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Long Beach, California
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Long Beach is the 36th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California. It is located on the Pacific Coast of the United States, as of 2010, its population was 462,257. Long Beach is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the worlds largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a progressively declining oil industry with minor wells located both directly beneath the city as well as offshore, manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, automotive parts, electronic equipment, audiovisual equipment, petrochemicals, precision metals and home furnishings. Long Beach lies in the corner of Los Angeles County. Downtown Long Beach is approximately 22 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, indigenous people have lived in coastal Southern California for over 10,000 years, and several successive cultures have inhabited the present-day area of Long Beach. By the 16th-century arrival of Spanish explorers, the dominant group were the Tongva people and they had at least three major settlements within the present-day city. Tevaaxaanga was a settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuunga were coastal villages. Along with other Tongva villages, they were forced to relocate in the century due to missionization, political change. In 1784 the Spanish Empires King Carlos III granted Rancho Los Nietos to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto, the Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from this territory. The boundary between the two ran through the center of Signal Hill on a southwest to northeast diagonal. A portion of western Long Beach was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro and its boundaries were in dispute for years, due to flooding changing the Los Angeles River boundary, between the ranchos of Juan Jose Dominguez and Manuel Nieto. In 1843 Jonathan Temple bought Rancho Los Cerritos, having arrived in California in 1827 from New England and he built what is now known as the Los Cerritos Ranch House, a still-standing adobe which is a National Historic Landmark. Temple created a cattle ranch and prospered, becoming the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Both Temple and his house played important local roles in the Mexican–American War. On an island in the San Pedro Bay, Mormon pioneers made an attempt to establish a colony. Two years previous Flint, Bixby & Co had also purchased along with Northern California associate James Irvine, to manage Rancho Los Cerritos, the company selected Lewellyns brother Jotham Bixby, the Father of Long Beach. Three years later Bixby bought into the property and would form the Bixby Land Company
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10 (film)
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10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, and Bo Derek in her first major film appearance. Considered a trend-setting film at the time, and one of the years biggest box office hits and it follows a man who in middle age becomes infatuated with a young woman he has never met, leading to a comic chase and an encounter in Mexico. The title refers to her physical attractiveness being a perfect 10, during a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber, thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor, he finds he is coping badly with incipient middle age. George visits the priest, and learns the woman is Jenny Miles, the final straw for Sam occurs when George makes a remark subtly impugning her femininity, at which point Sam leaves in a huff. The following day, George spies on his neighbor again, hits himself with the telescope, still obsessed with the young bride, George schedules a dental appointment with Jennys father and learns that Jenny and her husband have gone to Mexico for their honeymoon. The examination reveals a mouthful of cavities, requiring fillings, the after-effects of the novocaine, aggravated by his heavy drinking, leave George completely incoherent. Sam finally reaches him on the phone, but mistakes him for an intruder and calls the police, unnerved by the days events, George visits his neighbors house to take part in an orgy. Sam arrives at Georges and spots him through his telescope, widening the rift between them, when they attempt a fling, Mary interprets Georges inadequacy in bed as confirmation of her own insecurities. At the beach, George sees Jenny―wearing a swimsuit with her hair braided in cornrows―and is awestruck again by her beauty and he notices that David, her husband, has fallen asleep on his surfboard. George learns that beyond a point are powerful currents that can sweep a swimmer or surfer dangerously far from land. He rents a catamaran, clumsily but successfully rescues David, Sam sees him on a TV newscast and tries to contact him, but George refuses the call. David, badly sunburned, is hospitalized, allowing Jenny and George to spend time alone together, after dinner, in her room, Jenny smokes marijuana and then seduces George to the sounds of Maurice Ravels Boléro. He is even more confused when David responds with a lack of concern. After flying back home, George reconciles with Sam by apologizing and demonstrating a new maturity, taking an idea from Jenny, he starts Boléro on the phonograph and they make love. October 5,1979, opening in 706 theaters,10 was released on DVD through Warner Home Video May 21,1997. A Blu-ray was later released February 1,2011, the supplemental material, comprising the original theatrical trailer and a four-minute promotional documentary, is present on both media. 10 opened at one in the United States, earning $3,526,692 its opening weekend. The film went on to make a total of $74,865,517 in United States,10 received mostly positive reviews from critics and holds a 71% positive rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)
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Tarzan, the Ape Man is a 1981 adventure film directed by John Derek and starring his wife Bo Derek, Miles OKeeffe, Richard Harris, and John Phillip Law. The screenplay by Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard is loosely based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and it is the final of three filmed versions of the story released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The original music score is composed by Perry Botkin Jr, former Tarzan actor Jock Mahoney, billed as Jack OMahoney, was the films stunt coordinator. The film is marketed with the tagline Unlike any other Tarzan youve ever seen, the original actor cast in the Tarzan role was fired early in production, resulting in the sudden casting of his stunt double, Miles OKeeffe, in the title role. This film received negative reviews, and in some circles has been considered to be one of the worst films ever made. James Parker is a hunter in Africa, searching for a white ape. He is joined by his daughter, Jane, after her mothers death. They discover the white ape is actually Tarzan, a white man raised by apes living in the jungle. James continues to pursue Tarzan with the purpose of capturing him, dead or alive, realizing that James is on his trail, Tarzan kidnaps Jane. Jane and Tarzan become fascinated by each other, Jane is then kidnapped by natives who intend to make her a wife of the tribe leader, forcing Tarzan into action. The film was panned upon its release. Leslie Halliwell described Tarzan the Ape Man as certainly the worst of the Tarzan movies and possibly the most banal film so far made, even the animals give poor performances. However, critic Roger Ebert offered a more positive review of Tarzan. According to Ebert, the film was completely ridiculous, but at the time it has a certain disarming charm. Tarzan, the Ape Man was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on June 8,2004 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. Tarzan, the Ape Man at the Internet Movie Database Tarzan, the Ape Man at AllMovie Tarzan, the Ape Man at Rotten Tomatoes Tarzan, the Ape Man at Box Office Mojo
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Bolero (1984 film)
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Bolero is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity. Despite minor commercial success, the film was panned, earning nominations for nine Golden Raspberry Awards at the 5th Golden Raspberry Awards and winning six. Set in the 1920s, Ayre Mac MacGillvary is a virginal 23-year-old young American who graduates from an exclusive British college, an orphan heiress to a vast fortune, Ayre is determined to find the right man for her first sexual encounter wherever he might be in the world. Rich enough not to venture forth alone, she brings along her best friend Catalina, Ayre first travels to Morocco where she meets an ideal lover, an Arab sheik who offers to deflower her. He takes her away in his airplane to an oasis in the desert. Giving up on the sheik, Ayre goes on to Spain, where she meets the toreador Angel, into this group comes Paloma, a 14-year-old local Gypsy girl whom Ayre and Catalina take under their wing. A minor subplot involves Catalina meeting and pursing Ayres lawyer, Robert Stewart, after several days of courtship and flirting, Angel makes love to Ayre one morning and he manages to stay awake. Unfortunately, after she has succeeded in her quest to lose her virginity, the injury leaves Angel unable to perform in the bedroom, and so Ayre makes it her mission in life to see to his recovery. Along the way, she takes up bullfighting herself as a way of getting her despondent lover motivated to stop moping. During this, the Arab sheik flies to Spain to abduct Ayre, eventually, Ayre is successful in aiding Angel to full recovery which leads to a climatic lovemaking session between them. The film ends with Ayre and Angel getting married at a local church, Yablans disliked the film as much as all the other films Cannon was delivering to MGM. When the producers refused to cut the film to avoid an X rating by the MPAA, MGM dropped the film due to standards policies and Cannon released Bolero themselves. The quality of Bolero and the other Cannon/MGM films led to Yablans using a breach of contract clause to terminate the deal with the two studios in November 1984. Bolero was ultimately released with no MPAA rating, with a disclaimer on ads that no children under 17 would be admitted to the film, despite this, many theater chains that normally refused to screen X-rated films did the same for Bolero. The film is officially on DVD with an R rating with no cuts, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 0%, based on 17 reviews. It was nominated for nine Golden Raspberry Awards and won six, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, in 1990, the film was nominated for, but lost the Razzie Award for Worst Picture of the Decade. The movie was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture, the film earned about $8.9 million in American ticket sales against a $7 million production budget
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Tommy Boy
