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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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From top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a
statue of Benjamin Franklin, the
Liberty Bell, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia City Hall, and
Independence Hall
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An 18th century map of Philadelphia.
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians by
Benjamin West
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Benjamin Franklin, 1777
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Cult film
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A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase, a subculture that engage in repeated viewings, quoting dialogue. Inclusive definitions allow for major productions, especially box office bombs, while exclusive definitions focus more on obscure. The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art, Cult films trace their origin back to controversial and suppressed films kept alive by dedicated fans. In some cases, reclaimed or rediscovered films have acquired cult followings decades after their original release, Other cult films have since become well-respected or reassessed as classics, there is debate as to whether these popular and accepted films are still cult films. After failing in the cinema, some films have become regular fixtures on cable television or profitable sellers on home video. Others have inspired their own film festivals, Cult films can both appeal to specific subcultures and form their own subcultures. Other media that reference cult films can easily identify which demographics they desire to attract, Cult films frequently break cultural taboos, and many feature excessive displays of violence, gore, sexuality, profanity, or combinations thereof. This can lead to controversy, censorship, and outright bans, films that fail to attract requisite amounts of controversy may face resistance when labeled as cult films. Fans who like the films for the reasons, such as perceived elements that represent mainstream appeal and marketing. Likewise, fans who stray from accepted subcultural scripts may experience similar rejection, since the late 1970s, cult films have become increasingly popular. Films that once would have limited to obscure cult followings are now capable of breaking into the mainstream. Films are frequently stated to be an instant cult classic now, fickle fans on the Internet have latched on to unreleased films only to abandon them later on release. At the same time, other films have acquired massive, quick cult followings, easy access to cult films via video on demand and peer-to-peer file sharing has led some critics to pronounce the death of cult films. A cult film is any film that has a following, although the term is not easily defined. Cult films are defined by audience reaction as much as they are content and this may take the form of elaborate and ritualized audience participation, film festivals, or cosplay. Over time, the definition has become more vague and inclusive as it drifts away from earlier, stricter views, academic Mark Shiel has criticized the term itself as being a weak concept, reliant on subjectivity, different groups can interpret films in their own terms. Academic Mike Chopra‑Gant says that cult films become decontextualized when studied as a group, in 2008, Cineaste asked a range of academics for their definition of a cult film
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is an example of a cult film.
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Julianne Moore and
Jeff Bridges at
Lebowski Fest 2011.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) is an example of a cult film that uses transgressive themes.
Cult film
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Judy Garland and her iconic role as Dorothy Gale have become important in
gay culture.
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films,
Nosferatu (1922)
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Lon Chaney, Sr. in
The Phantom of the Opera.
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Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in
Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Christopher Lee starred in several British horror films of the era, shown here in 1958's
Dracula.
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Willard (1971 film)
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Willard is a 1971 American horror film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine. Based on the novel Ratmans Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert, the film was nominated for an Edgar Award for best picture, the supporting cast included Elsa Lanchester in one of her last performances, and Sondra Locke in one of her first. The film was a hit in 1971, opening to good reviews. It inspired other films with wild animals as predators, such as the hit films Jaws, as well as psychological thrillers with social outcasts as the protagonists. Willard is a social misfit who later develops a strange affinity for rats. He lives in a large Victorian home, with only his cranky, on his 27th birthday, he is humiliated to come home to a birthday party thrown by his mother, where all of the attendees are her own aging friends. After having left the party in embarrassment, he notices a rat in his backyard, later, his mother gets upset with him for leaving the party and she scolds him while also discussing how badly the house is falling apart. The next morning he goes out and feeds another rat while imitating their squeaks and his mother starts telling him that he needs to kill the rats that have been running around their yard, which Willard refuses to do. When Willard goes to work he is scolded by his boss Al Martin for tardiness. Later he returns home and sets about killing the rats as his mother ordered and he puts food on a center rock in a large well, placing a wooden plank to act as a bridge for the rats. When the rats have gathered on the rock, he removes the plank and he then turns on the water, intending to let the well fill up and drown the animals. However, his guilt will not allow Willard to carry through the plan, when his mother asks if he killed the rats, he lies and tells her he did. That afternoon he begins playing with a rat he names Queenie and he sees a white rat and immediately takes a liking to it. The white rat becomes his best companion and he names it Socrates for his wisdom, numerous other rats quickly emerge, one of which is a bigger black specimen whom he names Ben. At work, Mr. Martin continues to antagonize Willard, telling him he not give him a raise. Willard sneaks up to a party Mr. Martin is throwing, opens his suitcase which has rats in it, the guests begin screaming and Willard laughs behind the bushes where he is hiding. The next day Willards mother dies and he discovers that the house is heavily mortgaged. After this Willard is pressured by the banks to give up the house, Willard decides to bring Socrates and Ben to the office with him
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Promotional poster
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Longtime Companion
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Longtime Companion is a 1989 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker. Longtime Companion chronicles the first years of the AIDS epidemic as seen through its impact on gay men. The film is split into several sections identified by dates, Willy a personal trainer, and his friend John are spending time with affluent gay couple David and Sean at their beach house on Fire Island for the 4th of July. Sean is a screenwriter for the daytime soap opera Other People. Back in the city, Howard is preparing to audition for Seans soap and his boyfriend is Paul a business executive and their next-door neighbor is Lisa, an antiques dealer, whose brother Fuzzy is a lawyer who represents Howard. That morning, The New York Times publishes its first article about the rise of a new gay cancer, the news spreads as friends call each other. Some are immediately concerned, others dismissive, Willy meets Fuzzy at a tea dance later in the afternoon and they begin a relationship. John is the first among the group to be diagnosed with the new disease, Howard is given script pages in which his character is slated to become the first openly gay character on daytime television. He is very concerned about typecasting, fearing that by playing gay he will not be offered other sorts of parts, Willy and Fuzzy move in together. John dies shortly after his admission to the hospital, Willy, Fuzzy, Lisa, David, and Sean gather back on Fire Island with friends Michael and Bob to watch Howards character come out on the soap opera. The group also discuss a sick neighbor who has become a pariah on the island and that evening, Sean and David argue over Seans fears that he might be getting sick. Willy visits Sean and is so terrified of becoming infected that he dons a mask and protective gown and. Michael is also visiting Sean, bringing with him homeopathic preparations, Howard visits Paul and breaks down sobbing. Paul tries to reassure and comfort him, Sean has deteriorated to the point of dementia. David is helping with his writing and deceiving the studio into thinking that Sean is still able to work, Fuzzy tries to get Howard a movie role but the producer refuses to cast him because of the rumor that he has AIDS. The same rumor got him fired from his role on Other People, Paul is back in the hospital following a seizure. David takes Sean for a walk but has to take him home when Sean urinates in a fountain at a park in front of a woman with her two young children and that night Willy catches Fuzzy checking himself for swollen glands and they talk about their fear of dying. What do you think happens when we die and we get to have sex again is Willys reply
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Longtime Companion DVD cover
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X-Men (film series)
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X-Men is an American media franchise of 21st Century Fox that is centered on a series of superhero films, produced by 20th Century Fox. The franchise is based on the fictional X-Men characters, who appeared in a series of comic books created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. A prequel, X-Men, First Class, was released in 2011, followed by X-Men, Days of Future Past in 2014, Deadpool was also released in 2016 and became the highest-grossing film of the series, as well as the highest-grossing worldwide R-rated film of all time. The film series is the seventh-highest-grossing, having earned over US$4.9 billion worldwide, X-Men, X2, X-Men, First Class, X-Men, Days of Future Past and the spin-offs The Wolverine, Deadpool and Logan were all met with positive reviews. X-Men and X2 were particularly lauded by critics for their dark, realistic tones and subtexts dealing with discrimination, X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men, Apocalypse were met with mixed reviews, while X-Men Origins, Wolverine received negative reviews from critics. Since 2000, the series has expanded to include comic books, videogames, live action television series. Hugh Jackman has appeared in films in the series than any other actor. The film introduces Wolverine and Rogue into the conflict between Professor Xaviers X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto, in 1994, 20th Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner bought the film rights to the X-Men. Andrew Kevin Walker was hired to write, and James Cameron expressed interest in producing, eventually, Bryan Singer signed on to direct in July 1996. Although he was not a comic fan, Singer was fascinated by the analogies of prejudice. John Logan, Joss Whedon, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie, principal photography began in September 1999 in Toronto, Canada, and ended in March 2000. The film was released on July 14,2000, in the film, Colonel William Stryker brainwashes and questions the imprisoned Magneto about Professor Xaviers mutant-locating machine, Cerebro. Stryker attacks the X-Mansion and brainwashes Xavier into locating every mutant on the planet to kill them, the X-Men must team up with the Brotherhood to prevent Strykers worldwide genocide. Hayter and Zak Penn were hired to write their own scripts for the sequel, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were hired to re-write the script in February 2002, writing around 26 drafts and 150 on set. Principal photography began in June 2002 in Vancouver, Canada, the film was released on May 2,2003. In the film, a company has developed a suppressor of the mutant gene. Magneto declares war on the humans and retrieves his own weapon, Phoenix, a final battle between the X-Men and the Brotherhood ensues, and Wolverine must accept that in order to stop Grey, he will have to kill her. Singer initially intended to shoot the film back-to-back with a fourth film, Penn and Simon Kinberg were hired the following month
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Cover of X-Men: The Cerebro Collection, the 2014
Blu-ray box set of the first seven films
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X-Men (film)
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X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the X-Men film series, followed by X2 in 2003 and X-Men and it depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants, whose possession of superhuman powers makes them distrusted by normal humans. Development for X-Men began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures, at one point James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were in discussions. The film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994 and various scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker, John Logan, Joss Whedon, and Michael Chabon. Singer signed to direct in 1996, with rewrites by Ed Solomon, Singer, Tom DeSanto, Christopher McQuarrie and Hayter in which Beast. X-Men marks the Hollywood debut of actor Hugh Jackman, who was a choice for Wolverine. Filming took place from September 22,1999 to March 3,2000, X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success, starting the X-Men film franchise and spawning a reemergence of superhero films. In 1944 German-occupied Poland, young Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering a concentration camp, while trying to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him before being knocked out by guards. Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a Mutant Registration Act in Congress, present are the mutants Lehnsherr and the telepathic Professor Charles Xavier. Seeing Lehnsherr in attendance, Xavier becomes concerned with how he will respond to the Registration Act, in Meridian, Mississippi, 17-year-old Marie DAncanto accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma upon kissing him, her mutant ability to absorb the powers and life force of others manifesting. She runs away home and adopts the name Rogue. In Alberta she meets a mutant named Logan, also known as Wolverine, while on the road together, they are attacked by a mutant named Sabretooth, and mutants Cyclops and Storm arrive and save them. Wolverine and Rogue are brought to Xaviers mansion and school for mutants in Westchester County, Xavier tells Logan that Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, has taken an interest in Wolverine, and he asks him to stay while Xaviers mutants, the X-Men, investigate why. Rogue meanwhile enrolls in the school, Senator Kelly is abducted by Magnetos allies Toad and the shapeshifter Mystique. Magneto uses Kelly as a test subject for a machine powered by his abilities that regenerates a field of radiation. When Rogue uses her power on Wolverine in view of her classmates, she is convinced by Mystique that Xavier is angry with her, Xavier uses his mutant-locating machine Cerebro to find Rogue at a train station, and the X-Men go to retrieve her. Meanwhile Mystique enters Cerebro and sabotages it, at the train station, Magneto reveals he does not want Wolverine but Rogue, whom he abducts. Kelly arrives at Xaviers school and Xavier reads his mind to learn about Magnetos machine, realizing the strain of powering it nearly killed Magneto, the group deduces he intends to transfer his powers to Rogue and use her to power it at the cost of her life
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Theatrical release poster
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Concept art for Beast (before the character was deleted from subsequent scripts) by
Industrial Light & Magic.
