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Hollywood
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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
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Bolero (1984 film)
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Bolero is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity. Despite minor commercial success, the film was panned, earning nominations for nine Golden Raspberry Awards at the 5th Golden Raspberry Awards and winning six. Set in the 1920s, Ayre Mac MacGillvary is a virginal 23-year-old young American who graduates from an exclusive British college, an orphan heiress to a vast fortune, Ayre is determined to find the right man for her first sexual encounter wherever he might be in the world. Rich enough not to venture forth alone, she brings along her best friend Catalina, Ayre first travels to Morocco where she meets an ideal lover, an Arab sheik who offers to deflower her. He takes her away in his airplane to an oasis in the desert. Giving up on the sheik, Ayre goes on to Spain, where she meets the toreador Angel, into this group comes Paloma, a 14-year-old local Gypsy girl whom Ayre and Catalina take under their wing. A minor subplot involves Catalina meeting and pursing Ayres lawyer, Robert Stewart, after several days of courtship and flirting, Angel makes love to Ayre one morning and he manages to stay awake. Unfortunately, after she has succeeded in her quest to lose her virginity, the injury leaves Angel unable to perform in the bedroom, and so Ayre makes it her mission in life to see to his recovery. Along the way, she takes up bullfighting herself as a way of getting her despondent lover motivated to stop moping. During this, the Arab sheik flies to Spain to abduct Ayre, eventually, Ayre is successful in aiding Angel to full recovery which leads to a climatic lovemaking session between them. The film ends with Ayre and Angel getting married at a local church, Yablans disliked the film as much as all the other films Cannon was delivering to MGM. When the producers refused to cut the film to avoid an X rating by the MPAA, MGM dropped the film due to standards policies and Cannon released Bolero themselves. The quality of Bolero and the other Cannon/MGM films led to Yablans using a breach of contract clause to terminate the deal with the two studios in November 1984. Bolero was ultimately released with no MPAA rating, with a disclaimer on ads that no children under 17 would be admitted to the film, despite this, many theater chains that normally refused to screen X-rated films did the same for Bolero. The film is officially on DVD with an R rating with no cuts, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 0%, based on 17 reviews. It was nominated for nine Golden Raspberry Awards and won six, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, in 1990, the film was nominated for, but lost the Razzie Award for Worst Picture of the Decade. The movie was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture, the film earned about $8.9 million in American ticket sales against a $7 million production budget
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Golden Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Film industry
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The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i. e. Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. Hollywood is the oldest film industry of the world and the largest in terms of box office gross, other centers include Hong Kong and in Europe the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany are the countries that lead movie production. The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.3 billion in 2015. The top three continents/regions by box office gross were, Asia-Pacific with US$14.1 billion, North America with US$11.1 billion and Europe, distinct from the centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced in other than the one in which the company which pays for the film is located. For example, many U. S. movies are filmed in Canada, many Nigerian movies are filmed in Ghana, while many Indian movies are filmed in the Americas, Europe, Singapore etc. The cinema of the United States, often referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. The United States cinema is the oldest film industry in the world which originated more than 121 years ago and also the largest film industry in terms of revenue. Hollywood is the nexus of the U. S. film industry with established film study facilities such as the American Film Institute, LA Film School. However, four of the six film studios are owned by East Coast companies. Today, American film studios collectively generate several hundred movies every year, only The Walt Disney Company — which owns the Walt Disney Studios — is fully based in Southern California. And while Sony Pictures Entertainment is headquartered in Culver City, California, its parent company, most shooting now takes place in California, New York, Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina. Hollywood is the most popular film industry with the highest number of screens, between 2009-2015, Hollywood consistently grossed $10 billion annually. Jenkins used his Phantoscope to project his film before an audience of family, friends, the film featured a vaudeville dancer performing a Butterfly Dance. Jenkins and his new partner Thomas Armat modified the Phantoscope for exhibitions in temporary theaters at the Cotton States Exposition in the fall of 1895, the Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison, who changed the name of the projector to Edisons Vitascope. Nestor Studios was Hollywoods first movie studio, founded on October 27,1911 It was built by David Horsley for Nestor Motion Picture Company and it was then owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley. The first motion picture stage in Hollywood was built behind the tavern, other East Coast studios had moved production to Los Angeles, prior to Nestors move west
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Metropolis (1927 film)
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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist epic science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. He and his wife, Thea von Harbou, wrote the silent film, erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A. G. It is regarded as a work of the science-fiction genre in movies. Filming took place in 1925 at a cost of five million Reichsmarks. The art direction draws influence from Bauhaus, Cubist and Futurist design, Metropolis was met with a mixed reception upon release. Critics found it pictorially beautiful and lauded its complex special effects, the films extensive running time also came in for criticism, as well as its alleged Communist message. Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, removing a portion of Langs original footage. Numerous attempts have been made to restore the film since the 1970s, Music producer Giorgio Moroder released a truncated version with a soundtrack by rock artists such as Freddie Mercury, Loverboy and Adam Ant in 1984. In 2008 a damaged print of Langs original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina, after a long restoration process, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010. Joh Fredersen is the citys master, Maria and the children are ushered away, but Freder, fascinated, goes to the machine rooms to find her. Witnessing the explosion of a machine that kills and injures several workers. Grot, foreman of the Heart Machine, brings to Fredersen secret maps found on the dead workers, Freder secretly rebels against Fredersen by deciding to help the workers, after seeing his fathers cold indifference towards the harsh conditions they face. Fredersen takes the maps to the inventor Rotwang to learn their meaning, Rotwang had been in love with a woman named Hel, who left him to marry Fredersen and later died giving birth to Freder. Rotwang shows Fredersen a robot he has built to resurrect Hel, the maps show a network of catacombs beneath Metropolis, and the two men go to investigate. They eavesdrop on a gathering of workers, including Freder, Maria addresses them, prophesying the arrival of a mediator who can bring the working and ruling classes together. Freder believes that he could fill the role and declares his love for Maria, Rotwang kidnaps Maria, transfers her likeness to the robot and sends her to Fredersen. Freder finds the two embracing and, believing it is the real Maria, falls into a prolonged delirium, intercut with his hallucinations, the false Maria unleashes chaos throughout Metropolis, driving men to murder and stirring dissent amongst the workers. Freder recovers and returns to the catacombs, finding the false Maria urging the workers to rise up and destroy the machines, Freder accuses her of not being the real Maria
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Giorgio Moroder
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Giovanni Giorgio Moroder is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music, when in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records. Moroder also composed the soundtrack for the film Midnight Express, which won an Academy Award, in 1990, he composed Unestate italiana, the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He also created a score of songs for performers including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan, Moroder has stated that the work of which he is most proud is Berlins Take My Breath Away. What a Feeling earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986 and 1983, Moroder was born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on 26 April 1940 in Urtijëi in South Tyrol, Italy. He came to prominence in 1969, when his recording Looky Looky and he then made a name for himself in studios around Germany in the early 1970s. That same year he co-wrote and produced the seminal Donna Summer hit single I Feel Love, the following year he released Chase, the theme from the film Midnight Express. Chase is often used on the American syndicated late-night radio show Coast to Coast and was used as an entrance theme for wrestlings group The Midnight Express. These songs achieved some success in the United Kingdom, the United States and across Europe. The full film score for Midnight Express won him his first Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979, in 1979 Moroder released his album E=MC². Text on the albums cover stated that it was the first electronic live-to-digital album and he also released three albums between 1977–1979 under the name Munich Machine. In 1980, he composed and produced two soundtrack albums, the first for Foxes and the second for American Gigolo. A double album of the Foxes soundtrack was released on the disco label Casablanca Records which includes Donna Summers hit single On the Radio, the Foxes soundtrack also contains a song titled Bad Love, written and performed by the singer-actress Cher and produced by Moroder. The American Gigolo soundtrack featured the Moroder-produced Call Me by Blondie, the combined club play of the albums tracks was number two for five weeks on the disco/dance charts. In 1982 he wrote the soundtrack of the movie Cat People, in 1983, Moroder produced the soundtrack for the film Scarface. During its initial release, the album was available in a few countries. Notable Moroder-produced tracks included Scarface by Paul Engemann, Rush Rush by Debbie Harry, in 1984, Moroder compiled a new restoration and edit of the silent film Metropolis and provided it with a contemporary soundtrack. This soundtrack includes seven pop music tracks from Pat Benatar, Jon Anderson, Adam Ant, Billy Squier, Loverboy, Bonnie Tyler and Freddie Mercury
