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Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Hot Springs is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains among the U. S, interior Highlands, and is set among several natural hot springs for which the city is named. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 35,193, in 2015 the estimated population was 35,635. The center of Hot Springs is the oldest federal reserve in the United States, the hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess medicinal properties, and was a subject of legend among several Native American tribes. Following federal protection in 1832, the city developed into a spa town. One of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the United States, the Assemblies of God, today, much of Hot Springss history is preserved by various government entities. Hot Springs National Park is maintained by the National Park Service, including Bathhouse Row, downtown Hot Springs is preserved as the Central Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The city also contains dozens of hotels and motor courts. Due to the popularity of the waters, Hot Springs benefited from rapid growth during a period when many cities saw a sharp decline in building. As a result, Hot Springss architecture is a key part of the blend of cultures, including a reputation as a tourist town. Also a destination for the arts, Hot Springs features the Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, members of many Native American tribes had been gathering in the valley for untold numbers of years to enjoy the healing properties of the thermal springs. In 1673, Father Marquette and Jolliet explored the area and claimed it for France, the 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the land to Spain, however, in 1800 control was returned to France until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. In 1807, a man named Prudhomme became the first settler of modern Hot Springs, on August 24,1818, the Quapaw Indians ceded the land around the hot springs to the United States in a treaty. After Arkansas became its own territory in 1819, the Arkansas Territorial Legislature requested in 1820 that the springs, twelve years later, in 1832, the Hot Springs Reservation was created by the United States Congress, granting federal protection of the thermal waters. The reservation was renamed Hot Springs National Park in 1921, the outbreak of the American Civil War left Hot Springs with a declining bathing population. After the Confederate forces suffered defeat in the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, rector moved his staff and state records to Hot Springs. Union forces did not attack Little Rock, and the government returned to the city on July 14,1862. Many residents of Hot Springs fled to Texas or Louisiana and remained there until the end of the war, in September 1863, Union forces occupied Little Rock
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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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Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie Pitt, DCMG is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has cited as Hollywoods highest-paid actress. Jolie made her debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight. Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2, followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers. She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace and Gia, Jolies starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider established her as a leading Hollywood actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting and her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent. Her personal life is the subject of wide publicity, divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she separated from her third husband, actor Brad Pitt, in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally, born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her fathers side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mothers side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons. After her parents separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, when Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York, they returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated among the children of some of the areas affluent families because her mother survived on a more modest income. She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and her early attempts at modeling, at her mothers insistence, proved unsuccessful. She dropped out of her classes and aspired to become a funeral director. She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder, and began experimenting with drugs, by age 20, she had used just about every drug possible, particularly heroin. Jolie suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide—at age 19 and again at 22, when she was 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to UCLA Medical Centers psychiatric ward. Two years later, after adopting her first child, Jolie found stability in her life, later stating, I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again. Jolie has had a dysfunctional relationship with her father, which began when Voight left the family when his daughter was less than a year old
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Country rock
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Country rock is subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country. It was developed by musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late-1960s and early-1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, country rock began with Bob Dylan and The Byrds, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, Michael Nesmith, Poco and Pure Prairie League. Country rock also influenced artists in genres, including The Band, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones. It also played a part in the development of Southern rock, john Einarson states, From a variety of perspectives and motivations, these musicians either played rock & roll attitude, or added a country feel to rock, or folk, or bluegrass, there was no formula. Dylans lead was followed by The Byrds, who were joined by Gram Parsons in 1968. Parsons had mixed country with rock, blues and folk to create what he called Cosmic American Music. Earlier in the year Parsons had released Safe at Home with the International Submarine Band, the result of Parsons brief tenure in the Byrds was Sweetheart of the Rodeo, generally considered one of the finest and most influential recordings in the genre. Country rock was a popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s. Some folk-rockers followed the Byrds into the genre, among them the Beau Brummels, one of the few acts to successfully move from the country side towards rock were the bluegrass band The Dillards. Former members of Ronstadts backing band went on to form the Eagles, however, the principal country influence in the Eagles came from Bernie Leadon of the Flying Burrito Brothers, and little country influence was left in the band after he left in late 1975. The genre declined in popularity in the late 1970s, but some established artists, List of country rock albums List of country rock musicians
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Blues rock
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Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with similar to electric blues. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock, Blues rock continues to be an influence, with performances and recordings by several popular artists. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago-style blues songs, such as those by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the US, Johnny Winter, the Allman Brothers Band, and ZZ Top represented a hard rock trend. Although around this time, AllMusic commented, the lines between rock and hard rock were barely visible, there was a return to more blues-influenced styles. Groups, such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the White Stripes, brought an edgier, more diverse style into the 2000s, Blues rock bands borrow the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll. It is also played at a fast tempo, again distinguishing it from the blues. The core blues rock sound is created by the guitar, bass guitar. Often bands also included a harmonica, usually called a harp, the electric guitar is usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier or using an overdrive effect. While 1950s-era blues bands would still use the upright bass, the blues rock bands of the 1960s used the electric bass. Keyboard instruments, such as the piano and Hammond organ, are occasionally used. As with the guitar, the sound of the Hammond organ is typically amplified with a tube amplifier. Vocals also typically play a key role, although the vocals may be equal in importance or even subordinate to the guitar playing. As well, a number of rock pieces are instrumental-only. Blues-rock pieces often follow typical blues structures, such as blues, sixteen-bar blues
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Vanguard Records
