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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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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Pennsylvania State University
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Robert Kelly (comics)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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United States Army Corps of Engineers
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers, also sometimes shortened to CoE is a U. S. Although generally associated with dams, canals and flood protection in the United States, the Corps of Engineers provides outdoor recreation opportunities to the public, and provides 24% of U. S. hydropower capacity. The corps mission is to Deliver vital public and military engineering services, partnering in peace and war to strengthen our Nations security, energize the economy and their most visible missions include, Planning, designing, building, and operating locks and dams. Other civil engineering projects include flood control, beach nourishment, design and construction of flood protection systems through various federal mandates. Design and construction management of military facilities for the Army, Air Force, Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve and other Defense and Federal agencies. The history of United States Army Corps of Engineers can be traced back to 16 June 1775, colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washingtons first chief engineer, however, it was not until 1779 that Congress created a separate Corps of Engineers. One of its first tasks was to build fortifications near Boston at Bunker Hill, the first Corps of Engineers was mostly composed of French subjects who had been hired by General Washington from the service of Louis XVI. that the said Corps. Shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York, until 1866, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy was always an officer of engineer. During the first half of the 19th century, West Point was the major and, for a while, the General Survey Act of 1824 authorized the use of Army engineers to survey road and canal routes. Separately authorized on 4 July 1838, the U. S and it was merged with the Corps of Engineers on 31 March 1863, at which point the Corps of Engineers also assumed the Lakes Survey District mission for the Great Lakes. In 1841, Congress created the Lake Survey, the survey, based in Detroit, Mich. was charged with conducting a hydrographical survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes and preparing and publishing nautical charts and other navigation aids. The Lake Survey published its first charts in 1852, in the mid-19th century, Corps of Engineers officers ran Lighthouse Districts in tandem with U. S. Naval officers. The Army Corps of Engineers played a significant role in the American Civil War, many of the men who would serve in the top leadership in this institution were West Point graduates who rose to military fame and power during the Civil War. Some of these men were Union Generals George McClellan, Henry Halleck, George Meade, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, the versatility of officers in the Army Corps of Engineers contributed to the success of numerous missions throughout the Civil War. They were responsible for building pontoon and railroad bridges, forts and batteries, the destruction of supply lines. The Army Corps of Engineers served as a function in making the war effort logistically feasible. This method of building trenches was known as the zigzag pattern, from the beginning, many politicians wanted the Corps of Engineers to contribute to both military construction and works of a civil nature. During World War II the mission grew to more than 27,000 military, included were aircraft, tank assembly, and ammunition plants, camps for 5.3 million soldiers, depots, ports, and hospitals, as well as the Manhattan Project, and the Pentagon
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Marple Newtown School District
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Marple Newtown School District is a midsized suburban public school district which serves Newtown Township and Marple Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Marple Newtown School District encompasses approximately 21 square miles, according to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 35,437. According to District officials, in school year 2007–08 the Marple Newtown School District provided basic services to 3,499 pupils. The student demographic is about 86% Caucasian, 11% Asian, 2% Black, in 2011, Marple Newtown School District employed 301 teachers,371 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 21 administrators. Marple Newtown School District received more than $8.6 million in funding in school year 2007–08. It examined the school website for information regarding, taxes. Marple Newtown School District was ranked 83rd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2012, the ranking was based on student academic achievement as demonstrated on the last three years of the PSSAs for, reading, writing math and science. The PSSAs are given to all children in grades 3rd through 8th, adapted examinations are given to children in the special education programs. Marple Newtown School District ranked 7th out of 15 public school districts in Delaware County, the highest ranking public school district in Delaware County was Radnor Township School District which ranked 4th statewide. 2011 - 95th 2010 - 82nd 2009 - 80th 2008 - 52nd 2007 - 62nd out of 501 school districts, overachiever statewide ranking In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Marple Newtown School District ranked 428th, in 2011, the district was 416th. The editor describes the ranking as, a ranking answers the question - which school districts do better than expectations based upon economics and this rank takes the Honor Roll rank and adds the percentage of students in the district eligible for free and reduced-price lunch into the formula. A district finishing high on this rank is smashing expectations, District AYP History In 2011, Marple Newtown School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress. In 2011,46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress based on student performance. An additional 37.8 percent of school districts made AYP based on a method called safe harbor,8.2 percent on the growth model and 0.8 percent on a two-year average performance. In 2011, Marple Newtown School Districts graduation rate was 97. 36%, in 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. Marple Newtown Senior High Schools rate was 88. 51% for 2010, Marple Newtown School District achieved AYP status in years 2004 through 2010. In 2003, the District was in Warning status, according to traditional graduation rate calculations 2010 -97. 44%2009 - 97%2008 - 92%2007 - 92% Marple Newtown Senior High School is located at 120 Media Line Road, Newtown Square
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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ulzana's Raid