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John Derek
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John Derek was an American actor, director and photographer. He appeared in films as Knock on Any Door, All the Kings Men. He was also known for launching the career of his fourth wife, Derek was born Derek Delevan Harris in Hollywood, California, the son of actor/director Lawson Harris and actress Dolores Johnson. After the war, Derek approached Humphrey Bogart, who renamed him John Derek and cast him as Nick Romano, a killer, in Knock on Any Door. Derek was recognized as a newcomer, plainly an idol for the girls. Derek followed that picture with a role as the son of Broderick Crawford in All the Kings Men. He played leads in Fury at Showdown, and as Robin Hood in Rogues of Sherwood Forest with Alan Hale and he also appeared as Joshua in The Ten Commandments. But he found himself featured increasingly as a hero or villain in a string of unimpressive B-movies—crime melodramas, westerns, pirate pictures, dissatisfied with his career as an actor, Derek turned to film directing. He directed his second wife Ursula Andress in two films, and third wife Linda Evans in one and he also worked as a director of four films with fourth wife, Bo Derek including Tarzan, the Ape Man and Bolero. Ghosts Cant Do It was his last in the directors chair, an accomplished photographer, Derek photographed the last three of his four wives for nude spreads in Playboy magazine. Derek directed the videos for Shania Twains Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under. Derek married Turkish-born prima ballerina Pati Behrs Eristoff in 1948, Derek walked out on his wife and family in 1955 after meeting 19-year-old aspiring Swiss actress Ursula Andress, who spoke almost no English when they met. In 1957, after finalizing his divorce from Behrs, he married Andress in a quickie Las Vegas ceremony and they married in Mexico in 1968, with Sean as a witness. In 1973 Derek, Evans and 16-year-old high school dropout Mary Cathleen Collins traveled to the Greek island of Mykonos to make the film And Once Upon a Time, during filming, Derek and Collins began an affair. Evans returned to the states and filed for divorce in 1974, Collins became known to the public as Bo Derek following their marriage on June 10,1976 in Las Vegas and achieved international fame in 1979 with her role in the Blake Edwards film 10. The couple remained together until John died in 1998, John Derek died on May 22,1998, from cardiovascular disease in Santa Maria, California at the age of 71. Rhythm, Frankie Laine Screen Snapshots, Hollywoods Mr. Movies Screen Snapshots, a Girl Childish Things Love You Fantasies Tarzan, the Ape Man Bolero Ghosts Cant Do It John Derek at the Internet Movie Database John Derek at Find a Grave
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Sylvester Stallone
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Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films, Stallones film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallones use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7,2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category, in 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles. He received critical raves, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and third Academy Award nomination, Stallones father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Stallones mother is of half French and half Russian Jewish descent and his younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. As a result, the left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue. Around the age of 4, Stallone was flat-footed and put in a tap dancing school by his mother and his father moved the family to Washington, D. C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school. His mother opened a gymnasium called Barbellas in 1954. Stallones parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he lived with his mother. When Stallone was 16, he scored poorly in school and his mother got him a job at her beauty salon. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College, Stallone had his first starring role in the soft core pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Studs. He was paid US$200 for two days work, Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actors words, it was either do that movie or rob someone, the film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallones newfound fame. While he was in Switzerland, Stallone got his start in films, playing an extra eating in a restaurant near to stars Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv, in the sports drama, Downhill Racer. In 1970, Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was re-cut and retitled Rebel, in the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmons character chases, tackles and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallones character is a pickpocket
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Bo Derek
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Bo Derek is an American film and television actress, movie producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough role in the 1979 film 10. The film also launched a poster for Derek in a swimsuit. She was directed by husband John Derek in Tarzan, the Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Cant Do It, a widow since 1998, she lives with actor John Corbett. She makes occasional film, television, and documentary appearances, Derek was born Mary Cathleen Collins in Long Beach, California. Her father, Paul Collins, was a Hobie Cat executive, Dereks parents divorced, and her mother married American stunt performer Bobby Bass. Derek attended Narbonne High School and George S. Patton Continuation School, Derek remarked in a 1985 interview on Late Night with David Letterman, I was 16 when I quit high school. I didnt really mean to quit, I spent about a month going to the beach surfing and sunbathing while I was supposed to be in school, when I got caught, my mom was furious. I started to go back to school, and I was really enjoying it, while attending Narbonne High School in Los Angeles at age 16 in 1973, Cathleen became romantically involved with John Derek, a married man 30 years her senior. Not long after the two started dating, John divorced his wife, actress Linda Evans, the couple moved to Germany, where John Derek would not be subject to prosecution under California statutory rape laws due to Cathleens illicit underage association with Derek. In 1973 in Germany, John began to making a film starring Cathleen. Entitled Fantasies, he planned the film as a low-budget English-language romantic drama and it was shot over a 10-day period in Greece in the summer of 1973. Due to the controversy that surrounded Fantasies, Derek had it re-edited twice before trying to sell it to studios. The film went unreleased until 1981, when as Bo Derek and they married on June 10,1976, she was 19 and he was 49. By that time, John Derek had given his wife a so-called Hollywood makeover. She had bleached her hair blonde and adopted the name Bo Derek, in 1977, she caught the eye of director Michael Anderson and was cast in a small role in his upcoming horror flick, Orca, which was Andersons answer to major success of Jaws. The film received a theatrical release in July 1977. In 1979, Derek was selected over Melanie Griffith, Heather Thomas, Dereks appearance in a dream sequence, racing towards Moore in a flimsy flesh-colored swimsuit, became iconic, and launched her status as a mainstream sex symbol. This sequence and Derek’s cornrow hairstyle in the film have often been parodied,10 became a critical and financial blockbuster
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Brooke Shields
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Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress, model and former child star. In 1983, Shields suspended her career as a model to attend Princeton University, where she graduated with a bachelors degree in Romance Languages. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting, appearing in roles in films, and starred in the titular role of the sitcom Suddenly Susan. She also worked alongside Bell again in the animated films Adventure Planet, Shields was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Teri and Frank Shields, a businessman. Through her fathers side, she has Italian, French, Irish, according to research by William Addams Reitwiesner published in 1995, Brooke Shields has ancestral links with a number of noble families from Italy, in particular from Genoa and Rome. These are namely the Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy, Grimaldi, Imperiali, Carafa, Doria, Doria-Pamphili-Landi, Chigi-Albani and her paternal grandmother was the Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia. Shields mother was of German, English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh descent, Shields was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. When Teri announced that she was pregnant, Franks family paid her a sum to terminate the pregnancy, Teri took the money, but violated the agreement and gave birth to their daughter who they named Brooke. Frank married Teri, but they were divorced when Brooke was five months old and she has two stepbrothers and three half-sisters. When Shields was only five-days-old, her mother stated she wanted her to be active in show business, Shes the most beautiful child. Growing up, Shields took piano, ballet and riding lessons, for her confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church at age 10, she took the name Camille. While attending high school, she resided in Haworth, New Jersey, Shields attended the New Lincoln School until eighth grade. She graduated from The Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey and she moved to a dorm at Princeton University to pursue her bachelors degree in French literature, where she graduated in 1987. At Princeton, she spoke openly about her sexuality and virginity, Shields was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club. Her autobiography, On Your Own, was published in 1985 and her 1987 senior thesis was titled The Initiation, From Innocence to Experience, The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby and Lacombe Lucien. Shortly after her graduation, her four-year transcript was published in the July 1987 edition of Life Magazine. Based on that transcript, The New York Times published a light-hearted op-ed piece intended to tweak the claim that Princeton produced superior, well-rounded graduates. F that adds up to an arts education from a place like Princeton, there is no longer any danger that our society will ever suffer from elitism in any form