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The film was shot primarily in Toronto and Los Angeles under the working title Rocky Road. It tells the story of a socially and emotionally immature man who learns lessons about friendship, the film did well commercially, but received mixed reviews from critics. However, since its release, Tommy Boy has become a classic due to being very successful on home video. After seven years at college, Thomas R. Tommy Callahan III barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky and his father, industrialist and widower Thomas R. Big Tom Callahan, Jr. gives him a job at the familys auto parts plant. In addition to the new job and office, Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish-Burns, a woman he had met at a fat farm, at the wedding, Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack. After the funeral, doubting the future of the company without Big Tom, the bank agrees, but they also want the company to prove it still has viability by selling 500,000 brake pads. If they fail, the bank will foreclose, but if they succeed, Tommy volunteers to go on a cross-country sales trip with his fathers sycophantic assistant, Richard Hayden, a childhood acquaintance who has a particularly antagonistic relationship with Tommy. Meanwhile, Beverly and Paul are shown kissing romantically, revealing that they are not mother and son and she authorizes the quick sale to Zalinsky to make a fast buck. On the road, Tommys social anxiety and hyperactivity alienate numerous potential buyers, the lack of any progress leads to tension between Tommy and Richard. Additionally, the duo encounters a variety of incidents that lead to the destruction of Richards car. When all seems lost, Tommy persuades a surly waitress to serve him chicken wings after the kitchen closes, Richard realizes that Tommy has the ability to read people, just like his father, and suggests this is how he should sell. The two mend their friendship and start to sell effectively to numerous automotive plants, eventually putting them over the million mark. However, Paul sabotages the companys computers, causing sales posted by sales manager Michelle Brock to either be lost or rerouted, with half of the sales now canceled, the bank forecloses. Beverly and Paul approve the sale of Callahan Auto to Zalinsky, hoping that they can persuade Zalinsky to reconsider, Tommy and Richard travel to Chicago, boarding a plane as flight attendants. Tommy and Richard are denied entry to the Zalinsky boardroom since Tommy does not have any standing, after briefly wallowing on the curb in self-pity, Michelle arrives with Paul and Beverlys police records. Tommy devises a plan, dressed as a bomber by using road flares, he gains the attention of a live television news crew and then, with Michelle and Richard. Back in Sandusky, Callahan workers watch the drama on a television, in a final move of pure persuasion, Tommy quotes Zalinskys own advertising slogan, that he is on the side of the American working man
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John Derek
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John Derek was an American actor, director and photographer. He appeared in films as Knock on Any Door, All the Kings Men. He was also known for launching the career of his fourth wife, Derek was born Derek Delevan Harris in Hollywood, California, the son of actor/director Lawson Harris and actress Dolores Johnson. After the war, Derek approached Humphrey Bogart, who renamed him John Derek and cast him as Nick Romano, a killer, in Knock on Any Door. Derek was recognized as a newcomer, plainly an idol for the girls. Derek followed that picture with a role as the son of Broderick Crawford in All the Kings Men. He played leads in Fury at Showdown, and as Robin Hood in Rogues of Sherwood Forest with Alan Hale and he also appeared as Joshua in The Ten Commandments. But he found himself featured increasingly as a hero or villain in a string of unimpressive B-movies—crime melodramas, westerns, pirate pictures, dissatisfied with his career as an actor, Derek turned to film directing. He directed his second wife Ursula Andress in two films, and third wife Linda Evans in one and he also worked as a director of four films with fourth wife, Bo Derek including Tarzan, the Ape Man and Bolero. Ghosts Cant Do It was his last in the directors chair, an accomplished photographer, Derek photographed the last three of his four wives for nude spreads in Playboy magazine. Derek directed the videos for Shania Twains Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under. Derek married Turkish-born prima ballerina Pati Behrs Eristoff in 1948, Derek walked out on his wife and family in 1955 after meeting 19-year-old aspiring Swiss actress Ursula Andress, who spoke almost no English when they met. In 1957, after finalizing his divorce from Behrs, he married Andress in a quickie Las Vegas ceremony and they married in Mexico in 1968, with Sean as a witness. In 1973 Derek, Evans and 16-year-old high school dropout Mary Cathleen Collins traveled to the Greek island of Mykonos to make the film And Once Upon a Time, during filming, Derek and Collins began an affair. Evans returned to the states and filed for divorce in 1974, Collins became known to the public as Bo Derek following their marriage on June 10,1976 in Las Vegas and achieved international fame in 1979 with her role in the Blake Edwards film 10. The couple remained together until John died in 1998, John Derek died on May 22,1998, from cardiovascular disease in Santa Maria, California at the age of 71. Rhythm, Frankie Laine Screen Snapshots, Hollywoods Mr. Movies Screen Snapshots, a Girl Childish Things Love You Fantasies Tarzan, the Ape Man Bolero Ghosts Cant Do It John Derek at the Internet Movie Database John Derek at Find a Grave
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John Corbett
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John Joseph Corbett is an American actor and country music singer. He also played the male role opposite Nia Vardalos in Vardaloss film. He starred in United States of Tara as Max Gregson, and has appeared on NBC dramedy Parenthood as Seth Holt. Corbett started his career in television commercials, and in recent years, he has done TV and radio voiceovers for Applebees Restaurants and Walgreens drug stores. Aside from acting, Corbett has recorded and released two music albums. Corbett was born on May 9,1961 in Wheeling, West Virginia and he grew up in an apartment block near the Ohio River in West Virginia, with his mother, a waitress who worked in his uncles music club. His mother was of part Russian Jewish descent, though Corbett was raised Catholic and he attended Wheeling Central Catholic High School, where he graduated in 1979. He started playing the guitar at age seven, and at 16 he had a job as a security guard at the Capitol Music Hall, following his graduation from high school, Corbett moved to California and worked in a steel factory for six years. During his time as a boilermaker in the factory, Corbett spent a year training to become an L. A, county Deputy Sheriff, but ultimately failed. He stopped working at the factory when he got injured, and went to Cerritos College in Norwalk, there he took acting classes, and studied hair dressing, for a year. Corbett said, I went to school by day and studied theatre at night. He is a hair stylist since 1986. He then landed a Samsung commercial, and after three years he had starred in 50 national commercials, corbetts first major role was as the hippie boyfriend of Karen Arnold in season 1, episode 4, of The Wonder Years in 1988, but was credited as Jack Corbett. Corbett has co-starred in three television series to date, Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995, Sex and the City. Corbett played the role in two short-lived television series. The first was the 1997 sci-fi series, The Visitor, in which Corbett played Adam MacArthur, in 2003 he starred in his second series, Lucky, which was about a professional poker player, Michael Lucky Linkletter, living in Las Vegas. Corbett guest starred on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives as an administrator for two episodes in late-December 1995 and two episodes in early March 1996. Corbetts film credits include Tombstone, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Raising Helen, Dreamland and The Messengers
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Americans
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Americans are citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, although citizens make up the majority of Americans, non-citizen residents, dual citizens, and expatriates may also claim an American identity. See Names for United States citizens. S, virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands in the 20th century. It also includes influences of African-American culture, westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico. Large-scale immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Southern and Eastern Europe introduced a variety of elements, immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America has also had impact. A cultural melting pot, or pluralistic salad bowl, describes the way in which generations of Americans have celebrated and exchanged distinctive cultural characteristics, in addition to the United States, Americans and people of American descent can be found internationally. As many as seven million Americans are estimated to be living abroad, the United States of America is a diverse country, racially, and ethnically. Some other race is also an option in the census and other surveys, people of European descent, or White Americans, constitute the majority of the 308 million people living in the United States, with 72. 4% of the population in the 2010 United States Census. They are considered people who trace their ancestry to the peoples of Europe, the Middle East. Of those reporting to be White American,7,487,133 reported to be Multiracial, with largest combination being white, additionally, there are 29,184,290 White Hispanics or Latinos. Non-Hispanic Whites are the majority in 46 states, there are four minority-majority states, California, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii. In addition, the District of Columbia has a non-white majority, the state with the highest percentage of non-Hispanic White Americans is Maine. The largest continental ancestral group of Americans are that of Europeans who have origins in any of the peoples of Europe. This includes people via African, North American, Caribbean, Central American or South American and Oceanian nations that have a large European diaspora, the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, San Agustín, La Florida, was the first person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare born 1587 Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. 8% of the total population, Hispanic or Latino Americans constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States. They form the second largest group after non-Hispanic Whites in the United States, hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Ghosts Can't Do It
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Ghosts Cant Do It is a 1989 American romantic crime fantasy comedy film written and directed by John Derek, and starring Bo Derek and Anthony Quinn. The film was shot in 1989 and released on video the same year in Australia. In the United States, the received a theatrical release in 1990. It was panned by critics and won the 1990 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, Scott and Kate are happily married despite their 30-year age difference. After Scott suffers an attack and is unable to make love, he commits suicide and becomes a ghost that only Kate can see. To make it possible for Scott to return as a human, Bo Derek as Katie Scott Anthony Quinn as Scott Leo Damian as Fausto Julie Newmar as Angel Don Murray as Winston Donald Trump as himself The reception was extremely negative. Ghosts Cant Do It at the Internet Movie Database
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Hobie Cat
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The Hobie Cat is a small sailing catamaran manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company. Hobies line of ranges from surfboards to catamaran sailboats to kayaks and stand-up paddle boards. Hobie also designed a very successful monohull, the Hobie 33, the company founder, Hobart Alter, began as a surfboard manufacturer in the late 1950s. According to another source, Alters focus changed in 1961 to designing an easily beached fibreglass catamaran. The impetus of this shift is attributed to a 1961 boat show in Anaheim, CA which placed Alter in a booth selling surfboards, next to Art Javes and that sailboat featured lightweight fibreglass hulls with an aluminium tube structure supporting a trampoline style deck for seating. The AQUA CAT catamaran did well in water, but relied on dagger boards to reduce slippage sidewise under sail. Dagger boards were used by the much heavier Pacific Cat from 1960. That design featured a solid fibreglass deck on a 19 x 8 boat, following the 1961 boat show, Alter contacted Arthur Art Javes, designer of the AQUA CAT to tell him he was also entering the fledgling catamaran market. This design was more readily beached than the AQUA CAT or Pacific Cat, from 1967 on, the new Hobie Cat Company went on to become the largest manufacturer of small catamarans in the world. In 1967, Alter designed the Hobie 14 Catamaran, Alter wanted to make a boat that could be easily launched into the surf. In 1969, Hobie released the Hobie 16, the most popular catamaran ever, over 135,000 Hobie 16 Cats are sailing around the world. Different catamaran models range from 10 feet in length to 21 feet, age target was 12 to 14 years. Double trapeze and spinnaker option to introduce sailors to high performance. Length,1210, Beam,71, Mast Length,21, Sail Area,118 sq ft. Main plus Jib, the Hobie 14 was the original catamaran designed by Hobie Alter. The general shape and design of the boat is similar to the later Hobie 16. They share many of the same parts, the 14 was originally designed to be sailed as a unirig with just a main sail. It is possible to convert a standard 14 into a Hobie 14 Turbo, also known as the JT14, or H14T by adding a jib, trapeze and dolphin striker. No longer manufactured by Hobie North America, the Hobie 14 is still produced in limited numbers by Hobie Europe, the Hobie 14 is known for its forward mast and very bent banana shaped hull