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Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It started as a label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal jazz, folk. The Bach Guild was a subsidiary label, the label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015. In 1953, under the direction of John Hammond, the company began the Jazz Showcase series that concentrated on mainstream jazz, recordings made at the Spirituals to Swing concerts in 1938 and 1939 were released by Vanguard in 1959. The company only intermittently pursued recording jazz after that, in the mid-1950s Vanguard signed blacklisted performers Paul Robeson and the Weavers. It continued to issue folk music with newly signed artists Joan Baez, Hedy West, the Rooftop Singers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Country Joe and the Fish, Ian and Sylvia, and Mimi and Richard Fariña. In the summer of 1965 Maynard Solomon hired Samuel Charters to edit the tapes of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, following that project, the company sent Charters to Chicago to capture the broad range of blues musicians there. Those sessions resulted in the 1966 three-album series titled Chicago/The Blues/Today, the albums included Junior Wells with Buddy Guy, Muddy Waterss bandmates Otis Spann and James Cotton, Otis Rush, Homesick James, Johnny Shines, Big Walter Horton, and Charlie Musselwhite. Vanguard released a number of recordings, both domestically-produced and imported. Many of the came from the United Kingdoms Pye Records label. The recordings were so exceptional that many classical radio stations programmed them. D. Q, Bach recordings, from 1965 to 1983. After entering the rock and roll market by signing Country Joe, the label stayed minimally active with specialty releases such as those by Indian classical musician and sarod virtuoso Vasant Rai. An unexpected novelty hit on Vanguard, Shaving Cream by Benny Bell, in the late 1970s Tom Paxton issued two albums, New Songs from the Briar-patch and Heroes, on the label. A few disco albums by such as Players Association were released on Vanguard without much chart impact. After this period of near-dormancy, Vanguard was sold to the Welk Music Group in 1985, the Welk Group sold the classical music catalog back to Seymour Solomon. The label also formed marketing partnerships with a number of artist-run label imprints, to include Levon Helm, Indigo Girls, in 2008, Welk Music Group began a distribution deal with EMI to handle its labels, including Vanguard. After Seymour Solomons death, Vanguard Classics was sold to Artemis Records, when Artemis folded in 2004, the Vanguard Classics catalogue was sold to Sheridan Square Entertainment, which is licensing the Vanguard Classics material. Sheridan Square eventually became IndieBlu, which was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010, Vanguard Music Group was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015
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The Boxmasters
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The Boxmasters is an American country rock/rockabilly band founded in Bellflower, California in 2007. The group has released three albums on Vanguard Records, before he formed The Boxmasters, frontman Thornton had played in two cover bands, worked as a roadie, and released four solo albums. After listening to Yesterdays Gone by Chad & Jeremy and thinking about covering it in a music style. During its early days, the band played live shows in the California area, as well as in Tecate. From mid-2008 to late 2008, the group embarked on a tour across the United States and it also played for the March 2009 South by Southwest conference. The group went on to play in Canada in early 2009 and it resumed touring in mid-April 2009 in the United States. Billy Bob Thornton—credited on the material as W. R. Thornton—has said that never intended to become a movie star. He also released a record with a band called Hot Lanta in 1974, during his acting career, Thornton released four solo albums from 2001 to 2007. Thornton brought in sound engineer J. D. Andrew to help with his 2007 album Beautiful Door, after jamming together, they started to record some of their material. Andrew had known Mike Butler for six or seven years and called on him to guitar for them. According to Andrew, after the trio played together, they said Shoot, Thornton had also briefly played in country star Porter Wagoners similarly titled band The Wagonmasters, which he later said had brought chills down his spine. The band started in Bellflower, California in 2007, during its early days, the band played several live shows in the California area, as well as in Tecate, Mexico. Their eponymous first album The Boxmasters was released on June 10,2008 by Vanguard Records, the review also alleged that Thornton cant drum to save his life, and he cant sing. The Washington Post praised the album, and the paper remarked that listeners will get their moneys worth if they enjoy the music even half as much as the band did during the recordings. The group resumed touring in July 2008, adding musicians Bradley Davis on mandolin, guitar, and vocals, Teddy Andreadis on harmonica and organ and their tour across the United States ended on September 7,2008 when they played at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The band released their album, Christmas Cheer, on November 11,2008. Allmusic gave another review, calling the music an acquired taste. USA Today music critic Brian Mansfield named it one of his favorite holiday albums, the Boxmasters went on a post-album 12-city tour with Willie Nelson, playing from November 22 in Enid, Oklahoma to December 6 in Champaign, Illinois
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One False Move
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One False Move is a 1992 American thriller film co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams and was directed by Carl Franklin, film critic Gene Siskel voted this film as his favorite of 1992. Three criminals are working together, Ray, an immoral and slightly neurotic thief, Fantasia, Rays less violent girlfriend, and Pluto, an intelligent psychopathic killer. After Fantasia sets up several friends, Ray and Pluto commit six brutal murders over the course of one night in Los Angeles, California as they seek a cache of money, the trio leaves town for Houston, Texas to sell the cocaine to a friend of Plutos. The Los Angeles Police Department starts investigating the case, led by Detectives Dud Cole, after getting a few leads, they discover that the three are possibly headed for Star City, Arkansas. The LAPD contacts the Star City police chief, Dale Hurricane Dixon and he often talks too much, listens too little, and takes things for granted. Dixon is excited about the case, as it gives him an opportunity to do real police work. Dixon is well known throughout the county, saying hello to everyone except a five-year-old black child whom he occasionally sees. Whenever he sees this particular child, Dixon becomes quiet and uncomfortable, the detectives travel to Star City and meet Dixon. He attempts to ingratiate himself with the LAPD detectives, whom he reveres, while hide their contempt. A state trooper gives chase and apprehends the three by the roadside but Fantasia manages to shoot him dead, word of the troopers murder gets to the detectives in Star City, and the trio review surveillance photos of Ray and Fantasia in a convenience store before the murder. Dixon informs the detectives that Fantasia is Lila Walker and she grew up in Star City and he recalls she was a troubled youth who left for Hollywood with dreams of an acting career. The detectives sense there is more to the story and they stop by Fantasias relatives house, where they see the young boy that makes Dixon so uncomfortable. The boy is revealed to be Lilas young son, the detectives suspect that Lila will be coming home to see him. Ray, Fantasia and Pluto arrive in Houston to sell the drugs as planned, Fantasia takes a bus ahead from Houston to Star City while Pluto and Ray stay behind to work the deal. The deal goes sour for Ray and Pluto, who then have to kill three more people and flee the city. The two drive from Houston to Star City to meet up with Fantasia and plan their next move, when Fantasia arrives in Star City, she hides at a remote rural house, she sees her son but soon must flee. Dixon confronts her, and it is revealed that the boy is Dixon and Lilas son, after tense conversation, they make a deal
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Sling Blade (film)
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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. In addition to Thornton, it stars Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, the movie was adapted by Thornton from his short film and previous screenplay, Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade. Sling Blade proved to be a hit, launching Thornton into stardom. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, the music for the soundtrack was provided by French Canadian artist/producer Daniel Lanois. Karl Childers is an intellectually disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts committing the murders with a Kaiser blade, saying. I call it a kaiser blade, Karl says he thought the man was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a participant in the affair. Thanks to the doctor in charge of his institutionalization, Karl lands a job at a shop in the small town where he was born. He befriends 12-year-old Frank Wheatley and shares some of the details of his past, Frank reveals that his father was killed – hit by a train – leaving him and his mother on their own. He later admits that he lied, and that his father committed suicide, Frank introduces Karl to his mother, Linda, as well as her gay friend, Vaughan Cunningham, the manager of the dollar store where she is employed. Despite Vaughans concerns about Karls history in the hospital, Linda allows him to move into her garage. Karl quickly becomes a figure to Frank, who misses his father. Karl is haunted by the given to him by his parents when he was six or eight years old to dispose of his premature, unwanted. He visits his father, who has become a mentally unbalanced hermit living in the home where Karl grew up. Karls parents performed an abortion, causing the baby to come out too soon, and Karl was given a bloody towel wrapped around the baby, which survived the abortion. Karl was instructed to get rid of it, but when Karl detected movement inside the towel, he inspected it, while recounting this story to Frank, Frank asks why Karl just didnt keep the baby, but Karl replies he had no way to care for a baby
