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Vienna
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Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austrias primary city, with a population of about 1.8 million, and its cultural, economic and it is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. Today, it has the second largest number of German speakers after Berlin, Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. The city is located in the part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region, along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, apart from being regarded as the City of Music because of its musical legacy, Vienna is also said to be The City of Dreams because it was home to the worlds first psycho-analyst – Sigmund Freud. The citys roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city and it is well known for having played an essential role as a leading European music centre, from the great age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, Vienna is known for its high quality of life. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first for the worlds most liveable cities, between 2011 and 2015, Vienna was ranked second, behind Melbourne, Australia. Monocles 2015 Quality of Life Survey ranked Vienna second on a list of the top 25 cities in the world to make a base within, the UN-Habitat has classified Vienna as being the most prosperous city in the world in 2012/2013. Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is used as a case study by urban planners. Between 2005 and 2010, Vienna was the worlds number-one destination for international congresses and it attracts over 3.7 million tourists a year. The English name Vienna is borrowed from the homonymous Italian version of the name or the French Vienne. The etymology of the name is still subject to scholarly dispute. Some claim that the name comes from Vedunia, meaning forest stream, which produced the Old High German Uuenia. A variant of this Celtic name could be preserved in the Czech and Slovak names of the city, the name of the city in Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian and Ottoman Turkish has a different, probably Slavonic origin, and originally referred to an Avar fort in the area. Slovene-speakers call the city Dunaj, which in other Central European Slavic languages means the Danube River, evidence has been found of continuous habitation since 500 BC, when the site of Vienna on the Danube River was settled by the Celts. In 15 BC, the Romans fortified the city they called Vindobona to guard the empire against Germanic tribes to the north
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Austria
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Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, the territory of Austria covers 83,879 km2. The terrain is mountainous, lying within the Alps, only 32% of the country is below 500 m. The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene. The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty, from the time of the Reformation, many northern German princes, resenting the authority of the Emperor, used Protestantism as a flag of rebellion. Following Napoleons defeat, Prussia emerged as Austrias chief competitor for rule of a greater Germany, Austrias defeat by Prussia at the Battle of Königgrätz, during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, cleared the way for Prussia to assert control over the rest of Germany. In 1867, the empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary, Austria was thus the first to go to war in the July Crisis, which would ultimately escalate into World War I. The First Austrian Republic was established in 1919, in 1938 Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss. This lasted until the end of World War II in 1945, after which Germany was occupied by the Allies, in 1955, the Austrian State Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state, ending the occupation. In the same year, the Austrian Parliament created the Declaration of Neutrality which declared that the Second Austrian Republic would become permanently neutral, today, Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy comprising nine federal states. The capital and largest city, with a population exceeding 1.7 million, is Vienna, other major urban areas of Austria include Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. Austria is one of the richest countries in the world, with a nominal per capita GDP of $43,724, the country has developed a high standard of living and in 2014 was ranked 21st in the world for its Human Development Index. Austria has been a member of the United Nations since 1955, joined the European Union in 1995, Austria also signed the Schengen Agreement in 1995, and adopted the euro currency in 1999. The German name for Austria, Österreich, meant eastern realm in Old High German, and is cognate with the word Ostarrîchi and this word is probably a translation of Medieval Latin Marchia orientalis into a local dialect. Austria was a prefecture of Bavaria created in 976, the word Austria is a Latinisation of the German name and was first recorded in the 12th century. Accordingly, Norig would essentially mean the same as Ostarrîchi and Österreich, the Celtic name was eventually Latinised to Noricum after the Romans conquered the area that encloses most of modern-day Austria, around 15 BC. Noricum later became a Roman province in the mid-first century AD, heers hypothesis is not accepted by linguists. Settled in ancient times, the Central European land that is now Austria was occupied in pre-Roman times by various Celtic tribes, the Celtic kingdom of Noricum was later claimed by the Roman Empire and made a province
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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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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Wehrmacht
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The Wehrmacht was the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1946. It consisted of the Heer, the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe, after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, one of Adolf Hitler’s most overt and audacious moves was to establish the Wehrmacht, a modern armed forces fully capable of offensive use. In December 1941, Hitler designated himself as commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, the Wehrmacht formed the heart of Germany’s politico-military power. In the early part of World War II, Hitlers generals employed the Wehrmacht through innovative combined arms tactics to devastating effect in what was called a Blitzkrieg, the Wehrmachts new military structure, unique combat techniques, newly developed weapons, and unprecedented speed and brutality crushed their opponents. Closely cooperating with the SS, the German armed forces committed war crimes and atrocities. By the time the war ended in Europe in May 1945, only a few of the Wehrmacht’s upper leadership were tried for war crimes, despite evidence suggesting that more were involved in illegal actions. The German term Wehrmacht generically describes any nations armed forces, for example, the Frankfurt Constitution of 1848 designated all German military forces as the German Wehrmacht, consisting of the Seemacht and the Landmacht. In 1919, the term Wehrmacht also appears in Article 47 of the Weimar Constitution, establishing that, from 1919, Germanys national defense force was known as the Reichswehr, a name that was dropped in favor of Wehrmacht on 21 May 1935. In January 1919, after World War I ended with the signing of the armistice of 11 November 1918, in March 1919, the national assembly passed a law founding a 420, 000-strong preliminary army, the Vorläufige Reichswehr. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were announced in May, the army was limited to one hundred thousand men with an additional fifteen thousand in the navy. The fleet was to consist of at most six battleships, six cruisers, submarines, tanks and heavy artillery were forbidden and the air-force was dissolved. A new post-war military, the Reichswehr, was established on 23 March 1921, General conscription was abolished under another mandate of the Versailles treaty. The Reichswehr was limited to 115,000 men, and thus the armed forces, under the leadership of Hans von Seeckt, though Seeckt retired in 1926, the army that went to war in 1939 was largely his creation. Germany was forbidden to have an air-force by the Versailles treaty, nonetheless and these officers saw the role of an air-force as winning air-superiority, tactical and strategic bombing and providing ground support. That the Luftwaffe did not develop a strategic bombing force in the 1930s was not due to a lack of interest, but because of economic limitations. The leadership of the Navy led by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, officers who believed in submarine warfare led by Admiral Karl Dönitz were in a minority before 1939. By 1922, Germany had begun covertly circumventing the conditions of the Versailles Treaty, a secret collaboration with the Soviet Union began after the treaty of Rapallo. Major-General Otto Hasse traveled to Moscow in 1923 to further negotiate the terms, Germany helped the Soviet Union with industrialization and Soviet officers were to be trained in Germany
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Chappaqua, New York
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Chappaqua /ˈtʃæpəkwɑː/ is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of New Castle, in northern Westchester County, New York. It is on 0.45 square miles of land on the east bank of the Hudson River, the hamlet is served by the Chappaqua station of the Metro-North Railroads Harlem Line. In the New York State Legislature it is within the New York State Assemblys 93rd district, in Congress the village is in New Yorks 17th District. Chappaqua was founded by a group of Quakers in the 1730s and was the home of Horace Greeley, New-York Tribune editor, since the late 1990s, President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have lived there. In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York and they built their homes on Quaker Street and held their meetings at the home of Abel Weeks. Their meeting house was built in 1753 and still holds meetings each Sunday. The area around the house, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Horace Greeleys home, known as Rehoboth and built by Greeley himself and it is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza, Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove, and the Greeley House. Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and it was an Algonquian word, shah-pah-ka, and it meant the rustling land or the rattling land, or a place where nothing is heard but the rustling of the wind in the leaves. The Quakers spelled it Shapiqua, Shapaqua, Shapequa, Shappaqua and their meeting was often referred to as the Shapequa Meeting as early as 1745. On March 18,1791, the government of New York decided to split the large town of North Castle into two smaller towns, one of which was named New Castle. The border was drawn from the southwest corner of Bedford to the northeast edge of Mount Pleasant, New Castles borders have remained the same since 1791, except for a small piece of land received from Somers in 1846 and the secession of Mount Kisco in 1978. Chappaqua had great streams such as the Saw Mill River and Roaring Brook and these bodies of water powered mills to crush corn and press oil from beans. The eastern half of Chappaqua was very suitable for farming, the majority of the Quaker settlers of Chappaqua were farmers. The popular farming industry also helped give way to Chappaquas high milk production, other popular industries from Chappaqua included shoes, hardware, vinegar, pickles, eyeglasses, and furniture. Many early homes and businesses were demolished in the 1904 Chappaqua tornado, in 1846 when the New York and Harlem Railroad extended through Chappaqua, business became centered on the new train station. These businesses included a hotel, livery stables, a public library, the railroad enabled commuters to travel to New York City and back each day. According to the 2010 United States Census, the CDP has an area of 0.45 square miles