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Ann-Margret
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Ann-Margret is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. As an actress, she is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, Tommy, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards, in 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. Her singing and acting careers span five decades, starting in 1961, initially and she had a minor hit in 1961 and a charting album in 1964, and scored a disco hit in 1979. In 2001, she recorded a critically acclaimed album. Ann-Margret was born in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, the daughter of Anna Regina and Carl Gustav Olsson and she later described Valsjöbyn as a small town of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle. Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife. Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946 and they settled just outside Chicago, in Wilmette, Illinois. Her parents were supportive, her mother all her costumes. Ann-Margrets mother became a funeral parlor receptionist after her husband suffered an injury on his job. While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B, sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeills Breakfast Club, and Ted Macks Amateur Hour. While she attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1959, she enrolled at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, but did not graduate. As part of a known as the Suttletones, she performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub. They then moved on to Los Angeles, and through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno, the group finally arrived at the Dunes in Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Al Hirt at that time. George Burns heard of her performance, and she auditioned for his holiday show, in which Burns. Variety proclaimed, George Burns has a mine in Ann-Margret. She has a style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status. Ann-Margret began recording for RCA Victor in 1961 and she scored the minor hit I Just Dont Understand, which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at number 17
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Stunt performer
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A stunt performer, often referred to as a stuntman, stuntwoman, or daredevil, is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career. A stuntman typically performs stunts intended for use in a picture or dramatized television. Stunts seen in films and television include car crashes, falls from height, drags. There is an inherent risk in the performance of all stunt work, the most risk exists when performing stunts in front of a live audience. In filmed performances, visible safety mechanisms can be removed by editing, in live performances the audience can see more clearly if the performer is genuinely doing what they claim or appear to do. To reduce the risk of injury or death, most often stunts are choreographed or mechanically-rigged so that, while they look dangerous, despite their well-choreographed appearance, stunts are still very dangerous and physically testing exercises. From its inception as a skill in the early 1900s to the 1960s. This allows them to break down and plan an action sequence, physically prepare themselves. However, even when executed perfectly, there is still strain, daredevils are distinct from stunt performers and stunt doubles, their performance is of the stunt itself, without the context of a film or television show. Daredevils often perform for an audience, live stunt performers include escape artists, sword swallowers, glass walkers, fire eaters, trapeze artists, and many other sideshow and circus arts. They also include motorcycle display teams and the once popular Wall of Death, the Jackass films and television series are well-known and prominent recorded examples of the act in modern cinematography. Some people, such as Buster Keaton, Harry Houdini, Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Pawan Kalyan, Tony Jaa, the earliest stunt performers were travelling entertainers and circus performers, particularly trained gymnasts and acrobats. This acrobatic discipline required long training in the ring and perfect body control to present a performance to the public. The word stunt was more formally adopted during the 19th century travelling vaudeville performances of the early Wild West Shows, in North America, the first and prototypical wild west show was Buffalo Bills, formed in 1883 and lasting until 1913. The shows which involved simulated battles with the firing of both guns and arrows, were a romanticized version of the American Old West. Egerton Castle and Captain Alfred Hutton were part of a wider Victorian era group based in London, by the early 1900s, the motion picture industry was starting to fire-up on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, but had no need for professional stunt performers. Firstly, motion pictures were so new that even if the producer had a budget for performers, there were more than enough applicants willing to do the scene for free. For instance, if you needed a shot of someone on a steel beam 1,000 feet up on a New York skyscraper, then there was always willing to do the scene for real
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Narbonne High School
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Nathaniel Narbonne High School is a school located at 24300 South Western Avenue, in the Harbor City area of Los Angeles, California. Narbonne serves grades 9 through 12 and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Narbonne serves the Harbor City area and the city of Lomita. The school was named for Nathaniel A. Narbonne, a sheep rancher, the original building, from when Narbonne covered 7th through 12 grades, is in Lomita, and is now Alexander Fleming Middle School. In 1957 the new school was built on the present site at 242nd Place, the school motto is Domus Victorum which means Home of the Victors. Narbonnes colors are green and gold, the schools mascot is the Gaucho, which is often regarded as an Argentinian cowboy. The official fight song for the school is Onward Narbonne. Which is a variation of On, Wisconsin, – the official state song of Wisconsin as well as the fight song of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As of the school year 2010–11, there were a total of 3,486 students attending the high school, the incident is referred to in the track The Last Stand of Shazeb Andleeb on the 1996 album The Cult of Ray by Frank Black aka Black Francis. James Lesure—actor For Your Love, Las Vegas, Mr. Sunshine, Men at Work, Uncle Buck, jeff Dedmon – Former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves from 1983 to 1987 and the Cleveland Indians in 1988. Antwan Applewhite – NFL Linebacker, Carolina Panthers, Class of 2003 Nnamdi Asomugha – NFL All-Pro Cornerback, Philadelphia Eagles, spouse of American actress Kerry Washington. Marc Brown – Television News Anchor, KABC-TV Los Angeles Bobby Brooks - professional baseball player, played for the Oakland Athletics, also a reporter for NBC10 News Philadelphia, Class of 1992 Stephen L. D. Navy, NFL3 Seasons 1954–1956 Washington Frank Black – Musician, Pixies lead singer Bo Derek – Movie actress, rick Griffin – Artist and illustrator Amir Johnson – NBA Forward for the Toronto Raptors. Graduated from Westchester High School in Los Angeles, California and entered the NBA draft upon graduation and he was chosen 56th overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 2005 NBA Draft. Bill Sharman – NBA 8-time All-Star and 4-time champion with the Boston Celtics, head Coach, Los Angeles Lakers 1971–76, NBA Champions 1972, including the longest winning streak in NBA history and the history of American major professional team sports. Bill Stits – UCLA, NFL8 seasons 1954–1961, Detroit, SF, Washington, quentin Tarantino – Film director, actor. Douglas Christopher Judge - actor, played Tealc in television series Stargate SG-1, Narbonne has been a filming location for the following movies, Trippin aka Gs Trippin Narbonne High School Narbonne High School Historical Society Narbonne Alumni
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Harbor City, Los Angeles
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Harbor City is a highly diverse neighborhood within the Los Angeles Harbor Region of Los Angeles, California, with a population upward of 36,000 people. The area includes two schools and seven other schools, as well as the Ken Malloy Harbor Regional. There is a Kaiser Permanente Hospital as well, Harbor Citys percentage of high school graduates is larger than the citys as a whole. Population was estimated at 36,040 in 2008, the median age was 40, also average for Los Angeles. The percentages of people from birth through age 34 were among the countys highest, the percentage of widowed men was among the countys highest. Harbor City is considered highly diverse ethnically, with a diversity index of 0.674, in 2000 Latinos made up 48. 1% of the population, whites were at 25. 1%, Asians at 14. 1%, blacks at 10. 7% and others at 2%. The $55,454 median household income in 2008 dollars was average for the city, renters occupied 54. 4% of the housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest. The Los Angeles Basin was the land of the Tongva-Gabrieliño Native Americans for thousands of years. In other areas of the Los Angeles Basin archeological sites date back 8,000 to 15,000 years and their first contact with Europeans was in 1542 with João Cabrilho, the Portuguese explorer who also was the first to write of them. Shwaanga, a very large Tongva settlement in the Harbor area, was also a point for rancherias on the Channel Islands. The water at Machado Lake was so clean that it used to be called Sweet Water, the Tongva lived in a virtual paradise for thousands of years, with good weather, an abundance of food and water, and plenty of resources. In 1542, the Spanish arrived in the Catalina and San Pedro harbor areas, Harbor City was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, granted by the Spanish Empire in 1784 by King Carlos III to Juan Jose Dominguez. The rancho was divided and sold by Californios during the Spanish, after the Mexican-American war ended in 1848, many of the rancho lands were acquired by American settlers. Harbor City stands as a testament to the designs of the Anglo-American creators of the modern metropolis of Los Angeles. By around the start of the 20th century, city leaders had decided that it would be in the best interests of the city if the port, the independent cities of San Pedro and Wilmington were then-independent establishments of what would become the Port of Los Angeles. City leaders then threatened to build a new port in Harbor City if the recalcitrant towns would not acquiesce to annexation. In return, the city of Los Angeles elected to keep Harbor City as a part of the main city. Harbor City hosts a hospital and various buildings in the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, located along Pacific Coast Highway
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Linda Evans
