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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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The
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Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
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John Carradine
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John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. DeMilles stock company and later John Fords company, he was one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood history. He was married four times, had five children, and was the patriarch of the Carradine family, including four of his sons, william Carradine was the son of evangelical author Beverly Carradine. The family lived in Peekskill and Kingston, New York, william Carradine died from tuberculosis when his son John was two years old. Carradines mother then married a Philadelphia paper manufacturer named Peck, who thought the way to bring up someone elses boy was to him every day just on general principle. Carradines son, David, claimed his father ran away when he was 14 years old and he later returned, as he studied sculpture at Philadelphias Graphic Arts Institute. Carradine lived with his uncle, Peter Richmond, in New York City for a while. He traveled for a time, supporting himself painting portraits, if the sitter was satisfied, the price was $2.50, he once said. It cost him nothing if he thought it was a turkey, I made as high as $10 to $15 a day. During this time, he was arrested for vagrancy, while in jail, Carradine was beaten, suffering a broken nose that did not set correctly. This contributed to the look that would become world famous, David Carradine said, My dad told me that he saw a production of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice when he was 11 years old and decided right then what he wanted to do with his life. He made his debut in 1925 in New Orleans in a production of Camille. Carradine joined a tent repertory theater under the management of R. D. MaClean, who became his mentor. In 1927, he took a job escorting a shipment of bananas from Dallas, Texas, to Los Angeles and he became friends with John Barrymore, and began working for Cecil B. Carradine, however, did not have the job long, DeMille noticed the lack of Roman columns in my sketches, Carradine said. Once DeMille heard his voice, however, he hired him to do voice-overs. DeMille saw an apparition - me - pass him by, reciting the lines from Hamlet. He became a member of DeMilles stock company and his voice was heard in several DeMille pictures, Carradines first film credit was Tolable David, but he claimed to have done 70 pictures before getting billing
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in
Blood and Sand (1941)
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Screenshot from
The Hurricane (1937)
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David Carradine
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David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist. He was known for his role as a peace-loving Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine. He was a member of a family that began with his father. Carradines acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, a prolific B movie actor, he appeared in more than 100 feature films in career spanning over sixty years. He was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, for such as the television series Kung Fu, the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory. His final nomination came in the category of Best Supporting Actor for portraying the character in Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill. Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death and these posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his career, Carradine was a director. Moreover, influenced by his most popular acting role, he studied martial arts and he was sometimes arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. He died on June 3,2009, in a room in Bangkok, Thailand. Carradine was born on December 8,1936 as John Arthur Carradine, in Hollywood, California and he was a half-brother of Bruce, Keith, Christopher, and Robert Carradine, and an uncle of Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton, most of whom are also actors. Primarily of Irish descent, he was a great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine, called Jack by his family, Carradines childhood was turbulent. For example, his parents divorced and repeatedly remarried, he was born to his mothers marriage of three, and his fathers first of four. At the time of Carradines parents marriage, his mother already had a son by her first husband, John Carradine planned a large family, but after his wife had a series of miscarriages, he discovered she had numerous illegal abortions without his knowledge. This rendered her unable to carry a baby to full term, against this backdrop of marital discord, Jack almost succeeded in committing suicide by hanging at the age of five. He said the incident followed his discovery that he and his older half-brother Bruce, Carradine added, My father saved me, and then confiscated my comic book collection and burned it – which was scarcely the point. After three years of marriage, Ardenelle filed for divorce from John, but the couple remained married for five years. Divorce finally came in 1944, when Jack was seven years old and his father left California to avoid court action in the alimony settlement
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Carradine in April 2008
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Carradine as Caine.