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director, Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July —for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth. Many of Stones films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century and they often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone was born September 15,1946, in New York City, the son of Jacqueline and Louis Stone and he grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France and his American-born father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, and now practices Buddhism, Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school, Stones mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life, father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stones films. He often spent parts of his vacations with his maternal grandparents in France. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar, Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966 and he returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, from September 16,1967 to April 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the First Cavalry Division participating in long range patrols before being transferred again to drive for an infantry unit of the division until November 1968. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express was criticized by some for its inaccuracies in portraying the events described in the book, the original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail
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U Turn (1997 film)
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U Turn is a 1997 modern western neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Oliver Stone, and based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte. A drifter named Bobby is on his way to pay off a debt of $13,000 to a gangster in Las Vegas when his car breaks down, forcing him to drive to the nearest town, Superior. He takes the money with him but leaves his gun in the trunk of his car, while waiting for his car to be fixed by the town mechanic, Darrell, he wanders around town where he meets Grace McKenna. Not realizing she is married, he hits on her and helps her carry some drapes to her car and she offers to take him back to her house where he can have a shower. While in the shower, it is revealed that the accident that happened to his hand was in fact a punishment for the overdue debt – two of his fingers were cut off, after his shower he attempts to seduce Grace, who is cold to his advances. He goes to leave, saying he is not interested in playing games, the two then kiss, and are caught by Graces husband Jake, who punches Bobby. As Bobby is walking back to town Jake pulls up beside him, after a casual conversation about Grace, Jake asks Bobby if he would kill her for a price. Bobby laughs this off and asks Jake if he is just trying to rattle him, later on when Bobby is in a convenience store, the store is held up. The robbers take his bag with all his money in it but the owner takes out a shotgun. Broke and stranded, Bobby frantically calls nearly everyone he knows trying to get money to fix his car and he even calls the gangster he owes money to asking him for money but the gangster angrily refuses. The gangster now knows where Bobby is and sends someone after him, when Bobby is sitting in a diner ordering a beer, he is approached by Jenny, which provokes the jealous rage of her boyfriend, Toby N. Tucker. The resulting fight is stopped in time by the town Sheriff, Bobby also goes back to the mechanic, where he finds that Darrell has done additional work and is asking a higher price. He also busted open the trunk of the car, meaning Bobby cannot access his gun, a confrontation breaks out which results in Darrell scratching up the hood of Bobbys car. Darrell says that he continue working on the car and charge more and more for the work until Bobby has the means to pay him. Desperate for money, Bobby approaches Jake about killing Grace, Jake tells him that he would need to take Grace out of town and push her off a cliff in order to make the murder look like a suicide. A dream sequence shows that Bobby could not go through with it, Grace reveals that she is not just Jakes wife, she is also his illegitimate child. Jake sexually abused her from an age and then married her after her mother died
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Primary Colors (film)
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The film was directed by Mike Nichols and scripted by Elaine May, it starred John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, and Adrian Lester. Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance, Henry is impressed by Stantons genuine warmth and empathy with people. In addition its revealed that Stanton called a U. S. senator to help him get released then Stanton persuaded the mayor of Chicago to have his record expunged. The team becomes worried that Stanton’s past indiscretions may be used against him by the press, one of Stantons mistresses and Susans hairdresser, Cashmere McLeod, produces secret taped conversations between them to prove they had an affair. Henry discovers that the tapes have been doctored, so Libby tracks down the man responsible for the tapes and forces him at gunpoint to confess his guilt in a letter to the American public. Henry and Howard tell Willie he must allow his daughter to undergo an amniocentesis to determine paternity, although they convince Willie to remain silent on the issue, Henry is nonetheless sickened and disillusioned with the experience. Realizing the campaign is falling behind in the polls, Stantons team adopt a new strategy, Stanton begins going on the offensive by attacking his nearest rival, Senator Lawrence Harris for casting anti-Israel votes and favoring cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Harris confronts Stanton during a talk show in Florida but suffers two heart attacks after the encounter. He suffers a setback, subsequently withdraws from the race. Pickers wholesome, straight-talking image proves a threat to the Stanton campaign. Jack and Susan send Henry and Libby on a research mission on Pickers past. They discover from his ex-brother-in-law, Eduardo Reyes, that Picker had an addiction as governor. They also meet with Pickers cocaine supplier Lorenzo Delgado, with whom Picker had a homosexual affair. Not expecting the information to ever be used, Libby and Henry share their findings with Jack and Susan, Libby says that if Jack does so, she will reveal that he tampered with the results of the paternity test, proving that he slept with Willies daughter. Libby commits suicide after she realizes she spent her life idealizing Jack, racked with guilt over Libbys death, Stanton takes the incriminating information to Picker, and apologizes for seeking it out. Picker admits to his past indiscretions, and agrees to withdraw from the race, Henry intends to quit the campaign, admitting he has become deeply disillusioned with the whole political process. Stanton begs Henry to reconsider, persuading him that the two of them can make history, months later, President Stanton is dancing at the Inaugural Ball with First Lady, Susan. He shakes the hands of all his staff, the last of whom is Henry
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Armageddon (1998 film)
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Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Armageddon opened in only two and a half months after the similar asteroid impact-based film Deep Impact, which starred Robert Duvall. Armageddon fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate, Armageddon was an international box-office success despite generally negative reviews from critics, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and bombards a swath of land around the North Atlantic, NASA discovers through the Hubble that the meteors were debris propelled from the asteroid belt by a rogue asteroid roughly the size of Texas. The asteroid will collide with Earth in 18 days, causing an extinction event. NASA scientists, led by Dan Truman, plan to trigger a thermonuclear detonation at least 800 feet inside the asteroid to split it in two, driving the pieces apart so both will fly past the Earth. NASA contacts Harry Stamper, considered the best deep-sea oil driller in the world, Harry insists he will need his full team to help execute NASAs plan, and they agree to help but only after their list of unusual rewards are met. NASA puts Harry and his crew through a short and rigorous training program, while Harrys team re-outfit the mobile drillers, Armadillos. During training, Truman and Harry are skeptical about the abilities of A. J, frost, a hot-headed drill operator who has been dating Harrys daughter Grace against Harrys wishes. The destruction of Shanghai by a meteorite forces the government to reveal the asteroids existence, the shuttles are launched and arrive at the space station, where its sole cosmonaut Lev Andropov helps with refueling. A major fire breaks out during the process, forcing the crews, including Lev. The shuttles perform the slingshot around the Moon, but approaching the asteroid, the Independences engines are destroyed by trailing debris, Grace, aware A. J. was aboard the Independence, is traumatized by this news, believing he was killed. Lev, and Bear survive the impact and head towards the Freedom target site in their Armadillo, Freedom safely lands on the asteroid, but overshoots the target zone, landing on a much harder metallic field than planned, and their drilling quickly falls behind schedule. Truman delays the military, while Harry convinces the shuttle commander Colonel Willie Sharp to disarm the remote trigger, Harrys crew continues to work, but in their haste, they accidentally hit a gas pocket, blowing their Armadillo into space and losing another man. As the world learns of the apparent failure, another meteorite decimates most of Paris. All seems lost until Independences Armadillo arrives, with A. J. at the controls, they reach the required depth for the bomb. However, flying debris from the damages the triggering device
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A Simple Plan (film)