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Linda Evans is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. In the 1960s, she gained notice for playing Audra Barkley, however, she is most prominently known for the role of Krystle Carrington, the devoted wife of Blake Carrington in the 1980s ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989. Evans, the second of three daughters, was born Linda Evenstad in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1942, to Arlene and Alba Evenstad, both of whom were professional dancers. Evenstad was the name of the farm in Nes, Hedmark in Norway from where her paternal great-grandmother emigrated to the United States in 1884 with her young son. When Evans was six months old, the family moved from Hartford to North Hollywood and she attended Hollywood High School, where she was a sorority sister of future actress Carole Wells. Her introduction to drama came through classes that she took as a form of therapy, when she started her professional career, she changed her last name to Evans. Evanss first guest-starring role was on a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father and she would co-star with him 20 years later on Dynasty. Playing Audra Barkley, daughter of Victoria Barkley, Evans was credited in the series until it ended in 1969 and it was Evans who captured the iconic images of Knievels devastating crash as the jump failed. Throughout the 1970s, Evans continued to appear on television largely in guest roles and she appeared in a slew of detective shows such as The Rockford Files, Mannix, Harry O, Banacek, McCloud and McMillan & Wife. In 1977, she starred with James Franciscus and Ralph Bellamy in the drama series Hunter. In films, Evans co-starred with Lee Marvin and Robert Shaw in a 1979 thriller, Avalanche Express, and in 1980 she co-starred in one of Steve McQueens final films, then came her breakthrough role in television. In 1980, Evans was cast as John Forsythes wife, Krystle Carrington, in Aaron Spellings opulent new primetime soap opera, intended as ABC Televisions answer to the hit CBS series Dallas, the show first aired in January 1981. By the 1984-85 season, Dynasty was the one show on American television. Audiences became enthralled by the rivalry and infamous catfights between Krystle and Alexis, and Evans and Collins became two of the most celebrated television stars of the decade. Evans was nominated five times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama series, due to her characters name on Dynasty, Evans appeared in an ad campaign for Crystal Light beverages, starting in 1984. She left Dynasty in 1989, four months before the series came to an end, after leaving Dynasty, Evans semi-retired from acting and made only occasional television appearances. Instead, she devoted her time to issues and set up a small chain of fitness centers. In the 1990s, Evans hosted infomercials for Rejuvenique, a mask for toning facial muscles and she had previously written the Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise book in 1983
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Statutory rape
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Statutory rape is sexual activity in which one of the individuals is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior in some common law jurisdictions. In statutory rape, overt force or threat is not present. Statutory rape laws presume coercion, because a minor or mentally handicapped adult is legally incapable of giving consent to the act, the term statutory rape generally refers to sex between an adult and a sexually mature minor past the age of puberty. Sexual relations with a prepubescent child, generically called child abuse or molestation, is typically treated as a more serious crime. In many jurisdictions, the age of consent is interpreted to mean mental or functional age, as a result, victims can be of any chronological age if their mental age makes them unable to consent to a sexual act. Other jurisdictions, such as Kentucky, eliminate the concept of mental age. Consensual teenage sex is common in the United States, a 1995 study revealed that 50% of U. S. teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the age of sixteen. In fact, it is estimated there are more than 7 million incidents of statutory rape every year. However, it is clear that most incidents are not prosecuted and do not lead to arrests, laws vary in their definitions of statutory rape. It is generally intended to punish heinous cases of an adult taking sexual advantage of a minor, thus, many jurisdictions prohibit allowing a juvenile to be tried as an adult under this law. Some jurisdictions also specify a difference in age in order for the offense to be applicable. Under such terms, if the adult is, for instance and these are called Romeo and Juliet clauses. Statutory rape laws are based on the premise that an individual is legally incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse until that person reaches a certain age, the law mandates that even if he or she willingly engages in sexual intercourse, the sex is not legally consensual. Another rationale comes from the fact that minors are generally economically, socially, by making it illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor, statutory rape laws aim to give the minor some protection against adults in a position of power over the youth. Another argument presented in defense of statutory rape laws relates to the difficulty in prosecuting rape in the courtroom, because forced sexual intercourse with a minor is considered a particularly heinous form of rape, these laws relieve the prosecution of the burden to prove lack of consent. This makes conviction more frequent in cases involving minors, the original purpose of statutory rape laws was to protect young, unwed females from males who might impregnate them and not take responsibility by providing support for the child. In the past, the solution to problems was often a shotgun wedding. This rationale aims to preserve the marriageability of the girl and to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy, historically, a man could defend himself against statutory rape charges by proving that his victim was already sexually experienced prior to their encounter
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Fantasies (film)
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Fantasies is a 1981 R-rated English language drama film produced in Germany. Directed by John Derek, the film starred his wife Kathleen Collins, co-stars included Peter Hooten, Anna Alexiadi, Faidon Georgitsis, Nikos Pashalidis, and Kostas Baladimas. Fantasies was filmed and produced on an extremely low-budget in Greece in 1973, filming lasted just over ten days. The film was not released until 1981, two years after Bo Derek had already become a movie fantasy girl and international star after her performance in the comedy 10. Director Derek and the underage Collins began an affair during filming and were married soon after her seventeenth birthday not too long after filming was completed. After their marriage, Kathleen Collins became internationally known as Bo Derek
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Michael Anderson (director)
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He was born in London, England, to a theatrical family. His parents were the actors Lawrence and Beatrice Anderson and his great-aunt was Mary Anderson of Louisville, Kentucky, who became one of the first American Shakespearian actresses, the Mary Anderson Theatre in Louisville was dedicated to her. He directed the first cinema adaptation of George Orwells 1984 and Around the World in 80 Days, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and he also directed the 1968 film The Shoes of the Fisherman starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. He settled in Hollywood, making science fiction offerings as Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze. Logans Run was an expensive box-office success, contributing a box office of $50 million worldwide and boosting sales for its distributor, andersons later work was mostly made-for-television miniseries, including The Martian Chronicles, Sword of Gideon and Young Catherine. In 1988, he directed Bottega dellorefice, based on the 1960 play written by Karol Wojtyła, other films he has directed include All the Fine Young Cannibals, Flight from Ashiya, The Quiller Memorandum, Yangtse Incident and a film adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming. He is fluent in French, Italian, and German, in 2012, Michael Anderson received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of Canada. Anderson is currently the oldest living nominee for an Academy Award for Best Director, and his son Michael Anderson, Jr. is an actor who appeared in Logans Run, another son, David Anderson, is a film producer. Private Angelo Waterfront Women Hell Is Sold Out Night Was Our Friend Will Any Gentleman, the House of the Arrow The Dam Busters 1984 Around the World in 80 Days Yangtse Incident, The Story of H. M. S. The project was cancelled during pre-production after promotional material was printed and published in magazines such as Variety
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Orca (film)
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Orca is a 1977 American adventure horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, and Will Sampson. It is based on Arthur Herzogs novel of the same name, the film follows a male orca whale tracking down and getting revenge on a captain for killing the whales pregnant mate. Reception towards the film was unfavorable by critics and audiences alike to due to its similarities to Jaws at the time, upon release the film received only minor theatrical success, but in recent years the film has achieved a cult following among fans of the natural horror subgenre. Captain Nolan is an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, Nolans crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken is targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, saving Ken and this switches Nolans target to the orca. While Nolan is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a bull orca, Nolan and his crew get the orca on board, where she subsequently miscarries. The captain hoses the dead fetus overboard as the male orca looks on screaming, seeking release of his near-dead mate, the male orca tries to sink the ship. One of Nolans crew members, Novak, cuts the female off the ship, the following day, the orca pushes his now dead mate onto shore. Alan Swain berates Nolan on his actions after finding the dead whale, Nolan denies responsibility, but Swain and the villagers eventually find out his involvement. The villagers insist that he kill the orca, as his presence is causing the fish vital to the economy to migrate. The orca then terrorises the village by sinking fishing boats in broad daylight and then breaking fuel lines, thus destroying the villages fuel reserves. Dr. Rachel Bedford, a colleague of Ken and an expert, shows him how similar whales are to humans and tells Nolan that, If he is like a human. Nolan confesses to Bedford that he empathises with the whale, as his own wife, Nolan promises Bedford not to fight the whale, but the orca attacks his sea-front house, containing an injured crew member of Nolans, Annie within it. The house starts slipping into the sea and the whale bites Annies left leg off, Nolan decides to fight the orca, although with Novak dead and Annie maimed for life, Nolan and Paul are now the only crew members left. Bedford and Ken join the pursuit, along with a Native American man, Jacob Umilak, the crew begins to follow the whale after he signals Nolan to follow him. Ken is leaning over the side when the whale surfaces and grabs him and they follow the whale until they reach the Strait of Belle Isle, though when Paul starts to get into a lifeboat, the maddened orca knocks Paul out of the boat and drowns him. The next day, the whale shoves an iceberg into the boat, the orca separates the icebergs, trapping Nolan. The whale jumps onto the ice, causing it to tilt, the whale lifts Nolan up with his tail and throws him onto another iceberg, killing him
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Melanie Griffith