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X2 (film)
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X2 is a 2003 American superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to 2000s X-Men and the installment in the X-Men film series. The plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, pits the X-Men and their enemies, the Brotherhood, against the genocidal Colonel William Stryker. He leads an assault on Professor Xaviers school to build his own version of Xaviers mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns, the films premise was influenced by the Marvel Comics storylines Return to Weapon X and God Loves, Man Kills. Filming began in June 2002 and ended that November, most of the filming took place at Vancouver Film Studios, the largest North American production facility outside of Los Angeles. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film, X2 was released in the United States on May 2,2003. It received positive reviews critics, who mostly praised the storyline, action sequences and acting of the film. With its critical success, it grossed over approximately $407 million, at the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President of the United States but fails and escapes. Meanwhile, Wolverine explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past and he returns to Professor Xaviers school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Xavier and Cyclops go to question the imprisoned Magneto about the attack, while X-Men Storm, meanwhile, military scientist Colonel William Stryker approaches the president and receives approval to investigate Xaviers mansion for their ties to mutants. Strykers forces invade the school and abduct most of the students, with only Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro escaping, during the attack Wolverine confronts Stryker, who knows him by name. The shape-shifting Mystique gains information about Magnetos prison and helps him escape while also discovering schematics for a second Cerebro, Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro visit Icemans parents in Boston and meet up with Storm, Jean, and Nightcrawler. The X-Jet is attacked by fighter jets en route back to the mansion and is shot down, Magneto explains to the group that Stryker has built the second Cerebro to use it, and Xavier, to telepathically kill every mutant on the planet. Strykers son, Jason, is a mutant with mind-controlling powers, Stryker had also previously used Jasons powers to orchestrate Nightcrawlers attack as a pretense to gain approval to invade Xaviers mansion. Magneto also tells Wolverine that Stryker was the man who grafted his adamantium skeleton onto his bones, Jean reads Nightcrawlers mind and determines that Strykers base is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake. The mutants infiltrate Strykers base and Magneto and Mystique go to disable Cerebro before the brainwashed Xavier can activate it, Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the captured students, and Jean fights a mind-controlled Cyclops, their battle frees Cyclops but damages the dam, which begins to rupture
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Theatrical release poster
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Concept art of the Danger Room before the setpiece was stored due to budgetary concerns
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Nightcrawler's tail was mainly
computer-generated, although
Alan Cumming sometimes used one made of rubber.
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Senator Robert Kelly
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Robert Edward Kelly is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He most often appears in Marvels X-Men and X-Men-related comic books and he is a prominent United States Senator who began his career on an anti-mutant platform, and as the X-Men team is made up entirely of mutants, his role tends to be that of an antagonist. However, towards the days of his career, he began to change his views on mutants as a whole. The character was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne and makes his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #135 and he played a central role in the Days of Future Past storyline that took place in Uncanny X-Men #141-142. When he appeared in Uncanny X-Men #246, he was married to Sharon, Kelly, in a meeting with Sebastian Shaw, was shocked when his wife walked in wearing her old, servant garb as a bit of fun. She was genuinely apologetic, saying she would not have such a thing if it hadnt been just him. Sharon was killed the issue, in Uncanny X-Men #247. This further incited Roberts stance against mutantkind, after his life was saved by the mutant Pyro in an attack from his old teammate Post, Kelly vowed to reconsider his standing on mutants and work towards improving human/mutant relations. He died in Cables arms where Cable had been too occupied with a meeting on the plane to realize the danger to Kelly before it was too late. The name of the character was chosen by Chris Claremont, in honour of his Bard College professor, the latter has confirmed the connection between the two names in interviews among his students. Senator Kelly has been likened to real-life U. S. senator, in the Age of Apocalypse, Robert Kelly was an activist for mutant-human peace. However, Kelly was rescued by Magneto, Nightcrawler and Rogue, following the defeat of Apocalypse, Kelly was elected President of the United States. He named Magneto as Director of Mutant Affairs and enlisted the aid of the X-Men in the reconstruction of the broken country. In the House of M reality, Robert Kelly was a United States Senator and he was later killed by Sabretooth. In the X-Men Noir reality, Robert Kelly was a Republican Senator of New York who strongly defended the controversial U. S. extraterritorial prison Genosha Bay. Kelly believed through eugenics that it is necessary for containing criminals who are exceptionally dangerous. However, in reality Kellys true purpose of keeping Genosha Bay was because it was the grounds in recruiting a next generation of ideal soldiers. The character appeared in the X-Men animated series, voiced by Len Carlson and this version ran for President of the United States
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Senator Kelly in the X-Men animated series
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Principal Kelly in X-Men: Evolution
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Senator Kelly in Wolverine and the X-Men
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Fred Schepisi
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Frederic Alan Fred Schepisi, AO is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation, Mr. Baseball and Last Orders. Frederic Alan Schepisi was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Loretto Ellen and Frederic Thomas Schepisi and he began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before making his first feature film, The Devils Playground, in 1976. Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devils Playground and Evil Angels, in 1991 his film The Russia House was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. In 2007 he was the Chairman of the Jury at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival, in April 2008 it was announced Film Finance Corporation Australia was providing funding for Schepisis film The Last Man, about the final days of the Vietnam War. It was scheduled to begin filming in Queensland, with Guy Pearce and David Wenham in leading roles, in 2011 Schepisi directed The Eye of the Storm. Filmed in Melbourne, Sydney and Far North Queensland, and based on the novel by Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm stars Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, the story is about children finally understanding themselves through the context of family. In 2012 he directed Words and Pictures starring Juliet Binoche and Clive Owen, Schepisi has also directed a number of music videos, including for the 2008 song Breathe by Kaz James featuring Stu Stone. Asked about the existence of a filmmaker, Schepisi has said. I think were todays circus people and its very hard on your family. Mary travels with me and when everyone was younger and it was possible, I liked them to travel with me, fortunately, Marys an artist, she paints, and often finds inspiration from our locations. Schepisi has seven children and one grandchild. Fred Schepisi has been married three times and has seven children, joan gave him four children, his second wife Rhonda died of cancer, after giving him two more children. His third wife, Mary, whom he married in 1984 and he supports Australia becoming a republic and is a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement. The Devils Playground The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Barbarosa Iceman Plenty Roxanne Evil Angels The Russia House Mr. Baseball Six Degrees of Separation I. Q. com. au biography
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Fred Schepisi
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Schepisi in 1984
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Words and Pictures (film)
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Words and Pictures is a 2013 American drama film directed by Fred Schepisi. It was screened in the Gala Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, croyden is an upscale college preparatory school in Maine that hires teachers for their advanced courses who are accomplished professionals. Jack Marcus is a writer and poet who teaches the writing class. Hes a good teacher who inspires his students and he demonstrates how some carefully chosen words and phrases can stimulate the listeners imagination to produce vivid mental imagery. One particular grievance of his involves the way in which young developing minds have been hijacked by the distractions of modern technical gadgetry. He seems to be afflicted with writers block and hasnt come out with any work in several years. He publishes the literary magazine, which the school administration is planning to shut down for budgetary reasons. He is an alcoholic who chronically arrives late to work and is on the verge of being fired. He is divorced and has a son from his first marriage. Dina Delsanto is an artist who has just been hired to teach the art class. Dina was a painter in New York City, but she now has difficulty painting or even walking and engaging in daily activities because of severe rheumatoid arthritis. She can no longer fasten buttons, open medicine bottles or hold paint brushes and she moved to Maine, where her sister and her mother live, so that they can help her during the spells when her arthritis worsens. As a teacher, she is a perfectionist with no interest in her students personal lives and she simply wants them to concentrate on creating the best works of art that they can. She shows them the difference between paintings that merely demonstrate craft and paintings that evoke feeling as well and she struggles to paint again by overcoming her physical limitations as well as her own artistic difficulties. She finally creates a work of art and sets it aside to dry. She has, incidentally, professed a complete disdain for the spoken and she insists that artistically rendered images are the only worthwhile media for expressing truth. Jacks colleagues and friends perceive him as attention-getting, obnoxious and charming, once he gets wind of Dinas personal philosophy, he provokes an argument with her over which is more important, words or pictures. Their students are drawn into the conflict with class assignments demonstrating the superiority of words over pictures or pictures over words, Dina agrees to have her students contribute their own works of art to Jacks literary magazine
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Theatrical film poster
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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The Fosters (2013 TV series)
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The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg for ABC Family. It also earned two GLAAD Media Awards and one Teen Choice Award, the series tells of police officer Stef Foster and her wife Lena Adams, a school vice principal, and their multi-ethnic, blended family. Stef and Lena are the parents of Brandon, who is Stefs biological son, at the outset of the series, the couple take in two foster children, Callie and Jude, who had been bounced between foster homes. Also part of their lives is Mike Foster, Stefs patrol partner, most of the show takes place in their quiet San Diego suburb and at Anchor Beach Community Charter School, where Lena works and the Foster children go to school. Stefanie Stef Marie Adams Foster is Lenas spouse, Brandons biological mother, in the pilot episode, she and Lena take in two foster children, Callie and Jude, before adopting them. Stef is an officer for the San Diego Police Department. She is known for having a personality with bold opinions. When Jesus goes missing one night, Mariana informs her parents how she fears Jesus is at their biological mother Anas house since they recently got in contact and have been lending her money. Later, she officially marries Lena, and after having a mammogram, because it is likely that the cells will become cancerous, she undergoes surgery. Lena Elizabeth Adams Foster is Stefs wife, step-mother to Brandon, in the pilot episode, the pair take in two foster children, Callie and Jude, whom they later adopt. Lena is the principal of Anchor Beach Community Charter School. She tends to be open and reasonable, oftentimes when it comes to the childrens wrongdoings. She and Stef legally marry and the discussion of Lena carrying her first child arises, Lena interviews for a promotion at work, and reveals she is pregnant, leading the panel to question her ability to balance work and home. She later develops preeclampsia which leads to a miscarriage, Brandon Foster is the eldest Foster child, biological son of Stef and Mike, and older adoptive brother to Jesus and Mariana as well as to Jude and Callie. Brandon also has a talent for music, excelling in piano, after raising money to obtain fake IDs to get into a bar, Brandon finds himself getting beat up by his dealer. Following his subsequent hospitalization, Brandon loses sensation in his hand causing him to miss his spot in the music program, still able to play the piano, he joins a band. In the third season, Brandon goes to the Idylwild band camp and competes to play at Disney Hall, where he ultimately wins the competition. During his senior year of school, he receives an acceptance letter into The Juilliard School, his top choice in colleges and among the most prestigious in music
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Executive producer
Jennifer Lopez
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Series stars Sherri Saum and Teri Polo
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Miles Teller
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Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor. Born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and an alumnus of NYUs Tisch School of Arts, he appeared in short films. Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, the son of Merry, an estate agent, and Michael Teller. His father is from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and his mother is from Carneys Point and he has two older sisters, Erin and Dana. His paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent, while his other ancestry is English, Irish, Polish and he lived in several places as a child, because of his fathers career, spending time in Citrus County, Florida, after moving from Cape May, New Jersey. He also lived in Pennsylvania and Delaware, Teller attended Lecanto High School, Florida, where he played the saxophone, was a drummer for a church youth group band, and was president of the drama club. He can also play piano and guitar and was on the baseball team, aside from high school, Teller worked as a server at a restaurant called Crackers. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, before making his feature film debut Teller appeared in many short films. After graduating from Tisch School of Arts in 2009, he made his debut in 2010s Rabbit Hole, Teller appeared in the stage musical Footloose in high school. Years later, he was cast in the remake of Footloose starring Kenny Wormald. In 2013, he starred in 21 & Over, written and directed by Jon Lucas, in 2014, he co-starred in the comedy That Awkward Moment, alongside Zac Efron and Michael B. Jordan, and starred as a drummer in the well-reviewed drama Whiplash and he was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor, the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Teller received further recognition when he portrayed Peter Hayes in the commercially successful Divergent and he also starred as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in the film Fantastic Four. Teller played real life arms dealer David Packouz, opposite Jonah Hill, in the Todd Phillips-directed film War Dogs, in January 2014, Teller was cast to portray Dan Aykroyd in Steven Conrads untitled John Belushi biopic. Since 2013, he has been in a relationship with model Keleigh Sperry, Teller is a loyal fan of the Philadelphia Phillies. In December 2016, Teller and Sperry were involved in a car accident, after being cut off by an Uber driver, Tellers car rolled onto its side. Neither Teller nor Sperry had injuries, however, a passenger in the Uber was taken to the hospital, Miles Teller at the Internet Movie Database Miles Teller on Twitter
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Teller at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Teller at the film premiere of Divergent in March 2014
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Anna Kendrick
