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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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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Bad Boys (1983 film)
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Bad Boys is a 1983 American coming-of-age crime drama film set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Clancy Brown, Alan Ruck and Ally Sheedy in their film debuts. The film is directed by Rick Rosenthal, the original music score was composed by Bill Conti. Mick OBrien is a 16-year-old Irish-American hoodlum from Chicago, Mick is sent to the Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility rather than a state prison for adults. Most of the wardens and counselors seem to have lowered themselves to the role of zookeepers, the only exception is Ramon Herrera, a former gang member who talks tough to the inmates, but holds out hope for some of them, especially Mick. Micks cellmate is Barry Horowitz, a small, wiry, brainy Jewish kid who firebombed a bowling alley after some boys there severely beat him and their cell block is dominated by a pair of brawny sadists named Viking Lofgren and Warren Tweety Jerome. As soon as their alpha male status is established, Mick takes his first step toward defining himself by refusing to be intimidated by them, Ramon believes that Mick had gone to J. C. s house, and soon picks him up. He then takes him on a trip to a maximum-security prison to show whats in store for him, after Pacos arrest upon the police finding out about the rape on J. C. he is sentenced to the same dormitory at Rainford that Mick is in. The staff are aware of this potential danger, but no other reform school has a vacancy. Meanwhile, in an attempt to injure Paco for Mick, Horowitz plants fertilizer into a radio that he has placed in Paco, when the charge explodes prematurely and only injures Viking, Horowitz is condemned to permanent solitary confinement, a fate he fears more than any other. Eventually, Pacos transfer is arranged, so he plans his showdown with Mick for the night before, while Herrera was on night patrol, Paco fakes a ruptured appendix so Herrera comes to his aid. Herrera is assaulted, then caged in the office, the door into the cells is then barricaded, and the entire dormitory is aroused by the brawl. Eventually, Mick comes out on top, and the ends with him very nearly killing Paco while being encouraged by the others to do it. However, resisting at the last second, he doesn´t do it and he then drags a beaten Paco in front of the caged Ramon and other detention officers and heads back to his cell, crying in remorse. Bad Boys was released on Blu-ray for the first time on February 1,2011, presented complete, Bad Boys garnered generally positive reviews, review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes currently holds an 89% Fresh rating based on 19 reviews. David Denby of The New Yorker magazine argued, Bad Boys is never less than tense and exciting, but its coarse and grisly, an essentially demagogic piece of work. In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, perry Seibert of All Media Guide said Bad Boys proves that great performances can overcome routine story lines. The soundtrack of the film comprised some late, eccentric funk tracks, as well as Billy Squier and Iron Maiden
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Brat Pack (actors)
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The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. The core members are considered to be Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, david Blum wrote the article after witnessing several young actors being mobbed by groupies at Los Angeles Hard Rock Cafe. The group has been characterized by the partying of members such as Robert Downey Jr. Estevez, Lowe, Estevez was cited as the unofficial president of the Brat Pack. He and Demi Moore were once engaged, McCarthy says he was never a member of the group, The media made up this sort of tribe. I dont think Ive seen any of these people since we finished St. Elmos Fire, the initial New York article covered a group of actors larger, or more inclusive, than the currently understood meaning of the term Brat Pack. Charlie Sheen appears in several lists – more for his relationship to Brat Pack leader Emilio Estevez. James Spader and Robert Downey, Jr, other actors who have been linked with the group include Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Jon Cryer, John Cusack, Jami Gertz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Sean Penn, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lea Thompson. In her autobiography, Melissa Gilbert connects herself with the Brat Pack, as her life centered on Estevez. Through frequent collaborative work, the actor Harry Dean Stanton, then in his late 50s, david Blums New York story, titled Hollywoods Brat Pack, ran on June 10,1985. It was originally supposed to be just about Emilio Estevez, but one night, Estevez invited Blum to hang out with him, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson and it was a typical night out for the group, who had gotten close while filming St. Elmos Fire. That night, Blum decided to change the focus to an entire group of young actors at the time. The St. Elmos Fire crew members did not like Blum, when the piece ran, the actors all felt betrayed, especially Estevez. The article mentioned people in films but focused on Estevez, Lowe, and Nelson. The Brat Pack label, which the actors disliked, stuck for years afterward, before the article ran, they had been regarded as talented individuals, after the article, all of them were grouped together and regarded as unprofessional. Interviewed for Susannah Goras 2010 book You Couldnt Ignore Me If You Tried, The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation, with the increased negative attention to them, the actors soon stopped socializing with one another. On the groups camaraderie, Ally Sheedy later said, just destroyed it, I had felt truly a part of something, and that guy just blew it to pieces. During the late 1980s, several of the Brat Pack actors had their careers mildly derailed by problems relating to drugs, alcohol, and in Lowes case, according to Gora, Many believe they could have gone on to more serious roles if not for that article. But they had difficulties, personal difficulties after that
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The Breakfast Club