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Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penns Night Moves. She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palmas Body Double, other roles include in John Schlesingers Pacific Heights, Milk Money, the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls, as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lynes Lolita, and Another Day in Paradise. She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day, and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, Griffith was born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive. She is of Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English descent and her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall. During her childhood and adolescent years, she lived part of the time in New York with her father and part-time in Antelope Valley, California, Griffith appeared in advertisements and briefly worked as a child model before abandoning the career, citing extreme shyness as the reason. While attending the Hollywood Professional School, Griffith was advanced in her studies, Griffith began acting at nine months of age in a commercial and later appeared as an extra in Smith. Her first major role was in Arthur Penns Night Moves, in which she did several racy nude scenes at the age of 17 and this drew attention to her and typecast her as a nymphet in films such as Smile, The Drowning Pool, and One on One. She was cast as Melanie, the daughter of her real mother, Tippi Hedren, in the film Roar. During the filming she was attacked by a lion and had 50 stitches to her face, it was feared she would lose an eye but in the end the wound was not disfiguring. She then appeared in the made-for-television movie Shes in the Army Now with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Bauer, whom she married shortly after the film premiered. Griffiths well-known drug and alcohol addictions stalled her career, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as an actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double. The film, although a failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. It led to her first starring role in Jonathan Demmes Something Wild, Griffith also starred in the science fiction film Cherry 2000, which went straight to video in 1988 but has also become a cult favorite. Griffiths performance was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Griffiths next major role was opposite Matthew Modine in the urban thriller Pacific Heights. Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls, in 1998 she appeared in Woody Allens Celebrity which featured an all-star cast. Later that year, she starred as a heroin user in the independent film Another Day in Paradise
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Heather Thomas
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Heather Anne Thomas is an American actress, screenwriter, author and political activist, who co-starred as Jody Banks on the TV series The Fall Guy. Thomas was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Gladdy Lou Ryder and she graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1975 and went on to attend UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, graduating in 1980. While at UCLA, she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority, Thomas started acting at age 14, when she was one of the hosts of a series on NBC called Talking with a Giant, where she interviewed celebrities. In 1978 she began acting in television roles, she appeared in the series Co-Ed Fever, of which she later said. Unfortunately, Thomas developed a cocaine addiction during her run in the program and she appeared in several movies, the first of which was Zapped. in 1982, but she gave up acting in 1998. Thomas appeared on numerous pin-up posters during the 1980s, following her acting career, Thomas wrote a screenplay called School Slut and sold it to Touchstone Pictures for a figure reported as mid-six-figure. Touchstone did not make the film, however, and Thomas acquired the rights to produce it herself, in April 2008, Thomass first novel, Trophies, was published by William Morrow. Harrison Ford described it as having made me laugh out loud, Heather Thomas has written a stiletto heel-sharp satiric romp. ”Thomas married Allan Rosenthal in August 1985, Rosenthal is one of the founders of Cocaine Anonymous, they divorced in September 1986. Thomas then married entertainment attorney Skip Brittenham in October 1992 and their daughter, whom they named India Rose, was born on June 19,2000. Thomas serves on the boards of The Rape Foundation and Amazon Conservation Team. In September 1986, Thomas was struck by a car while crossing San Vicente Boulevard, Heather Thomas at the Internet Movie Database Heather Thomas at Harper Collins
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Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television. His best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffanys, Days of Wine and Roses,10, Victor/Victoria, often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, in 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he was the son of Donald and his father reportedly left the family before he was born. His mother married again, to Jack McEdwards, who became his stepfather, McEdwards was the son of J. Gordon Edwards, a director of silent movies, and in 1925, he moved the family to Los Angeles and became a film production manager. In an interview with the Village Voice in 1971, Blake Edwards said that he had felt alienated, estranged from my own father. After attending grammar and high school in Los Angeles, Blake began taking jobs as an actor during World War II, Edwards describes this period, I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them. But I wasnt a very cooperative actor, I was a spunky, smart-assed kid. Maybe even then I was indicating that I wanted to give, not take, Edwards served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, where he suffered a severe back injury, which left him in pain for years afterwards. Edwards debut as a director came in 1952 on the television program Four Star Playhouse, Edwardss hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBCs answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, reflecting Edwardss unique humor. Edwards also created, wrote, and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, in the same year, Edwards produced, with Mancinis musical theme, Mr. Lucky, an adventure series on CBS starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin. Mancinis association with Edwards continued in his work, significantly contributing to their success. Operation Petticoat Operation Petticoat was Edwardss first big-budget movie as a director, the film, which starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, became the greatest box-office success of the decade for Universal, and made Edwards a recognized director. Breakfast at Tiffanys Breakfast at Tiffanys, based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a figure with many critics. Andrew Sarris called it the surprise of 1961, and it became a romantic touchstone for college students in the early 1960s. Days of Wine and Roses Days of Wine And Roses, a psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon. It has been described as perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, the film gave another major boost to Edwardss reputation as an important director
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Dudley Moore
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Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. The double act worked on other projects until the mid-1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acting. His solo career as a film actor was heightened by the success of hit Hollywood films, particularly Foul Play,10. For the latter film, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and he received a second Golden Globe for his performance in Micki & Maude. Moore was born at the original Charing Cross Hospital in central London, the son of Ada Francis, a secretary, and John Moore and his father was Scottish, from Glasgow. His mother stated that Dudley was 1/8th Jewish, Moore was brought up in Dagenham, Essex. He was notably short at 5 ft 2 in and was born with club feet that required hospital treatment and, coupled with his diminutive stature. This was something he remained very self-conscious of throughout his life, Moore became a choirboy at the age of six. At age eleven he earned a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and he rapidly developed into a highly talented pianist and organist and was playing the pipe organ at local church weddings by the age of 14. Moores musical talent won him a scholarship to Magdalen College. While studying music and composition there, he performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue. During his university years, Moore had developed a love of music and soon became an accomplished jazz pianist. He began working with leading musicians as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. In 1960, he left Dankworths band to work on Beyond the Fringe, Moore then recommended Bennett, who in turn suggested Peter Cook. Beyond the Fringe was at the forefront of the 1960s UK satire boom, although the original runs in Edinburgh. There were also a number of items in the show, using Dudley Moores music. In 1962, the transferred to the John Golden Theatre in New York. President John F. Kennedy attended a performance on 10 February 1963, the show continued in New York until 1964
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A Change of Seasons (film)
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A Change of Seasons is a 1980 American dramedy film directed by Richard Lang. It stars Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and Bo Derek, adam is infuriated when he learns about his wifes new relationship, and she in turn defends her right to enjoy the same carnal pleasures he does. The film was shot on location in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and Williamstown, Hopkins and MacLaine famously did not get along during the filming and Hopkins said “she was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with. The theme song Where Do You Catch The Bus For Tomorrow, was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Henry Mancini and performed by Kenny Rankin. Originally, Noel Black was hired to direct after producer Martin Ransohoff saw his film, A Man, a Woman, Black left the film during shooting due to creative differences. He was replaced by Richard Lang, Black shot the first half of the film only. Consenting Adults was the working title. A Change of Seasons does prove one thing, though, a farce about characters whove been freed of their conventional obligations quickly becomes aimless. Variety observed, It would take the genius of an Ernst Lubitsch to do justice to the tangled relationships in A Change of Seasons. The switching of couples seems arbitrary and mechanical, and more sour than amusing, the film is rated M in New Zealand, Suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over. 1st Golden Raspberry Award Nominated, Worst Actor Nominated, Worst Original Song - For the song, Where Do You Catch the Bus Tomorrow. Nominated, Worst Screenplay - Erich Segal, Ronni Kern, Fred Segal A Change of Seasons at the Internet Movie Database A Change of Seasons at AllMovie A Change of Seasons at the TCM Movie Database