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Anna Cooke Kendrick is an American actress and singer. She began her career as an actor in theater productions. Her first prominent role was in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society and she made her film debut in the musical comedy Camp. Kendrick rose to prominence for her role in The Twilight Saga. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Up in the Air and she achieved further fame for playing the protagonist in the 2012 musical comedy Pitch Perfect and the 2015 sequel, Pitch Perfect 2. Kendrick has also featured in the comedy-drama 50/50, the crime-drama End of Watch, the musical-fantasy Into the Woods, in 2016, Kendrick published her memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody. Anna Cooke Kendrick was born on August 9,1985, in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Janice, an accountant, and William Kendrick and she is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. Her maternal grandparents were Ronald and Ruth Cooke and she has an older brother, actor Michael Cooke Kendrick, who appeared in the 2000 film Looking for an Echo. She attended Deering High School in Portland before entering the entertainment business, Kendrick started her career as a child, auditioning for theater productions in New York City. When she was 12, she played a role in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society. Her performance earned her a Theater World Award, as well as nominations for Featured Actress in a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards and she went on to play a supporting role in the 2003 New York City Opera production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Little Night Music. Kendrick made her debut in the musical comedy Camp. Her performance as the nerdy Fritzi Wagner earned her a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance and she went on to play an ambitious high school debater in Rocket Science, for which she earned a subsequent Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female. Kendrick rose to prominence in 2008 for the fantasy romance Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel of the same name, Kendrick played Jessica Stanley, the best friend of protagonist Bella Swan. In 2009, she appeared in the comedy The Marc Pease Experience, played her first leading role in the crime thriller Elsewhere and she then starred alongside George Clooney in director Jason Reitmans Up in the Air. Her performance as a college graduate was praised by critics. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at several ceremonies, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2010, Kendrick reprised her role of Jessica Stanley in The Twilight Saga, later that year, she appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, in which she played the sister of the title character
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Kendrick at the Geffen's Fundraiser in March 2014
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Kendrick at the 2009
Toronto International Film Festival
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Kendrick at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Technical drawing
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Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering, to make the drawings easier to understand, people use familiar symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles, and page layout. Together, such conventions constitute a language and help to ensure that the drawing is unambiguous. Many of the symbols and principles of drawing are codified in an international standard called ISO128. The need for communication in the preparation of a functional document distinguishes technical drawing from the expressive drawing of the visual arts. Artistic drawings are subjectively interpreted, their meanings are multiply determined, Technical drawings are understood to have one intended meaning. A drafter, draftsperson, or draughtsman is a person who makes a drawing, a professional drafter who makes technical drawings is sometimes called a drafting technician. Professional drafting is a desirable and necessary function in the design and manufacture of mechanical components. Professional draftspersons bridge the gap between engineers and manufacturers and contribute experience and technical expertise to the design process, the basic drafting procedure is to place a piece of paper on a smooth surface with right-angle corners and straight sides—typically a drawing board. A sliding straightedge known as a T-square is then placed on one of the sides, allowing it to be slid across the side of the table, parallel lines can be drawn simply by moving the T-square and running a pencil or technical pen along the T-squares edge. The T-square is used to other devices such as set squares or triangles. Modern drafting tables come equipped with a machine that is supported on both sides of the table to slide over a large piece of paper. Because it is secured on both sides, lines drawn along the edge are guaranteed to be parallel, in addition, the drafter uses several technical drawing tools to draw curves and circles. Primary among these are the compasses, used for drawing simple arcs and circles, a spline is a rubber coated articulated metal that can be manually bent to most curves. Drafting templates assist the drafter with creating recurring objects in a drawing without having to reproduce the object from scratch every time. Templates are sold commercially by a number of vendors, usually customized to a specific task and this basic drafting system requires an accurate table and constant attention to the positioning of the tools. A common error is to allow the triangles to push the top of the T-square down slightly, thereby throwing off all angles. Even tasks as simple as drawing two angled lines meeting at a point require a number of moves of the T-square and triangles and these machines often included the ability to change the angle, thereby removing the need for the triangles as well
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Drafter at work.
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Copying technical drawings in 1973
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Sketch for a government building.
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A drafting table.
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Penn State
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The Pennsylvania State University is a public, land-grant, research-intensive university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township. It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the schools University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, the College of Medicine is located in Hershey. Penn State has another 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses located across the state, Penn State has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Annual enrollment at the University Park campus totals more than 46,800 graduate and undergraduate students and it has the worlds largest dues-paying alumni association. The universitys total enrollment in 2015–16 was approximately 97,500 across its 24 campuses, the university offers more than 160 majors among all its campuses and administers $3.62 billion in endowment and similar funds. The universitys research expenditures totaled $836 million during the 2016 fiscal year, annually, the university hosts the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, which is the worlds largest student-run philanthropy. This event is held at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus, in 2014, THON raised a program record of $13.3 million. The universitys athletics teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Penn State Nittany Lions. They compete in the Big Ten Conference for most sports, centre County, Pennsylvania, became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, donated 200 acres of land – the first of 10,101 acres the school would eventually acquire. George W. Atherton became president of the school in 1882, shortly after he introduced engineering studies, Penn State became one of the ten largest engineering schools in the nation. Atherton also expanded the arts and agriculture programs, for which the school began receiving regular appropriations from the state in 1887. A major road in State College has been named in Athertons honor, additionally, Penn States Atherton Hall, a well-furnished and centrally located residence hall, is named not after George Atherton himself, but after his wife, Frances Washburn Atherton. His grave is in front of Schwab Auditorium near Old Main, in the years that followed, Penn State grew significantly, becoming the states largest grantor of baccalaureate degrees and reaching an enrollment of 5,000 in 1936. In 1953, President Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of then-U. S, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, sought and won permission to elevate the school to university status as The Pennsylvania State University. Under his successor Eric A. Walker, the university acquired hundreds of acres of surrounding land, and enrollment nearly tripled. In addition, in 1967, the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in the 1970s, the university became a state-related institution
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Old Main c. 1855
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Students sit outside of Pennsylvania State College (c.1922)
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Beaver Stadium
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Tisch School of the Arts
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The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is a center of study in the performing and media arts. Founded on August 17,1965, Tisch is a ground for artists, scholars of the arts, filmmakers. The school merges the technical training of a school with the academic resources of a major research university to immerse students in their intended artistic disciplines. It is located at 721 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City, NYU has the most alumni working at Broadway theatre. Tisch School of the Arts was founded in order to provide training in theatre and film. The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, in recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch also offers a selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum, the Graduate Acting Program offers a three-year MFA that equips acting students with the skills of a working career in theatre and/or film. The Department of the Dance offers training on the graduate and undergraduate level to students preparing for careers as dancers or choreographers, while taking full advantage of the liberal arts resources of the New York University and the cultural resources of the New York City. The Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program is an MFA program specially designed for the major collaborators in the creation of new theater and opera, composers, lyricists. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program has gained a reputation for its selectivity. Zelda Fichandler became chair of the program in 1984 and stepped down in 2008, in May 2008, Mark Wing-Davey became chair. Graduate Acting alumni have gone on to achieve many acting accolades, faison Edi Gathegi Jordan Gelber,2000 Enver Gjokaj Matthew Gray Gubler Logan Marshall Green Christopher Guest,1971 Danai Gurira Michael C. Many of the faculty have their own independent of the dance department. The program strives to prepare students for the life of a dancer, preparing them by treating their third year students as a company. Students graduate in three years, hence the schedule which is accelerated in order for dancers to graduate earlier than their peers in other college dance programs. Because of brevity of the program, students attend a six-week summer course following their first. During these summer intensives, six different companies come in a week each and teach students their style of movement and this is an excellent way for students to be introduced to companies and have the chance to get noticed and get to know the different companies in an intimate setting. This is unique to the Tisch Dance Program, and is conducive to introducing dancers into the world of auditions
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Undergraduate students perform in a main stage production of
Dancing at Lughnasa.
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Post-production center on the 11th floor of the Tisch building at 721 Broadway in New York
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Tiger at the Gates
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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry with the title Tiger at the Gates, the play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The play takes place the day before the outbreak of the Trojan War inside the gates of the city of Troy and it follows the struggle of the disillusioned Trojan military commander Hector, supported by the women of Troy, as he tries to avoid war with the Greeks. Hectors wife Andromache is pregnant, and this reinforces his desire for peace, along with his worldly-wise mother Hecuba, Hector leads the anti-war argument and tries to persuade his brother Paris to return Pariss beautiful but vapid captive Helen to Greece. Giraudoux presents Helen as not only an object of desire, and she claims that she can see the future by seeing what is coloured in her mind, and she sees war. For Hector, Helen means only war and destruction, but for the other Trojan men, led by the poet Demokos, she represents an opportunity for glory, and they are eager to have others fight a war in her name. La guerre de Troie naura pas lieu was translated into English as Tiger at the Gates by Christopher Fry, in The Drama of Jean Giraudoux, in 1956 this production was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. It also won the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Play, adapted by William Bast, Tiger at the Gates was an ITV Play of the Week in Britain, airing 25 October 1960. A Broadway revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1968, starring Philip Bosco as Hector, list of plays with anti-war themes Tiger at the Gates at the Internet Broadway Database La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu
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Hector reproaches Paris by Pierre Claude François Delorme (fr)
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Joseph Merrick
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When he was 9, his mother died from bronchopneumonia, and his father soon remarried. Merrick left school at the age of 13 and had difficulty finding employment, rejected by his father and stepmother, he left home. In late 1879, Merrick, aged 17, entered the Leicester Union Workhouse, in 1884, after four years in the workhouse, Merrick contacted a showman named Sam Torr and proposed that Torr should exhibit him. Torr agreed and arranged for a group of men to manage Merrick, after touring the East Midlands, Merrick travelled to London to be exhibited in a penny gaff shop on Whitechapel Road which was rented by showman Tom Norman. Normans shop, directly across the street from the London Hospital, was visited by a surgeon named Frederick Treves, soon after Merricks visits to the hospital, Tom Normans shop was closed by the police, and Merricks managers sent him to tour in Europe. In Belgium, Merrick was robbed by his manager and abandoned in Brussels. He eventually made his way back to London, unable to communicate, Treves came and took Merrick back to the London Hospital. Although his condition was incurable, Merrick was allowed to stay at the hospital for the remainder of his life, Treves visited him daily, and the pair developed quite a close friendship. Merrick also got visits from the ladies and gentlemen of London society, including Alexandra. Merrick died on 11 April 1890, aged 27, although the official cause of his death was asphyxia, Treves, who performed the autopsy on the body, said that Merrick had died of a dislocated neck. He believed that Merrick, who had to sleep sitting up because of the weight of his head, had been attempting to sleep lying down to be other people. Only in 1986 was it conjectured that he had Proteus syndrome, DNA tests on his hair and bones in 2003 in a study by Charis Eng were inconclusive. Meanwhile, in 1979, Bernard Pomerances play about Merrick called The Elephant Man debuted, in late 2014 and early 2015, Bradley Cooper starred in a Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, directed by Scott Ellis. Joseph Carey Merrick was born 5 August 1862 at 50 Lee Street in Leicester, to Joseph Rockley Merrick, Joseph Rockley Merrick was the son of London-born weaver Barnabas Merrick who moved to Leicester during the 1820s or 1830s, and his third wife Sarah Rockley. Mary Jane Potterton had been born at Evington, Leicestershire, her father being William Potterton, who was described as an agricultural labourer in the 1851 census of Thurmaston, Leicestershire. She is said to have had some form of disability and as a young woman worked as a domestic servant in Leicester before marrying Joseph Rockley Merrick, then a brougham driver. The following year, Joseph Carey Merrick was born, apparently healthy, named after his father, he was given the middle name Carey by his mother, a Baptist, after the preacher William Carey. When writing of Joseph in his book The Elephant Man, A Study in Human Dignity, Montagu believed Trevess statement in his book The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences that Merricks first name was John, not Joseph, and confused him with his younger brother
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Joseph Merrick photographed, c. 1889
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Merrick photographed in 1889
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Merrick photographed in 1888
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The shop on
Whitechapel Road where Merrick was exhibited. Today it sells
saris.