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The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7,1985. Universal Pictures released the film in cinemas in the United States on February 15,1985 and it received critical acclaim and earned $51.5 million on a $1 million budget. Critics consider it one of the greatest high school films of all time, the media referred to the films five main actors as members of a group called the Brat Pack. The title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for morning detention at New Trier High School, thus, those who were sent to detention before school starting time were designated members of The Breakfast Club. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, the film was digitally remastered and was re-screened throughout 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2015. On Saturday, March 24,1984, five students report at 7,00 a. m. for all-day detention at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois. They gather in the school library, where assistant principal Richard Vernon instructs them not to speak, move from their seats. He assigns them a 1, 000-word essay, in which each must describe who you think you are and he then leaves, returning only occasionally to check on them. Bender, who has an antagonistic relationship with Vernon, ignores the rules and frequently riles up the other students, teasing Brian and Andrew. Allison is initially quiet, except for an occasional random outburst, over the course of the day, Vernon gives Bender several weekends worth of additional detention and even locks him in a storage closet, but he escapes and returns to the library. The students pass the hours by talking, arguing, and, at one point, the students realize that, even with their differences, they face similar pressures and complications in their lives. Despite their differences in status, the group begins to form friendships as the day progresses. Claire gives Allison a makeover, to reveal just how pretty she really is, Claire decides to break her pristine virgin appearance by kissing Bender in the closet and giving him a hickey. Although they suspect that the relationships will end with the end of their detention, as the detention nears its end, the group requests that Brian complete the essay for everyone and John returns to the storage closet to fool Vernon into thinking he has not left. Brian writes the essay and leaves it in the library for Vernon to read after they leave, as the students part ways outside the school, Allison and Andrew kiss, as do Claire and Bender. Allison rips Andrews state champion patch from his jacket to keep, and Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings. Vernon reads the essay, in which Brian states that Vernon has already judged who they are, using simple definitions and stereotypes. One by one, the five students voices add, But what we found out is that one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess
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St. Elmo's Fire (film)
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St. Elmos Fire is a 1985 American coming-of-age film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film is a prominent movie of the Brat Pack genre, at the hospital, Kirby sees a female medical student named Dale, with whom he has been infatuated since college. The group gathers at their favorite college hangout, St. Elmo’s Bar, Billy has been fired from the job Alec helped him secure and his marriage is unstable. At their apartment, Alec pressures Leslie to marry him, Kirby is telling Kevin of his love for Dale when Billy shows up, asking to spend the night as he cannot deal with his wife. Kevin worries about his life when Jules accuses him of being gay. When he visits Alec and Leslie for dinner, Alec confesses to Kevin that while buying lingerie for Leslie he had intercourse with the saleswoman. Billy and Wendy get drunk together and Wendy reveals that she is a virgin and she and Billy kiss but Wendy insists they just remain friends, especially since she realizes Billy is taking advantage of her crush on him. During Halloween at St. Elmo’s Bar, Jules reveals to a disapproving Leslie that she is having an affair with her married boss, Billy sees his wife with another man in the crowd and attacks him. Billy is thrown out of the bar but reconciles with his wife, the girls confront Jules about the affair and her reckless spending but she insists that everything is under control. Kirby takes a job working for Mr. Kim, a wealthy Korean businessman, Wendy arrives with Howie, a boy her parents set her up with. Alec announces that he and Leslie are engaged, upsetting Leslie and she confronts him about her suspicions of his infidelity and the two break up. Alec is also angry with Kevin, who he confessed everything to Leslie. After the party, Jules gives Billy a ride home, as she is about to confide in him, Billy makes a pass at her. Furious, Jules throws him out of her car, still pursuing Dale, Kirby drives to the ski lodge where she is staying but learns she has a boyfriend. His borrowed car becomes stuck in the snow and Dale and her boyfriend invites him to come inside, the next morning, as Kirby prepares to leave Dale’s cottage, Dale tells him she is flattered by his affections. He kisses her, and she does not resist, Kirby then takes a photo with Dale and departs the lodge, happy. Leslie goes to Kevin’s place to stay the night after the breakup, Kevin confesses his love for her, and the two sleep together but the next morning, Alec comes by to apologize to Kevin for attacking him the night before. Alec is shocked to find Leslie there and the two argue over his infidelity, Wendy meets her father at a café and announces she wants to be independent from her family and move into her own place
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WarGames