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Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She is known for her New Age beliefs, and has an interest in spirituality and she has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs, document her world travels, and describe her Hollywood career. She has also won five competitive Golden Globe Awards and received the Golden Globe Cecil B, deMille Award at the 1998 ceremony. Named after Shirley Temple, Shirley MacLean Beaty was born in Richmond, MacLaines younger brother is the actor, writer and director Warren Beatty, he changed the spelling of his surname when he became an actor. Their parents raised them as Baptists and her uncle was A. A. MacLeod, a Communist member of the Ontario legislature in the 1940s. MacLaine played baseball in a team, holding the record for most home runs which earned her the nickname Powerhouse. During the 1950s, the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. As a toddler she had weak ankles and would fall over with the slightest misstep and this was the beginning of her interest in performing. Strongly motivated by ballet, she never missed a class, in classical romantic pieces like Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty, she always played the boys roles due to being the tallest in the group and the absence of males in the class. Ultimately she decided against making a career of professional ballet because she had grown too tall and was unable to acquire perfect technique and she explained that she didnt have the ideal body type, lacking the requisite beautifully constructed feet of high arches, high insteps and a flexible ankle. Also slowly realizing ballets propensity to be too all-consuming, and ultimately limiting, she moved on to forms of dancing, acting. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was on the cheerleading squad, the summer before her senior year, she went to New York City to try acting on Broadway, and had some success. After she graduated, she returned and within a year became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game, Haney broke her ankle, a few months after, with Haney still injured, film producer Hal B. Wallis saw MacLaines performance, and signed her to work for Paramount Pictures and she later sued Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that has been credited with ending the old-style studio star system of actor management. MacLaine made her debut in Alfred Hitchcocks The Trouble with Harry. This was quickly followed by her role in the Martin and Lewis film Artists, soon afterwards, she had a role in Around the World in 80 Days. This was followed by Hot Spell and a role in Some Came Running, for the latter film she gained her first Academy Award nomination. Her second Oscar nomination came two years later for The Apartment, starring with Jack Lemmon, the film won five Oscars, including Best Director for Billy Wilder
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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Playboy
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Playboy is an American mens lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. The magazine has a history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Haruki Murakami, the magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities. After a year-long removal of most nude photos in Playboy magazine and he formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors. Hefner eventually raised just over $8,000, including from his brother and mother. However, the publisher of a mens adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering Top Hat, Gentleman, Sir, Satyr, Pan, the first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen, the first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy. Hefner chose what he deemed the sexiest image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyns nudity on the calendar, together with the teasers in marketing. The first issue sold out in weeks, copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was serialized in the March, April, an urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979, the P in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing. From 1966 to 1976, Robie Macauley was the Fiction Editor at Playboy, P. Donleavy, as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Macauley also contributed all of the popular Ribald Classics series published between January 1978 and March 1984, christie Hefner, daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in 1975 and became head of the company in 1988
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California and it is one of the worlds oldest film studios. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, over the next thirty-nine years, the studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3,2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MGM, is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1966, MGM was sold to Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman Sr. whose son Edgar Jr. would later buy Universal Studios, the studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists. Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and a film library when he bought United Artists in 1981. MGM ramped up production, as well as keeping production going at UA. It also incurred significant amounts of debt to increase production, the studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM, but a few later, sold the company back to Kerkorian to recoup massive debt. The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt, MGM was bought by Pathé Communications in 1990, but Parretti lost control of Pathé and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio. The French banking conglomerate Crédit Lyonnais, the major creditor. Even more deeply in debt, MGM was purchased by a joint venture between Kerkorian, producer Frank Mancuso, and Australias Seven Network in 1996, the debt load from these and subsequent business deals negatively affected MGMs ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio. In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem and he had bought Metro Pictures Corporation in 1919 for a steady supply of films for his large Loews Theatres chain. With Loews lackluster assortment of Metro films, Loew purchased Goldwyn Pictures in 1924 to improve the quality, however, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York headquarters to oversee the 150 theaters. Mayer, Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 17,1924, Mayer became head of the renamed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Irving Thalberg as head of production. MGM produced more than 100 feature films in its first two years, in 1925, MGM released the extravagant and successful Ben-Hur, taking a $4.7 million profit that year, its first full year. Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loews passed to Nicholas Schenck, in 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew familys holdings with Schencks assent. Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision, Mayer was active in the California Republican Party and used his political connections to persuade the Justice Department to delay final approval of the deal on antitrust grounds
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Jane Porter (Tarzan)
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Jane Porter is a major character in Edgar Rice Burroughss series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film. Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q. Porter and she becomes the love interest and later the wife of Tarzan, and subsequently the mother of their son Korak. Jane also appeared in a role in the non-Tarzan novel The Eternal Lover. Maxwells novel is a adaptation of the original story, contradicting it on numerous points of the story. Early Tarzan films portrayed Jane Porter and her father faithfully to the portrayal in the novels, in addition, the name of Janes father in the first film is James Parker. Remakes of the 1932 film, reprised this portrayal as well as that of her father, maureen OSullivan, who portrayed Jane Parker opposite Johnny Weissmuller in the 1932 film and its first few sequels, was the most famous screen Jane. In more recent Tarzan films, starting with Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, the character is once again Jane Porter, Porter, and both once again Americans. Tarzan the Mighty, starring Frank Merrill, natalie Kingston portrays Mary Trevor, who becomes Tarzans mate at films end. A year later Kingston portrayed Jane to Merrills Tarzan in Tarzan the Tiger, Tarzan the Fearless, starring Buster Crabbe. Jacqueline Wells portrays Mary Brooks, who becomes Tarzans mate at films end, Eleanor Holm portrays Eleanor Reed, who becomes Tarzans mate at films end. Producer Sol Lesser nixed calling the character Jane as he felt Miss Holm was so popular for her swimming exploits that audiences would not accept her playing a character not named Eleanor, Tarzan and the Brown Prince, starring Steve Sipek. Kitty Swan portrays Irula, his mate, basically similar to Jane, during the filming of a torture scene, Sipek and Swan were tied to stakes when gasoline-soaked leaves ignited and both were seriously burned. The Jane character has appeared sporadically in the seven television series featuring Tarzan and she was omitted from the first Tarzan television series, Tarzan. Olivia dAbo took the role in the Disney animated series The Legend of Tarzan, the 2003 series Tarzan, set like Tarzan in Manhattan in New York City, casts Sarah Wayne Callies as NYPD detective Jane Porter
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United Artists
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United Artists is an American film and television entertainment studio. The studio was bought, sold and restructured over the ensuing century. On December 14 of the year, however, MGM acquired the 48% stake of UAMG it did not own. UA was incorporated as a joint venture on February 5,1919, by Pickford, Chaplin, Fairbanks, each held a 20% stake, with the remaining 20% held by lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo. The idea for the venture originated with Fairbanks, Chaplin, Pickford, already Hollywood veterans, the four stars talked of forming their own company to better control their own work. They were spurred on by established Hollywood producers and distributors who were tightening their control over salaries and creative decisions. With the addition of Griffith, planning began, but Hart bowed out before anything was formalized, when he heard about their scheme, Richard A. Rowland, head of Metro Pictures, is said to have observed, The inmates are taking over the asylum. The four partners, with advice from McAdoo, formed their distribution company and its headquarters was established at 729 Seventh Avenue in New York City. The original terms called for each of the stars to produce five pictures each year, UAs first film was a success. Without selling stock to the public, following the other studios, as a result, production was slow and the company distributed an annual average of five films during its first five years. By 1924 Griffith had dropped out and the company was facing a crisis, veteran producer Joseph Schenck was hired as president. He had been producing pictures for a decade, and he brought commitments for films starring his wife, Norma Talmadge, his sister-in-law, Constance Talmadge, contracts were signed with independent producers, most notably Samuel Goldwyn, and Howard Hughes. In 1933, Schenck organized a new company with Darryl F. Zanuck, called Twentieth Century Pictures, Schenck formed a separate partnership with Pickford and Chaplin to buy and build theaters under the United Artists name. They began international operations, first in Canada and then in Mexico, by the end of the 1930s, United Artists was represented in over 40 countries. When he was denied a share in 1935, Schenck resigned. He set up 20th Century Pictures merger with Fox Film Corporation to form 20th Century Fox, al Lichtman succeeded Schenck as company president. Other independent producers distributed through United Artists in the 1930s including, Walt Disney Productions, Alexander Korda, Hal Roach, David O. Selznick, as the years passed, and the dynamics of the business changed, these producing partners drifted away. Samuel Goldwyn Productions and Disney went to RKO, and Wanger to Universal Pictures, in the late 1930s, UA turned a profit
