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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the English Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities. Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, the regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, the city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conquerors eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the trade in the 14th century. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the worlds largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres. Newcastles economy includes corporate headquarters, learning, digital technology, retail, tourism and cultural centres, among its icons are Newcastle United football club and the Tyne Bridge. Since 1981 the city has hosted the Great North Run, a marathon which attracts over 57,000 runners each year. The first recorded settlement in what is now Newcastle was Pons Aelius and it was given the family name of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who founded it in the 2nd century AD. This rare honour suggests Hadrian may have visited the site and instituted the bridge on his tour of Britain, Pons Aelius population at this period was estimated at 2,000. Fragments of Hadrians Wall are visible in parts of Newcastle, particularly along the West Road, the course of the Roman Wall can be traced eastwards to the Segedunum Roman fort in Wallsend—the walls end—and to the supply fort Arbeia in South Shields. After the Roman departure from Britain, completed in 410, Newcastle became part of the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, conflicts with the Danes in 876 left the river Tyne and its settlements in ruin. After the conflicts with the Danes, and following the 1088 rebellion against the Normans, Monkchester was all, because of its strategic position, Robert Curthose, son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden castle there in the year 1080. The town was known as Novum Castellum or New Castle. The wooden structure was replaced by a castle in 1087. The castle was again in 1172 during the reign of Henry II. Much of the keep which can be seen in the city dates from this period. Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was Englands northern fortress, incorporated first by Henry II, the city had a new charter granted by Elizabeth in 1589
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From top-left:
Newcastle Quayside and
River Tyne, with the
Gateshead Millennium Bridge and
Tyne Bridge,
St James' Park stadium,
Theatre Royal, Georgian architecture around
Grey's Monument,
the Castle
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school in London, England. It is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, RADA is an affiliate school of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Its higher education awards are validated by Kings College London and its students graduate alongside members of the departments which form the Kings Faculty of Arts & Humanities and it is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senate House complex of the University of London. Undergraduate students are eligible for government student loan through the Conservatoire for Dance, RADA also has a significant scholarships and bursaries scheme, offering financial assistance to many students at the Academy. The current director of the academy is Edward Kemp, the president is Sir Kenneth Branagh, the chairman is Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen and its vice-chairman was Alan Rickman until his death in 2016. RADA was founded in 1904 by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, an actor manager, in 1905, RADA moved to 52 Gower Street, and a managing council was set up to oversee the school. Its members included George Bernard Shaw, who donated his royalties from his play Pygmalion to RADA. In 1920, RADA was granted a Royal Charter, and in 1921, the Prince of Wales opened the theatre. The Gower Street buildings were torn down in 1927, and replaced with a new building, financed by George Bernard Shaw, in 1923, John Gielgud studied at RADA for a year. He later became President of the academy, and its first honorary fellow, a number of famous actors took on leading roles at RADA, such as Richard Attenborough, Oliver Neville, Nicholas Barter, and Alan Rickman. Other 1924 saw RADAs first government subsidy, a grant of £500, in 2001, RADA joined forces with the London Contemporary dance School to create the UKs first Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance joined this Conservatoire in 2005, in 2000 the Academy founded RADA Enterprises Ltd, which includes RADA in Business, providing training in communications and teambuilding that uses drama training techniques in a business context. The profits are fed back into the Academy to fund students training, RADA is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London. The main RADA building is on Gower Street, with a second premises nearby in Chenies Street, the Goodge Street and Euston Square underground stations are both within walking distance. RADA has five theatres and a cinema, there is also a 150-seat cinema. In January 2012, RADA acquired the lease to the adjacent Drill Hall venue in Chenies Street, the Drill Hall is a Grade II listed building with a long performing arts history, and was where Nijinsky rehearsed with Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1911. This venue has a 200-seat space, the Studio Theatre, and a 50-seat space, the RADA library contains around 30,000 items. The collection was started in 1904 with donations from actors and writers of the such as Sir Squire Bancroft, William Archer, Arthur Wing Pinero
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The main entrance to RADA on Gower Street
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George Bernard Shaw, who donated the royalties from his play
Pygmalion to RADA in 1912.
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The RADA building at 18 Chenies Street
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Hero Initiative
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Stonehenge, a
Neolithic monument
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Flag
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Boudica led an uprising against the
Roman Empire
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Replica of a 7th-century ceremonial
helmet from the
Kingdom of East Anglia, found at
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Birdman (film)
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Birdman or, commonly known simply as Birdman, is a 2014 American black comedy film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. It was written by Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. the film stars Michael Keaton with a supporting cast of Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. The story follows Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero Birdman, as he struggles to mount a Broadway adaptation of a short story by Raymond Carver. The film covers the period of previews leading to the opening, and with a brief exception appears as if filmed in a single shot. The film was shot in New York City during the spring of 2013 with a budget of $16.5 million jointly financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, New Regency Pictures and it premiered the following year in August where it opened the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Birdman had a theatrical release in the United States on October 17,2014, followed by a wide release on November 14. It also won Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Keaton and Best Screenplay at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. Riggan Thomson is a faded American actor who is famous for playing the superhero Birdman in a film trilogy 20 years ago and he is tormented by the mocking and critical internal voice of Birdman and is frequently shown performing feats of levitation and telekinesis. Riggan is trying to gain recognition as an actor for writing, directing. Jake, Riggans best friend and lawyer, is producing the play which co-stars Riggans girlfriend Laura, Riggans daughter Sam, a recovering drug addict whom he is trying to reconnect with, is working as his assistant. The day before the first preview, a light falls onto Riggans hopeless co-star Ralph. At Lesleys suggestion, Riggan replaces Ralph with her boyfriend, the brilliant, Riggan clashes continually with Mike and is incensed at influential theater critic Tabitha Dicksons praise for Mikes performance, but Jake persuades him to continue with the play. Riggan catches Sam using marijuana and berates her, she tells him he is expendable, during the final preview, Riggan goes for a cigarette and accidentally locks himself outside with his robe stuck in the fire escape door. He is forced to walk through Times Square in his underwear, a concerned Sam is waiting in his dressing room after the show. She thinks the performance was very weird but sort of cool and they talk about the show, him being a bad father and her rehab experience. She shows him that the Times Square footage is going viral, Riggan goes to a bar for a drink and approaches Tabitha, accusing her of not understanding theater and just being someone who crudely labels things. She tells him that she hates ignorant Hollywood celebrities who pretend to be serious actors, on the way back, Riggan buys a pint of whiskey, drinks it and passes out on a stoop. Riggan jumps off the roof and flies through the streets of Manhattan before arriving at the theater, on the opening night the play is going very well
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Theatrical release poster
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Michael Keaton was Iñárritu's first choice to play Riggan Thomson.
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Michael Keaton (Riggan) rehearsing an action-sequence of the film.
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St. James Theatre and
Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York were used to film the stage and backstage scenes of Birdman respectively.
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Oblivion (2013 film)
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Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinskis unpublished Radical Publishing graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski and it stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko. The film was released in the U. S. on April 19,2013, according to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s. The acting, especially Cruises performance, the originality, the style and effects were praised. Reviewers criticized the films incorporation of elements from other sci-fi films, however, it was a commercial success, grossing more than $286 million worldwide against a $120 million budget. In 2077, following a war with extraterrestrials that devastated Earth, gigantic offshore fusion energy generators drain Earths oceans to power the colonies on Titan. Although his memory has been wiped, he has had recurring dreams and he also collects the occasional artifact he finds from humanitys past. Vika is concerned about Jacks curiosity, questioning whether they are still “an effective team, ”, after scavs destroy a generator, Jack discovers the scavs have been using the Empire State Buildings antenna to transmit coordinates to outer space. While taking a break at his lake house retreat, he spots a crash-landing module of a pre-war spacecraft called the Odyssey. Thinking the ship contains aliens, he investigates, only to humans in stasis chambers. One of the humans is the woman from his dreams, Jack protects her chamber from a drone that destroys the others, and later revives the woman, Julia Rusakova, who makes Vika instinctively jealous. Jack and Julia return to recover her flight recorder but are captured by the scavs, although Jack refuses, Beech releases them to seek the truth beyond the boundaries of the forbidden radiation zone. When they reach the Empire State Building, Julia reveals that she is his wife, Jack then remembers that he proposed to her there. Julia recalls she was on a mission to Titan when they were diverted to investigate an alien presence, when the two return to Jacks tower, Vika refuses them entry and reports her findings to Sally, saying they are no longer an effective team. Sally acknowledges this, but activates a drone that kills Vika before Julia shoots it down, Jack and Julia escape in his ship, but are shot down by other pursuing drones. The two eject into the zone, which turns out to not be radioactive. Jack discovers another ship with a technician trying to fix a downed drone, the clone also is shocked to see Julia. Jack fights and incapacitates his clone, but Julia is accidentally shot, after flying to Tech-52s tower, and discovering an inquisitive Vika clone, he returns to treat Julia at the lake house
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Theatrical release poster
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The Bubble Ship seen in the film (above) was inspired by the
Bell 47 helicopter (below).