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother. In writing the play, Williams drew on a short story. The play premiered in Chicago in 1944, the Glass Menagerie was Williamss first successful play, he went on to become one of Americas most highly regarded playwrights. Amanda Wingfield A faded Southern belle, abandoned by her husband, Tom Wingfield Amandas son, and younger brother to sister, Laura. Tom works at a warehouse to support his family but is frustrated by his job. He struggles to write for he is sleep-deprived and annoyed, yet, he escapes from reality through nightly excursions, apparently to the movies but also to local bars. Tom feels both obligated toward yet burdened by his family and longs to escape, Laura Wingfield Amandas daughter and Toms older sister. A childhood illness has left her with a limp, and she has a mental fragility and she has created a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines. The unicorn may represent Laura because it is unique and fragile, Jim OConnor An old high-school acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was an athlete and actor during his days at Soldan High School. Subsequent years have been kind to Jim, however. His hope to shine again is conveyed by his study of public speaking, Mr. Wingfield Amandas absentee husband and Laura’s and Tom’s father. Mr. Wingfield was a man, full of charm. Although he does not appear onstage, Mr. Wingfield is frequently referred to by Amanda, the unseen character appears to incorporate elements of Williamss own father. The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda. Because the play is based on memory, Tom cautions the audience that what they see may not be precisely what happened. Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle of middle age, shares a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son Tom, in his early twenties, and his slightly older sister, Laura
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First edition cover
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Jessica Tandy
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Jessica Tandy was a British stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film, born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she appeared in a number of plays in Londons West End, playing roles such as Ophelia. During this period, she worked in a couple of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940 and he became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A Play for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, Tandy shared the prize with Katharine Cornell and Judith Anderson in a three-way tie for the award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a role in Alfred Hitchcocks horror film, The Birds. Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the acting company of the Guthrie Theater. In the mid-1980s she had a career revival and she appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in such as Cocoon. At the height of her success, she was named as one of Peoples 50 Most Beautiful People and she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer. Her mother, Jessie Helen Horspool was the head of a school for handicapped children who was from a large fenland family in Wisbech. Her father died when Tandy was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income and her brother Edward was later a prisoner of war of the Japanese in the Far East. Tandy was educated at Dame Alice Owens School in Islington, Tandy began her career at the age of 18 in London, establishing herself with performances opposite such actors as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. She entered films in Britain, but after her marriage to Jack Hawkins failed, during her time as a leading actress on the stage in London she often had to fight for roles over her two rivals, Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson. In 1942, she married Hume Cronyn and over the years played supporting roles in several Hollywood films. Tandy became a citizen of the United States in 1952
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Tandy and Hume Cronyn at the 1988 Emmy Awards
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Tandy in
Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Glass Eye" (1957)
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Barbara Hershey
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Barbara Hershey, once known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns and she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of Americas finest actresses, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town. For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People and A World Apart, establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a relationship with actor David Carradine. She experimented with a change in name that she later regretted. During this time, her life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine, later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Herzstein was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist and her fathers parents were Jews who had emigrated from Hungary and Russia respectively, while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her Sarah Bernhardt and she was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of 10, she proved herself to be an A student and her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Fields television series Gidget. Barbara said that she found Field to be supportive of her in her first acting role. Barbaras acting debut, three episodes of Gidget, was followed by the television series The Monroes, which also featured Michael Anderson. By this point, she had adopted the stage name Barbara Hershey, although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying, One week I was strong, the next, weak. While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Days final feature film, in 1969, Hershey co-starred in the Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun. On the set, she met and began a relationship with actor David Carradine. In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer, in this film, Hershey played Sandy, the heavy who influences two young men to rape another girl, Rhoda
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Hershey in 1981
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Richard Thomas (actor)
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Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor. From 2013 to 2016, he starred in the FX drama series The Americans, Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara and Richard S. Thomas, in 1951. His parents were dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet and he attended The Allen Stevenson School and the McBurney School in Manhattan. Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello playing John Roosevelt, Thomas soon began his television career. In 1959, he appeared in the presentation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer and he then began acting in daytime TV, appearing in soap operas such as The Edge of Night and As the World Turns, which were broadcast from his native Manhattan. Thomas received his first major roles, appearing in Winning with Paul Newman, about auto racing, and Last Summer with Bruce Davison and Barbara Hershey. In 1971 he starred in the Universal Pictures Hal Wallis Production Red Sky at Morning and he became nationally recognized for his portrayal of John “John-Boy” Walton, Jr. in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real life of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He appeared in the 1971 pilot The Homecoming, and then played the role continuously in 122 episodes until March 17,1977, Thomas left the series and his role was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas returned to the role in three Waltons TV movies, 1993–97. Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1973 and he enrolled in Columbia College of Columbia University as a member of the class of 1973 but left after his junior year. In 1972, he played against type as murderer and rapist Kenneth Kinsolving in You’ll Like My Mother opposite Patty Duke. He played the roles of Private Henry Fleming in the 1974 TV movie The Red Badge of Courage. In 1980, Thomas made his first Broadway appearance in more than 12 years when he stepped in as a replacement in Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July, in 1987, he appeared on stage in Philadelphia and Washington DC in the one-man tour-de-force Citizen Tom Paine. In 1993, he played the role in a stage production of Richard II. In 1981, his book of poetry Glass was published as a limited edition by Kenward Elmslies Z Press. In 1990, he played the version of main character Bill in the TV adaptation of Stephen Kings novel It. Thomas starred with Maureen O’Hara and Annette O’Toole in the Hallmark Channel movie, The Christmas Box, oToole and Thomas starred in It five years earlier as the adult Beverly Marsh and adult Bill Denbrough. Thomas has appeared in a quartet of performances at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Richard III, in 1997 and 1998, he appeared on Touched by an Angel. He has served as chairman of the Better Hearing Institute, hosted the PAX TV series It’s a Miracle
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Thomas on the set of
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Catherine Burns
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Catherine Burns is an American actress of stage, film, radio and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Last Summer, born in New York City, Burns attended Hunter College High School, Hunter College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in 1970 she won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning. Burns made her debut in 1969 in Last Summer as sensitive, conservative Rhoda, receiving critical acclaim. The role also brought her the 1970 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress and her other film credits include Me, Natalie and Red Sky at Morning. Burnss television debut was the role of Mary Warren in Arthur Millers The Crucible and she went on to appear as the original Cathy Craig on One Life to Live in 1969. Her other TV credits include the adaptation of Arthur Millers play A Memory of Two Mondays, the miniseries The Word, the Mod Squad, Police Woman, The Waltons and The Bionic Woman. She continued on throughout the 1970s and into the mid-1980s. Her childrens book, The Winter Bird, was published by Windmill Books in 1971, staying behind when other birds go south for the winter, a little bird discovers a new way of life in the unusual world of carousel horses. She also was an actress on radio, appearing in 1973 on Mutuals The Zero Hour, during the 1990s, while employed as an office receptionist, she was writing a play about the first production of Maxim Gorkys The Lower Depths at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Catherine Burns at the Internet Movie Database Cathy Burns at AllMovie
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Burns in 1974.
