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Gia Carides
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Gia Carides is an Australian actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Liz Holt in Strictly Ballroom, Susy Connor in Brilliant Lies, Carides was born in Sydney, Australia, to a Greek father and an English mother. She began acting at the age of 12 and her first film was the drama The Love Letters from Teralba Road starring Bryan Brown and Kris Macquade. Carides works in both America and Australia, credited with a host of film and television credits including Primary Colors, Year One and she also appeared in a guest spot on husband Anthony LaPaglias television series Without A Trace. She has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program, Carides was married to actor Anthony LaPaglia, whom she met in Sydney in 1992. A year later they starred in the film Paperback Romance and she and LaPaglia are the parents of daughter Bridget. Gia Carides is sister to Zoe Carides, also an actress and her former brother in-law is doctor-turned-actor Jonathan LaPaglia. |- |2017 |Big Little Lies |Unamed Witness |7 episodes |} Gia Carides at the Internet Movie Database Gia Carides– Australian Film Commission Mook-e Australian Actresses
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Adelaide
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had a resident population of 1,326,354 million. South Australia, with a total of 1, the demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, Colonel William Light, one of Adelaides founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Lights design set out Adelaide in a layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares. Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth—until the Second World War, it was Australias third-largest city and it has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, as South Australias seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street. Today, Adelaide is noted for its festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Units Worlds Most Liveable Cities index in 2010,2011,2012 and 2015. It was also ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011,2012 and 2013, prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation. Kaurna culture and language was almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the European settlement of South Australia in 1836, however, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture. South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, the event is commemorated in South Australia as Proclamation Day. The site of the capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light. Adelaide was established as a colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution. Wakefields idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen
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South Australia
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South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country, with a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres, it is the fourth-largest of Australias states and territories. Other population centres in the state are relatively small, the state comprises less than 8 percent of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the six states and two territories. The majority of its people reside in Adelaide, most of the remainder are settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray. The states colonial origins are unique in Australia as a settled, planned British province. Official settlement began on 28 December 1836, when the colony was proclaimed at the Old Gum Tree by Governor John Hindmarsh, as with the rest of the continent, the region had been long occupied by Aboriginal peoples, who were organised into numerous tribes and languages. The first British settlement to be established was Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 26 July 1836, the guiding principle behind settlement was that of systematic colonisation, a theory espoused by Edward Gibbon Wakefield that was later employed by the New Zealand Company. The goal was to establish the province as a centre of civilisation for free immigrants, promising civil liberties, although its history is marked by economic hardship, South Australia has remained politically innovative and culturally vibrant. Today, it is known for its wine and numerous cultural festivals. The states economy is dominated by the agricultural, manufacturing and mining industries, the state has an increasingly significant finance sector as well. Evidence of human activity in South Australia dates back as far as 20,000 years, with flint mining activity, in addition wooden spears and tools were made in an area now covered in peat bog in the South East. Kangaroo Island was inhabited long before the island was cut off by rising sea levels, thijssen named his discovery Pieter Nuyts Land, after the highest ranking individual on board. The complete coastline of South Australia was first mapped by Matthew Flinders, the land which now forms the state of South Australia was claimed for Britain in 1788 as part of the colony of New South Wales. Although the new colony included almost two-thirds of the continent, early settlements were all on the eastern coast and it took more than forty years before any serious proposal to establish settlements in the south-western portion of New South Wales were put forward. In 1834, the British Parliament passed the South Australia Act 1834, the act stated that 802,511 square kilometres would be allotted to the colony and it would be convict-free. In contrast to the rest of Australia, terra nullius did not apply to the new province, although the patent guaranteed land rights under force of law for the indigenous inhabitants it was ignored by the South Australian Company authorities and squatters. Settlement of seven vessels and 636 people was made at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. The first immigrants arrived at Holdfast Bay in November 1836, the Colonisation Commissioners intended to establish a police service as soon as misconduct within the increasing population warranted it
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Santa Monica, California
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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
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Jonathan LaPaglia
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Jonathan LaPaglia/ləpɑːliːɑː/ born 31 August 1969, is an Australian actor known for his roles as Frank B. Parker in the television series Seven Days, Kevin Debreno in The District and Det. Tommy McNamara in New York Undercover, in April 2016, LaPaglia was announced as the host of Network Tens revival of Australian Survivor. His elder brothers are actor Anthony LaPaglia, and Michael LaPaglia, jonathan LaPaglia lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife and daughter. LaPaglia graduated from Rostrevor College, then the University of Adelaide with a degree in medicine and he worked three years as an emergency-room physician in Adelaide, Sydney and London. Feeling restricted, he decided to follow his brother into acting, in 1994, he moved to New York City where he joined the Circle in the Square Theatre School. He got his first break in 1996 when he joined the cast of TV show New York Undercover, from 1998 until 2001 he played the role of Lt. Frank B. Parker on the science fiction series Seven Days. Afterwards, he played Detective Kevin Debreno, on The District from 2001–2004, LaPaglia has also guest starred in numerous series including The Sopranos, NCIS, Cold Case and Castle. He appeared in the May 2008 issue of Car Craft magazine with his custom 6. 1L Hemi 73 Dodge Challenger, most recently, he features as the protagonist, Hector, in the TV adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas novel The Slap produced for ABC TV. Though he is Australian, this is LaPaglias first appearance in an Australian production, having lived abroad for so many years, LaPaglia found it necessary to hire a dialect coach to recover his Australian accent. In 2014 he will star in the movie The Reckoning alongside Luke Hemsworth and he is also a sports enthusiast and model. Jonathan LaPaglia at the Internet Movie Database
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Australians
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Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are people associated with Australia, sharing a common history, culture, and language. Present-day Australians are citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia, governed by its nationality law, the majority of Australians descend from the peoples of the British Isles. Many early settlements were penal colonies, and transported convicts made up a significant proportion of the population in most colonies, large-scale immigration did not occur until the 1850s, following a series of gold rushes. Prior to British settlement, Australia was inhabited by indigenous peoples – Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Tasmanians, and Torres Strait Islanders. A small percentage of present-day Australians descend from these peoples, the development of a separate Australian identity and national character is most often linked with the period surrounding the First World War, which gave rise to the concept of the Anzac spirit. The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 and various events of the Second World War, large-scale immigration occurred after the First and Second World Wars, with many post-World War II migrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe introducing a variety of elements. Immigration from the Middle East, south and east Asia, Australian culture has diverged significantly since British settlement. Australians are referred to as Aussie and Antipodean, Australians were historically referred to as Colonials, British and British subjects. Australian identity draws on a multicultural, European and British cultural heritage, today, Australians of Anglo and other European descent are the dominant majority in Australia, estimated at 85–92% of the total population. Historically, European immigrants had great influence over Australian history and society, since soon after the beginning of British settlement in 1788, people of European descent have formed the majority of the population in Australia. The majority of Australians are of British – English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, or Manx –, although some observers stress Australias convict history, the vast majority of early settlers came of their own free will. Far more Australians are descended from assisted immigrants than from convicts, about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts. Most of the first Australian settlers came from London, the Midlands and the North of England, anglo-Celtic Australians have been highly influential in shaping the nations culture. By the mid-1840s, the numbers of settlers had overtaken the convict population. In 1888,60 percent of the Australian population had been born in Australia, out of the remaining 40 percent,34 percent had been born in the British Isles, and 6 percent were of European origin, mainly from Germany and Scandinavia. In the 1840s, Scots-born immigrants constituted 12 percent of the Australian population, there were 1.3 million British migrants to Australia in the period from 1861–1914, of which 13.5 percent were Scots. 5.3 percent of the convicts transported to Eastern Australia between 1789 and 1852 were Scots, by 1850, there were 290,000 Aboriginal Australians. The European population grew from 0.3 percent of the population of the continent at 1800 to 58.6 percent at 1850, germans formed the largest non-British community for most of the 19th century
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Empire Records