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Carradine in April 2005
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Carradine signing autographs in
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Keith Carradine
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Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor, singer and songwriter who has had success on stage, film and television. In addition, he is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-winning songwriter, as a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting dynasty that began with his father, John Carradine. Keith Carradine was born in San Mateo, California and he is the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel, and actor John Carradine. His paternal half-brothers are Bruce and David Carradine, his maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen and his maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg. He said that his father drank and his mother “was a manic depressive paranoid schizophrenic catatonic—she had it all. ”His parents were divorced in 1957, Keith said of the experience, It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were allowed to see our parents through glass doors. We would stand there on side of the glass door crying. He was raised primarily by his grandmother, and he rarely saw either of his parents. His mother was not permitted to see him for eight years following the custody settlement, after high school, Carradine entertained the thought of becoming a forest ranger but opted to study drama at Colorado State University. He dropped out one semester and drifted back to California, moving in with his older half-brother. David encouraged Keith to pursue a career, paid for his acting and vocal lessons. As a youth, Carradine had opportunities to appear on stage with his father, John Carradine, thus, he had some background in theater when he was cast in the original Broadway run of Hair, which launched his acting career. In that production he started out in the chorus and worked his way up to the lead roles playing Woof and he said of his involvement in Hair, I really didnt plan to audition. I just went along with my brother, David, and his girlfriend at the time, Barbara Hershey, I was simply going to play the piano for them while they sang, but Im the one the staff wound up getting interested in. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Foxfire with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, in 2008, he appeared as Dr. Farquhar Off-Broadway in Mindgame, a thriller by Antony Horowitz, directed by Ken Russell, who made his New York directorial debut with the production. In March and April 2013, he starred in the Broadway production of Hands on a Hardbody and he was nominated for the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for his work. Carradines first notable appearance was in director Robert Altmans McCabe & Mrs. Miller. His next film, Emperor of the North Pole, was re-released with a shorter title Emperor of the North, Carradine played a young aspiring hobo
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Carradine in 2006 at
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Robert Carradine
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Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television series such as Bonanza and his older brother Davids TV series. Carradines first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys, Carradine also portrayed fraternity president Lewis Skolnick in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and father Sam McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire. Carradine was born in Hollywood, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel and he is one of many actors in the Carradine family. He is the brother of Christopher and Keith Carradine, paternal half-brother of Bruce and David Carradine and his maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Carradines parents divorced when he was 2 years old, a bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Keith. During the custody battle, the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court and his brother, Keith, said of the experience, It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were allowed to see our parents through glass doors. We would stand there on side of the glass door crying. While still in school, Robert lived with his half-brother, David, in Laurel Canyon. Under Davids care he indulged in two of his interests, race car driving and music. He and David belonged to a quartet that performed in small clubs in Los Angeles. Carradine made his debut in 1972 in The Cowboys with John Wayne. He was also featured in a television series, of the same name. He made an appearance as a killer in the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets shooting to death the character played by his brother, during this time he worked with David on some independent projects including a biker film called You and Me and an unreleased musical called A Country Mile. He also did work for Davids cult classic Vietnam War-inspired Americana which was not released until 1983. In 1976, Carradine had the opportunity to demonstrate on screen what he considered to be his first ambition, car racing, in the film Roberts character ironically wins the cross country road race, beating the favorite, Coy Cannonball Buckman, played by his brother, David. In 1977, Robert became a snack for the killer whale in the Jaws imitation film Orca
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Carradine holding a producer credit for
The 1 Second Film in October 2004
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Domestic partnership
