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Marvin J. Chomsky
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Marvin J. Chomsky is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer, born in New York City, Chomsky graduated from Syracuse University in 1950. Chomskys early jobs in the picture and television industries included work as an art director, set decorator. Chomskys feature film directing credits include Evel Knievel, Live A Little, Steal A Lot, Mackintosh, good Luck, Miss Wyckoff and Tank. Chomsky is a television director, and his career spanned from 1964-1995. During the late 1960s, Chomsky directed eleven episodes of the television series The Wild Wild West and he also directed episodes of Star Trek and Gunsmoke. Besides directing individual episodes for series, Chomsky directed made-for-TV movies such as Brinks, The Great Robbery, Victory at Entebbe, Attica. During the 1970s, Chomsky served as one of the directors for the miniseries Roots, Marvin J. Chomsky at the Internet Movie Database Marvin J. Chomsky at FilmReference. com
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Judd Nelson
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Judd Asher Nelson is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. His family is Jewish, and his father was the first Jewish president of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and he has two sisters, Eve and Julie. He went to school at St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire and Waynflete School in Portland, Maine and he subsequently moved to Manhattan to study acting with Stella Adler. Nelson began acting in the mid-1980s, starring in Making the Grade and Fandango and it was his roles in John Hughess The Breakfast Club and Joel Schumachers St. Elmos Fire - and his affiliation with the Brat Pack - that made Nelson a star. The St. Elmos Fire music video - also directed by Schumacher - reached #1 in the USA, a subsequent article in New York magazine, which focused primarily on the success of these films, resulted in the term Brat Pack being coined. In 1986 Nelson provided the voice of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in The Transformers, The Movie, film critic Roger Ebert praised the documentary, and it maintains a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He starred opposite Burt Reynolds in the ABC Afterschool Special Shattered If Your Kids On Drugs, in the Fall of 1988 he played Konstantin in Chekhovs The Seagull directed by Charles Marowitz at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, earning praise as did the entire production. Key TV roles in the 1980s included Moonlighting - episode Camille - in which he played a police officer opposite Cybill Shepherd, in the Fall of 1990 he appeared on stage in Chicago and New York in Jules Feiffers Carnal Knowledge with Jon Cryer. Williams, he also played Alan Freed in the life story, Mr. Rock N Roll, The Alan Freed Story opposite Mädchen Amick. In 2002 he co-starred with Lauren Holly in Santa, Jr. and he portrayed Father Charley Lock on Brookwood Sleazebags, a pilot he did for HBO. In 2012, Nelson played the role of Headmaster Nash in the feature film Bad Kids Go to Hell. The same year, Nelson co-wrote and starred in the short film The Spin Room, Nelson reprised his role as Rodimus in Transformers, Animated and voiced Ben 10,000 and Eon in Ben 10 Omniverse. In 2013 Nelson authored four books released on Kindle, The Power of Speech, Nine of Diamonds, The Gig, Nelson played a pivotal role in the final season of Nikita. Nelson is frequently mentioned in relation to the 1980s due to the popularity of his early films The Breakfast Club, Nelson appeared at the 2010 Academy Awards to pay tribute to the late John Hughes along with other cast members of Hughes films. The character of Nelson Muntz on Matt Groenings animated series The Simpsons was said to be named after Nelson in honor of his portrayal of John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Judd Nelson at the Internet Movie Database Judd Nelson at AllMovie
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ITC Entertainment
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Incorporated Television Company was a British television company involved in production and distribution. Incorporated Television Programme Company was founded by television mogul Lew Grade with Prince Littler, ITP put most of the production budget into producing one show, The Adventures of Robin Hood. It also distributed ATV material outside of the UK, from 1966 to 1982 it was a subsidiary of Associated Communications Corporation after the acquisition of ATV. The initials ITC stood for two different things, Independent Television Corporation for sales to the Americas, and Incorporated Television Company for sales to the rest of the world, the American Independent Television Corporation was formed as a joint venture with Jack Wrather in 1958. In September 1958 it purchased Television Programs of America for $11,350,000, Wrather sold his shares to Lew Grade at the end of the decade. During 1988 The Bell Group, the owners of ITC were taken over by the Bond Corporation, subsequently the new owners started an asset-stripping programme. In November 1988 ITC Entertainment was bought by its management, in 1989, ITC Home Video was formed in the United Kingdom, to make use of the many hours of