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David Kirkpatrick (producer)
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David Paul Kirkpatrick is an American film producer, studio executive and writer. Kirkpatrick was chief of production at two studios at the time, Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures. Kirkpatrick was raised as a Catholic in the state of Ohio and he graduated from Hudson High School in Hudson Ohio in 1969. Kirkpatricks screenplay Dynamite Woman was produced in 1976 and distributed by New World Pictures, shortly after, he took a position in the story department at Paramount Pictures. Kirkpatrick worked his way up the ranks at Paramount making his name by overseeing Paramounts exclusive development deal with Eddie Murphy, both Kirkpatrick and Katzenberg were involved in the development of Coming to America and the subsequent Buchwald v. Paramount breach of contract lawsuit. The case was the subject of the 1992 book Fatal Subtraction, Kirkpatrick was also instrumental in replacing Hunt for Red October star Alec Baldwin with Harrison Ford in the Jack Ryan franchise. Baldwin revealed this in a March 2011 column on The Huffington Post, in which he accused Kirkpatrick of back-handed dealings in the matter, during that period, he oversaw The Little Mermaid, Pretty Woman and Dead Poets Society among other films, before returning to Paramount. Kirkpatrick left his post at Paramount after finding his office furniture on the lawn after an altercation with fellow executive Stanley R. Jaffe. Afterward, he entered into a deal with the company and then produced The Brady Bunch Movie, and The Evening Star. He then formed his own production company Original Voices concentrating on smaller projects, producing the independent hits Big Night and The Opposite of Sex. In 2006, Kirkpatrick co-founded Good New Holdings, an entertainment company that produced spiritainment. The company and Kirkpatrick were featured in a The New York Times profile, the title of the profile refers to the battle outlined in Ephesians 6,12 regarding the struggle over souls. After leaving Good News Holdings, Kirkpatrick co-founded Plymouth Rock Studios, in November 2009, the Studio had announced that it had secured $500 million in financing. Kirkpatrick and Plymouth Rock Studios parted ways in June 2010, Kirkpatrick took a position in 2011 with the Rock Organization. It is a Christian worldview foundation based in the Midwestern United States and he is working on a transmedia event on the life of Jesus Christ. David Kirkpatrick produced the 1996 HBO film Rasputin that won the Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series of Motion Picture Made for Television, alan Rickman won both the Emmy and the Golden Globe for his title performance role in the mini-series. Kirkpatrick also produced The Opposite of Sex, which received the 1999 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, in 2007, he became the first recipient of the David Award the lifetime achievement award from Regent University, a Christian college, for redemptive work in the entertainment field. The award derives its name from the David of the Old Testament, David Kirkpatrick at the Internet Movie Database
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Kevin Meyer
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Kevin Meyer is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and writer. He is known for such as A Smile Like Yours. Meyer attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts and co-directed a 30-minute film called Divided We Fall with Jeff Burr, the film went on to win fourteen film festival awards and is considered one of the most decorated films in the history of USC Cinema. In addition to the awards for Divided We Fall, Meyer was given a bronze Award from the World Fest Houston in 1990 and he also wrote, produced, and directed a series of short documentaries for the National Museum of the United States Army
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Greg Kinnear
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Gregory Buck Greg Kinnear is an American actor and television personality. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets, Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, to Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department. He has two brothers, James and Steven and he grew up a Foreign Service brat, having moved around frequently, from Beirut to Athens. While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Kinnear first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show School Daze With Greg Kinnear. Returning to the United States for an education, he attended the University of Arizona. While there, he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Kinnear hosted a short-lived game show, College Mad House, which was spun off from the kids show Fun House. He became the creator, co-executive producer and host of Best of the Worst, the show was canceled thanks to Rooster Teeths Burnie Burns. In 1991, Kinnear became the first host of Talk Soup, which he hosted until 1995, after his film debut, Blankman, Kinnear won the part of David Larrabee in Sydney Pollacks 1995 remake of Billy Wilders 1954 classic Sabrina. He played the role in the 1996 comedy Dear God. In 1997, he was cast in James L. Brooks comedy-drama, As Good as It Gets and he also starred in, A Smile Like Yours with Lauren Holly, as part of a couple trying to have a baby. His next film was the popular Youve Got Mail, as Kathleens significant other, other films are Mystery Men, Nurse Betty, Loser, The Gift and Someone Like You. Kinnear