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A Simple Plan is a 1998 American neo-noir crime thriller film adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 1993 novel of the same name. Directed by Sam Raimi, the film stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, set in rural Minnesota, the story follows Hank Mitchell and his brother Jacob, who, along with Jacobs friend Lou, discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million in cash. The three men go to lengths to keep the money a secret but begin to doubt each others trust, resulting in lies, deceit. Development of the began in 1993 before the novel was published. Mike Nichols purchased the rights, and the project was picked up by an independent film studio. After Nichols stepped down, the adaptation became mired in development hell, during the troubled pre-production, Ben Stiller. After Savoy closed in November 1995, the project was sold to Paramount Pictures, John Boorman was hired to direct, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Raimi. Principal photography began in January 1998 and concluded in March after 55 days, filming took place in Wisconsin, the score was produced and composed by Danny Elfman. A Simple Plan premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, the films appearance at the festival preceded a limited release in the United States on December 11,1998, followed by a general release in North America on January 22,1999. It underperformed at the North American box office, grossing $16.3 million on a $17 million production budget, reviewers praised various aspects of the films production, including the storytelling, performances and Raimis direction. A Simple Plan earned multiple awards and nominations, among them two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, Hank Mitchell and his wife Sarah live in rural Minnesota. One of the few college graduates, Hank works in a feed mill. When Hank, his older, socially challenged brother Jacob and Jacobs friend Lou chase a fox into the woods, Hank decides to look inside the plane where he discovers a dead pilot and a bag containing $4.4 million in $100 bills. He suggests turning the money in but is persuaded not to by Jacob, Hank then proposes that he keep the money safe at his house until the end of winter. Sheriff Carl Jenkins drives by the area and notices the three men after they hide the money in Jacobs pick-up truck, Jacob mentions hearing a plane in the area to avoid suspicion. After Carl leaves, the three men decide to keep the money a secret, but Hank breaks the pact when he reveals the discovery to Sarah, Sarah suggests that Hank and Jacob return a paltry sum of the money to the plane to avoid suspicion from local authorities. While travelling on foot to the woods, the come across an old man on a snowmobile. Jacob, thinking that their cover is blown, bludgeons him, when the man regains consciousness, Hank suffocates him, then uses the snowmobile to drive his body off a bridge, making the murder look like an accidental death
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Monster's Ball
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The film, originally set to star Vanessa Williams, tells the story of a widowed corrections officer, his adult son, and his bigoted father, all of whom work in the same profession. The main character befriends, and then starts a relationship with, Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading performance in this film. Hank Grotowski, a widower, and his son, Sonny, are corrections officers in a prison in Louisiana and they reside with Hanks ailing father, Buck, a bigoted retired corrections officer whose wife committed suicide. He oversees the execution of convicted murderer, Lawrence Musgrove, as explained to Sonny by Hank, at the diner bar the night before, a Monsters Ball is what the execution team calls that nights get-together. The proceedings prove too intense for Sonny, who, as he is leading Lawrence to the chair, vomits. Hank confronts Sonny in the bathroom afterwards and slaps him for being so soft. At home, Hank attacks Sonny in his bed and tells him to get out of the house, Sonny grabs a gun, and threatens his father, who backs off. The confrontation ends in their room with Hank at gunpoint, lying on the carpet. Sonny asks his father if he hates him, after his father calmly confirms that he does, and always has, Sonny responds, Well I always loved you, and then shoots himself in the chest, dying instantly. Hank buries Sonny in the garden with an abbreviated funeral because, as Buck comments. Hank subsequently quits his job, burns his uniform in the backyard, during the years of Lawrences imprisonment, his wife, Leticia, has been struggling while raising their son, Tyrell, who has inherited his fathers artistic talent. She abusively berates the boy regarding his obesity, along with her domestic problems, Leticia struggles financially, leading to the loss of the family car and, worse, an eviction notice on her house. In desperate need of money, Leticia takes a job at a diner which is one frequented by Hank, one rainy night, Leticia and Tyrell are walking down a soaked highway when Tyrell is struck by a car. Hank happens to be driving along and sees Leticia and Tyrell, after some hesitation, he drives Leticia and Tyrell to a hospital, but Tyrell dies upon arrival. At the suggestion of the authorities at the hospital, Hank drives her home, a few days later, Hank gives Leticia a ride home from the diner. They begin talking in the car about their losses. Hank finds out that Leticia is Lawrences widow, though he does not tell her that he participated in her husbands execution and they drown their grief with alcohol and have sex. Leticia stops by Hanks home with a present for him, and she meets Buck, who insults her and implies that Hank is only involved with her because he enjoys sex with black women
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film)
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The Man Who Wasnt There is a 2001 British-American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role, also featured are Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins and Jon Polito. Joel Coen won the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Ethan Coen, Joel Coens brother and co-director of the film, did not receive the Best Director Award as he was not credited as a director. This was the last film to be produced and distributed by Gramercy Pictures until it was revived in 2015, in 1949, Ed Crane is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, a customer named Creighton Tolliver tells Ed that hes a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doriss boss, Big Dave Brewster, Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he pieces together the scheme and beats Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him. After Daves funeral, his comes to Ed and confesses that, one day, she. Later, irregularities in the books are found. The police arrest Doris for embezzlement and Daves murder, Ed is persuaded to hire Freddy Riedenschneider, an expensive defense attorney from Sacramento, who arrives and takes up residence in the best and most expensive hotel in town. He proceeds to live lavishly on Doriss defense fund, which Frank obtained by mortgaging the barber shop and it is all for nothing, because Doris hangs herself in her cell the morning before the trial. It is later revealed that she was pregnant when she hanged herself, Riedenschneider leaves town disgusted and Frank, now deeply in debt, starts drinking heavily. Ed makes regular visits to Rachel Birdy Abundas, a teenage daughter. Tormented by loneliness, he imagines helping her start a musical career, the fantasy is crushed when a music teacher tells him that Birdy has no talent. Driving back from visiting the teacher, Birdy makes a pass at Ed and attempts to perform sex on him, causing Ed to lose control of the car. When Ed awakens in a bed, two police officers tell him hes under arrest for murder. Tollivers beaten body has found in a lake, along with Eds investment contract. The police believe Ed coerced Doris into embezzling the investment money, Ed is arraigned for the murder and mortgages his house to re-hire Riedenschneider
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Friday Night Lights (film)
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A television series of the same name premiered on October 3,2006 on NBC. The film won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award and was ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weeklys list of the Best High School Movies, bissinger followed the team for the entire 1988 season. However, the book also dealt with—or alluded to—a number of political and social issues existing in Odessa. These included socioeconomic disparity, racism, segregation, and poverty, the coach, Gary Gaines, was constantly in the hot seat. Tied to the successes and failure of the coach and the team in general were the conflicts the players struggled with on, the coach overused his star player, running back James Boobie Miles. When this happened, sports radio shows were flooded with calls for Gaines resignation, while recuperating on his uncles veranda he observed the garbage collectors doing their rounds, got a glimpse of a different future, and burst into tears. One of the themes of the movie depicted the coach as a figure for the players. For example, Quarterback Mike Winchell struggled with being able to play consistently, fullback Don Billingsley had a rocky relationship with his alcoholic and abusive father. Billingsley silently endured the abuse from his father, who won a championship at Permian only to find himself unable to get into college. Third-string running back Chris Comer, who replaced the injured Miles, attempted to get rid of his fear of being hit and getting injured, comers obsession with fame and recognition also came at a high price that he was at first not ready to pay. Safety Brian Chavez was easily the smartest player on the team and he ends up being accepted into Harvard College and Texas Tech Law School. Coach Gaines triumphed and struggled with winning games and connecting with his players numerous times during their tumultuous season. His job depended on the Panthers making the playoffs, and his team was in a tie with two other teams at the end of the regular season. Under Texas rules for ties, the tiebreaker was a coin-toss, the team made it to the finals, where they narrowly lost to powerhouse Dallas Carter High School. The movie ended with the coach removing the departing seniors from the chart on his wall. Notably, the chart has Case at quarterback. This referred to Permians real-life backup quarterback in 1988, Stoney Case, who led Permian, along with Chris Comer, to the 5A state title the following year, Miles Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines Julius Tennon as Coach Freddie James Connie Cooper as Ms. In the movie, some of the numbers and positions were changed, Boobie Miles was #45 and played tailback in the movie