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Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day. The employees try to stop the store from being sold to a large chain, the film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, Johnny Whitworth and Liv Tyler. The film was a commercial and critical failure, generating negative reviews. Empire Records is an independent record shop managed by Joe, the store is located in a fictional city in Delaware, and, like its employees, is eclectic and unique. The staff is very much a family, with Joe as the reluctant and perpetually exasperated. When his young staff experience problems in their lives, he routinely reminds them they can seek him out for advice. The film opens with store manager Joe allowing employee Lucas his first opportunity to close the store, in an effort to keep the store independent, Lucas takes the days cash receipts totaling $9,000 to a casino in Atlantic City in an attempt to quadruple it via gambling. Lucas believes this act will create enough money to allow Joe to save Empire Records, though initially doubling the money, Lucas soon loses the entire amount in one bet on a dice table. Instead of going home he sleeps on his motorcycle outside the store and he confides in the pair about the previous nights events before riding away, seemingly for good. Joe arrives to open the store and quickly receives phone calls from both the bank and the store owner, Mitchell Beck, regarding the previous nights missing deposit. The staff is unenthused by Rex Manning Day, and ultimately many of the showing up to meet him are either older women or gay men. The employees secretly tease Rex behind his back about his fading career, Lucas returns after the store opens and Joe confronts him about the missing deposit. After telling him of his short misadventure, Lucas is asked to stay in the store until a plan is devised to recoup the lost $9,000. Joe explains that he had intended to use the money to invest and become part-owner of the store, next to arrive are cashiers Corey, an overachieving high school student, and her uninhibited best friend and co-worker Gina, both of whom are informed of the situation. Debs boyfriend Berko soon arrives as well, the afternoon continues in a downward spiral. A young belligerent shoplifter who identifies himself only as Warren Beatty is apprehended by Lucas and subsequently arrested, encouraged by Gina, Coreys school-girl crush on Rex is pushed to its limits—much to the horror of her friends, including A. J. who is infatuated with her. This leads to the revelation that Corey is secretly using Amphetamines, after arguing with Corey, Gina has sex with Rex Manning, causing the rift between the two friends to intensify and Rex to get kicked out of the store by Joe. Deb takes Corey aside and advises her on the choices she is making
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Autumn in New York (film)
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Autumn in New York is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Joan Chen and starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, and Anthony LaPaglia. Written by Allison Burnett, the film follows a successful middle-aged restaurateur, will Keane is a successful 48-year-old restaurateur and womanizer who is the subject of a recent New York Magazine cover story. Charlotte Fielding is a free-spirited, 22-year-old woman brought to Wills upscale restaurant by her grandmother, will notices her immediately and her grandmother, an old friend of his, introduces them. Will admires the hats she made for the occasion and is surprised to learn that Charlotte is the daughter of one of his old girlfriends, Katy, the next day, Will calls and asks Charlotte to make a hat for his date to an upcoming benefit dinner. A few days later, she delivers the hat to his apartment, stood up by his date, he invites her to accompany him to the formal benefit. There they dance, get to each other and later end up back at his apartment where they have sex. The next morning, while having breakfast on his terrace, Will explains that their relationship has no future and she acknowledges this, revealing she is dying from a heart condition. Later, Will tells his friend, John Volpe, about his interest in Charlotte, the next day, Will calls on Charlotte and they go out together. They talk about their age difference and her illness, as they walk through the beautiful fall foliage in Central Park, Charlotte recites lines from the poem Gods World by Edna St. Vincent Millay. As they talk, she notices him checking his watch, and she takes it from his wrist, at his restaurant, they continue to get to know each other while preparing a meal for his staff. Watching her among his friends, he begins to fall in love, back at his apartment, Charlotte experiences severe heart pain. At the hospital, Will learns from the doctor that she is suffering from neuroblastoma, an illness in adults. She has perhaps a year to live, in the coming days, their relationship grows, and she learns more about him. When she asks why he is so interested in food, Will responds, meanwhile, in another room, Will meets a former girlfriend and the two end up on the roof having sex. Later, Charlotte suspects that he was unfaithful, and after denying it and they are both deeply affected by the breakup. Meanwhile, Will receives a letter from Lisa Tyler, the daughter hes never met. He goes to the museum where she works and recognizes her from an old photo, a few nights later he arrives home and Lisa is waiting for him in the lobby, they talk for the first time. She is pregnant and has become sentimental about parenthood, wanting just to meet her own father and she tells him about a dream shes had, that hes been trying to find her all these years in order to say he was sorry for abandoning her
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure
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Without a Trace
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Without a Trace is an American police procedural television drama series that originally aired on CBS from September 26,2002, to May 19,2009. The series follows the cases of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City, on May 19,2009, CBS announced the cancellation of the series after seven seasons. Each episode followed the search for one individual under tight time constraints, the stories also focused on the personal lives of the team members and illustrated how their experiences gave them insight into cases. The team consisted of Jack Malone, Samantha Spade, Vivian Johnson, Danny Taylor, Martin Fitzgerald, and Elena Delgado, the real FBI does investigate missing persons, specifically, they have the authority to help in any mysterious disappearances of children abducted by nonfamily members. The groups that investigate these crimes are called Child Abduction Rapid Deployment teams and they get involved in other missing persons cases as needed but do not have a dedicated unit. One element that set the series apart from other TV police dramas was the display of information about missing persons at the end of most episodes. This resulted in a kidnapped brother and sister being found on July 25,2005, at least five people have been found as a result of those announcements. Occasionally, such information was replaced with other public-service announcements, such as an episode about a suicide which presented information on a suicide help line. Without a Trace took place within Jerry Bruckheimers CSI, Crime Scene Investigation universe, a crossover episode featured characters Gil Grissom from CSI and Jack Malone from Without a Trace working together to solve the same case. Without a Trace debuted as part of the CBS fall line-up in 2002, created by Hank Steinberg and it was the first show to achieve strong ratings opposite longtime NBC hit medical drama ER—which, like Without a Trace, is produced by Warner Bros. The first two showrunners were Steinberg and Ed Redlich, between seasons two and three, Redlich moved away from active participation in the series, with staff writers Jan Nash and Greg Walker taking over. In the middle of four, Steinberg left to produce the series The Nine. The show is the only primetime U. S. drama to feature two Australians and a Brit playing Americans in the regular cast, in 2003, the TNT Network acquired syndication rights to the series for US$1.4 million per episode. Without a Trace ran on Thursdays at 10 pm until September 2006, in the 2007–2008 season, it swapped timeslots with Shark, returning it to its old timeslot on Thursdays. However, this lasted only until the 2008–2009 season, when it moved to Tuesdays at 10 pm, on May 19,2009, it was reported that the series would not be returning for an eighth season, the morning before the series finale aired. In the first season, the team is introduced to the viewers, as the team continues to track down missing people, Jack and his wife slide towards divorce, while Jack must also care for his father who has Alzheimers disease. The team members life histories are revealed, including the fact that Martin was practically raised by his aunt and uncle, Martin fatally shoots a child sex trafficker, and both Vivian and he must keep quiet to keep their jobs. CBS argued that the featured a important and socially relevant storyline warning parents to exercise greater supervision of their teenaged children
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Frasier
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Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, premiering on September 16,1993, and concluding on May 13,2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, the series was created as a spin-off of Cheers, continuing the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle and started building a new life. Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane returns to his home town of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston. Frasier hires Daphne Moon as Martins live-in physical therapist and care giver, Frasier frequently spends time with his younger brother Niles, a fellow psychiatrist. Niles becomes obsessed with, and eventually falls in love with, Daphne, Frasier hosts The Dr. Frasier Crane Show, a call-in psychiatry show on talk radio station KACL. His producer Roz Doyle is very different from Frasier in many ways and she is down-to-earth, has basic tastes and, at least early in the series, has superficial relationships with many men. However, Roz and Frasier share a professional respect and over time they become best friends, Frasier and the others often visit the local coffee shop, Café Nervosa. The Crane sons, who possess fine tastes, intellectual interests, the brothers close relationship is often tense, and their sibling rivalry intermittently results in chaos. Niles Crane, Frasiers younger brother, also a psychiatrist, who works in private practice, Martin Crane, Frasier and Niless father, a police officer who was forced to retire by a gunshot wound to his hip that led to his living with Frasier. Daphne Moon, an English physiotherapist, hired by Frasier to help take care of Martin, Roz Doyle, the producer of Frasiers radio show, who becomes a close family friend. Eddie, Martin Cranes Jack Russell terrier, Bob Bulldog Briscoe, the male chauvinist, horny, boastful host of a sports radio talk show that followed Frasiers daily broadcast at KACL. He became a regular cast member for Seasons 4 through 6, noel Shempsky, KACL technical assistant and avid Star Trek aficionado who speaks Klingon, in love with Roz. Gil Chesterton, KACLs flamboyant, effeminate restaurant critic. Bebe Glazer, Frasiers manipulative, amoral agent, who is loathed by Frasiers family, the main cast remained unchanged for all 11 years. Grammer was briefly the highest paid actor in the United States for his portrayal of Frasier. Grammer had been the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons since 1990, in a 1997 episode, the characters brother, Cecil Terwilliger, was introduced, played by Pierce, as referenced in the episode title, Brother from Another Series. The episode contained numerous Frasier references, Pierce returned as Cecil for the second time alongside Grammer in the 2007 episode Funeral for a Fiend. The episode introduced the brothers father, Dr. Robert Terwilliger, cast member reunions also occurred on four episodes of Hot in Cleveland, which featured Leeves in the main cast along with Wendie Malick. In the Season 2 episode Unseparated at Birth and Season 3 episode Funeral Crashers, Gilpin appears in the episode I Love Lucci, and Tom McGowan appears in Love Thy Neighbor as a casting director
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Holding the Man (film)