starred in Auto Focus about the life and murder of actor Bob Crane in 2002, in 2005, he starred in the black comedy The Matador with Pierce Brosnan and voiced Phineas T. Ratchet in the computer-animated film Robots. He also appeared in Fast Food Nation, playing a fast food executive who discovers secrets about his company, in 2008, he starred in Flash of Genius, a docudrama about Robert Kearns who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. His portrayal of then-Major Bruce P. Crandall in 2002s We Were Soldiers brought public attention to Crandalls heroism during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, in Baby Mama Kinnear played Rob, a local smoothie shop owner and the romantic interest of Kate. In 2010, he starred as the father of Miley Cyrus character in The Last Song. In 2011, Kinnear starred in the miniseries The Kennedys playing the role as John F. Kennedy. It was originally planned to air on the History Channel, however and it was subsequently picked up by ReelzChannel and then first aired on April 3,2011. Kinnear played a famous novelist in the Josh Boones directorial debut film, Stuck in Love, Kinnear married British glamour model Helen Labdon on May 1,1999
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Lauren Holly
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Lauren Michael Holly is a Canadian-American actress. Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania and her father, Grant Holly, is a screenwriter and professor of literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has two brothers, Nick and Alexander Innes Holly. Holly was raised in Geneva, New York, and is a 1981 graduate of Geneva High School, in 1985, she earned an undergraduate degree in English from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Hollys acting career began at the age of 20 when she appeared as Carla Walicki in two episodes of Hill Street Blues, at age 23, she joined the cast of the ABC television soap opera All My Children as Julie Rand Chandler. She portrayed the comic book character Betty Cooper in the TV movie Archie, To Riverdale and she appeared as Mary Swanson, Lloyd Christmass love interest, in the 1994 Jim Carrey comedy Dumb & Dumber. She starred in the movie Any Given Sunday, Holly appeared in the music video for Dixie Chicks single Goodbye Earl. She was a member of the cast of NCIS as Director Jenny Shepard from 2005 to 2008, reuniting with her former Chicago Hope co-stars Mark Harmon, Holly portrayed the worldly and stunning lead medical examiner Dr. Betty Rogers, a regular character on the CTV series Motive. In 2014, she was reunited with her Picket Fences co-star, Tom Skerritt, in the movie, in 2015, Holly starred in Oz Perkins horror film The Blackcoats Daughter. In February 2017, it was announced that Holly had joined Nicholas Gyeneys Seattle-based reality-drama, Ultra Low, Holly lives in Canada with her three children, Henry, George, and Azer Holly-Greco. Holly became a Canadian citizen in 2008, official website Lauren Holly at the Internet Movie Database Lauren Holly at TVGuide. com
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Joan Cusack
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Joan Cusack is an American actress. She is also known as the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story franchise, Cusack was a cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. She starred on the Showtime hit drama/comedy Shameless as Sheila Gallagher and she is the sister of actors Ann and John Cusack. Cusack was born in New York City, New York on October 11,1962 and her mother, Ann Paula Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Her late father, Dick Cusack, as well as her siblings Ann and John, have also been or are actors and her family is Irish American and Catholic. Cusack is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cusack has twice been nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her work in Working Girl and In & Out. She appeared with her brother John in the movies Sixteen Candles, Grandview, Class, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything. Cradle Will Rock, Martian Child, and most recently, War, in the film Addams Family Values, she played serial divorcee and murderer Debbie Jellinsky. She also starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom What About Joan. in 2001–02, for many years, Cusack was also the commercial spokeswoman for U. S. Cellular. One of Cusacks most well-known roles was the head-teacher of Horace Green Elementary School, Rosalie Roz Mullins, in School of Rock. She also voiced Jessie in Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 and played Dr. Burton, Cusack was a cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. Her recurring characters on Saturday Night Live included Salena, a socially inept girl who tries to ask out her boyfriend, Biff, in addition, she did celebrity impersonations of Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, and Queen Elizabeth II. She has also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, in 2003, both Joan and her brother John signed the Not in My Name resolution opposing the invasion of Iraq. Cusack narrates the public TV animated series Peep and the Big Wide World, in September 2010, Cusack guest-starred on NBCs Law & Order, SVU. In 2010, Cusack joined the Showtime drama/comedy Shameless as Sheila Gallagher the mother of Karen Jackson, the first season premiered on January 9,2011, and had its first finale March 27,2011. She is the sister of actor John Cusack and they have appeared together in 10 productions, Class, Sixteen Candles, Grandview, U. S. A. Grosse Pointe Blank, Cradle Will Rock, High Fidelity, Martian Child and she is married to attorney Richard Burke, President and CEO of VISANOW Global Immigration since 1993. They have two sons, Dylan John and Miles, Cusack suffered a miscarriage while filming Addams Family Values but, after an extensive hospital stay, continued with filming