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Last Summer
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Last Summer is a 1969 coming-of-age movie about adolescent sexuality based on the novel Last Summer by Evan Hunter. Director Frank Perry filmed at Fire Island locations, the stars of the film are Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas. The memorable performance by Burns brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she won a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award. While spending the summer on Fire Island, Peter and Dan, one afternoon they are joined by Rhoda, a plump 15-year-old who is anxious to make friends. When the boys discover that Sandy has brutally killed the gull for biting her, Peter begins to shift his attention to Rhoda, to Rhodas embarrassment, Sandy, Dan, and Peter get the man drunk and abandon him to three local bullies. Although Rhoda rebukes Peter for his behavior, she succeeds only in alienating him, dans plan of proving his manhood to Sandy is ruined when Rhoda tags along. Irritated by Rhodas intrusion into their clique, Sandy removes her bikini top, disgusted, Rhoda tries to leave, but Sandy goads the boys into holding her back. The frightened girl appeals to Peter for help, but he joins Sandy in pinning Rhoda to the ground while she is raped by Dan. Following the assault, the three leave, Sandy and Dan return to the beach while Peter hesitates on a dune near Rhoda. Eleanor Perrys screenplay was based on the novel by Evan Hunter, published in hardcover by Doubleday, the character of Dan was originally called David in the book but was changed for the film. A subplot involving a wounded seagull affected Barbara Hershey sufficiently for her to change her surname to Seagull for a couple of years, sondra Locke was offered the role of Sandy, but turned it down. Ralph Waite played father to Richard Thomas in this movie, then went on to play his father again in The Waltons, Evan Hunter, author of the source novel, wrote a sequel novel, which he titled Come Winter, in 1973. Hunter was working on the screenplay of Come Winter, however, Last Summer was one of a handful of high-profile X-rated movies that were released in 1969 along with the Oscar-winning best picture Midnight Cowboy and Haskell Wexlers docudrama Medium Cool. It was then edited down to an MPAA R-rating for its theatrical release, when the film is transmitted occasionally on cable, a further-censored PG-rated version is presented which cuts out all nudity and heavily edits the scene of Rhodas rape. The R-rated version is the one seen in the VHS videotape release, the film is not available on DVD, nor is the original X-rated version. All original 35mm prints of the film have been lost for years, in 2001 a 16mm print was located at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia after a two-year search and was brought to Los Angeles. Apparently it was the surviving film version of the movie. The film had an album of the score composed by John Simon
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Theatrical Poster
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Barbara Hershey,
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The Strawberry Statement (film)
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Bruce Davison, Simon Kim Darby, Linda Bud Cort, Elliott Murray MacLeod, George Tom Foral, The Coach Bob Balaban, Elliott The film details the life of one student. Its setting is not Columbia University in New York City but a university in Stockton, California. Thunderclap Newmans Something in the Air and numerous other songs are used on the soundtrack. Simon, a student at a university in San Francisco is indifferent to the student protests around him. While she quickly runs over to the toilets to dress, Simon protests to his roommate that their time should only be devoted to studying, so they can get good jobs, coming back clothed, the woman refuses setting another date with the roommate because shell be busy protesting. She explains the plan to construct a gymnasium in an African-American neighborhood. She tells him that she and others plan to take one of the universitys buildings. Simon later experiences love at first sight with a female student. Following her into the university building the students are taking over and she approaches him while he boringly fools around in the toilets. She says her name is Linda and asks him to rob a store with her so the striking students can eat. In a later student protest, Simon is arrested and he then tells Linda he is not a radical like her. He does not want to blow the building after doing his best to be accepted into the school in the first place. Linda later claims she cant see someone who is not likewise dedicated to the movement, nevertheless, she announces temporarily leaving college to decide for sure. In the showers, the rightist jock George beats up Simon, gaining fame, his friend tells him a white version of page 43 of Simons National Geographic looks for him. Alone in a room, a large breasted redhead with a tight sweater smiles at Simon. Seeing his injured lip, she puts his hands on her right breast. She then takes off her sweater telling Simon did you know Lenin loved women with big breasts, after quick flashes of her large breasts, Simon confirms liking them, but asks her if she saw The Graduate. Replying no, she takes him between some filing cabinets and takes off his belt, to her surprise, Simon does not want people to see whatever it is she plans to do to with him
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The Strawberry Statement
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Peege
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Peege is a 1973 American award-winning short student film, written and directed by Randal Kleiser, about a familys visit to an elderly relative in a nursing home. The film was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in December 2007, an elderly woman, nicknamed Peege and played by Jeanette Nolan, lives in a nursing home where she is suffering from blindness and ailing mental faculties. Her family makes regular visits to her every Christmas, but her health makes these occasions awkward for everyone else. The conversation is awkward, because most of the family treat Peege in a condescending fashion, as the family goes to leave, one of the grandsons remains behind briefly. He recounts to his grandmother that when he was a boy her laugh would always make happy, before tearfully departing. After his exit, the camera lingers on her face and her expression subtly shows he was successful, in the film he originally planned as his thesis, a Los Angeles theater company puts on an experimental play about a time traveller. Unwilling to lose ownership of his movie, he followed the advice of producer Curtis Harrington. He chose to write about his own visits to his grandmother, also nicknamed Peege. Each trip found her in poorer health, to the point where, according to Kleiser, the familys final journey to see her served as the inspiration for the script. There were no problems during shooting, and indeed the production enjoyed more than its share of good fortune. Next door to those offices was the studio for the television series Gunsmoke, and Jeanette Nolan, list of American films of 1973 Peege at the Internet Movie Database Peege
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Mame (film)
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Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. It was directed by Gene Saks, and adapted by Paul Zindel, the cast also stars Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison and Robert Preston. The story focuses on the life of Mame Dennis, which is disrupted when she becomes the guardian of her deceased brothers son. She marries a wealthy Southern plantation owner, is widowed, yet through it all, with the help of her dearest friend, Vera Charles, manages to keep things under control. At the reading of the will of young Patrick Denniss father, taking a train to New York City, Agnes and the boy arrive at Mames home, where they walk into a wild party that Mame is giving for a holiday she herself created. Patrick asks if he may slide down her banister, then reveals his true identity, Mame introduces the boy to her friends, including a renowned stage actress, Vera Charles. Mame decides that she wants to fill the childs life with adventure and she enrolls him in the School of Life, a very non-traditional school. But when Vera inadvertently leads Babcock to the school, Patrick is taken from Mames custody, simultaneously, the stock market crash leaves Mame penniless. Vera offers her a role as The Man in the Moon in her newest operetta about a lady astronomer. Mame flubs her one line and causes the play to be a disaster, Patrick, who was in the audience, reassures Mame that he still loves her. Mame works a string of jobs, one is in a department store, where she meets Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, to whom she attempts to sell a pair of roller skates. She cannot write up an order and is fired. Unable to remove the skates she has demonstrated, Mame roller skates home, dejected due to her inability to pay manservant Ito or Agnes, who have loyally stayed with her. Mame decides to lift spirits by decorating the house for Christmas and giving everyone their Christmas gifts early. Agnes and Ito surprise her with the news that the bill has been paid. Beau, who has been looking for Mame since she was fired, appears at her front door, Beau falls in love and brings Mame and Patrick to his familys plantation in Peckerwood, Georgia, where theyre greeted coolly by Sally Cato. A number of Beaus relatives, especially Mother Burnside and Cousin Fan, are unhappy about Beau marrying a Yankee, Sally decides to invite Mame to a foxhunt. Despite not knowing a thing about riding a horse, Mame accepts, after a wild ride, Mame accidentally captures the fox
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Original
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Short Eyes (1977 film)
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Short Eyes is a 1977 American film adaptation of the Miguel Piñero play of the same title, directed by Robert M. Young. Short Eyes is set in a prison in New York City. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrives. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him — pedophiles are considered the lowest form of prison life — except for Juan, one of the older prisoners. While Davis insists he doesnt remember raping the girl, he admits that he has molested several other children. The prosecutions case against Davis is weak and, unless Juan tells prison authorities about Davis confessions to him, as Juan struggles with what to do, the other prisoners plan to get rid of Davis permanently. Bruce Davison as Clark Davis Jose Perez as Juan Joseph Carberry as Longshoe Nathan George as Ice Don Blakely as El Raheem Tito Goya as Cupcakes Shawn Elliott as Paco Bob Maroff as Mr, the soundtrack was released on Mayfields Curtom Records. Short Eyes at the Internet Movie Database Short Eyes at AllMovie NYT Movie Review Short Eyes
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Original window card
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The Lathe of Heaven (film)
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The Lathe of Heaven is a 1980 film adaptation of the 1971 science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. It was produced in 1979 as part of New York City public television station WNETs Experimental TV Lab project, le Guin, by her own account, was involved in the casting, script planning, re-writing, and filming of the production. The film stars Bruce Davison as protagonist George Orr, Kevin Conway as Dr. William Haber, Orrs explanation of his drug abuse is incredible, he has known since age 17 that his dreams change reality, and tries to prevent himself from dreaming because he fears their effects. Haber initially considers Orrs fear as a symptom of neurosis or psychosis. He puts Orr into a trance, and encourages him to have an effective dream to record his brain function. These solutions unravel quickly, Haber suggests that Orr dream of an end to racism, a solution to overpopulation, only after numerous failed attempts to make the world right, Haber admits to Orr he believes in Orrs power. Having analyzed Orrs supremely complex dreaming brainwaves, Haber begins creating a machine that will enhance his own. Orr turns to lawyer Heather LeLache for help in getting out of his government-mandated treatments with Haber, LeLache doubts Orrs sanity, but agrees to help him, eventually becoming an ally. In his dying moments, Orr dreams a world where the war did not happen, Haber enters the final version of his machine for directing dreams, and learns this truth, driving him mad. Orr had joined him in the state, and was able to change the world back to a relatively normal version - not destroyed. The end of the film shows Orr working in a store run by an alien. She has no memory of him, but agrees to have lunch with him and they encounter Haber, wheelchair bound, on their way to lunch, and Haber recognizes Orr, but cannot come out of his catatonia. Bruce Davison as George Orr Kevin Conway as Dr. A, the first science fiction drama they created together was a 1972 film called Between Time and Timbuktu, based on the work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. In an interview in 2000, Barzyk said, David and I had a working relationship. If you really cut it down, I would run the set, but when it came to content and the actual physical structure of the set, we had equal input. The reason that was important, especially on Lathe, is that we had a limited budget. And lets face it, some of Ursulas ideas were pretty big, I mean, how the hell do we possibly even begin to portray the attack of aliens or the wiping out of billions of people with the plague. What it came down to was, we had to find metaphors and we had to find things that didnt cost that much money and still led to maybe the same kind of emotional impact
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Cover of the 2000 video/DVD release of The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
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Six Degrees of Separation (film)
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Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Schepisi, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Guare play of the same name. The plot of the film was inspired by the story of David Hampton. The writer John Guare was a friend of Inger McCabe Elliott, in October 1983, Hampton came to the Elliotts New York apartment and they allowed him to spend the night. The next morning, Inger found Hampton in bed with another man, the Elliotts told Guare about the story and it inspired him to write the play years later. Fifth Avenue socialite Ouisa Kittredge and her art dealer husband Flan are parents of two at Harvard and one at Groton, but the narrow world inhabited by the Kittredges and their public status as people interested in the arts make them easy prey for Paul. Paul, a skillful con-artist, mysteriously appears at their one night, injured and bleeding, claiming to be a close college friend of their Ivy League kids. Ouisa and Flan are much impressed by Pauls fine taste, keen wit, articulate literary expositions and his appealing facade soon has the Kittredges putting him up, lending him money and taking satisfaction in his praise for their posh lifestyle. Pauls scheme continues until, after he brings home a hustler, Pauls schemes become highbrow-legend, anecdotal accounts which are bantered about at their cocktail parties. In the end, Paul has an effect on the many individuals who encounter him. It was also the actress Stockard Channings most successful film since 1978s Grease
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Theatrical release poster
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Dean Torrence
