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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Beverly Hills, California
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Beverly Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. By 2013, its population had grown to 34,658, sometimes referred to as 90210, one of its primary ZIP codes, it was home to many actors and celebrities throughout the 20th century. The city includes the Rodeo Drive shopping district and the Beverly Hills Oil Field, gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3,1769, travelling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard. The area was settled by Maria Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828 and they called their 4,500 acres of property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. in 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson and Henry Hancock. By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of 75 acres and was being bought up by anglos from Los Angeles. Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker acquired most of it, at this point, the area was known as the Hammel and Denker Ranch. By 1888, Denker and Hammel were planning to build a town called Morocco on their holdings and they did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property Beverly Hills, subdivided it, the development was named Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts and because of the hills in the area. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, although sales remained slow, Beverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents and it was also forbidden to sell or rent property to Jews in Beverly Hills. Burton Green began construction on The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1911, the hotel was finished in 1912. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills and that same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921, the glamor associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal. By the early 1920s the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue, in 1923 the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks, Will Rogers, the Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. In 1925, Beverly Hills approved an issue to buy 385 acres for a new campus for UCLA. The cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Venice also issued bonds to pay for the new campus
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park — Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn Southern California cemeteries. It is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Dr, Los Angeles, CA90068, in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Forest Lawn — Hollywood Hills is a dedicated to the preservation of American history and hosts high-profile events such as an annual Veterans Day ceremony attended by dignitaries. The park features such sights as, The Court of Liberty features statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, at 162 feet long and 28 feet high, Birth of Liberty is the largest historical mosaic in the United States. It is composed of ten pieces of Venetian glass and depicts twenty-five scenes from early America. The Old North Church, a replica of Bostons historic church. The historical rooms have documents and mementos of the colonial period, the Hall of Liberty American History Museum has a copy of the Liberty Bell and other exhibits. The museum has a 1, 200-seat auditorium, monument to Washington, a marble and bronze tribute to Americas first president, created by sculptor Thomas Ball. Four of Washingtons generals are honored in the memorial, the Lincoln Terrace features a 16-foot bronze statue of the 16th president by Augustus St. Gaudens, flanked by a panoramic mosaic depicting key scenes from Lincolns life. The Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage has indigenous/non-Christian sculptures by Meliton Salas Rodriguez, of Guadalajara, the first Forest Lawn, in Glendale, was founded in 1906 by businessmen who hired Dr. Hubert Eaton, a firm believer in a joyous life after death. Before it was a cemetery, Forest Lawn was a location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle. The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation were filmed there. The alternate names of the site are Providencia Flats, Nestor Ranch, Oak Ranch, Oak Crest Ranch, Universal Ranch/Universal City, Lasky Ranch. When Eaton made known his desire to open a second Forest Lawn location in the Hollywood Hills, the local residents protested vehemently. To circumvent the protesters, Mr. Eaton sent his staff to the county morgue to claim 6 John Does, in the morning, the protesters had no power because, by law, the property was now a cemetery. A mausoleum, for crypt or vault interments, a crematory and columbarium, for cinerary interments. A place where six or more bodies are buried. The new mortuary and cemetery opened in 1952, interred or entombed in the Hollywood Hills cemetery are many famous people, particularly from the entertainment industry
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Gloria Blondell
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Gloria Blondell was an actress and voice actress between 1938 and 1962, and was the younger sister of Joan Blondell. Blondell came from a family of entertainers and she once said, ome member of my family has been in the theater ever since the time of Richard the Lionhearted. Her father, Ed Blondell, was an actor for 80 years, gloria Blondell said that she first went on stage when she was 9 months old, and she was described as a trouper at three. Her family comprised a vaudeville troupe, the Bouncing Blondells, whose members were her parents, in 1935, she appeared in the Broadway production of Three Men on a Horse at the Playhouse in New York City. Gloria Blondell was a featured actress during the Golden Age of Radio. Blondell had the role of secretary Jerry Booker on I Love a Mystery and she may be best remembered for her role as Honeybee Gillis in the 1950s sitcom starring William Bendix, The Life of Riley. She was cast opposite Tom DAndrea as her husband, Jim Gillis and she appeared as enviably curvaceous Grace Foster in the I Love Lucy episode, The Anniversary Present. She portrayed a prostitute who rescues a town from a trio of criminals in The Looters. For Daisy Ducks second appearance as a Disney cartoon character, she took over, Blondell would voice Daisy for six of her nine speaking appearances during the classic shorts era. Blondell co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Accidents Will Happen and with Hans Conried in The Twonky and she was also in Daredevil Drivers. * Three Sappy People She married film producer Albert Broccoli on July 26,1940, on September 14,1946, she married Victor Hunter in Monterey, California. They remained married until his death in 1980, just weeks after her sisters death, gloria and Victor had one premature daughter, who died at birth. Gloria also nearly died from blood loss, and her life was saved by an emergency hysterectomy. She died at age 75 in 1986 in Santa Monica, California from cancer and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California
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Barbara Broccoli
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Barbara D. Broccoli, OBE Hon is an American film producer known for her work on the James Bond film series. Broccoli is the daughter of the James Bond producer Albert R. Cubby Broccoli, Broccoli married actor Frederick M. Zollo, but has since divorced him. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of the United Kingdom in the 2008 New Year Honours, in 2014 she was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Broccoli started in the Bond franchise at the age of 17, six years later, she became an assistant director on 1983s Octopussy. Soon after, she progressed to become a producer of the film The Living Daylights in 1987. However, her most notable role has been as a producer of the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan, Broccoli rehired the original songwriters from the film to write the new material for the stage version. The Sherman Brothers wrote five new songs for the show debuted on April 16,2002. The show ran at the London Palladium and was the most financially successful show to have played there. The musical has toured extensively in the UK and in Asia, Broccoli co-produced Chariots of Fire, the stage adaptation of the film of the same title. Broccolis involvement with Chariots of Fire extends back to 1980, when she introduced her friend Dodi Fayed to the screenplay and he later co-financed the film and became its executive producer. She co-produced the play along with Hugh Hudson, who directed the 1981 Oscar-winning film