programmes in the archive, then unseen for years. This short-lived home entertainment division would end in 1991, in the following period, ITC continued to distribute its past library. In 1995, PolyGram purchased the company for $156 million, with Grade once again returning to ITC to act as a consultant until his death in December 1998. On 10 December 1998, Universal Studios parent, Seagram purchased PolyGram for $10.2 billion, Carlton chairman Michael Green said, The ITC library is a jewel in the crown. We can now unite it with the gems from Britains film. ITV plc continues to release ITCs original output through television repeats, books, in 2005, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company, Network DVD released a DVD box set entitled ITC50 featuring episodes from eighteen different ITC productions. Jason King, The Adventurer, The Protectors, and Return of the Saint and it was also the production company for The Muppet Show and Julie on Sesame Street which were both made at ATVs Elstree Studios and distributed in the UK by ATV and in the US by ITC. ITC got its start as a company when former American producer Hannah Weinstein approached Lew Grade. Weinstein wanted to make a programme called The Adventures of Robin Hood, Weinstein proposed making the series for ITV and simultaneously marketing it in the United States through an American TV distribution company, Official Films. The series was a big success in countries, running from 1955 until 1959 on CBS and ATV London. Although most of the ITC series were produced in Britain, ITC often worked with Television Programs of America, ITC also funded Anderson-created programs aimed at the adult market, including UFO and Space,1999. It was at ITCs request that Fanderson, the Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society, was founded, another ITC childrens series was The Adventures of Rupert Bear, the first television outing for the Daily Express cartoon character
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Ron Silver
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Ronald Arthur Ron Silver was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. He played Henry Kissinger, Alan M. Dershowitz and Angelo Dundee on the screen and supported Bill Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani and he was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American movie business. Silver was born on July 2,1946 in Manhattan, New York, the son of May, a teacher, and Irving Roy Silver. Silver was raised Jewish on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and he also attended Columbia Universitys Graduate School of International Affairs and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio, and later at The Actors Studio. Silver got his big acting break starring in El Grande de Coca Cola in 1974, producers Richard Flanzer and Roy Silver opened it at the famed Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The production ran for more than a year, Silver and his co-star, actor Jeff Goldblum, were discovered by Hollywood film agents during this hilarious shows run. In 1976, he made his debut in Tunnel Vision. From 1976 to 1978, he had a role as Gary Levy in the sitcom Rhoda. He starred as Jerry Lewiss characters son in the multi-episode Garment District Arc of the crime series Wiseguy. From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors Equity Association and he played a film producer in Best Friends opposite Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, an actor in Lovesick and a film director in Mr. Saturday Night. Silver portrayed a corrupt, rogue senator in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller Timecop, on television in 1998, he starred opposite Kirstie Alley for season two of her TV comedy series Veronicas Closet. He was also featured as Muhammad Alis boxing trainer and cornerman Angelo Dundee in Michael Manns 2001 biopic Ali, from 2001–02 and again from 2005–06, he had a recurring role as presidential campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli on the NBC series The West Wing. In February 2008, Silver began hosting The Ron Silver Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, the show aired live from 9–11am ET, on Indie Talk, Sirius 110. Silver traveled to more than 30 countries and spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese and he taught at the high school level and was a social worker for the Department of Social Services. In 1975, he married a worker, later Self magazine editor, Lynne Miller, the marriage lasted until 1997. In 1989, he co-founded the Creative Coalition, an entertainment industry political advocacy organization that champions for First Amendment rights, public education, Silver was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2000, he co-founded the organization One Jerusalem to oppose the Oslo Peace Agreement and he spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention, continued to support President Bush, and was appointed Chairman for the Millennium Committee by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. After he flipped political affiliations and endorsed President Bush, he was ostracized by friends, in Silvers blog on the PJ Media website, he claimed that colleagues on the set of The West Wing referred to him as Ron, Ron, the Neo-Con
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Fredric Lehne