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Connecticut College
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Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution, with nearly all of its approximately 1,900 students living on campus. Students choose courses from 41 majors, including an interdisciplinary, self-designed major, forbes ranked Connecticut College 81st in its 2016 overall list, 45th in the Northeast, 68th among private colleges, and 39th among liberal arts schools. Forbes also ranked Connecticut College 58th in Grateful Grads, U. S. News & World Report ranked the school 45th among the top liberal arts colleges in 2014. The college competes athletically in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, the college was chartered in 1911 in response to Wesleyan Universitys decision to stop admitting women. Elizabeth C. Wright and other Wesleyan alumnae convinced others to found this new college, to that end, the institution was founded as the Connecticut College for Women. Financial assistance from the city of New London, its residents, the land upon which the college sits was a dairy farm owned by Charles P. Alexander of Waterford. He died in 1904 and his wife Harriet Alexander died in 1911, according to an October 12,1935 article in the Hartford Daily Times, marking the Colleges 20th anniversary, On September 27,1915 the college opened its doors to students. The entering class was made up of 99 freshmen students, candidates for degrees, and 52 special students, a fine faculty of 23 members had been engaged and a library of 6,000 volumes had been gathered together. It was a start for this new undertaking. The College became co-educational in 1969, President Charles E. Shain cited in his announcement speech that recent evidence showed that women were becoming uninterested in attending womens colleges. Admission to the college is considered selective by U. S. News & World Report. In the 2016 college rankings of U. S. News & World Report and these figures represent a significant decline in the colleges traditional ranking within the top 25 liberal arts colleges in the country in the 1990s and early 2000s. Starting with the class of 2020, students at Connecticut College will be encouraged to follow a new general education curriculum called Connections. Connecticut College has a history of research work and students are encouraged to make conference presentations. Graduating seniors are awarded prestigious fellowships and grants such as the U. S. Connecticut College has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright awardees, producing, in 2012, the College had 179 full-time professors in Academic Year 2013-14, 92% hold a doctorate or equivalent. The student-faculty ratio is about 9 to 1, the main campus has three residential areas
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Street Hawk
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Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television and its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert Bob Wolterstorff, and its core format was developed by Bruce Lansbury, who had initially commissioned the programs creation. This series was planned for the fall of 1984, Mondays at 8, 00PM Eastern/7. However, ABC executives changed their minds when the summer series Call to Glory did well, Street Hawk made its debut on January 4,1985 on ABC at 9, 00PM Eastern/8, 00PM Central and ran until May 16,1985. Reruns aired on the USA Network on Saturdays at 10, 00AM from 1990-91, in India, DD National used to telecast the series in 1990. The premise of the show is narrated before every episode during the titles, voiced by Ernie Anderson, This is Jesse Mach. Only one man, federal agent Norman Tuttle, knows Jesse Machs true identity, all subsequent episodes show Mach leading a double life, a police public relations officer by day, and crimefighter by night. Street Hawk is regarded as a vigilante and a public relations embarrassment by the police. Each episode deals with a crime or mission, and there are no multi-episode story arcs. The musical theme was composed by Tangerine Dream and produced by Christopher Franke, the motorcycle in the pilot episode was based on a 1983 Honda XL500 trailbike. The motorcycles used in the series were based on 1984 Honda XR500s, the motorcycles used for the stunt shots were based on Honda CR250s. Overall, fifteen motorcycles were used in the show, the whereabouts of fourteen of these are unknown, but the fifteenth used to reside in the now closed Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, England, restored by stuntman Chris Bromham. The pilot motorcycle was designed by Andrew Probert and the motorcycles were redesigned by Ron Cobb. During filming, the fiberglass bike parts constantly flew off the bike during the course of stunt work, the film stunt second unit crew always had six bikes standing by to replace the hero bikes jump or maneuver. When first unit was on stage at Universal Studios, the stunt crew were on location filming with a stunt biker performing with the bike. The stunt bikes were always in Universal Studios effects shop being repaired or replaced with parts, a motorcycle shop, not far from the studio, three miles on Lankershim Boulevard, always supplied new frames and wheels for the stunt bikes. Winfield Special Projects in Canoga Park made all body panels and special effects, eric Thaler from Austria was in charge of the project at Winfields. There have been at least two official releases of the Street Hawk pilot movie on VHS, one was from MCA Canada and contained the full 90-minute pilot, and the other was the U. S
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The Edge of Night
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The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. The Edge of Night, whose working title was The Edge of Darkness, premiered on April 2,1956, prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, the show was originally conceived as the daytime television version of Perry Mason, which was popular in novel and radio formats at the time. Masons creator Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, CBS insisted that Mason be given a love interest to placate daytime soap opera audiences, but Gardner refused to take Mason in that direction. Gardner eventually patched up his differences with CBS, and Perry Mason debuted in prime time in 1957, in 1956, a writer from the Perry Mason radio show, Irving Vendig, created a retooled idea for daytime television—and The Edge of Night was born. John Larkin, radios best identified Perry Mason, was cast as the protagonist-star, initially as a detective, eventually as an attorney, unlike Perry Mason, whose adventures took place in Southern California, the daytime series was set in the fictional Midwestern city of Monticello. A frequent backdrop for the early scenes was a restaurant called the Ho-Hi-Ho. The state capital, however, was known generically as Capital City, from its beginning in 1956 until roughly 1980, the downtown skyline of the city of Cincinnati stood in as Monticello. Procter & Gamble, which produced the show, was based in Cincinnati, in later years, the Los Angeles skyline replaced that of Cincinnati. The skyline motif was eventually eliminated altogether in the two years of the show, as was the word The in the title. During most of the run, viewers were treated to an announcer enthusiastically and energetically announcing the shows title. Bob Dixon was the first announcer in 1956, followed by Herbert Duncan, the two voices most identified with the show, however, were those of Harry Kramer and Hal Simms, who announced until the series ended in 1984. The Edge of Night played on more levels than probably any other soap of its time. It was unique among soap operas in that it focused on crime. The shows particular focus on crime was recognized in 1980, when, in honor of its 25 years on the air, the Edge of Night had more prominent male characters than most soap operas, and included genuine humor in its scripts to balance the heaviness of the storylines. The shows central protagonist was Mike Karr, tireless crimefighter, introduced as an officer who was finishing law school. This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason character on radio and he then progressed to the district attorneys office as an assistant district attorney, hung his own shingle as a defense attorney for several years, then became district attorney of Monticello. Karr was portrayed by three actors, John Larkin, Laurence Hugo, and Forrest Compton, over the years, the show featured many notable performers and celebrities, usually in small cameo appearances, but some in roles important to the storylines
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The Secret Storm
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The Secret Storm is an American soap opera which the CBS television network transmitted from February 1,1954, to February 8,1974. It was created by Roy Winsor, who created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow. Gloria Monty, of General Hospital fame, was a director of the series. Like most CBS soap operas of the time, such as Guiding Light and As the World Turns, The Secret Storm was broadcast live, the story follows the Ames family, a prominent clan in the fictional Northeastern town of Woodbridge. The Ames family initially consisted of Peter, his wife Ellen, however, Ellen was killed in the first episode and subsequent stories focused on Peter raising his three children. Lending a hand, however dubiously, was Peters sister-in-law, also his former fiancée, despite Susans and Paulines efforts to derail any new romances in Peters life, he eventually remarried two more times. His first remarriage was to Myra Lake, one of Amys teachers and his second and most successful remarriage was to divorcee Valerie Hill, to whom he was married until his death. Later, the villainous Belle Clemens was the source of trouble for Woodbridge, taking over from Aunt Pauline. Originally due to die of disease, the writers had Belles daughter Robin drown in an accident. Belle blamed Amy for the death, Amy was allowed to age in real time and did not undergo rapid aging as used on many younger soap opera characters. Jada Rowland played the character, minus a few breaks, for the duration of the run of the program, other actresses in the role included Beverly Lunsford, June Carter, and Lynne Adams. Actress/writer Stephanie Braxton and actor Dan Hamilton met while performing on the show and they later married in real life. Lori March, who played Valerie Hill Ames for many years, actress Diana Muldaur married her co-star, James Vickery, in real life. Actress Bethel Leslie was the co-headwriter of the show at one time, other noted headwriters included Jane and Ira Avery and its final headwriter, Gillian Houghton/Gabrielle Upton. In 1968, Joan Crawford, at the time over 60 years of age, filled in for her daughter, Christina, who played the role of Joan Borman Kane. The episodes were broadcast on October 25,28,29 and 30, although no full shows with Joan Crawford are known to exist, clips from some episodes have appeared on YouTube. The 1981 film Mommie Dearest portrayed Crawfords appearance without specifying the name of the series, CBS first placed The Secret Storm at 4,15 pm as a 15-minute program, sandwiched between The Brighter Day and On Your Account. Beginning in 1957, it competed against ABCs American Bandstand, then a weekday show, on June 18,1962, CBS extended The Secret Storm to 30 minutes, and The Brighter Day was moved to an early-morning time slot
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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series)