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Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence. In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound, among their most successful songs was 1963s Surf City, the first surf song to top the Hot 100. Their other charting top 10 singles were Drag City, The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, and Dead Mans Curve, in 2013, Torrences design contribution of the Surf City Allstars In Concert CD was named a Silver Award of Distinction at the Communicator Awards competition. William Jan Berry, was the son of Clara Lorentze Mustad and aeronautical engineer William L. Berry, Jans father was manager of the Spruce Goose. Dean Ormsby Torrence is the son of Natalie Ormsby and Maurice Dean Torrence, a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company. Berry and Torrence, both born in Los Angeles, California, met while students at Emerson Junior High School in Westwood, Los Angeles, and both were on the schools football team. By 1957, they were students in the Vagabond Class of 1958 at the nearby University High School, Berry and Torrence had adjoining lockers, and after football practice, they began harmonizing together in the showers with several other football players, including future actor James Brolin. Wally Yagi, John Sagi Seligman, with Berry singing bass, during its short duration Sandy Nelson, Torrences neighbor, played drums, and future Beach Boy, Bruce Johnston, occasionally sang and played piano. During primitive recording sessions in the garage, Berry served as producer and arranger, in 1958 the Barons performed to popular acclaim at the talent competition at University High School, covering contemporary hits like Get a Job, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, and Short Shorts. However, after the contest, various members of the Barons drifted away, leaving only Berry and Torrence, who tried to write their own songs. After being inspired by a poster featuring a local, Hollywood burlesque performer, Virginia Lee Hicks, who was performing as Jennie Lee. Main St, Los Angeles, Ginsburg wrote a song, Jennie Lee. Berry adapted the Civil War tune Aura Lea and arranged the harmonies, Altfeld belting out the rhythm on a childrens metal high chair. The next day Berry took their recording to Radio Recorders, a recording studio. Joe Lubin, Vice President and Head of A & R of Doris Day and Martin Melchers Arwin Records, was impressed and offered to add instruments, in March 1958 the fathers of Berry and Ginsburg signed contracts authorizing Lubin to produce, arrange, and manage their sons. Berry and Ginsburg, now christened Jan & Arnie, re-recorded their vocals on a recording system. Produced by Lubin, Jennie Lee, backed with Gotta Get a Date, according to Berrys biographer Mark A. Moore, The song had a raucous R&B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings. Distributed by Dot Records, Jennie Lee was released in mid-April, entered the charts on May 10,1958, the same day they appeared on ABCs Dick Clark Show
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Jan and Dean in 1964
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Album Cover of the Year
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Berry and Torrence in 1985
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Richard Hatch (actor)
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Richard Lawrence Hatch was an American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, Hatch was born on May 21,1945 in Santa Monica, California. While in high school, he aspired to become an athlete in pole vaulting, I was expressing feelings and emotions I tended to keep locked inside of myself. Hatch began his career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater, as well as shows in Chicago. Hatch began working in television in 1970 when he starred as Philip Brent in the soap opera All My Children. Though the role was for one season, Hatch won Germanys Bravo Youth Magazine Award for the role. Following this, he had a role on the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Hatch then gained a role in Glen A. Larsons sci-fi series, Battlestar Galactica. Hatch was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the role, Hatch led an effort to revive the series. However, his vision was ultimately passed over in favor of Ronald D. Moores re-imagined Battlestar Galactica in which Hatch guest starred as Tom Zarek. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hatch made guest appearances on series as Hotel, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Baywatch, Dynasty. In 1990, Hatch returned to soap operas and appeared on Santa Barbara. His next prominent role would be as Tom Zarek in the version of Battlestar Galactica. Hatch made several low-key theatrical film releases, including Charlie Chan and he starred with Leif Garrett in Party Line. Hatch attempted to revive Battlestar Galactica, original actors John Colicos, Terry Carter and Jack Stauffer appeared in the trailer with Hatch. Hatch, who reportedly remortgaged his house to make the trailer, was disappointed by this turn of events and was highly critical of the prospective new series. In 2004, he stated to Sci-Fi Pulse that he had felt resentment over the failure of his planned Galactica continuation and was left exhausted, I had, over the past several years, bonded deeply with the original characters and story
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Hatch at
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Karen Lynn Gorney and Hatch in All My Children
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Hatch at
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Summer of My German Soldier (TV film)
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Summer of My German Soldier is a 1978 American made-for-television war drama romance film based on the novel of the same name written by Bette Greene. It stars Kristy McNichol as a Jewish-American girl and Bruce Davison as the German prisoner of war whom she befriends, twelve-year-old Patty Bergen lives in the small American town of Jenkinsville, Georgia, during World War II. Pattys family owns the clothing and general supplies store, in which Patty occasionally works. Pattys abusive father and uncaring mother have little time for her, however, Patty does have a friend in Ruth, the familys black, middle-aged housekeeper. Soon after, Anton escapes from the POW camp and is on the run and he is about to escape on a train when Patty sees him and scuppers his plans. Rather than inform the authorities, Patty hides the young soldier in some abandoned rooms above the familys disused garage, Anton shows Patty a warmth and respect that she never had from her cold family and the two become close friends. Anton is almost exposed when he sees Pattys father beating her one-day and nobly runs out of hiding to protect her and she does not approve of Patty harboring him, but agrees to keep her secret and helps by giving Anton food. Before long, the FBI begin conducting a search of the town looking for Anton. When they call at the Bergens home, Patty runs out to the garage to warn Anton that he must leave immediately or he will be caught, Anton flees from the garage after thanking Patty for her help and gives her a valuable ring that belonged to his grandfather. However, while trying to leave the town that night, the FBI finds Anton, the FBI return to the Bergens house that night and relay the news of Antons death to Patty, who is utterly devastated. Appalled to hear that his own daughter aided a German prisoner, her father disowns her. She is also alienated by the townsfolk who now view her as a traitor. The only person who talks to her is Ruth, who has now been fired from her job as housekeeper. Ruth tries to comfort Patty in her grief and tells the townsfolk to leave Patty alone as only God has the right to stand in judgment of her, the film differs from the original 1973 novel in various ways, In the novel, Jenkinsville is set in Arkansas. In the film, the town is set in Georgia, at the end of the novel, Patty is sent to reform school for aiding an escaped POW. In the film, it is stated that she will be released into the custody of her parents following her trial, at the end of the novel, Patty plans to one day go and visit Antons mother in Germany after the war is over. In the film, Anton tells Patty that his mother died when she was visiting Dresden, in the novel, Anton escapes from Jenkinsville and makes it to New York City where he is discovered and shot while trying to escape. In the film, Anton is shot before he manages to leave Jenkinsville, the novel introduces more of Pattys family, including her grandparents
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Nazi
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National Socialism, more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and Nazi Germany, as well as other far-right groups. Nazism subscribed to theories of racial hierarchy and Social Darwinism, identifying Germans as part of what Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race and it aimed to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous society, unified on the basis of racial purity. The term National Socialism arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, the Nazi Partys precursor, the Pan-German nationalist and anti-Semitic German Workers Party, was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler assumed control of the organisation, following the Holocaust and German defeat in World War II, only a few fringe racist groups, usually referred to as neo-Nazis, still describe themselves as following National Socialism. The full name of Adolf Hitlers party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the shorthand Nazi was formed from the first two syllables of the German pronunciation of the word national. The term was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a peasant, characterizing an awkward. It derived from Ignaz, being a version of Ignatius, a common name in Bavaria. Opponents seized on this and shortened the first word of the name, Nationalsozialistische. The NSDAP briefly adopted the Nazi designation, attempting to reappropriate the term, the use of Nazi Germany, Nazi regime, and so on was popularised by German exiles abroad. From them, the spread into other languages and was eventually brought back to Germany after World War II. In English, Nazism is a name for the ideology the party advocated. The majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as a form of far-right politics, far-right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate over other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements. Adolf Hitler and other proponents officially portrayed Nazism as being neither left- nor right-wing, but the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms, a major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist Freikorps, paramilitary organisations that engaged in political violence after World War I. The Nazis stated the alliance was purely tactical and there remained substantial differences with the DNVP, the Nazis described the DNVP as a bourgeois party and called themselves an anti-bourgeois party. After the elections in 1932, the alliance broke after the DNVP lost many of its seats in the Reichstag, the Nazis denounced them as an insignificant heap of reactionaries. The DNVP responded by denouncing the Nazis for their socialism, their violence. Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was pressured to abdicate the throne and flee into exile amidst an attempted communist revolution in Germany, there were factions in the Nazi Party, both conservative and radical
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Foreground, left to right: Führer
Adolf Hitler;
Hermann Göring; Minister of Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels;
Rudolf Hess
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Nazis alongside members of the far-right
reactionary and
monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP), during the brief Nazi-DNVP alliance in the
Harzburg Front from 1931 to 1932
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte, considered one of the fathers of German nationalism
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Tales from the Darkside
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Tales from the Darkside is an American anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, it debuted in 1983. Each episode was a short story that often ended with a plot twist. The series episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, the moderate success of George A. Romeros horror anthology film Creepshow led to initial inquiries about the possibilities of a Creepshow series. Some episodes of the series were written by or adapted from the works of famous authors, stephen Kings short stories Word Processor of the Gods and Sorry, Right Number were amongst them. Works by Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison, Clive Barker, Michael Bishop, Robert Bloch, John Cheever, Michael McDowell, a number of stories and episode novelizations were published in the book Tales from the Darkside, Volume One in 1988. The series was followed by Tales from the Darkside, The Movie in 1990, stephen King also contributed a short story to this film, The Cat From Hell. The film starred Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, William Hickey, Steve Buscemi, tom Savini has called this film The real Creepshow 3. The series was syndicated weekly by Tribune Broadcasting, with most stations airing it after midnight. After ending production, it was picked up by LBS Communications for barter-based syndication, Worldvision Enterprises later became the series distributor, and the rights currently are held by Worldvision successor CBS Television Distribution. The opening/closing theme to the series was performed by Donald Rubinstein, Donald had worked on scores for Laurel Productions in the past, such as the films Martin and Knightriders. But. there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, each episode would also end with a second voice-over during the closing credits, The darkside is always there, waiting for us to enter - waiting to enter us. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight, see List of Tales from the Darkside episodes. CBS Home Entertainment has released the four seasons of Tales from the Darkside on DVD in Region 1, in Region 2, Revelation Films has released all four seasons on DVD in the UK. The DVD release contains an altered soundtrack without the music score. Episodes released on VHS during the 1980s do contain the music score throughout. In November 2013, it was announced that Joe Hill, Alex Kurtzman, at Comic Con 2014 Joe Hill announced that he would serve as the creative director and will guide the course of the show. When asked about the project Hill said, Darkside is a reboot of Tales From The Darkside. It tells stories about different characters and it also tells an ongoing story
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Joseph Papp
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Joseph Joe Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in downtown New York, there, Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new creations, both plays and musicals. Papp was born Joseph Papirofsky in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of Yetta, a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky and his parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was a school student of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence. Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954, with the aim of making Shakespeares works accessible to the public, in 1957, he was granted the use of Central Park for free productions of Shakespeares plays. This legacy of Papp has continued at the open-air Delacorte Theatre every summer in Central Park, Papp spent years of entrepreneurial zeal and dogged persistence promoting his idea of free Shakespeare in New York City. Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who played Kate the shrew, recalled the beginning of the shift in fortune, With Brooks Atkinsons blessing, suddenly in our audience of neighbors in T-shirts and jeans appeared men in white shirts, jackets and ties, and ladies in summer dresses. Suddenly we were the play to see, and everything changed and we were in a hit that would have a positive effect on my career, as well as Joes, but I missed the shouting. I missed the feeling of not knowing what might happen next or how that play would that night move an audience unafraid of talking back, after looking at other locations, he fell in love with the location and the character of Lafayette Street’s Astor Library. Papp got it, in 1967, at a one dollar yearly rental from the City. It was the first building saved from demolition under the New York City landmarks preservation law, after massive renovations, Papp moved his staff to the newly named Public Theater, hoping to attract a newer, less conventional audience to new and innovative playwrights. At the Public Theater, Papps focus moved away from the Shakespearean classics, notable Public Theater productions included Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody and the plays of David Rabe, Tom Babe, and Jason Miller. Papp called his productions of Rabes plays the most important thing I did at the Public, Papp managed to produce plays that spoke to their own time. As festival designer Ming Cho Lee put it, “With the new playwrights, Joe changed direction and none of us realized for a while that he had changed direction. The Public Theater became more important than the Delacorte, the new playwrights became more interesting to Joe than Shakespeare. A Chorus Line originated with a series of taped interviews of dancers reminiscences, down at the Public, Papp had given Bennett the kind of entrepreneurial support for which he was known, trusting Bennett with the time and space to flesh out his dream. Previously, Papp had not kept his producers hands on the rights to Hair, after this ground-breaking musical transferred to a highly lucrative Broadway run, the shows earnings became a continuous financial support for Papps work. The show received 12 Tony Award nominations and won nine of them and it ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time
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The Joseph Papp Public Theater
Joseph Papp
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The
Delacorte Theater where Shakespeare in the Park is performed