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Lynn-Holly Johnson
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Lynn-Holly Johnson is an American professional ice skater and actress. After achieving some success as a skater in the mid-1970s, she began an acting career. Johnson was born Lynn Holly Johnson in Chicago, Illinois to Margaret, a housewife, and Alan Johnson and she has a brother, Gregg, and an older sister, Kimberlee. Johnson added the hyphen to her name after her roommate signed Johnsons name that way, Johnson won the silver medal at the novice level of the 1974 U. S. The film, a romantic drama co-starring Robby Benson, was a success in December 1978. Johnson was subsequently cast in the role of the Disney horror drama. The film received a release in April 1980, but was soon withdrawn. Also in 1981, Johnson starred as Bond girl Bibi Dahl in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only, in that movie she played yet another ice-skater who attempts to seduce an unwilling and much older James Bond, played by Roger Moore. In 1984, Johnson starred in Where the Boys Are, a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, the film was a critical and box-office failure. In 1996, Johnson quit acting to concentrate on her family, her last acting role at that time was a film, Fugitive X. She cited her refusal to take roles that called for nude scenes as having derailed her acting career, in 2007 she returned to acting in a community theater production of Its a Wonderful Life. Johnson currently lives in the Los Angeles, California area with her husband, in January 2010, she suffered a stroke brought on by a patent foramen ovale, a heart condition, and subsequently underwent heart surgery. Official website Lynn-Holly Johnson at the Internet Movie Database DeLorenzos Dugout interview, archived from the original on 2001-02-16. CS1 maint, BOT, original-url status unknown Lynn Holly Johnson interview Lynn Holly Johnson Interview
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Olivia d'Abo
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Olivia Jane dAbo is an English-American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her role as Karen Arnold, Kevin Arnolds rebellious teenage hippie sister on The Wonder Years, and recurring villain Nicole Wallace in Law & Order, Criminal Intent. DAbo was born on 22 January 1969 in London, England, the daughter of Maggie London, an English model and actress, and Mike dAbo, an English singer and member of 1960s group Manfred Mann. She has a brother, as well as two half-brothers and one half-sister, elder brother Ben, younger half-brother Bruno, and younger sibling twins Ella. Olivia and Ben both attended school in the U. S. at Los Feliz Hills School in Los Angeles and dAbo attended Pacoima Junior High School in Pacoima. She is the first cousin once removed of her fathers cousin Maryam dAbo, Olivia and Maryam bought a house together in Los Angeles when Olivia was 19. DAbos film debut was the role of Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer. Two months later, she appeared in the role of the peasant girl Paloma in Bolero. In 1992, she guest starred in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode True Q as Amanda Rogers, DAbo made five appearances recurring villain Nicole Wallace in the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent between 2002 and 2008. She reprised the character in the 2013 episode The Catacombes of the French crime series Jo, a show created by René Balcer, DAbo played Abby Carter, the ex-wife of Sheriff Jack Carter, in two 2007 episodes of the Sci-Fi Channel series Eureka. She has had supporting roles in other television programmes and films, such as The Spirit of 76, Greedy, The Big Green. On stage, she appeared in the 2005 Broadway production of The Odd Couple with Matthew Broderick, in February 2013, DAbo began filming for Project Fedora, a video game that combines live-action footage with 3D graphics. DAbo is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist and she has composed and performed for various soundtracks. Her single Broken is from the movie Loving Annabelle and her debut album Not TV was released in July 2008. DAbo also performed backing vocals for Julian Lennons Help Yourself, and she also co-wrote the song Love Comes from the Inside with Italian singer Laura Pausini, which was featured on Pausinis English language debut From the Inside. In October 2015, dAbo started a weekly podcast called Every Friday with Dan, DAbo appeared on Ken Reids TV Guidance Counselor podcast on July 8,2016. DAbo was engaged to actor Thomas Jane from 1998 to 2001 and they worked in several projects together, including The Velocity of Gary and Jonni Nitro, of which Jane directed the last two episodes. She later married producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard in August 2002
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Dolly Parton
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After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Dolly Parton made her album debut in 1967, with her album Hello, Im Dolly. However, in the new millennium, Parton achieved commercial success again and has released albums on independent labels since 2000, including albums on her own label, Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA certified Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach No.1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, all-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, and digital downloads during her career have topped 100 million worldwide. Parton has received 46 Grammy nominations, in 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, notably I Will Always Love You, Jolene, Coat of Many Colors and she is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she starred in such as 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone. Parton was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children of Robert Lee Parton, a farmer and construction worker, Partons middle name comes from her maternal great-great grandmother, Rebecca Whitted. She has described her family as being dirt poor, Partons father paid the doctor who helped deliver her with a bag of oatmeal. She outlined her familys poverty in her early songs Coat of Many Colors and they lived in a rustic, one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, just north of the Greenbrier Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains, a predominantly Pentecostal area. Music played an important role in her early life and she was brought up in the Church of God, the church her grandfather, Jake Robert Owens pastored. Her earliest public performances were in the church, beginning at age six, at seven, she started playing a homemade guitar. When she was eight years old, her uncle bought her first real guitar, Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the East Tennessee area. By ten, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, the day after she graduated from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville. Her songs were recorded by other artists during this period, including Kitty Wells. She signed with Monument Records in 1965, at 19, where she was pitched as a bubblegum pop singer. She released a string of singles, but the one that charted, Happy, Happy Birthday Baby. Although she expressed a desire to record country material, Monument resisted, after her composition, Put It Off Until Tomorrow, as recorded by Bill Phillips, went to number six on the country chart in 1966, the label relented and allowed her to record country
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Linda Blair
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Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the child, Regan, in the film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She reprised her role in Exorcist II, The Heretic, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award, the youngest of three children, Blair was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and was raised in Westport, Connecticut. She began her career as a 4-year-old child model and started acting with a role on the short-lived Hidden Faces daytime soap opera. Her first theatrical appearance was in The Way We Live Now. Blair was selected from a field of 600 applicants for her most notable role as Regan in The Exorcist, the role earned her a Golden Globe and Peoples Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an Academy Award nomination. She reprised her role in the sequel, Exorcist II, The Heretic, between these two films, she appeared in Born Innocent, Airport 1975, Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic and Sweet Hostage opposite Martin Sheen, blairs career took a new turn in the 1980s, as she starred in a film in 1980 entitled Ruckus along with actor Dirk Benedict. She also starred in a number of successful horror and exploitation films, including Hell Night, Chained Heat. Blair later worked in films, mostly comedies, including the Exorcist send-up Repossessed in 1990. In 1997, she appeared in a Broadway revival of Grease and she was cast as a regular in the BBC television show, L. A.7. She hosted Fox Familys Scariest Places on Earth, in 2013 Blair accepted a role in the comedy webseries Whoa. and has since appeared in the 2016 feature The Green Fairy, as well as the upcoming Surge of Power, Revenge of the Sequel. Blair also became a rights activist and humanitarian, working with PETA, Feed the Children, Variety, the Childrens Charity. Blair also devotes time to an organization she organized, the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation. She commenced to follow a diet, and was a co-author of the book Going Vegan. Towards the end of the 1970s, Blair encountered trouble with law enforcement authorities as she was charged with drug possession and she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to possess cocaine, in exchange for three years probation. Blair was also required to make at least 12 major public appearances to young people about the dangers of drug abuse. In 1997, she appeared in a documentary for Channel 4 in the UK entitled Didnt You Used to be Satan, which served as a biography of her life to that point and how the film The Exorcist had dominated her career and life
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The Cannon Group, Inc.