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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from September 18,1967 to March 23,1973. The series was created by Irna Phillips, who served as the first head writer and she was replaced by Jane Avery and Ira Avery in 1968, who were followed by Don Ettlinger, James Lipton, and finally Ann Marcus. John Conboy was the producer for most of the shows run, the serial was a spin-off from the original 1955 20th Century-Fox movie, though the title of the daytime drama omitted the hyphen used in the movies title. In turn, the film was based on the autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing focused on lives and loves in San Francisco, California. The title sequence of the show, in fact, was the title of the show superimposed over a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge and this occurred when CBS became sole producer and distributor of the show, it was previously a co-production of CBS and 20th Century-Foxs television division. Veteran serial writer–creator Irna Phillips was hired to adapt the movie for television, in the beginning, the star of the show was Nancy Hsueh as Mia Elliott, daughter to the characters portrayed by William Holden and Jennifer Jones in the 1955 film. Mia left Hong Kong to study medicine in San Francisco, her fathers hometown. However, CBS censors balked at a love story between a white man and an Amerasian woman. The network was uncomfortable with a developing subplot in which Jim Abbott was implicated in the death of a young patient. Unwilling to compromise her story for CBS executives, Phillips quit the series, as the character of Mia Elliott was written out of the series in March 1968, CBS and 20th Century-Fox Television were then the co-producers of the show. Phillips resignation led to the end of Foxs role as co-producer, in February 1968, Irna Phillips was replaced by husband-and-wife writing team Jane and Ira Avery. The Averys quickly refocused the series on two families, The Donnellys and the Elliotts. The Donnelly family was headed by widower Dr. Will Donnelly, who had three children, Tom, a police lieutenant, Iris, a troubled college graduate, and Laura. The Elliotts consisted of wealthy Phillip and Helen Elliott and their son Mark, as with the Mia Eliott story, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing courted controversy again as Laura tried unsuccessfully to fight off carnal desires for her sisters boyfriend. A storm of controversy necessitated Lauras sudden departure from the church,1967, Mia Elliott, daughter of late war correspondent Mark Elliott and physician Han Suyin, arrives in San Francisco to study medicine. Mia meets Phillip and Helen Elliott, her aunt and uncle, cousin Mark Elliott, her fathers namesake, at first Mia dates pilot Paul Bradley, but she later develops a serious relationship with Dr. Jim Abbott. Laura Donnelly, also known as Sister Cecilia, fights her attraction to Mark Elliott as she prepares to take her final vows, Iris, unsure of Marks feelings for her and sensing Lauras attraction to him, begins to drink heavily and consort with sneering playboy Jock Porter. During an argument with Mark, a drunken Iris crashes their car,1968, When it is revealed that Jock Porter paid Jim Abbott to perform an illegal abortion on girlfriend Terry Andrews, who later died, a disenchanted Mia decides to return to Hong Kong
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Dallas (1978 TV series)
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Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2,1978, to May 3,1991. The series revolves around a wealthy and feuding Texan family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil, the series originally focused on the marriage of Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes, whose families were sworn enemies with each other. As the series progressed, oil tycoon J. R. Ewing grew to be the main character, whose schemes. When the show ended in May 1991, J. R. was the character to have appeared in every episode. The show was famous for its cliffhangers, including the Who shot J. R. mystery, the 1980 episode Who Done It remains the second highest rated prime-time telecast ever. The show also featured a Dream Season, in which the entirety of the season was revealed to have been a dream of Pam Ewing. After 14 seasons, the series finale Conundrum aired in 1991, the show had a relatively ensemble cast. The series won four Emmy Awards, including a 1980 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series win for Bel Geddes. With its 357 episodes, Dallas remains one of the longest lasting full-hour primetime dramas in American TV history, behind Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, Bonanza, Law & Order, in 2007 Dallas was included in TIME magazines list of 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. Dallas also spawned the spin-off series Knots Landing in 1979 which also lasted 14 seasons, in 2010, TNT announced it had ordered a new, updated continuation of Dallas. The revival series, continuing the story of the Ewing family, premiered on TNT on June 13,2012, Dallas debuted on April 2,1978, as a five-part miniseries on the CBS network. The first five episodes, originally considered a miniseries, are now referred to as season one—making fourteen seasons in total, the show is known for its portrayal of wealth, sex, intrigue, and power struggles. Ellies family were—in contrast to Jock—ranchers, with love for the land. Following the marriage of Ellie and Jock, the Southworth family ranch, Southfork, became the Ewings home, where Jock and Miss Ellie raised three sons, J. R. Gary and Bobby. Middle son Gary was Ellies favorite as he displayed Southworth traits, however, while still young, Gary had married waitress Valene Clements, who produced the first heir, the petite and saucy Lucy. Years prior to the beginning, J. R. had driven Gary and Valene off Southfork. During the first episodes of the series, the teenaged Lucy is seen sleeping with ranch foreman Ray Krebbs. Later, in four, Ray would be revealed as Lucys uncle
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The Golden Girls
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14,1985, to May 9,1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and it was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards and it also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four received a Emmy Award, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top-10 highest-rated programs for six of its seven seasons, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, the series revolves around four older, single women sharing a house in Miami, Florida. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothys 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo, after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The pilot episode featured a gay character named Coco, who worked as a cook for the women, after six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanches Uncle Lucas, Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, as of 2016, it was the 17th-most watched television finale. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a flight attendant. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child with whom Dorothy got pregnant in high school. In the series episode, Dorothy marries Blanches uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. Arthur also played Dorothys grandmother, Sophias mother, in an episode to when they lived in Brooklyn. Upon Charlies death, she moved to Miami and she eventually found work at a grief counseling center, though she later ended up as the assistant to a consumer reporter at a local TV station. In later seasons, Rose became romantically involved with college professor Miles Webber, during season six, Miles was placed into the Witness Protection Program, but returned later in the season. Their relationship continued throughout the series, and shortly into the sequel series, in season one, Rose is stated to be 55
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Murder, She Wrote
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Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network and it was followed by four TV films and an unsuccessful spin-off series, which was produced in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw. In syndication, the series is highly successful throughout the world. Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards for her work on Murder, the series received three nominations but no wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same six times. After the series finished in 1996, four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, in 2009, a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform, followed in 2012 by a sequel. A spin-off book series, written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present, earlier, she had acted in two film adaptations of Agatha Christies mystery novels, as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile and as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crackd. With Murder, She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30,1984 and it also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christies Miss Marple novel 4,50 from Paddington. The show revolves around the life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a coastal community in Maine. Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in Mendocino, California, the show mostly starts with a preview of the episodes events, with Jessica stating, Tonight On Murder, She Wrote. Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, by carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer. Murder occurred with regularity in her vicinity that the term Cabot Cove syndrome was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Jessicas relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place, both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many departments across the U. S. as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology
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Somerset (TV series)
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Somerset is an American television soap opera which ran on NBC from March 30,1970, until December 31,1976. The show was a spin-off of another NBC serial, Another World, initially, the show revolved around Missy Palmer Matthews, Lahoma Vane Lucas and Sam Lucas. These were three characters who were first seen on Another World. They moved to the town of Somerset, an area in the northern Detroit suburbs in Michigan. The first stories on the serial revolved around the trios progress in starting new friendships, in Somerset, the other families of importance were the Davis family, the Buchanans, the Grants and the Delaneys, who ran Somersets major employer, Delaney Brands. Within six months, Missy was gone and new characters were added, including a new family, in early 1971, the show changed writers, with Robert Cenedella leaving the show in favor of Henry Slesar. Further, Somerset slowly moved away from the traditional soap format, one of them, Roy Winsor, was the creator of Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, and The Secret Storm. The Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville, New Jersey, was used for exteriors, NBC and packager Procter & Gamble Productions first launched Somerset as an extension of the mother show, adding the locales to each programs title. Airing in a time slot prone to affiliate pre-exemption caused Somerset to struggle throughout the whole of its nearly seven-year history to gain a foothold in the daytime pantheon. ABCs Dark Shadows held the ratings and clearances lead at the time Somerset went on the air and this enabled NBCs new show to push Dark Shadows ratings down considerably, and Somerset achieved promising ratings during its first year. Dark Shadows had, during the 1969-1970 season, achieved a ratings of 7.3, a successful revival of the game show Password entered ABCs schedule at that slot during the 1970-71 season, and its ratings success cut into the Somerset audience. Ratings continued to improve during the Slesar period, in the 4pm time slot but by late 1971 after the end of a murder storyline. By 1974, the networks had plugged in surprisingly strong game shows at 4,00 p. m. Things went downhill from that point, numerous affiliates began defecting the show in favor of cartoons, syndicated programming, old movies, ABC placed The Edge Of Night against Somerset in the 4,00 p. m. time slot. NBC cancelled it mid-December of 1976 and the show aired its last episode on New Years Eve, Somersets place on the schedule was given to another Procter and Gamble-sponsored soap opera, Lovers and Friends. Somerset, along with ABCs The Best of Everything and A World Apart, neither of the ABC shows lasted past 1971. More than 150 actors appeared on Somerset over its near-seven-year run