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A domestic partnership is an interpersonal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not married. The term is not used consistently, which results in some inter-jurisdictional confusion, some legislatures have voluntarily established domestic partnership relations by statute instead of being ordered to do so by a court. In August 1979, gay rights activist Tom Brougham proposed a new category of relationship called domestic partnership, initially, the requirements were that only two people who resided together and were qualified to marry except that they were the same gender. Additional requirements were added for the partners to maintain mutual financial responsibility. In 1982, Broughams definition was modified by Supervisor Harry Britt, in 1989, a domestic partnership law was adopted in San Francisco. However, voters repealed the domestic law by initiative, a modified version was reinstated by another voter initiative, 1990s Proposition K. Currently, the city offers a domestic partnership status separate and differing in benefits from that offered by the state. According to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, In 1982, mr. Brinkin, then an employee of Southern Pacific Railway, had recently suffered the loss of his partner of eleven years. When he was denied the three days of paid bereavement leave given to married employees, he filed suit with the assistance of the ACLU. Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the judge agreed with his employers claim that there was no way to know if his relationship was legitimate. In 1983, the City Council of Berkeley, California, under the leadership of Mayor Gus Newport, ordered their Human Relations, the Commission appointed its Vice-Chair, Leland Traiman, a gay activist, to head the Domestic Partner Task Force and draft a policy. A policy was adopted by the Commission and presented to the City Council, a copy was sent to the Berkeley School Board. In July 1984 the City Council voted down the proposal citing financial concerns, on August 1,1984, the Berkeley School Board enacted the policy by a 4 to 1 vote. The school board motion was made by board member and community activist Ethel Manheimer, in November 1984, all the city council members up for election who had voted against the policy lost reelection. Progressives from the Berkeley Citizens Action slate who replaced them had voiced support for a domestic partner policy. The East Bay Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club had worked hard to elect the BCA Slate and this was the first time domestic partners was a campaign issue. At the first meeting of the new City Council in December 1984, the first couple to file for benefits under Berkeleys sex-neutral policy were Brougham and his partner Barry Warren. However, the City Council did not create a registry for domestic partners until 1991, on October 11 of that year,28 lesbian and gay male couples and one heterosexual couple registered their partnerships
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Barbara Hershey
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Barbara Hershey, once known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns and she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of Americas finest actresses, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town. For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People and A World Apart, establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a relationship with actor David Carradine. She experimented with a change in name that she later regretted. During this time, her life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine, later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Herzstein was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist and her fathers parents were Jews who had emigrated from Hungary and Russia respectively, while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her Sarah Bernhardt and she was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of 10, she proved herself to be an A student and her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Fields television series Gidget. Barbara said that she found Field to be supportive of her in her first acting role. Barbaras acting debut, three episodes of Gidget, was followed by the television series The Monroes, which also featured Michael Anderson. By this point, she had adopted the stage name Barbara Hershey, although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying, One week I was strong, the next, weak. While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Days final feature film, in 1969, Hershey co-starred in the Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun. On the set, she met and began a relationship with actor David Carradine. In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer, in this film, Hershey played Sandy, the heavy who influences two young men to rape another girl, Rhoda
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Hershey in 1981
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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A forest of redwood trees in
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Mount Shasta
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Aerial view of the
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San Francisco, California
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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San Francisco and the
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Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
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1853
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Francis Samuel Marryat, Hilltop of San Francisco, California, Looking toward the Bay, 1849. M.& N. Hanhart Chromolithograph
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Tarzana, Los Angeles, California
