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Penelope Ann Miller
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Penelope Ann Miller, sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She began her career on Broadway in the 1985 original production of Biloxi Blues and she returned to Broadway in the 1995 original stage production of On the Waterfront. Her other films include a role in The Relic and supporting roles in Chaplin, Along Came a Spider. Miller was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Beatrice, a costume designer, publicist, and journalist, and Mark Miller. Her mother was the goddaughter of businessman Aristotle Onassis and an editor of Harpers Bazaar and she has an older sister, Marisa Miller, who is also a film actress, and a younger sister, Savannah Miller, who is a social worker. Miller graduated from school in Los Angeles and attended Menlo College in Atherton CA for two years from 1981-1983, then moved to New York City to study theatre. Her Broadway theatre break came in 1985 when she was cast in the lead in the Neil Simon play Biloxi Blues and she played a role in one episode of the television series Miami Vice, and accepted several other small roles in film and television work. She then returned to Broadway in a revival of Our Town and she then appeared as Pee-wee Hermans fiancée, Winnie Johnston, in the 1988 release of Big Top Pee-wee. In 1990, she played Paula in Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro, Miller co-starred with Marlon Brando in 1990s The Freshman and with Gregory Peck in 1991s Other Peoples Money. She also appeared as Margo Lane in The Shadow with Alec Baldwin and she had the lead role in the big-budget creature feature The Relic as Dr. Margo Green. In 2000, she played the scandalous teacher Mary Kay Letourneau in the TV version of a story, All-American Girl. In 2002, Miller starred in the film Dead in a Heartbeat and her 2005 film Funny Money was voted the top film of the Sarasota Film Festival. She appeared in the Fox series Vanished for six episodes, playing the ex-wife of a U. S. senator whose wife has mysteriously disappeared and her 2007 comedy Blonde Ambition co-starring Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson performed poorly at the box office. She guest-starred as Fran on Desperate Housewives, Miller appeared in the horror film The Messengers, co-starring Dylan McDermott and Kristen Stewart. The film was produced by director Sam Raimis production company, Ghost House Pictures, in 2011, she portrayed Doris, the wife of protagonist George Valentin, in the Academy Award-winning film The Artist. After a recurring role on the ABC soap series Mistresses, Miller was cast as a regular in ABCs drama series American Crime, in 1994, she married actor Will Arnett. On May 28,2000, she married James Huggins and they have two daughters, Eloisa May, born December 10,2000, and Maria Adela, born March 23,2009. On March 14,2012, Miller filed for separation from Huggins after 12 years of marriage
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Mercedes Ruehl
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Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King, Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, the daughter of Mercedes J. Ruehl, a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban, Ruehl attended College of New Rochelle and graduated in 1969. She is married to painter David Geiser, with whom she adopted a son and she had another son, Christopher, whom she placed in adoption in 1976, he later became Jakes godfather. Her brother, Peter Ruehl, moved to Australia in 1987 where he was a newspaper columnist until his death in 2011. Ruehl began her career in theatre with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Her first starring role on Broadway came in 1984s Im Not Rappaport and she then went on to win the 1984 Obie Award for her performance in The Marriage of Bette and Boo and twenty years later, an Obie for Woman Before a Glass. She also received a 1991 Tony Award as Best Actress for Neil Simons Lost in Yonkers, earlier she had won the 1989 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Married to the Mob. She played KACL station manager Kate Costas in five episodes of Frasier and she is the first Cuban-American female Academy Award winner. In 2005, she received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors and she later played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBOs Entourage. In 2009, Ruehl returned to the Broadway stage in Manhattan Theater Clubs production of Richard Greenbergs The American Plan playing the role of Eva Adler, the production opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and the limited engagement ran From January 22 until March 22. In his rave review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called Ruehls performance masterly, Ruehl next appeared in the drama/horror film What Ever Happened to Barker Daniels. In January 2012, Ruehl starred in Sarah Treems play The How and The Why, directed by Emily Mann at McCarter Theatre of Princeton University
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USA Network
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USA Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. As of July 2015, USA Network is available to approximately 95.567 million pay television households in the United States, USA Network originally launched on September 22,1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz, the channel was one of the first national cable television channels, using satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less well-known professional sports, the channel began its broadcast day after 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekends. That fall, USA began signing on at 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays, it added some talk shows. Sports programming began airing at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time weekdays, in the fall of 1981, USA began its daily programming at 6,00 a. m. Later, in 1982, Time Inc. and Gulf+Westerns Paramount Pictures unit would buy stakes in the venture, the three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from the USA joint venture. Said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted to buy CNN from Ted Turner, MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel. In the fall of 1982, USA began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, running a mix of shows, a childrens program. