, where they are initiated into the Temple as Novice Monks. They will typically stay in the monastery for between 3 days and 3 years, most commonly for one 3-month rainy season retreat, held annually from late July to early October. After living the monastic life for some time, the boy, now considered to have come of age. Confucianism had a ceremony called Guan Li for young men, at around the age of 20, they would receive their style name. In many Western Christian churches, a young person celebrates his/her Coming of Age with the Sacrament of Confirmation and this is usually done by the Bishop laying his hands upon the foreheads of the young person, and marking them with the seal of the Holy Spirit. In some denominations during this sacrament the child adopts a name which is added onto their Christian name. In Christian denominations that practice Believers Baptism, the ritual can be carried out after the age of accountability has arrived. Some traditions withhold the rite of Holy Communion from those not yet at the age of accountability, mid-teens in the United States, early teens in Ireland and Britain, has in some areas been abandoned in favour of restoring the traditional order of the three sacraments of initiation. These individuals are seen, according to some Christians, as existing in a perpetual state of innocence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sets the age for baptism at 8 years of age and calls this the age of accountability. All persons younger than 8 are considered innocent and incapable of sinning, the LDS Church considers mentally challenged individuals whose mental age is under 8 to be in a perpetual state of innocence, similar to other Christian churches
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Wadsworth, Illinois
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Wadsworth is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,815 at the 2010 census and it is named after E. S. Wadsworth, who was a major stockholder for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which passes through the village. Wadsworth is located at 42°26′10″N 87°55′16″W, according to the 2010 census, Wadsworth has a total area of 9.671 square miles, of which 9.58 square miles is land and 0.091 square miles is water. The population density was 351.4 people per square mile, there were 1,051 housing units at an average density of 119.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 94. 13% White,1. 72% African American,0. 13% Native American,1. 04% Asian,1. 04% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 54% of the population. 11. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.98 and the average family size was 3.24. In the village, the population was out with 27. 8% under the age of 18,6. 0% from 18 to 24,27. 8% from 25 to 44,30. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40 years, for every 100 females there were 101.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.1 males, the median income for a household in the village was $86,867, and the median income for a family was $92,060. Males had an income of $60,893 versus $36,399 for females. The per capita income for the village was $45,171, about 1. 2% of families and 1. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1. 3% of those under age 18 and 1. 9% of those age 65 or over. Wadsworth is home to the Tempel Farms Lipizzan Horses, Wadsworth also contains the pyramid house. The largest 24-karat gold-plated object ever created is the home of Jim Onan, a wealthy Armenian garage builder. The Onans occasionally open the house for tours of the 17, the walled property also features a triple-pyramid garage, a 64-foot-tall statue of Ramesses II, and a recreation of King Tutankhamuns tomb
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Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. With the War of 1812 Illinois growth slowed as both Native Americans and Canadian forces often raided the American Frontier, mineral finds and timber stands also had spurred immigration—by the 1810s, the Eastern U. S. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of Illinois and other states from the tyranny of water transport. By 1900, the growth of jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted a new group of immigrants. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars, the Great Migration from the South established a large community of African Americans in Chicago, who created the citys famous jazz and blues cultures. Three U. S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only U. S. president born and raised in Illinois. Today, Illinois honors Lincoln with its official slogan, Land of Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is located in the capital of Springfield. Illinois is the spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers name for the Illinois Native Americans. American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant man or men in the Miami-Illinois language and this etymology is not supported by the Illinois language, as the word for man is ireniwa and plural men is ireniwaki. The name Illiniwek has also said to mean tribe of superior men. The name Illinois derives from the Miami-Illinois verb irenwe·wa he speaks the regular way and this was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe·. The French borrowed these forms, changing the ending to spell it as -ois. The current spelling form, Illinois, began to appear in the early 1670s, the Illinois name for themselves, as attested in all three of the French missionary-period dictionaries of Illinois, was Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms. American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, the Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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Toronto Star