Oblivion (2013 film)
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Welcome to the Punch
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Welcome to the Punch is a British action thriller released on 15 March 2013 by Momentum Pictures in the UK and Ireland. Written by Eran Creevy, the script had been placed on the 2010 Brit List, with seven votes, the film was placed third. The film is directed by Creevy, starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong, brian Kavanaugh-Jones also served as a producer on the movie with Worldview Entertainment. Ridley Scott and Liza Marshall of Scott Free executive produced the film, shooting took place mostly in London, starting 28 July. Some of the interior and exterior scenes were filmed at London College of Communication in Elephant, city of Westminster Colleges Paddington Green Campus was used for the press conference scene. Welcome To The Punch premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival and it debuted in third place in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2013, where it grossed £460,000 across 370 cinemas in its opening weekend. In 2012 IFC Films bought distribution rights for the United States, and it opened on 27 March 2013 and it was released on home video in the U. K. in July 2013. The film received a critical reception. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 49 reviewers and judged 51% of the reviews to be positive, the site described the film as a little deeper and more thoughtful than most police dramas – but not quite enough to surmount its thinly written characters and numbing violence. On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 49 out of 100, peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated it 2/5 stars and called it an ambitious but predictable film that runs out of steam by the end. Emma Dibdin of Total Film rated it 3/5 stars and wrote, There’s an emotional vacuum at its centre but Welcome To The Punch is an adrenalin shot to the heart of the Brit-crime genre. Dan Jolin of Empire rated it 4/5 stars and called it a confident, ambitious and action-rich Brit thriller, albeit one whose characters, guy Lodge of Variety described it as a proficient but personality-free policer that demands little of either its audience or its enviable best-of-British cast. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, But despite its fast pacing and well-staged action set-pieces, robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times called it derivative, dumb fun. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that it is an enjoyable absurdity that is unintentionally funny yet still recommended, Welcome to the Punch at the Internet Movie Database Welcome to the Punch at Rotten Tomatoes Welcome to the Punch at Metacritic
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UK cinema poster
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Disconnect (2012 film)
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The film explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories. An ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham has much success with her interview with underage video chat-room stripper Kyle, Kyle, a runaway, works in a whole house with other chat-room strippers under his boss, Harvey. However, the FBI wants her to reveal his address in order to shut down the website that hosts the web-rooms. Since she has him in order to make initial contact, she may have broken the law, making the police. Nina wants to him from the business, yet fears losing his trust in the process. Kyle reluctantly gives her the address, and somehow, Harvey is tipped off, when Nina discovers this, she follows them to the motel where theyre staying, and asks Kyle to leave with her. At first, Kyle is hopeful for the future and willing, Harvey watches the argument, then slaps Nina. The entire group of chat-room strippers leave and Nina drives away in tears, two boys, Jason and his friend Frye, impersonate a girl, Jessica Rhony, on Facebook Messenger and convince teenager Ben to send a nude picture of himself. The boys distribute it to classmates, and the picture circulates to nearly everyone in their grade, Ben is so embarrassed by this cyber bullying that he attempts suicide by hanging himself and ends up in a coma. Rich doggedly searches Bens social media, looking for answers, Jason visits Ben in the hospital, where he meets Rich, and falsely calls himself Mike. Jasons father discovers what Jason has been doing and becomes angry with him. However, he protects his son by erasing the evidence on Fryes iPad. Later, Rich discovers that Jason is actually Jessica, and goes to Mikes house angrily, Jason tries to intervene, and Rich hits him with a hockey stick. Mike then hits Rich, who falls to the ground, which stops the fight, Cindy and Derek, a married couple who recently lost their child, struggle after their identities are stolen online. They hire private detective Mike to find the thief, and after revealing that Cindy had been chatting on a support group website. Cindy and Derek go after the suspect, Stephen Schumacher, following him at work, watching his movements, and breaking into his home for evidence. Right before Derek goes to confront him at his front door, Mike calls to him that Schumacher is not their guy. Schumacher, who had been noticing Cindy and Derek stalking him, confronts them in their car with a rifle, however, Derek, Cindy is able to coax the gun away, relating to the online chats about each of their losses
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Shadow Dancer (film)
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Shadow Dancer is a 2012 British-Irish drama film directed by James Marsh and based on the novel of the same name by Tom Bradby who also wrote the films script. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, in 1993 Belfast, Colette lives with her mother and brothers, all members of the IRA. In the opening scene, set twenty years earlier, the Troubles results in the death of her brother when they are children. This presumably motivates her in later life, an MI5 officer, Mac, is assigned as her handler. In return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5, soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Colette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Colette, british film magazine Empire giving it a score of 4 out of 5 stars, calling it an intelligent and emotionally charged spy drama. The Guardian called it a slow-burning but brilliant thriller about an IRA sympathiser forced to become an informant by MI5, official website Shadow Dancer at the Internet Movie Database Shadow Dancer at Rotten Tomatoes
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Brighton Rock (2010 film)
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Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film loosely based on Graham Greenes 1938 novel of the same name. Rowan Joffé wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris, the novel was previously made into a film in 1947 by the Boulting brothers under the same title. Although the novel and original film are set in the 1930s, the 21st century adaptation takes place in Brighton and is set during the Mods. Riley plays Pinkie, the role played by Richard Attenborough. It was largely filmed in the town of Eastbourne, with Eastbourne Pier standing in for Brighton Pier. Some scenes were shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire and in Brighton itself, in 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a waitress who witnessed the gangs activity. She falls in love with him, to prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Roses employer and a friend of Hales, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married. After re-reading the novel, however, Joffé fell absolutely in love with the character of Rose, joffe later explained why he did his own adaptation of the novel, The novel was worthy of a contemporary adaptation. In fact, it makes it almost more dutiful as a filmmaker if you love the novel, I mean, a lot of the Catholicism was cut out of the original film because they didn’t want to offend Catholics. Apropos to the location, Pinkie kills Spicer by shoving a stick of Brighton rock candy down his throat, Brighton Rock premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010 and the BFI London Film Festival in October 2010. The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2011, in the United States, IFC Films released the film in August 2011, theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles, and elsewhere via video-on-demand. Brighton Rock received mixed reviews from critics, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 53% of 89 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 5. 7/10. Metacritic, which assigns an average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. According to Stephen Holden, Mr. Joffé has turned Brighton Rock into a film noir with the stylistic undertow of a more modern British gangster movie. As potentially lethal as the thugs may be, they are also slightly over-the-hill small-time bookies who seem anything but invincible, Andy Serkis is outstanding as the oily Colleoni, a smirking sybarite and crime lord with playboy airs. Holden notes Mr. Riley, now 31, is a little too old to play a teenage gangster, nevertheless, Holden concludes By discarding most of the theological debate, the movie is no longer a passion play but a gritty and despairing noir
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Made in Dagenham
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Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British film directed by Nigel Cole. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and it dramatises the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women. The films theme song, with lyrics by Billy Bragg, is performed by Sandie Shaw, herself a native of the area, a stage musical version of the film opened at Londons Adelphi theatre in 2014. Based on a story, Made in Dagenham explores the movement that caused a significant law reform. Rita OGrady leads the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at the Ford Dagenham plant, the strike is successful and leads to the Equal Pay Act 1970. Mardyke estate Of 122 Rotten Tomatoes reviews, 80% rated the film fresh, macleans, in a review for the films 2010 Toronto International Film Festival premiere, called it a. combination of Milk and Mad Men. It’s a film that blatantly condemns sexism and shows, despite its mostly light tone, xan Brooks of The Guardian gave it three stars out of five, calling it. Uncomplicated fare, overly spiced with 60s cliches, but the film is also robustItalic text, amiable and so warm-hearted youd be a churl to take against it. Roger Ebert gave the three and a half stars out of four. While David Cox, also of The Guardian, gave a glowing review, suggesting that. A promising opportunity has been squandered, mark Kermode praised the film highly on his weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live. He ranked it as his favourite film of 2010, beating such films as The Social Network. Made in Dagenham was nominated for four awards at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards, Outstanding British Film, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair Design and Supporting Actress. A soundtrack for the film was released, with the tracks, The title song was written by David Arnold. A musical adaption of the film opened on 5 November 2014, scripted by Richard Bean, and directed by Rupert Goold, it starred Gemma Arterton in the lead role
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Made in Dagenham
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Never Let Me Go (2010 film)
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Never Let Me Go is a 2010 British dystopian alternative history romantic drama film based on Kazuo Ishiguros 2005 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Mark Romanek from a screenplay by Alex Garland, principal photography began in April 2009 and lasted several weeks. The movie was filmed at locations, including Andrew Melville Hall. Never Let Me Go was produced by DNA Films and Film4 on a US$15 million budget, prior to the books publication, Garland had approached the films producers—Andrew Macdonald and Andrew Reich—about a possible film, and wrote a 96-page script. The producers initially had trouble finding an actress to play Kathy, Mulligan was cast in the role after Peter Rice, the head of the company financing the film, recommended her by text message while watching her performance in An Education. Mulligan, a fan of the book, enthusiastically accepted the role, the films message and themes were the factors that attracted Garfield to become a part of the film. Never Let Me Go premiered at the 37th annual Telluride Film Festival in September 2010, the film was also screened at festivals including the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, and the 54th London Film Festival which it opened. The film was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures to cinemas in the United States on 15 September 2010 and it opened on 14 January 2011 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Never Let Me Go opened at four theatres, the movie got off to a better start in its first weekend in the UK, earning UK£625,000 and taking ninth place at the box office. Never Let Me Go earned US$9.5 million at the box office, Never Let Me Go was met with generally positive reviews from film critics, with most reviewers praising the casts performances. It was placed on several top ten lists for the year. The film begins with on-screen captions explaining that a breakthrough in 1952 has permitted the human lifespan to be extended beyond 100 years. It is narrated by 28-year-old Kathy H as she reminisces about her childhood at a school called Hailsham. The first act of the film depicts the young Kathy, along with her friends Tommy and Ruth, the students are encouraged to create artwork, and their best work gets into The Gallery run by a mysterious woman known only as Madame. One day, a new teacher, Miss Lucy quietly informs the students of their fate, they are destined to be organ donors and will die, or complete, shortly afterward she is sacked by the headmistress, Miss Emily for sharing this revelation with the children. As time passes, Kathy falls in love with Tommy, but Ruth and Tommy begin a relationship, in the second act, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, now teenagers, are rehoused in cottages on a farm in 1985. They are permitted to leave the grounds on day trips, but are resigned to their eventual fate, at the farm, they meet former pupils of schools similar to theirs, and it is revealed that they are all clones. They also hear rumours of the possibility of deferral – a temporary reprieve from organ donation for donors who are in love and can prove it
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Romanek (far left), Ishiguro (front), Purnell, Meikle-Small, Mulligan, Knightley, and Garfield at a screening of Never Let Me Go at the
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Romanek and Garfield at the screening of Never Let Me Go at the
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Happy-Go-Lucky
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Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary-school teacher and her relationships with those around her, the film was well received by critics and resulted in a number of awards for Leigh, lead actress Sally Hawkins and supporting actor Eddie Marsan. Thirty years old and single, Pauline Poppy Cross shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe, Poppy is free-minded, high-spirited and kind-hearted. The film opens with Poppy trying to engage a shop employee in conversation and he ignores her, yet his icy demeanour does not bother her. She maintains her good mood even when she discovers her bicycle has been stolen and her main concern is not getting a new one or finding the bicycle, but that she did not get a chance to say goodbye to it. This prompts her to decide to learn how to drive, when Poppy takes driving lessons for the first time, her positive attitude contrasts starkly with her gloomy, intolerant and cynical driving instructor, Scott. He is emotionally repressed, has problems and becomes extremely agitated by Poppys casual attitude towards driving. As Poppy gets to him, it becomes evident that Scott believes in conspiracy theories. His beliefs are partly attributable to his racist and misogynistic views, Scott seems to be angered by Poppys sunny personality and what he perceives as a lack of responsibility and concern for driving safety. Scott is exceptionally irritated by Poppys choice of footwear, which he feels compromises her ability to drive, from the outset he feels Poppy does not take her lessons seriously and is careless. Poppy, however, does have the capacity to be responsible, at school Poppy observes one of her pupils bullying one of his classmates. Rather than becoming angry, she worries about him and takes the appropriate action, after speaking with her student, she comes to the correct conclusion that her student is being abused at home. A social worker, Tim, is brought in to handle the boys case, through Tim and the pupils interactions, the latter reveals that his mothers boyfriend has been beating him. Poppy, Zoe, and Poppys younger sister, Suzy, go to visit another sister, Helen, Helen proves to be a very judgemental person and tells Poppy she needs to take life seriously, not get drunk every night and plan for the future. Poppy responds that she is happy with her life as it is, Helen tries to convince Poppy to be more responsible condescendingly telling her she is too childish, but Poppy insists that she is happy and ignores her advice. Returning home, Poppy sees Scott standing across the street from her flat, when she confronts him he insists he had been visiting his mother in Stevenage at the time she saw him. Scott later sees Poppy with her new boyfriend, Tim, during Poppys subsequent driving lesson, Scott drives erratically while ranting about other drivers and society. When he gives Poppy the keys to his car, she tells him he is in no condition to give a driving lesson, Scott tries to get his keys back and physically attacks Poppy
