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Tricia Helfer
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Tricia Janine Helfer is a Canadian model and actress. Helfer was born in rural Donalda, Alberta, to Dennis, hay Composite High School in Stettler, Alberta. She lived and worked on the familys farm with her three sisters—Trina, Tammy, and Tara. She was discovered at age 17 by a modeling scout while standing in line at a local movie theatre. She is of German, English, Swedish, and Norwegian descent, in 1992 she won Ford Models Supermodel of the World contest. Helfer retired from modelling in 2002 and claimed all her shoots since then are related to projects or product endorsements. She has appeared in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Versace, Chanel, Helfer has walked for top fashion shows, such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana. Helfer has appeared on the covers of Flare, Amica, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and she also regularly appeared in photo shoots by Maxim magazine, was the magazines wall calendar girl for 2005, and was ranked #57 on the Maxims Hot 100 Women of 2007. Helfer was also featured as the model for the February 2007 issue of Playboy. Helfer relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue an acting career. Her first acting assignment was a role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. She later played a model named Ashleigh James on the May 16,2002 episode of CSI, in 2002, she played Eva in the independent film White Rush. In 2003, she played Number Six on Battlestar Galactica, in 2004, she portrayed Farrah Fawcett in the telemovie The Unauthorized Story of Charlies Angels. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canadas Next Top Model on May 31,2006 and she appeared in Spiral and The Green Chain later the same year. In October 2006, it was announced that Helfer would not return to host the season of Canadas Next Top Model so she could concentrate on Battlestar Galactica. Helfer also played a role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3, Tiberium Wars, as the high-level Nod general Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star. She also starred in the episode Roadkill on the season of Supernatural. Helfer had a role on CBS Two and a Half Men
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Kaley Cuoco
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Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. Cuoco has also appeared in such as To Be Fat like Me, Hop. In October 2014, Cuoco was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Cuoco was born in Camarillo, California, the elder daughter of Layne Ann, a homemaker, and Gary Carmine Cuoco, a realtor. Her father is of Italian descent while her mother is of English and her sister, Briana, competed on the fifth season of The Voice. As a child, Cuoco was a ranked amateur tennis player. She stopped playing at the age of 16, Cuoco made her first feature film appearance as the young Karin Carter in the 1995 action thriller Virtuosity. In September 2002, Cuoco began a role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. Bridget was the oldest child, despite Cuoco being six years younger than Amy Davidson, because of low ratings, ABC canceled the series on May 17,2005. In addition to the season of 8 Simple Rules, Cuoco had starring roles on the NBC miniseries 10. Cuoco voiced the character of Kirstee Smith in Bratz from 2004 to 2005, in the eighth season of the TV show Charmed, Cuoco appeared as Billie Jenkins, a powerful young witch with the powers of telekinesis and projection. Executive producer Brad Kern stated that Cuocos character was brought in as a possible spin-off. Prior to the 2010–2011 season, she earned $60,000 an episode for the series, in 2010, the cast negotiated a raise for each actor to make $200,000 per episode. On September 13,2010, she broke her leg in a horse-riding accident, a video of the event was posted on YouTube and became a viral success. A clip from the performance was played during Cuocos January 8,2013 appearance on the late night talk show Conan. As of August 2014, Cuoco and her co-stars from The Big Bang Theory Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons, Cuoco starred in the Lifetime film To Be Fat Like Me, which premiered on January 8,2007. She played a role in the Prison Break episodes The Message and Chicago. She also appeared in the 2010 film The Penthouse, in 2011, Cuoco appeared in Allure magazines annual Naked Truth feature. That same year, she appeared in the films Hop and The Last Ride and she was also chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards in 2011, as well as the Peoples Choice Awards in 2012 and 2013
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Video on demand