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Holding the Man is a 2015 Australian romantic drama film adapted from Timothy Conigraves 1995 memoir of the same name. It was directed by Neil Armfield and stars Ryan Corr and Craig Stott, with supporting performances from Guy Pearce, Anthony LaPaglia, Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox, the screenplay was written by Tommy Murphy who also adapted the memoir for the stage play. The time expires before Pepe can tell him, later, a concierge at the hotel Tim is staying at passes on a message from Pepe to Tim. In 1976, Tim and John are students at Xavier College in Melbourne, Tim falls in love with John, and invites him to the school play of Romeo and Juliet, where Tim is playing the role of Paris, but John doesnt make it. Tim invites John to a party with Pepe and some of their friends from Drama class. Tim later asks John out and he accepts, initially John isnt comfortable with doing anything sexual with Tim, who writes a letter to John apologising for reaching into his trousers whilst making out after school. The letter is intercepted by their Geography teacher who tells all the staff already know about their relationship. Whilst on a break, Tim and John are caught having sex by their school friends. When Tim returns home, his parents Dick and Mary Gert tell him Johns father Bob found Tims letter and threatens court action if Tim refuses to keep his distance. Tim angrily leaves and rides his bike to Johns house, where he overhears Bob tell John that his mother Lois will make an appointment for his son to see a psychologist, in 1985, Tim interviews an HIV patient called Richard for a play he is writing. Later, Tim and John both go to the doctor for an HIV test, John is given a negative result, but Tim is given a positive result. Their doctor then reveals there was a mistake and both Tim and John are actually HIV positive. In 1979, while Tim and John are students at Monash University, at Johns house one day, John tells Tim I want you inside me. Before they can consummate their relationship, Johns family arrives and catches them trying to sneak out. John stands up to his father and the drive off and engage in a brief. Tim and John move out of their homes and get their own place, Tim becomes flirtatious with other men he and John spend time with, and starts cheating on John when he doesnt support Tims request that they try having sex with other people. Tim reveals to John he put his name down to audition for NIDA, Tim returns to Melbourne and reveals he got in. He moves to Sydney for NIDA and has his classes under the instruction of his teacher Barry, meanwhile, Tim has sex with different boys from his class and goes to a gay sauna
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Lantana (film)
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Lantana is a 2001 Australian drama film, directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell, the film won seven AACTA Awards including Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. Lantana is set in suburban Sydney and focuses on the relationships between the characters in the film. The central event of the film is the disappearance and death of a woman whose body is shown at the start of the film, the films name derives from the plant Lantana, a weed prevalent in suburban Sydney. An unknown womans body is caught in the lantana bush. Leon, an officer, and Jane have sex in a motel room. They part ways, and we see that Leon and his wife Sonja attend Latin dance classes that the recently-separated Jane is also taking, Leon does not enjoy the classes, and is seen savagely beating a drug dealer during a bust. He has emotional issues, but wont confront or admit to them, Sonja sees a therapist, Valerie who has just published a book on her own daughters murder 18 months ago. She and her husband, John, are barely on speaking terms and she feels threatened by another patient of hers, Patrick Phelan, who is having an affair with a married man and is forcing Valerie to confront her own issues in her marriage to John. Hoping to see Leon again, Jane purposely bumps into him outside the police station and her next door neighbour, Nik, is upset that she is seeing someone because he is friends with her estranged husband Pete, who wants to return home. Jane pairs up with Sonja in the next class, which angers Leon, he ends their arrangement. She invites Nik over for coffee at the behest of his wife, Paula, with whom she is friendly, Paula starts to dislike Jane because of it. Valerie is coming home one night and drives off the road. She is stranded, and makes several calls to John, who does not answer, finally, she is seen approaching a car coming along the road, but never makes it home. Leon is the detective on the case, and looks into her office. Surprised at seeing his wifes name and file, he takes a recording of their sessions, Sonja is very upset and feels betrayed. Leon sleeps on the couch, in the morning Sonja says hell be lucky if she returns home that night, Leon goes to Johns house to interrogate him as the main suspect in his wifes disappearance. Leon starts a discussion about love, marriage and having affairs, Leon goes to Janes house on police duty, because she has placed a call
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Balibo (film)
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While historically accurate, the film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up by Jill Jolliffe, an Australian journalist who met the men before they were killed. Oscar Isaac plays the young José Ramos-Horta, who would receive the Nobel Peace Prize and become the second President of East Timor. Filming began on 30 June 2008, in Dili, East Timor, and it was produced by Arenafilm in Australia with Robert Connolly as director, David Williamson as screenwriter, and Professor Clinton Fernandes as historical consultant. LaPaglia, also an Executive Producer, named East as probably the best role Ive ever had, the story is seen through the eyes of veteran journalist Roger East. Initially refusing to become involved, East changes his tune after Ramos-Horta shows him photos of five Australian TV reporters missing in the town of Balibo. Vignettes then show Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Malcolm Rennie, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart, all under 30, saying goodbye to loved ones and setting out on their assignments a month earlier. Shooting in Dili began on 31 July 2008, with United Nations police closing off roads, gritty 16mm-to-35mm visuals shot at the actual locations where the events took place give a documentary-style texture. The films version of events was validated by an Australian coroner in 2007, after a fresh review of the evidence, the coroner ruled that the journalists were executed as they tried to surrender to Indonesian forces. The filmmakers hope that Balibo will spur the Australian government into action, almost 18 months on, it has not responded to the coroners findings - a reticence which may stem from its fear of upsetting diplomatic relations with Jakarta. Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 100% based on 11 reviews, Balibo received its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 24 July 2009 at Melbournes Hamer Hall. The then President of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta was in attendance, on changes over recent years in Indonesia Ramos-Horta said It is better. Indonesian democracy today is one of the most inspiring in the south-east Asia region, also in attendance were the families of the Balibo Five. Relatives of Tony Stewart held aloft a banner bearing his name which had been embroidered by East Timorese women. Maureen Tolfree, sister of Brian Peters, said she hoped many Australians would see the film, screen Internationals Frank Hatherley opined, Shot on location with loving attention to period detail, the films take on these long-buried events is convincing. Connollys three strands are woven together, coming to twin climaxes where terror and cruelty overwhelm everyone. These ‘killing field scenes are not for the squeamish, the Monthlys Luke Davies wrote, Jill Jollifes book. Argues that the Australian government has always known the circumstances of the newsmens deaths. Connolly doesnt try to answer questions, but rather lets them echo in the film
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Calabria
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Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium and formerly as Italia, is a region in Southern Italy and forms the traditionally conceptualized toe of the Italian Peninsula which resembles a boot. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro and its most populated city, and the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria, is Reggio Calabria in the Province of Reggio Calabria. The region is bordered to the north by the Basilicata Region, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the region covers 15,080 km2 and has a population of just under 2 million. The demonym of Calabria in English is Calabrian, in ancient times Calabria was referred to as Italy. The Romans later extended the name to cover Southern Italy and then the entire peninsula, the region is a long and narrow peninsula which stretches from north to south for 248 km, with a maximum width of 110 km. Some 42% of Calabrias area, corresponding to 15,080 km2, is mountainous, 49% is hilly and it is surrounded by the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas. It is separated from Sicily by the Strait of Messina, where the narrowest point between Capo Peloro in Sicily and Punta Pezzo in Calabria is only 3.2 km, three mountain ranges are present, Pollino, La Sila and Aspromonte. All three mountain ranges are unique with their own flora and fauna, the Pollino Mountains in the north of the region are rugged and form a natural barrier separating Calabria from the rest of Italy. Parts of the area are heavily wooded, while others are vast and these mountains are home to a rare Bosnian Pine variety, and are included in the Pollino National Park. The highest point is Botte Donato, which reaches 1,928 metres, the area boasts numerous lakes and dense coniferous forests. La Sila also has some of the tallest trees in Italy which are called the Giants of the Sila, the Sila National Park is also known to have the purest air in Europe. The Aspromonte massif forms the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula bordered by the sea on three sides and this unique mountainous structure reaches its highest point at Montalto, at 1,995 metres, and is full of wide, man-made terraces that slope down towards the sea. In general, most of the terrain in Calabria has been agricultural for centuries. The lowest slopes are rich in vineyards and citrus fruit orchards, the Diamante citron is one of the citrus fruits. Moving upwards, olives and chestnut trees appear while in the regions there are often dense forests of oak, pine, beech. Calabrias climate is influenced by the sea and mountains, mountain areas have a typical mountainous climate with frequent snow during winter. Erratic behavior of the Tyrrhenian Sea can bring heavy rainfall on the slopes of the region, while hot air from Africa makes the east coast of Calabria dry. The mountains that run along the region also influence the climate, the east coast is much warmer and has wider temperature ranges than the west coast
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Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino, Italy covers an area of 301,338 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate. Due to its shape, it is referred to in Italy as lo Stivale. With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state, the Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom, which eventually became a republic that conquered and assimilated other nearby civilisations. The legacy of the Roman Empire is widespread and can be observed in the distribution of civilian law, republican governments, Christianity. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe, bringing a renewed interest in humanism, science, exploration, Italian culture flourished at this time, producing famous scholars, artists and polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. The weakened sovereigns soon fell victim to conquest by European powers such as France, Spain and Austria. Despite being one of the victors in World War I, Italy entered a period of economic crisis and social turmoil. The subsequent participation in World War II on the Axis side ended in defeat, economic destruction. Today, Italy has the third largest economy in the Eurozone and it has a very high level of human development and is ranked sixth in the world for life expectancy. The country plays a prominent role in regional and global economic, military, cultural and diplomatic affairs, as a reflection of its cultural wealth, Italy is home to 51 World Heritage Sites, the most in the world, and is the fifth most visited country. The assumptions on the etymology of the name Italia are very numerous, according to one of the more common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin, Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning land of young cattle. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides. The name Italia originally applied only to a part of what is now Southern Italy – according to Antiochus of Syracuse, but by his time Oenotria and Italy had become synonymous, and the name also applied to most of Lucania as well. The Greeks gradually came to apply the name Italia to a larger region, excavations throughout Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period, some 200,000 years ago, modern Humans arrived about 40,000 years ago. Other ancient Italian peoples of undetermined language families but of possible origins include the Rhaetian people and Cammuni. Also the Phoenicians established colonies on the coasts of Sardinia and Sicily, the Roman legacy has deeply influenced the Western civilisation, shaping most of the modern world