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Theatrical release poster
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Venus (film)
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Venus is a 2006 British comedy-drama film starring Peter OToole, Leslie Phillips, Vanessa Redgrave and Jodie Whittaker. It is directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi, the film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was put on limited release in the United States on 21 December 2006. Maurices friend describes the grand-niece as a maker and a nuisance. He takes her to the National Gallery in London to view his favourite painting, Jessie had expressed interest in modelling and Maurice arranges for Jessie to model nude for an art class. As a result of Jessie posing for the art class, and inspired by his favourite painting, Maurice and Jessie develop a passive/aggressive relationship over the course of the film. The plot of the film revolves around the friendship or relationship between the two characters. For Maurice, this appears to be the last attempt at something approaching a love life, for Jessie, it is less clear what she sees in Maurice. During the course of the film we see her do everything from exploiting him, taking care of him, flirting with him, the plot comes to a head when Jessie becomes involved with a boy. The two young lovers convince Maurice to take a walk so that they can have sex, Maurice initially obliges, but returns to kick them out of his flat. A scuffle ensues and the boy knocks down Maurice, injuring him, Jessie leaves with the boy but she later returns to check on Maurice. When the paramedics arrive, Maurice claims he cannot remember who attacked him, then Maurice calls for Venus to take care of him. Jessie, remorseful, agrees to look after Maurice, some time later, after Maurice has at least partly recovered, he takes Jessie to the seaside at Whitstable in Kent. As they sit down by the water Maurice says to Jessie Now, we can really talk, at the memorial services, Jessie meets Maurices ex-wife Valerie, who could not find satisfaction in Maurices love life either. The last scene shows Jessie and others posing as models for the Venus character, OToole fell and broke his hip on Boxing Day 2005, which meant filming did not begin again until the end of January 2006. Venus received positive reviews critics and has a certified fresh score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 149 reviews with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10. The film also has a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 32 critics indicating Universal acclaim. It was nominated for five British Independent Film Awards and earned Oscar, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Leslie Phillips also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. OTooles Oscar nomination marked his eighth and final Best Actor nomination over a span of forty-five years, on 25 February 2007, at the 79th Academy Awards, he was beaten by Forest Whitaker, making OTooles eight nominations without victory a record
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Theatrical release poster
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Wallsend
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Wallsend, historically Wallsend on Tyne, is a large town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East of England. Historically part of Northumberland, Wallsend derives its name as the location of the end of Hadrians Wall and it has a population of 42,842 and lies 3 1⁄2 miles east of Newcastle City Centre. The population of the Wallsend ward of the North Tyneside Borough was at the 2011 census 10,304, in Roman times, Wallsend hosted the fort Segedunum. This fort protected the eastern end of Hadrians Wall, which terminated at the wall of the fort. Ida the Saxon laid waste to the whole of the north in 547 and it was not until the golden age of Northumberland under Edwin, and the subsequent introduction of the Christian faith by King Oswald and Aidan that Wallsend enjoyed a time of peace and progress. This time of peace came to an end in 794 when the Danes swarmed up the Tyne in great number. The years preceding the coming of William of Normandy were a struggle between Danes and Saxons striving for mastery, several urban sanitary districts were formed in the parish in the late 19th century, Willington Quay, Howdon and Wallsend itself. Wallsend became incorporated as a borough in 1901, and in 1910 took over Willington Quay and Willington. This express liner held the Blue Riband, for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, the story is retold in the movie The Red Tent, starring Sean Connery and Peter Finch. He features in a BBC film called The Inventor of the Twentieth Century, russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunter in 1916–17, and used it as background for his great anti-utopian work We which was a major influence on George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. WWII ships built here include HMS Sheffield and HMS Victorious which took part in the sinking of the Bismarck, other ships built there include the new HMS Ark Royal in the 1980s. The musical The Last Ship by Sting is set in the shipyard, much of Wallsends early industry was driven by coal mining. The Wallsend Colliery consisted of 7 pits which were active between 1778 and 1935, in the 1820s the pits became incorporated as Russells Colliery, which then became The Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Company Ltd. By 1924 the colliery employed 2,183 people and its most prominent manager was mining and railway engineer John Buddle who helped develop the Davy Lamp. Between 1767 and 1925 there were 11 major incidents recorded at the resulting in over 209 deaths. On 18 June 1835 a gas explosion in one of the tunnels killed 102 miners, the youngest of which was aged 8, many of the dead were found with their cloth caps in their mouth. This is believed to have been an attempt to prevent inhalation of the gas which eventually killed them, the bodies were extracted and buried in St Peters churchyard at the top of the bank overlooking the Wallsend Burn. A plaque has been erected within the churchyard to commemorate this tragedy, the town has expanded greatly in terms of housing since the end of World War II, and since the 1960s
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Wallsend ship repair dry docks, 1987
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A Hadrian’s Wall map imitating the style of a Metro map
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No smoking sign, also in Latin
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The Long Walk to Finchley
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It also portrays her early relationship and marriage with Denis Thatcher. It is directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Madonna Baptiste, Thatcher is played by Andrea Riseborough, Denis by Rory Kinnear and Edward Heath by Samuel West. It was followed in February 2009 by Margaret, a drama on Thatchers fall from power filmed in 2008-09 and it was announced in August 2007, and filming began in London in the summer of 2007. It was to have aired in February 2008, but was postponed to avoid offence to its subject. It was eventually broadcast at 9pm on Thursday 12 June 2008, even prior to broadcast, the dramas portrayal of Thatcher as young and flirtatious has been criticised both by her supporters and opponents. Reception of the drama after broadcast, however, was generally positive, Crowder also speaks the line A grocers daughter. A grocer, Heath. to Heath in contempt of Margarets background, during the election campaign she meets Ted Heath, candidate for the key marginal seat of Bexley. He is suspicious of her populist and publicity-seeking style, but less overtly hostile to her than more reactionary figures in the party such as Waldron Smithers. Overall national party strategy is for Roberts to draw Labour attention away from Bexley and this Margaret does, and Bexley and Chislehurst are duly won, but Margaret herself is beaten at Dartford by the Labour candidate. Her relationship with Denis founders and she decides that she must improve her chances of finding a new, to this end she decides to leave science and study for the Bar. At a Tory ball, Miss Hornsby-Smith engineers a meeting between Margaret and the shy and possibly homosexual Ted, Margaret flirts with him in an attempt to better her political career, and asks him a question which the audience does not hear. Having failed to begin a relationship with Heath, she recommences her relationship with Denis and her teetotal father accepts her choice, despite concerns over Deniss status as a non-teetotaller and a divorcé and the marriage taking place in London not their home town of Grantham. She again fails to win Dartford at the 1951 election and writes to console Heath on the death of his mother, to whom he was close. Even on their honeymoon, Margaret is keen to take on a candidacy for the safe Tory seat of Canterbury, Margaret finds herself pregnant but takes the Bar exam nevertheless, shortly afterward giving birth to twins. Frustrated at the shattering of her dreams of a political career being meritocratic, Denis, however, suggests that she does not play by the old-boys rules but instead uses what they perceive as her weakness against them. Margaret takes up his suggestion, going blonde and—through a show of tears in an interview with Kaberry, the seat has a safe Tory majority but its present holder John Crowder is not managing that majority well and an alternative holder is being considered. Thatcher is shortlisted for the candidacy and, though the misogynistic Crowder tries to convince Heath to oppose Thatcher and she hopes Denis will accompany her to the selection panel, but goes ahead without him when he cannot return from Africa in time. She reaches the two and on the way to this final hustings silences Crowders open contempt for her and her chances by pouring scorn on his unremarkable political career
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BBC DVD Cover
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Thatcherism
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An exponent or supporter of Thatcherism is regarded as a Thatcherite. There was one exception, the National Health Service, which was widely popular. She promised Britons in 1982, the NHS is safe in our hands, both the exact terms of what makes up Thatcherism as well as its specific legacy in terms of British history over the past decades are controversial. Thatcherism attempts to promote low inflation, the state, and free markets through tight control of the money supply, privatisation. It is often compared with Reaganomics in the United States, Economic Rationalism in Australia and Rogernomics in New Zealand, Thatcherism is thus often compared to neoliberalism. Milton Friedman said that the thing people do not recognise is that Margaret Thatcher is not in terms of belief a Tory. Thatcher herself stated in 1983, I would not mind betting that if Mr Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party. In the 1996 Keith Joseph memorial lecture Thatcher argued that The kind of Conservatism which he and I. favoured would be best described as liberal, and I mean the liberalism of Mr Gladstone, not of the latter day collectivists. However, Thatcher once told Friedrich Hayek, I know you want me to become a Whig, no, Hayek believed she has felt this very clearly. But the relationship between Thatcherism and liberalism is complicated, Thatchers former Defence Secretary John Nott claimed that it is a complete misreading of her beliefs to depict her as a nineteenth-century Liberal. As Ellen Meiksins Wood has argued, Thatcherite capitalism was compatible with traditional British political institutions, as Prime Minister, Thatcher did not challenge ancient institutions such as the monarchy or the House of Lords, but some of the most recent additions, such as the trade unions. Indeed, many leading Thatcherites, including Thatcher herself, went on to join the House of Lords, thinkers closely associated with Thatcherism include Keith Joseph, Enoch Powell, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. In an interview with Simon Heffer in 1996 Thatcher stated that the two greatest influences on her as Conservative leader had been Joseph and Powell, who were very great men. A number of commentators have traced the origins of Thatcherism in post-war British politics, the historian Dr. Thatcherism is often described as a libertarian ideology. Thatcher saw herself as creating a movement, rejecting traditional Toryism. Thatcherism is associated with libertarianism within the Conservative Party, albeit one of libertarian ends achieved by using strong, British political commentator Andrew Marr has called libertarianism the dominant, if unofficial, characteristic of Thatcherism. However, whereas some of her heirs, notably Michael Portillo and Alan Duncan, embraced this libertarianism, others in the Thatcherite movement, such as John Redwood, some commentators have argued that Thatcherism should not be considered properly libertarian. Noting the tendency towards strong central government in matters concerning the trade unions and local authorities, Andrew Gamble summarised Thatcherism as the free economy, Simon Jenkins accused the Thatcher government of carrying out a nationalisation of Britain
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The Thatchers with the Reagans standing at the North Portico of the
White House before a state dinner on 16 November 1988
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after whom the term was named
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British sailors at action stations on
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Celia Fiennes
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Celia Fiennes was an English traveller. Born at Newton Tony, Wiltshire, she was the daughter of Nathaniel Fiennes, Nathaniel was in turn the second son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. Celia Fiennes died in Hackney in 1741, in 1691 she moved to London, where she had a married sister. She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, to regain my health by variety and change of aire, at this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller. Sometimes she travelled with relatives, but she made her Great Journey to Newcastle and her travels continued intermittently until at least 1712 and took her through most of England. Fiennes worked up her notes into a travel memoir in 1702 and it provides a vivid portrait of a still largely unenclosed countryside with few and primitive roads, although signposts were appearing. Robert Southey published extracts in 1812, and the first complete edition appeared in 1888 under the title Through England on a Side Saddle. A scholarly edition called The Journeys of Celia Fiennes was produced by Christopher Morris in 1947, Fiennes was interested in anything new, in innovations, bustling towns, the newly fashionable spa towns such as Bath and Harrogate, and in commerce. The economic tourist would become a staple of travel writing throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Fiennes saw many of the finest baroque English country houses while they were still under construction. At Stonehenge she counted the number of stones, and at Harrogate visited the sulphur or stinking spaw. She also clambered over the rocks at Lands End, several modern print editions are available, some of them illustrated. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary, freely available electronic version available at A Vision of Britain through Time, with maps, the Daily Telegraph – Great British journeys. Writing about his forthcoming televised recreation of Fiennes Great Journey to Newcastle, full text of Celia Fiennes, Through England on a Side Saddle in the time of William & Mary on A Vision of Britain through Time, with links to the places mentioned