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Bandits (2001 film)
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Bandits is a 2001 American criminal comedy film directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett, filming began in October 2000 and ended in February 2001. It helped Thornton earn a National Board of Review Best Actor Award for 2001 and it first opened in theaters on October 12,2001. Two friends and convicts, Joe and Terry, break out of Oregon State Penitentiary in a mixing truck and start a bank robbing spree. When Kate, a housewife with a marriage, decides to run away. Initially attracted to Joe, she ends up in bed with Terry. The three of them go on the lam and manage to pull off a few more robberies, the two criminals then decide to pull off one last job. The show tells the story of their last job, which is known to be a failure when Kate tips off the police, the two then begin to argue when Joe tells the police You wont take us alive. And the argument gets to the point where the two of them shoot each other dead. At the end of the film the story behind the last job is revealed, Harvey used some of his special effects to make it seem as though Terry. In the ambulance, Harvey used electronics to blow out his tires which sent the ambulance into a junkyard, under his jumpsuit, Harvey was wearing a fire suit. He lit himself on fire and rigged a bomb to go off, Harvey, Harveys girlfriend, Terry, and Joe fled the scene, leading officials to believe the bodies were burned beyond recovery. Kate received the $1 million reward for having turned them in, reunited, Joe, Terry, Harvey and Kate make it to Mexico to live out their dream. The last scene shows Harvey getting married in Mexico and Kate kissing Joe, Bruce Willis as Joe Blake Billy Bob Thornton as Terry Collins Cate Blanchett as Kate Wheeler Troy Garity as Harvey Pollard Brían F. 1/10. Metacritic assigned the film an average score of 60 out of 100, based on 32 critics. In 2007 in New York, individuals were prosecuted and convicted for crimes imitative of this films plot, in its opening weekend, the film opened at #2, earning $13 million. The film grossed $67.6 million worldwide, against a budget of $75 million, bandits at the Internet Movie Database Movie stills
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Intolerable Cruelty
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Intolerable Cruelty is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Joel and Ethan Coen, and produced by Brian Grazer and the Coens. The script was written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone & Ethan and Joel Coen, with the writing the last draft of the screenplay, about divorce. The film stars George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, donovan Donaly a TV soap opera producer, surprises his wife Bonnie being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and Bonnie hires Miles Massey, a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the Massey pre-nup, Miles wins a large property settlement against Donaly, leaving him broke. Private investigator Gus Petch tails the wealthy and married Rex Rexroth on a night out with a blonde. When they stop at a motel, Gus catches their tryst on video and he takes the video to Rexs wife, Marylin Rexroth, a marriage-for-money predator. She files for divorce, demanding a large property settlement, unable to afford a divorce settlement, Rex hires Miles to represent him. Marylins friend, serial divorcée Sarah Sorkin, warns Marilyn that Miles will be a dangerous opponent, Marylin and her lawyer, Freddy Bender, fail to reach an agreement with Miles and Rex. Bored Miles asks the fascinating Marylin to dinner, where they flirt, while they are out, Petch breaks in and copies her address book for Miles, who has his assistant search among the names for Marylins accomplice in predatory marriage. In court, Marylin feigns an emotional breakdown over Rexs infidelity, Miles then calls Puffy Krauss von Espy, a Swiss hotel concierge located by his assistant. Puffy testifies that Marylin asked him to find her a target who was very rich, foolish, and a philanderer whom she could easily divorce. The divorce is granted, but Marylin gets nothing, and Miles ancient boss, Herb Myerson and she finds the now-penniless Donaly living on the street, still clutching his Emmy statuette. She offers him a chance to reclaim his lost glory if he helps her get revenge on Miles, soon after, Marylin shows up at Miles office with her new fiancé, oil millionaire Howard D. Doyle. Marylin insists on the Massey prenup, which make it absolutely impossible for her to claim any of her fiancées assets in the event of a divorce. However, Howard destroys it during the wedding, as a demonstration of love, six months later, Miles goes to Las Vegas to give the keynote address at a convention for divorce attorneys. He encounters Marylin, who has divorced Howard and presumably collected a share of the Doyle Oil fortune. However, she admits that she is disenchanted with her wealthy, Miles is thrilled, and marries her on the spur of the moment. To prove that he has no interest in her fortune, he signs the Massey prenup, the next morning a disheveled Miles tells the convention that love is the most important thing, and that he is giving up divorce for pro bono work
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Bad Santa
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This was John Ritters last film appearance before his death on September 11,2003. The Coen brothers are credited as executive producers, the film was released in the United States on November 26,2003. The film was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, an unrated version was released on DVD on March 5,2004 and on Blu-ray Disc on November 20,2007 as Bad Santa. A directors cut DVD was released in November 2006, it features Zwigoffs cut of the film, a sequel, Bad Santa 2, was released worldwide on November 23,2016. Willie T. Soke and his dwarfed assistant Marcus Skidmore are professional thieves, at the mall, Willie is visited by Thurman Merman, a friendly but exceedingly naive and gullible, overweight boy who thinks Willie is really Santa. Thurman is a constant target of bullying by a gang of skateboarders. At a bar, Willie meets Sue, a woman with a Santa Claus fetish, Willie is harassed by a man in the bar, but Thurman intervenes. Willie gives Thurman a ride home, then enters the house where he lives with his senile grandmother. Thurman reveals that his mother died, and his father, Roger, is away exploring mountains until next year, Willie tricks Thurman into letting him steal from the house safe and a BMW owned by Roger. Bob informs Gin that he overheard Willie having sex with a woman in a dressing room – Gin starts to investigate. Willie goes to his room and sees it being raided, causing him to take advantage of Thurmans naivete and live in his house. The next day, Marcus gets angry at Willie for taking advantage of Thurman, Gins investigation of Willie includes visiting Roger, who indirectly reveals/learns that Willie is staying with Thurman illegally. He confronts Willie and Marcus at the mall, and takes them to a bar, there, he reveals that he has figured out their plan, blackmailing them for half of the cut to keep silent. Marcus tries to reason with Gin for a cut. Willie attempts to suicide by inhaling vehicle exhaust fumes. He gives Thurman a letter to give to the police, confessing all his misdeeds, Willie notices Thurmans black eye, which persuades him to make an example of the skateboarding bullies. He confronts and beats up the leader, frightening the other members into stopping their acts towards Thurman. Enraged at Gin for blackmailing him, Marcus and Lois set up a trap for Gin, Lois hits Gin with the car, then Marcus kills him via electrocution
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Eagle Eye