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Michael G. Wilson
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Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE is an American producer and screenwriter, best known for his association with the James Bond film series. Wilson was born in New York City, the son of Dana and his father was the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action, which he did in the 1943 film serial Batman. He is the stepson of the James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and half-brother to Bond co-producer, Wilson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 as an electrical engineer. He later studied law at Stanford, after graduating, Wilson worked for the United States government and later a firm located in Washington D. C. that specialized in international law. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 New Year Honours, in 2010 Wilson was given The Royal Photographic Societys award for Outstanding Service to Photography, which carries with it an Honorary Fellowship of The Society. Wilson has two sons, a younger son Gregg Wilson and the older being David G. Wilson, Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me. In 1979 Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been a producer or producer in every James Bond film. Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989 Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, in addition to his production duties, Wilson has also made many cameo appearances in the Bond films. His first appearance, long before becoming a producer, was in Goldfinger in which he appeared as a soldier, Wilson has made cameo appearances in every Eon-produced Bond film since 1977. Wilson at the Internet Movie Database Michael G. Wilson at the Internet Broadway Database The Albert R. Cubby Broccoli Tribute Michael G. Wilson cameos Los cameos de Michael G. Wilson
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Pinewood Studios
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Pinewood Studios is a British film studio and television studio located approximately 20 miles west of central London, and 7 miles from Windsor. It is run by Pinewood Group, the studios have been the base for many productions over the years from big-budget films to television shows, commercials, and pop promos. It is well known as the home of the James Bond franchise, Pinewood Studios was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, which was a large Victorian house. It was purchased by Canadian financier and MP for Brentford and Chiswick Lt. Col. Grant Morden, who added such as a ballroom, a Turkish bath. Due to its seclusion, it was used as a meeting place for high-ranking politicians and diplomats. On Mordens death in 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot bought the land, the ballroom was converted into a restaurant and many of the bedrooms became furnished suites. In 1935, millionaire Methodist and flour magnate J. Arthur Rank created a partnership with Boot, Boot based designs for the studio complex upon the latest ideas being employed by film studios in Hollywood, California. Boot named the new studio Pinewood because of the number of trees grow there. In December of that construction began, with a new stage completed every three weeks. The studios were finished nine months later, having cost £1 million, five stages were initially completed and a provision for an enclosed water tank capable of holding 65,000 gallons, which is still in use. On 30 September 1936, the complex was officially opened by Dr Leslie Burgin. The first film to be entirely at Pinewood was Talk of the Devil. There followed a period of Pinewood and British film history, with Pinewood following the studios adopting the unit system. This enabled several pictures to be filmed simultaneously, and ultimately Pinewood achieved the highest output of any studio in the world, the Crown Film Unit completed many classic wartime documentaries including Roy Boultings Academy Award winning Desert Victory. Fires Were Started, Coastal Command and Western Approaches were all filmed there during this period, as well as the armed forces using Pinewood, The Royal Mint and Lloyds of London were installed onto sound stages and opened for business for the duration. The Company of Youth, the Rank Organisation acting school which launched several careers, was founded in 1945. The next year, Pinewood re-opened for business, Two landmarks in British film-making made at Pinewood were released in 1948, Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean, and Powell and Pressburgers The Red Shoes. In 1948, John Davis was appointed managing director, by the following year, Rank had run up an overdraft of £16 million, and announced a loss of £3.5 million, mainly due to big budget flops
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EON Productions
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Eon Productions is a British film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. The company is based in Londons Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. Eon, a closely held corporation, was started by film producers Albert R. Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961, at the time they became partners. No the year before they formed Danjaq, which for legal reasons became Eons holding company, Broccoli had been interested in the Bond novel rights for several years but was dissuaded from making them project by his former partner. When they dissolved their relationship he was free to pursue the property, for which Saltzman, the two were introduced by a New York writer who was acquainted with both, and formed a partnership within a week of meeting. The enterprise was and is still a business, including both wives of the principal partners, as well as several of their progeny, the latter group now carrying on their parents work. Albert almost immediately included Dana Broccolis college-aged son Michael G. Wilson in the early films and his engineering education was put to use in some of the series special effects. In 1975, after nine films, Harry Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists. Albert R. Broccolis name has appeared in the opening credit of every Eon-produced James Bond film. After Saltzman left, the credit was Albert R. Broccoli presents through to GoldenEye, even after Barbara Broccoli. On all films since Broccolis death, the credit is Albert R. Broccolis Eon Productions presents. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre were co-distributed with Columbia Pictures, the video rights for all of Eons films are owned by MGM Home Entertainment, and are controlled by MGMs distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment initially assumed the rights to Casino Royale. The Bond films produced by Eon Productions are, Dr, no in 1962, Eon has only made one non-Bond film, Call Me Bwana, starring Bob Hope. In 2008, Eon signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to develop fifteen thrillers and family films outside the Bond franchise, the company hopes the move will allow more British writers to establish themselves in the United States. In 2000, Eon productions served a cease and desist letter to Cheapass Games to stop it from using the name Mr. Bond in the title of its game Before I Kill You, in 2004, the game was reissued under the title James Ernests Totally Renamed Spy Game. James Bond games – list of games authorised by Eon Productions, Ian Fleming Publications – administers all of Ian Flemings literary oeuvre as well as continuation novels by other authors. Eon Productions at the Internet Movie Database