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Claimed to be "the only permanent memorial in the whole country to the memory of Celia Fiennes", this "Waymark" stands in
No Man's Heath, Cheshire
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National Youth Theatre
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The National Youth Theatre is a registered charity in London. It is committed to the development of people through the medium of creative arts. Every year, the National Youth Theatre holds acting auditions and technical theatre interviews around the United Kingdom, on average, currently, around 500 places are offered on summer intake acting and technical courses, which offer participants membership of the National Youth Theatre upon completion. Members are then eligible to audition for the productions, which are staged in Londons West End, around the UK. Members staged the Olympic and Paralympic Team Welcome Ceremonies at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in summer 2014, members staged the Village Ceremonies at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The National Youth Theatre was founded in 1956 by Michael Croft, Croft had been responsible for producing a number of school plays at Alleyns Boys School. Following his departure, he was approached by a number of pupils from the school to continue working together on productions during school holidays. The first audiences included actors Richard Burton and Sir Ralph Richardson, the organisation evolved rapidly throughout the United Kingdom, involving young people on a national basis. Croft died in 1986 and was succeeded by Edward Wilson as Director, building on Crofts vision, Wilson took the company forward into new territory, increasing its range of activities and reinforcing its approach to technical production values. Wilson left the company in 2004, sid Higgins, John Hoggarth, and Paul Roseby took over. Hoggarth stepped down in 2007 and Roseby continues as the organisations Artistic Director, in 2010, the National Youth Theatre moved administrative offices from Holloway Road to the Woolyard on Bermondsey Street. In January 2012, Roseby became CEO while retaining his position as Artistic Director, traditionally, the National Youth Theatre has done most of its work with members in the summer months, but this is changing more and more. IdeasTap, defunct charity that collaborated with the National Youth Theatre Official website Charity Commission, National Youth Theatre, registered charity no.306075. The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services
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The National Youth Theatre in
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East 15 Acting School
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East 15 Acting School is a leading British drama school in Loughton, Essex. The main Loughton campus occupies an 18th-century house, Hatfields, and has its own theatre, the Corbett, the Corbett Theatre is an adaptation of a 15th-century barn. The re-building and equipping of the theatre was funded by the actor. Part of the school is located at Southend on Sea, and is centred on the Clifftown Theatre, the school is accredited by Drama UK and its degrees are awarded by the University of Essex, with which it merged on 1 September 2000. East 15 Acting School was founded in 1961 by Margaret Walker, littlewood created an ensemble, who combined inspired, improvisational brilliance with method, technique, research, text analysis, and the expression of real emotions. Over the years, new training methods were evolved to strip actors of affectations, attitudes, the quest was always to search for truth, of oneself, the character, the text. From 1998-2006, the school was led by John Baraldi, former Chief Executive of Riverside Studios, London, who oversaw the development of new courses. Since 2007, East 15 Acting School has been run by Professor Leon Rubin, East 15 Acting School occupies two campuses, Loughton and Southend. Courses taught at Loughton include BA Acting, BA Acting, BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre, BA Stage and Production Management, the Loughton campus is also home to the postgraduate courses which include MA Acting, MA/MFA Acting and MA/MFA Theatre Directing. BA courses taught at Southend include Acting and Stage Combat, Acting and Community Theatre, Physical Theatre, East 15 also offers the Certificate of Higher Education course at both the Loughton and southend Campus. East 15 continues to commission new work, many of the schools undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are accredited by the National Council for Drama Training. This means that the actors who graduate from this course are allowed entry into Actors Equity. With the first year providing more of an introduction to everything that gets built on, later work looks at acting, use of voice for drama and singing, and also various aspects of movement. The Living History at the end of the first year students to live the lives of others from a specific moment in history. The second year looks deeper into the constructed in Year 1. The third year not only increases students repertoire in acting for TV, film and radio, the schools newest course, the BA Acting is an extension of the BA Acting course and trains international talent. The school also runs a BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course and this aims to offer training which will prepare actors for the challenges of new ways of working in the performance arts. The training relates in methodology to the work of contemporary companies such as Complicite, Improbable Theatre, postgraduate courses embrace Acting and Directing including the most recently opened course MA/MFA Acting aimed at training actors and actresses from overseas
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The East 15 Acting School (Hatfields / Loughton campus)
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Mark Romanek
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Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker whose directing work includes feature films, television, music videos and commercials. Romanek wrote and directed the 2002 film One Hour Photo and directed the 2010 film Never Let Me Go and his most notable music videos include Hurt, Closer, Cant Stop, Bedtime Story, and Scream. Romanek was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirlee and he credits seeing Stanley Kubricks 2001, A Space Odyssey at the age of nine with inspiring him to become a film director. He experimented with Super 8 and 16mm film as a teenager while attending New Trier High School, both teachers exposed students to works by significant figures of the American avant-garde cinema, such as Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and Paul Sharits. Romanek subsequently attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and graduated from its Roy H. Park School of Communications with a degree in cinema and photography. He served as assistant director for Brian De Palma on Home Movies. On set, Romanek met Keith Gordon, playing De Palmas alter ego, Gordon remembers Romaneks entrance into film production, Romanek released his first film, Static, in 1986. It was co-written with Gordon and starred Gordon as a man who claimed he had invented a television set capable of showing a picture of Heaven. After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films and his subsequent work has come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. He has worked with many top-selling recording artists from different genres of popular music, One of his notable videos was for the Nine Inch Nails song Closer. Its critical acclaim was only matched by its controversy, with many accusing the video as being disturbing, Romanek would again work with Nine Inch Nails for the song The Perfect Drug. Romanek was given his first Grammy Award for Best Short Form Video in 1996 for Scream, the video, which cost $7 million to make, is cited as one of the most expensive ever made. Romanek won his second Grammy two years later, again with Janet Jackson, for her video Got Til Its Gone. In 2002, Romanek shot a video for Audioslaves Cochise in which the band performed in the midst of a pyrotechnic display of the intensity usually seen only during fireworks finales. Romaneks 2002 music video for Johnny Cashs cover of Nine Inch Nails Hurt has been hailed by critics and fans alike as the most personal. The video was nominated for seven VMAs, winning one for cinematography, other Romanek videos that have received accolades and awards include the VMA winners Free Your Mind, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Rain, Devils Haircut,99 Problems, and Criminal. Many others have received nominations. In 1997, Romanek received the VMA Video Vanguard Award for his contribution to the medium
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Mark Romanek (2010)
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Lucille Lortel Theatre
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The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattans West Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, the interior is largely unchanged to this day. Because of a booking, it was forced to close after 96 performances. Re-opening September 20,1955, with largely the same cast, The Threepenny Opera this time played until December 17,1961, in 1955, financier Louis Schweitzer acquired the building as an anniversary present for his wife, actress-producer Lucille Lortel. In 1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor, after Lortels death, the theatre was left to the Lucille Lortel Foundation. It used both interior and an exterior shots with the original marquee Theatre de Lys, official website Lucille Lortel Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database Lucille Lortel Theatre at the Internet off-Broadway Database 1981 photograph of Lucille Lortel in front of the theatre
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(2008)
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Joe Mantello
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Mantello was born in Rockford, Illinois, the son of Judy and Richard Mantello, an accountant. His father is of Italian ancestry and his mother is of half Italian descent, Mantello studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, he started the Edge Theater in New York City with actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges. He is a member of the Naked Angels theater company and an associate artist at the Roundabout Theatre Company, I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn’t have put a word to it back then. Where I grew up, boys played sports, when Mrs. Windsor wrote in my yearbook, Have you ever considered a career in the theater. It was literally like she wrote the word faggot, Mantello began his theatrical career as an actor in Keith Currans Walking the Dead and Paula Vogels The Baltimore Waltz. On the transition from acting to directing, Mantello said, I think Ive become an actor since I started directing. Since Ive been removed from the process I see things that fall into. Now theres a part of me thats removed from the process, the production was postponed indefinitely due to her departure. Mantello directed the Jon Robin Baitz play Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theater in 2011, Mantello had previously been nominated for the Tony Award for his role as Louis in Angels in America. He directed the Off-Broadway world premiere of the musical Dogfight in the summer of 2012 at the Second Stage Theater, in January 2013, he directed the Broadway premiere of Sharr Whites The Other Place at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. In 2014 he directed Stings new musical The Last Ship and he directed the Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina, which premiered on Broadway in April 2014. He is acting in the revival of The Glass Menagerie which opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in February 2017, directed by Sam Gold, the play stars Sally Field as Amanda Wingfield, with Mantello playing Tom. From 1990 to 2002, Mantello was the partner of Jon Robin Baitz. Awards 1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – Angels in America, Millennium Approaches 1994-1995 Obie Award,1995 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play – Love. Cookie Law & Order Sisters Playbill writers, the Old Globe Presents Richard Greenbergs Take Me Out
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Joe Mantello
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Hugh Dancy
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Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor and model. In 2006, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his portrayal of the Earl of Essex in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I, Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme. His mother, Sarah Ann Dancy, works in academic publishing and his father is philosophy professor Jonathan Dancy, who teaches at the University of Reading and at the University of Texas at Austin. Hugh is the oldest of three children, followed by brother Jack Dancy, who is co-director of the travel company Trufflepig Travel, from the age of 5 to the age of 10, Dancy was educated at Edenhurst Preparatory School in Newcastle-under-Lyme. At age 10, Dancy attended boarding school at the Dragon School in Oxford, then, at age 18, he acted in the Winchester College Players production of Twelfth Night, which was performed in both Winchester and at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. He went on to study English under poet and playwright Francis Warner at St Peters College, after graduation, Dancy moved to London, where a chance conversation in a cafe led to his meeting casting director Ros Hubbard and agent Dallas Smith, who signed him. In 1999, Dancy played the role of Danny, who had a romance with Rachel, one of the shows main characters. In 2002, Dancy played Daniel Deronda in the BBCs adaptation of George Eliots novel Daniel Deronda. In 2005, he starred as Adam Raki in Adam, an independent film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and he went on to appear in various other films. In theatre, Dancy has appeared in MCC Theaters The Pride, written by Alexi Kaye Campbell, the off-Broadway production was directed by Joe Mantello and co-starred Ben Whishaw and Andrea Riseborough. In 2007, Dancy had a role on Broadway as Captain Dennis Stanhope in Journeys End. From 2010 until 2011, he starred in Manhattan Theatre Clubs Broadway production of Venus in Fur alongside Nina Arianda and his performance was praised by The New York Times theatre critic Charles Isherwood. In March 2012, NBC announced that Dancy had been cast as Will Graham in Hannibal, the show received critical acclaim and was nominated for numerous awards. It was cancelled after three seasons and concluded in 2015, though there are hopes of a revival and he currently appears as a lead character in Hulus The Path, alongside Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan. Dancy met American actress Claire Danes on the set of Evening in Newport, Rhode Island, in February 2009, they announced their engagement. The couple married in France in 2009, privately, in 2012, the actress gave birth to their son named Cyrus. Hugh Dancy at the Internet Movie Database Hugh-Dancy. Net - Hugh Dancy Fansite HughDancyDaily. Com - Hugh Dancy Fansite [
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Dancy at the
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Ben Whishaw
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Benjamin John Ben Whishaw is an English actor. He has also played the role of Q in the James Bond films starting with Skyfall, and was the voice of Paddington Bear in the 2014 film, Paddington. Whishaw was born in Clifton, Bedfordshire, and was brought up there and in Langford, the son of Linda, who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw and his father is of French, German and Russian descent, and his mother is of English background. He has a twin, James. Whishaw is not the original surname. He first rose to prominence as a member of the Bancroft Players Youth Theatre, Big Spirit and he attended Henlow Middle School and then Samuel Whitbread Community College in Shefford. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003 and it was adapted into a physical theatre piece by the group and taken to the 1995 Edinburgh Festival, where it garnered five-star reviews and great critical acclaim. As the lead in Trevor Nunns 2004 production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, Whishaw received highly favourable reviews and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award. The role was shared with Al Weaver in an arrangement that saw Whishaw playing all nights except for Mondays. Nunn is reported to have made this arrangement due to the youth of the two playing the lead, to relieve some of the pressure on each. It was Whishaw, however, who featured most prominently in the marketing materials and his film and television credits include Layer Cake and Chris Morriss 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley, in which he played a character called Pingu. He was named Most Promising Newcomer at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards for My Brother Tom and he also played Keith Richards in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned. In the spring of 2005, Whishaw received lots of attention for his role as a dealer in Philip Ridleys controversial stage play Mercury Fur. In Perfume, Whishaw played Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume maker whose craft turns deadly, the film was released in Germany in September 2006 and in US theaters in December 2006. In the same year, Whishaw worked on Pawel Pawlikowskis abandoned The Restraint of Beasts. some trace of her, at the end of 2009 he starred in Cock, a new play by Mike Bartlett at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2009 he also starred as the poet John Keats in the film Bright Star, in February 2010, Whishaw made a successful off-Broadway debut at MCC Theater in the American premiere of the awarding-winning play The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. He played Ariel in Julie Taymors 2010 film adaptation of The Tempest, and was featured in The Hour, a BBC Two drama series. In 2012 Whishaw appeared as Richard II in the television film Richard II, also in 2012, he appeared as part of the ensemble cast of the science-fiction drama film Cloud Atlas