Joseph Papp
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The
Golden Theatre,
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre,
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and
Booth Theatre on
West 45th Street in
Manhattan's Theatre District
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Public Theater
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It is headquartered at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in the East Village section of Lower Manhattan. The venue opened in 1967, mounting the world-premiere production of the musical HAIR as its first show and it is led by Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham. The Public also operates the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where it presents Shakespeare in the Park, New York natives and visitors alike have been enjoying free Shakespeare in Central Park since performances began in 1954. In addition to each season of full-scale theatrical productions, The Public also produces a number of different series, festivals, in 2008, The Public presented its inaugural Public LAB series, an annual series of new plays presented in collaboration with LAByrinth Theater Company. With each Public LAB show, corresponding speaker series are presented as after-show talkbacks to discuss prominent themes, ideas, the premiere production of Public LAB SHAKESPEARE was Timon of Athens in March 2011, featuring Richard Thomas in the title role. Past venues include Rikers Island, Borden Avenues Veterans Shelter, the Public also launched its inaugural Public Works production in 2013. Past Public Works productions include The Tempest, The Winters Tale, the Public Forum, begun in 2010, is an exciting series of lectures, debates and conversations that showcase leading voices in the arts, politics and the media. Curated by Jeremy McCarter, a writer at Newsweek, Public Forum events explore issues raised by plays in The Publics season. In keeping with the best traditions of The Public, the Forum hosts a diversity of views. Notable participants in the series include Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, Arianna Huffington, Alec Baldwin, the Public hosts the annual Under the Radar Festival, a festival tracking new theater from around the world. Over the last 12 years, The Public’s Under the Radar Festival has presented over 194 companies from 40 countries. These artists provide a snapshot of theater today, richly distinct in terms of perspectives, aesthetics, and social practice, the Public serves as the home of the Emerging Writers Group, which seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers. In so doing, The Public hopes to create a home for a diverse. The Public Writers Initiative creates a community and fosters a web of supportive artistic relationships across generations. The Emerging Writers Group is a component of The Public Writers Initiative, the Public also fosters Public Studio, a performance series dedicated to developing the works of new and emerging theater artists. The Public Theater invests in education, training classical actors through the annual summer acting intensive known as the Shakespeare Lab. The Public also educates through its Shakespeare Spring Break, Summer ShakeUP, suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Master Writer Chair of The Public, debuted her performance piece Watch Me Work as part of the 2011 Under The Radar Festival. As of April 2011, Parks continues to perform the piece in the lobby of The Public Theater
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(2011)
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The Astor Library in the latter half of the 19th century
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A drawing of the Library published in 1900
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The set of Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? in the Shiva Theater
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New York Shakespeare Festival
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Shakespeare in the Park is a theatrical program that stages productions of Shakespearean plays at an open theater in New York Citys Central Park. The theater and the productions are managed by the Public Theater, originally branded as the New York Shakespeare Festival under the direction of Joseph Papp, the institution was renamed in 2002 as part of a larger reorganization by the Public Theater. The festival was conceived by director-producer Joseph Papp in 1954. Papp began with a series of Shakespeare workshops, then moved on to free productions on the Lower East Side, eventually, the plays moved to a lawn in front of Turtle Pond in Central Park. In 1959, parks commissioner Robert Moses demanded that Papp and his charge a fee for the performances to cover the cost of grass erosion. Papp continued to fight Moses, winning his enduring respect and the quote well, following this, Moses requested funds from the city for the construction of an amphitheater in the park. In 1961, the Delacorte Theater was built, the first performance held in the theater in 1962 was Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice, starring George C. Scott and James Earl Jones. The Delacorte Theater is an amphitheater located on the southwest corner of the Great Lawn in Central Park, closest to the entrance at 81st Street. It was built in 1961 and named for George T. Delacorte, belvedere Castle and Turtle Pond provide a backdrop for the shows at the Delacorte. As shows at the Delacorte begin in the evening, shows usually start in daylight, as the play rolls on, the sun sets. Since 1962 the Public has had the privilege of its exclusive use, tickets to Shakespeare in the Park are free and can only be obtained the day of a performance. At 12 noon tickets are distributed, two per person, at the Delacorte to the line of people that usually springs up early in the morning when the park opens at 6 a. m. Anyone five years old and older can obtain and are required to have a ticket should they wish to see the show, the 2013 Season features a new policy that one person can only obtain two tickets for two performances of one production. In addition to the line which snakes through the park the Public also offers a few other options to get tickets. One being the line for Seniors which begins at the benches closest to the box office. The tickets provided to that line have easy access inside the theater and are available to persons 65. ID is required to obtain the tickets, in 2009 the Public introduced the Virtual Ticketing system which is an online drawing to win tickets to that days performance without waiting in line in person. On the day of a show, users can log on to shakespeareinthepark. org anytime between midnight and 11,59 a. m. to register for that evening’s performance
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The
Delacorte Theater where Shakespeare in the Park is operated.
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Awaiting tickets
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Richard III (play)
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Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England, the play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the edition, it is termed a tragedy. Richard III concludes Shakespeares first tetralogy and it is the second longest play in the canon after Hamlet, and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet is shorter than its Quarto counterpart. The play is rarely performed unabridged, often, certain characters are removed entirely. In such instances extra lines are often invented or added from elsewhere in the sequence to establish the nature of characters relationships. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, Richard is an ugly hunchback who is rudely stampd, deformed, unfinishd, and cannot strut before a wanton ambling nymph. He responds to the anguish of his condition with an outcasts credo, Richard now schemes to woo the Lady Anne – Anne Neville, widow of the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. He confides to the audience, Ill marry Warwicks youngest daughter, what, though I killd her husband and her father. The scene then changes to reveal Lady Anne accompanying the corpse of the late king Henry VI, along with Trestle and Berkeley, on its way to be interred at St Pauls cathedral. She asks them to set down the honourable load – if honour may be shrouded in a hearse, Richard suddenly appears and demands that the unmannerd dog carrying the hearse set it down, at which point a brief verbal wrangling takes place. Despite initially hating him, Anne is won over by his pleas of love and repentance, when she leaves, Richard exults in having won her over despite all he has done to her, and tells the audience that he will discard her once she has served her purpose. The atmosphere at court is poisonous, The established nobles are at odds with the upwardly mobile relatives of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, Henry VIs widow, returns in defiance of her banishment and warns the squabbling nobles about Richard. Queen Margaret curses Richard and the rest who were present, the nobles, all Yorkists, reflexively unite against this last Lancastrian, and the warning falls on deaf ears. Richard orders two murderers to kill Clarence in the tower, Clarence, meanwhile, relates a dream to his keeper. The dream includes vivid language describing Clarence falling from a ship as a result of Gloucester. Under the water Clarence sees the skeletons of thousands of men that fishes gnawed upon and he also sees wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels. All of these are scatterd in the bottom of the sea, Clarence adds that some of the jewels were in the skulls of the dead
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Frontispage of the
First Quarto Richard The Third
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English actor
David Garrick as Richard III just before the battle of
Bosworth Field. His sleep having been haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered, he wakes to the realisation that he is alone in the world and death is imminent. The painting,
David Garrick as Richard III (1745), by
William Hogarth.
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The first page of Richard III, printed in the Second Folio of 1632
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A scene from Richard III, directed by
Keith Fowler for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg, site of the first Shakespearean performances in America. (Here Richard is stabbed with a boar spear by the Earl of Richmond.)
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Paula Vogel
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Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive, Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama. Vogel was born in Washington, D. C. to Donald Stephen Vogel, an executive, and Phyllis Rita Bremerman. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1969 to 1970 and 1971 to 1972, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America and Cornell University. A productive playwright since the late 1970s, Vogel first came to prominence with her AIDS-related seriocomedy The Baltimore Waltz. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, other notable plays include Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief, The Oldest Profession, And Baby Makes Seven, Hot N Throbbing, and The Mineola Twins. Her play The Oldest Profession was first read in February 1981 at the Hudson Guild, New York City, the play premiered in April 1988 at Theatre Network in Edmonton, Canada and 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon, Canada, directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher. Subsequent productions include a reading at Brown University in April 1990, the play premiered Off-Broadway in September 2004 in a Signature Theatre Company production. And Baby Makes Seven premiered Off-Broadway in April 1993, produced by the Circle Repertory Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the cast featured Peter Frechette, Cherry Jones and Mary Mara. It was first produced by Theatre with Teeth, New York City, in January 1984 and it was then produced at Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, in February 1986, directed by Kris Gannon. Desdemona was first produced by the Bay Street Theatre Festival, Sag Harbor, New York in July 1993, the productions starred J. Smith-Cameron as Desdemona and Cherry Jones as Bianca. Second Stage Theatre produced How I Learned to Drive in February 2012, a Civil War Christmas was presented Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, from November 13,2012 to December 30,2012. The play was directed by Tina Landau and featured Alice Ripley, the play was nominated for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director and Outstanding Costume Design, and won the Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland, Oregon is presenting A Civil War Christmas, An American Musical Celebration, from November 22 to December 23,2016. Vogels play, Indecent, co-created and directed by Rebecca Taichman, premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre on October 2,2015, Indecent was a finalist for the 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama. The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, running from April 27,2016, officially on May 17,2016, the play was nominated for the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play. Indecent premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre on April 4,2017 in previews, the Off-Broadway cast, featuring Adina Verson and Katrina Lenk, will reprise their roles in the Broadway production, with additional cast including Ben Cherry, Andrea Goss, and Eleanor Reissa. The play is being produced by Vineyard Theatre in association with La Jolla Playhouse, although no particular theme or topic dominates her work, she often examines traditionally controversial issues such as sexual abuse and prostitution
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Paula Vogel at the WIlliam Inge Festival in 2010, where she was the honoree
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Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prize /ˈpʊlᵻtsər/ is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each receives a certificate. The winner in the service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also only be entered in a maximum of two categories, regardless of their properties, each year,102 jurors are selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board to serve on 20 separate juries for the 21 award categories, one jury makes recommendations for both photography awards. For each award category, a jury makes three nominations, the board selects the winner by majority vote from the nominations or bypasses the nominations and selects a different entry following a 75% majority vote. The board can also vote to issue no award, the board and journalism jurors are not paid for their work, however, the jurors in letters, music, and drama receive a $2,000 honorarium for the year, and each chair receives $2,500. Anyone whose work has been submitted is called an entrant, the jury selects a group of nominated finalists and announces them, together with the winner for each category. However, some journalists who were submitted, but not nominated as finalists. For example, Bill Dedman of msnbc, Dedman wrote, To call that submission a Pulitzer nomination is like saying that Adam Sandler is an Oscar nominee if Columbia Pictures enters Thats My Boy in the Academy Awards. Many readers realize that the Oscars dont work that way—the studios dont pick the nominees and its just a way of slipping Academy Awards into a bio. The Pulitzers also dont work that way, but fewer people know that, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships and he specified four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships. After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4,1917, many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the person to have won a Prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. Four prizes Robert Frost, Poetry Eugene ONeill, Drama Robert E, in rare instances, contributors to the entry are singled out in the citation in a manner analogous to individual winners. Journalism awards may be awarded to individuals or newspapers or newspaper staffs, infrequently, Awards are made in categories relating to journalism, arts, letters and fiction
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Pulitzer Prize
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Spies Like Us