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The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. a division of Star Media Group, the Star was first printed on Toronto World presses, and at its formation The World owned a 51% interest in it as a silent partner. That arrangement only lasted for two months, during time it was rumoured that William Findlay Billy Maclean, the Worlds proprietor, was considering selling the Star to the Riordon family. After an extensive fundraising campaign among the Star staff, Maclean agreed to sell his interest to Hocken, the paper did poorly in its first few years. Hocken sold out within the year, and several owners followed in succession until Sir William Mackenzie bought it in 1896 and its new editors, Edmund E. Sheppard and Frederic Nicholls, moved the entire Star operation into the same building used by the magazine Saturday Night. This would continue until Joseph E, holy Joe Atkinson, backed by funds raised by supporters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, bought the paper. The supporters included Senator George Cox, William Mulock, Peter Charles Larkin, Atkinson was the Stars editor from 1899 until his death in 1948. Its early opposition and criticism of the Nazi regime saw the paper one of the first North American papers to be banned in Germany. He championed many causes that would come to be associated with the welfare state, old age pensions, unemployment insurance. The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as a radical in the best sense of that term, the Star was unique among North American newspapers in its consistent, ongoing advocacy of the interests of ordinary people. The friendship of Atkinson, the publisher, with Mackenzie King, Atkinson became the controlling shareholder of the Star. The Star was frequently criticized for practising the yellow journalism of its era, for decades, the paper included heavy doses of crime and sensationalism, along with advocating social change. From 1910 to 1973, the Star published a weekend supplement, shortly before his death in 1948, Joseph E. Atkinson transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the papers liberal tradition. In 1949, the Province of Ontario passed the Charitable Gifts Act, barring charitable organizations from owning parts of profit-making businesses. It would continue to supply sponsored content to the CRBCs station CRCT, in 1971, the newspaper was renamed The Toronto Star and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay. The original Star Building at 80 King Street West was demolished to make room for First Canadian Place, the new building originally housed the papers presses. In 1992, the plant was moved to the Toronto Star Press Centre at the Highway 407 &400 interchange in Vaughan. In September 2002, the logo was changed, and The was dropped from the papers, during the 2003 blackout, the Star printed the paper at a press in Welland, Ontario
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Chicago Tribune
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The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by tronc, Inc. formerly Tribune Publishing. The Tribune was founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, forrest, publishing its first edition on June 10,1847. The paper saw numerous changes in ownership and editorship over the eight years. Initially, the Tribune was not politically affiliated but tended to either the Whig or Free Soil parties against the Democrats in elections. By late 1853, it was frequently running xenophobic editorials that criticized foreigners, about this time it also became a strong proponent of temperance. Ray became editor-in-chief, Medill became the editor, and Alfred Cowles, Sr. brother of Edwin Cowles. Each purchased one third of the Tribune, under their leadership the Tribune distanced itself from the Know Nothings and became the main Chicago organ of the Republican Party. However, the continued to print anti-Catholic and anti-Irish editorials. Between 1858 and 1860, the paper was known as the Chicago Press & Tribune, on October 25,1860, it became the Chicago Daily Tribune. Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, the paper remained a force in Republican politics for years afterwards. In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics for the song John Browns Body by William W. Patton, Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. Joseph McCarthy, when McCormick assumed the position of co-editor in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicagos eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188,000. At the same time, the Tribune competed with the Hearst paper, by 1914, the cousins succeeded in forcing out Managing Editor William Keeley. By 1918, the Examiner was forced to merge with the Chicago Herald, in 1919, Patterson left the Tribune and moved to New York to launch his own newspaper, the New York Daily News. In a renewed war with Hearsts Herald-Examiner, McCormick and Hearst ran rival lotteries in 1922. The Tribune won the battle, adding 250,000 readers to its ranks, also in 1922, the Chicago Tribune hosted an international design competition for its new headquarters, the Tribune Tower. The competition worked brilliantly as a publicity stunt, and more than 260 entries were received, the winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The newspaper sponsored an attempt at Arctic aviation in 1929