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The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced a distinctive line of low-to medium-budget films from 1967 to 1994. Cannon Films was incorporated on October 23,1967 and it was formed by Dennis Friedland and Chris Dewey while they were in their early 20s. They had immediate success producing English-language versions of Swedish soft porn films directed by Joseph W. Sarno, Inga, aka Jag - en oskuld and To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa, aka Kvinnolek. By 1970, they had produced films on a production scale than a lot of major distributors, such as Joe. They managed this by limiting their budgets to $300,000 per picture—or less. However, as the 1970s moved on, a string of unsuccessful movies seriously drained Cannon’s capital and this, along with changes to film-production tax laws, led to a drop in Cannons stock price. By 1979, Cannon had hit financial difficulties, and Friedland and Dewey sold Cannon to Israeli cousins Menahem Golan. The two cousins forged a business model of buying bottom-barrel scripts and putting them into production and they tapped into a ravenous market for action B-pictures in the 1980s. Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force, one of Cannon’s biggest hits was the Vietnam action B-movie Missing in Action, with Chuck Norris. The film, however, was criticized heavily as being a preemptive cash-in on the Rambo film series, james Camerons story treatment for Rambo, First Blood Part II was floating around Hollywood in 1983, which Golan and Globus reviewed and were inspired by. The writers of MIA even gave Cameron credit saying their film was inspired by his script treatment, but Cannon had initially put the prequel Missing in Action 2, The Beginning into production. Only after the two movies were completed had the company realized that the second movie was superior to the first one. So, the first movie produced became an awkward prequel, substantial pre-sales of the next years films were made based on the strong salesmanship skills of Globus, and the advertising created by Design Projects. Slavenburgs Bank in the Netherlands provided bridge financing until the pre-sales amounts were collected, by 1986, when company earnings reached their apex with 43 films in one year, Cannon Films shares had soared a hundredfold. Golan remained Chairman of the Board, while Globus served as President, during this year, Cannon Films released Robotech, The Movie for a limited run in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Cannon was reportedly unsatisfied with Carl Macek’s first version of the movie and it was at their insistence that footage from The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Megazone 23 be spliced together to produce a more action-oriented movie. Macek recalls that although he was unhappy with this version, Menahem Golan, after viewing it, happily said. Nevertheless, Robotech, The Movie was unsuccessful in its brief Texas run, Carl Macek has gone on record as disowning it
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Cannonball Run II
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Cannonball Run II is a 1984 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and an all-star cast, released by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest. Like the original Cannonball Run, it is a set around an illegal cross-country race and this was the last of the formula comedies for Reynolds. It is also marked the feature film appearances of Dean Martin. Their appearances, coupled with those of Sammy Davis, Jr. and Shirley MacLaine, when Sheik Abdul points out that there is no Cannonball Run that year, his father simply tells him to buy one. To make sure his ulcer does not prevent him winning, the Sheik hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing. Most of the participants from the first race are lured back, including JJ and Victor, in a subplot, Blake and Fenderbaum are in financial trouble with Don Don Canneloni, who in turn is in financial trouble with mob enforcer Hymie Kaplan. After the Sheik manages to bail out Blake and Fenderbaum by handing one of Don Dons thugs a stack of cash, the race begins with JJ and Victor dressed as a US Army general and his driver, a private. They do not lose their habits until later, other racers include Mitsubishi engineer Jackie Chan, teamed with a giant behind the wheel in a car—a Mitsubishi Starion—able to go under water. In a red Lamborghini with two great-looking chicks in it is the duo of Jill Rivers and Marcie Thatcher, another team is accompanied by an orangutan, who at times appears to be the driver. They are pulled over at one point by traffic cops Tim Conway, JJ and Victor stop along the way to help a stranded soldier, Homer Lyle. They also get better acquainted with their passengers, Betty and Veronica. Don Dons enforcers continue to blunder along the way, with disastrous results, after Don Dons gang capture the Sheik, the racers band together to invade Don Dons Pinto Ranch. JJ, Victor, and Fenderbaum infiltrate it in drag, dressed as belly dancers, others barrel in by car and rescue the Sheik, who is reluctant to leave, since he has his pick of women there. The three dancers and Blake go to their Leader to seek help, only to have him jump into the race himself, in the end, the Sheik bankrolls Don Dons Ranch and then declares that he is upping the stakes to $2 million for the winner. All jump into their vehicles and make a dash for the finish line, the Sheik, as it turns out, loses yet again, this time blaming the doctor who rode with him for injecting him with an unknown substance. But he convinces his father that he win the return-trip race. It turns out to be the orangutan with a penchant for destructive behaviour, mcClure Dom DeLuise as Victor Prinzi/Captain Chaos. DeLuise also appears uncredited as Don Canneloni, Sammy Davis, Jr. Goldfarb, Seymours mother
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Rhinestone (film)
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Rhinestone is a 1984 American musical comedy film directed by Bob Clark with a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson, the film stars Stallone and Dolly Parton. Freddie accepts Jakes bet, putting up the remainder of Jakes contract and he then ups the ante, if Jake loses, she must also sleep with him. The problem is that Freddie can select the man, and he selects an obnoxious New York cabbie named Nick Martinelli, Nick not only has no musical talent whatsoever, he claims to hate country music worse than liver. Realizing she is stuck with Nick, she takes him back to her home in Tennessee to teach him how to walk, talk and it all leads to Nick performing a song at The Rhinestone where the crowd is a crazed group of hecklers and are out for blood. After Nicks first attempt to sing bombs, he turns to the band and says, Okay guys, lets pick up the beat and the band begins playing the song in a more Rock n Roll version and he wins the crowd over. In the end, Jake gets her back and she. He was paid $5 million and a percentage of the gross, Original screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson was so offended by Stallones reworking of his original screenplay that he briefly considered having his name removed from the films credits. He was later convinced that having his name on a film of this caliber would look good on his resume, Stallone later said, The most fun I ever had on a movie was with Dolly Parton on RHINESTONE. I wanted the music at that time to be written by people who would give it sort of a bizarre edge, believe it or not, I contacted Whitesnake’s management and they were ready to write some very interesting songs alongside Dolly’s. But, I was asked to come down to Fox and out steps the director, Bob is a nice guy, but the film went in a direction that literally shattered my internal corn meter into smithereens. I would have many things differently. I certainly would’ve steered clear of comedy unless it was dark, silly comedy didn’t work for me. I mean, would pay to see John Wayne in a whimsical farce. I would stay true to who I am and what the audience would prefer rather than trying to stretch out and waste a lot of time. Stallone now says he regrets making the film, the film was panned upon its release, and is generally regarded as a commercial and critical flop, on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has a 15% Rotten rating. Nonetheless, the album gave Dolly Parton two top ten country singles, Tennessee Homesick Blues and God Wont Get You. Rhinestone was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, winning Worst Actor, the film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John J. B. Wilsons book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. Phil Alden Robinson publicly distanced himself from the film during its release, the movie was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Sheena (film)
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Sheena, also known as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, is a 1984 Columbia Pictures film in Metrocolor based on a comic-book character that first appeared in the late 1930s, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. A hybrid of action-adventure and soap opera–style drama, Sheena was shot on location in Kenya and it tells the tale of a female version of Tarzan who was raised in the fictional African country of Tigora by the equally fictional Zambouli tribe. The movie starred Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, and Trevor Thomas and it was directed by John Guillermin and written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. who had previously collaborated on the 1976 remake of King Kong. Janet is adopted by Shaman, a woman of the native Zambouli tribe, as she grows up, Sheena learns much from Shaman about the lore of the jungle and the ways of all its creatures. She is even entrusted with the secret of telepathic communication with the animals, outsiders rarely disturb their territory, since that part of Tigora is under the special protection of King Jabalani. Experiencing a vision foretelling the death of the King, the Shaman hastens to Tigoras capital of Azan to try to warn him, Otwanis old friend, reporter Vic Casey, and his cameraman Fletch Agronsky are in Tigora to do a story on the former football player. When King Jabalani is killed and the Shaman is framed for it, Vic and Fletch realize they are on to a much bigger story than they had anticipated. Heading to a prison compound to interview the Shaman, they bear witness to her rescue by Sheena and her animal friends, Chango, an elephant, Marika, a zebra, and Tiki. As they escape back into the jungle after destroying the prison, Vic, soon after however, Shaman dies of injuries. Otwani obtains the services of Colonel Jorgensen and his army of soldier mercenaries. Their mission is to eradicate the Zambouli people so their territory will be open for strip-mining, Vic must join forces with Sheena to stop the evil Prince and his army, and along the way, Vic and Sheena fall in love. The climax of the takes place on the African serengetti. Vic gets wounded during a shootout in which he succeeds in killing Otwani, Vic is healed with the earth, and wants to stay with Sheena, but realizes if he tells his story to the outside world, then other corporations will destroy Sheenas home. Vic and his cameraman Fletch leave on a back to New York. Before leaving, Sheena records a message on his tape recorder. Paul Aratow was a documentary filmmaker and he says a friend suggested to him in 1974 that Sheena would make a good movie. Something went off in my head - I realised that it was a most commercial idea and it had action and a sexy, mythic Earth goddess type who was actually one of the true comic-book heroines. Aratow set up a company with Alan Rinzler and succeeded in interesting Universal Pictures