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Fredric Lehne, also known as Fredric Lane, is an American character actor. Born in Buffalo, New York, he was raised in New Jersey and he has played or appeared in more than 200 films, mini-series, and television episodes, as well as many stage productions including works by Shakespeare, Moliere and Ibsen on Broadway. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Lehne played astronaut Walter Cunningham and he also played Tommy in the TV movie Coward Of The County. Lehnes film credits include Men in Black, Con Air, Ordinary People, Being There, Zero Dark Thirty, Fredric Lehne at the Internet Movie Database
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Raphael Sbarge
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Raphael Sbarge is an American actor, voice actor, director and producer. He is best known for his roles as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket in Once Upon a Time, between 2014 and 2016, he portrayed Inspector David Molk in the TNT series Murder in the First. He is also known for voicing Carth Onasi in the video game Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, Sbarge was born into a theater-oriented family in New York City. His mother, Jeanne was a costume designer. His father, Stephen Arnold, was an artist, writer, Sbarge began his career at age 4 on Sesame Street. Sbarge made his debut in 1981 in Joseph Papps Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry IV. The following year he made his Broadway debut opposite Faye Dunaway in the short-lived play The Curse of an Aching Heart, other New York stage credits include Hamlet, Ah, Wilderness. Ghosts, The Twilight of the Golds, The Shadow Box and he had recurring roles in five episodes of Star Trek, Voyager in 1996, and in the first four episodes of the sixth season of 24. From 2001-04, Sbarge was a regular cast member of The Guardian and he voiced the character Professor Zei in a guest-star appearance in the second season of Nickelodeons Avatar, The Last Airbender. He was in an episode of Six Feet Under, in 2007, he appeared in a two-part episode of Journeyman. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Mentalist, in 2010, he was in Practically Perfect, a season five episode of Dexter, as Jim McCourt, an Internal Affairs Agent. He had a role as Howard Aucker on The Young. He played Brian McGuire on Better Days, which lasted for five weeks before being canceled, in 2011, he first appeared in Once Upon a Time, playing the dual roles of Archie Hopper, a therapist, and his fairy tale counterpart, Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio. In 2013, he played Larry Hermann on Chicago Fire and he played Inspector David Molk, a philosophizing SFPD homicide inspector, on TNTs 2014 series, Murder in the First. Sbarge has directed films and the Web series On Begley Street. Raphael Sbarge at the Internet Broadway Database Raphael Sbarge at the Internet Movie Database RaphaelSbarge. com, Official website LLA Archives entry
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John Dye
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John Carroll Dye was an American film and television actor known for his role as Andrew in the television series Touched by an Angel. Dye was born in Amory, Mississippi, one of three sons of Jim and Lynn Dye, a manufacturer and homemaker, respectively, who raised their sons in the Methodist faith. The family moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, where he attended Cleveland High School and he was introduced to acting by playing the role of Friedrich, the youngest von Trapp child in a school production of The Sound of Music at Cleveland High School. He performed as a trombonist in the band program and he graduated from Tupelo High School, where he again played Friedrich von Trapp. Dye found himself bitten by the acting bug, after graduating, he enrolled at Mississippi State University in hopes of becoming a civil rights lawyer. After a year at Mississippi State University, he decided to become an actor and he transferred to Memphis State and majored in theater. In Memphis, Dye discovered that a Judd Nelson film called Making the Grade was filming in the area, Dye landed his first film role as Skip. In 1986 he starred alongside actresses Virginia Madsen and Cynthia Gibb in the comedy film Modern Girls, in 1987 Dye got his first leading role, in the film Campus Man, as Todd Barrett. That same year, he re-teamed with Nelson in the television miniseries Billionaire Boys Club, in 1989, he starred alongside actors James Earl Jones and Eric Roberts in the martial-arts drama Best of the Best. By the time the 1990s came around, Dye decided to make a move towards television and he was cast as Private Francis Doc Hoc Hockenbury in the last season of Tour of Duty. When the series finished, he moved on to short-lived series such as Jacks Place, in 1994, he appeared as Andrew the Angel of Death on Touched by an Angel with Roma Downey & Della Reese. Originally cast as a character, by the third season he was made a regular cast member as his character quickly became popular. The show ran for nine seasons before ending in April 2003, in 2000, he starred in the television movie Once Upon a Christmas. In 2001, he appeared in the sequel Twice Upon a Christmas, in the 1985 music video for the ZZ Top song Sleeping Bag, he appeared alongside fellow actors Tracey Walter and Heather Langenkamp. Dye was found dead in his home in San Francisco, California on January 10,2011 and his family reported that he died due to heart-related problems. His funeral was held at St. Andrews United Methodist Church in his hometown of Amory, Mississippi and his resting place is at Haughton Memorial Park, Amory. John Dye at the Internet Movie Database John Dye at Find a Grave