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WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, the film follows David Lightman, a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the weapons control system. The film was a box office success, costing US$12 million, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards. A sequel, WarGames, The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD on July 29,2008, during a surprise drill of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing controllers prove unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike. Such refusals convince John McKittrick and other engineers at NORAD that missile launch control centers must be automated. Control is given to a NORAD supercomputer, WOPR, programmed to continuously run war simulations, David Lightman, a bright, but unmotivated Seattle high school student and hacker, uses his computer to break into the school districts computer system and change his grades. He does the same for his friend and classmate Jennifer Mack, later, while war dialing numbers in Sunnyvale, California to find a computer company, he connects with a system that does not identify itself. Two hacker friends explain the concept of a password and suggest tracking down the Falken referenced in Falkens Maze. David discovers that Stephen Falken was an artificial intelligence researcher. David does not know that the Sunnyvale phone number connects to WOPR at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and he starts a game of Global Thermonuclear War, playing as the Soviet Union. The computer starts a simulation that briefly convinces the military personnel at NORAD that actual Soviet nuclear missiles are inbound. While they defuse the situation, Joshua nonetheless continues the simulation to trigger the scenario and win the game, David learns the true nature of his actions from a news broadcast, and FBI agents arrest him and take him to NORAD. He realizes that WOPR is behind the NORAD alerts, but because he fails to convince McKittrick, David escapes NORAD by joining a tourist group and, with Jennifers help, travels to the Oregon island where Falken lives. David and Jennifer find that Falken has become despondent and believes that war is inevitable. The teenagers convince Falken that he should return to NORAD to stop WOPR, the computer stages a massive Soviet first strike with hundreds of missiles, submarines, and bombers. Believing the attack to be genuine, NORAD prepares to retaliate, Falken, David, and Jennifer convince military officials to cancel the second strike and ride out the attack
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Short Circuit (1986 film)
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Short Circuit is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by John Badham, and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The films plot centers upon a military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a more humanlike intelligence. Short Circuit stars Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, a sequel, Short Circuit 2, was released in 1988. Number 5 is part of a series of prototype U. S. military S. A. I. N. T, robots built for the Cold War by NOVA Laboratories. The series inventors, Newton Graham Crosby and Ben Jabituya, are interested in peaceful applications including music. After a demonstration of the capabilities, Number 5 is hit by a lightning-induced power surge. Several incidents allow the robot to escape the facility accidentally, barely able to communicate, when Stephanie realizes Number 5 is a military invention, she contacts NOVA who send out a team to recover him, bringing one of the other robots along to help. When Number 5 accidentally crushes a grasshopper and gains an understanding of mortality, horrified, Number 5 steals Stephanies van and flees, but the pair are cornered by NOVA, including Newton and Ben. Although Stephanie attempts to reveal his newly discovered sentience, Number 5 is deactivated and captured, being taken on the way to NOVA, he manages to turn himself back on and escapes despite a tracker that had been placed on him. Returning to Stephanie for protection, Number 5s unusual actions catch the attention of his creators, from this follow several adventurous escapes from the soldiers, led by NOVAs security chief Captain Skroeder. Having humiliated Stephanies ex-boyfriend Frank and three of the prototypes, Stephanie and the robot convince Newton of the robots sentience. Shortly after, the trio are cornered by Skroeder, who has taken over NOVAs security. Number 5 flees across the fields until a US Army helicopter sweeps over a nearby rise, Newton and Stephanie are devastated over the loss, Newton quits NOVA. Marner is also infuriated at the destruction of years of research, Stephanie leaves with Newton, who plans to head to his fathers estate in Montana and start over. During their drive, Number 5 reveals himself to them, surprising his friends by revealing the warmongers actually blew up a duplicate he made out of spare parts. Elated in their reunion, Number 5 renames himself Johnny 5 after a song Whos Johnny that he heard when he escaped from NOVAs van and he accompanies Stephanie and Newton to their new home. The voices of Johnny 1, Johnny 2 & Johnny 3 are uncredited This film was conceived after the producers distributed a video about a robot to various colleges. Studying other films with a prominent robot cast for inspiration, they decided to question human reactions to a living robot, according to the commentary in the DVD, Number 5 was the most expensive part of the film, requiring several different versions to be made for different sequences
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High Art
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High Art is a 1998 Canadian-American independent film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell. Sydney, age 24, is a woman who has her whole life mapped out in front of her, living with longtime boyfriend James, and working her way up at the respected high-art photography magazine Frame, Syd has desires and frustrations that seem typical and manageable. But when a crack in her ceiling springs a leak and Syd finds herself knocking on the door of her upstairs neighbor, opening the door to an uncharted world for Syd is Lucy Berliner, a renowned photographer, enchanting, elusive, and curiously retired. Now 40, Lucy lives with her glamorous, heroin-addicted German girlfriend Greta. Syd is fascinated by Lucy and becomes drawn into the center of Lucys strangely alluring life upstairs, Syd mentions Lucy to her bosses but they remain uninterested until they realise exactly who Lucy is. At a lunch, Lucy agrees to work for the magazine as long as Syd is her editor, soon a working relationship develops between the two and a project is underway which promises a second chance for Lucys career. But as Syd and Lucys collaboration draws them together, their working relationship turns sexual. As Syd slowly discovers the darker truths of Lucys life on the edge, she is forced to confront her own hunger for recognition, the photographs themselves were made by Jojo Whilden. Official Site High Art at the Internet Movie Database High Art at Rotten Tomatoes High Art at Box Office Mojo Movie reviews, The New York Times Roger Ebert CNN