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Rostrevor College
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Rostrevor College is a Roman Catholic day and boarding school for boys, located in Woodforde, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, approximately nine kilometres from the Adelaide city centre. The school was established in 1923 by the Christian Brothers and its founder and first headmaster was Brother David Gabriel Purton. The school currently enrols approximately 850 local and international students from Reception to year 12, the students are divided into Junior, Middle and Senior Years, who together share a 16 hectare campus situated in the Morialta foothills. Rostrevor College originated as an extension of Christian Brothers College which had, by 1922, in December 1922, the Christian Brothers purchased the Rostrevor Estate in Magill for a sum equivalent to $20,500. The name Rostrevor, is of Irish origin and given to the building by its original owner. Reid, born in Newry, arrived in South Australia in 1839 and he accumulated wealth and built a magnificent mansion which he named Rostrevor Hall after Rostrevor, a seaside resort in Ireland. Although the school is situated along the boundary of the suburb of Woodforde, Rostrevor Hall, now widely known as Rostrevor House, was constructed in two stages with the southern two storey side completed in 1878, and the arches and northern side added in 1901. The main residence, Rostrevor House, was the accommodation provided to the boarders, the Christian Brothers. From the time of taking possession in February 1923, a new chapel, five classrooms. By the end of the first term these facilities were ready and so after the May holidays, some day scholars joined the junior grades and from the beginning there were classes from the very junior grades to Leaving Honours at Rostrevor. For many years after 1923, students from C. B. C. B. C, from then on the two colleges became separate and competing establishments. By the end of 1923, Rostrevor was well established as a school, the bungalow, which used to exist alongside what is now the Junior School oval, to which it has lent its name, was demolished in 1960. Further developments included the construction of the Rice Wing in 1961, named in honour of the founder of the Christian Brothers, the Purton Auditorium was completed in 1970. During 1983, Rostrevor celebrated its Diamond Jubilee, the major project for these celebrations was the substantial renovation to the College Chapel. This saw restoration of the building itself, beautification of its surroundings, redecoration of the interior, new seating at the front of the Chapel. During the Jubilee Year, attempts were made to negotiate the retention of the Boarding School, in 1987 the Rostrevor College Board was established, with Justice Kevin Duggan as first chairman. To ensure a sound financial base for development, the Rostrevor Foundation was also established. The South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools set up a Task Force to examine the needs of Catholic Boarding Schools in South Australia and this was agreed to, thus reversing the decision taken some ten years earlier
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Amazing Stories (TV series)
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Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg. It originally ran on NBC in the United States from 1985 to 1987, the series was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won five. The first season episode The Amazing Falsworth earned writer Mick Garris an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series and it was not a ratings hit, however, and the network did not renew it after the two-year contract expired. The series title licensed the name of Amazing Stories, the first dedicated science fiction magazine, the series list below is annotated with the Book numbers as they appeared in the US release on VHS, the Japanese LaserDisc and UK VHS releases are indicated with volume numbers. Note that Vol.7 and 8 are switched for the UK VHS release, all episodes have a running time of around 25 minutes, with the exceptions of The Mission and Go To The Head Of The Class. The album is notable for the premiere release of the music Williams composed for the Amblin Entertainment logo. Other than Williams, Bruce Broughton and Billy Goldenberg are the composers to be represented on all three volumes. The running times below indicate the time for each score rather than the time of each track. However some reviewers were unimpressed with the show with Jeff Jarvis of People saying Amazing Stories is one of the worst disappointments Ive ever had watching TV, One episode of the show, The Family Dog, was spun off into its own series. Six years after Amazing Stories finished its run, Family Dog ran on CBS for ten episodes before being pulled off the schedule, the video game The Dig originated as an idea Spielberg had for Amazing Stories, but decided it would be too expensive to film. In 1985–86, TSR published six tie-in novels under the banner Amazing Stories and they were branching books where the reader chose where to jump at key points. The 4-D Funhouse by Clayton Emery and Earl Wajenberg, portrait in Blood by Mary L. Kirchoff. Nightmare Universe by Gene DeWeese and Robert Coulson, day of the Mayfly by Lee Enderlin. The 1987 film Batteries Not Included was original planned to be a segment for the series, bryan Fuller is writing a new edition of the series for NBC, Spielberg will not be involved. DVD Between 2006-2009, The Complete First Season was released on DVD in the US, UK, France, Holland, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, in 2009, both seasons were released in Germany and Japan only. In Germany both seasons were released as 12 separate DVDs or a box set, which was also reissued in 2011. All countries DVDs contain the original English soundtrack, while Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Japan have a second soundtrack, dubbed in their respective languages. VHS A selection of the series episodes were released in the VHS format in 1993
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Cold Steel (1987 film)
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Cold Steel is a 1987 American thriller film directed by Dorothy Ann Puzo and starred Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks and Adam Ant. This is one of a few films to be directed by a woman. Johnny is determined to find the responsible and get his revenge. Johnny doesnt know that the murder was part of a sinister revenge plot directed against him. Leader of those murderous thugs is his friend and colleague Isaac who blames Johnny for the incident that left him crippled many years ago. But before he gets to Isaac, Johnny must overcome obstacles, including Kathy. After the films run, the film was released on videocassette in March 1988 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. On December 2,2002, Columbia TriStar Home Video released the film on DVD, the DVD has now been discontinued and as of May 26,2010, no plans have been announced by Sony Pictures to re-release the DVD. Cold Steel at the Internet Movie Database Cold Steel at Rotten Tomatoes
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Gangster
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A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime, gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster. Gangs provide a level of organization and resources that support much larger, gangsters have been active for many years in countries around the world. Some gangsters, such as Al Capone have become infamous, gangsters are the subject of many novels and films, particularly from the period between 1920 and 1990. Some contemporary criminals refer to themselves as gangsta in reference to non-rhotic Black American pronunciation, in todays usage, the term gang is generally used for a criminal organization, and the term gangster invariably describes a criminal. Much has been written on the subject of gangs, although there is no consensus about what constitutes a gang or what situations lead to gang formation and evolution. For example, the view that illegal drug distribution in the United States is largely controlled by gangs has been questioned. A gang may be a small group of people who cooperate in criminal acts, as with the Jesse James gang. But a gang may be a group with a formal organization that survives the death of its leader. The Chicago Outfit created by Al Capone outlasted its founders imprisonment and death, the term organized crime is associated with gangs and gangsters, but is not synonymous. A small street gang that engages in sporadic low-level crime would not be seen as organized, an organization that coordinates gangs in different countries involved in the international trade in drugs or prostitutes may not be considered a gang. The Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra is a syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is an association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure. The origins lie in the upheaval of Sicilys transition out of feudalism in 1812, under feudalism, the nobility owned most of the land and enforced law and order through their private armies. After 1812, the feudal barons steadily sold off or rented their lands to private citizens, primogeniture was abolished, land could no longer be seized to settle debts, and one fifth of the land was to become private property of the peasants. Organized crime has existed in Russia since the days of Imperial Russia in the form of banditry and thievery, in the Soviet period Vory v Zakone emerged, a class of criminals that had to abide by certain rules in the prison system. One such rule was that cooperation with the authorities of any kind was forbidden, in 1988 the Soviet Union legalized private enterprise but did not provide regulations to ensure the security of market economy. Crude markets emerged, the most notorious being the Rizhsky market where prostitution rings were run next to the Rizhsky Railway Station in Moscow, as the Soviet Union headed for collapse many former government workers turned to crime, while others moved overseas
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Betsy's Wedding
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Betsys Wedding is a 1990 American romantic-comedy film written, directed by and starring Alan Alda. It co-stars Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn, Joey Bishop, Joe Pesci, Anthony LaPaglia, Burt Young, Eddie Hopper is a construction contractor from Long Island, New York, with two grown daughters. One of them, Betsy, is about to be married, everyone in the family is throwing advice Eddies way, even the ghost of his father. A new house Eddie is building is adding to his financial and emotional woes, in desperation, he turns to his crooked brother-in-law, Oscar, who ends up getting Eddie involved with loan sharks. A young man named Stevie Dee is sent to keep an eye on Eddie, but instead turns his gaze to Connie Hopper, Betsys wedding ultimately goes on as scheduled, but is disrupted by a torrential downpour of rain. Betsys Wedding received mixed reviews critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 56% rating. Reviews of the film included comments such as threadbare concoction, narcissism flourishing like ragweed and it was nominated for two Razzie Awards, Worst Actress for Molly Ringwald and Worst Supporting Actress for Ally Sheedy. Betsys Wedding has been cited as launching the career of Anthony LaPaglia. Betsys Wedding at the Internet Movie Database Betsys Wedding at the TCM Movie Database Betsys Wedding at AllMovie Betsys Wedding at Rotten Tomatoes Betsys Wedding at Box Office Mojo
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Danny Aiello