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Spies Like Us is a 1985 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon. The film presents the comic adventures of two novice intelligence agents sent to the Soviet Union. Originally written by Aykroyd and Dave Thomas to star Aykroyd and John Belushi at Universal, the film is an homage to the famous Road to … film series which starred Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Hope himself makes a cameo in one scene, other cameos in the film include directors Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, Costa-Gavras and Joel Coen, musician B. B. King, and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, austin Millbarge is a basement-dwelling codebreaker at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Emmett Fitz-Hume, a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy, Millbarge and Fitz-Hume meet during the test, on which Fitz-Hume openly attempts to cheat after an attempt to bribe his immediate supervisor in exchange for the answers backfires. Millbarge, however, was forced to take the test, having had one day to prepare after his supervisor gives him a notice that was two weeks old. Meanwhile, professional agents are well on their way to reaching the real objective, the main team takes a loss, while Millbarge and Fitz-Hume escape enemy attacks and eventually encounter Karen Boyer, the only surviving operative from the main team. In the Pamir Mountains of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, the trio overpowers a mobile missile guard unit using hastily constructed extraterrestrial outfits, following orders in real-time from the intelligence agency, they begin to operate the launcher. At the end of their instructions, the vehicle launches the ICBM into space, thinking they have begun a nuclear war, the American agents and their Soviet counterparts pair up to have sex before the world ends. The purpose of sending the agents to launch a Soviet ICBM is thereby exposed as a means to test this anti-ballistic missile system. Unfortunately, the laser fails to intercept the missile, which is heading for the U. S. Immediately after, the bunker is stormed by U. S. Army Rangers. Millbarge, Fitz-Hume, and Boyer go on to become nuclear disarmament negotiators, the title song, Spies Like Us, was written and performed by Paul McCartney. It reached #7 on the chart in the United States in early 1986. It also reached #13 in the UK, the films score was composed by Elmer Bernstein and performed by the Graunke Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. The soundtrack album was released by Varèse Sarabande, it not contain the Paul McCartney song. The film also featured Soul Finger, by the Bar-Kays, also absent from the soundtrack, the Ace Tomato Company Off To Spy Russians In The Desert Pass In The Tent Escape To The Bus The Road To Russia Rally Round W. A. M. P
Spies Like Us
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Theatrical release poster illustrated by
John Alvin
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Dan Aykroyd
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Daniel Edward Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, musician and businessman. He was an member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live. A musical sketch he performed with John Belushi on SNL, The Blues Brothers, turned into a performing band and then a highly successful 1980 film. He conceived and starred in Ghostbusters, which spawned a sequel, in 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy. He starred in his own sitcom, Soul Man, from 1997–98, Aykroyd is also a successful businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Head Vodka brand. Aykroyd was born on Canada Day,1952 at Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario and he grew up in Ottawa, Canadas capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène, was a secretary and his mother was of French Canadian descent and his father of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch and French ancestry. His brother, Peter, is also an actor, Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the film Mr. Mikes Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled Dont Look Back In Anger. Aykroyd was raised in the Catholic Church, and until age 17 he intended to become a priest and he attended St. Pius X and St. Patricks high schools, and studied criminology and sociology at Carleton University, but dropped out before completing his degree. He worked as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and ran a speakeasy, Club 505. Aykroyd developed his career in Ottawa, particularly through his regular attendances at Le Hibou. He describes these influences as follows. there was a disco club there called Le Hibou. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, I actually jammed behind Muddy Waters. S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and I walked on stage and we started, I dont know, Little Red Rooster, something. He said keep that going, you make Muddy feel good. Many, many times I saw Howlin Wolf, and of course Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. So I was exposed to all of these players, playing there as part of scene to service the academic community in Ottawa. He was a member of the Second City comedy troupe in 1973 in both Toronto and Chicago, Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live
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Aykroyd in February 2009
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Aykroyd (right) on the set of
The Great Outdoors, 1987
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Aykroyd in
Santa Monica, California for a documentary about Ghostbusters
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Aykroyd's star on
Canada's Walk of Fame
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Chevy Chase
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Cornelius Crane Chevy Chase is an American actor, writer, comedian and producer. Born into a prominent New York family, he worked a plethora of jobs before moving into comedy. He immediately became a key cast member in the season of Saturday Night Live. He has hosted the Academy Awards twice and briefly had his own talk show. Chase was born in Lower Manhattan, New York, and was raised in Woodstock and his father, Edward Tinsley Ned Chase, was a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. His maternal grandmother, Cathalene, was a singer who performed several times at Carnegie Hall. Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius, while the nickname Chevy was bestowed by his grandmother, as a descendant of the Scottish Clan Douglas, the name seemed appropriate to her. Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker, and was listed in the Social Register at an early age, according to his brother John, once told me that people who defined themselves in terms of their ancestry were like potatoes – the best parts of them were underground. He disdained the pretension of my mothers side of the family, as embodied by her mother, as a child, Chase vacationed at Castle Hill, the Cranes summer estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Chases parents divorced when he was four, his father remarried into the Folgers coffee family and he has stated that he grew up in an upper middle class environment and that his adoptive maternal grandfather did not bequeath any assets to Chases mother when he died. In a 2007 biography, Chase stated that he was physically and psychologically abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, both his parents died in 2005. Chase attended Riverdale Country School before being expelled and he ultimately graduated from the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He then attended Haverford College during the 1962–63 term, where he was noted for slapstick comedy, Chase transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied a pre-med curriculum and graduated in 1967 with a BA in English. Chase did not enter medical school, which meant he would be subject to the military draft, Chase played drums with the college band The Leather Canary, headed by school friends Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Chase has called the group a bad jazz band, Becker and he played drums and keyboards for a rock band called Chamaeleon Church, which recorded one album for MGM Records before disbanding in 1969. Chase was a member of an underground comedy ensemble called Channel One which he co-founded in 1967. He also wrote a spoof on Mission, Impossible for Mad Magazine in 1970 and was a writer for the short-lived Smothers Brothers TV show comeback in the spring of 1975. Chase made the move to comedy as a career by 1973, when he became a cast member of The National Lampoon Radio Hour
Chevy Chase
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Chase at
PaleyFest in March 2010
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Chevy Chase at the private party after the premiere of the movie
A Star is Born, December 1976
Chevy Chase
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Chevy Chase with
CA-TF7 Search and Rescue. He thanked them for their work at
World Trade Center after
September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Gerald Ford and Chevy Chase sit before the Conference on Humor and the Presidency held at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in 1986.
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Humankind
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Modern humans are the only extant members of Hominina tribe, a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. Several of these hominins used fire, occupied much of Eurasia and they began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. In several waves of migration, anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa, the spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide. Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. Humans create complex structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals. These human societies subsequently expanded in size, establishing various forms of government, religion, today the global human population is estimated by the United Nations to be near 7.5 billion. In common usage, the word generally refers to the only extant species of the genus Homo—anatomically and behaviorally modern Homo sapiens. In scientific terms, the meanings of hominid and hominin have changed during the recent decades with advances in the discovery, there is also a distinction between anatomically modern humans and Archaic Homo sapiens, the earliest fossil members of the species. The English adjective human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the words use as a noun dates to the 16th century. The native English term man can refer to the species generally, the species binomial Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th century derivation from Latin homō man, the species-name sapiens means wise or sapient. Note that the Latin word homo refers to humans of either gender, the genus Homo evolved and diverged from other hominins in Africa, after the human clade split from the chimpanzee lineage of the hominids branch of the primates. The closest living relatives of humans are chimpanzees and gorillas, with the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA sequences range between 95% and 99%. The gibbons and orangutans were the first groups to split from the leading to the humans. The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4–8 million years ago during the late Miocene epoch, during this split, chromosome 2 was formed from two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes. There is little evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee. Each of these species has been argued to be an ancestor of later hominins
Humankind
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Reconstruction of
Homo habilis, the earliest known species of the genus Homo and the first human ancestor to use stone tools
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World map of early human migrations according to
mitochondrial population genetics (numbers are
millennia before present, the North Pole is at the center).
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The rise of
agriculture, and
domestication of animals, led to stable
human settlements.
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The Cure (1995 film)
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The Cure is a 1995 drama film starring Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello about two boys searching for the cure of AIDS, from which one of them is suffering. It was produced by Eric Eisner and Mark Burg, set in a small town of Stillwater, Minnesota, Erik is a 13-year-old adolescent loner with an emotionally abusive and neglectful workaholic mother, Gail who hardly spends time with him. His father, who treated Erik considerably better than his mother, Dexter, an 11-year-old boy who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion, is Eriks neighbor. Initially, Dexter is put off by Erik, but they become good friends despite their differences. Erik seeks a family in Dexter and his mother, Linda, due to his bad relationship with Gail. Gail discovers the one night after Linda comes over to ask Erik about something Dexter ate in the boys quest to find a natural cure for his disease. She is furious and warns Linda to keep Dexter away, but Linda, initially, the boys start taking a boat down the river with a bunch of degenerates, but eventually steal their money and try to hitchhike the rest of the way. When the boatmen find that their money has been stolen, they locate the kids at a bus station, Erik draws a switchblade, causing one of the men to draw a knife as well. Dexter suddenly grabs the knife from Erik, and cuts his hand to cause himself to bleed and he threatens the boatman with his blood, saying that he has AIDS and could easily transfer the disease to him. Dexter then chases the boatmen off, threatening them with his bleeding hand, once the two men are gone, Dexter realizes what he has done in directly exposing his blood to the outside environment. He suddenly feels sick, so Erik helps to escort him back to the bus station, realizing that their journey must end if Dexter is to be treated, Erik resorts to calling Linda to have her pick the boys up when they arrive on the bus in Stillwater. Once they return, Dexter spends the rest of his time in the hospital, Erik stays with Linda, knowing that not only will Gail be angry, but she will not let him visit Dexter in the hospital. Dexter and Erik prank the doctors three times that Dexters dead, but when the third doctor arrives to check him, Dexter really has died. While driving Erik home, Linda notices a mother holding her child while crossing the street. With the child serving as a reminder of Dexter, she pulls over, Erik apologizes to her, saying that he should have tried harder to find a cure. Linda, taken aback by his comment, embraces Erik, explaining that he was the happiest thing in Dexters difficult life, upon arrival at home, they are confronted by a furious Gail. When Gail starts to hit Erik, Linda quickly intervenes and asks to talk to her privately, realizing all that she has done to Erik, Gail breaks down and guiltily complies. At the funeral, Erik places one of his shoes in the coffin and this way, the shoes represent the boys souls and their will to live
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Theatrical release poster
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Streamers (play)
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Streamers is a play by David Rabe. In charge of their barracks are abrasive alcoholic Sgt, Cokes, who already has served overseas, and aggressive Sgt. Rooney, who is anxious to get into combat, the title is a reference to parachutes that fail to open. Streamers originally was a play entitled Knives Rabe completed in the late 1960s prior to writing the first two-thirds of his trilogy. While working as a journalist in New Haven, Connecticut, he expanded it into a full-length play, under the direction of Mike Nichols, it premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre on January 30,1976. The cast included Herbert Jefferson, Jr. as Roger, Peter Evans as Richie, John Heard as Billy, Joe Fields as Carlyle, Dolph Sweet as Cokes, Streamers premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in 1976. The play transferred to the Off-Broadway Lincoln Center Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater opening on April 21,1976, the cast included Terry Alexander as Roger, Paul Rudd as Billy and Dorian Harewood as Carlyle, with Evans, Sweet, and McMillian reprising their Long Wharf roles. Later in the run Mark Metcalf replaced Rudd as Billy, Streamers was revived by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The play opened at the Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre on October 17,2008 in previews, officially on November 11 and this production was based on the one presented by the Huntington Theatre in 2007. It was directed by Scott Ellis, the cast included J. D. Williams as Roger, Hale Appleman as Richie, Brad Fleischer as Billy, Atoh Essandoh as Carlyle, Larry Clarke as Sgt. Cokes, and John Sharian as Sgt, the cast included David Alan Grier as Roger, Mitchell Lichtenstein as Richie, Matthew Modine as Billy, Michael Wright as Carlyle, George Dzundza as Cokes, and Guy Boyd as Rooney. The movie was awarded a Golden Lion for its ensemble cast at the Venice Film Festival. The film was released on DVD via Shout, Streamers at the Internet Broadway Database Streamers at the Internet off-Broadway Database Streamers at the Internet Broadway Database Streamers at the Internet Movie Database
Streamers (play)
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