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on September 1,1875, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Major George Tyler Burroughs, a businessman and Civil War veteran. His middle name is from his grandmother, Mary Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was of almost entirely English ancestry, with a line that had been in North America since the early colonial era. Through his grandmother Mary Rice, he was descended from Edmund Rice and he once remarked, I can trace my ancestry back to Deacon Edmund Rice. The Burroughs side of the family was also of English origin, many of his ancestors fought in the American Revolution. He had other ancestors who settled in Virginia during the colonial period, Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools, and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year at his brothers ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He then attended Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy at West Point, he became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U. S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. After being diagnosed with a problem and thus ineligible to serve. After his discharge, Burroughs worked a number of different jobs and he drifted and worked on a ranch in Idaho. He found work at his fathers firm in 1899 and he married his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert, in January 1900. In 1904, he left his job and worked regularly, first in Idaho. By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, by this time, he and Emma had two children, Joan, who later married the Tarzan film actor James Pierce, and Hulbert. During this period, he had spare time and began reading pulp fiction magazines. In 1929 he recalled thinking that. if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, in 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs, later known for his illustrations of his fathers books. In the 1920s Burroughs became a pilot, purchased a Security Airster S-1, Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934, and in 1935 he married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, the former wife of his friend Ashton Dearholt. Burroughs adopted the Dearholts two children and he and Florence divorced in 1942. Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Faye Dunaway
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an American actress. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts, dunaway’s career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. Other notable films in which she has appeared include the drama Barfly, the surrealist comedy-drama Arizona Dream, the biopic Gia, protective of her private life, she rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April, a housewife and she is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent. She spent her childhood traveling throughout the United States and Europe, Dunaway took dance classes, tap, piano and singing, and then studied at Florida State University and University of Florida, and graduated from the Boston University with a degree in theatre. In 1962, at the age of 21, she took acting classes at the American National Theater, shortly after graduating from Boston University, Dunaway was already appearing on Broadway as a replacement in Robert Bolts drama A Man for All Seasons. She subsequently appeared in Arthur Millers After the Fall and the award-winning Hogans Goat by Harvard professor William Alfred, with the exception of my mother, my brother, and my beloved son, Bill Alfred has been without question the most important single figure in my lifetime. A teacher, a mentor, and I suppose the father I never had and he has taught me so much about the virtue of a simple life, about spirituality, about the purity of real beauty, and how to go at this messy business of life. Dunaways first screen role was the crime film The Happening. Her performance earned her good notices from critics, with Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times saying that she exhibits a real neat trick of resting her cheek on the back of her hand. That same year, she had a role in Otto Premingers drama Hurry Sundown. Filming proved to be difficult for Dunaway as she clashed with Preminger and she later described this experience as a psychodrama that left me feeling damaged at the end of each day. Dunaway had signed a deal with Preminger but decided during the filming to get her contract back. Beyond the movies I might have missed, it would have been a kind of Chinese water torture to have stuck in five more terrible movies. Its impossible to assess the damage that might have done to me early on in my career. The film was a critical and commercial failure but earned Dunaway a Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best New Star of the Year. Dunaway had tried to get an interview with director Arthur Penn when he was directing The Chase, but was rebuffed by a casting director who didnt think she had the right face for the movies. When Penn saw her scenes from The Happening before its release, he decided to let her read for the role of the bank robber Bonnie Parker for his film, Bonnie
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Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer and stage showgirl. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Beginning her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies, before debuting as a girl on Broadway. In the 1930s, Crawfords fame rivaled, and later outlasted, MGM colleagues Norma Shearer, Crawford often played hard-working young women who find romance and success. These stories were received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed, in 1955, Crawford became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors, following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life and became increasingly reclusive until her death in 1977. Her first three ended in divorce, the last ended with the death of husband Alfred Steele. She adopted five children, one of whom was reclaimed by his birth mother, Crawfords relationships with her two older children, Christina and Christopher, were acrimonious. Crawford disinherited the two, and, after Crawfords death, Christina wrote a well-known tell-all memoir titled Mommie Dearest, Crawfords remains are interred at the Ferncliff Cemetery, in Hartsdale, New York. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, on March 23, Crawfords birth year is disputed, with 1904,1905 and she was the youngest and third child of father Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer, and mother Anna Bell Johnson. Johnson was of English, French Huguenot, Swedish, and Irish ancestry, Crawfords elder siblings were sister Daisy LeSueur, who died before Lucilles birth, and brother Hal LeSueur. Crawfords father abandoned the family a few months before her birth, reappearing later in 1930 in Abilene, Texas, following LeSueurs departure from the family home, Crawfords mother married Henry J. Cassin. The marriage is listed in the census as Crawfords mothers first marriage, Crawford lived with her mother, stepfather, and siblings in Lawton, Oklahoma. There, Cassin, an impresario, ran the Ramsey Opera House and managed to book diverse. At that time, Crawford was reportedly unaware that Cassin, whom she called daddy, was not her father until her brother Hal told her the truth. Crawford preferred the nickname Billie as a child and enjoyed watching vaudeville acts perform on the stage of her stepfathers theatre, because the familys instability negatively affected Crawfords childhood, her schooling never formally progressed beyond elementary school
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Mommie Dearest (film)
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Mommie Dearest is a 1981 American biographical melodrama film which depicts the childhood of Christina Crawford and how she was abused as a little girl by her adoptive mother, actress Joan Crawford. Starring Faye Dunaway, Mara Hobel, and Diana Scarwid, the film was directed by Frank Perry. The story was adapted for the screen by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry, the executive producers were Christinas husband, David Koontz, and Terrence ONeill, Dunaways then-boyfriend and soon-to-be husband. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures, the one of the Big 8 film studios for which Crawford had never appeared in a feature film. The film was a success, grossing $39 million worldwide from a $5 million budget. Despite negative reviews from critics for its over-the-top performances and poor dialogue. Joan Crawford is an actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. When Helga, a new maid, thinks she has Joans living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minor detail that she overlooked, Joan is in a relationship with Hollywood lawyer Gregg Savitt, but her career is in a bit of a downswing. Despite desperately wanting a baby, she is unable to get pregnant, when she is denied an application for adoption, she enlists Greggs help to secure a baby. Joan adopts a girl whom she names Christina, and later a boy, Joan sometimes lavishes Christina with attention and luxuries such as an extravagant birthday party, but also enforces a very stern code of denial and discipline. When Christina is showered with gifts, Joan allows her to only one she likes best that she can keep. As Christina rebels against her mother, confrontations ensue, Joan overtakes Christina in a swimming-pool race and laughs at the child. Joan becomes enraged when Christina reacts with anger and locks her in the pool house, later, Joan discovers Christina wearing her makeup and imitating her. Joan resents Greggs allegiance to studio boss Louis B. Mayer, Joan guzzles down glasses of vodka and throws a drink in Greggs face after he tells her she is getting old. A physical altercation ensues and Gregg breaks up with Joan, the next day, Joan cuts Gregg out of the family photos. Enraged, she screams at the girl, waking her up in horror, then yanks dresses from Christinas closet, throwing them all over the girls room, afterwards, Joan wrecks the bathroom as well. Christopher offers to help but Christina tells him to return to his own bed as she fears Joan will kill her if she finds out, later, Joan sends Christina to the Chadwick School. Years later, when a teenage Christina is caught in a position with a boy
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Chandran Rutnam
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Chandran Rutnam is a Sri Lankan film maker and entrepreneur. Rutnam has hosted numerous Hollywood films for their shoots in Sri Lanka. He was the Line Producer/Production Supervisor on several productions including the Sri Lankan location shoot of Paramount Pictures Indiana Jones. Steven Spielberg once referred to Rutnam as Our most valued friend in the Far East, Rutnam has had the distinction of working with Sir David Lean, Sir Carol Reed, John Boorman, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Regis Wargnier. Rutnam wrote the screenplay, produced, directed and edited the film The Road from Elephant Pass and he wrote the adapted screenplay and produced and directed, A Common Man with Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross. The film was nominated for the four awards at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2013. The film won the Best Picture, Best Director and the Best Actor Awards in that year and he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Film Location Services which mostly hosts foreign films to be shot in South and South East Asia. He is the founder of Lionair, the once-popular Sri Lankan airline and owns the Asian Aviation Centre, Rutnam was born to a Tamil father Dr. James T. Rutnam and a Sinhala mother Evelyn Wijeratne, who gave him all his yearning for freedom and adventure. He lived in Los Angeles, California for 38 years and is now residing in Colombo and he is a brother of Jayam Rutnam, the founder of the Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California. Rutnam was a boy when David Lean arrived in Sri Lanka to shoot his Second World War epic. The film crew hired a house that belonged to his parents for the shooting, due to this exposure, to the consternation of his parents, he dropped out of school and went to London to pursue his dream of a career in films. He later moved to the United States and attended the school at the University of Southern California. Rutnam dreamt of conquering the field and masterminded Asian Aviation Centre. Lionair was established in October 1993 and started its operations on 24 October 1994, Lionair suspended its domestic services when an Antonov An-24 aircraft went missing shortly after it took off from Jaffna in 1998, but resumed services in October 2002. Rutnam stated, I was the sort of guy who would go to an airport, I remember as a kid, I went to the Colombo port and watched the ships coming and going out. I do not know whether it was wanderlust or freedom of movement, I do not know which one it was. Some years ago a friend of mine and I decided that we should have an airline, the movie, Tarzan and the Ape Man starring Bo Derek as Jane was shot at Udawatte Kelle, Kandy. He also took Bo and John Derek to beaches in Bentota to film Ghosts Cant Do It, there is a carving on a stone in Bentota, which says Great Scot Loves You – a message from late John to Bo