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Date with an Angel
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Date with an Angel is a 1987 American romantic fantasy comedy film starring Emmanuelle Béart, Phoebe Cates and Michael E. Knight. The film was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, the original music score was composed by Randy Kerber. The visual effects were produced at Boss Film Studios under the supervision of Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Edlund, the film was marketed with the tagline Jim is about to marry a princess. But hes in love with an angel, Date with an Angel tells the story of Jim Sanders, an executive at a cosmetics company, about to marry Patty Winston, the spoiled daughter of Jims boss. Jim suffers from a tumor, and his headaches have gotten worse. It is suggested that he die, and an angel arrives on the scene. After his three buddies, George, Don, and Rex, kidnap Jim to take him to another celebration at his home, Jim decides that he has had enough of partying and goes to sleep. Not wanting to see her be exploited, Jim decides to keep her shielded from the world while he helps repair her wings and this proves difficult, as the angel is unable to speak in human language, and is unaccustomed to the limitations/requirements of life as a mortal. However she does develop a taste for French fries, inevitably, his buddies and his boss both discover her in his house, so does Patty, who—not seeing the angels wings—thinks her a mortal woman having an affair with Jim. Later, Patty sees the angel and Jim together on television—Wings still under wraps—as he rescues her from being exposed to the world by his buddies, later they escape to Jims old childhood hideaway. In a short time, the wing is fully healed, allowing her to take flight. However, a drunk and delusional Patty starts chasing Jim with a shotgun, her father, Jims father, step-mother, and his buddies also arrive to confront him. Amid the chaos, Jims uncontrollable headaches cause him to collapse to the ground, later, in the hospital, Jims brain tumor gets worse and his situation appears grim. The angel comes back to see him, finally confirming that it was her intention to take him to heaven. Instead, she saves him, and in the process is allowed to return to earth as a mortal woman, now able to speak English and is now a nurse at the hospital. She kisses Jim after assuring him that hell be around and that theyll be together for a long time, Michael E. McIntyre - Male Executive Nancy McLoughlin - Female Executive Albert Ash - Wimpy Executive Bonnie Johnson - Another Executive D. It currently holds a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Date with an Angel at the Internet Movie Database Date with an Angel at AllMovie Date with an Angel at Rotten Tomatoes Date with an Angel at Box Office Mojo
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James T. Kirk
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James Tiberius Jim Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. Kirk first appears in Star Trek, The Original Series and has portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes. As the captain of the starship USS Enterprise, Kirk leads his crew as they explore where no man has gone before, often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. Kirk, played by William Shatner, first appears in the broadcast pilot episode, The Man Trap, Shatner continued in the role for the shows three seasons, and later provided the voice of the animated version of Kirk in Star Trek, The Animated Series. Shatner returned to the role for Star Trek, The Motion Picture, chris Pine portrays a young version of the character in the 2009 reboot Star Trek film, with Jimmy Bennett playing Kirk as a child. Pine reprised his role in Star Trek Into Darkness and in Star Trek Beyond, other actors have played the character in fan-created media, and the character has been the subject of multiple spoofs and satires. The character has been praised for his leadership traits and criticized for his relationships with women, James Tiberius Kirk was born in Riverside, Iowa, where he was raised by his parents, George and Winona Kirk. Although born on Earth, Kirk lived for a time on Tarsus IV, James Kirks brother, George Samuel Kirk, is first mentioned in What Are Little Girls Made Of. and introduced and killed in Operation, Annihilate. Kirk was granted a commission as an ensign and posted to advanced training aboard the USS Republic. He was then promoted to lieutenant junior grade and returned to Starfleet Academy as a student instructor, students could either think or sink in his class, and Kirk himself was a stack of books with legs. Upon graduating in the top five percent, Kirk was promoted to lieutenant and he received his first command, a spaceship roughly equivalent to a destroyer, while still quite young. Kirk became Starfleets youngest captain after receiving command of the USS Enterprise for a five-year mission, Kirks most significant relationships in the television series are with first officer Spock and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy. McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to Spock, robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrences The Myth of the American Superhero describes Kirk as a hard-driving leader who pushes himself and his crew beyond human limits. Terry J. Erdman and Paula M, although Kirk throughout the series becomes romantically involved with various women, when confronted with a choice between a woman and the Enterprise, his ship always won. Roddenberry wrote in a memo that Kirk is not afraid of being fallible. J. M. Dillards novel The Lost Years describes Kirks promotion to rear admiral, in Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Kirk is chief of Starfleet operations, and he takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Willard Decker. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberrys novelization of The Motion Picture depicts Kirk married to a Starfleet officer killed during a transporter accident. At the beginning of Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, Kirk takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Spock to pursue his enemy from Space Seed, the movie introduces Kirks son, David Marcus
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the film based on Star Trek, and is a sequel to Star Trek. The plot features Admiral James T, when Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. This film is the beginning of an arc that continues with the 1984 film Star Trek III, The Search for Spock and concludes with 1986s Star Trek IV. After the lackluster critical and commercial response to The Motion Picture, executive producer Harve Bennett wrote the films original outline, which Jack B. Sowards developed into a full script, director Nicholas Meyer completed the final script in 12 days, without accepting a writing credit. Meyers approach evoked the atmosphere of the original series. Nimoy had not intended to have a role in The Motion Pictures sequel, negative test audience reaction to Spocks death led to significant revisions of the ending over Meyers objections. The production used various cost-cutting techniques to keep within budget, including utilizing miniatures from past projects and re-using sets, effects footage, among the films technical achievements is it being the first feature film to contain a complete sequence created entirely with computer-generated graphics. The Wrath of Khan was released in North America on June 4,1982 and it was a box office success, earning US$97 million worldwide and setting a world record for first-day box office gross. Critical reaction to the film was positive, reviewers highlighted Khan, the pacing. Negative reaction focused on special effects and some of the acting. The Wrath of Khan is considered by some to be the best film of the Star Trek series, in the year 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spocks trainees, in the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru. When the Enterprise enters the Klingon Neutral Zone to reach the ship it is attacked by Klingon cruisers, the simulation is a no-win scenario designed to test the character of Starfleet officers. Later, Dr. McCoy joins Kirk on his birthday, seeing Kirk in low spirits, meanwhile, the USS Reliant is on a mission to search for a lifeless planet for testing of the Genesis Device, a technology designed to reorganize matter to create habitable worlds for colonization. 15 years prior, the Enterprise discovered Khans ship adrift in space, Kirk exiled Khan, after they were marooned, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V and destroying its ecosystem. Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and plans revenge and he implants Chekov and Terrell with indigenous creatures that enter the ears of their victims and render them susceptible to mind control, and uses the officers to capture the Reliant
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Victory at Entebbe
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Victory at Entebbe is a 1976 American made-for-television action-drama film for broadcast on ABC, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. Victory at Entebbe is based on an actual event Operation Entebbe the July 4,1976 raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda, the first of three films based on the Entebbe Raid, Raid on Entebbe and Operation Thunderbolt soon followed. With the permission of President Idi Amin, the terrorists divert the airliner, the Cabinet of Israel, led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, unwilling to give in to terrorist demands, plans a top-secret military raid. This commando operation, military code name, Operation Thunderbolt, will be carried out over 2,500 miles from home, while still negotiating with the terrorists, who now numbered seven individuals, the Israeli military prepared two Lockheed C-130 Hercules transports for the raid. The transports refuelled in Kenya before landing at Entebbe Airport under the cover of darkness, the commandos led by Brigadier General Dan Shomron had to contend with a large armed Ugandan military detachment and used a ruse to overcome the defenses. A black Mercedes limousine had been carried on board and was used to fool sentries that it was the car which President Amin used on an impromptu visit to the airport. Nearly complete surprise was achieved but a firefight resulted, ending with all seven terrorists and 45 Ugandan soldiers killed, the hostages were gathered together and most were quickly put on the idling C-130 aircraft. During the raid, one commando, and three of the hostages, died, with 102 hostages aboard and on their way to freedom, a group of Israeli commandos remained behind to destroy the Ugandan Air Force MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters to prevent a retaliation. All the survivors of the force then joined in flying back to Israel via Nairobi. Shooting on video shortened the time, allowing the film to be ready for television less than six months after the event that inspired it. Linda Blair and Helmut Berger were dating each other during production, Victory at Entebbe and Raid on Entebbe relied on their star-studded casts, neither were able to make much of an impact with audiences. Victory at Entebbe was recognized at the 29th Primetime Emmy Awards, Raid on Entebbe Operation Thunderbolt The Delta Force Victory at Entebbe at the Internet Movie Database Victory at Entebbe at the TCM Movie Database
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The Pack (1977 film)