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IPTV technology is often used to bring video on demand to televisions and personal computers. Internet television, using the Internet, is a popular form of video on demand. VOD can also be accessed via desktop client applications such as the Apple iTunes online content store, some airlines offer VOD as in-flight entertainment to passengers through individually controlled video screens embedded in seatbacks or armrests or offered via portable media players. Some video on demand services such as Netflix use a model that requires users to pay a monthly fee to access a bundled set of content. Other services use a model, where access is free for Internet users. Downloading and streaming video on demand systems provide the user all of the features of Portable media players. Some VOD systems that store and stream programs from hard drives use a memory buffer to allow the user to fast forward. It is possible to put video servers on local area networks, streaming video servers can also serve a wider community via a WAN, in which case the responsiveness may be reduced. Download VOD services are practical to homes equipped with cable modems or DSL connections, servers for traditional cable and telco VOD services are usually placed at the cable head-end serving a particular market as well as cable hubs in larger markets. In the telco world, they are placed in either the central office, the first Video on Demand systems used tapes as the realtime source of video streams. GTE started as a trial in 1990 with AT&T providing all components, by 1992 VOD servers were supplying previously encoded digital video from disks and DRAM. In the US the 1982 anti-trust break-up of AT&T resulted in a number of telephone companies called Baby Bells. Following this the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 prohibited telephone companies from providing services within their operating regions. All of these companies and others began holding trials to setup systems for supplying Video on Demand over telephone, in November 1992 Bell Atlantic announced a VOD trial. The IBM was developing video server code-named Tiger Shark, concurrently Digital Equipment was developing a scalable video server. Bell Atlantic selected IBM and April 1993 the system became the first VOD over ADSL to be deployed outside the lab, in 1994-5 US West went on to file for VOD at several cities. 330,000 subscribers in Denver,290,000 in Minneapolis, many VOD trials were held with various combinations of server, network and set-top. Of these the primary players in the US were the companies, using DEC, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, USA Video, nCube, SGI
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Chris Klein (actor)
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Frederick Christopher Chris Klein is an American actor who is best known for playing Chris Oz Ostreicher in the American Pie comedy teen films. Klein was raised in Brookfield, Illinois and he is of German, Irish, and English descent. His mother, Terese, is a teacher, and his father. Klein was the second of three children and his older sister, Debbie, was born in 1978 and his younger brother, Timothy, was born in 1982. As a child, Klein had his first on stage experience by singing This Little Light of Mine in a community theater at the Sheraton Convention Center in Chicago and he lived in the town for thirteen years before his family moved to Omaha, Nebraska. At Millard West High School in Omaha, Klein acted in his high performance of West Side Story, played cornerback and linebacker for the football team. In his senior year, Klein was offered his first professional acting job by director Alexander Payne and he attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. After auditioning for Election, Payne chose Klein and they began filming, the film was released in April 1999 to positive reviews. Soon after, Klein found an amount of work in the film industry while briefly attending TCU. He was next seen in American Pie, acting as Christopher Russell Ostreicher, which opened on July 9,1999, the following year Klein starred in Here on Earth alongside LeeLee Sobieski and Josh Hartnett. Klein reprised his American Pie role in American Pie 2 and American Reunion, in 2002, Klein had a role in the Mel Gibson Vietnam War film We Were Soldiers. Klein starred in the 2002 remake of the film Rollerball, Klein has also appeared in several teen movies, including Just Friends, American Dreamz. In 2014, Klein was cast as an American pilot in the Damien Lay film The Uberkanone and he co-starred in the 2014 comedy indie film Authors Anonymous with Kaley Cuoco. In January 2000, Klein and actress Katie Holmes began dating, the couple became engaged around Christmas of 2003. The couple called off the engagement and ended their relationship in March 2005, Klein met Laina Rose Thyfault, a travel agent, in 2011 at a mutual friends wedding. They got engaged in December 2014 after three years of dating and married eight months later on August 9,2015 in Montana, in March 2016, Klein announced in a tweet that he and his wife were expecting their first child together. His son, Frederick Easton Klein, was born on July 23,2016, Klein was arrested for drunk driving on February 5,2005 in San Diego County. And again in Los Angeles, California on June 16,2010, on June 21,2010, it was announced that Klein had checked into the Cirque Lodge to begin a 30-day alcohol addiction program