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
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Where the Boys Are '84
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Directed by Hy Averback and produced by Allan Carr, it was the first film released by Tri-Star Pictures. The films tagline is, When girls want a vacation filled with fun, sun and romance, where all your dreams come true. Right who will satisfy her, and Laurie dreams of a night of unbridled passion with a real he-man. Laurie ends up getting her wish, albeit through an unexpected source. During the week-long festivities, the girls meet Sandras snobbish aunt Barbara Roxbury and her friend Maggie and they are also invited to a formal party at Barbaras house, which ends up being crashed by hundreds of spring breakers. Whereas posters and advertising material presented the title as Where the Boys Are 84. Although touted as a realistic version of the popular 1960 film, with nudity and drug references. Jeff Burkhart and Stu Krieger were both nominated for Worst Screenplay by the Golden Raspberry Awards, losing to John Derek for Bolero. The film was released nationwide on April 6,1984 and was both a box office and critical flop, earning one of the years worst film reviews from critics and it ranked #5 at the US box office grossing $3.6 million on its opening weekend. Its total domestic gross was $10.5 million and it was nominated for five Razzie Awards - including Worst Picture - with Lynn Holly-Johnson winning for Worst Supporting Actress. Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times, called the film dumb, vulgar, roger Ebert, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times, reported, It isnt a sequel and isnt a remake and isnt, in fact, much of anything. Where the Boys Are 84 soundtrack album was released on vinyl, the films title track cover version by Lisa Hartman was released as a 7 single with the B-side Hot Nights by Jude Cole. On August 23,2011, the film was released on DVD in region 1 by Scorpion Releasing. Spring Break, a 1983 film with a setting and tone Where the Boys Are 84 at the Internet Movie Database Where the Boys Are 84 at AllMovie Where the Boys Are 84 at Rotten Tomatoes
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TriStar Pictures
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TriStar Pictures is an American film production/distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, owned by the Sony subsidiary Sony Pictures Entertainment. On May 16,1983, it was given the name Tri-Star Pictures and it was the first new major Hollywood studio to be established since RKO Pictures was founded in 1928. The studios first produced film in 1984 was The Natural starring Robert Redford, during this venture, many of Tri-Stars releases were released on VHS by either RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, CBS/Fox Video, or HBO Video. In addition, HBO would gain exclusive distribution rights to these films. CBS dropped out of the venture in 1985, though still distributed some of TriStars films on home video until at least 1992. In 1986, HBO dropped out of the Tri-Star venture as well, the same year, Tri-Star entered into the television business as Tri-Star Television. It was formed when the studio joined forces with Stephen J. Cannell Productions and Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, both studios continued to produce and distribute films under their separate names. On April 13,1988, CPE spun off Tri-Star Pictures, in 1989, all of Cokes entertainment holdings were acquired by Sony Corporation of Japan, who merged Columbia and Tri-Star, but continued to use the separate labels. On July 11,1990, Tri-Star Pictures dissolved and sold its venture in TeleVentures to Stephen J. Cannell Productions, most of the series and the Tri-Star film packages that were distributed by TeleVentures were transferred to Columbia Pictures Television Distribution. The Tri-Star film packages were transferred to Columbia Pictures Television Distribution, both studios continued to operate separately until TriStar folded in 1999 and CPT in 2001. In addition to its own slate, TriStar was the distributor for many films produced by Carolco Pictures. TriStar also theatrically distributed some FilmDistrict movies, TriStar was relaunched on May 13,2004 as a marketing and acquisitions unit that had a particular emphasis on genre films. Screen Gems executive vice president Valerie Van Galder was tapped to run the studio after being dormant. However, the release of its 2013 film Elysium represents the labels first big-budget release since The Mask of Zorro in 1998, the same year, former 20th Century Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman joined Sony Pictures and created TriStar Productions as a joint venture with existing Sony Pictures executives. The new TriStar will develop, finance and produce up to four films per year, as well as programming and acquisitions. Sonys TriStar Pictures unit will be retained for other product, including titles from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, TriStars logo of Pegasus, introduced in 1984, has become something of a cultural icon. The idea came about because of executive Victor Kaufman and his familys interest in riding horses, the original logo was created with the assistance of Sydney Pollack, who was an adviser at Tri-Star. The horse in that logo was the one used in Pollacks film The Electric Horseman
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Lorenzo Lamas
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Lorenzo Fernando Lamas-Craig is an American actor and martial artist. He is known for playing Lance Cumson, the grandson of Angela Channing on the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. During and after Falcon Crest, he and Ana Alicia, who played his wife in the series have remained close friends and he later went on to play Reno Raines on the 1990s crime drama Renegade, and Hector Ramirez on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. He served as a judge on ABC televisions Are You Hot. and starred in his own reality show, Leave It to Lamas, Lamas-Craig was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1958, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and Norwegian American actress Arlene Dahl. He is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, both Williams and Dahl were also best friends of actress Jane Wyman, who knew him since birth, that she would later play along with Lamas-Craig on Falcon Crest. He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971, in 1979, he took up Taekwondo and Karate, earning black belts. He graduated in 1975 from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, longing to be an actor since the age of five, Lamas-Craig first studied acting in Tony Barrs Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. He had a role in the 1978 film Grease. Early in his career, he also had guest-starring parts in Switch, Sword of Justice, Dear Detective, Secrets of Midland Heights, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hotel. In 1980, Lamas-Craig auditioned for and won the role of Lance Cumson, the pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest. During a 2006 TV interview with a Norwegian television team, Lamas-Craig said that to get the role on Falcon Crest, he had auditioned twice, during his stint on Falcon Crest, Lamas-Craig was nominated for two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Lamas-Craig was the actor to appear in all 227 episodes of the series. She was just a great gal, and I think that set the tone for the rest of us and you just never talked about Ronald Reagan, thats all, that was one thing we never did, everything else was opened. After cancellation, he did not keep in touch with her for years, on September 10,2007, he lost his TV grandmother, in 1984, Lamas-Craig was nominated for Worst Actor at the Golden Raspberry Awards for his performance in the film Body Rock. Lamas-Craig also performed a song on the soundtrack for film. In 1992, Lamas-Craig played the role of the falsely accused cop Reno Raines in the syndicated series Renegade, the series was seen in over 100 countries, and during its final season, it moved from first-run syndication to the USA Network. The show ended in 1997 after a run of five seasons, from February 2004 until February 2007 Lamas-Craig played the role of Hector Ramirez on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. In August 2007, Lamas-Craig starred as the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit and that fall, he performed at Kean University Premiere Stages in Union, New Jersey, in the title role in Steven Dietzs Dracula
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Body Rock
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Body Rock is a 1984 film directed by Marcelo Epstein about a young man from the streets with a talent for break-dancing. It stars Lorenzo Lamas in the role of Chilly. The film featured music by Laura Branigan, the theme was sung by Maria Vidal, which peaked at #48 on the Hot 100, #8 on the US dance charts, and #11 in the UK. Lamas was nominated for Worst Actor at the Golden Raspberry Awards for his performance and he also performed the track Fools Like Me which became his only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In his book The Official Razzie Movie Guide, John J. B, wilson, founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, listed the film as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. Snake Body Rock at the Internet Movie Database Body Rock at AllMovie
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Jerry Lewis