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Spaced Invaders
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Spaced Invaders is a 1990 science fiction comedy directed by Patrick Read Johnson and starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano and Ariana Richards. The space armada from Mars, known as the Imperial Atomic Space Navy, fights an interstellar war against their long-time enemy, the armada is forced into battle by Enforcer Droids, tasked to keep the Martian soldiers in line, despite objections by some that it wont work. Mistaking this for an invasion and not wanting to miss out on the glory, they land their ship in the tiny community of Big Bean, Illinois. Ziplock, the careful and calculating scientist, and Corporal Pez and they search for the invasion fleet they think has already landed. Because its Halloween, everyone assumes they are just kids in very good costumes, eventually, though, a few locals realize the truth. Among them is the sheriff, his daughter and an elderly farmer named Wrenchmuller. The sheriff finds out about the aliens when his deputy records their ship doing 3,000 mph. The deputy tracks down the ship to give the tickets for having no license, no registration, no headlights, no taillight, no wheels. The sheriffs daughter, Kathy, discovers the aliens when they join a group of trick-or-treating kids and she befriends the Martians Scout-in-a-Can, a small robot that folds up into a sphere and is considered smart, efficient, easy to use and expendable. Mister Wrenchmuller tries to cash in on the Martians existence in order to save his farm, Captain Bipto gets hit by a truck and turns a gas station attendant named Vern into his robotic slave. Giggywig, Ziplock and Pez try to blow up the towns Co-Op and instead just heat up a silo of corn kernals, kathys new friend, Brian captures Blaznee by hitting him with a trashcan lid. He then tries to help the alien repair his ship, Wrenchmuller tries to blow the ship up and gets trapped in a paralyzing beam. The desperate Martians try to blow the Earth up using the D. O. D, the Martians finally realize they made a horrible mistake. Things get worse when the ships hyperdriver starts to go into meltdown and their ships Enforcer Drone wont let them leave, making things even more complicated. The humans manage to destroy the Enforcer Drone with dynamite and help the grateful invaders return to space, as an unintentional gift the Martians jettison their ships sewage tank while flying over Wrenchmullers field to lighten the load on their ship so that they can reach gravitational escape velocity. As the Martians head home Captain Bipto suggests they go to Arcturus to help torture prisoners, during the end title music, there is an homage to the TV series My Favorite Martian as the first bars of the shows theme song are sung by one of the Invaders. During the scene where Martians accidentally launch the mortar-like Scout in a Can Captain Ziploc exclaims, for most of the movie the deputy has a half sunburned face—a reference to what happened to Roy in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spaced Invaders at the Internet Movie Database Spaced Invaders at Box Office Mojo
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Baby's Day Out
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Babys Day Out is a 1994 American family comedy adventure film, written by John Hughes, produced by Richard Vane and John Hughes, and directed by Patrick Read Johnson. The film stars twins Adam and Jacob Worton as Baby Bink with co-stars Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, the plot centers on a wealthy babys kidnapping by three incompetent villains, his escape and adventure through a big city while being pursued by the three kidnappers. Babys Day Out was released on July 1,1994 in the United States to both critical and commercial failure there, however, it enjoyed major popularity in South Asian markets. Bennington Austin Bink Cotwell IV, a baby who lives in a huge mansion with his family, is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three criminals, Eddie, Norby, and Veeko, pose as the photographers and kidnap him, after the kidnapping, however, they have difficulty controlling him. While trying to get Bink to fall asleep, Norby does so reading Binks book titled Babys Day Out, looking through it, Bink notices a pigeon on the page and then one by the open window. He follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers, with Eddie falling off the building, the FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom, where they try to piece together clues along with Binks parents and his loving nanny, Gilbertine. Bink follows the story of his book by exploring the city, all the while, the kidnappers pursue him all over, but are unable to catch him. When they end up stuck inside the site after its closure for the day, they decide to give up. Bink next visits the Old Soldiers Home, where the veterans recognize him as the missing baby, sure enough, they find him there, but on the way home, he begins to call out Boo-Boo toward the kidnappers apartment. As the kidnappers contemplate such a