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The Pack is a 1977 horror film about a pack of abandoned dogs who turn against humans by killing them for food at Seal Island. The movie opens with a horse grazing in a clearing in the middle of the forest. He is alerted by an unknown and unseen presence stalking him and he is followed by some unknown enemies who are chasing him, before they surround him and prepare to attack. Meanwhile, a boy and his parents, the last of the summer tourists, later that day, he is found by a pack of feral dogs, most of whom were abandoned pets belonging to summer tourists. Their leader, a massive golden-haired mongrel, immediately accepts the dog into his pack, Jerry has moved to Seal Island with his new wife, Millie, and their two sons. They also brought along their family dog, a German Shepherd named Riley, while dropping off some garbage at the island junkyard, Jerrys dog chases after a rabbit into the trees, but is attacked by an unknown creature and is injured. When Jerry goes back to see what it was that attacked Riley, he discovered that it was a feral dog, who had apparently also stole the rabbit that his dog was chasing. He immediately sent word to the residents on the island, including the old hermit Mr. McMinnimee, to keep a watchful eye out for the dog. McMinnimee, who lives in a cabin alone with his German Shepherd Shazah, soon learns of the wild dog, when a storm hit the island one evening, Shazah starts up a riot and tries to break out. The old man, armed with his rifle, opens the door to his cabin, Shazah bolts out into the front yard, but is suddenly attacked by the golden-haired mongrel and several other feral dogs. McMinnimee is too late to save his dog from the pack, though he manages to shoot and kill a collie, as he tries to secure the door and windows to his house, the dogs break through one of the windows and attack the old man, killing him. The following morning, while relaxing in her new house that Jerry had built for her and she goes outside and discovers the same mongrel that Jerry saw the other day lurking near the poultry yard. She tries to drive it off, but the dog growls at her and attacks, as the rest of the pack surround the car and try to break in, Jerry arrives and drives the dogs off, killing a Labrador retriever with his shotgun. He takes Millie to town, drops her off at one of the abandoned houses, while Hardiman leaves to warn the other islanders of the dogs, Jerry picks up his sons and takes them back to the house. Meanwhile, one of the islanders, Jim Dodge moves to the island with his son Tommy, a cook Lois, the day after their arrival, Dodge urges his son Tommy to go for a walk, and Lois goes along with him. During their walk through the forest, Tommy hears the pack of dogs howling nearby, Lois chases after Tommy, but quickly loses him and is forced to seek refuge in an abandoned barn where the dogs sleep. Tommy runs through the forest, the pack in close pursuit, with the savage dogs closing in, he jumps off the cliff and falls to his death. Lois seeks refuge in the barn just as a storm hits the island
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The Promise (1979 film)
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The Promise is a 1979 film, released by Universal Pictures, which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, and Beatrice Straight. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and produced by Fred Weintraub, the screenplay was written by Garry Michael White and later novelized by Danielle Steel. It was remade in India as the Hindi film Yeh Vaada Raha, in a rich-boy/poor-girl story, Boston college students Michael Hillyard and Nancy McAllister are in love. While visiting a park overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, they hide a costume jewelry necklace under a large rock, Michael goes to his mother, Marion, and announces his plans to marry Nancy. Marion thinks Nancy will hurt Michaels career with their family business, Michael, making it clear he will not drop Nancy, storms out of his mothers home. He calls Nancy and makes plans to elope and he asks his best friend Ben Avery to be best man. On the way to the ceremony, the three are involved in a car crash. Ben escapes with minor injuries, but Michael is comatose, while Nancy is still groggy and heavily bandaged, Marion makes a Mephistophelean deal with her, Marion will send Nancy to California and pay for a top plastic surgeon to restore her face. Believing that Michael will find her once he wakes up, Nancy agrees, however, when Michael comes out of his coma, Marion tells him that Nancy died in the accident. Nancy undergoes a series of surgeries to repair her face. Once healed, she changes her name to Marie Adamson and becomes a successful photographer, Michael becomes a successful architect with his familys business, designing multimillion-dollar business skyscrapers. His company takes a contract to design a building in San Francisco, Ben, who also now works for the company, happens into a gallery there where Maries photographs are being displayed. She recognizes him, but he not recognize her. He tries to talk to her about her doing photographs to be displayed in new buildings being designed, once she learns of Michaels involvement, she refuses to have anything to do with the project. Michael sees samples of Maries work and finds himself drawn to it. He begins pursuing Marie to engage her to do the project, initially, Marie refuses, but eventually Michael starts to wear her down. Marie asks him about the scar above his eyebrow, Michael becomes visibly tense, and stoically dismisses it, saying it was from a small accident that he has now forgotten. Marie takes his comments to mean that he has forgotten about her and she tells Michael she will have nothing to do with him, leaving him in confusion
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Meteor (film)
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The film stars Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. It was directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann, the movie co-starred Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda. After the asteroid Orpheus is hit by a comet, a chunk of Orpheus is sent on a collision course towards Earth. While the United States government engages in political maneuvering, smaller asteroid fragments precede the main body, the United States has a secret orbiting nuclear missile platform satellite named Hercules, which was designed by Dr. Paul Bradley. It was intended to defend Earth against a massive space rock, however, its fourteen nuclear missiles are not enough to stop the meteor. The U. S. discovers that the Soviet Union also has a weapons satellite, the President goes on national television and reveals the existence of Hercules, explaining it was created to meet the threat that Orpheus represents. He also offers the Soviets a chance to face by announcing they, too, had the same program. Bradley requests a scientist named Dr. Alexei Dubov to help him plan a counter-effort against Orpheus, Bradley and Harry Sherwood of NASA meet at the control center for Hercules, located beneath 195 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. Major General Adlon is the commander of the facility, Dubov and his interpreter Tatiana Donskaya, arrive and Bradley gets to work on breaking the ice between them. Meanwhile, more meteor fragments strike Earth and the Soviets finally admit that they are willing to join in the effort. It appears that the satellite has a lot in common with Hercules, with sixteen nuclear missiles to be used against a large space rock, the satellite is christened Peter the Great, and both satellites are turned towards the asteroid. Unfortunately, smaller fragments continue to strike the planet, causing damage, including a deadly avalanche in the Swiss Alps. On Sunday morning, Peter the Greats missiles are launched first because of its position to the asteroid. Herculess missiles are fired 40 minutes later, just after Herculess missiles are launched, New York is struck by a large fragment, destroying most of the city. Meanwhile, the two packs of missiles link up into three successively larger waves, the Hercules crew reaches a crowded subway station and waits while others try to dig out. Eventually, the reach the meteor. The first wave of strikes the rock, causing a small explosion, the second wave follows with a larger blast. When the dust clears, the asteroid appears obliterated, in New York, the radios broadcast the good news, Orpheus is no longer a danger to Earth
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The Beast Within
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The Beast Within is a 1982 horror film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, L. Q. Jones, Don Gordon, R. G. Armstrong, Katherine Moffat, the film is a very loose adaptation of Edward Levys 1981 novel of the same name. While driving through Mississippi on their honeymoon, Caroline and Eli MacCleary are stranded on a road when their car is stuck in the mud. Eli walks several miles to a station they stopped at earlier to get a tow. Meanwhile, a creature, held captive in the cellar of a dark house, breaks its chain. As it nears the MacClearys car Carolines dog jumps out of the window to confront it, Caroline chases after the animal, but flees in terror when she stumbles across the canines mutilated corpse. She knocks herself unconscious by running into a tree, the creature tears off her clothes and rapes her. Eli and the station attendant find her lying alone in the forest. As they all drive off two gunshots are heard from the forest, seventeen years later, their son Michael has become gravely ill, and the doctors have no idea why his pituitary gland has gone out of control. Eli and Caroline confront the past and return to the town of Nioba, Mississippi to discover some information about the man who assaulted her. Eli and Caroline visit police station and ask Sheriff Poole for information bout the death of Lionel Curwin for a book which they say they are researching and that same night Michael escapes from the hospital and drives a stolen car to Nioba. He drives to an old, dilapidated house, upon entering he goes to the cellar door, addressing something lurking underneath the floorboards. A voice calls to him, and he descends into the cellar, sometime later Michael wanders to the house of Edwin Curwin and, under the influence of a malign presence, murders and cannibalizes the old man. He then stumbles in a daze to the home of a woman named Amanda Platt. Amanda calls the police and Michael is taken to the hospital, after examining him, Doc Schoonmaker tells Michaels parents that he just needs rest. The next day a horrified Judge Curwin discovers Edwins corpse, Michael leaves the hospital again and goes to Amandas house to thank her for helping him. The two go for a walk in the forest, and Michael discovers that Amanda is the daughter of Horace Platt, as the teens begin to kiss, Amandas dog arrives with one of Edwins severed arms. They alert the sheriff, who begins to search the area, a distraught Horace arrives to pick up Amanda, and angrily tells Michael to stay away from his daughter
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The Lonely Lady