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some drama series and talk shows during the morning hours. Overnights consisted of old films and film shorts, and music as part of a show called Night Flight. One tradition on USA was a lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show, more shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Jokers Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, along with Wipeout, Face the Music and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, when it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12,00 to 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night, a showcase of feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were shown from as early as 1989 until 2000, however, when KYWs news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings in 1991, production of USA Updates was then taken over by the All News Channel. The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000, USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were discontinued, USA Network was the first cable channel to preempted the syndicated market by purchasing a 26 Touchstone films package in October 1989
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Trust law
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A trust is a relationship whereby property is held by one party for the benefit of another. A trust is created by a settlor, who transfers property to a trustee, the trustee holds that property for the trusts beneficiaries. Trusts exist mainly in common law jurisdictions and similar systems existed since Roman times and this may be done for tax avoidance reasons or to control the property and its benefits if the settlor is absent, incapacitated, or deceased. Trusts are frequently created in wills, defining how money and property will be handled for children or other beneficiaries, the trustee is given legal title to the trust property, but is obligated to act for the good of the beneficiaries. The trustee may be compensated and have expenses reimbursed, but otherwise must turn over all profits from the trust properties, Trustees who violate this fiduciary duty are self-dealing. Courts can reverse self-dealing actions, order profits returned, and impose other sanctions, the trustee may be either an individual, a company, or a public body. There may be a trustee or multiple co-trustees. The trust is governed by the terms under which it was created, in most jurisdictions, this requires a contractual trust agreement or deed. A trust is created by a settlor, who transfers title to some or all of his or her property to a trustee, the trust is governed by the terms under which it was created. In most jurisdictions, this requires a contractual trust agreement or deed and it is possible for a single individual to assume the role of more than one of these parties, and for multiple individuals to share a single role. For example, in a living trust it is common for the grantor to be both a trustee and a beneficiary, while naming other contingent beneficiaries. Trusts have existed since Roman times and have one of the most important innovations in property law. Trust law has evolved through court rulings differently in different states, so statements in this article are generalizations, States are adapting the Uniform Trust Code to codify and harmonize their trust laws, but state-specific variations still remain. An owner placing property into trust turns over part of his or her bundle of rights to the trustee, separating the propertys legal ownership and control from its equitable ownership and benefits. This may be done for tax reasons or to control the property and its benefits if the settlor is absent, incapacitated, testamentary trusts may be created in wills, defining how money and property will be handled for children or other beneficiaries. While the trustee is given legal title to the trust property, in accepting the property title, the primary duties owed include the duty of loyalty, the duty of prudence, the duty of impartiality. A trustee may be held to a high standard of care in their dealings. In addition, a trustee has a duty to know, understand, the trustee may be compensated and have expenses reimbursed, but otherwise must turn over all profits from the trust properties
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Rena Owen
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Rena Owen is a New Zealand actress in theatre, television and film. Owen is best known for her role as Beth Heke in Lee Tamahoris Once Were Warriors and as Taun We in George Lucass Star Wars. Born in New Zealand, Owen is of Maori, Welsh, one of nine children, she grew up in Moerewa, raised Catholic in a small rural town in the North Islands Bay of Islands. She regularly performed in local Maori culture groups and performed in dramas, Owen pursued a medical career and trained as a nurse at Auckland Hospital for three and a half years. Once she qualified as a nurse, Owen moved to London. Owen trained at the Actors Institute in London in the mid-1980s, highlights include Voices From Prison for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Co-Existences for the Elephant Theatre and Outside in for Theater New Zealand, which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival. Owen wrote and starred in Te Awa i Tahuti, which had a successful London tour and was published by NZ Playmarket in 1991. On her return to New Zealand in 1989, Owen acted in two dramas for Television NZs E Tipu E Rea series, a first of its kind, the series was written, acted, directed & produced by Maori, telling Maori stories. She worked extensively in theatre, acting, writing, directing, working as a dramaturge, Owen wrote and starred in Daddys Girl, while also playing reoccurring roles in two TV series, Bettys Bunch & Shark in the Park. Recent theatre credits include starring in the classic NZ plays, Haruru Mai for the NZ International Arts Festival and The Pohutukawa Tree for ATC. In the USA, she has acted in multiple stage readings for Native Voices at the Autry in LA, and she also played the lead in a Hawaiian play called Fine Dancing, adapted