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Tarzana /tɑːrˈzænə/ is an affluent neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Tarzana is on the site of a ranch owned by author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is named after Burroughs storybook jungle character hero, Tarzan, the area now known as Tarzana was occupied in 1797 by Spanish settlers and missionaries who established the San Fernando Mission. Later absorbed by Mexico, the land was ceded to the United States in 1848 by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War, under US rule it evolved into a series of large cattle ranches owned by local elites. Investors took over in the 1870s, turning grazing into large-scale wheat farm operation, the area was purchased in 1909 by the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company. LA Times founder and publisher General Harrison Gray Otis invested in the company, in February 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the popular Tarzan novels, arrived in California with his family, relocating from Oak Park, Illinois. He and his family had wintered in Southern California twice before, on March 1, Burroughs purchased Otis’s tract and established Tarzana Ranch. Burroughs subdivided and sold the land for development with neighboring small farms following suit. Tarzana, which measures 8.79 square miles, is bounded on the south by Topanga State Park, on the east by Encino, on the north by Reseda and on the west by Woodland Hills. Victory Boulevard marks the edge of the neighborhood, Lindley Avenue the eastern, Corbin Avenue, with a jog to Oakdale Avenue, the western. The U. S. census counted 35,502 people living in Tarzana in 2000, there were 4,038 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities in the city. According to the 2000 U. S. Census, the composition was predominantly white, followed by Asian. The Los Angeles Times considered the area as moderately diverse, thirty-five percent of the population was foreign-born. Iran and Mexico were the most common places of birth. The percentage of divorced men and women was among the countys highest, some 9% of the residents were military veterans, considered high for the city of Los Angeles. The percentages of residents aged 50 and older were among the countys highest, the median age,38, was old when compared to the rest of the city and the county. The median household income in 2008 dollars was considered high, at $73,195. 3% of Tarzana residents aged 25, percentages of those residents with a bachelors degree or with a masters degree are also high for the county. The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Encino-Tarzana Branch on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana, the Tarzana Recreation Center has a gymnasium that also is used as an auditorium, the buildings capacity is 600
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Providence Tarzana Medical Center
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Boundaries of Tarzana as drawn by the Los Angeles Times
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Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies
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Encino-Tarzana Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
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Michael Bowen (artist)
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Michael Bowen was an American fine artist known as one of the co-founders of the late 20th and 21st century Visionary art movements. His works include paintings on canvas and paper,92 intaglio etchings based on Jungian psychology, assemblage, bronze sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, chronicled in books and periodicals reflecting on the turbulent 1960s, Bowens historical impact on both the literary and visual art worlds is well documented. He remains influential among avant-garde art circles around the world, Michael Bowen was born December 8,1937 in Beverly Hills to Grace and Sterling Bowen. Bowens early romance with San Francisco established this city as his base from which he would frequently travel to other places in the world. He started his art career at age 17, when he joined the American installation artist Ed Kienholz in his Los Angeles studio, there he met and joined with other influential Beat Generation artists including Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Dennis Hopper. Bowen participated in the construction of the Ferus Gallery and Now Gallery created by Ed Kienholz, Bowen attended the Chouinard Art Institute for several years during his formative artistic experiences in Los Angeles. Bowens grandmother, Alma Porter, was a member of The Theosophical Society in Ojai, California, in Los Angeles, teenage Bowens many visits to the mystical gatherings at Samson De Briers house further solidified his early Asian philosophical studies. In the late 50s and early 60s, Bowen continued his spiritual training and he investigated and practiced a variety of occult topics, Eastern philosophies, and mysticism, and his artwork reflected these themes. Bowen is often referred to as a mystic artist, as a lifelong student of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bowens entire career has emulated the spiritual warrior archetype of Arjuna, fighting for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Michael Bowen moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s, and along with fellow artist comrades Arthur Monroe and Michael McCracken, painting spontaneous, impromptu, hectic canvases, along with assemblage and collage, Bowen became an integral part of the San Francisco Renaissance. The Norwegian art patron and physician Reidar Wennesland befriended Bowen and many of his bohemian artist friends, Bowens work now makes up the majority of the paintings in the Wennesland Foundation Collection located in Kristiansand, Norway, alongside many other important North Beach artists, such as Jay DeFeo. A1963 painting of Janis Joplin by Bowen, along with his prophetic 1966 Love painting, are examples of the Bowen works in the Wennesland collection and his style progressed from large abstract expressionist canvases to figuratives and large faces, to assemblage. Bowens painting