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The plot follows two strangers who must go on the run together after receiving a mysterious phone call from an unknown woman who is using technology to track them. The film was released in theaters and IMAX theaters on September 26,2008. Jerry Shaw is a Stanford University dropout who learns his identical twin brother Ethan, following the funeral, Jerry is surprised to find $751,000 in his bank account. Later he finds his Chicago apartment filled with weapons, ammonium nitrate, classified DOD documents and he receives a phone call from a woman who warns that the FBI is about to arrest him and he needs to run. Disbelieving, Jerry is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan, while Morgan confers with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Pérez, the woman on the phone arranges for Jerrys escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman, a single mother. The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam, the woman on the phone helps the two avoid the Chicago police and FBI, using an ability to control networked devices, including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines. Meanwhile, the woman on the phone redirects a crystal of powerful DOD explosive—hexamethylene—to a gemcutter, another man steals Sams trumpet in Chicago and fits the crystals sonic trigger into the tubing, before forwarding it to Sam in Washington, D. C. Agent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister to be read into Ethans job at the Pentagon, Ethan monitored the DODs top secret intelligence-gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst. Callister leaves Perez with Major William Bowman and ARIIA to investigate Ethan Shaws death, Perez and Bowman find evidence that Ethan Shaw hid in ARIIAs chamber, and leave to brief Callister. Afterwards, ARIIA smuggles Jerry and Rachel into her observation theater under the Pentagon, one of ARIIAs agents extracts Rachel from the Pentagon and gives her a dress and the explosive necklace to wear to the SOTU. Sams school band has also redirected to the United States Capitol to play for the president, bringing the trigger in Sams trumpet. Jerry is recaptured by Agent Morgan, who has become convinced of Jerrys innocence, elsewhere, Morgan sacrifices himself to stop an armed MQ-9 Reaper sent by ARIIA, but first gives Jerry his weapon and ID with which to gain entrance to the Capitol. Arriving in the House Chamber, Jerry fires the handgun in the air to disrupt the concert before being shot, shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw and Ethan Shaw, twin brothers. Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloman, a woman who is being coerced by ARIIA, julianne Moore as the voice of the super computer ARIIA, aka the unknown woman. Rosario Dawson as Zoë Perez, an Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent, michael Chiklis as George Callister, the US Secretary of Defense. Anthony Mackie as Major William Bowman Ethan Embry as Toby Grant, billy Bob Thornton as Tom Morgan, an FBI agent. Anthony Azizi as Ranim Khalid Cameron Boyce as Sam Holloman, Rachels son, screenwriter Dan McDermott wrote the original script for Eagle Eye based on an idea by Steven Spielberg who had been inspired by Isaac Asimovs short story All the Troubles of the World. The studio DreamWorks then bought McDermotts script and set up the project to potentially be directed by Spielberg, when the director became busy with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he dropped out of the project
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Faster (2010 film)
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Faster is a 2010 American action film directed by George Tillman Jr. Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton star as a criminal seeking vengeance and the corrupt cop who pursues him, respectively. Tom Berenger, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Carla Gugino also appear, Faster was released on November 24,2010, and grossed $35 million against production budget of $24 million. Upon leaving prison, Driver breaks into a run until he retrieves his 1970 Chevelle and he drives to an office in Bakersfield and kills a man. Driver visits the man who gave him the car and gun, meanwhile, Driver is tracked by detective Cicero and Cop, a detective on the verge of retirement whose life is off track due to a debilitating heroin addiction. Cicero gets a break in the case when she recognizes Driver on video, later, a nameless hitman, Killer, is hired to kill Driver. Killer promises his girlfriend Lily it is his last job, Driver heads to the second name on his list, an old man who films his own personal snuff films. He is in the middle of filming a sexual assault when Driver busts in the door, Killer initiates a gun fight in the hallway, but Driver escapes. This affects Killer philosophically, who proposes to his girlfriend and takes the case personally, Cop and Detective are investigating Drivers past and discover he was double crossed. Cicero remembers Driver from a video of his half-brother Garys death, on tape, an unidentified man shoots Driver in the head, but he narrowly survives, needing a metal plate in his skull. Driver visits his old girlfriends house and she knows he is killing the people in the video and, after revealing she aborted their unborn child and has begun a new life, she tells him she hopes he succeeds. At strip club in Nevada, Driver stabs a bouncer who killed his half-brother, soon, both Cop and Killer get word that the man survived the stabbing and is in the hospital. Knowing Driver will go back to him off, they converge there. Driver enters the hospital and kills the man when he is in surgery, Cop attempts to bring down Driver but is unsuccessful, however, Driver spares his life after seeing his badge. While driving away from the hospital, Driver encounters Killer, after a high-speed chase on the freeway, Killer shoots Driver in the neck after Driver shoots out his tires. The penultimate name is Drivers father, Driver believes his father arranged to have him and his half-brother Gary killed after they refused to share the money they stole in a bank job. Driver is the result of his mothers affair, which Drivers father never forgave, Driver finds out his father died years before, and his mother stitches the gunshot wound on his neck before he leaves. The last man is a traveling evangelist, and after his service is over and everyone has left, the evangelist knows why he is there and tells him that he has turned his life around, begging for forgiveness. Driver spares him, only to be confronted by Killer, Detective Cicero learns the true identity of the man who shot Driver
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Fargo (TV series)
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Fargo is an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the name written and directed by the Coen brothers. It premiered on April 15,2014, on FX, the first season, set in 2006 and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, and Martin Freeman, was met with critical acclaim. It also won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries or Television Film, the second season, set in 1979 and starring Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, and Ted Danson, was met with even greater acclaim. It received three Golden Globe nominations, along with several Emmy nominations including Outstanding Miniseries and acting nominations for Dunst, Plemons, Smart, and Bokeem Woodbine. The third season, set in 2010 and starring Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis and Jim Gaffigan, in 2006, Lorne Malvo passes through Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the community–including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard –with his malice, violence and deception. Meanwhile, Deputy Molly Solverson and Duluth police officer Gus Grimly team up to solve a series of murders they believe may be linked to Malvo and Nygaard. Meanwhile, State Trooper Lou Solverson, and his father-in-law, Sheriff Hank Larsson, the time frame for the seasons episodes is 2010, leaving open the possibility that characters from the previous seasons could return. Hawley said, There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie, Ewan McGregor was cast in the lead dual role as Emmit and Ray Stussy, and Carrie Coon will play the lead female role, Gloria Burgle. In September 2016, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was cast in a role as Nikki Swango. In November 2016, it was announced that Jim Gaffigan had joined the cast in the role of Donny Mashman. In December 2016, several new actors joined the cast, including David Thewlis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Shea Whigham, Karan Soni, Fred Melamed and it was later announced that adaptation would be a 10-episode limited series. On August 2,2013, it was announced that Billy Bob Thornton had signed on to star in the series, on September 27,2013, Martin Freeman also signed on to star. On October 3,2013, it was announced that Colin Hanks was cast in the role of Duluth police officer Gus Grimly, production began in fall 2013 with filming taking place in and around Calgary, Alberta. The series is set in the fictional universe as the film. The first season features the buried ransom money from the film in a minor subplot, additionally, a number of references are made connecting the series to the film. The ten episodes are set in Luverne, Minnesota, Fargo and you can turn the pages of this book, and you just find this collection of stories. But I like the idea that things are connected somehow
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66th Primetime Emmy Awards
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The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U. S. prime time television programming from June 1,2013 until May 31,2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Monday, August 25,2014, at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California, comedian and Late Night host Seth Meyers hosted the ceremony for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 10,2014, the scheduling of the Primetime Emmy Awards is coordinated with that of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which was held the previous weekend on August 16,2014. Breaking Bad was the winner of the night, with five wins. Modern Family won its fifth consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the Amazing Race won its tenth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program as well. Other major winners of the night were Sherlock, His Last Vow, American Horror Story, Coven, the ceremony was held on a night other than Sunday for the first time since 1976. NBCs ideal date on the 2014 calendar for the led to the other scheduling factor — MTVs Video Music Awards. On January 28,2014, rather than go head-to-head with the VMAs, NBC announced that the ceremony would take place on Monday, the ceremonys weeknight date and start time —5,00 p. m. On November 14,2013, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that it would implement online voting for its members to select the nominees. However, online voting to determine the winners will not be used until 2015, the Academy had also announced changes to several awards and categories that affect both the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Changes for the Primetime Emmy Awards involved separating the Outstanding Miniseries or Movie category into two entities—Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Television Movie, the two were combined in 2011, due to a downtrend in the genres. This separation is only for the category with all other awards in the category remaining combined between the two formats. The Academy also introduced two new categories—Outstanding Structured Reality Program and Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, there was also an increase in the number of longform nominees in writing, directing and performing categories for miniseries/movie as well as a change in their final voting procedures. Despite its departure from its normal telecast schedule, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards received 15.59 million viewers, emmys. com list of 2014 Nominees & Winners Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website 2014 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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72nd Golden Globe Awards