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James Sloyan
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James Joseph Sloyan is an American actor. Sloyan left the United States at an age to live abroad in Rome, Capri, Milan, Switzerland. Sloyans career in show-business began upon his return to the United States, in 1957, sloyans acting career was interrupted in 1962, when he was drafted into the United States Army during its operations in Vietnam. Quinn, Medicine Woman, among numerous others, in addition, he appeared in the television movies Blind Ambition, Billionaire Boys Club and My Son Is Innocent. In Star Trek, The Next Generation, he portrayed Alidar Jarok in The Defector, in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, he portrayed the Bajoran scientist Mora Pol and Odos father in the episodes The Begotten and The Alternate. The Star Trek, Voyager episode entitled Jetrel featured Sloyan as the title character, Sloyan is featured in the opening sequence of The Sting. Sloyans character in the movie was eventually murdered by the films antagonist and he has also played roles in The Traveling Executioner, The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight, and Xanadu. Sloyan has been used as an actor for Sprint Nextel long distance services. Sloyan was also the voice of Lexus, having performed voice-overs in American television advertisements for Lexus since the introduction to the American market. In 2009, he was replaced as the voice of Lexus by actor James Remar, Sloyan now voices ads for Mitsubishi. Sloyan and wife, Deirdre Lenihan, an actress, have married since 1973. They are the parents of actor Dan Sloyan and actress Samantha Sloyan
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Canyon
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A canyon or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales. A canyon may also refer to a rift between two peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps. Usually a river or stream and erosion carve out such splits between mountains, examples of mountain-type canyons are Provo Canyon in Utah or Yosemite National Park in Californias Sierra Nevada. Canyons within mountains, or gorges that have an opening on one side are called box canyons. Slot canyons are very narrow canyons, often with smooth walls, steep-sided valleys in the seabed of the continental slope underwater are referred to as submarine canyons. Unlike canyons on land, submarine canyons are thought to be formed by turbidity currents, the word canyon is Spanish in origin, with the same meaning. The word canyon is used in North America while the words gorge and ravine are used in Europe and Oceania, though gorge. In the United States, place names generally use canyon in the southwest and gorge in the northeast, in Canada, a gorge is usually narrow while a ravine is more open and often wooded. The military-derived word defile is occasionally used in the United Kingdom, most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau or table-land level. The cliffs form because harder rock strata that are resistant to erosion, Canyons are much more common in arid than in wet areas because physical weathering has a more localized effect in arid zones. The wind and water from the combine to erode and cut away less resistant materials such as shales. The freezing and expansion of water also serves to help form canyons, water seeps into cracks between the rocks and freezes, pushing the rocks apart and eventually causing large chunks to break off the canyon walls, in a process known as frost wedging. Canyon walls are formed of resistant sandstones or granite. Sometimes large rivers run through canyons as the result of geological uplift. These are called entrenched rivers, because they are unable to alter their course. In the United States, the Colorado River in the Southwest, Canyons often form in areas of limestone rock. As limestone is soluble to an extent, cave systems form in the rock. When these collapse, a canyon is left, as in the Mendip Hills in Somerset and Yorkshire Dales in Yorkshire, England
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Duct tape