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Ulzanas Raid is a 1972 revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison and Joaquin Martinez. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp, set in 1880s Arizona, it portrays a brutal raid by Chiricahua Apaches against European settlers. The bleak and nihilistic tone showing U. S. troops chasing an elusive, following mistreatment by agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small war party. Soon news reaches the local commander, who sends riders to alert local homesteads. Both troopers are separately ambushed, one is dragged away while the other shoots the woman he is escorting. The warriors play catch with his heart, the womans husband, who stayed behind to protect his farm, is captured and tortured to death. Army scout MacIntosh is given the job of finding Ulzana with a few dozen soldiers led by an inexperienced lieutenant, the small cavalry column includes a veteran sergeant and Apache scout Ke-Ni-Tay. Ke-Ni-Tay knows Ulzana, as their wives are sisters, the cavalry troop leaves Fort Lowell and soon finds evidence of the activities of the Apache war party. The film then depicts the reality, facing a merciless enemy with far better local skills. The young officer, shocked and then hardened by the cruelty and harshness around him, struggles with his Christian conscience, MacIntosh and Ke-Ni-Tay attempt to outthink and outfight their enemies, while advising the lieutenant. DeBuin cautiously accepts their guidance though remaining mistrustful of the Apache scout, Ulzana and most of his men abandon their horses to be led circuitously by two other warriors in an attempt to tire the pursuers heavily loaded mounts. Ke-Ni-Tay notices that the trail is now of unladen horses, and Macintosh works out a plan that leads to the loss of the horses, the lieutenant prevents his men from mutilating the dead boy. The raiders attack a nearby farm, burning the homesteader to death, mcIntosh realizes that the remaining Apaches physically and psychologically need horses and will try to obtain them by raiding the troop. The woman of the farm, instead of being raped to death, has been left alive so that the cavalry will be forced to send her to the fort with an escort. By splitting the troop, Ulzana hopes to successfully attack the escort, mcIntosh suggests a decoy plan to make Ulzana falsely believe that his tactics are successful. Ulzanas warriors ambush the small detachment, obtaining all of its horses and killing the sergeant. Only the woman survives unharmed though now apparently crazed by her experiences, Ke-Ni-Tay scatters the captured horses as bugle calls from the cavalry ineptly alert the Apaches to DeBuins approach. Ulzana flees on foot as the remnants of his band are killed, Ke-Ni-Tay confronts him and shows him the Army bugle taken from the body of his son
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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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Mother, Jugs & Speed
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Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 black comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, the F+B Ambulance Company is locked in an intense battle with the Unity Ambulance Company to win a city contract for providing ambulance service to a territory within Los Angeles. Their star driver is Mother Tucker, an antihero who drinks alcohol on duty, harasses nuns. Indeed, the company is a band of misfits, including the hypersexual John Murdoch, his partner Walker, putative medical student Bliss. Handling calls at the switchboard is Jennifer, whom the drivers nickname Jugs for her ample bosom, Harry Doughnut Fishbine runs the company, using occasionally underhanded means to maintain an income stream. When Walker is injured after falling through a staircase on a call, Harry Fishbine hires Tony Malatesta, upon learning that Tony has been suspended from the sheriff force due to allegations that he sold cocaine to children, Mother nicknames him Speed. Speed is initially paired with Murdoch, though their partnership is strained when Speed must stop Murdoch from raping a female college student who has overdosed on Seconal. On a false emergency call, Leroy is shot and killed by a junkie demanding drugs, when Mother pulls a gun on the junkie, the junkie commits suicide. Harry then partners Speed with Mother to alleviate his driver shortage, meanwhile, Jugs has obtained her Emergency Medical Technician and ambulance driver certifications, and forces her way onto F+Bs active roster with threats of sexual discrimination lawsuits. When Speed fakes an injury to prevent Jugs arrest for misuse of an ambulance, though Jugs proves a capable EMT, she loses her nerve after a pregnant woman under her care suffers a severe obstetrical hemorrhage and bleeds to death in Mothers ambulance. Jugs secludes herself afterward until Mother counsels her and gives her the courage to return to work. At a City Hall meeting, City Councilman Warren informs the owners of both Unity and F+B that they not be awarded the contract—it will instead be awarded to a larger. To save their businesses, Unitys owner, Charles Taylor, proposes that their two companies merge, though the councilman is agreeable to the merger, Fishbine is not. The discussion is interrupted by a call, Murdoch, intoxicated and armed with a handgun, has broken into F+Bs bus garage office with Walker and is holding Mrs. Fishbine hostage. All of Unitys and F+Bs ambulances descend on the F+B garage, upon arrival, Murdoch opens fire, when Mother charges onto the garage grounds to rescue his ambulance, he comes face to face with Murdoch, Murdoch tries to shoot Mother, but his gun is empty. A deputy sheriff then shoots and kills Murdoch, in the aftermath of this incident, F+B does merge with Unity, forming the Fishbine + Unity Ambulance Company, based out of the old F+B garage. Speed, who has been cleared of all charges, is reinstated to the police force, Jugs is initially relegated to switchboard duty again, until Mother insists that she become his new partner. The two drive off together, with Mother harassing the nuns one more time as the movie ends, Bill Cosby as Mother Tucker Raquel Welch as Jennifer, a. k. a
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Short Eyes (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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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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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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Jan and Dean
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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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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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Summer of My German Soldier (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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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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