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The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2014, was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 11,2015, by NBC. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, george Clooney was announced as the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award honoree on September 14,2014, tina Fey and Amy Poehler were the co-hosts for the third consecutive and final time. The nominations were announced on December 11,2014 by Kate Beckinsale, Peter Krause, Paula Patton, the Affair, Birdman, Boyhood, Fargo, The Theory of Everything, and Transparent were among the films and television shows that received multiple awards. These are the nominees for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, winners are listed at the top of each list. However, the lack of energy and adherence to routine faced negative criticism. Jethro Nededog of The Wrap was among many reviewers to praise Fey and Poehler, though he wished they had appeared more often throughout the ceremony, claiming, “the fun was front-loaded”. Comedian Margaret Cho appeared at several instances as a disapproving North Korean film critic, Cho had previously played Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un on Fey’s comedy series 30 Rock, the latter role garnering Cho a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Some reviewers enjoyed the recurring gag and Cho’s skewering of Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy nominee Orange Is the New Black’s placement in the “Comedy” category, of note during the ceremony were overt references to oppressed populations and current political events in several victors speeches. Best Original Song winner Common alluded to the Ferguson, Missouri polices shooting of Michael Brown as well as to the 2014 NYPD officer killings by armed civilians, the ceremony averaged a Nielsen 12.6 rating/19 share and was watched by 19.3 million viewers. This rating was an eight percent decline from the previous ceremonys viewership of 20.9 million, official website 72nd Golden Globe Awards at the Internet Movie Database 72nd Golden Globe Awards at NBC
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Southern United States
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The Southern United States, commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States, arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries, while the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. However, the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South, usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, the Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European, African, and some Native American components. Since the late 1960s, black people have many offices in Southern states, especially in the coastal states of Virginia. Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was rural until after 1945. It has since become more industrialized and urban and has attracted national and international migrants, the American South is now among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Houston is the largest city in the Southern United States, sociological research indicates that Southern collective identity stems from political, demographic, and cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. The region contains almost all of the Bible Belt, an area of high Protestant church attendance and predominantly conservative, indeed, studies have shown that Southerners are more conservative than non-Southerners in several areas, including religion, morality, international relations and race relations. Apart from its climate, the experience in the South increasingly resembles the rest of the nation. The arrival of millions of Northerners and millions of Hispanics meant the introduction of cultural values, the process has worked both ways, however, with aspects of Southern culture spreading throughout a greater portion of the rest of the United States in a process termed Southernization. The question of how to define the subregions in the South has been the focus of research for nearly a century, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes sixteen states. As of 2010, an estimated 114,555,744 people, or thirty-seven percent of all U. S. residents, lived in the South, the nations most populous region. Other terms related to the South include, The Old South, the New South, usually including the South Atlantic States. The Solid South, region largely controlled by the Democratic Party from 1877 to 1964, before that, blacks were elected to national office and many to local office through the 1880s, Populist-Republican coalitions gained victories for Fusionist candidates for governors in the 1890s. Includes at least all the 11 former Confederate States, Southeastern United States, usually including the Carolinas, the Virginias, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The Deep South, various definitions, usually including Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, occasionally, parts of adjoining states are included
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A Family Thing
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A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce, the film is a drama about a Scotch-Irish American Southerner named Earl Pilcher, whose late mother makes a shocking revelation in a letter that is given to him after her death. She reveals that Earls biological mother was a Black American maid named Willa Mae, who was raped by Earls father and his adoptive mothers dying wish is that he go to Chicago to meet his half-brother, Raymond Murdoch. Earl initially takes the news of his mixed parentage badly, tearfully challenging his father to confirm the facts in the letter. As a result, Earl packs up his clothes and takes off for Chicago to find his brother and he meets Ray at city hall and Ray, although he really wants nothing to do with Earl, agrees to meet him for lunch at a diner. Ray blames Earls father for his own death and does not want to speak to Earl. During lunch, Ray reveals that he knew all along that he had a half white brother and he says in so many words that he doesnt want or need a brother, and they go their separate ways. But when Earl leaves and drives off in his truck he encounters four black Chicago street toughs who rear end his truck, when Earl gets out to survey the damage, he, being a trusting Southern good ol boy, leaves his keys in the ignition. The toughs beat him up and steal his truck and his wallet and he walks around in a daze and ends up in a hospital. The hospital staff finds Rays information in Earls pocket and calls Ray and he comes reluctantly, and the doctor tells him that Earl may have a concussion and needs to take it easy for a couple of days, no traveling is allowed. She also tells him that the hospital is full, so he will have to take Earl home to recuperate, at Rays home, Earl meets Aunt T, a kind and generous elderly woman who is blind. Aunt T. is Willa Maes sister, and thus, Earls aunt, Earl also meets Rays son, Virgil, a city bus driver who doesnt appreciate a white southerner sleeping in his bed. At first, Earls stay at the Murdoch residence is rocky, Ray explains that Earl is an old war buddy whose life he saved. During a shopping excursion with Earl, Aunt T reveals that she knows who Earl really is, in a powerful scene, Aunt T scolds Ray and Virgil for not welcoming a member of their family, no matter how different he is. Earl overhears the discussion and leaves Rays house, walking unknowingly into a bad part of town, Ray gives in to Aunt Ts wish that he welcome Earl into their home, and he quickly locates him on a nearby street. Earl obstinately refuses to back with Ray, knowing he is not wanted. The two argue and Earl uses the word nigger to punctuate his disdain for Ray, seeing too late that he has gone too far, angry at Earls callous words, Ray tells Earl to stay away from him, and he heads back home. Meanwhile, Earl wanders Chicago and gets drunk at a Chicago bar and he ends up sleeping under a bridge
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The Gift (2000 film)