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Duct tape, sometimes called duck tape, is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. There are a variety of constructions using different backings and adhesives, one variation is black gaffer tape, which is designed to be non-reflective and cleanly removed, unlike standard duct tape. Another variation is heat-resistant foil duct tape useful for sealing heating and cooling ducts, Duct tape is generally silvery gray, but also available in other colors and even printed designs. During World War II, Revolite developed a tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used as sealing tape on some cases during that period. For instance, in 1902, steel supporting the Manhattan Bridge were first covered in linseed oil then wrapped in duck tape before being laid in place. In the 1910s, certain boots and shoes used canvas duck fabric for the upper or for the insole, in 1936, the US-based Insulated Power Cables Engineers Association specified a wrapping of duck tape as one of many methods used to protect rubber-insulated power cables. In 1942, Gimbels department store offered venetian blinds that were together with vertical strips of duck tape. All of these uses were for plain cotton or linen tape that came without a layer of applied adhesive. Adhesive tapes of various sorts were in use by the 1910s, white adhesive tape made of cloth soaked in rubber and zinc oxide was used in hospitals to bind wounds, but other tapes such as friction tape or electrical tape could be substituted in an emergency. In 1930, the magazine Popular Mechanics described how to make adhesive tape at home using plain cloth tape soaked in a liquid mixture of rosin. In 1923, Richard Gurley Drew working for 3M invented masking tape, in 1925 this became the Scotch brand masking tape. In 1930, Drew developed a transparent tape based on cellophane and this tape was widely used beginning in the Great Depression to repair household items. Author Scott Berkun has written that duct tape is arguably a modification of this success by 3M. However, neither of Drews inventions was based on cloth tape and she wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 with the idea to seal the boxes with a fabric tape, which she had tested at her factory. The letter was forwarded to the War Production Board, who put Johnson & Johnson on the job and their new unnamed product was made of thin cotton duck tape coated in waterproof polyethylene with a layer of rubber-based gray adhesive bonded to one side. It was easy to apply and remove, and was adapted to repair military equipment quickly, including vehicles. This tape, colored in army-standard matte olive drab, was nicknamed duck tape by the soldiers, after the war, the duck tape product was sold in hardware stores for household repairs
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Brandon Tartikoff
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Brandon Tartikoff was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom Punky Brewster, he named the character after a girl he had a crush on in school. Punky Brewsters pet dog Brandon was named after Tartikoff and he was also involved in the creation of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine and Beggars and Choosers. Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, while attending Yale, Tartikoff worked as an account executive and sales manager for WNHC-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as in Hartford, Connecticut. Tartikoff spent vacations in Los Angeles looking for a job in network television, after graduating from Yale, he took a series of jobs in advertising and local television, including WLS-TV in Chicago, Illinois. Tartikoff was hired as an executive at ABC in 1976. One year later, he moved to NBC, Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from Fred Silverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBCs entertainment division, when Tartikoff took over, NBC was in last place behind ABC and CBS, and the very future of the network was in doubt. A writers strike was looming, affiliates were defecting, mostly to ABC, johnny Carson was reportedly in talks to move his landmark late-night talk show to ABC. The entire cast and writers of Saturday Night Live had left that late-night sketch-comedy series, by 1982, Tartikoff and his new superior, the highly regarded former producer Grant Tinker, slowly but surely turned the networks fortunes around. Tartikoff wrote a memo that simply read MTV cops, and later presented the memo to series creator Anthony Yerkovich. The result was Miami Vice, which became an icon of 1980s pop culture, knight Rider was inspired by a perceived lack of leading men who could act, with Tartikoff suggesting that a talking car could fill in the gaps in any leading mans acting abilities. During the casting process of Family Ties, Tartikoff was unexcited about Michael J. Fox for the role of Alex P. Keaton, however, the shows producer, Gary David Goldberg, insisted until Tartikoff relented, saying, Go ahead if you insist. But Im telling you, this is not the kind of face youll ever see on a lunch box, love and Kisses, Michael J. Tartikoff kept the lunch box on display in his office. Jerry Seinfeld credited Tartikoff with saving Seinfeld from cancellation during its first four years of struggling ratings, johnny Carson broke the news of his retirement in February 1991 to Tartikoff at the Grille in Beverly Hills. For several days only Tartikoff and NBC Chairman Bob Wright knew of the planned retirement, during his time at NBC, he made appearances in several of the networks shows. During his 1983 appearance on Saturday Night Live, one skit featured Tartikoff in a leather ensemble. Be There was NBCs slogan during the 1983–84 season, Tartikoff appeared as himself on episodes of Night Court, Night Stand with Dick Dietrick and ALF, and in the background of one of the final episodes of Cheers
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Lyle and Erik Menendez