about McCarthyism, Red Future, in 1963, police brutality and persecution drove many of the Beat Generation writers, musicians, and artists out of San Francisco. Michael Bowen, along many of his artist friends moved to an old Abalone Factory in Princeton by the Sea. Bowens singer friend, Janis Joplin was a frequent guest at the Princeton Abalone studio, in 1963, on one of Bowens visits to be with his mentor in Tepoztlan, he was initiated into an ancient Aztec shamanic ceremony that inspired his future work with world consciousness transformation. In the summer of 1966, Bowen traveled back to San Francisco, along with the poet Allen Cohen, Bowen co-founded the underground newspaper, San Francisco Oracle that broadcast the 60s counterculture ideology. Bowen became the art director and let his studio become the offices for the Oracle, while Cohen was the editor, Oracle guru, Bowen hosted the first underground press meeting at his studio at Stinson Beach
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Red Future? 1959
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Human Be-In Poster 1967
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Walt Disney Imagineering
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Imagineering is responsible for designing and building Disney theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, and other entertainment venues at all levels of project development. Imagineering also manages various properties held by units within the Walt Disney Company including Disneys Burbank Studios, New Amsterdam Theater, when Disney was in the sports team ownership that included Edison Field and the Mighty Ducks Disney Ice practice rink in Anaheim. Disney filed for a copyright for the term in 1967, claiming first use of the term in 1962, Walt Disney Inc. was formed by Walt Disney in 1953 with the Disneyland designing engineering division. In light of objections from Roy as well as those of potential stockholders, in 1961, WED moved into the Grand Central Business Park, the site of the former Grand Central Air Terminal, in 1961. The unit was renamed as of January 1986 to Walt Disney Imagineering, in 1996, Disney Development Company, the Disney conglomerates real estate development subsidiary, merged into Imagineering. Imagineering created Disney Fair, a U. S. traveling attraction, with poor attendance, the fair was pulled after a few stops. Disney Entertainment Projects Inc. a new Disney Asian Pacific subsidiary, by 1997, Imagineers were in several buildings in Grand Central Business Park when Disney purchased the park. In September 1999, Disney Imagineering announced the Grand Central Creative Campus redesign of the park with a new office-studio complex anchored by Disney Imagineering. Some of the building were demolished to make way for new buildings, the additional space would be for sound stages, production facilities and offices. Imagineers are governed by a few key principles when developing new concepts, often, new concepts and improvements are created to fulfill specific needs. Many solutions to problems are designed in this way, such as the vehicle of the attraction Soarin Over California. An Imagineer found an Erector set in his attic, and was able to envision, Imagineers are also known for returning to ideas for attractions and shows that, for whatever reason, never came to fruition. These ideas are often reworked and appear in a different form – like the Museum of the Weird, finally, there is the principle of blue sky speculation, a process where Imagineers generate ideas with no limitations. The custom at Imagineering has been to start the process with what is referred to as eyewash--the boldest, wildest, best idea one can come up with. Many Imagineers consider this to be the beginning of the design process and operate under the notion that if it can be dreamt. Imagineers are always seeking to improve upon their work--what Walt Disney called plussing and he firmly believed that Disneyland will never be completed as long as theres imagination left in the world, meaning there is always room for innovation and improvement. During an Imagineering workshop in 1991, Marty Sklar presented ten commandments attributed to Mickey Steinberg, WDI is responsible for technological advances such as the Circle-Vision 360° film technique and the FastPass virtual queuing system. The idea sprang from Disney’s fascination with a bird he purchased in New Orleans
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WDI headquarters in Glendale
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Imagineers at Play signage in Disneyland
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Martha Plimpton
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Martha Campbell Plimpton is an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model. Her feature film debut was in The River Rat before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies and she has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty, Parenthood, Samantha, Raising Hope and Small Town Murder Songs. She is recognized on Broadway for her roles in The Coast of Utopia, Top Girls, Pal Joey and she has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya. She returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of A Delicate Balance co-starring Glenn Close, Plimpton currently stars in The Real ONeals, an ABC sitcom that premiered on March 2,2016. In 2009 Plimpton played as a helpless mom being robbed by two criminals in the music video Bully by Three Days Grace for their album Life Starts Now. Plimpton played Virginia Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also received three Tony Award nominations as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 and she won an Emmy for the same category in 2012 as attorney Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. Plimpton was born in New York City and she is the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Her parents met while performing in