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He had a pivotal role in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing as Salvatore Sal Frangione, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Aiello also played Don Domenico Clericuzio in a miniseries, Mario Puzos The Last Don. Aiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan, the son of Italian American parents Frances, a seamstress, aiellos father deserted the family even though his wife had gone blind. For many years, Aiello had publicly condemned his fathers desertion of his children, Aiello reconciled with his father in 1993, but to this day harbors a resentment of his fathers conduct. He moved to the South Bronx when he was seven, at the age of 16, Aiello lied about his age in order to enlist in the U. S. Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself, Aiello also once served as a union representative for Greyhound Bus workers and was a night club bouncer at the legendary New York comedy club, The Improv. Aiello broke into films in the early 1970s, one of his earliest roles came as a ballplayer in the 1973 baseball drama, Bang the Drum Slowly, with Robert De Niro. Aiello had a role as small-time hood Tony Rosato in The Godfather Part II. In 1980, Aiello had a role with Jan Michael Vincent in Defiance. The next year, he received acclaim for playing a racist New York City cop in Fort Apache, The Bronx with Paul Newman. In 1981, Danny Aiello won a Daytime Emmy Award for his appearance in an ABC Afterschool Special called A Family of Strangers. He was paired with De Niro again for the Sergio Leone gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America and his many film appearances included three for director Woody Allen, who cast him in Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Radio Days. Aiello is perhaps best known for his role as pizzeria owner Sal in Spike Lees Do the Right Thing, at the time of the films release, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, he called the role his first focal part. He further identified the film as a collaborative effort, during which Spike Lee at one point told him Whatever you wanna do. Aiello went on to write a scene he shared with John Turturro ten minutes prior to its production. The role earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as film critic awards from Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. Although his characters have often been vulgar and violent, Aiello has also portrayed sensitive and he also had sympathetic roles in the 1990 horror thriller Jacobs Ladder and the 1991 comedy-drama 29th Street. In Léon, The Professional, Aiello had an important role as a cafe owner who assigns jobs to a hitman
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Lainie Kazan
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Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer. She had previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the version of My Favorite Year. Her other film appearances include The Delta Force, Harry and the Hendersons, Beaches, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Carole and Ben Levine. Her mother was from a Sephardic Jewish family from Jerusalem, and her father, of Russian Ashkenazi Jewish descent, Kazan has described her mother as neurotic, fragile and artistic. She graduated from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York and she married Peter Daniels in 1971. In a segment of Celebrity Ghost Stories she revealed that she was widowed in 1989 when Daniels died of lung cancer, with him, Kazan has one child, Jennifer, and is a grandmother. Kazan serves on the boards of the Young Musicians’ Foundation, AIDS Project LA, Kazan suffered from deep vein thrombosis, and has dedicated time to educating the public about the condition. On April 9,2016, Kazan was injured in a collision in Los Angeles. Kazan made her Broadway debut in The Happiest Girl in the World in 1961 followed by Bravo Giovanni and she served as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, finally getting to go on 18 months into the run when the star was ill with a serious throat problem. Both had attended the high school, Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Kazan’s mother alerted the press and, encouraged by rave reviews for her performance, she quit the show, as her popularity increased, Kazan posed nude for a spread in the October 1970 issue of Playboy, which was reused in Pocket Playboy #4, issued in 1974. Her Playboy photographs also inspired the look of Jack Kirby’s DC Comics superheroine Big Barda, Kazan appeared in numerous supper clubs across the country, and she guested on Dean Martin’s variety series 26 times. She appeared in a scene as the mother of Adam Sandler’s character in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and it is, however, included in the special features on disc. Prior to this film, she had appeared with its co-star Kevin James in two episodes of his The King of Queens TV series as the once-renowned singer Ava St. Clair. A life member of The Actors Studio, Kazan returned to Broadway to recreate her role for the musical adaptation of My Favorite Year. She completed a stint in The Vagina Monologues and she has also appeared in regional productions of A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Hello, Dolly. and Fiddler on the Roof, among others, in 1984, she made a guest appearance on the Faerie Tale Theatre episode “Pinocchio” as Sophia the Blue Fairy. She appeared in an episode of Ugly Betty, playing the mother of Bobby and she appeared in one episode, Fire and Nice
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29th Street (film)
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29th Street is a 1991 American comedy-drama film. It was written and directed by George Gallo and was adapted from the story by Frank Pesce, in 1976, Frank Pesce Jr. is a lucky man. His father, Frank Sr. is, however, very unlucky, one day, Frank Jr. buys a lottery ticket and finds that he has a good chance of winning. But Frank Sr. has some gambling debts to the mob, Frank must decide what to do with the ticket. The plot is based on the true story of the first person to win the New York Lottery. 29th Street got 75% good reviews based on 8 reviews, considered Fresh, 29th Street at the Internet Movie Database Rotten Tomatoes
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New York Lottery
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The New York Lottery began in 1967 as the third modern U. S. lottery, after Puerto Ricos began in 1934, and New Hampshires in 1964. As part of the New York State Gaming Commission, it provides revenue for education and is based in Schenectady. Prior to the 20th century, lotteries were used in New York to raise revenue for non-educational needs, New York City Hall was built in part with lottery proceeds. Other lotteries helped build and repair canals, roads, ferries, lotteries also were held for non-public needs. They helped develop New York Citys manufacturing industries, churches were built, rebuilt, or improved with lottery funds. On November 8,1966, New Yorkers voted to approve an amendment authorizing a government-run lottery. The referendum passed with over 60% in favor, the proceeds of the Lottery were to be applied exclusively to, or in aid or support of education. In 1967, the New York Legislature created a Division of the Lottery, the Lottery later became an autonomous unit within the Department of Taxation and Finance. Under the New York State Lottery for Education Law, the director of the Division of the Lottery has full authority over the administration of the Lottery, the Lottery began in 1967, its first slogan was Your Chance of a Lifetime to Help Education. It has generated over $34 billion in aid to education revenue, the original intent of the lottery was to provide funds for education. Sales were suspended for nine months in 1975-76 due to a scandal. The first big winner of the Lottery was Lou Eisenberg, who won $5,000,000 in 1981, in that era, an agreement between Mega Millions and Powerball was reached in October 2009. All lotteries then with either game were allowed to sell tickets for both games beginning January 31,2010, the New York Lottery was among those which joined the game on that date. Players must be at least 18, however, the minimum is 21 for Quick Draw where alcohol is served, Lottery winnings are subject to state and Federal income taxes. New York City and Yonkers residents also are subject to income taxes. New York Lotto, begun in 1978, which has the lowest payout of a U. S. lottery game. On February 1,2013, the New York Lotterys operations were merged with that of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board to form the New York State Gaming Commission, Numbers is a three-digit draw game drawn twice daily. Three digits from 0 through 9 are drawn, the minimum wager is 50 cents, except for combination wagers
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Innocent Blood (film)
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Innocent Blood is a 1992 American crime comedy horror film directed by John Landis and written by Michael Wolk. The film stars Anne Parillaud as a beautiful French vampire who finds herself pitted against a gang of vicious mobsters led by Robert Loggia who eventually becomes a vampire himself, the film is set and was filmed in and around the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. The Little Italy of Pittsburgh, a portion of the Bloomfield, Pittsburgh neighborhood, actors Tony Sirico and David Proval have supporting parts as gangsters, foreshadowing their roles in The Sopranos. It also features appearances by Anthony LaPaglia, Angela Bassett. The film is notable for being a mixture of the vampire, gangster, the film balances plenty of slickly directed thrills and gore with some moments of humor. A gorier unrated version was released on DVD in Germany, Marie is a very appealing modern-day vampire in Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. After feasting on mafioso Tony, she shoots him in the head with a shotgun to cover up the marks on his neck. The next night, Marie seduces Salvatore, who takes her back to his mansion for dinner, Marie is warded off when Salvatore serves garlic mussels, and she tries to escape through the bathroom window, but finds it barred up. Salvatore attempts to rape her, but Marie manages to overpower him, but before she can finish him off, Salvatores limousine driver, Lenny intervenes, and she is forced to flee. Gennaro investigates the scene, and finds a trail of blood and a shoe on the roof, Gennaro follows it to a nearby church where he finds Marie and a chase ensues. When Gennaro gets back to his car, Marie finds him and demands that he take her to the morgue where Salvatore was taken. Meanwhile, Salvatore, now a vampire, awakens in the morgue and escapes by stealing a car and drives to the home of his attorney, Manny Bergman, being witnessed by police and the media in his escape. Outside the morgue, Gennaro leaves Marie with his colleagues Dave Finton, Marie escapes from custody and follows him. At Bergmans home, Salvatore drinks Bergmans blood, and Gennaro is captured by Salvatores men Lenny, the three mobsters take Gennaro to the docks and attempt to kill him using the compactor of a garbage truck. Marie arrives, saves him and kills Salvatores men, but Salvatore manages to escape, Gennaro and Marie attempt to pursue him but the sun rises and Marie has to retreat into a motel. Salvatore hides in a factory that he owns. Bergman is transferred to a hospital, but, after becoming a vampire, he is burned alive when a nurse opens the window, in the motel, Gennaro and Marie confess their feelings for each other and have sex. The next night, Salvatore travels to a club that he owns
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
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So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American romantic black comedy film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie MacKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet, in addition to playing the main character, Myers also plays Charlies father, Stuart. Charlie MacKenzie is a poet living in San Francisco, after having broken up with yet another woman based on paranoid perception. His friend Tony, a policeman, points out that Charlie simply is afraid of commitment, Charlie encounters a butcher named Harriet, and the two quickly find common bonds between them. They start to date, and Charlie learns she used to live in Atlantic City, had been involved with a trainer in Russian martial arts, after staying at her place one night, Charlie meets Harriets sister, Rose, who warns Charlie to be careful. As they continue to see other, Charlie and Harriet fall in love. He arranges a dinner with her to meet his parents, Stuart and May, who both believe in conspiracy theories and get their news from the Weekly World News tabloid. While there, Charlie spots one paper that describes the story about a Mrs. X, a bride who kills her husbands on their honeymoons using an axe, Charlie becomes paranoid and asks Tony to investigate Harriet and the Mrs. X story. Tony reveals that the husbands of Mrs. X were all reported missing alongside their wives, Charlie remains on edge, and after a few more troubled dates, decides to break up with her. Tony later reports that a killer in the Mrs. X story has confessed, relieved, Charlie apologizes to Harriet by reciting one of his beat poems to her from his rooftop. They make up, and Harriet explains away some of the confusion Charlie had from her history, some time later, Charlie proposes to Harriet, which she reluctantly accepts after some hesitation and they arrange for a wedding in a secluded mountain hotel. After they depart, Tony learns that the killer is actually a compulsive liar. He sends a photo of Harriet to the associates of the missing husbands. With phone lines to the hotel down, Tony charters a plane, once he lands, he is able to call Charlie locally and warn him that Harriet is really Mrs. X, but the hotel phone line is knocked out and power is lost. Charlie is panicked and tries to stay away from Harriet without letting her know what he knows, Charlie finds himself alone and discovers a Dear Jane letter, purportedly written by him, explaining his absence to Harriet. Suddenly, Rose appears wielding an ax, Charlie begins a game of cat-and-mouse to stay away from Rose while waiting for the police to arrive. Tony leads the police into the hotel but arrests Harriet, still believing her to be the murderer, having chased Charlie to the hotel roof, Rose swings the axe at Charlie and is thrown off the building, with only Charlie holding her up from falling to her death. Tony comes to catch her fall, where she is arrested, Charlie and Harriet resume their lives afterward as a happy couple