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Jay Thomas
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Jon Thomas Terrell, professionally known as Jay Thomas, is an American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for portraying Gold, in 1997, he starred in the television film Killing Mr. Griffin, based on the novel of the same name. In film, he co-starred in Mr Hollands Opus and portrayed The Easter Bunny in The Santa Clause 2, since 2005, he has hosted The Jay Thomas Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, and is on every Friday afternoon on Howard 101. Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katharine and he was raised in his Italian American mothers Catholic religion, his father was Protestant. Thomas was raised in New Orleans. He attended and graduated from Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Thomas made his annual Christmastime appearance with David Letterman for the first time in December 1998. Letterman and one of his guests that evening, then-New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde, took turns tossing footballs at the Christmas tree across the stage. As the two tried to knock off the meatball and failed repeatedly, Thomas came out and decided to join in the festivities and knocked the meatball off of the tree. When Letterman talked with Thomas later on, he decided to tell a story about when he was a disc jockey at a radio station in Charlotte. Thomas had been making an appearance at a local car dealership. This dealership had also booked Clayton Moore to make an appearance, when they returned to pack up their equipment, they discovered that Moore was still there, as the car that was supposed to drive him to the Red Roof Inn never arrived. Thomas offered Moore a ride in his old Volvo and he accepted, as they were sitting in traffic, an impatient middle-aged man driving a Buick, backed into the front end of Thomas car, broke a headlight and drove away. Thomas gave chase to the Buick through heavy traffic, finally caught up to the man, the indignant driver denied breaking the headlight and Thomas threatened to call the police. The man said nobody would believe their story because Thomas and his friend looked like two hippy freaks. At that moment, Thomas said that Moore, who was still in costume as the Lone Ranger, got out of the car and said to the man, Theyll believe me, citizen. For every year thereafter, with the exception of 2013, Thomas appeared to re-tell the Lone Ranger story, for the final appearance of the story in 2014, Thomas was again successful in knocking the meatball off the top of the tree. Thomas fathered J. T. in a relationship and the child was adopted by another family in Michigan. Jay Thomas and his son, known as John Harding, are reunited and have spoken about their reunion on the Dr. Phil Show, John Harding is the lead singer of the band JTX. Jay Thomas at the Internet Movie Database The Jay Thomas Show website TV. com entry Ten Questions with Jay Thomas
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Jill Hennessy
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Jillian Noel Jill Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician. She has also acted in such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta and her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener. She has a brother, John Paul J. P. Hennessy, Jr. and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her fathers side and she attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, then graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to busk in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister played twin call girls in 1988s Dead Ringers and she was short listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson, the actress who eventually got the role. She appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story in 1990, in 1993, she appeared as Dr. Marie Lazarus in RoboCop 3. In 1993, Richard Dick Wolf signed Hennessy as assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons, ultimately leaving the show in 1996, her last installment being one in which Kincaid was killed in a car crash, in 1999, she appeared as Lisa in Chutney Popcorn. In 2000, Hennessy wrote, produced, and jointly directed an independent film mockumentary titled The Acting Class, the film co-starred her identical twin sister Jacqueline, and included cameo appearances from a number of Hennessys former Law & Order co-stars. She also starred in the film Nuremberg, as Elsie Douglas, in 2001, she portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the film Jackie, Ethel, Joan, The Women of Camelot, and, in 2003, made a cameo appearance in the film Abby Singer. From 2001 to 2007, she starred on the TV show Crossing Jordan as title character Jordan Cavanaugh and she also played the wife of Tim Allens character in the 2007 film Wild Hogs. On June 9,2007, she received a star on Canadas Walk of Fame, during sessions in Austin, Texas, Hennessy recorded the album Ghost in My Head, which was released in June 2009. She performed as a guest of the Indigo Girls on a November 2009 show of Mountain Stage and was the focus of a show for later that same month. She performed on the Village Stage of the 2010 edition of Lilith Fair, Hennessy starred in the independent crime thriller, Small Town Murder Songs, in 2010. She also appeared as a veterinarian in the HBO series Luck and her second album, I Do, was released in October 2015. Hennessy is multi-lingual, speaking English, Italian, French, Spanish, Hennessy plays the guitar and sings, and enjoys riding motorcycles with her husband, Paolo Mastropietro, to whom she has been married since 2000