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Whishaw with
Judi Dench in Peter and Alice, at the
Noël Coward Theatre in May 2013
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Brighton Rock (2011 film)
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Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film loosely based on Graham Greenes 1938 novel of the same name. Rowan Joffé wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris, the novel was previously made into a film in 1947 by the Boulting brothers under the same title. Although the novel and original film are set in the 1930s, the 21st century adaptation takes place in Brighton and is set during the Mods. Riley plays Pinkie, the role played by Richard Attenborough. It was largely filmed in the town of Eastbourne, with Eastbourne Pier standing in for Brighton Pier. Some scenes were shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire and in Brighton itself, in 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a waitress who witnessed the gangs activity. She falls in love with him, to prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Roses employer and a friend of Hales, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married. After re-reading the novel, however, Joffé fell absolutely in love with the character of Rose, joffe later explained why he did his own adaptation of the novel, The novel was worthy of a contemporary adaptation. In fact, it makes it almost more dutiful as a filmmaker if you love the novel, I mean, a lot of the Catholicism was cut out of the original film because they didn’t want to offend Catholics. Apropos to the location, Pinkie kills Spicer by shoving a stick of Brighton rock candy down his throat, Brighton Rock premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010 and the BFI London Film Festival in October 2010. The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2011, in the United States, IFC Films released the film in August 2011, theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles, and elsewhere via video-on-demand. Brighton Rock received mixed reviews from critics, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 53% of 89 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 5. 7/10. Metacritic, which assigns an average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. According to Stephen Holden, Mr. Joffé has turned Brighton Rock into a film noir with the stylistic undertow of a more modern British gangster movie. As potentially lethal as the thugs may be, they are also slightly over-the-hill small-time bookies who seem anything but invincible, Andy Serkis is outstanding as the oily Colleoni, a smirking sybarite and crime lord with playboy airs. Holden notes Mr. Riley, now 31, is a little too old to play a teenage gangster, nevertheless, Holden concludes By discarding most of the theological debate, the movie is no longer a passion play but a gritty and despairing noir
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Theatrical release poster
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Helen Mirren
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE is an English actor. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen, Tingle, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, The Last Station, Hitchcock, and The Hundred-Foot Journey. She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2, in 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she was born Helen Lydia Mironoff at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, west London, the daughter of Kathleen Kitty Alexandrina Eva Matilda and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff. Her mother was English and her father was Russian, originally from Kuryanovo, Mirrens paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating a deal in Britain when he. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family and his son, Helen Mirrens father, anglicised the family name to Mirren in the 1950s and changed his name to Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, Mirrens mother was a working-class Londoner from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose own father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been very anti-monarchist, Mirren was the second of three children, she was born three years after her older sister, Katherine, and also had a younger brother, Peter Basil. Mirren was brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, aged eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. By the time she was 20, she was playing Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, as a result of her work for the National Youth Theatre, Mirren was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also appeared in four productions, directed by Braham Murray for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester, in 1970, the director/producer John Goldschmidt made a documentary film, Doing Her Own Thing, about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film was made for ATV and shown on the ITV Network in the UK and she then rejoined the RSC, playing Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975. According to Beauman, there were no repercussions for this rebuke of the RSC. Her performance earned her the London critics Plays & Players Best Actress award, beginning in November 1975, Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in The Seagull and Ella in Ben Travers new farce The Bed Before Yesterday. In 1981, she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friels Faith Healer, – Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983. On 15 February 2013, at the West Ends Gielgud Theatre she began a turn as Elizabeth II in the World Premiere of Peter Morgans The Audience, the show was directed by Stephen Daldry. In April she was named best actress at the Olivier Awards for her role, a further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country
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Mirren attends the Moet British Independent Film Awards, December 2014
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Mirren at the Orange British Academy Film Awards, 2007
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Mirren at the Metropolitan Opera opening in September 2008
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Mirren at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego, 22 July 2010
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John Hurt
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Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years. Hurt was regarded as one of Britains finest thespians, director David Lynch described him as simply the greatest actor in the world and he was also visible as Caligula in BBC TV series I, Claudius. Hurts performance in prison drama Midnight Express brought him international renown, Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynchs biopic The Elephant Man. Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field, Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in TV film An Englishman in New York, which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination, and also portrayed the War Doctor in BBC TV series Doctor Who in 2013. His last performance will be in Darkest Hour, as former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cinema. He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama, Hurts father was also Vicar of St Johns parish in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. In 1937, he moved his family to Derbyshire, where he became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity Church, when Hurt was five, his father became the vicar of St Stephens Church in Woodville, Derbyshire, and remained there until 1952. Hurt had an upbringing, the family lived opposite a cinema. He was also not permitted to mix with local children because his parents saw them as too common, at the age of eight, Hurt was sent to the Anglican St Michaels Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting. He decided he wanted to become an actor, and his first role was that of a girl in a production of The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. He has stated that while he was a pupil at the school, he was abused by Donald Cormack, then Senior Master of the school and later Headmaster until his retirement in 1981. Hurt said that Cormack would remove his two front teeth and put his tongue in the boys mouths, and would rub their faces with his stubble. Hurt often went with his mother to Cleethorpes Repertory Theatre, but his parents disliked his acting ambitions and his headmaster, Mr Franklin, laughed when Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor, telling him that he wouldnt stand a chance in the profession. Aged 17, Hurt enrolled in Grimsby Art School, where he studied art, in 1959, he won a scholarship allowing him to study for an Art Teachers Diploma at Saint Martins School of Art in London. Despite the scholarship, paying his tuition fees and living expenses was difficult, so he persuaded some of his friends to pose naked, in 1960, he won a scholarship to RADA, where he trained for two years. Hurts first film was The Wild and the Willing, but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons. He played Timothy Evans, who was hanged for murders committed by his landlord John Christie, in 10 Rillington Place and his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the TV play The Naked Civil Servant gave him prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt won further acclaim for his performance as the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I
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Hurt in 2015
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Cynthia Nixon, Hurt and
Swoosie Kurtz in 2009.
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At the 2009 premiere of
An Englishman in New York
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Wallis Simpson
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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor was an American socialite. Her third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, Walliss father died shortly after her birth, and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. Her first marriage, to U. S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by periods of separation, in 1934, during her second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, she allegedly became the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales. Two years later, after Edwards accession as king, Wallis divorced her husband in order to marry Edward. She was instead styled as Her Grace, a style reserved for non-royal dukes and duchesses. Before, during, and after World War II, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government, in 1937, they visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler. In 1940, the Duke was appointed governor of the Bahamas, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Duke and Duchess shuttled between Europe and the United States living a life of leisure as society celebrities. After the Dukes death in 1972, the Duchess lived in seclusion and was seen in public. Her private life has been a source of speculation. An only child, Bessie Wallis Warfield was born in Square Cottage at Monterey Inn and her mother was Alice Montague, a daughter of insurance salesman William Montague. Wallis was named in honour of her father and her mothers sister, Bessie. Her father died of tuberculosis on 15 November 1896, initially, they lived with him at the four-story row house,34 East Preston Street, that he shared with his mother. In 1908, Walliss mother married her husband, John Freeman Rasin. There she became a friend of heiress Renée du Pont, a daughter of Senator T. Coleman du Pont of the du Pont family, a fellow pupil at one of Walliss schools recalled, She was bright, brighter than all of us. She made up her mind to go to the head of the class, Wallis was always immaculately dressed and pushed herself hard to do well. In April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr. a U. S. Navy aviator, at Pensacola, Florida and it was at this time that Wallis witnessed two airplane crashes about two weeks apart, resulting in a lifelong fear of flying. The couple married on 8 November 1916 at Christ Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Win, as her husband was known, was a heavy drinker. He drank even before flying and once crashed into the sea, in 1920, Edward, the Prince of Wales, visited San Diego, but he and Wallis did not meet
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Wallis Simpson in 1936
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Wallis Warfield in about 1915 when she lived in Baltimore
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Wallis travelled to China on
USS Chaumont (AP-5) in 1924.
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The Prince of Wales and Wallis in
Kitzbühel, Austria, February 1935
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Michael Sheen
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Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE is a Welsh political activist, actor and director. His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, in 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. Sheen has become known as a screen actor since the 2000s. With writer Peter Morgan, he has starred in a trilogy of films as British politician Tony Blair, for playing Blair, he was nominated for both a BAFTA Award and an Emmy. He also starred as the football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United. Since 2009 and into the 2010s, Sheen has become known for a variety of roles. In 2009, Sheen appeared in two films, Underworld, Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga, New Moon, while in 2010. He appeared in the science-fiction film Tron, Legacy and Woody Allens romantic comedy Midnight in Paris, at Easter 2011, Sheen directed and starred in National Theatre Waless The Passion. From late 2011 until early 2012, Sheen played the role in Hamlet at the Young Vic. In 2013, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Showtimes television drama Masters of Sex, Sheen was born in Newport, Wales, the son of Irene, a secretary, and Meyrick, a British Steel Corporation personnel manager. He has one sister, Joanne. When he was five, the moved to Wallasey. Director Sam Mendes has described Sheen as a creature and attributed that to the actors Welsh roots. Hes Welsh in the tradition of Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton, fiery, mercurial, a keen footballer, Sheen was scouted and offered a place on Arsenals youth team at the age of 12, but his family was unwilling to relocate to London. He later said he was grateful for his parents decision, as the chances of forging a professional career were so slim. He lost interest in playing football in his early teens, in his teenage years, Sheen was involved with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and, later, the National Youth Theatre of Wales. It was a brilliant youth theatre, Sheen has said, and it taught me not only a lot about acting and he was influenced by the performances of Laurence Olivier and the writings of theatre critic Kenneth Tynan—the combination of those two things kind of blew my head off. Sheen was educated at Blaenbaglan Primary School, Glan Afan Comprehensive School and, finally, Neath Port Talbot College where he sat A-levels in English, Drama and he considered studying English at university but instead decided to attend drama school
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Sheen at
PaleyFest in 2014
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The
Old Vic, where Sheen starred in a successful revival of
Amadeus in 1998. The play later transferred to Broadway.