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The Client (1994 film)
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The Client is a 1994 American legal thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, and starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Brad Renfro. It is based on the novel of the name by John Grisham. The film was released in the United States on July 20,1994, eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter Mob lawyer Jerome Clifford. Clifford tells Mark that he is about to kill himself to avoid being murdered by Barry The Blade Muldano, Ricky becomes catatonic after witnessing the suicide and is hospitalized. Authorities–and the Mob–realize that Clifford may have told Mark where a Louisiana senator who was murdered by Muldano is buried, Mark meets Regina Reggie Love, a lawyer and recovering alcoholic, who agrees to represent him. They quickly run afoul of Reverend Roy Foltrigg, a celebrated, in the meantime, it is revealed that Sulari never authorized Muldano to kill the senator and wants Muldano to uncover how much the boys know. Muldano is also ordered to move the body, but currently he is unable to because it is buried in Cliffords boathouse, Foltrigg continues to use legal means to get Mark to reveal where the body is hidden, while Sulari orders Muldano to kill the children and Reggie. He also orders the body to be moved once the investigation at Cliffords home is concluded, Mark is threatened in a hospital elevator by a member of the Mafia, and is unable to talk to Foltrigg. Mark and Reggie go to New Orleans to confirm that the body is on Cliffords property, Reggie intends to use this information to broker a deal with Foltrigg to get Ricky specialized medical care and place the family in the witness protection program. Reggie and Mark arrive at Cliffords house the night as Muldano. They are digging up the body, but a melee follows when Mark, Muldano and the others flee after Reggie trips the neighbors alarm. Foltrigg agrees to Reggies demands in exchange for information about the bodys location, before the Sway family leaves to restart their lives under new identities, Mark and Reggie share a heartfelt goodbye. Although not explicitly stated, Sulari has had enough of Muldano, with the body recovered, Foltrigg is a lock-in for the media headlines he craves, and mentions that he intends to run for governor. The film was a success, earning $92,115,211 at the North American domestic box office. The film received positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews from 35 critics to give the film a score of 80%, roger Ebert gave the film a score of 2.5 out of 4. For her work in the film, Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, ^ Spelled Muldanno in the original novel. The Client at the Internet Movie Database The Client at AllMovie
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Murder One (TV series)
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Murder One is an American legal drama television series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, like many of Bochcos previous series, Murder One was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. In 1997, TV Guide ranked the first episode, Chapter 1, in its first season, the series starred Daniel Benzali as defense attorney Theodore Hoffman, a criminal litigator and the principal of his own firm, Hoffman and Associates. Backed by a cadre of associates, Hoffman was a gruff. Patricia Clarkson played his wife, Annie, somewhat unusually for a television drama of its time, the first season of the series revolved around a single high-profile criminal case. Stanley Tucci played Richard Cross, a charming but morally ambiguous philanthropist, Bobbie Phillips played Julie Costello, the murder victims sister and the girlfriend of Richard Cross. For the duration of one, Hoffman defended Neil Avedon. During the first part of the season, Hoffmans associates also handled smaller cases which were wrapped up within one episode. While there were many plot twists and misdirections, fundamentally the entire season consisted of one case for Hoffman & Associates. In the second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia as Jimmy Wyler, the second season also featured this type of seriality, to a limited extent, three unrelated trials, over 18 episodes. The serial nature of the drama may have been problematic, leaving viewers who either missed episodes or did not see the series from its premiere at a loss. As a result, from half way through the first season. Following somewhat disappointing ratings, ABC and Bochco revamped the show significantly for the 1996–97 season, gone were Benzali and his character as well as many of the shows former regulars including Clarkson, Gedrick, Tucci and Dylan Baker. The producers brought in LaPaglia as the new owner of the firm after Hoffman retired in an attempt to save his marriage, the second season of the show was far less successful than the first. Other cast members brought in for the season included D. B. ABC did broadcast all the episodes filmed, and the plot was prematurely wrapped up in the final episode, ABC ordered the final six episodes air as a three-night mini-series in the spring of 1997. But, as the hopes for series renewal diminished, the three-night mini-series was rescheduled for the less-viewed Memorial Day weekend, the series was dropped at the end of the 96–97 season. Over its two-year run, ABC aired 41 original episodes of this series, the first season of Murder One has aired several times on cable networks such as A&E and Court TV in the United States
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and he also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Days Journey into Night, Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in 1980, Miller received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Prince of Asturias Award and the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002, Miller was born on October 17,1915, in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, the second of three children of Augusta and Isidore Miller. His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia, and his mother was a native of New York whose parents arrived from that town. Isidore owned a clothing manufacturing business employing 400 people. He became a wealthy and respected man in the community, the family, including his younger sister Joan Copeland, lived on West 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, as a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family. After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at menial jobs to pay for his college tuition. At the University of Michigan, Miller first majored in journalism and worked for the student paper and it was during this time that he wrote his first play, No Villain. Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain, the award brought him his first recognition and led him to begin to consider that he could have a career as a playwright. Rowe provided realistic feedback along with much-needed encouragement, and became a lifelong friend, in 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award. After his graduation in 1938, he joined the Federal Theater Project and he chose the theater project despite the more lucrative offer to work as a scriptwriter for 20th Century Fox. However, Congress, worried about possible Communist infiltration, closed the project in 1939, Miller began working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard while continuing to write radio plays, some of which were broadcast on CBS. In 1940, Miller married Mary Grace Slattery, the couple had two children, Jane and Robert. Miller was exempted from service during World War II because of a high-school football injury to his left kneecap. 1940 was also the year his first play was produced, The Man Who Had All the Luck won the Theatre Guilds National Award, the play closed after four performances with disastrous reviews
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A View from the Bridge (film)
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A View from the Bridge is a 1962 French-Italian drama film directed by Sidney Lumet with a screenplay by Norman Rosten based on the play of the same name written by Arthur Miller. It was filmed in English and French versions, and its exterior sequences were filmed on location on the waterfront of Brooklyn, New York, where the play, however, this overture was intended as an accusation of someone being gay, rather than a romantic expression. In Film Quarterly, Pauline Kael called the not so much a drama as a sentence thats been passed on the audience. Stanley Kauffmans review for The New Republic was titled The Unadaptable Adapted, however, The one great obstruction to the drama — and a fatal obstruction it becomes—is the slowly evolving demonstration that the principal character is a boor. As much as his nigh-incestuous passion and his subsequent jealousy may be credible and touching, they are low in the emotional scale and are obviously seamy. They havent the universal scope of greed or envy or ambition or such obsessions as drive men to ruin, the film is more commonly remembered today for a shocking set piece, in which Eddie kisses Rodolpho full on the lips to prove that the boy is gay. For his performance as Eddie Carbone, Raf Vallone won the David di Donatello for Best Actor, a View from the Bridge at the Internet Movie Database
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Ken Ludwig
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Ken Ludwig is an American playwright and theatre director whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. Ken Ludwig was born in York, Pennsylvania and his father was a doctor and his mother was a former Broadway chorus girl. Ludwig was educated at the York Suburban Senior High School, York PA and he received degrees from Haverford College, Harvard University, where he studied music with Leonard Bernstein, and Trinity College at Cambridge University. His older brother, Eugene Ludwig served as President Clintons Comptroller of the Currency and he is married and has two children. Ken Ludwigs first Broadway play, Lend Me a Tenor, which Frank Rich of the New York Times called one of the two great farces by a writer, won three Tony Awards and was nominated for nine. Other Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo with Carol Burnett and Lynn Redgrave and Frank Langella, a revival of Lend Me A Tenor opened on Broadway in 2010, starring Tony Shalhoub and Justin Bartha. Among Ludwig’s other works are Shakespeare in Hollywood, which was presented at Arena Stage in Washington, Ludwig’s adaptation of The Three Musketeers opened at Bristol Old Vic in England in December 2006. Another stage adaptation of the George and Ira Gershwin film An American in Paris premiered at the Alley Theatre in Houston as The Gershwins An American in Paris in May 2008. Ludwig’s play, Fox on the Fairway, a set in the world of golf, premiered in October 2010 at Signature Theatre in Arlington. The Games Afoot is Ludwig’s comedy-mystery about the actor William Gillette who originated the role of Sherlock Holmes. It premiered at Cleveland Play House in November 2011, directed by Aaron Posner and featuring Donald Sage Mackay and Rob McClure, the world premiere of his first play for children, Twas The Night Before Christmas, opened at The Adventure Theatre in November 2011. He and his son, Jack Ludwig co-wrote an adaptation of Charle Dickens A Christmas Carol entitled Tiny Tims Christmas Carol which also premiered at The Adventure Theatre in November 2014. His play Baskerville, A Sherlock Holmes Mystery premiered as a co-production at Arena Stage in January 2015, Ludwig wrote Sullivan & Gilbert which was a co-production of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Arts Centre of Canada. The play was voted Best Play of 1988 by the Ottawa critics and he wrote a new adaptation of Where’s Charley. for the Kennedy Center, Divine Fire, and a mystery, Postmortem. He co-wrote the 1990 Kennedy Center Honors which appeared on CBS television, also for television he wrote a pilot for Carol Channing. He wrote Lend Me A Tenor film version for Columbia Pictures and All Shook Up for Touchstone Pictures and his play, A Comedy of Tenors premiered at the Cleveland Playhouse in September 2015 in a co-production with the McCarter Theatre Center. The play has several characters from Lend Me A Tenor and takes place in Paris in the 1930s, the play opened at the McCarter Theatre in October 2015. He has adapted the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express to a stage play, arburthnot, and Evan Zes as Bouc