and directed Toa Frasers play Bare for the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco. In Once Were Warriors, Owen played the role of Beth Heke alongside Temuera Morrison. Once Were Warriors is predominantly narrated from Beths perspective, and her performance was praised as classic, Owen reprised the role in the films sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted. Owen played Taun We in George Lucas Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Nee Alavar in Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and a cameo role in Steven Spielbergs A. I. Whilst playing a role in WBs Angel, Owen played supporting. She played leading roles in the Australian TV drama series, Medivac in 1998, and recently in ABCs, The Straits and she also appeared in A&Es Longmire. Recently Owen and Morrison completed work on a documentary celebrating the 20-year anniversary of Once Were Warriors, Owen acted as Taun We in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and acted in Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith as Nee Alavar. In New Zealand, she was awarded a Special Benny Award for Excellence in Film, and she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2012 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards for her role as Hine Ryan in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. P
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John G. Schmitz
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John George Schmitz was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and California State Senate from Orange County, California. He was also a member of the John Birch Society, in 1972 he was the American Independent Party candidate for President of the United States, later known as the American Party. Schmitz was notable for his extreme right-wing sympathies, on October 25,1971 Schmitz composed an introduction to the highly controversial book None Dare Call it Conspiracy written by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham. Two of Schmitzs children, sons John and Joseph, have held prominent posts in Republican presidential administrations, son Joseph Schmitz has also worked for the international security firm Blackwater USA. His daughter Mary Kay, a teacher, became well-known after her arrest for having a relationship with a student. Schmitz died in 2001 at the age of 70 from prostate cancer, Schmitz was born in Milwaukee, the son of Wilhelmina and Jacob John Schmitz. He obtained his B. S. degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1952 and he served as a United States Marine Corps jet fighter and helicopter pilot from 1952 to 1960, and was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1960 to 1983. After leaving the Marines, Schmitz took a job as an instructor in philosophy and he also became active in the John Birch Society. His views attracted the attention of wealthy Orange County conservatives such as fast-food magnate Carl Karcher, sporting goods heir Willard Voit and they helped him win election to the California Senate in 1964 from a district in Orange County. His views were very conservative even by the standards of Orange County, Schmitz once joked that he had joined the John Birch Society in order to court the moderate vote in Orange County. He opposed sex education in schools and believed citizens should be able to carry loaded guns in their cars. He was also critical of the civil unrest that characterized the mid-1960s and he called the Watts riots of 1965 a Communist operation, and a year later sponsored a bill, which failed to pass, to investigate the backgrounds of teachers suspected of Communist affiliations. He also believed that state universities should be sold to corporations as a curb against student protests. He served in the senate until 1970, when he won a special election to succeed the late James B. Utt in the House from Californias 35th congressional district and he won a full term in November. Schmitz replied, I didnt care that Nixon went to China, Nixon recruited Orange County Tax Assessor Andrew J. Hinshaw, a more moderate Republican, to run against Schmitz in the Republican primary for the renumbered 39th District. Angry at Nixons role in his defeat, Schmitz ran as the American Independent Party candidate for president in the 1972 election, the pair received 1,100,868 votes for 1. 42% of the total. Schmitzs best showings were in the West—he received 9. 30% of the vote in Idaho,7. 25% in Alaska,5. 97% in Utah and he also received 4. 95% of the vote in Louisiana
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Janet-Laine Green
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Janet-Laine Green is a Canadian actress, director, producer and teacher, active for over 25 years. She also provided the voice of the arch villain Xayide in the version of The Neverending Story. She has also worked as a producer on the film The Circle Game in which she also played as Anna. Green has been nominated for three Gemini Awards and two Genie Awards and she is also active on the Canadian stage. In fact, Theatre Saskatchewan has given the provinces best stage actors, since 1992, Green is the mother of Goosebumps and Redwall actor Tyrone Savage. Her husband, Booth Savage, wrote the version of Pillow Talk. She has a company of her own, Briefcase Productions. All-American Girl, The Mary Kay Letourneau Story - Mrs. Melissa Park E. N. G, - Carla Night Heat - Jennifer Breland Playmakers - Miss Duberstein Psi Factor, Chronicles of the Paranormal - Dr. Joanne Bester The Ray Bradbury Theater - Mrs. and T. - Additional Voices Ultraforce - Lament WildC. A. T. S, - Void Transformers, Beast Wars Transmetals - Blackarachnia/Predacon Computer Janet-Laine Green at the Internet Movie Database Janet-Laine Green at Northern Stars Janet-Laine Green on Twitter
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Charleston Daily Mail