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During the trial, the brothers claimed the murders stemmed from years of sexual and psychological abuse by the parents. The defense was rejected by jurors, who sentenced the brothers to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and their story has been retold in movies and in popular culture. The Menéndez brothers father, Jose Enrique Menéndez, was born in Havana, Cuba, while attending Southern Illinois University, he met Mary Louise Kitty Andersen. The two married in 1963 and moved to New York, where Jose Menéndez earned a degree in accounting at Queens College, the couple had two sons, Joseph Lyle Menéndez was born in New York City, New York on January 10,1968. Erik was born on November 27,1970, in Gloucester Township, Kitty Menéndez quit her schoolteaching job after Lyle was born. In New Jersey both brothers attended Princeton Day School, joses career as a corporate executive took the family to Calabasas, California, where the boys spent their adolescence. During 1987 Erik attended high school in Calabasas, earning average grades but showing a talent for tennis. Lyle attended Princeton University but was placed on probation for poor grades and discipline. In 2017 interviews the brothers stated they had sexually molested by their father since a young age. On August 20,1989, Lyle and Erik were 21 and 18 years old, the murders occurred that evening in the den of the familys home in Beverly Hills at 722 North Elm Drive. Jose and Kitty were tired that evening because the family had been shark fishing on a chartered yacht, Motion Picture Marine. With Lyle and Erik out for the evening, Jose and Kitty went into their den to watch the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Neighbors later reported hearing loud bangs about 10 p. m. but dismissed them as nothing to be concerned about, Jose was shot point-blank in the back of the head with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun. Kitty, awakened by the shots, sprang from the couch and she slipped in her own blood and fell, then was shot several times in the arm, chest, and face, leaving her unrecognizable. Both Jose and Kitty were then shot in the kneecap in an attempt to make the murders appear related to organized crime, the brothers then drove away and dumped their shotguns on Mulholland Drive. They later told police they had left home that evening to see the new James Bond movie, Licence to Kill, afterward, they said, they went to the annual “Taste of L. A. ” festival at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. At 11,47 p. m. when the brothers returned home, Lyle telephoned 911 and cried, Somebody killed my parents. The police considered the brothers suspects but did not have any evidence, during their trial, Erik said he spotted a shotgun shell they had left on the floor and removed it when the policeman talking to him looked away
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Evel Knievel (film)
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Evel Knievel is a 1971 motion picture starring George Hamilton as motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. The story is a biography of the motorcycle daredevil, who grew up in Butte. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on events in his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend/wife. The film opens with Knievel at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, Knievel is speaking directly to the camera describing his upcoming daredevil motorcycle jump, Ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to be here today. It is truly an honor to risk my life for you and that jump youre going to make is impossible, but I already have my tickets because I want to see you splatter. Thats right, thats what he said, and I told that boy last night that nothing is impossible. Now they told Columbus to sail across the ocean was impossible and they told the settlers to live in a wild land was impossible. They told the Wright Brothers to fly was impossible, and they probably told Neil Armstrong a walk on the moon was impossible. They tell Evel Knievel to jump a motorcycle across the Grand Canyon is impossible, a Roman General in the time of Caesar had the motto, If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible, it will be done, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I live by. Following his introduction, the story follows a narrative through Knievels life. The film ends with Knievel successfully completing the jump at the Ontario Motor Speedway, as the movie closes over the Grand Canyon, George Hamilton delivers a voice-over monologue in the Knievel character. In the monologue, he himself as the last gladiator. Below is a transcript of the monologue from the movie, Important people in country, celebrities like myself — Elvis, Frank Sinatra. There are millions of people look at our lives and it gives theirs some meaning. People come out from their jobs, most of which are meaningless to them and they jump right alongside of me — they take the bars in their hands, and for one split second, they’re all daredevils. I am the last gladiator in the new Rome, I go into the arena and I compete against destruction and I win. And next week, I go out there and I do it again, and this time — civilization being what it is and all — we have very little choice about our life
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Mackintosh and T.J.