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The Lonely Lady is a 1983 American drama film directed by Peter Sasdy, adapted from the 1976 novel written by Harold Robbins. The original music score was composed by Charlie Calello, the cast includes Pia Zadora in the title role, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Jared Martin, and in an early film appearance, Ray Liotta. The plot follows Jerilee Randall, a screenwriter who deals with many abusive men in her attempts to achieve success in Hollywood. A critical and commercial failure, The Lonely Lady was the last adaptation of one of Robbins best selling novels before he died in 1997, and, to date, the last such adaptation of any of his works. Jerilee Randall is an innocent schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley area of California with dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter, shortly after winning a trophy for her creative writing, she meets Walt, the son of famous screenwriter Walter Thornton, at a party. She goes home with him, along some other friends. Walter arrives after the assault has taken place and saves Jerilee from further attacks, a friendship, then a love affair, develops between them, and they soon marry, despite the disapproval of Jerilees mother. The marriage begins to fall apart when Jerilee rewrites one of Walters scripts and is told she had improved it greatly, despite this, the revised script works well for the actress delivering the line and she thanks Walter for it. Divorce is inevitable when Walter scorns Jerilee during an argument and accuses her of enjoying having been raped all those years ago, one affair, with actor George Ballantine, quickly ends with her pregnant, upon realizing he would not support her, she gets an abortion. While meeting club owner Vincent Dacosta, who has contacts to agents who can produce a screenplay. After confronting Vincent about this, he gives Jerilee her screenplay back, Jerilee finally has a nervous breakdown in a sequence wherein she sees the callous people of her past appear as faces on the keys of her typewriter. After spending a few days in a facility, Jerilee rewrites her screenplay. Upon meeting director Guy Jackson, he help her get her screenplay produced successfully, however, once again shes expected to have sex. At the live awards telecast, Jerilee ultimately wins an award for her screenplay of a film titled The Hold-Outs. Jerilee then refuses to accept the award, and walks out of the auditorium with her newfound dignity, susan Blakely, who had signed a three picture pay or play contract with Universal, accepted the role of Jerilee, being able to approve the screenplay and director. However, despite multiple drafts by Robert Merrill and Dean Riesner, Blakely was never satisfied with the script, the Lonely Lady only eventually entered production as Israeli multimillionaire industrialist Meshulam Riklis joined the production in 1982. Riklis had already funded Butterfly, released that year, to serve as vehicle for his wife Pia Zadora. Riklis was reportedly supplying approximately half of the films $6-7 million budget, along with completion costs, Robert R. Weston, responsible for the previous Robbins adaptation The Betsy, was the producer
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The Day After
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The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20,1983, on the ABC television network. More than 100 million people, in nearly 39 million households, the film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, the cast includes JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, Jason Robards, and John Lithgow. The film was written by Edward Hume, produced by Robert Papazian and it was released on DVD on May 18,2004, by MGM. The story follows several citizens – and people they encounter – in and around Kansas City, Missouri and the college town of Lawrence, Kansas,40 miles to its west. The Soviet Union is shown to have commenced a military buildup in East Germany with the goal of intimidating the United States, the United Kingdom, when the United States does not back down, Soviet armored divisions are sent to the border between East and West Germany. During the late hours of Friday, September 15, news report a widespread rebellion among several divisions of the East German Army. As a result, the Soviets blockade West Berlin, tensions mount, and the United States issues an ultimatum that the Soviets stand down from the blockade by 6,00 a. m. the next day, and noncompliance will be interpreted as an act of war. The Soviets refuse, and the President of the United States orders all U. S. military forces around the world on DEFCON2 alert, on Saturday, September 16, NATO forces in West Germany invade East Germany through the Helmstedt checkpoint to free Berlin. The Soviets hold the Marienborn corridor and inflict casualties on NATO troops. Two Soviet MiG-25s cross into West German airspace and bomb a NATO munitions storage facility, also striking a school, a subsequent radio broadcast states that Moscow is being evacuated. At this point, major U. S. cities begin mass evacuations as well, there soon follow unconfirmed reports that nuclear weapons were used in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Meanwhile, in the Persian Gulf, naval warfare erupts, as radio reports tell of ship sinkings on both sides, eventually, the Soviet Army reaches the Rhine. Soviet forces counter by launching a strike on NATO headquarters in Brussels. In response, the United States Strategic Air Command begins scrambling B-52 bombers, the Soviet Air Force then destroys a BMEWS station at RAF Fylingdales, England and another at Beale Air Force Base in California. Meanwhile, on board the EC-135 Looking Glass aircraft, the comes in from the President for a full nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. It is deliberately unclear in the film whether the Soviet Union or the United States launches the nuclear attack first. The first salvo of the Soviet nuclear attack on the central United States occurs at 3,38 p. m, central Daylight Time, when a large-yield nuclear weapon air bursts at high altitude over Kansas City, Missouri
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
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It tells the story of a widow who shocks her upper-class, Anglo-American family when she announces that she has fallen in love with her Jewish doctor. His family is unhappy with the news, and both individuals to have to fight the prejudices of their families. Margaret Delafield, an elderly lady and widow of Spaulding Spud Delafield, is rushed to hospital. She is not expected to survive, and her two sons and daughter gathering at her bedside are more concerned with their expected inheritance and her doctor, Dr Marvin Elias, encourages her to fight. Margaret makes a recovery and returns home to a welcome party for family. Her sons Horton and Chipper and daughter Doreen are concerned that Margaret and they are devastated when Margaret and Marvin announce their impending wedding, and see their inheritance slipping away. They try to persuade her to change her mind, and Marvins children are equally doubtful, Margarets favourite church refuses to perform a mixed marriage and Marvins rabbi is equally unwilling. They decide on a country church and invite all family. The wedding is a mixture of Jewish and Christian symbolism, with a chorus, harp music. The families are reconciled and the leave for a honeymoon in Hawaii. The goings-on are observed by George, Margarets neighbour and best friend, katharine Hepburn as Margaret Delafield Harold Gould as Dr. George Schaefer was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials at the Directors Guild of America Awards. Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry at the Internet Movie Database
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Who's That Girl (1987 film)
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Whos That Girl is a 1987 American screwball comedy film written by Andrew Smith and Ken Finkleman, and directed by James Foley. It stars Madonna and Griffin Dunne, and depicts the story of a girl who is falsely accused of murdering her boyfriend and is sent to jail. After getting released, she meets a man, who is supposed to make sure she gets on her bus back to Philadelphia, while searching for the embezzler, they fall in love with each other. After the failure of her 1986 film Shanghai Surprise, Madonna decided to sign another comedy film titled Slammer, however, she had to convince both Warner Bros. and the producers of the film that she was ready for the project. Madonna enlisted her friend James Foley to direct the film, shooting began in New York in October 1986, and continued until March 1987. Production was halted during December due to snowfall in New York, Madonna utilized the time to work on her next tour and the soundtrack of the film. The film was released on August 7,1987, and was a box office bomb, grossing only $2.5 million in its first week, critics were highly disappointed with the film, and Foleys direction. Some went on to call it one of the worst films to be released, while others found Madonnas comic timing to be one of the highlights. However, the Whos That Girl World Tour went on to be a critical and commercial success, grossing a total of US$25 million, the soundtrack of the film, though not acclaimed by the critics, enjoyed commercial success. The soundtrack album went on to six million copies worldwide. Nikki Finn is a young woman, who is always dressed in a leather jacket and skirt, with fire-red lips, platinum bob hair. One day, her boyfriend Johnny uncovers two men stealing money out of a trust fund and takes pictures of the theft, Johnny puts the pictures in a safety deposit box and gives Nikki the key for safekeeping. The thieves catch Johnny and murder him, then frame Nikki by putting his body into the trunk of her car, Nikki is sentenced to seven years in prison. This is seen during the opening credits of the film. After four years, the story presents tax attorney Loudon Trott on a busy day and he is getting married to the daughter of one of the richest men in New York, Simon Worthington. Loudons bride Wendy Worthington is a woman who is more consumed in her wedding plans than in the well-being of her fiancé. Loudon, on the hand, has a number of duties entrusted to him by his boss. Nikki, meanwhile, is determined to catch the actual thieves, after meeting Loudon, Nikki cons him into taking her shopping
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Steel Magnolias
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Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It is the adaptation of Robert Harlings 1987 play of the same name. The play and film are about the bond a group of women share in a small-town southern community, the story is based on Robert Harlings real life experience of the death of his sister, Susan Harling Robinson, in 1985 due to complications from Type 1 diabetes. He changed his sisters name in the story from Susan to Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, the title suggests the main female characters can be both as delicate as the magnolia flower, and as tough as steel. Annelle Dupuy, a beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones to work in her home-based beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana. At the same time, in part of the neighborhood, MLynn Eatenton, and her daughter, Shelby, are preparing for Shelbys wedding. They arrive, along with Clairee Belcher, the widow of the former mayor. Suddenly, Shelby, who has type 1 diabetes, falls into a hypoglycemic state, moved by Annelles emotional confession, Shelby invites her to the wedding, where Annelle meets Sammy, who is tending bar. Several months pass and Shelby returns to town to celebrate Christmas, during the festivities, she announces that she and her husband, Jackson Latcherie, are expecting their first child. Shelbys father Drum is thrilled, but MLynn is too worried to share in the joy and it becomes clear that Shelby could actually die due to pregnancy complications related to her diabetes. MLynn agrees, saying that nothing pleases Shelby more than proving her wrong, Shelby successfully delivers a baby boy, Jackson Jr. but begins showing signs of kidney failure and starts dialysis around the time Jackson Jr. turns one. MLynn successfully donates a kidney and Shelby seemingly resumes a normal life, Clairee and Ouiser offer to make sure that MLynns husband, Drum, Jonathan, and Tommy have enough food to last until MLynn returns home after the transplant. Later, on Halloween, Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, and MLynn throw Annelle a surprise wedding shower, Shelby is unavailable to attend due to a conflicting schedule with her nursing job, and is later found by Jackson unconscious on the porch of her house. Shelby is rushed to the hospital, where it is determined that her body rejected the new kidney, the doctors inform the family that Shelby is likely to remain comatose indefinitely, and they all jointly decide to take her off life support. At the funeral, after the mourners have left, MLynn breaks down in hysterics in front of Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, and Annelle. MLynn gives her blessings and assures Annelle that Shelby wouldve loved it, months later, on Easter morning, Annelle goes into labor during an Easter egg hunt, is rushed to the hospital by Truvy and her husband Spud, and another life begins. A writer friend continuously encouraged him to write it down in order to come to terms with the experience and he did but originally as a short story for his nephew then later to get an understanding of the deceased mother. It eventually evolved in ten days to the play, released by TriStar Pictures in the United States on November 15,1989 and grossed more than $83.7 million at the box office