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Christopher McDonald
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Christopher McDonald is an American actor. McDonald was born in New York City, the son of Patricia, a professor and real estate agent, and James R. McDonald. He was raised in Romulus, New York, and is a graduate of Hobart College in Geneva, New York where he played football and his younger brother, actor Daniel McDonald, died of brain cancer in February 2007. McDonald has numerous film and television roles, often as a supporting actor and he was featured as Ward Cleaver in the movie version of Leave It to Beaver and famous baseball broadcaster Mel Allen in 61*. In 1994, he starred in the film Terminal Velocity as an aggressive Russian mafia villain, richard Castillo in the season three episode Yesterdays Enterprise. McDonalds voice work includes the government agent Kent Mansley in the animated film The Iron Giant. He also voiced Jor-El in Superman, The Animated Series and subsequently an older version of Superman in Batman Beyond and he subbed for Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, The Beginning. In 2009, McDonald also lent his talents in the Thomas Nelson audio Bible production known as The Word of Promise. In this dramatized audio, McDonald played the role of Luke, McDonald played the eponymous lead in Peter Gabriels music video for the song The Barry Williams Show. He also replaced Robert De Niro in the Midnight Run movie franchise and he portrayed baseball player Joe DiMaggio in the ESPN original series The Bronx Is Burning. In October 2013, McDonald started filming for A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island, the film is set to release in 2017. McDonald appears in the Broadway show The Front Page at the Broadhurst Theater, Christopher McDonald at the Internet Movie Database Christopher McDonald at the Internet Broadway Database
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Rysher Entertainment
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Rysher Entertainment is the owner of television and film programming content, primarily distributed around the world by CBS Television Distribution and Paramount Pictures. Select rights are distributed by Warner Bros. Universal, Lionsgate, Fox, Columbia Pictures, MGM and other entertainment distribution companies worldwide, the company has its roots in Bing Crosby Productions. In 1993, Cox acquired Rysher Entertainment, Rysher, founded in April 1991 by Keith Samples, had been established as an independently owned company whose original sole product had been the distribution of NBCs series Saved By The Bell. In 1993, Rysher merged with Al Masinis Television Program Enterprises to form Rysher TPE, through Rysher TPE, they produced and distributed shows such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Star Search. Later, they produced and distributed George & Alana, which ran for one season in 1995, Rysher also distributes internationally through CTD several of HBOs award-winning titles including Arli$$, Oz and Sex and the City. Rysher also produced House Arrest and Zeus and Roxanne, both of which were released by MGM and distributed by HBO Home Video for home release, Rysher Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Romantic comedy film
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Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is a movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily. Another definition states that its primary distinguishing feature is a plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. Romantic comedy films are a genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. However a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies, a wedding-bells, fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory. The basic plot of a comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other, the protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together. While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some effort to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other, the couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together happily ever after. The ending of a comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists lives. There are many variations on this basic plotline, sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each others arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character. Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, the basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Some comedy films, such as Knocked Up, combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, often known as bromance, such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include American Pie 2 and even Wedding Crashers, romantic comedies have begun to spread out of their conventional and traditional structure into other territory
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Natalie Cole