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X rating
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In some countries, X or XXX is or has been a motion picture rating reserved for the most explicit films. Films rated X are intended only for viewing by adults, usually defined as people over the age of 18 or 21. The Australian Classification Board, a government institution, issues ratings for all movies and television shows exhibited, televised, material showing explicit, non-simulated consensual sex that is pornographic in nature is rated X18+. People under 18 may not buy, rent, exhibit or view these films, the exhibition or sale of these films to people under the age of 18 years is a criminal offence carrying a maximum fine of $5,500. Films classified as X18+ are banned from being sold or rented in most Australian states and they are legally available to be sold or hired in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Importing X18+ material from these territories to any of the Australian states is legal, the X18+ rating does not exist for video games. Films may be shown in theaters in France only after classification by a commission of the ministry of Culture. In 1975, the X classification was created for pornographic movies, the commission has some leeway in classification, it may for instance take into account the artistic qualities of a movie not to count it pornographic. Movies with an X rating may only be shown in theaters, they bear special taxes and tax rates. In 2000, some conservative associations sued the government for granting the movie Baise-moi, which contained graphic, realistic scenes of sex and violence, the Conseil dÉtat at litigation ruled that the movie should have been rated X. The decision was controversial, and some suggested changing the law under which it was rated 18. The original X certificate, replacing the H certificate, was issued between 1951 and 1982 by the British Board of Film Censors in the United Kingdom and it was introduced as a result of the Wheare Report on film censorship. From 1951 to 1970, it meant Suitable for those aged 16 and over, the X certificate was replaced in November 1982 by the 18 certificate. Sometimes the rating of a film has changed significantly over time, for example, the French film Jules and Jim received an X rating in 1962 that was changed to a PG rating in 1991. In some early cases, films politically motivated received an X rating, the Battleship Potemkin was rejected for inflammatory subtitles and Bolshevik propaganda in 1926, rated X in 1954, and finally rated PG in 1987. In the United States, the X rating was applied to a film that contained content judged unsuitable for children, such as violence, strongly implied sex. The threat of an X rating also encouraged filmmakers to re-edit their films to achieve an R rating, certain films, such as Cruising, received an R rating that some theatre owners felt should have been an X. Because the X rating was not trademarked, anybody could apply it to their films, including pornographers, as pornography began to become chic and more legally tolerated, pornographers placed an X rating on their films to emphasize the adult content
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Golden Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Olivia d'Abo
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Olivia Jane dAbo is an English-American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her role as Karen Arnold, Kevin Arnolds rebellious teenage hippie sister on The Wonder Years, and recurring villain Nicole Wallace in Law & Order, Criminal Intent. DAbo was born on 22 January 1969 in London, England, the daughter of Maggie London, an English model and actress, and Mike dAbo, an English singer and member of 1960s group Manfred Mann. She has a brother, as well as two half-brothers and one half-sister, elder brother Ben, younger half-brother Bruno, and younger sibling twins Ella. Olivia and Ben both attended school in the U. S. at Los Feliz Hills School in Los Angeles and dAbo attended Pacoima Junior High School in Pacoima. She is the first cousin once removed of her fathers cousin Maryam dAbo, Olivia and Maryam bought a house together in Los Angeles when Olivia was 19. DAbos film debut was the role of Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer. Two months later, she appeared in the role of the peasant girl Paloma in Bolero. In 1992, she guest starred in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode True Q as Amanda Rogers, DAbo made five appearances recurring villain Nicole Wallace in the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent between 2002 and 2008. She reprised the character in the 2013 episode The Catacombes of the French crime series Jo, a show created by René Balcer, DAbo played Abby Carter, the ex-wife of Sheriff Jack Carter, in two 2007 episodes of the Sci-Fi Channel series Eureka. She has had supporting roles in other television programmes and films, such as The Spirit of 76, Greedy, The Big Green. On stage, she appeared in the 2005 Broadway production of The Odd Couple with Matthew Broderick, in February 2013, DAbo began filming for Project Fedora, a video game that combines live-action footage with 3D graphics. DAbo is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist and she has composed and performed for various soundtracks. Her single Broken is from the movie Loving Annabelle and her debut album Not TV was released in July 2008. DAbo also performed backing vocals for Julian Lennons Help Yourself, and she also co-wrote the song Love Comes from the Inside with Italian singer Laura Pausini, which was featured on Pausinis English language debut From the Inside. In October 2015, dAbo started a weekly podcast called Every Friday with Dan, DAbo appeared on Ken Reids TV Guidance Counselor podcast on July 8,2016. DAbo was engaged to actor Thomas Jane from 1998 to 2001 and they worked in several projects together, including The Velocity of Gary and Jonni Nitro, of which Jane directed the last two episodes. She later married producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard in August 2002
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Elmer Bernstein
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Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and his most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane. The Rookies, Cape Fear, and Animal House, Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes, an Emmy, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Bernstein was born in New York City, the son of Selma, from Ukraine, and Edward Bernstein, from Austria-Hungary. He was not related to the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Within the world of music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames Bernstein West. They pronounced their last names differently, Elmer pronounced his, and she took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland, who was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf. In addition to his music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals, How Now, Dow Jones, with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, in 1967 and Merlin, with lyricist Don Black. One of Bernsteins tunes has since gained a place in U. S. college sports culture. In 1968, University of South Carolina football head coach Paul Dietzel wrote new lyrics to Step to the Rear, the South Carolina version of the tune, The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way, has been the schools fight song ever since. Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s, Bernstein was called by the House Un-American Activities Committee when it was discovered that he had written some music reviews for a Communist newspaper. John Landis grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children, years later, he requested that Bernstein compose the music for National Lampoons Animal House, over the studios objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernsteins score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, the opening theme to the movie is based upon a slight inversion of a secondary theme from Brahmss Academic Festival Overture. When Martin Scorsese announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, Bernstein adapted Bernard Herrmanns original score to the new film, Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, and to pay homage to Herrmann. Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two films, The Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead. Bernstein had previously conducted Herrmanns original unused score for Alfred Hitchcocks 1966 Torn Curtain, in addition, Bernstein was a professor at the University of Southern Californias Thornton School of Music and conductor of the San Fernando Valley Symphony in the early 1970s
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Ghost (1990 film)
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Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, and Rick Aviles. It was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker, the plot centers on a young woman in jeopardy, the ghost of her murdered lover and a reluctant psychic who assists him in saving her although the psychic had previously been faking her powers. The film was an commercial success, grossing over $505.7 million at the box office on a budget of $22 million. It was the film of 1990. Adjusted for inflation, as of 2015 Ghost was the 93rd-highest-grossing film of all time domestically, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Score and Best Film Editing. It won the awards for Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay, Swayze and Moore both received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances, while Goldberg won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Saturn Awards in addition to the Oscar. Sam Wheat, a banker, and his girlfriend Molly Jensen, one afternoon, Sam confides in Carl his discovery of unusually high balances in obscure bank accounts. He decides to investigate the matter himself, declining Carls offer of assistance and that night, Sam and Molly are attacked by a mugger who kills Sam in a scuffle before stealing his wallet. Sam sees Molly crying over his body and discovers he is now a ghost, Molly remains distraught in the days after Sams death, as Sam remains close to her. Carl comes over and suggests Molly take a walk with him, moments later, the mugger enters the apartment in search of something. When Molly returns, Sam scares their cat into attacking the thug, Sam follows the mugger to his Brooklyn apartment and learns that the man, Willie Lopez, was sent by an unknown party. After leaving Willies residence, Sam happens upon the parlor of psychic medium Oda Mae Brown, Sam convinces her to warn Molly that she is in danger. To allay Mollys skepticism, Oda Mae relays information that only Sam could know, Molly gives Willies address to Carl, then goes to the police, who inform her that Willie has no criminal record, whereas Oda Mae has a lengthy one as a forger and con artist. Meanwhile, Sam follows Carl and is devastated to learn he, Sam learns from a violent poltergeist haunting the subway system how to manipulate objects with his mind. Sam then persuades Oda Mae to help him thwart Carl, before Carl can transfer the money for his clients, Oda Mae impersonates Rita Miller, closes the account, and gives the $4 million cashiers check to charity. As Carl desperately searches for the money, Sam reveals his presence by typing his name on the computer keyboard, Carl goes to Molly, who reveals she spotted Oda Mae closing an account at the bank. Carl and Willie go to Oda Maes place but Sam warns her to take shelter, when Willie arrives, Sam tosses objects at him until Willie flees into the street in a panic and is killed by an oncoming car. Shadowy creatures emerge from the darkness to drag Willies ghost down to Hell, Sam and Oda Mae return to the apartment where—by levitating a penny into Mollys hand—he convinces Molly that Oda Mae is telling the truth about him
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