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Lend Me a Tenor
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Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig. The play was produced on both the West End and Broadway and it received nine Tony Award nominations and won for Best Actor and Best Director. A Broadway revival opened in 2010, lend Me a Tenor has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in twenty-five countries. The play takes place in 1934, in a suite in Cleveland. The two-room set has a room with a sofa and chairs at right. A center stage wall divides the two rooms, with a door leading from one room to the other, Merelli is coming to Cleveland to sing the lead role in a performance of Giuseppe Verdis Otello. Its the biggest event in the Cleveland Operas history, a sellout crowd and the members of the Cleveland Opera Guild will be at the opera house that evening to see the great Merelli. Saunders harried assistant, Max, is also in the hotel suite, Saunders has charged Max with seeing to Merellis needs, and with getting Merelli to the opera house in time for the performance. Also there is Maggie Saunders, Henrys daughter and Maxs sometime-girlfriend, Maggie is a fan of Tito Merelli, and hopes to meet him. Tito finally arrives at the suite, accompanied by his hot-tempered Italian wife, Maria. When she finds Maggie hiding in the closet, trying to get Titos autograph. Maria writes Tito a Dear John letter, and leaves the hotel, in the sitting room, Max gives Tito a tranquilizer-laced drink, trying to calm him down before the performance. When he learns that Max is an opera singer, Tito kindly gives Max a singing lesson, teaching him to loosen up. Tito and Max sing a duet together, when Tito returns to the bedroom, he finds Marias note. Horrified that his wife has left him, Tito goes into a fit of passion, Max manages to calm Tito down, and takes the singer into the bedroom, where Tito lies down on the bed for a rest. Much later, Max is unable to wake Tito from his nap, Max finds an empty medicine bottle and Marias Dear John letter, which is written in such a way that Max mistakenly thinks Tito has committed suicide. When Saunders arrives, Max tearfully tells him that Tito is dead, the opera performance will have to be cancelled, and the audience will demand their money back. It will be a disaster for the Cleveland opera, and for Saunders himself, however, Saunders comes up with a plan
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The Sopranos
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The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around the character, New Jersey-based Italian American mobster Tony Soprano. The series portrays the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the requirements of his home life. These are often highlighted during his sessions with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The series features Tonys family members, mafia colleagues and rivals, in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and protégé Christopher Moltisanti. After the pilot was ordered in 1997, the show premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on January 10,1999. The series then went through syndication and has been broadcast on A&E in the United States, the Sopranos was produced by HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television. It was primarily filmed at Silvercup Studios, New York City, the executive producers throughout the shows run were David Chase, Brad Grey, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, Ilene S. Landress, Terence Winter, and Matthew Weiner. The Sopranos is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, the series also won a multitude of awards, including Peabody Awards for its first two seasons,21 Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. A staple of 2000s American popular culture, the series has been the subject of analysis, controversy. It has spawned books, a game, high-charting soundtrack albums. Several members of the shows cast and crew who were largely unknown to the public have had successful careers after The Sopranos. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named The Sopranos the best-written TV series of all time, before creating The Sopranos, David Chase had worked as a television producer for more than 20 years. He had been employed as a staff writer/producer for several series and had co-created one short-lived original series, Almost Grown. He made his directorial debut in 1986 with the Enough Rope for Two episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival. He also directed episodes of Almost Grown and Ill Fly Away in 1988 and 1992, in 1996, he wrote and directed the television film The Rockford Files, Punishment and Crime. He served as showrunner for Ill Fly Away and Northern Exposure in the 1990s, Chase won his first Emmy Award in 1978 for his work on The Rockford Files and his second for writing the 1980 television film Off the Minnesota Strip. By 1996, he was a coveted showrunner, the story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother
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David Chase
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David Chase is an American writer, director and television producer. Chase has worked in television for 40 years, he has produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, Ill Fly Away and he has created two original series, the first, Almost Grown, aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. Chase is best known for his original series, the influential and critically acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos. A prominent figure in American television, Chase has won seven Emmy Awards, Chase was born into a working class Italian American family in Mount Vernon, New York. An only child, Chase grew up in a garden apartment in Clifton, New Jersey. Chase has stated that as a child he had problems with his parents. He grew up watching matinée crime films and was known as a creative storyteller during his childhood. One of his characters on the HBO original series The Sopranos, Chase struggled with panic attacks and severe depression as a teenager, something he still deals with today. He graduated from school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I slept 18 hours a day, Chase later stated and he described his problems as whats come to be known as normal, nagging, clinical depression. He also worked as a drummer during this period, and held aspirations of being a professional musician, after two years, he transferred to New York University, where he chose to pursue a career in film, a decision that was not well received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford Universitys School of Film and he also worked as a writer of nineteen episodes while on The Rockford Files—a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years. He won several Emmy awards, including one for a movie, Off the Minnesota Strip. After The Rockford Files run ended the year, Chase worked in numerous television jobs until he wound up in charge of Northern Exposure in 1993. Chase worked in relative anonymity before The Sopranos debuted, in a recent interview, Chase stated that he experienced frustration for a long period with being unable to break out of the TV genre and into film over this time. In 2000, he was the recipient of the Austin Film Festivals Outstanding Television Writer Award, in 2005, Chase received a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his entire body of work. His first original created series was Almost Grown in 1988, with Eve Gordon, although the one-hour series was well received by critics, only 10 episodes aired from November 1988 to February 1989. He also directed the episode and the series finale
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Tony Soprano
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Anthony John Tony Soprano is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series The Sopranos, portrayed by James Gandolfini. The Italian-American character was conceived by Sopranos creator and show runner David Chase, the character is loosely based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent Vinny Ocean Palermo, a former caporegime and de facto boss of the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey. Considered to be the model for the DiMeo crime family, several involving the DeCavalcantes were incorporated into Sopranos scripts. Bobby Boriello portrayed Soprano as a child in one episode and Danny Petrillo played the character as a teenager in three episodes, in the first season, Tony is a capo in the DiMeo crime family. He often displays behavior traits characteristic of a violent sociopath, and he seeks treatment from Dr. Jennifer Melfi in the first episode and remains in therapy on and off up until the penultimate episode of the series. Tony was born in 1960, to Livia and Johnny Boy Soprano and he grew up living with his mother, father, and two sisters, Janice and Barbara, in the Ironbound neighborhood – known to locals as Down Neck – in Newark, New Jersey. His father was a capo in the DiMeo crime family and Tony recalls some of his activities in flashbacks on the show, Tonys paternal grandfather, Corrado Soprano Sr. was a master stonemason who emigrated from Avellino, Italy in 1910. He helped to build a church in Tonys old neighborhood in Newark, Tony takes his children there so he can tell them about their heritage and the value of hard work. Bobby Boriello played Tony in the episode Down Neck, in which Tony recalls childhood events relating to his realization that his father was involved in organized crime. He recalls how his father, Johnny Boy Soprano, used his sister, Janice. At the time, Tony thought Janice was his fathers favorite child, Tony has a troubled relationship with Janice, because she is always asking him for money and once tried to sell Livias house by herself. Tony also was forced to dispose of the body of Janices re-acquainted boyfriend Richie Aprile, Tony went to high school with Artie Bucco and Davey Scatino, and remains friends with them into adult life. He played baseball and football, and according to Sal Bonpensiero and he met his future bride, Carmela DeAngelis, in high school. Tony was close to his cousin Tony Blundetto, and the cousins and relations called them Tony-Uncle-Al. In their teenage years, the two Tonys spent summers at the farm of their uncle Pat Blundetto, who was a soldier in the DiMeo organization, Blundetto was arrested for his part in a hijacking when the two Tonys were young men. Tony was supposed to join Blundetto on the job but failed to appear because of an attack after an argument with his mother. At the time, he told people he had attacked and injured by black gangsters. Tony attended Seton Hall University for a semester and a half before dropping out to pursue a life of crime, Tony was part of an unofficial crew of young criminals consisting of Silvio Dante, Ralph Cifaretto, and Jackie Aprile, Sr
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James Gandolfini