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Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina was an Italian-American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He was an actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and he also hosted and narrated a revived version of Unsolved Mysteries. His last major role was in HBOs Luck, which premiered on January 29,2012. Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sicilian-American parents Joseph Farina, a doctor and his father was from Villalba, Sicily. He had three brothers and three sisters, before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Departments burglary division, from 1967 to 1985. Farina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, Farina moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986-88. Farina played mobster Albert Lombard in Manns previous hit television show and he later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a 1998 private-detective series on CBS. Two of his movie characters are Jimmy Serrano, the mob boss from Midnight Run, and Ray Bones Barboni. Farina also played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in the first Hannibal Lecter crime film and he played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a basketball coach in Eddie. In a leading-man role and a departure from his parts, Farina co-starred with Bette Midler in a romantic comedy, That Old Feeling. In 1998s Saving Private Ryan, Farina plays a role as the battalion commander who advises Captain John Miller of the mission which forms the basis of the films plot. Farina had a flair for comedy and he won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty and starred in a television sitcom, In-Laws, from 2002 until 2003. He appeared in 2002s Stealing Harvard, a comedy in which he played a tough-talking and he also had a comic role opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005 and opposite Alan Rickman in 2008s Bottle Shock. His distinctive voice was put to use in early 2005, when Farina provided the voice of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat on Justice League Unlimited, in 2004, the producers of the television series Law & Order hired Farina as Det. Joe Fontana, following the departure of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach, Farina stayed on the show for two seasons, but his character was not as popular as Orbachs Det. His role of Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, farinas Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, worked for Chicago Homicide before his transfer to the NYPD
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Jonathan Banks
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Jonathan Ray Banks is an American actor. His first notable roles were in the films Airplane. 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop and he has received critical acclaim for his role as Mike Ehrmantraut in the television series Breaking Bad and its spin-off, Better Call Saul, as well as Frank McPike in Wiseguy. He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Banks was born in Washington, D. C. His mother, Elena Banks, worked for the CIA and was a professor at Indiana State University and he attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Kevin Kline. During that time, they participated in a production of The Threepenny Opera together, Banks dropped out of the university to join a touring company of Hair as a stage manager. He toured Australia with the Hair company, in 1974, Banks moved to Los Angeles and performed on stage before picking up bit parts on television. He notably starred in the 1974 sex PSA Lindas Film on Menstruation, the episode aired on August 9,2015, and Banks appeared at the end of the segment, ridiculing the content of said PSA. He co-starred in 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop, which are among his best known roles, other film roles include appearances in Armed and Dangerous, Buckaroo Banzai, Freejack, Flipper, Airplane. Gremlins, Murder Me, Murder You, Under Siege 2, Dark Territory, Banks big break on television came in 1987 with the series Wiseguy, in which he played Frank McPike for four years, a role which led to a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Although his character was primarily the heros mentor, stories occasionally featured McPike as hero, in 1981, he appeared as Dutch Schultz on the NBC series the Gangster Chronicles. He also starred on the science fiction series Otherworld, as Kommander Nuveen Kroll. In the second season of Breaking Bad, Banks appeared as Mike Ehrmantraut and he became a series regular for the third, fourth, and fifth seasons. For the fifth season, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and he also made guest appearances on several TV shows. In 2014, he had a role as Buzz Hickey in the fifth season of the NBC sitcom Community. Banks reprised his role as Mike Ehrmantraut as a regular in the Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul, in April 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Indiana University. He also played the voice of James Gordon in the 2015 video game Batman, in 2015, Banks made a special guest appearance on the Mythbusters episode Supernatural Shooters. Jonathan Banks at the Internet Movie Database Jonathan Banks at AllMovie