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The Gift is a 2000 American supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and based on the alleged psychic experiences of Thorntons mother. The film centers on Annie becoming involved in a case as a result of acquiring keen knowledge about the crime through her extrasensory perception. Other major characters are played by Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, in the town of Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson is the resident fortune-teller who possesses extrasensory perception. Jessica King, the fiancée of local school teacher Wayne Collins disappears, Annie eventually receives a vision revealing that Jessica has been killed and her corpse thrown into a pond. He had previously threatened Annie and her kids for Annie advising his wife to leave him, valerie permits the search while Donnie is absent from their residence, but the latter returns while the search is proceeding. The police find Jessicas corpse in the pond and Donnie is arrested for her murder, during his trial for Jessicas murder, it is revealed that Jessica and Barksdale had an affair. The case against Barksdale is strengthened when evidence supporting that Barksdale is the murderer is discovered, Annie also takes the stand and Donnie is eventually convicted, Buddy Cole, an acquaintance of Annies, harbors a hatred for his father. The former tries to explain to Annie why he hates his father but Annie is preoccupied and refuses to listen to the explanation of the vulgar and that evening, Buddys mother calls Annie to come to their house as Buddy has snapped and has his father bound to a chair. Buddy sets his father on fire and it is revealed that Buddys father sexually abused him as a child. Buddy is eventually taken to a mental hospital, later, Annie receives another vision divulging that Donnie is innocent. She asks prosecutor David Duncan to reopen the case, after Duncan declines, Annie counters that if he does not do so she will reveal Duncan and Jessicas sexual activity which she witnessed. Duncan attempts to bribe Annie in exchange for her silence, but Annie refuses, Annie tells Collins that Barksdale is not responsible for Jessicas death and that Duncan will not reopen the investigation. At Collins suggestion he and Annie drive out to the pond that night where Annie learns from a vision that Collins is actually Jessicas murderer, Collins confesses to Annie that he was angry after he discovered that she was cheating on him. Collins attempts to kill Annie - striking her in the head with a flashlight - knowing that she will inform the police about killing his fiancée, Annie and Buddy lock the unconscious Collins in the trunk of Annies car. To stop her head wound from bleeding, Buddy returns to Annie a handkerchief that she had lent him earlier, the two drive to the police station with Collins stowed in the trunk. Annie tells Buddy that he will have to return to the mental hospital, when she returns to the car with the police to retrieve Collins from the trunk, Buddy has disappeared. When Annie explains to Johnson what happened at the pond, he informs her that Buddy could not have aided her at as he had committed suicide at the hospital earlier that day. However, Annie still has the handkerchief that Buddy returned to her. K.8 of 10, the consensus was the A-list cast cant prevent the movie from becoming a by-the-numbers whodunit with an ending thats all but unsatisfactory
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Daddy and Them
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Daddy and Them is a 2001 American film written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton. In addition to Thornton, it stars Laura Dern, Andy Griffith, Ben Affleck, Kelly Preston, Diane Ladd, Brenda Blethyn, Tuesday Knight, Jamie Lee Curtis and this was Jim Varneys last film, he died before the movies release. The original plan was to release the film in theaters, Daddy and Them opened to positive reviews, with many critics praising the films southern humour, Thorntons work as a writer/director, and the performances of the entire cast. It currently holds an 83% rating on the review site Rotten Tomatoes, ruby and Claude Montgomery are a very insecure and jealous couple, who must help when Claudes Uncle Hazel is jailed for attempted murder. Daddy and Them at the Internet Movie Database Daddy and Them at AllMovie Daddy and Them at Box Office Mojo
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All the Pretty Horses (film)
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All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American romance western film produced and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, and based on Cormac McCarthys novel of the same name. Starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, the film was released on Christmas Day 2000 to mostly negative reviews and it grossed $18 million worldwide, against a $57 million budget. In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Coles maternal grandfather dies, John had grown up on his grandfathers ranch, but it was put up for sale when the old man died. His mother has no ties to it anymore, and would rather have the money. With no home, John asks his best friend Lacey Rawlins to leave his family ranch in San Angelo, Texas and join him to travel on horseback to cross the border 150 miles south, to seek work in Mexico. They encounter a peculiar 13-year-old boy named Jimmy Blevins on the trail to Mexico, later on they meet a young aristocrats daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, with whom Cole falls in love. Cole and Rawlins become hired hands for Alejandras father, who likes their work, Cole and Rawlins are sent to a Mexican prison for abetting Blevins crimes, where they must defend themselves against dangerous inmates. The pair are nearly killed. Alejandras aunt frees Cole and Rawlins, on the condition that she never sees them again, while Rawlins returns to his parents ranch in Texas, Cole attempts to reunite with Alejandra over her familys objections. Her aunt is confident that Alejandra will keep her word and not get together with Cole - so much so that she even gives Cole her nieces phone number. Cole urges Alejandra to come to Texas with him and she, however, decides she must keep her word and though she loves him, she will not go with him. Cole then sets out to get revenge on the captain who took the Blevins boys life, as well as to get back his, Laceys and Blevins horses. After making the captain his prisoner, he turns him over to Mexican men, Cole is spared the decision to kill the captain, but it is implied the men whom the captain was turned over to will do that. Reentering the USA and riding through a town in Texas. He asks a couple of men if they would be interested in buying a rifle, one is a sheriffs deputy and arrests him because all three horses have different brands, and they suspect Cole is a horse thief. In court, Cole tells the judge his story from the beginning, the judge believes him and orders Cole freed and the horses returned to him. Later that evening, Cole shows up at the judges home, the judge tells him he is being too hard on himself and it could not have been helped, he must go on and live his life. Cole rides to Rawlins familys ranch, where he asks his friend if he wants his horse back. C, franklin All the Pretty Horses was filmed on location in New Mexico and Texas
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Jayne Mansfield's Car
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Jayne Mansfields Car is a 2012 drama film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, marking his first directing job since 2001s Daddy and Them. Thornton also stars alongside Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Frances OConnor, Ron White, the film had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. The film was released in limited release on September 13,2013, one of the locations in which the movie was shot is Cedartown, Georgia, USA. Exterior home shots were filmed in Troup County, Georgia, while scenes were shot in Decatur. For the Greek Revival home, the shots were filmed at The Bailey-Tebault House located in Griffin. The film is set in 1969 Morrison, Alabama, the Caldwell family includes three World War II veterans—brothers played by Thornton, Bacon and Patrick—their sister Donna, and a patriarch, Jim Caldwell, who is a World War I veteran. The Caldwells are involved in a clash with the Bedfords, a family which includes Phillip, a World War II veteran, his sister Camilla. Duvall described the film in an interview as putting Tennessee Williams in the back seat, the films title refers to the automobile in which movie star Jayne Mansfield was supposedly decapitated in 1967. When a nearby town has a side show displaying the vehicle, Jayne Mansfields Car at the Internet Movie Database
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National Board of Review
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The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. s revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908, the mayor believed that the new medium degraded the morals of community. Its stated purpose was to endorse films of merit and champion the new art of the people, in an effort to avoid government censorship of films, the National Board became the unofficial clearinghouse for new movies. From 1916 into the 1950s thousands of motion pictures carried the legend Passed by the National Board of Review in their main titles, however, the Board was a de facto censorship organization. Producers submitted their films to the Board before making release prints, they agreed to cut out any footage that the Board found objectionable, up to and including destroying the entire film. In 1930, the NBR was the first group to choose the ten best English-language movies of the year and the best foreign films, everson, Alistair Cooke, and Pearl Buck. In addition, the Awards Jury helps to determine the special achievement awards presented at the gala in January. The organization also works to foster commentary on all aspects of production by underwriting educational film programs. In 2016, the NBR reached out to the community to The Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, The Ghetto Film School, the organization also awarded grants to seventeen student filmmakers as part of its annual Student Grant Program. The boardss official magazine had existed in several forms and different names since its inception, in 1950 the magazine changed its name from Screen Magazine, and launched the first issue as Films in Review on February 1,1950. Note, Until 1945, there were awards for Best Picture and intermittent awards for Best Documentary. Motion Picture Production Code Official website
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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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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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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