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James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, an Italian-American crime boss and he garnered enormous praise for his performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His other notable roles included mob henchman Virgil in True Romance, enforcer and stuntman Bear in Get Shorty, after finishing The Sopranos, Gandolfini produced the documentary Alive Day Memories, Home from Iraq, in which he interviewed injured Iraq War veterans. His second documentary, Wartorn, 1861–2010, analyzed the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on soldiers, Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey. His mother, Santa, was a school lunch lady of Italian ancestry who was born in the United States. His father, James Joseph Gandolfini Sr. was a native of Borgo Val di Taro who worked as a bricklayer and cement mason, James Sr. earned a Purple Heart in World War II. Gandolfinis parents were devout Roman Catholics and spoke Italian at home, due to the influence of his parents, he developed a strong sense of Italian American identity and visited Italy regularly. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in studies from Rutgers University in 1982. He also worked as a bartender and club manager in Manhattan prior to his acting career, Gandolfini performed in a 1992 Broadway production of On the Waterfront for six weeks. In the film Terminal Velocity, Gandolfini played Ben Pinkwater, a seemingly mild-mannered insurance man who turns out to be a violent Russian mobster, in 1995 he was in the box office hit Crimson Tide. In that same year in Get Shorty, he appeared as a bearded ex-stuntman with a Southern accent, the show debuted in 1999 and was broadcast until 2007. For his depiction of Soprano, Gandolfini won three Emmys for Best Actor in a Drama and Entertainment Weekly listed him as the 42nd Greatest TV Icon of All Time. In addition to the awards that he won, Gandolfini received numerous nominations, in 2007 Gandolfini produced a documentary with HBO focused on injured Iraq War veterans and their devotion to America while surveying the physical and emotional costs of war. Gandolfini interviewed ten surviving soldiers, who revealed their thoughts about the challenges they face reintegrating into society and they also reflected on their memories of the day when they narrowly escaped death and what life may have been like in other circumstances. He returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadways God of Carnage with Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, and Jeff Daniels. He received a Tony Award nomination in the category of Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play but lost to Geoffrey Rush from the play and he played the Mayor of New York in the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. In 2010 Gandolfini produced another documentary with HBO, which analyzed the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder throughout American history and it featured interviews with American military officials on their views of PTSD and how they are trying to help soldiers affected by it. Letters from soldiers of the American Civil War and World War I who were affected by PTSD are examined, along with interviews with soldiers affected by PTSD, Gandolfini was executive producer of the HBO film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn, titled Hemingway & Gellhorn
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Analyze That
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Analyze That is a 2002 American crime comedy film, and a sequel to the 1999 film Analyze This. The film was directed and co-written by Harold Ramis and stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who respectively reprise their roles as mobster Paul Vitti, near the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing prison, Paul Vittis life is threatened by assassins and corrupt guards while incarcerated. He starts singing showtunes from West Side Story to get the attention of Ben Sobel, the FBI calls in Ben to see if Vitti is really insane. This appears to be the case, and the FBI approves Ben taking Vitti out of prison, into his own custody, on their way out in Sobels car, Vitti reveals that he faked it. Needing some therapy himself after his fathers death, a grieving Sobel talks Vitti into finding a regular job, Vitti attempts to find a legitimate job, but his rude manners and paranoia only complicate things further. At the same time, Vitti is told by de facto boss Patti LoPresti that the Rigazzi family wants him dead and he responds to this by telling the Rigazzis that he is out and seeking a new line of employment. He eventually finds employment working as an advisor on the set of a Sopranos-like mafia TV series. Meanwhile, FBI agents inform Sobel that Vitti has his crew back together. This rouses Sobels suspicion, and he visits Vitti, both get caught up in a car chase with Rigazzi hitmen, which ends up with Vitti escaping. The FBI blames Sobel, and gives him 24 hours to locate Vitti, after locating Vitti, Sobel discovers Vitti is planning a big armored car heist with LoPresti as a partner. He attempts to intervene and talk Vitti out of it but Vitti proceeds, the crew ambushes the armored car with smoke grenades, and lifts it over a fence in the midst of the confusion. They extract $20M worth of bullion, but LoPrestis thugs take over. Sobel, in a fit of anger, beats one of them and they use the gold bullion to frame the Rigazzi family, leaving three Rigazzi goons locked in the armored truck suspended from the crane. This leads to the arrest of the entire Rigazzi family, and in turn, Sobel meets with Vitti and Jelly near bridges on the New York waterfront, and they part ways again as friends, singing another West Side Story showtune together. Robert De Niro as Paul Vitti Billy Crystal as Dr. Ben Sobel M. D. They believed, as said by Crystal, that there was a relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti from the first film and there was a good story to tell. The story of the sequel was inspired by an article in The New York Times about the used in the TV show The Sopranos. Ramis said the article raised questions about nature and morality. Can the criminal mind be turned
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Cleaver (The Sopranos)
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Cleaver is a metafictional film within a TV-series that serves as an important plot element toward the end of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos. Although very little material is actually shown in the series, its planning. Several characters are credited for their involvement in the project, the screenplay was written by J. T. Dolan based on a story by Christopher Moltisanti, directed by Morgan Yam and produced by Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. and Moltisanti. The film starred Jonathan LaPaglia as Michael the Cleaver and Daniel Baldwin as mob boss Salvatore, also starring as Sally-boys key advisors are George Pogatsia as Frankie and Lenny Ligotti as Nicky. Moltisanti and Lupertazzi initially attempted to recruit Ben Kingsley to fill the role of the don in Luxury Lounge. Cleaver—originally titled Pork Store Killer—stars protagonist Michael, nicknamed the Butcher, when Christopher proposes the plot to writer J. T. Dolan, he says the film is about a young wiseguy, assassin, gets betrayed by his people. They whack him, leave his body parts in all around the city. Long story short, he is put together, by science. or maybe its supernatural. And he gets payback on everyone who fucked him over, including the cunt he was engaged to and she was getting porked by his boss the night the hero was killed. The film closes on a tight-shot of a crucifix and a cornicello, juxtaposing the sacred, Dolan rapidly found himself $60,000 in debt, and soon wound up back in rehab at Moltisantis prompting. The film itself originated in Mayham, when Moltisanti offered Dolan a way to clear his debts, but the story had its genesis long before, when Christopher began his quest to write a screenplay in The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti. After struggling through 19 pages, Moltisanti became disillusioned and slipped into a depression and he later had an affair with studio vice-president Amy Safir in D-Girl, through her he met Swingers and Made scribe Jon Favreau, with whom he discussed his film concept. The mockumentary is included in the Season 6 Part 2 DVD set, making Cleaver at the Internet Movie Database
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Spike Lee
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Shelton Jackson Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company,40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983, Lee has acted in ten of his own films. Lees movies have examined race relations, colorism in the community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty. Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll, a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer. Lee also had three younger siblings Joie, David, and Cinqué, who all worked in different positions in Lees films. Director Malcolm D. Lee is his cousin, when he was a child, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. His mother nicknamed him Spike during his childhood and he attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyns Gravesend neighborhood. Lee enrolled in Morehouse College, a black college, where he made his first student film. He took film courses at Clark Atlanta University and graduated with a B. A. in mass communication from Morehouse and he did graduate work at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in film & television. In 1991, Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking and it was there that he received his Master of Fine Arts and was appointed Artistic Director in 2002. Lees independent film, Joes Bed-Stuy Barbershop, We Cut Heads, was the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Centers New Directors/New Films Festival, in 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film, Shes Gotta Have It. With a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in two weeks, when the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7,000,000 at the U. S. box office. Lees 1989 film Do the Right Thing was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989, many people, including Hollywoods Kim Basinger, believed that Do the Right Thing also deserved a Best Picture nomination. Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture that year, after the 1990 release of Mo Better Blues, Lee was accused of antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League and several film critics. They criticized the characters of the club owners Josh and Moe Flatbush, Lee denied the charge, explaining that he wrote those characters in order to depict how black artists struggled against exploitation. Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock and he said he could not make an antisemitic film because Jews run Hollywood, and thats a fact. His 1997 documentary 4 Little Girls, about the killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. On May 2,2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Spike Lee with the San Francisco Film Societys Directing Award and he received the 2008 Wexner Prize
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Summer of Sam
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Summer of Sam is a 1999 American crime thriller film about the 1977 Son of Sam serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx. The film was directed and co-produced by Spike Lee, who also co-wrote the film with Michael Imperioli and it is the summer of 1977, and New York City lives in fear of the.44 Caliber Killer, who shoots young women and their male companions. The killer, David Berkowitz, later identifies himself as Son of Sam in a left at a murder scene. Berkowitz lives in an apartment, where he is driven crazy by the barking of a neighbors large black dog and has a vision of the dog directing him to kill. In an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, hairdresser Vinny and his pretty wife Dionna go disco dancing at a local nightclub, Vinny offers to drive Chiara home while Dionna remains at the club. Vinny and Chiara then park on a street and have sex in the car. Son of Sam watches them, but he is scared off when the couple set off the car horn during sex and, embarrassed. After they leave, Son of Sam kills another couple who had parked behind Vinny. When Vinny picks up Dionna back at the club, she notices the smell of vaginal lubrication on his face and realizes he had sex with Chiara, but does not let on that she knows. On the drive home, Vinny notices police near the location where he had parked with Chiara, and sees the dead bodies of the slain couple. The religious and guilty Vinny, realizing he could have been a victim, decides that God spared him in order to him a chance to reform his ways. He is also having an affair with Gloria, the owner of the salon where he works. Vinny, Joey T, and the dislike the change in Ritchie. However, Ruby, a local girl, is attracted to Ritchie. Unlike other men, Ritchie takes an interest in Ruby as a person and she learns that he makes money by erotic dancing and prostituting himself at a gay theater, but remains loyal to him and over time begins to dress in punk fashion herself. As the Son of Sam killings continue, tension rises in the neighborhood, Ritchie and Ruby invite Vinny and Dionna to come see their punk band perform at CBGB, but once there, Dionna feels intimidated by the punk crowd and refuses to go in. Vinny and Dionna instead go to Studio 54, where they are denied entry, Vinny becomes upset when he sees Dionna appearing to enjoy the experience of having sex with another man, even though he himself is having sex with other women. He berates Dionna in the car on the way home, causing her to get mad and she storms off to stay at her fathers house
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