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Sheen at the
81st Academy Awards in 2009. He was invited to join the actors' branch of the Academy in 2007.
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Sheen at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con
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Iwan Rheon
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Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer and musician, best known for portraying Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He has also portrayed Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits, Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious, Rheon was born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. When he was five years old, his family moved to Cardiff and he attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf where he began acting in school drama productions at age 17. He was later spotted at a National Eisteddfod of Wales, before studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. At age 17, Rheon joined Welsh language soap Pobol Y Cwm, in which he originated the role of Macsen White and his first notable stage part came in Eight Miles High, which was staged in 2008 at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. Also in 2008, he was cast as the haunted Moritz Stiefel in the London production of the Tony Award-winning rock-musical, Spring Awakening. He played this role from January 2009 at the Lyric Hammersmith and continued when the show was transferred to the Novello Theatre, until it closed in May 2009, five months earlier than planned. He earned a Whats on Stage Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, for his performance he won the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical at the 2010 Olivier Awards. Immediately after Spring Awakening, Rheon was cast in the E4 channels Misfits and he plays nervous, shy Simon Bellamy, who gains the superpower of invisibility and precognition in season 3. On 20 December 2011, Rheon announced via Twitter that he had left the show, in 2011 he also appeared in the final episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. In 2011, he was nominated for a Golden Nymph in the Outstanding Actor – Drama Series category for his role in Misfits, Rheon also made two guest appearances as the character Ben Theodore in Simon Amstells comedy Grandmas House. In early 2012, Rheon filmed the crime heist drama The Rise, in spring 2012, he began shooting Libertador in Venezuela and Spain. In May 2012, it was announced that he had signed on to the gritty drama Driven, in 2013, Rheon was cast as the villainous psychopath Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He portrayed Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious from 2013 until 2016, in 2013, Rheon played a lead role in the philosophical radio play, Darkside, based on the themes of Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon album. In September 2014, Rheon joined the cast of BBC Ones Our Girl as Dylan Smurf Smith, in 2017, it was announced that Rheon had been cast in ABCs Inhumans series. Songwriting and singing since the age of 16, Rheon was lead singer in The Convictions until leaving the band to pursue his acting career. In 2010, he recorded his first solo work, Tongue Tied EP, at RAK Studios in London, produced by Jonathan Quarmby, the EP, a four track release with acoustic guitar and voice, was released digitally in June 2010. He returned to RAK Studios, in April 2011, to record his second EP Changing Times, again produced by Quarmby and Bacon, Changing Times was released on 10 October 2011
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Rheon in 2012
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Owen Sheers
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Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and TV presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team, Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji, in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He worked on The Big Breakfast as a researcher and his debut prose work The Dust Diaries, a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and won the Wales Book of the Year 2005. In 2004 Sheers was Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society’s 20 Next Generation Poets, Sheers 2nd collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award. Unicorns, almost his one man based on the life and poetry of the WWII poet Keith Douglas was developed by Old Vic, New Voices. Sheers first novel, Resistance, has translated into ten languages and was short listed for the Writers Guild of Great Britain Best Book Award 2008. The novel imagines that the D-day landings have failed and Wales been occupied by the Nazis, the film of the novel, which Sheers co-wrote, was released in autumn 2011 and starred Andrea Riseborough. Sheers insisted that the film be shot in and around the Black Mountains, in 2007, Sheers collaborated with composer Rachel Portman on The Water Diviner’s Tale, an oratorio for children which was premièred at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms. In 2007/8 Sheers was a Dorothy and Lewis B, cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. In 2009, Sheers published the novella White Ravens, a response to the myth of Branwen Daughter of Llyr. He published an anthology of British landscape poetry to accompany his TV series of the same title, Sheers has also written journalism and reportage for a variety of publications including Granta, The Guardian, Esquire, GQ, The Times and The Financial Times. He wrote a play for BBC Radio 4 about the World War II poet Alun Lewis, in 2011, Sheers wrote the script and novelisation of The Passion for National Theatre Wales and WildWorks. The Gospel of Us has been re-published by Seren Press, Sheers worked with Michael Sheen co-creating the three-day passion play which unfolded over the Easter weekend of 2011 in Sheens hometown of Port Talbot. In Sheerss Neath-flavoured take on the Bible, The Last Supper became pork pies and beer at the Social Club, the play has toured the UK and Canada and won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2014 his site specific World War I play Mametz was produced by National Theatre of Wales. Pink Mist won the 2014 Welsh Book of the Year and was produced as a play by Bristol Old Vic theatre in 2015, winning mentions as a top ten pick the year in The Guardian. In April 2015 Owens libretto for Mark Bowdens oratorio A Violence of Gifts was premiered at St Davids Hall, the oratorio was devised as a contemporary response to Haydens Creation oratorio, and was informed by three days research at CERN. In 2014 Owen presented a one-hour BBC documentary about the poetry of Dylan Thomas and his most recent novel is I Saw A Man, published in 2015 in the UK, US and several countries across Europe
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Owen Sheers
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Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh OBE is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before honing his skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art. He began as a director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty kitchen sink realism style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet and Career Girls, the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy, some of his notable stage plays include Smelling A Rat, Its A Great Big Shame, Greek Tragedy, Goose-Pimples, Ecstasy, and Abigails Party. Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and his purpose is to capture reality and present emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films. His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu. Ian Buruma, writing in The New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted, like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leighs London is as distinctive as Fellinis Rome or Ozus Tokyo, Leigh was the son of Phyllis Pauline and Alfred Abraham Leigh, a doctor. Leigh was brought up in Broughton, Salford and he is from a Jewish immigrant family whose surname, originally Lieberman, had been anglicised in 1939 for obvious reasons. When the war ended Leighs father began his career as a practitioner in Higher Broughton, the epicentre of Leighs youngest years. Leigh went to Salford Grammar School, as did the director Les Blair, his friend, there was a strong tradition of drama in the all-boys school, and an English master, called Mr Nutter, supplied the library with newly published plays. Outside of school, Leigh thrived in the Manchester branch of Habonim and he attended summer camps and winter activities over the Christmas break all round the country in the late 1950s. Throughout this time, the most important part of his artistic consumption was the cinema, in 1960, to his utter astonishment, he won a scholarship to RADA. Initially trained as an actor at RADA, Leigh went on to start honing his skills at East 15 Acting School where he met the actress Alison Steadman. Leigh responded negatively to RADAs agenda, found himself being taught how to laugh, cry and snog for weekly rep purposes and so became a sullen student. He later attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the visual worlds of Ronald Searle, George Grosz, Picasso, and William Hogarth exerted another kind of influence. He played small roles in several British films in the early 1960s, in 1964–65 he teamed up with David Halliwell, and designed and directed the first production of Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs at the Unity Theatre
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Mike Leigh, 2012
35.
Thriller film
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. The thriller films key characteristics are excitement and suspense, the suspense element, found in most films plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, a strict definition of the thriller film is that the films overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible, Life is typically threatened in thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films characters conflict with other or with an outside force. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other genres, there exist adventure thrillers, science fiction thrillers, Western thrillers, Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective, common themes include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Alfred Hitchcocks first thriller was his silent film, The Lodger. His next thriller was Blackmail, his and Britains first sound film and his notable thrillers in the 1930s include The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. 326 —this film would be an inspiration for the future James Bond films, the German film M, directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing Foreign Correspondent, the Oscar-winning Rebecca, Suspicion, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt, notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and he reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window and Vertigo. Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include The Night of the Hunter —Charles Laughtons only film as director—and Orson Welless crime thriller Touch of Evil, director Michael Powells Peeping Tom featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcocks classic films of the 1950s, he produced Psycho about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner, J. Lee Thompsons Cape Fear, with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time of its release was Wait Until Dark by director Terence Young, john Boormans Deliverance followed the perilous fate of four Southern businessmen during a weekends trip. In Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation, a bugging-device expert systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon, Peter Hyams science fiction thriller Capricorn One proposed a government conspiracy to fake the first mission to Mars. His notable films include Sisters, Obsession, which was inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill. Other films include Curtis Hansons The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Unlawful Entry, detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 90s
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A common theme in thrillers involves innocent victims dealing with deranged adversaries, as seen in Hitchcock's film
Rebecca (1940), where Mrs. Danvers tries to persuade Mrs. De Winter to leap to her death.
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A common occurrence in thrillers is characters being taken as
hostages and with a
ransom in need. (Hostages, 1896 painting by
Jean-Paul Laurens, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)
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Little Red Riding Hood is an early example of a psychotic stalker story, a common convention in the thriller genre (art by
Gustave Doré).
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Rear Window is considered to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the
greatest movies ever made. The film received four
Academy Award nominations.