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Jerry Lewis AM is an American actor, comedian, singer, film producer, film director, screenwriter and humanitarian. He is known for his humor in film, television, stage. He and Dean Martin were partners as the hit popular comedy duo of Martin, following that success, he was a solo star in motion pictures, nightclubs, television shows, concerts, album recordings, and musicals. Lewis served as chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and hosted the live Labor Day broadcast of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon for 44 years. Lewis was born on March 16,1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Russian Jewish parents and his father, Daniel Levitch, was a master of ceremonies and vaudeville entertainer who used the professional name Danny Lewis. His mother, Rachel Levitch, was a player for a radio station. Lewis started performing at age five and would perform alongside his parents in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. By 15, he had developed his Record Act in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph and he used the professional name Joey Lewis but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. Lewis then dropped out of Irvington High School in the tenth grade and he was a character even in his teenage years pulling pranks in his neighborhood including sneaking into kitchens to steal fried chicken and pies. During World War II, he was rejected for service because of a heart murmur. Lewis initially gained attention as part of an act with singer Dean Martin. The performers were different from most other acts of the time because they relied on their interaction instead of planned skits. They quickly rose to prominence, first with their popular nightclub act. The two men made many appearances on live television, their first on the June 20,1948. This was followed on October 3,1948, by an appearance on the NBC series Welcome Aboard, the duo began their Paramount film careers as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name. This was followed by a sequel My Friend Irma Goes West, All sixteen movies were produced by Hal B. Attesting the comedy teams popularity, DC Comics published the best-selling The Adventures of Dean Martin, in 1954, the boys appeared on episode 191 of Whats My Line. as mystery guests. As Martins roles in their films became less important over time the partnership came under strain, Martins participation became an embarrassment in 1954 when Look magazine used a publicity photo of the team for the magazine cover but cropped Martin out of the photo
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Slapstick of Another Kind
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Slapstick of Another Kind is an American comic science fiction film. It was filmed in 1982, and released in March 1984 by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing. The film was written and directed by Steven Paul and is based on the novel Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, the Peoples Republic of China is severing relations with all other nations. They have mastered the art of miniaturization, and have all their people to the height of 2 inches. The ambassador of China, Ah Fong, announces during a conference that the key to all knowledge can be found from twins. Caleb Swain and his wife Letitia are called the most beautiful of all the people by the press. However, when Letitia gives birth to twins who are called monsters, the Swains decide to allow the twins to live their short life in a mansion staffed with servants, including Sylvester. Fifteen years later, the twins are still alive and they have large heads and appear to be mentally retarded. Their parents, who have not seen them in all those years, the parents, along with the US president, pay the children a visit. They reveal themselves to be well-behaved and intelligent, explaining that they acted stupid around the servants because they were simply emulating them, a series of tests reveal that there is a telepathic connection between the twins, and their intelligence is only functional when they are together. Furthermore, when their heads are touching they reach a level of intelligence that has never been surpassed and their parents, fearful that incest may be prevalent, separate the two. They become despondent without each other, and the Chinese ambassador appears again to them to seek each other out. Once united, a spaceship appears and reveals that they are aliens who were sent to Earth to solve all of the planets problems. However, their father reveals that Earth cannot handle their intelligence. The film was based on the novel Slapstick, Or Lonesome No More. Director Steven Paul had played Paul Ryan in the production of Vonneguts Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Vonnegut considered the novel to be his worst work, martial artist Peter Kwong made one of his earliest appearances in this film, playing an astronaut in a flying fortune cookie. This film was released in Europe in 1982, but did not see a US release until March 1984
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Peter O'Toole
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Peter Seamus OToole was a British-Irish stage and film actor. He achieved international recognition playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, in 2002, OToole was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements. He was additionally the recipient of four Golden Globe Awards, one British Academy Film Award, some sources give his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, while others cite St James University Hospital, Leeds, England. Peter had a sister, Patricia. He grew up in the Hunslet, south Leeds, son of Constance Jane Eliot, a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph Spats OToole, when OToole was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England. He was brought up as a Catholic, I used to be scared stiff of the nuns, their whole denial of womanhood – the black dresses and the shaving of the hair – was so horrible, so terrifying. Of course, thats all been stopped, theyre sipping gin and tonic in the Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other day, he said. Upon leaving school OToole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post, as reported in a radio interview in 2006 on NPR, he was asked by an officer whether he had something he had always wanted to do. His reply was that he had wanted to try being either a poet or an actor. At RADA, he was in the class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates. OToole described this as the most remarkable class the academy ever had, OToole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954. He first appeared on film in 1959 in a role in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. OTooles major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in Sir David Leans Lawrence of Arabia, after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and his performance was ranked number one in Premiere magazines list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. The role introduced him to US audiences and earned him the first of his eight nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, T. E. Lawrence, portrayed by OToole, was selected in 2003 as the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute. OToole was one of several actors to be Oscar-nominated for playing the role in two different films, he played King Henry II in both Becket and The Lion in Winter. OToole played Hamlet under Laurence Oliviers direction in the production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963. He demonstrated his comedic abilities alongside Peter Sellers in the Woody Allen-scripted comedy Whats New Pussycat and he appeared in Seán OCaseys Juno and the Paycock at Dublins Gaiety Theatre. In 1969, he played the role in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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Burt Reynolds
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Burton Leon Burt Reynolds is an American actor, director and producer. He has starred in films, such as Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey. Reynolds is the son of Fern H. and Burton Milo Reynolds and he has English, Scottish, Scots-Irish and Dutch ancestry, and is also said to have Cherokee roots. In his 2014 book, But Enough About Me, Reynolds said his mother had Italian ancestry, during his career, Reynolds often claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia, but confirmed in 2015 that he was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was born on February 11,1936, and in his autobiography stated that Lansing is where his family lived when his father was drafted into the United States Army. Reynolds, his mother and sister joined his father at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, when Reynolds father was sent to Europe, the family moved to Lake City, Michigan, where his mother had been raised. In 1946, the moved to Riviera Beach, Florida. His father became Chief of Police of Riviera Beach, which is adjacent to the north of West Palm Beach, during 10th grade at Palm Beach High School, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern as a fullback, and received multiple scholarship offers. After graduating from Palm Beach High in West Palm Beach, he attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, while at Florida State, Reynolds became roommates with now notable college football broadcaster and analyst Lee Corso, and also became a brother of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Ending his university career, Reynolds became a police officer. To keep up with his studies, he began taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College in neighboring Lake Worth, in his first term at PBJC, Reynolds was in an English class taught by Watson B. Duncan III. Duncan pushed Reynolds into trying out for a play he was producing and he cast Reynolds in the lead role based on having heard Reynolds read Shakespeare in class, leading to Reynolds winning the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance. In his autobiography, Reynolds refers to Duncan as his mentor, the Florida State Drama Award included a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse, a summer stock theater, in Hyde Park, New York. Reynolds saw the opportunity as an alternative to more physically-demanding summer jobs. While working there, Reynolds met Joanne Woodward, who helped him find an agent, after his Broadway debut Look, Weve Come Through, he received favorable reviews for his performance and went on tour with the cast, driving the bus and appearing on stage. After the tour, Reynolds returned to New York and enrolled in acting classes and his classmates included Frank Gifford, Carol Lawrence, Red Buttons, and Jan Murray. After the play closed, the director, John Forsythe, arranged an audition with Joshua Logan for Reynolds. Reynolds was told that he could not be in the film because he looked too much like Marlon Brando, Logan advised Reynolds to go to Hollywood, but Reynolds did not feel confident enough to do so
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City Heat