defeat, they are horrified when the FBI moves in. Back home, Bink is put to bed by his family, as his parents discuss having his picture taken by a normal photographer in the morning, he wakes up and gets ready to read another book, this one entitled Babys Trip to China. The Worton twins are adorable as Baby Bink, however, the audience produced an audible coo the first time saw him on the screen. He gave the film 1 1/2 stars and his partner, Gene Siskel, however, liked the film because he thought that young children would love it for the humor. Best of all, though, is the Binkman himself, whose face is so expressive that he brings new meaning to the phrase conquering with a smile. The film opened with takings of $4,044,662 at the start of July 1994, the film finally grossed $16,827,402 at the domestic box office, a disappointing return considering the $48 million production budget for the film. It ranked at #83 for the best performing films of 1994 and it was also the 26th best performing PG-rated family film of the year in 1994. Babys Day Out was tremendously popular in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, in India, the movie was played at the largest theater in Calcutta for over a year
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Angus (film)
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Angus is a 1995 American-British-German-French comedy-drama film directed by Patrick Read Johnson and written by Jill Gordon. The majority of it was filmed in Owatonna, Minnesota at the Owatonna Senior High School and it stars Charlie Talbert and James Van Der Beek in their first film roles, as well as Chris Owen, Ariana Richards, and Academy Award winners George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, and Rita Moreno, the film is based on the short story A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher, which is collected in his book Athletic Shorts, Six Short Stories. Angus Bethune is a boy living in Minnesota who, despite his talents as a football player and in science class. Since kindergarten, he has been harassed by handsome Rick Sanford and his complacent cohorts, for not being normal due to being overweight and is, in their view. His only friend is Troy Wedberg, who is also a social outcast and he also has feelings for Melissa Lefevre, though he is fearful of expressing it because she is dating Rick. Eventually, tired of the abuse from Rick, Angus applies to a school where he hopes to be free of the constant humiliation. However, well aware of his feelings for Melissa, Rick rigs an election so that they dance together in the upcoming freshman Winter Ball as King and Queen. While confronting Rick about the stunt, he is ordered by the not to lay a hand on Rick or he would be expelled. To get ready for the dance, Angus gets help not only from Troy, but also his mother, Meg, to fix this, Ivan takes him to Madame Rulenska, where despite his best efforts, he comes out worse than before. Later on, despite his request for a tuxedo and wanting to be normal, Ivan purchases him a plum one and tells him that he can be normal. He tells him that running away to school will not solve anything. He also mentions that he doesnt let anyone tell him that his relationship with April is a mistake because she is 30 years younger than him, one day after football practice, Angus opens his locker and sees that his favorite pair of boxers is missing. He and Troy later learn with their own eyes that Rick hoisted them up the flagpole for the school to see, Angus storms home in anger, but Rick and company quickly kidnap Troy. Outside the school, they ask him for anything that would embarrass Angus at the Winter Ball and he refuses their request and tries to escape, only to break his arm as he trips to the floor while Rick gives him an ultimatum. At home, Meg tells Ivan that having Angus transfer to a school would be for the best. She hates seeing him suffer another day with humiliation and does not think Ivan has the right answers, in turn, Ivan confronts Meg for over-mothering Angus and warns her that letting him run away from his bullies to another school is a mistake. He mentions if Angus stands any chance of ending his humiliation, he needs to make the change by standing up for himself, Ivan admits he never let Meg run away from her problems and admires how strong she is today
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The Genesis Code
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The Genesis Code is a 2010 American drama film directed by C. Thomas Howell and Patrick Read Johnson, and written by Michael W. Leighton. Kerry Wells, a student journalist and committed Christian, has been assigned to do a story on Blake Truman. Blake struggles with personal crisis but rejects Kerrys reliance on her faith and he is convinced that modern science has disproved the Bible and especially the Genesis story of creation. Together they discover that the story and science may be in perfect accord. The Genesis Code takes on two current social and cultural issues, Evolution vs. creation, End-of-life decisions, director Guild of America rules required that Johnson be given a shared credit. The film was shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Lowell, the Genesis Code premiered in the United States on 25 August 2010 as part of the Grand Rapids Film Festival. The film was released on video on 6 March 2012 in North America. The Genesis Code at the Internet Movie Database Official site