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Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits This Will Be, Inseparable. After a period of failing sales and performances due to a drug addiction, Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting. In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, with Love, which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide and she is best known for the role of herself in Yakety Yak, Take it Back, and Trash Talk, and the singing voice of Sawyer Cat in the Cats Dont Dance franchise. On December 31,2015, Cole died at the age of 65 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, regarding her childhood, Cole referred to her family as the black Kennedys and was exposed to many great singers of jazz, soul and blues. At the age of 6, Natalie sang on her fathers Christmas album, Cole grew up with an older adopted sister, Carole Cookie, adopted brother Nat Kelly Cole, and younger twin sisters Timolin and Casey. Her paternal uncle Freddy Cole is a singer and pianist with numerous albums, Cole enrolled in Northfield School for Girls, an elite New England preparatory school before her father died of lung cancer in February 1965. Soon afterwards she began having a relationship with her mother. She enrolled in the University of Massachusetts Amherst and she transferred briefly to University of Southern California where she pledged the Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She later transferred back to the University of Massachusetts, where she majored in Child Psychology and minored in German, Cole grew up listening to a variety of artists from soul artists such as Aretha Franklin to psychedelic blues-rock icon Janis Joplin. After graduation she began singing at clubs with her band. Clubs initially welcomed her because she was Nat King Coles daughter, only to be disappointed when she began covering R&B, while performing, she was noted by a couple of producers in the Chicago area, Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, who then approached her to do records. After cutting several records together, they passed off the music to record labels. Most labels turned them down with one exception, capitol Records, her fathers label, heard the records and agreed to sign her. In fact, Franklin later contended that such as This Will Be, I Cant Say No. Franklin turned most of the songs down but agreed to record the track for her album. Released in 1975, the became an instant success thanks to This Will Be
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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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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Turbulence (1997 film)
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Turbulence is a 1997 American disaster crime thriller film directed by Robert Butler. It stars Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Ryan Weaver is arrested in New York City for a murder that he says he did not commit, he must be transported to Los Angeles to face trial. He and another prisoner are escorted by four US marshals on a Boeing 747-200 on a commercial flight, even though it is Christmas Eve, the 747 is nearly empty, with only 11 people on board. The entire cabin is highly decorated with Christmas trees and other decorations, Weaver frees himself and attempts to save the last remaining marshal, but fails when both Stubbs shoots the marshal dead, after being shot himself. Weaver appears to be horrified by the ordeal, increasing the passengers trust in him, because of the death of the pilots, Teri Halloran, a stewardess, makes her way into the cockpit and learns she is the only one left capable of keeping the 747 from crashing. To make matters worse, the plane is heading for a Category 6 storm, weavers behavior becomes increasingly erratic since he apparently got drunk, which means that the alcohol is damaging his brain and causing severe nervous breakdowns. He locks the passengers in the cabin, rapes and strangles Maggie, one of the other flight attendants. He then calls LAX FBI control center that he threatens to crash the 747 into their facility since he is now on a suicide mission and his motives had become clear to Teri after she spoke, via the 747s radio, with the detective who arrested him. Being the only hope for the 747s survival, Halloran must be instructed by radio how to land, hallorans first attempt is unsuccessful, with the 747 skimming an office buildings roof Japanese restaurant and a car park due to Weaver altering with the circuitry in the avionics bay. She then must turn the 747 around and leave Los Angeles airspace, the LAX airport chief sends an U. S. Navy F-14 Tomcat Fighter jet to shoot down the 747. Halloran begs LAX not to have her shot down as a result of her failed first attempt, at this point, Weaver, completely drunk and crazy, breaks into the cockpit with an axe and tries to murder her. Halloran spies one of the guns, which she uses to fatally shoot Weaver. She returns to the seat and safely lands the 747. Despite the boasts of Weaver that he killed them all, the other crew, Turbulence grossed $11 million domestically over a $55 million budget. Lauren Hollys performance in the film earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress, Turbulence was also nominated for Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property but lost to Con Air. Despite its box office failure, the film did well enough on home video to become a trilogy with two new direct-to-video sequels and they are Turbulence 2, Fear of Flying and Turbulence 3, Heavy Metal, each with a different cast. Turbulence at the Internet Movie Database Turbulence at Box Office Mojo
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Demi Moore