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Tremors (film)
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Tremors is a 1990 American monster film directed by Ron Underwood, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Brent Maddock, and S. S. Wilson, and written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood. Tremors was released by Universal Pictures and stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, thirteen episodes of Tremors, The Series, a television program based on the film series, aired from March through August 2003. Valentine Val McKee and Earl Basset work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada and they eventually tire of their jobs and leave for Bixby, the nearest town. As they leave, they discover the body of another resident, Edgar Deems, perched atop an electrical tower, still grasping the towers crossbeams. Jim Wallace, the doctor, determines that Edgar died of dehydration. Later on, an unknown force kills shepherd Old Fred and his flock of sheep, after discovering his severed head buried in the sand, Val and Earl become convinced that a killer is on the loose, they head back to town to warn the other residents. Two construction workers ignore Val and Earls warning and are killed by the same force, Val and Earl try to get help, but find the phone lines are dead, and the only road out of town is completely blocked by the rock slide. Out of sight, a snake-like creature wraps itself around their trucks rear axle, Val and Earl return to Perfection and borrow horses. They come upon Wallace and his wifes buried station wagon near their trailer, as they press on, something suddenly erupts out of the ground, revealing the snake-like creature to be one of multiple-tentacled tongues joined to an enormous burrowing worm-like creature. Thrown from their horses, the two men run for their lives, the chase ends when the eyeless creature violently rams itself into the concrete wall of an aqueduct and dies from the impact. Rhonda LeBeck, a graduate student conducting seismology tests in the area, stumbles onto the scene, Rhonda, Val, and Earl become trapped overnight atop a cluster of boulders near one of the creatures. Rhonda has a brainstorm and grabs one of several left-behind fence poles, after the people return to town, the graboids attack, eventually killing Walter and forcing the other citizens to the towns rooftops. Meanwhile, nearby survivalist couple Burt and Heather Gummer manage to kill one of the creatures after unknowingly luring it from town to their basement armory. In town, the two remaining graboids attack the building foundations, knocking over the trailer belonging to Nestor and dragging him under. On the way there, both create an underground sinkhole trap that disables the bulldozer, forcing the survivors to flee to the safety of large boulders. Earl has an idea to lure in the creatures, then to trick them into swallowing Burts homemade pipe bombs. While this works on one graboid, the other spits it back towards the survivors, forcing Val, Earl, the group returns to town, where they call in the authorities to begin an investigation, and Earl pushes Val into approaching Rhonda romantically. Film poster and VHS cover artwork for Tremors was designed by Universal Studios, Universal agreed initially, but then decided to use a close-up of a graboid tentacle, with sharp teeth, on the poster
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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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Doing Time on Maple Drive
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Doing Time on Maple Drive is a 1992 drama television film. Written by James Duff and directed by Ken Olin, the film stars James Sikking, Bibi Besch, William McNamara, Jayne Brook, David Byron, Lori Loughlin, the tagline promoting the film was They are living a lie called the Perfect American Family. It was shot entirely in Los Angeles, doing Time on Maple Drive centers on the Carter family. Phil, the patriarch, is a local restaurateur, married for many years to Lisa. They have three children, Karen, Tim and Matt. Karen is married to Tom, Tim works in his fathers restaurant, Matt returns from college and introduces the family to his fiancée, Allison. Matt is injured after crashing his car, he returns home to recuperate, as he recovers, the family is revealed to be almost completely dysfunctional. Matts car crash was a suicide attempt brought on by the pressure of being gay and closeted from his conservative parents, Lisa is in deep denial about all of the problems family members are facing. Karens husband Tom learns that Karen is pregnant and that she is so terrified of bringing a child into a situation like hers that shes considering having an abortion without telling him. Tom angrily confronts his father-in-law Phil, declaring that while Phil may be destroying his own family he wont allow Phil to destroy his, Tom implores Karen not to have the abortion and moves away with her for the babys sake to get them away from Phils problems. Matt confronts his parents, including telling his mother that he knows she knows he is gay after having walked in on him. Lisa continues to struggle with denial, but Phil begins to take steps toward understanding and building bridges with his family. Doing Time on Maple Drive was released on Region 1 DVD on September 7,2004, doing Time on Maple Drive at Internet Movie Database
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Jim Carrey
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James Eugene Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy television series In Living Color. He then starred in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, in the 2010s, he has starred in Mr. Poppers Penguins and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. In 2013, he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 as Colonel Stars and he retracted support for the film two months prior to its release. He issued a statement via his Twitter account that, in light of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, Carrey reprised his role as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber To. Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, to Kathleen, a homemaker, and Percy Carrey and he has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita. He was raised a Roman Catholic and his mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry. Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario, for eight years, in a Hamilton Spectator interview, Carrey said, If my career in show business hadnt panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill. When looking across the Burlington Bay toward Hamilton, he could see the mills and thought, Those were where the great jobs were. While Carrey was struggling to work and make a name for himself, his father tried to help the young comedian put together a stage act. Carreys impersonations bombed and this gave him doubts about his capabilities as a professional entertainer and his familys financial struggles made it difficult for them to support Carreys ambitions. Eventually, the financial problems were resolved and they moved into a new home. With more domestic stability, Carrey returned to the stage with a more polished act, in a short period of time, he went from open-mic nights to regular paid shows, building his reputation in the process. A reviewer in the Toronto Star raved that Carrey was a star coming to life. Carrey was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed the young comic to open his tour performances, Dangerfield eventually brought Carrey to Las Vegas. However, Carrey soon decided to move to Hollywood, where he began performing at The Comedy Store and, in 1982, the following year, he debuted his act on The Tonight Show. Carrey was not selected for the position, although he hosted the show in May 1996, January 2011. In 1984 Carrey was in the short-lived sitcom The Duck Factory, from 1990 to 1994, Carrey was a regular cast member of the ensemble comedy television series In Living Color
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Janine Turner
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She is the author of two books, Holding Her Head High, released on the Washington Post best seller list and A Little Bit Vulnerable On Hollywood, God, Sobriety, & Politics. She is a public speaker and founder and co-chair of Constituting America. Turner was born Janine Loraine Gauntt in Lincoln, Nebraska, the daughter of Janice Loraine, an estate agent. Veteran of the United States Air Force and a pilot for Braniff International and her father is from Athens, Texas, while her mother is from San Antonio, Texas. She has a brother, Tim, and was raised in Euless and Fort Worth, in 1978, the fifteen-year-old Turner left home to pursue a modeling career with the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency in New York City. She began her career in 1980 in Hollywood, CA. She continued to make guest appearances on television throughout the 1980s before landing the role of Laura Templeton on General Hospital. I had to get away from Hollywood, disregarding her agents advice, Turner moved to New York in order to hone her craft, studying there with Marcia Haufrecht of The Actors Studio. I gained a new respect and appreciation for acting in New York, and I decided that I didnt want to lock myself into roles that portrayed women negatively. I turned a lot of opportunities down because of that, I was really going for broke. I only had eight dollars left and had become very depressed right before I got the part in Northern Exposure, cast as Maggie OConnell in 1990, Turners work on Northern Exposure would earn her an Emmy nomination in 1993 and consecutive Golden Globe nominations from 1992 to 1994. Accolades aside, the role itself was an experience for Turner, following the damsel in distress roles that had all. Ive found my ideal character in Maggie, she told the Tribune, shes smarter and stronger than all the men she meets. Turners own move from Hollywood to New York was mirrored by Maggies, from her affluent Grosse Pointe community to the remote fictional backwater of Cicely, Turner said about Maggie that She went against the grain and challenged herself by moving to Alaska. After her breakthrough in Northern Exposure, Turner appeared in the action film Cliffhanger opposite Sylvester Stallone, in 2004, Turner wrote, produced, and directed the award winning, Trip in a Summer Dress, a film about a strong-willed mother and her children. In 2006, she appeared in a low budget movie filmed in Dallas, The Night of the White Pants, the book focuses on single mothers through history, such as Rachel Lavein Fawcett, the abandoned single mother of Alexander Hamilton. That same year, Turner began a run on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights. She portrayed Katie McCoy, mother of a high school football quarterback
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Northern Exposure