the original Broadway run of Hair and her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine. She is a distant cousin of writer and editor George Plimpton. She attended the Professional Childrens School in Manhattan and her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play The Leaf People then another play in The Ass and the Heart. Plimpton began her career as a model, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated and she made her feature film debut in 1981, when at the age of eleven, she had a small role in the film Rollover. In 1984, she appeared in the Deep South drama The River Rat opposite Tommy Lee Jones and her breakthrough performance was as Stef Steinbrenner in the 1985 film The Goonies. She also appeared that year on the sitcom Family Ties and this began Plimpton being cast in the role of a rebellious tomboy, beginning with her performance as the Reverend Spellgood s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford. The critically praised but commercially unsuccessful 1987 film Shy People was followed by a performance in the 1988 ensemble comedy Stars and Bars and this was released shortly before Running on Empty, an Academy Award-nominated film starring River Phoenix, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. She began a career making small independent film appearances with supporting roles in big-budget films and she appeared in the 1988 Woody Allen film Another Woman. She co-starred with Jami Gertz as a patient in the German film Zwei Frauen. The film was nominated for Outstanding Feature Film at the German Film Awards, Plimpton shaved her head to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen
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Plimpton at the
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River Phoenix and Plimpton on the red carpet at the
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys is a 1969 American western film directed by Burt Kennedy. It stars Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy, jim Flagg is the marshal in the town of Progress. He hears arch-rival John McKay is headed toward town so he warns Mayor Wilker, Wilker doesnt appreciate Flagg causing a panic and relieves him of his badge. Flagg sets out on his own and discovers McKay has joined up with a band of youthful outlaws, after being taken prisoner, Flagg escapes death thanks to McKays intervention, but the two old enemies end up in a bloody fistfight. Taken back to town, Flagg puts McKay in a house run by Mary. When the outlaws arrive, intent on robbing a train, McKay sides with Flagg in defeating their plans, howard Thompson of the New York Times said, Whatever possessed these three actors to amble through such a dinky prairie oyster stumps us. And so does the uncertain tone of the picture, methodically directed by Burt Kennedy, Thompson, however, did praise Harry Stradling Jr. s cinematography. List of American films of 1969 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys at the Internet Movie Database
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Boxcar Bertha
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Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a adaptation of Sister of the Road, a pseudo-autobiographical account of the fictional character Bertha Thompson. It was Scorseses second feature film, the film tells the story of Bertha Thompson and Big Bill Shelly, two train robbers and lovers who are caught up in the plight of railroad workers in the American South. When Bertha is implicated in the murder of a wealthy gambler, julie Corman researched female gangsters and came across the story of Boxcar Bertha. Martin Scorsese was hired to direct on the strength of his first feature and he was given the lead actors, including Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Barry Primus, and a shooting schedule of 24 days in Arkansas. The Reader Railroad was used for the train scenes, Scorsese makes a cameo in the film as one of Berthas clients during the brothel montage. List of American films of 1972 Boxcar Bertha at the Internet Movie Database Boxcar Bertha at AllMovie Boxcar Bertha at the TCM Movie Database Boxcar Bertha at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster
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Roger Corman
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Roger William Corman is an American independent film producer, director, and actor. He has been called The Pope of Pop Cinema and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film, much of Cormans work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award, Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron. He also helped to launch the careers of actors Peter Fonda, a documentary about Cormans life and career entitled Cormans World, Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The films TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a screening at Sundance. Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne and William Corman and his younger brother, Eugene Harold Gene Corman, has also produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger. Corman and his brother were baptized in their mothers Catholic faith, Corman went to Beverly Hills High School and then to Stanford University to study Industrial Engineering. While at Stanford, Corman enlisted in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, after the end of World War II, Corman returned to Stanford and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering in 1947. While at Stanford University, Roger Corman was initiated in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon, in 1948, he worked briefly at U. S. Electrical Motors on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, but his career in engineering lasted only four days, he work on Monday and quit on Thursday. More interested in film, Corman found work at 20th Century Fox initially in the mail room and he worked his way up to a story reader. The one property that he liked the most and provided ideas for was filmed as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck, when Corman received no credit at all he left Fox and decided he would work in film by himself. Under the GI Bill, Corman studied English Literature at Oxford University and he then returned to Los Angeles, beginning his film career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, then started directing films in 1955. Corman began to direct films in the mid-1950s, including Swamp Women, in his early period, he produced up to nine movies a year. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors, which was shot in two days and one night. Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot a feature film in less than three days. Another version of the claims that he had a set rented for a month. In addition to producing and directing films for American International Pictures, in 1959, Corman founded Filmgroup with his brother Gene, a company producing or releasing low-budget black-and-white films as double features for drive-ins and action houses
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Corman at the
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Corman in 2006
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Martin Scorsese
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Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years. Scorseses body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is regarded as one of the most significant. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to film preservation. Their third film together, The Departed, won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the winning the award for Best Picture. Their collaborations have resulted in numerous Academy Award nominations for both as well as winning several other prestigious awards. His work in television includes the episode of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the crime drama The Departed, with eight Best Director nominations, he is the most nominated living director and is tied with Billy Wilder for the second most nominations overall. Scorsese was born in Queens, New York and his family moved to Little Italy, Manhattan before he started school. His father, Charles Scorsese, and mother, Catherine Scorsese and his father was a clothes presser and an actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress. His fathers parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Scorsese was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment. As a teenager in the Bronx, Scorsese frequently rented Powell, Scorsese was one of only two people who regularly rented that reel. The other was future Night Of The Living Dead director George A. Romero, Scorsese has cited Sabu and Victor Mature as his favorite actors during his youth. He has also spoken of the influence of the 1947 Powell and Pressburger film Black Narcissus, whose innovative techniques later impacted his filmmaking. Enamored of historical epics in his adolescence, at least two films of the genre, Land of the Pharaohs and El Cid, appear to have had a deep, Scorsese also developed an admiration for neorealist cinema at this time. He acknowledges owing a debt to the French New Wave and has stated that the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since. He has also cited filmmakers including Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and he went on to earn his M. F. A. from NYUs School of the Arts in 1966, a year after the school was founded. Scorsese attended New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts making the short films Whats a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This. and Its Not Just You, Murray
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Scorsese at the 2010
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From left:
Salvo Cuccia, Martin Scorsese and
Vittorio De Seta at the
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
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Scorsese at the
Gangs of New York screening at the
Cannes Film Festival with
Leonardo DiCaprio and
Cameron Diaz
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Martin Scorsese at the 65th Annual Peabody Awards
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Kung Fu (TV series)
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Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series aired on ABC from October 1972 to April 1975 for a total of 63 episodes, Kung Fu was preceded by a full-length feature television pilot, an ABC Movie of the Week, which was broadcast on February 22,1972. The series became one of the most popular programs of the early 1970s, receiving widespread critical acclaim. Kung Fu was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series. Many of the used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the Tao Te Ching. Keye Luke and Philip Ahn were also members of the regular cast, David Chow, who was also a guest star in the series, acted as the technical and kung fu advisor, a role later undertaken by Kam Yuen. Kwai Chang Caine is the son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine. After his maternal grandfathers death he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery, in the pilot episode Caines beloved mentor and elder, Master Po, is murdered by the Emperors nephew, outraged, Caine retaliates by killing the nephew. With a price on his head, Caine flees China to the western United States, although it is his intention to avoid notice, Caines training and sense of social responsibility repeatedly force him out into the open, to fight for justice or protect the underdog. After each such encounter he must move on, both to capture and prevent harm from coming to those he has helped. Searching for his family, he meets a preacher and his mute sidekick Sonny Jim, flashbacks are often used to recall specific lessons from Caines childhood training in the monastery from