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Mackintosh and T. J. is a 1975 American modern day Western film starring Roy Rogers in his last feature film appearance in a film that was specifically written for him. Prior to this film his most recent feature film appearances were in the Bob Hope films Son of Paleface, MacKintosh is an aging migrant cowboy drifting from ranch to ranch doing odd jobs along the way with the exception of his World War II service in the Pacific. When passing through a town he sees T. J, a 14-year-old recently released from doing clean up work for vagrancy. Shopping for supplies, MacKintosh sights T. J. preparing to steal an apple being watched by the store owner, MacKintosh pretends the boy is with him and pays for their supplies. A ride the two realise they have much in common, having left his single mother and not having been in school since Dick and Jane books were used, T. J. is off to work his way to the Pacific Ocean that he has never seen. When MacKintoshs vehicle breaks down T. J. catches a lift with a well dressed stranger on his way to El Paso as MacKintosh makes his repairs, stopping for dinner in a bar that night, MacKintosh sights T. J. working as a busboy in the bar. T. J. explains that the man who picked him up was funny that made T. J. leave him as quickly as possible, a drunken loud cowboy named Cal misplaces his money and accuses T. J. of stealing. Cal comes after MacKintosh with a knife with MacKintosh knocking him down again by breaking a bottle on his head. Losing his job, T. J. and MacKintosh team up again, T. J. is put to work cleaning up abandoned buildings. The two settle in until accusations are made against MacKintosh for his too friendly to the wife of his foreman. Waylon Jennings provided several songs for the film and released a soundtrack album, the film was produced by the late Roy Tim Penland of Penland Productions Inc, and former child star Claude Jarman Jr. acted as a production manager on the film
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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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Holocaust (miniseries)
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Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi. Dr. Weiss is a doctor from Berlin. After losing his right to treat Aryan patients, he is deported to Poland for being a foreign citizen and he becomes a member of the Judenrat for the Warsaw Ghetto. Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw Ghettos liquidation process, at Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt, who is trying to save several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he should not have done so, mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husbands deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported to the Warsaw Ghetto to be reunited with Josef, Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually being sent to the gas chamber. Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald, later, a family friend of Ingas, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the reality of the Ghetto, when the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die. Karl is then transferred to Auschwitz and put on the Sonderkommandos, subsequently, Karls health deteriorates badly and he dies in 1945, on the day Auschwitz is liberated. Rudi Weiss, having fled from Germany, goes to Czechoslovakia and they escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against both SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured, and Helena is shot and killed, Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky and escapes during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel back through Europe and find his family. Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw, when Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat, after hearing that the SS is planning to kill all Jews in Europe, he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and they are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot. Karls wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist. Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff is a 1979 American drama film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The screenplay by Polly Platt is based on the 1970 novel of the title by William Inge. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the schools black janitor, the novels themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. The film version stars Anne Heywood, John Lafayette, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn and, in her final film, Carolyn Jones. Attractive but still a virgin, on the verge of premature menopause and he directs her to Dr. Steiner, a Jewish psychiatrist in Wichita. The talks with Steiner help her to alleviate her grief and slowly she acknowledges her craving for love and she starts flirting with Ed Eckles, the friendly bus driver in her trips to Wichita. Ed cares for her and suggests they should have a love affair and she was hesitant about that because Ed was married and of a lower status. When she finally was willing to, Ed had left town for good, one day she is accosted by Rafe Collins, a cocky Black scholarship student who cleans classrooms at the end of the school day. When the young man boldly makes lewd suggestions and begins to unzip his pants, Evelyn flees in a panic but decides to no one what transpired. The following day, Rafe approaches Evelyn again and ruthlessly rapes her on her desk, ashamed and fearful of the public disgrace she will suffer if she reports being violated by a black man, she chooses to remain silent. A full-fledged psychopath and sadist, Rafe forces himself upon her on a daily basis, eventually Evelyn, in a mixture of intimidation and sexual craving, submits to the humiliating and abusive relationship, sometimes looking forward to their trysts. One day two other students enter a classroom where Rafe is mistreating Evelyn forcing her naked body against a hot heater, scandal breaks loose and she faces unrelenting public ostracism. The friendly principal Havermayer is forced to ask her to resign, everybody turns a cold shoulder on her as if she was a culprit, not a victim, and she contemplates suicide. But in the end she regains herself and moves out of town to a new life, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff was released in April 1979 in theatres in the United States and on October 27,1979, in theatres in Japan. The film was released on VHS with these titles, The Sin, The Shaming. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 13,2013 by, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff at the Internet Movie Database
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Tank (film)