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The Charleston Daily Mail was a newspaper based in Charleston, West Virginia. On July 20,2015 it merged with the Charleston Gazette to form the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor Walter Eli Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987. Governor Clark described the newspaper as an independent Republican publication, in 1987, the Clark heirs sold the paper to the Toronto-based Thomson Newspapers. The new owners moderated the political views of the paper to some degree, in 1998, Thomson sold the Daily Mail to the Denver-based MediaNews Group. In May 2004, MediaNews sold the paper to the Daily Gazette Company, the new owner reduced the staff and canceled its Saturday edition, publishing Monday–Friday afternoons from 2004 to 2009. It also began to market the paper in a manner in an attempt to drive its circulation down to the point it could be closed. The United States Department of Justice filed suit under antitrust laws almost immediately, in the course of the lawsuit it was discovered that the Daily Gazette Company had presented a business plan to the United Bank which projected a shut down of the paper no later than 2007. In January 2009, the paper was switched to a morning publication, on January 20,2010, the Daily Gazette Company and the Justice Department settled relative to violations in the purchase of the Daily Mail and the Daily Gazette Companys management of it. The Daily Gazette was required to seek government permission to cease publication of the Daily Mail and this intellectual property once included the domain name dailymail. The newspaper was merged with the Charleston Gazette-Mail without prior notice on July 20,2015, the combined paper is identical to the previous Gazette except that the former Daily Mail staff produces a separate editorial page and some syndicated content was migrated over. The Daily Mail has won awards in many fields, J. D. Maurice, its editor of many years until his retirement in 1978, won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing in 1958 and the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing in 1975
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Jerry Springer
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Gerald Norman Jerry Springer is an American television presenter, a former lawyer, Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, news presenter, actor, and musician. He has hosted the talk show Jerry Springer since its debut in 1991. Springer was born in Highgate tube station in London, England, while the station was in use as a shelter from German bombing during World War II and his parents, Margot and Richard Springer, were Jewish refugees who escaped from Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany. His maternal grandmother Marie Kallmann, who was left behind, died in the gas trucks of Chelmno extermination camp and his paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died at the hospital in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selma Springers brother, Dr. Hermann Elkeles, was a renowned Berlin doctor who died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. In January 1949, Springer immigrated with his parents to the United States, settling in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, and attended Forest Hills High School. One of his earliest memories about current events was when he was 12, Springer earned a B. A. degree from Tulane University in 1965, majoring in political science. He earned a J. D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968, Springer was a partner in the law firm of Grinker, Sudman & Springer from 1973-1985, alongside former NBA agent Ronnie Grinker and current Butler County magistrate Harry Sudman. Springer became a campaign adviser to Robert F. Kennedy. After Kennedys assassination, he joined the Cincinnati law firm of Frost & Jacobs, in 1970, Springer ran for Congress. He failed to unseat incumbent Republican Donald D. Clancy, and he had previously spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age, including testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment. Three days after announcing his candidacy, Springer, who was also an Army reservist at the time, was called to active duty and he resumed his campaign after he was discharged. Springer was elected to the Cincinnati city council in 1971 and he resigned in 1974 after admitting to hiring a prostitute. Springer came clean at a press conference, long-time Cincinnati newsman Al Schottelkotte pronounced Springers career over, but Springers honesty helped him win back his seat in 1975 by a landslide. In a post-election interview, Schottelkotte good-naturedly reminded Springer that he had declared Springers career over, Springer told the newsman, Im glad that you were wrong. In 1977, he was chosen to one year as mayor by the City Council. In 1982, Springer sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, TV commercials for Springers campaign referenced his use of a check to pay a prostitute, saying that he was not afraid of the truth even if it hurts. In the late 1980s he played a role in saving the historic Cincinnati Union Terminal
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Ricki Lake
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Ricki Pamela Lake is an American actress, producer, and television presenter. Lake is best known for her show which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When Lakes show debut, She was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a talk show at the time. In autumn 2012, Lake embarked on a syndicated talk show project The Ricki Lake Show. In 2013, the series was cancelled after one season but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Lake was born to Jill and Barry Lake, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Lake attended Ithaca College for one year. Lake made her debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waterss 1988 cult-classic Hairspray. Lake also starred in other Waters films including Cry-Baby, Cecil B and she starred in Mrs. Winterbourne with Shirley MacLaine and Brendan Fraser, Cabin Boy, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Cookie, and Inside Monkey Zetterland. She joined the cast of the Vietnam War drama series China Beach as a Red Cross volunteer, Holly the Donut Dolly Pelegrino and she also had a recurring role on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Dougs sister Stephanie. She guest-starred on television series including Drop Dead Diva and a role on King of the Hill. The song is played during the end credits. She later reunited with original Hairspray co-star Deborah Harry for the film Hotel Gramercy Park, Ricki Lake was Lakes first daytime