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Demi Gene Guynes, professionally known as Demi Moore, is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of school at age 16 to pursue an acting career. After making her debut later that year, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained recognition for her work in Blame It on Rio. Her first film to both a critical and commercial hit was About Last Night. Which established her as a Hollywood star, in 1990, Moore starred in Ghost, the highest-grossing film of that year, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She had a string of additional successes in the early 1990s, including A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal. In 1996, Moore became the actress in film history when she was paid a then-unprecedented fee of $12.5 million to star in Striptease. Her next major role, G. I. Moore was born on November 11,1962 in Roswell and her biological father, Air Force airman Charles Harmon, Sr. left her mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage, before Moore was born. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, an advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs, as a result. Moore said in 1991, My dad was Dan Guynes, there is a man who would be considered my biological father who I dont really have a relationship with. Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her mother and stepfathers marriage certificate, Dan Guynes committed suicide in October 1980 at age 37, two years after he separated from Moores mother. Charles Harmon appeared on Inside Edition in 1995, making an appeal to see his grandchildren, Virginia Guynes had a long record of arrests for crimes, including drunk driving and arson. Moore broke off contact with her in 1990, when Guynes walked away from a rehab stay Moore had paid for at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota. Guynes posed nude for the magazine High Society in 1993, where she spoofed Moores Vanity Fair pregnancy and bodypaint covers, Moore and Guynes briefly reconciled shortly before Guynes died of cancer in July 1998 at age 54. Moore was cross-eyed as a child, this was corrected by two operations. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction, at age 15, Moore moved to West Hollywood, California, where her mother worked for a magazine-distribution company. Moore attended Fairfax High School there, and recalled, I moved out of my familys house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year. In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday, Moore met musician Freddy Moore who was married and at the leader of the band Boy
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G.I. Jane
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The film tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo training in U. S. Navy Special Warfare Group. A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy, Senator Lillian DeHaven from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being gender-neutral. Behind the curtains, a deal is struck, If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases, the first test is the training course of the U. S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team. Senator DeHaven hand-picks topographical analyst Lieutenant Jordan ONeil, because she is more feminine than the other candidates. Given a 30-second time allowance in a course, ONeil demands to be held to the same standards as the male trainees. ONeil fights back, and is successful in causing him some injury despite her immobilized arms, in so doing, she acquires respect from him, as well as from the other trainees. Navy leaders, confident that a woman would quickly drop out, civilian media learn of ONeils involvement, and she becomes a sensation known as G. I. Soon she must contend with trumped up charges that she is a lesbian, ONeil is told that she will be given a desk job during the investigation and, if cleared, will need to repeat her training. She decides to ring out rather than accept a desk job and it is later revealed that the photo evidence of ONeils alleged fraternization came from Senator DeHavens office. DeHaven never intended for ONeil to succeed, she used ONeil as a chip to prevent military base closings in her home state. ONeil threatens to expose DeHaven, who then has the charges voided, the final phase of training, an operational readiness exercise, is interrupted by an emergency that requires the CRT trainees support. The situation involves a reconnaissance satellite powered by weapons-grade plutonium that fell into the Libyan desert, a team of U. S. Army Rangers is dispatched to retrieve the plutonium, but their evacuation plan fails, and the trainees are sent to assist the Rangers. The Master Chiefs shooting of a Libyan soldier to protect ONeil leads to a confrontation with a Libyan patrol and she also displays a definitive ability in leadership and strategy while rescuing the injured Master Chief, whom she and McCool pull out of an explosives-laden kill zone. With helicopter gunships delivering the final assault to the defenders, the mission on the Libyan coast is a success. Upon their return, all those who participated in the mission are accepted to the CRT. Urgayle gives ONeil his Navy Cross and a book of poetry containing a poem, Self-pity, by D. H. Lawrence, as acknowledgment of her accomplishment. Jane received mixed reviews from critics and it currently holds a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews. Demi Moore won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performance in the film, the movie was a box office success
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