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Northern Exposure is an American comedy-drama Northern television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. Critic John Leonard called Northern Exposure the best of the best television in the past 10 years. A recently graduated New York City physician, Dr. Joel Fleischman, is sent to practice in the town of Cicely, early episodes deal with Fleischmans culture shock in the small town. The series was created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who created the award-winning shows St. Elsewhere. Northern Exposure has aired in South Africa under a different name, the show started as an eight-episode summer midseason replacement series on CBS in 1990. It returned for seven episodes in spring 1991, then became a regular part of the networks schedule in 1991–1992. It ranked among the top 10 viewed by 18- to 49-year-olds and its last season, 1994–1995, included a gap during the May 1995 sweeps when CBS broadcast other programming. The show had a lot of life in it, and the move killed it, as Northern Exposure continued, supporting characters such as Chris, Ed, Holling, Shelly, Maurice, and Ruth-Anne received more development. Rob Morrow and his representatives spent much of Seasons 4 and 5 lobbying for an improved contract, the producers responded by reducing Fleischmans role in the storylines, and introducing characters such as Mike Monroe and Dr. Phil Capra to partially compensate for the absence of Morrow. Joel Fleischman is a young, neurotic Jewish physician from New York City, Fleischman is a proverbial fish out of water, and his struggles to adjust to his new environment drive the plot in many episodes, especially in the early seasons. Morrow left the show midway through its season due to a contract dispute. His characters departure was handled by having him go native, abandoning Cicely for a fishing village. Maurice Minnifield is a businessman and celebrated former astronaut who moved to the area decades before upon retiring from the military. Maurice owns Cicelys newspaper and radio station and 15,000 acres of land near the town which he hopes to develop into the Alaskan Riviera and it is Maurice who arranged to bring Joel to the town, which previously did not have a physician. Maggie OConnell is a tomboy-ish Grosse Pointe debutante turned Alaska bush pilot and they become romantically involved later in the shows run, and it is their breakup that is the impetus for Joel to leave Cicely during the last season. A running theme through the series is all of Maggies romantic partners die strange deaths. The character of Maggie OConnell was inspired by the real-life aviator Norah ONeill, Holling Vincoeur is a Canadian-born sexagenarian owner of The Brick, a popular local bar and restaurant. He and Maurice are old friends, though their relationship was strained at one time by their romantic interest in Shelly Tambo
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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Melrose Place
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Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8,1992 to May 24,1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of adults living in an apartment complex called Melrose Place, in West Hollywood. The show was created by Darren Star for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company and it is the second series in the Beverly Hills,90210 franchise. Season one and season two were broadcast on Wednesday at 9pm, after Beverly Hills,90210, in 1994, for its third season premiere, the show moved to Monday at 8pm. The show had many cast changes during the run, Thomas Calabro was the only original cast member to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed #51 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, filming for the series took place at a studio in Santa Clarita, California. The show is set in a small apartment courtyard complex located at 4616 Melrose Place in the city of West Hollywood, several young individuals reside in the apartments, each with their own dreams and drives. By the second season, the show had adopted a full-on soap opera format, williams was not brought back for the second season, her character having become engaged to a wealthy restaurant entrepreneur. The actor Johnny Drama Chase was also part of the show, a quote from the la times at the time stated, if you think the show lacks talent and entertainment, wait until you see Johnny Drama appear. That will indeed confirm that rather than watching this garbage you should have watched paint dry instead, although she was always billed as a special guest star, Locklear remained with the show for the rest of its run. Guest Laura Leighton, recurring as Janes trouble-making younger sister Sydney Andrews in the first two seasons, was upgraded to regular for season three. Marcia Cross, recurring as Dr. Kimberly Shaw in season 1, janet Carroll appeared in several episodes as Marion Shaw, Kimberlys domineering mother. Daviss character was killed off in the middle of the fourth season. Patrick Muldoon also arrived in the season as the villainous Richard Hart. Although Muldoon was not billed with the main cast, he appeared in most of the seasons episodes and is also Melrose Places longest recurring character in terms of number of episodes. The season finale featured the exits of series regulars Thorne-Smith, Show, charvet was written out in the middle of season 6, and the beginning of season seven saw the departure of Shue, Rinna, Langton, Milano, and Ashby. The shows seventh season introduced John Haymes Newton as Ryan McBride, Kyles younger brother, and Rena Sofer as Eve Cleary, Sofer was not billed with the main cast. Bissett reprised her role as Jane for the seventh season, category, List of Melrose Place charactersThis table includes only main cast characters, those who are listed in the intro title sequence
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Hardcore (1979 film)
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Hardcore is a 1979 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle and Season Hubley, the story concerns a father searching for his daughter, who has vanished only to appear in a pornographic film. Writer-director Schrader had previously written the screenplay for Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver, jake Van Dorn is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen. Andy Mast, a private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her. Van Dorn then suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and forced to join Californias porno underworld and his quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture. A scraggly actor named Jism Jim, who was in the film with Kristen, knows where she might be, Van Dorn hires Niki to accompany him on the search for Kristen. The unlikely pair ends in San Francisco where Van Dorn finds that Kristen may be in the hands of Ratan, yet when Niki refuses to give the address of a porn industry player to Van Dorn, he loses his temper and strikes her. He immediately regrets his action, but the rapport between Van Dorn and Niki is clearly damaged, Van Dorn finds the player, Tod, in a bondage house and forces Tod to tell him where Ratan hangs out. Van Dorn and Mast track Ratan to a nightclub where he, when Van Dorn confronts Ratan, Kristen flees and Ratan slashes Van Dorn with a knife. Van Dorn tells Kristen hell take her home from the people he believes forced her into pornography, despondent and tearful, Van Dorn promises to leave her alone if she truly prefers, but she relents and says she wants him to stay. And in his version, it would have been his wife, not his daughter, I turned down a very large sum of money. I went after Scott and I got him, one of the greatest actors in the world. ”Hardcore earned mostly positive reviews, with an 84% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2004 the film received a DVD release from Sony, in August 2016 the film received a U. S. Release on Blu-ray from Twilight Time in a limited edition, the disc featured a commentary track from Writer/Director Paul Schrader as well as one featuring critics Eddy Friedfeld, Lee Pfeiffer and Paul Scrabo. It is also available on streaming video and digital download through Amazon. com, Apple iTunes Store, Vudu, 29th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Berlin Bear, Paul Schrader 8mm Hardcore at the Internet Movie Database
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Kill Me Again
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Kill Me Again is a 1989 American neo-noir thriller film directed by John Dahl, and starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley and Michael Madsen. Fay Forrester is a young woman who wants to escape from her abusive boyfriend Vince. She hires Jack Andrews, a second class private investigator, to arrange her death and she wants to restart her life with a new identity and the money she got from helping Vince commit robberies. Due to Jacks financial problems, he joins Fay after her fake death, unfortunately, Vince finds out that Fay is still alive. The hunt for Jack, Fay and the money begins, Val Kilmer as Jack Andrews Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Fay Forrester Michael Madsen as Vince Miller Jon Gries as Alan Swayzie Pat Mulligan as Sammy The film drew a mixed reception. Variety gave it a positive review, stating, The tale of a down-and-out detective. The film was a failure at the box office, but it achieved some success on home video. List of American films of 1989 Kill Me Again at the Internet Movie Database Kill Me Again at Rotten Tomatoes
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My Family (film)
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My Family is a 1995 independent American drama film directed by Gregory Nava, written by Nava and Anna Thomas, and starring Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales. The film depicts three generations of a Mexican American family who emigrated from Mexico and settled in East Los Angeles, the story is narrated by the familys oldest son, Paco. The film begins with the father of the family, José Sanchez and he travels to Los Angeles to meet a distant relative known as El Californio, who was born in the city when it was still part of Mexico. They become fast friends and grew a corn farm together, however, after several years, El Californio nears death. Shortly before dying, El Californio says he wants the following written on his tombstone, When I was born here, this was Mexico, and where I die, José meets and marries the love of his life, María, an American citizen. Twenty years later in 1958 or 1959, eldest daughter Irene is getting married, Chucho and Paco have grown up. New additions to the family include Toni, Guillermo Memo, the film begins to gain momentum after the wedding, when a series of events seal Chuchos fate. One night at a hall, Chucho is dancing with his girlfriend. This results in a knife fight between the two, and Chucho accidentally kills him. After this event, Chucho becomes a fugitive of the police, one night when Jimmy is playing ball with his friends, Chucho is shot dead by the LAPD right in front of Jimmy. Other members of the family learn of Chuchos death when they hear gunshots, as an ambulance arrives to take Chuchos lifeless body away, we hear Paco narrate how Chuchos fate had been on borrowed time. The third generation, which takes place twenty years later in the 1970s, faces situations such as acculturation, assimilation. Jimmy completes a stint in jail and returns home and it is revealed that after Chuchos death 20 years back, Jimmy became an angry man following in his footsteps becoming a fugitive like him. One day, Toni visits the Sanchez home and stuns her parents with the news that she is no longer a nun and has married a priest named David Ronconi, Toni and David become involved in helping political refugees. S. Jimmy is resistant to the idea of being a man, however, Isabel slowly makes herself at home and Jimmy has no choice. As Jimmy works on his car listening to Im Your Puppet, Isabel comes up to him and she tries to get him to dance with her on the street. At first he doesnt want to, but she succeeds in teaching him some steps. He asks her at the end of the song, Will you teach me how to salsa and it is here that Jimmy finally lets Isabel into his heart and where they both understand that although other people dont understand them, they know now who they really are together