talk show and at 24, she was the youngest person at the time to host one. The show specialized in topics involving invited guests and incorporated questions, the show debuted in syndication on September 13,1993, and ended first-run episodes on May 25,2004. In 2000, Lake told Rosie ODonnell in an interview that she had signed on for four additional years. Although Sony Pictures Television had many stations contracted through the 2004–2005 season, Lake decided to end the show in August 2004 and she moved from Los Angeles to New York to tape the 11th season of the show, then returned to California when taping was complete. Lake returned to the show platform when she hosted a second talk show which premiered in September 2012 and was cancelled after one season. After her talk show had wrapped production on its season, Lake went on to host the 2006 CBS limited series Gameshow Marathon. She also signed a development deal with Gameshow Marathon production company FremantleMedia for other ventures, including creating and producing future programs, in October 2007, Lake appeared in the Lifetime TV movie Matters of Life and Dating
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Los Angeles Daily News
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The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is the flagship of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media, the offices of the Daily News are in Woodland Hills, and much of the papers reporting is targeted toward readers in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Its stories tend to focus on issues involving valley businesses, education, the current editor is Frank Pine. The Daily News began life in 1911 as the Van Nuys Call, in 1953, the newspaper was renamed the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley, in 1971, the newspaper was sold to the Tribune Company by the original family owners. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000, in 1981, the paper changed its name to the Daily News of Los Angeles and became a daily publication. In 1985, Tribune sold the paper to Jack Kent Cooke, when the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner went out of business November 2,1989, it left the Daily News the second-biggest paper in the city behind the Los Angeles Times. Upon Cookes death in 1998, William Dean Singletons MediaNews purchased the newspaper, the group briefly published local editions for the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita and Ventura County. However, to cut costs and consolidate resources, the editions were eliminated. As part of circulation reporting for the Southern California News Group, the Daily News bears no relation to an earlier Los Angeles Daily News, a morning newspaper based in Downtown Los Angeles which ceased publication on December 18,1954. It endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, but then endorsed his opponent Mitt Romney in 2012
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Variety (magazine)
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Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation. The last daily printed edition was put out on March 19,2013, Variety originally reported on theater and vaudeville. Variety has been published since December 16,1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City, on January 19,1907, Variety published what is considered the first film review in history. In 1933, Sime Silverman launched Daily Variety, based in Hollywood, Sime Silverman had passed on the editorship of the Weekly Variety to Abel Green as his replacement in 1931, he remained as publisher until his death in 1933 soon after launching the Daily. His son Sidne Silverman, known as Skigie, succeeded him as publisher of both publications, both Sidne and his wife, stage actress Marie Saxon, died of tuberculosis. Their only son Syd Silverman, born 1932, was the heir to what was then Variety Inc. Young Syds legal guardian Harold Erichs oversaw Variety Inc. until 1956, after that date Syd Silverman was publisher of both the Weekly Variety in New York and the Daily Variety in Hollywood, until the sale of both papers in 1987 to the Cahners Corp. In L. A. the Daily was edited by Tom Pryor from 1959 until 1988, for twenty years its editor-in-chief was Peter Bart, originally only of the weekly New York edition, with Michael Silverman running the Daily in Hollywood. Bart had worked previously at Paramount Pictures and The New York Times, in April 2009, Bart moved to the position of vice president and editorial director, characterized online as Boffo No More, Bart Up and Out at Variety. From mid 2009 to 2013, Timothy M. Gray oversaw the publication as Editor-in-Chief, after over 30 years of various reporter, in October 2014, Eller and Wallenstein were upped to Co-Editors in Chief, with Littleton continuing to oversee the trades television coverage. This dissemination comes in the form of columns, news stories, images, video, Cahners Publishing purchased Variety from the Silverman family in 1987. On December 7,1988, Barts predecessor, Roger Watkins, proposed, upon its launch, the new-look Variety measured one inch shorter with a washed-out color on the front. In October 2012, Reed Business Information, the periodicals owner, PMC is the owner of Deadline. com, which since the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike has been considered Varietys largest competitor in online showbiz news. In October,2012, Jay Penske announced that the paywall would come down, the print publication would stay. A significant portion of the advertising revenue comes during the film-award season leading up to the Academy Awards. During this Awards Season, large numbers of colorful, full-page For Your Consideration advertisements inflate the size of Variety to double or triple its usual page count, paid circulation for the weekly Variety magazine in 2013 was 40,000. Each copy of each Variety issue is read by an average of three people, with a total readership of 120,000. Variety. com has 17 million unique monthly visitors, Variety is a weekly entertainment publication with a broad coverage of movies, television, theater, music and technology, written for entertainment executives
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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