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City Heat is a 1984 American crime film starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, and directed by Richard Benjamin. The film was released in North America on December 1984. The pairing of Eastwood and Reynolds was thought to have the potential to be a hit but the film earned only $38.3 million at the box office. In Kansas City,1933, near the end of Prohibition, Speer and Murphy were once good friends, which changed after Murphy left the force. On a rainy night, Speer comes to a diner for coffee, two goons arrive, looking for Murphy. They pounce the minute Murphy arrives, starting a fistfight, Speer, no fan of Murphys, ignores the fight until a goon causes him to spill his coffee. Both goons are thrown through the front door, Murphy sarcastically thanks Speer for saving his life. The two rivals have eyes for Murphys secretary Addy and she loves both and proves it when, after tenderly kissing Murphy goodbye, goes on a date with Speer. Murphy does have a new romantic interest, a socialite named Caroline Howley. Speer and Addy go to a match at which the mob boss Primo Pitt is present. Murphys partner Dehl Swift is also there, and seems to be in cahoots with Pitt, Swift is in possession of a briefcase whose contents, secret accounting records of rival gang boss Leon Colls operations, are the target of both Pitts and Colls gangs. Swift, tailed by Speer and Addy, is confronted by Pitts thugs at his apartment with Ginny Lee taken hostage, Ginny Lee manages to escape but Swift is shot and killed during a struggle with Pitt. A thug opens the briefcase but theres nothing inside and he picks up Swifts body and throws it out the window, where it lands on the roof of Speers parked car. Murphy vows revenge on Pitt for killing his partner and he asks Speer for assistance and they form a reluctant alliance. After meeting with Murphy at a movie, Ginny is confronted by Pitts thugs outside the theatre, as she tries to escape, she is hit by a car and seriously injured. Murphy and Speer vow to avenge her and also to rescue Caroline, a final showdown with Pitt and his gang occurs in a warehouse and in a bordello. As whats left of Pitts gang are hauled off by police, Coll shows up holding Addy at gunpoint, Murphy and Speer hand over the briefcase in exchange for Addy, but the case is booby-trapped. Colls car is blown up with Coll in it, blake Edwards co-wrote the script, initially titled Kansas City Blues
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Faye Dunaway
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an American actress. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts, dunaway’s career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. Other notable films in which she has appeared include the drama Barfly, the surrealist comedy-drama Arizona Dream, the biopic Gia, protective of her private life, she rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April, a housewife and she is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent. She spent her childhood traveling throughout the United States and Europe, Dunaway took dance classes, tap, piano and singing, and then studied at Florida State University and University of Florida, and graduated from the Boston University with a degree in theatre. In 1962, at the age of 21, she took acting classes at the American National Theater, shortly after graduating from Boston University, Dunaway was already appearing on Broadway as a replacement in Robert Bolts drama A Man for All Seasons. She subsequently appeared in Arthur Millers After the Fall and the award-winning Hogans Goat by Harvard professor William Alfred, with the exception of my mother, my brother, and my beloved son, Bill Alfred has been without question the most important single figure in my lifetime. A teacher, a mentor, and I suppose the father I never had and he has taught me so much about the virtue of a simple life, about spirituality, about the purity of real beauty, and how to go at this messy business of life. Dunaways first screen role was the crime film The Happening. Her performance earned her good notices from critics, with Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times saying that she exhibits a real neat trick of resting her cheek on the back of her hand. That same year, she had a role in Otto Premingers drama Hurry Sundown. Filming proved to be difficult for Dunaway as she clashed with Preminger and she later described this experience as a psychodrama that left me feeling damaged at the end of each day. Dunaway had signed a deal with Preminger but decided during the filming to get her contract back. Beyond the movies I might have missed, it would have been a kind of Chinese water torture to have stuck in five more terrible movies. Its impossible to assess the damage that might have done to me early on in my career. The film was a critical and commercial failure but earned Dunaway a Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best New Star of the Year. Dunaway had tried to get an interview with director Arthur Penn when he was directing The Chase, but was rebuffed by a casting director who didnt think she had the right face for the movies. When Penn saw her scenes from The Happening before its release, he decided to let her read for the role of the bank robber Bonnie Parker for his film, Bonnie
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Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She is known for her New Age beliefs, and has an interest in spirituality and she has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs, document her world travels, and describe her Hollywood career. She has also won five competitive Golden Globe Awards and received the Golden Globe Cecil B, deMille Award at the 1998 ceremony. Named after Shirley Temple, Shirley MacLean Beaty was born in Richmond, MacLaines younger brother is the actor, writer and director Warren Beatty, he changed the spelling of his surname when he became an actor. Their parents raised them as Baptists and her uncle was A. A. MacLeod, a Communist member of the Ontario legislature in the 1940s. MacLaine played baseball in a team, holding the record for most home runs which earned her the nickname Powerhouse. During the 1950s, the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. As a toddler she had weak ankles and would fall over with the slightest misstep and this was the beginning of her interest in performing. Strongly motivated by ballet, she never missed a class, in classical romantic pieces like Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty, she always played the boys roles due to being the tallest in the group and the absence of males in the class. Ultimately she decided against making a career of professional ballet because she had grown too tall and was unable to acquire perfect technique and she explained that she didnt have the ideal body type, lacking the requisite beautifully constructed feet of high arches, high insteps and a flexible ankle. Also slowly realizing ballets propensity to be too all-consuming, and ultimately limiting, she moved on to forms of dancing, acting. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was on the cheerleading squad, the summer before her senior year, she went to New York City to try acting on Broadway, and had some success. After she graduated, she returned and within a year became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game, Haney broke her ankle, a few months after, with Haney still injured, film producer Hal B. Wallis saw MacLaines performance, and signed her to work for Paramount Pictures and she later sued Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that has been credited with ending the old-style studio star system of actor management. MacLaine made her debut in Alfred Hitchcocks The Trouble with Harry. This was quickly followed by her role in the Martin and Lewis film Artists, soon afterwards, she had a role in Around the World in 80 Days. This was followed by Hot Spell and a role in Some Came Running, for the latter film she gained her first Academy Award nomination. Her second Oscar nomination came two years later for The Apartment, starring with Jack Lemmon, the film won five Oscars, including Best Director for Billy Wilder
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Tanya Roberts
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Victoria Leigh Blum, known by the stage name Tanya Roberts, is an American actress and producer. She is known for her role as Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, Roberts was born in 1955 in the Bronx, New York City, the second child of her father, of Irish descent, and a Jewish mother. She has one sister, Barbara. Roberts father supported their family on a modest income, working as a fountain pen salesman in Manhattan, Roberts and her sister were raised in the central Bronx. She relocated from New York with her mother to live in Toronto for several years, at age 15, she left high school and lived for a while hitch-hiking across the United States. She eventually returned to New York City and became a fashion, after meeting psychology student Barry Roberts, she proposed to him in a subway station and they were soon married. While Barry pursued a career as a screenwriter, she began to study at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and her career began as a model in TV ads for Excedrin, Ultra Brite, Clairol, and Cool Ray sunglasses. She played serious roles in the off-Broadway productions Picnic and Antigone and she also supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor. Her film debut was the 1975 thriller, Forced Entry and this was followed by the 1976 comedy The Yum-Yum Girls. In 1977, as her husband was securing his own screenwriting career, the following year, Roberts participated in the drama Fingers. Roles in the 1979 cult movie, Tourist Trap, Racquet, Roberts was featured in several television pilots that were not picked up, Zuma Beach, Pleasure Cove, and Waikiki. Roberts was chosen in the summer of 1980 from some 2000 candidates to replace Shelley Hack in the season of the detective television series, Charlies Angels on ABC. Roberts played Julie Rogers, a fighter who used her fists more than her gun. Producers hoped Roberts presence would revitalize the shows declining ratings and regenerate media interest in the series, before the seasons premiere, Roberts was featured on the cover of People magazine with a headline asking if Roberts would be able to save the declining series from cancellation. Despite the hype Robertss debut had received, her premiere episode in November 1980 drew dismal ratings, the series was thereafter moved to several different timeslots on the broadcast schedule, causing viewership to drop as the season progressed. After just 16 episodes of a season, the series had drastically slipped to 59th in the ratings out of just 65 shows and was cancelled in June 1981. Roberts played Kiri in the 1982 film The Beastmaster and she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy to help promote the movie, appearing on that issues October 1982 cover. In 1983, Roberts filmed the Italian-made adventure fantasy film Hearts and Armour and she portrayed Velda, a buxom secretary to private detective Mike Hammer in the television movie Murder Me, Murder You
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Sahara (1983 film)