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Low-budget film
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A low-budget film is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the circuit with inexperienced or unknown filmmakers can also have low budgets. Many young or first time filmmakers shoot low-budget films to prove their talent before doing bigger productions, there is no precise number to define a low budget production, and it is relative to both genre and country. What might be a film in one country may be a big budget in another. Modern-day young filmmakers rely on film festivals for pre promotion and they use this to gain acclaim and attention for their films, which often leads to a limited release in theatres. Film that acquire a cult following may be given a wide release, low-budget films can be either professional productions or amateur. They are either shot using professional or consumer equipment, some genres are more conducive to low-budget filmmaking than others. Horror films are a popular genre for low-budget directorial debuts. Jeremy Gardner, director of The Battery says that fans are more attracted to how the films affect them than seeing movie stars. This allows horror films to more on provoking a reaction than on expensive casting choices. Thriller films are also a choice for low-budget films, as they focus on narrative. The money flow in filmmaking is a system because of the uncertainty of demand. The makers of the film do not know how well the film they release will be received and they may predict a film will do very well and pay back the cost of production, but only get a portion back. Or the opposite may happen where a project that few think will go far can bring in more profit than imaginable, a big gambling variable that is also involved is the use of stars. Frequently stars are brought on to a project to gain the film publicity and this process can be profitable, but it is not a foolproof mechanism to successful funding. Well-known actors may join a film for a portion of the gross. One of the most successful films was 1999s The Blair Witch Project. It had a budget of around $60,000 but grossed almost $249 million worldwide and it spawned books, a trilogy of video games, and a less-popular sequel
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Wayne Wang directs actors in an early indie film (
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart) in San Francisco, California 1983
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Tom Cruise
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards and he started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps and The Outsiders, his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete Maverick Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun. One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money, Cocktail, Rain Man. In 2012, Cruise was Hollywoods highest-paid actor,16 of his films grossed over $100 million domestically,22 have grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide. In 2002, Cruise won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Vanilla Sky, in 2003, he won an AFI Movie of the Year Award for The Last Samurai and an Empire Award for Best Actor for Minority Report. Cruise is an advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee, a special teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. He has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass and they are of English, German, and Irish ancestry. One of Cruises paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in north County Dublin in 1799, he married Teresa Johnson in County Meath and they left Ireland for the United States that same year and settled in New York. They had a daughter, Mary Paulina Russell Cruise, whose son Thomas Cruise Mapother was Cruises great-grandfather, a cousin, William Mapother, is also an actor, he and Cruise have appeared in five films together. Cruise grew up in poverty, and had a Catholic upbringing. The family was dominated by his father, whom Cruise has described as a merchant of chaos. Cruise has said that he was beaten by his father, whom he has called a bully and he stated, He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a lesson in my life—how hed lull you in, make you feel safe and then. For me, it was like, Theres something wrong with this guy, Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada. His family moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, in late 1971 so that Cruises father could take a position as a consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise attended the newly opened Robert Hopkins Public School for much of grade four, in grade four, Cruise first became involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg
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Cruise at the Edge of Tomorrow premiere in May 2014
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Cruise at the
61st Academy Awards in 1989
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With
Katie Holmes in May 2009
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87th Academy Awards
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During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time. In related events, the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8,2014. On February 7,2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, Birdman or, and The Grand Budapest Hotel each won four awards, with the former film earning the Best Picture honor. The telecast garnered more than 37 million viewers in the United States, the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15,2015, at 5,30 a. m. PST, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, for the first time, nominations for all 24 competitive categories were announced. Birdman or and The Grand Budapest Hotel tied for the most nominations with nine each, the winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22,2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, Birdman was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since Ordinary People. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Directing after Cuarón who won for helming Gravity, at age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on Gravity the year before, Emmanuel Lubezki became the person to win two consecutive Best Cinematography awards. John Toll was the last one who accomplished this feat for his work on 1994s Legends of the Fall, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger. Hayao Miyazaki — A master storyteller whose animated artistry has inspired filmmakers, maureen OHara — One of Hollywood’s brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Harry Belafonte — For a lifetime of demonstrating how art is ennobled by ceaseless courage, the following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. Meron and Zadan explained their decision to hire the television and theatre star saying and we have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the storm, all of his resources. To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true. Nevertheless, both Meron and Zadan denied such allegations and insisted that Harris was their only choice saying, many names are discussed and sometimes even floated without there being any formal offers. At times, these casual discussions take on a life of their own, Neil Patrick Harris received the Academy’s formal offer
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Alejandro González Iñárritu, Best Film (co-winner), Best Director and Best Original Screenplay winner
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Steve Coogan
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Stephen John Coogan is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, he began creating comic characters. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions and he featured in several television series, which earned him three BAFTA nominations and two wins for Best Comedy Performance. A feature-length film, Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, was released in 2013, Coogan grew in prominence within the film industry in 2002, after starring in The Parole Officer and 24 Hour Party People. He was also an actor in the animated comedy films Despicable Me 2 and its prequel Minions. Coogan has also branched out into dramatic roles, with What Maisie Knew. He co-wrote, produced, and starred in the film adaptation Philomena, which earned him a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination and he has been cast in the lead role for the ABC television pilot Doubt and the Showtime drama Happyish. On 22 November 2011, Coogan, along with Hugh Grant, Coogan was born in Middleton, Lancashire in 1965. He is the fourth of seven born to Kathleen, a housewife, and Anthony Coogan. He was raised Roman Catholic, in a working class family and his mother is Irish-born, from Mayo, and his father is of Irish descent. He attended Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School and he has stated that he had a happy childhood, and in addition to having four brothers and two sisters, his parents fostered children on a short-term basis. Coogan had a talent for impersonation, and wanted to go to drama school, Coogan began his career as a comic and impressionist, performing regularly in Ipswich, before working as a voice artist for television advertisements and the satirical puppet show Spitting Image. His most prominent characters developed at this time were Paul Calf, a working class Mancunian. He appeared as a presenter on the television comedy The Day Today, before hosting his own chat show. In 1997, Partridge returned in the sitcom Im Alan Partridge, which was followed by a series in 2002. Partridge featured in Coogans 2008 stand-up tour, a feature-length film, Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, was released in 2013. Paul Calf first began as a character named Duncan Disorderly in Coogans early stand-up routines, Calf first came to wider public notice in 1993, with several appearances on Saturday Zoo, a late-night variety show presented by Jonathan Ross on Channel 4
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Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto for the screening of Tristram Shandy (14 September 2005)
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Bloodline (TV series)
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Bloodline is an American Netflix original thriller–drama web television series created by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman, and produced by Sony Pictures Television. On March 31,2015, Bloodline was renewed for a 10-episode second season debuted on May 27,2016. On July 13,2016, Netflix renewed Bloodline for a 10-episode third season to premiere in 2017 On September 14,2016, Netflix announced that series has been cancelled, the first season received positive reviews from many critics, with most critics praising its performances and cinematography. However, the season received a mixed response from critics. The series begins with a narration by John Rayburn, Sometimes you know something’s coming. And you don’t sleep at night, the voice in your head is telling you that something is going to go terribly wrong and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. That’s how I felt when my brother came home, Danny is the black sheep of the family, with a poor reputation amongst them, including his three younger siblings, John, Kevin, and Meg. John is a detective with the sheriffs office, Kevin owns a local marina. Danny wants to make his return permanent as he wishes to stay to help his parents at their Inn, Robert is reluctant to let Danny stay, but leaves it up to the three siblings to decide Dannys fate. The siblings decide against Danny staying as they conclude that he will only break Sallys heart in the end, John decides to break the news to Danny, but lies to him by telling him it was their father who wanted him gone, rather than the siblings. Ultimately Danny does not leave, despite allowing John to take him back to the bus stop, Dannys dysfunctional relationship with his father inadvertently causes Robert to have mini-strokes and eventually leads to his death. The Rayburns past is full of secrets that are revealed throughout the season. Dannys dysfunctional relationship with his family primarily stems from the death of his younger sister, Sarah. Danny took Sarah out on a boat, where her seahorse necklace fell into the water and her death caused Robert to give Danny a beating, which Sally covered up by having John, Kevin, and Meg lie to the police. Roberts death opens the door for Danny to have a permanent job at the Inn, Danny appears to be changing his ways with hard work and dedication, which puts him in Sallys good graces. However, Dannys problem past is shown with childhood friend and troublemaker Eric OBannon, the two begin siphoning gasoline from local docks for drug and human trafficker, Wayne Lowry. As they gain Lowrys trust they are given jobs to complete. Danny eventually uses his job at The Rayburn House as a front to smuggle in cocaine for Lowry, John and the sheriffs department collaborate with the DEA in an investigation into the deaths of unknown women and drug trafficking in Monroe County by Lowry and his men
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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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The Variety Building in December 2008.
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Garrett Hedlund
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Garrett Hedlund is an American actor, model and singer. His films include Friday Night Lights, Troy, Four Brothers, Eragon, Country Strong, Tron, Legacy, On the Road, Inside Llewyn Davis, Unbroken, Hedlund was born in Roseau, Minnesota, to Kristine Anne and Robert Martin Hedlund. He is the youngest of three children, with a brother, Nathaniel, and a sister, Amanda and his father is of Swedish descent and his mother is of Norwegian and German ancestry. Hedlund was raised on a beef cattle farm near the small town of Wannaska. He subsequently modeled for L. L. Bean and Teen magazine, in 2003, at the age of eighteen, Hedlund moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. Hedlund made his film debut as Patroclus in the mythological epic adventure war drama Troy with Brad Pitt. The film was released on May 14,2004 and he also co-starred as Don Billingsley in the 2004 sports drama Friday Night Lights with Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Britton and Tim McGraw, in which McGraw played his abusive father. He co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in the crime drama Four Brothers as Jack Mercer and he co-starred in the fantasy-adventure film Eragon as Murtagh. In 2007, he co-starred in the comedy-drama Georgia Rule with Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman, the film was released May 11,2007, was panned by critics and failed to surpass box office expectations, only making a lifetime gross of $41 million. That same year, he co-starred in the crime thriller Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon, in 2010, he co-starred with Jeff Bridges in the science fiction/action film Tron, Legacy, a sequel to the 1982 film Tron. The film was released on December 17,2010 and he recorded several songs for the film including Chances Are which appeared on Country Strong, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Six other songs including a duet with Meester were featured on a soundtrack titled Country Strong. Hedlund was cast as Kaneda Shotaro in the version of Akira. He also co-starred as Dean Moriarty in the 2012 adventure drama On the Road with Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, Kirsten Dunst, the film was directed by Walter Salles and based on Jack Kerouacs novel of same name. Disney stated in December 2012 that Hedlund would reprise his role of Sam Flynn in the sequel to Tron, in 2014, Hedlund co-starred in the historical drama Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie. Hedlunds duet with Meester—Give In to Me— was the song to chart as a single, reaching #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. On June 7,2011 Hedlund was named Man of the Year at the Glamour Awards, Garrett Hedlund at the Internet Movie Database Garrett Hedlund at the TCM Movie Database Garrett Hedlund at AllMovie
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Hedlund at the 2015
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Waco