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Tank is a 1984 American action comedy-drama film starring James Garner, Jenilee Harrison, and C. Thomas Howell. The film was written by Dan Gordon and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and it was produced by Lorimar Productions and was commercially released in the United States by Universal Studios on March 16,1984. US Army Command Sergeant Major Zack Carey is about to retire from the military after taking his last post in rural Georgia. Despite being offered the possibility of becoming Sergeant Major of the Army, he insists he just wishes to finish his tour and retire in peace to spend time with his family. Several years earlier, his son had been killed in an Army training accident. Zack is shown to be a tough but fair NCO, Zack owns a vintage Sherman tank from World War II that he has restored with his younger sons help, and he uses it for parades and public relations. While visiting a bar, he meets a young woman named Sarah. During their conversation, the deputy sheriff, Euclid Baker sees them together and orders Sarah to get back to work, insulting her. Carey quickly steps in and defends her, Sarah had been forced into prostitution by Cyrus Buelton, the corrupt sheriff. Sheriff Buelton tries to arrest Carey, but finds he has no jurisdiction while Carey is on the base, to get revenge on Carey, Sheriff Buelton frames Billy for drug possession by planting marijuana in his gym locker at school. Sheriff Buelton offers to drop the charges if CSM Carey would give the Sheriff a hefty bribe, zacks wife, LaDonna refuses to take part in good old boy justice and calls a lawyer. The lawyer is thrown into jail himself on trumped-up contempt of court charges, Billy is put on trial immediately without benefit of counsel, LaDonna, finally realizing the depths of Sheriff Bueltons corruption and cruelty, goes to Zach and tells him what happened. Carey decides to take matters into his own hands and climbs into his tank, destroying the local jail. Carey and Sarah depart for the county work farm where they use the tank to liberate Billy, once away from town and the jail, his plan is to escape to neighboring Tennessee, where they can get a fair hearing regarding extradition. Sheriff Buelton demands military intervention from Careys commanding general, Major General V. E, the general points out that Carey had already retired from the Army, so he has broken no military law. Buelton then demands that Hubik order the posts personnel and tanks to pursue Carey, General Hubik again declines and cites the Posse Comitatus Act, which states that the Department of Defense is prevented from interfering in domestic law enforcement. Despite Sheriff Buelton insisting they are criminals, the nation rallies behind them as a sort of modern-day Robin Hood, on the Tennessee side of the line, thousands of people gather to welcome the tank. A showdown brews at the Tennessee state line, where a crowd of supporters for the tank
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The Deliberate Stranger
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The Deliberate Stranger is a book and television film about American serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was written by Seattle Times reporter Richard W. Larsen, Larsen would go on to cover the Ted murders in 1974 and then cover the Ted Bundy story up until Bundys execution in 1989. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was published in paperback in editions as late as 1990 but has gone out of print. The Deliberate Stranger was adapted into a television movie originally broadcast on NBC in May 1986. The film, based on Larsens book, starred Mark Harmon as Bundy, frederic Forrest starred as Seattle detective Robert D. Keppel, and George Grizzard played reporter Larsen. Bundys lawyer Polly Nelson, in her book Defending the Devil, characterized the film as stunningly accurate and she singled out for praise Harmons portrayal of Bundy, noting how Harmon reproduced Bundys rigid posture and suspicious expression. According to Nelson, her client, still on death row when the program aired, showed no interest in seeing the film. Ann Rule, who had known Bundy before the murders when they worked together on a crisis hotline. Harmon was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Bundy, while the film is accurate in its portrayal of events, the names of all the victims have been changed, with the sole exceptions of victim Denise Naslund and her mother Eleanor Rose. According to The New York Times, the two shows ranked seventeenth and sixth in the Nielsen ratings, howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times described it as taut, suspenseful, scary. Larsen, Richard W. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger, Defending the Devil, My Story as Ted Bundys Last Lawyer. ISBN 978-0-393-05029-5 The Deliberate Stranger at the Internet Movie Database
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Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
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Anastasia, The Mystery of Anna is a 1986 television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif, Christian Bale and Jan Niklas. The film was based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. It was originally broadcast in two parts, afterwards, it revolves around Anna Anderson, who believes that she is Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. Anna first tells her story in the 1920s when she is an inmate in a Berlin asylum after her suicide attempt and her story of escaping from the Bolsheviks who killed the rest of her family in 1918 seems so vivid that many Russian expatriates are willing to believe her. She slowly gains more trust, but the Romanov exiles in Europe are very hesitant to believe her tale. S. in the 1930s. The movie culminates in 1938 with Anna deciding to sue the remaining Romanovs in Germanys courts to force them to recognize her as Anastasia, but it never reveals if Anna really is or isnt Anastasia. The ending epilogue narration says that she moved back to the U. S. and settled in Charlottesville
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Catherine the Great (1995 film)
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Catherine the Great is a 1995 television movie based on the life of Catherine II of Russia. It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine, Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth, the film was released on Region 1 DVD on February 27,2001 by A&E Home Video. Mirovich Catherine the Great at the Internet Movie Database http, //variety. com/1995/film/reviews/catherine-the-great-1200440516/
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