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For other films with the same name, see Sahara. Sahara is a 1983 British-American adventure drama directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies. The original music score was composed by Ennio Morricone, the film was supposedly inspired by the then British Prime Ministers son, Mark Thatcher, who became lost in North Africa in 1982 during an auto rally. One of the made for the film, a replica Hispano Suiza, was put up for auction in 2015. In 1927, Gordon develops a new racing vehicle, a hot rod, Dale is an excellent driver and has a good chance to win the male-only race. After she crosses the line, she takes off her wig and mustache. While taking a short-cut, she comes close to a war between Bedouin factions. Another racer, the German Von Glessing, also takes the same short-cut in order to supply weapons to the leader of the two warring tribes. Dale and her crew are captured by Rasoul, the uncle of the leader of the warring tribes. The good leader, Sheikh Jafar, had seen Dale from afar and desired her, Dale marries Jaffar and escapes the next morning in her car to attempt to finish the race. She is captured by the leader before she can complete the race. Meanwhile, Dale is thrown into a pit of leopards, Jaffar rallies his men, rescues her and allows her to return to drive in the race. Dale wins the race, and when celebrating sees Jaffars horse nearby and she bids farewell to her crew, mounts the horse and returns to Jaffar. At an alleged $25 million budget, Sahara was a box office bomb. At the 1984 Razzies, Brooke Shields was nominated for Worst Actress and won Worst Supporting Actor as Brooke Shields, making her the first, Sahara at the Internet Movie Database Sahara at AllMovie Sahara at Box Office Mojo Sahara at Rotten Tomatoes
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Robby Benson
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Robin David Segal, better known by the stage name Robby Benson, is an American actor, director, singer, and teacher. He is known as the voice of The Beast in the Disney animated film, Beauty, Benson was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Freda Ann, a singer, actor, and business promotions manager, and Jerry Segal, a writer. Benson was raised in New York City and took his mothers name as his stage name when he was 10. Benson made his debut with an uncredited role in Wait Until Dark as the Boy Tossing Ball. Benson had a role on the daytime soap Search for Tomorrow. As a film actor, Benson was well known for roles in coming-of-age films, such as 1972s Jory, 1973s Jeremy. In 1975, Benson appeared in Death Be Not Proud and Lucky Lady, in 1977, he starred in One on One and the TV movie The Death of Richie. In 1978, he co-starred in The End and also Ice Castles, co-starring Lynn Holly Johnson, Benson, who had never ice skated before, learned to skate in order to film the movie, which had numerous skating scenes, including ice hockey. In 1980, Benson starred opposite Linda Grovenor in the Orion film, the same year, Benson also starred in the movie Tribute opposite Jack Lemmon. In 1981, he costarred in the film The Chosen, based on the book of the name by Chaim Potok. The New York Times gave the film a review, but noted that Bensons character was full of a gentle inquisitiveness that cannot help. Benson played Olympic 10, 000-meter gold medalist Billy Mills in the 1983 film Running Brave, in 1991, he starred as the voice of Beast in the acclaimed animated Disney film Beauty and the Beast. Later in the 1990s he voiced lead character J. T, marsh on the acclaimed sci-fi cartoon series Exosquad. His 2007 novel Who Stole the Funny, a Novel of Hollywood landed Benson on the LA TImes Bestseller list. Bensons medical memoir Im Not Dead, yet. was released in June 2012. Benson has been a professor at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, the University of Utah and it was announced he would serve as a professor of Practice in the fall of 2013 at Indiana University. Benson married singer and actress Karla DeVito on July 11,1982 and they have two children together, daughter Lyric and son Zephyr. He is an activist and fundraiser for research, which, in 2004, led him to write the book, lyrics and music for an original Off-Broadway play called Open Heart
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Harry & Son
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Harry & Son is a 1984 American drama film directed by Paul Newman, who also stars. The screenplay by Newman and Ronald Buck focuses on the relationship between a worker and his son, who fails at various odd jobs while aspiring to be a writer. Joanne Woodward, Ellen Barkin, Ossie Davis, Wilford Brimley, much of the film was shot in Lake Worth, Florida. The movie set construction site was the demolition of the sister hotel affiliated with the Gulf Stream Hotel named The Inn, widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. Harry also has a relationship with his daughter Nina because he dislikes her husband. When intense headaches and impaired vision cause Harry to lose control of the ball on his crane. His unemployment leaves him feeling frustrated, although he refuses to work in his brother Toms military surplus store and he becomes increasingly angry at Howard for quitting jobs at a car wash and with an auto-repo outfit and threatens to throw his son out of the house. Harry spends some of his time visiting his widowed neighbor Lilly. Her daughter Katie, a girlfriend of Howard, is now pregnant with another mans child. After being abandoned by her lover, Katies relationship with Howard rekindles and he is resisting the advances of a nymphomaniacal older woman, Sally, but eventually introduces her to Harry. Howard succeeds in selling a story, much to his fathers amazement. He uses some of the money to finance a vacation for Harry, Lilly, Katie, Harry begins to experience happiness at last, until tragedy strikes. Vincent Canby of the New York Times called the film a decently intentioned but rather drab mess of a movie and added, but Harry and Son looks like a first effort, partly because the screenplay has no focus and no particular tone of voice. Though the characters use a lot of words that are still taboo on television, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film one star and commented, This movie looks like the aftermath of an explosion in the story department. They give us so many relationships, so many problems, so many emotional hazards, so many characters, we need a battery-lighted ballpoint. Humbler scenes involving background or narrative, which may be immensely tedious to act, the result is a curiously indigestible phenomenon, like being forced to eat five courses of avocado by an overbearing dinner-party host. Robby Bensons performance in the film earned him a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor, Harry & Son at the Internet Movie Database Harry & Son at AllMovie Harry and Son at Rotten Tomatoes
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Samuel George Sammy Davis Jr. was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, comedian, musician, at the age of 3, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio, Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciros after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist, in 1954, he lost his left eye in a car accident, and several years later, he converted to Judaism. Daviss film career began as a child in 1933, in 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Oceans 11. After a starring role on Broadway in 1956s Mr Wonderful, he returned to the stage in 1964s Golden Boy, in 1966 he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Daviss career slowed in the late 1960s, but he had a hit record with The Candy Man in 1972 and became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname Mister Show Business. Davis was a victim of racism throughout his life, particularly during the pre-Civil Rights era, Davis had a complex relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. This was to become a comment, recounted in his autobiography. After reuniting with Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally and he died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. During his lifetime, Davis stated that his mother was Puerto Rican, as an infant, he was reared by his paternal grandmother. When he was 3 years old, his parents separated and his father, not wanting to lose custody of his son, took him on tour. Davis learned to dance from his father and his uncle Will Mastin, Davis joined the act as a child and they became the Will Mastin Trio. Throughout his career, Davis included the Will Mastin Trio in his billing, Mastin and his father shielded him from racism. Snubs were explained as jealousy, for instance, when Davis served in the United States Army during World War II, however, he was confronted by strong racial prejudice. He later said, Overnight the world looked different and it wasnt one color any more
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George Kennedy
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George Harris Kennedy Jr. was an American actor who appeared in more than 200 film and television productions. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in Airport, Kennedy was the only actor to appear in all four films in the Airport series, having reprised the role of Joe Patroni three times. He was also recognized as Police Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films. Kennedy was born on February 18,1925, in New York City and his father, George Harris Kennedy, a musician and orchestra leader, died when Kennedy was four years old. He was raised by his mother, Helen A. a ballet dancer and his maternal grandfather was a German immigrant, his other ancestry was Irish and English. Kennedy made his debut at age two in a touring company of Bringing Up Father, and by seven was a New York City radio DJ. Joining the U. S. military during World War II, he spent 16 years in that career until the late 1950s and he reached a rank of captain. His first notable role was a military advisor on the TV sitcom The Phil Silvers Show, where he served as a technical adviser. His film career began in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and he played the character Blodgett in a 1966 episode Return to Lawrence of the ABC western series The Legend of Jesse James. Kennedy followed with films such as The Dirty Dozen, Bandolero. in 1970, he appeared in the Academy Award-winning disaster film Airport, in which he played one of its main characters, airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni. He reprised this role in Airport 1975, Airport 77, Airport 79, the only cast member to appear in each film of the series. The Airport franchise helped inspire the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker satire Airplane. in which the filmmakers hoped to cast Kennedy as the bumbling plane dispatcher, the role went to Lloyd Bridges, because Kennedy couldn’t kill off his Airport cash-cow, Jerry Zucker said in 2010. He also starred in two series, Sarge, which aired from 1971-72 on NBC, and The Blue Knight. In 1984, Kennedy starred opposite Bo Derek in the box-office bomb Bolero, there were two sequels in which Kennedy co-starred. On television, Kennedy starred as Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas, from the mid- to late-1990s, he promoted Breathasure tablets in radio and television commercials. Around this time, he reprised his role as McKay in the television films Dallas, returns and Dallas, War of the Ewings. In the late 1970s, Kennedy also appeared as a celebrity guest on the game show Match Game. In 1998, he voiced Brick Bazooka for the film Small Soldiers, in 2005, he made a cameo appearance in the film Dont Come Knocking, playing the director of an ill-fated western
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