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Teri Polo
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Theresa Elizabeth Teri Polo is an American actress. She starred as Pam Byrnes-Focker in the Meet the Parents trilogy, Polo was born Theresa Elizabeth Polo in Dover, Delaware. Her mother, Jane, is a homemaker, and her father and she studied ballet for 13 years beginning at age five. By age 13, she was attending New Yorks School of American Ballet, after winning a modeling contest, she moved to New York City at the age of seventeen to pursue an acting career. Polos acting debut was in TV101 and she also starred in the 1990 miniseries The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daae. Polo played Detective Ash on the TV series Brimstone and became a regular cast member on the last season of Northern Exposure. She appeared in a recurring guest role in the sixth and seventh seasons of The West Wing playing the role of Helen Santos, in February 2005, Polo not only appeared on the cover, but posed naked in Playboy. The appearance was linked to the release of Meet the Fockers and she was ranked #40 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She was also featured in InStyle and she also starred in the Lifetime Movie Network 2006 movie, Legacy of Fear. In 2007, she starred in a Hallmark Channel movie Love Is A Four Letter Word, in 2009, she starred in the feature film 2,13 and the Hallmark Channel TV movie Expecting a Miracle with Jason Priestley and Cheech Marin. That same year she starred in The Beacon. She was in the 2009 television pilot for Washington Field, in 2010, Polo reprised her role as Pam Focker in Little Fockers, the sequel to Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. She appeared in the 1980s-styled horror fantasy film, The Hole and she currently is in the ABC Family series The Fosters. Polo plays San Diego police officer Stef Adams Foster, a mother to three children and the wife of Lena Adams Foster, along with the two being foster parents to two children. Polo has guest-starred on many TV shows, including The Practice, Felicity, Chicago Hope, Numb3rs, Sports Night, Frasier, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order, LA, Castle, in April 1997, Polo married photographer Anthony Moore. They have a son together, Griffin, in 2005, Polo and Moore divorced. In 2006, while on the set of a video, Polo met drummer Jamie Wollam and they have a daughter together, Bayley. The couple separated sometime in 2012, in April 2014, Polo filed for bankruptcy, declaring less than $50,000 in assets and debts in excess of $800,000
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Starz Distribution
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Starz Distribution is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video operating unit of Lionsgate. Starz Distribution develops, produces, and acquires original programming content, feature films, anime, Distribution methods include DVD, digital formats and traditional television. In May 2004, IDT Entertainment purchased a minority share in POW, Entertainment with exclusive distribution rights to POWs animated DVD properties and joint development of 6 cartoon films. On May 16,2006, IDT agreed to sell its IDT Entertainment division to Liberty Media for all of Liberty Medias interests in IDT, $186 million in cash and the assumption of existing indebtedness. On August 31,2006, the sale of all of IDT Entertainments US operations, the remainder of the deal, to include the Canadian and Australian operations, is expected to be closed in the next few weeks after regulatory approval has been given. This sale was completed on September 29,2006, on January 4,2011, Starz, LLC agreed to sell 25% of Starz Media to The Weinstein Company. On January 11,2013, Liberty Media Corporation completed the spin-off of its Starz Entertainment segment as a separate entity, under this new structure, the entity that was known as Starz Media became Starz Distribution. Starz bought back the Weinstein stake in October 2015, on December 8,2016, Lionsgate purchased Starz for $4.4 billion. Starz Distributions units include, Anchor Bay Entertainment - distribution division for DVDs, digital Production Solutions Global Animation Studio - a division of DPS. DKP Studios - ownership interest - 3-D animation, and special effects production, Starz Media Sales Manga Entertainment - distribution of anime. Jericho It Waits Room 6 Queen Sized Lower Learning Blue Seduction Table for Three The Dog Who Saved Christmas A Nanny for Christmas The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation Bolden
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