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Waco is a city which is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin, the city had a 2010 population of 124,805, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the state. The US Census 2015 population estimate is 132,356, the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of McLennan and Falls Counties, which had a 2010 population of 234,906. Falls County was added to the Waco MSA in 2013, the US Census 2016 population estimate for the Waco MSA is 265,207. Indigenous peoples occupied areas along the river for thousands of years, in historic times, the area of present-day Waco was occupied by the Wichita Native American tribe known as the Waco. In 1824, Thomas M. Duke explored the area and reported to Stephen F. Austin, describing the Waco village and they have a spring almost as cold as ice itself. All we want is some Brandy and Sugar to have Ice Toddy and they have about 400 acres planted in corn, beans, pumpkins, and melons and that tended in good order. I think they cannot raise more than One Hundred Warriors, after Austin halted the first attempt to destroy their village in 1825, he made a treaty with them. The Waco eventually moved out of the region, settling north near present-day Fort Worth, in 1872, they joined other Wichita tribes on a reservation in Oklahoma. In 1902, the Waco received allotments of land and became official US citizens, neil McLennan settled in an area near the South Bosque River in 1838. Jacob De Cordova bought McLennans property and hired a former Texas Ranger, in 1849, Erath designed the first block of the city. Property owners wanted to name the city Lamartine, but Erath convinced them to name the area Waco Village, in March 1849, Shapley Ross built the first house in Waco, a double-log cabin, on a bluff overlooking the springs. His daughter Kate was the first white child to be born in Waco, in 1866, Wacos leading citizens embarked on an ambitious project to build the first bridge to span the wide Brazos River. They formed the Waco Bridge Company to build the 475-foot brick Waco Suspension Bridge, the economic effects of the Waco bridge were immediate and large. The cowboys and cattle-herds following the Chisholm Trail north, crossed the Brazos River at Waco, some chose to pay the Suspension Bridge toll, while others floated their herds down the river. The population of Waco grew rapidly, as immigrants now had a crossing for their horse-drawn carriages. Since 1971, the bridge has been only to pedestrian traffic and is in the National Register of Historic Places. In the late 19th century, a district called the Reservation grew up in Waco
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Magicians (2007 film)
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Magicians is a 2007 British comedy film released on 18 May 2007. It stars comic duo Robert Webb and David Mitchell as stage magicians Karl, the two magicians compete together in a magic competition, despite their personal differences. Parts and ideas of the film have taken to parody the 2006 film The Prestige by Christopher Nolan. The film is directed by Andrew OConnor and written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who are also the writers of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, other principal cast members include Jessica Hynes, Darren Boyd, Steve Edge, Peter Capaldi, and Andrea Riseborough. Harry Kane and Karl Allen are best friends who work together in a successful and popular magic double act, after one show, however, Harry discovers Karl and Carol backstage in a magic box having sex. After numerous failed attempts at raising money, Harry sees a poster for the Magic shield competition held in Jersey, with a prize of £20,000, and decides to enter. Trying to find a new assistant, Harry is forced to recruit the only applicant, Linda, an old work friend whose only entertainment skill is a poor dancing routine. As Harry and Linda rehearse their act, they begin to grow closer. Much to his discomfort, Linda discovers the guillotine amongst his magic props, Karl, meanwhile, is delighted to learn that Dani has come down from London to see him perform, but is slightly alarmed to discover that she believes him to be a genuine psychic. He nevertheless goes along with her belief, particularly as the interest in the competition has seen him approached by a producer who wants to make him the centrepiece of a psychic show. Karl agrees to make his act for the finale a medium display, Karl tries a trick where he is buried in sand for a day. Upon learning that Harry has not told Linda of what happened to his wife, Harry panics when he discovers that her hotel room is vacant, believing she has returned to London. He conquers his fear of flying to immediately fly back to London, only to discover as soon as he gets there that she has merely switched rooms and forgotten to inform him. Karl, meanwhile, finally prepares to consummate his relationship with Dani, but admits that he is not a true psychic after she thinks he is contacting her dead father, and betrayed, she shuns him. On stage, Karl begins to pioneer his psychic act, but the stooge he has hired in the crowd which he had chosen with a fake random ball toss, accidentally trips and concusses himself on the stage. Upon hearing the sad story of another selected audience member, he decides that he cannot perpetuate the fraud, as a result, Dani forgives him. Harry, as The Black Widower, starts his guillotine act, although Harry’s act would appear to be ruined when he asks if anybody else wants to try, Karl steps forward and announces that he will face the guillotine instead. Karl allows himself to be locked in the guillotine, explaining that Carol was frequently unfaithful, Harry appears to decapitate Karl – although it is merely an illusion, and Karl appears unharmed, the trick having worked perfectly
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Promotional poster for the film
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Disconnect (film)
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The film explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories. An ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham has much success with her interview with underage video chat-room stripper Kyle, Kyle, a runaway, works in a whole house with other chat-room strippers under his boss, Harvey. However, the FBI wants her to reveal his address in order to shut down the website that hosts the web-rooms. Since she has him in order to make initial contact, she may have broken the law, making the police. Nina wants to him from the business, yet fears losing his trust in the process. Kyle reluctantly gives her the address, and somehow, Harvey is tipped off, when Nina discovers this, she follows them to the motel where theyre staying, and asks Kyle to leave with her. At first, Kyle is hopeful for the future and willing, Harvey watches the argument, then slaps Nina. The entire group of chat-room strippers leave and Nina drives away in tears, two boys, Jason and his friend Frye, impersonate a girl, Jessica Rhony, on Facebook Messenger and convince teenager Ben to send a nude picture of himself. The boys distribute it to classmates, and the picture circulates to nearly everyone in their grade, Ben is so embarrassed by this cyber bullying that he attempts suicide by hanging himself and ends up in a coma. Rich doggedly searches Bens social media, looking for answers, Jason visits Ben in the hospital, where he meets Rich, and falsely calls himself Mike. Jasons father discovers what Jason has been doing and becomes angry with him. However, he protects his son by erasing the evidence on Fryes iPad. Later, Rich discovers that Jason is actually Jessica, and goes to Mikes house angrily, Jason tries to intervene, and Rich hits him with a hockey stick. Mike then hits Rich, who falls to the ground, which stops the fight, Cindy and Derek, a married couple who recently lost their child, struggle after their identities are stolen online. They hire private detective Mike to find the thief, and after revealing that Cindy had been chatting on a support group website. Cindy and Derek go after the suspect, Stephen Schumacher, following him at work, watching his movements, and breaking into his home for evidence. Right before Derek goes to confront him at his front door, Mike calls to him that Schumacher is not their guy. Schumacher, who had been noticing Cindy and Derek stalking him, confronts them in their car with a rifle, however, Derek, Cindy is able to coax the gun away, relating to the online chats about each of their losses
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Nocturnal Animals
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Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by activity during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is nocturnal, versus diurnal meaning the opposite, nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Such traits can help such as the Helicoverpa zea moths avoid predators. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both lowlevel and bright day levels of illumination, others, such as bushbabies and bats, can function only at night. Many nocturnal creatures including tarsiers and some owls have large eyes in comparison to their size to compensate for the lower light levels at night. More specifically, they have found to have a larger cornea relative to their eye size than diurnal creatures to increase their visual sensitivity in the low-light conditions. Nocturnality helps wasps, such as Apoica flavissima, avoid hunting in intense sunlight, diurnal animals, including squirrels and songbirds, are active during the daytime. Crepuscular species, such as rabbits, skunks, cats, tigers, cathemeral species, such as fossas and lions, are active both in the day and at night. While most humans are diurnal, for personal and social/cultural reasons some people are temporarily or habitually nocturnal. The most known creatures to be nocturnal include cats, rodents, and owls, while it is difficult to say which came first, nocturnality or diurnality, there is a leading hypothesis out in the evolutionary biology community. A recent study attempts to answer the question as to why so many modern day mammals retain these nocturnal characteristics even though they are not active at night, the anomaly to this theory were anthropoids, who appeared to have the most divergence from nocturnality than all organisms examined. While most mammals didnt exhibit the characteristics expected of a nocturnal creature, reptiles. A larger cornea and pupil correlated well with whether these two classes of organisms were nocturnal or not, being active at night is a form of niche differentiation, where a species niche is partitioned not by the amount of resources but by the amount of time. Hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same rodents without conflict because hawks are diurnal and this means they are not in competition for each others prey. Nocturnality is a form of crypsis, an adaptation to avoid or enhance predation, one of the reasons that lions prefer to hunt at night is that many of their prey species have poor night vision. Many species of rodents, such as the Large Japanese Field Mouse, are active at night because most of the dozen or so birds of prey that hunt them are diurnal. There are many species that exhibit some nocturnal behaviors. For example, many seabirds and sea turtles only gather at breeding sites or colonies at night to reduce the risk of predation to themselves and/or their offspring, another reason for nocturnality is avoiding the heat of the day
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Svetlana Stalin
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalins second wife. She later went back to the United States and also spent time in the United Kingdom and she was the last surviving child of Stalin. Svetlana was born on 28 February 1926, like most children of high-ranking Soviet officials, Svetlana was raised by a nanny and only occasionally saw her parents. Her mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, died on 9 November 1932, the death was officially ruled as peritonitis resulting from a burst appendix. However, there were other theories as to the cause of her death, murder on the orders of Stalin. On 15 August 1942 Winston Churchill saw her in Stalins private apartments in the Kremlin, describing her as a handsome red-haired girl, who kissed her father dutifully. Churchill says Stalin looked at me with a twinkle in his eye as if, so I thought, to convey You see, at 16, Svetlana fell in love with Aleksei Kapler, a Jewish Soviet filmmaker who was 40 years old. Her father vehemently disapproved of the romance, later, Kapler was sentenced to ten years in exile in the industrial city of Vorkuta, near the Arctic Circle. At age 17, Svetlana received a proposal from Grigory Morozov. Her father grudgingly allowed the couple to marry, although he made a point of never meeting the groom, a son, Iosif, was born in 1945. The couple divorced in 1947 but remained friends for decades. Svetlanas second marriage was arranged for her to Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalins right-hand-man Andrei Zhdanov, in 1950, Svetlana gave birth to a daughter, Yekaterina. The marriage was dissolved soon afterward, in 1962, Svetlana married Ivan Svanidze, the nephew of Stalin through his first wife, Ekaterine Svanidze. The brief marriage ended in 1963, in 1963, Svetlana lived with an Indian Communist politician named Brajesh Singh. They were not officially married, but they lived together for four years until she left for the United States in 1967 following his death, from 1970 to 1973, she was married to American architect William Wesley Peters, with whom she had a daughter, Olga. After her fathers death in 1953, she worked as a lecturer and her training was in history and political thought, a subject she was forced to study by her father, although her passion was literature and writing. Stalin forbade her to be taught in these subjects and she had also studied four languages since childhood, including German, French, and English, and was fluent in all. She was granted a pension with which she supported herself and her two Russian-born children, in 1963, while in hospital for the removal of her tonsils, Svetlana met Kunwar Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist from the Kalakankar Rajput Zamindar family visiting Moscow
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A young Svetlana Alliluyeva sitting on
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Doc Martin
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Doc Martin is a British television medical comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England. Seven series aired between 2004 and 2015, together with a special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. The seventh series began airing on ITV on 7 September 2015, an eighth series has been announced, to air in Autumn 2017, and an American TV remake of the series is also being planned. On 11 January 2017, Martin Clunes confirmed that Doc Martin will end in 2018 with its ninth, Dr Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon at Imperial College London, develops haemophobia, forcing him to stop practising surgery. He obtains a post as the general practitioner in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn, where he had spent childhood holidays with his Aunt Joan. Upon arriving in Portwenn – where, to his frustration, the locals address him as Doc Martin – he finds the surgery in chaos and inherits an incompetent receptionist, in Series 2–4, she is replaced by Pauline Lamb, a new receptionist, and later also a phlebotomist. In Series 5, Morwenna Newcross takes up the post, the show revolves around Ellinghams interactions with the local Cornish villagers. Despite his medical excellence, Ellingham is grouchy, pugnacious, and his direct, emotionless manner offends many of the villagers, made worse by his invariably unpleasant responses to their comments. They perceive him to be hot-tempered and lacking in a manner, whereas he feels he is performing his duties in a professional and by-the-book manner. Ellingham is very deadpan and dresses formally in a suit and tie, regardless of the weather or the occasion. He does not smoke and has no hesitation in pointing out the risks of unhealthy behaviours, the villagers eventually discover his fear of blood, and the frequent and debilitating bouts of nausea and vomiting it causes. Ellinghams aunt, Joan Norton, provides support in the face of the controversy his impatient manner causes among the villagers. Ellingham finds it difficult to express his romantic feelings towards primary school teacher Louisa Glasson. He often spoils rare tender moments with, for example, a comment about an unpleasant medical condition or by requesting a stool sample, Martin eventually proposes to Louisa, but on the day of their wedding they suddenly break their engagement. Louisa leaves for a job in London, returning six months. When the child is born, the couple renew their relationship, following much indecision, Martin resolves to remain in Portwenn and marries Louisa, but continued arguments relating to his insensitive nature lead to their becoming estranged again
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Party Animals (TV series)
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Party Animals is a British television drama series screened on BBC Two in 2007. It was produced by World Productions, the makers of No Angels, party Animals tells the story of people involved with the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including researchers, lobbyists and government and Tory Members of Parliament. Despite reasonably good critical reaction, the show scored poorly in the ratings, the BBC has not commissioned another series. The show featured Matt Smith in his first major television role, in Australia, ABC1 began broadcasting the show from 2 December 2008 on a Tuesday 8, 30pm timeslot over the summer break. In the province of Ontario, Canada, TVOntario, began showing the series in February 2010, in the province of British Columbia, Canada, The Knowledge Network began showing the series in September 2011. In Norway, NRK broadcast the show from May to June 2012 and it is currently streaming on Hulu and Clubcard TV. com TV producer Eleanor Greene talks about casting Matt Smith
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