his teachers, the blind Master Po and Master Chen Ming Kan. Part of the appeal of the series was undoubtedly the emphasis laid, via the flashbacks, the Shaolin Monastery which appeared in flashbacks was originally a set used for the 1967 film Camelot. It was inexpensively and effectively converted for the setting in China, in her memoirs, Bruce Lees widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, asserts that Lee created the concept for the series, which was then stolen by Warner Bros. There is circumstantial evidence for this in a December 8,1971 television interview that Bruce Lee gave on The Pierre Berton Show. In the interview, Pierre Berton comments, Theres a pretty good chance youll get a TV series in the States called The Warrior, in it, where you use what. Lee responds, That was the original idea. both of them, I think, they want me to be in a type of a thing. Whereas I want to do the Western, because, you see, how else can you justify all of the punching and kicking and violence, except in the period of the West. Later in the interview, Berton asks Lee about the problems that you face as a Chinese hero in an American series, have people come up in the industry and said well, we dont know how the audience are going to take a non-American
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David Carradine and guest star
Sondra Locke, 1974
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Carradine as Caine
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Americana (film)
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Americana is a 1983 American drama film starring, produced, edited and directed by David Carradine. The screenplay and story, written by Richard Carr, was based on a portion of the 1947 novel, The Perfect Round, by Henry Morton Robinson. The novels setting was originally post-World War II, but the screenplay involved the post-war experiences of a Vietnam War veteran, in 1981, the film, won The Peoples Choice Award at the Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Problems with financing and distribution kept the film from being released until 1983, the film was well received by audiences, but met with primarily negative criticism. A down on his luck, former Green Beret captain, freshly discharged from the Vietnam War, drifts into Drury, there he finds a derelict merry-go-round that he decides to restore. The symbolism of a man wanting to build something joyful after being part of the carnage and destruction of war, surmised film critic, the people of the town have mixed reactions, some support his efforts while others hinder them. Both men supply employment to the veteran as well as parts, another helpful character is a young local girl, who watches the reconstruction efforts from afar, and scampers off when she is seen. The girl, played by Carradines real life partner, Barbara Hershey, provides a tool box. Detractors of the efforts include a band of local teenagers, one of whom is played by John Blyth Barrymore, a personal friend of Carradines. The protagonist is also harassed by the sheriff, played by Carradines brother. When the towns ruffians vandalize the half-restored carousel, the captain redoubles his efforts, by this time he has found, to his displeasure, that Mikes favorite pastime is to officiate the weekly cock fights, and the two have a falling out. Mike refuses to make good on a promise of a much needed part for the carousel, the veteran reluctantly agrees to the fight during which he kills the dog. After installing the last piece that completes the restoration, he lays the dogs body inside it, starts it up and walks away. In addition to previously mentioned, the film also featured Dan Haggerty. He provided the fighting dog, played the role of the trainer and worked on the set design. Robert Carradine, David Carradines younger half-brother, assisted with the camera work, greg Walker, former Kung Fu stunt coordinator, served as stunt coordinator and played one of the towns ruffians. Fran Ryan, whom Carradine met while both worked on The Long Riders, played a colonel in a scene that was shot several years after the main body of footage. Claire Townsend, a United Artists executive who had helped finance the film, rick Van Ness, who had scouted the location, had a role as a Grateful Dead fan who gives the hero a ride
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Poster
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James-Younger Gang
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The James–Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that included Jesse James. The gang was centered in the state of Missouri, the home of most of the members, membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws raids were usually separated by many months. Contrary to frequent reports, the James brothers and Younger brothers were not related by blood, the James–Younger Gang had its origins in a group of Confederate bushwhackers who fought in the bitter partisan fighting that wracked the state of Missouri during the American Civil War. The gang dissolved in 1876, after the capture of the Younger brothers in Minnesota during the attempt to rob the Northfield First National Bank. Three years later, Jesse James organized a new gang, including Clell Millers brother Ed and the Ford brothers and this career came to an end in 1882 when Robert Ford shot James from behind, killing him. During the gangs period of activity, it robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches in Missouri, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, from the beginning of the American Civil War, the state of Missouri officially sided with the Union. Missouri, however, had been the center of much of the agitation about slavery leading up to the outbreak of the war, by early 1862, the Unionist provisional government mobilized a state militia to fight increasingly organized and deadly Confederate partisans. This conflict raged until after the fall of Richmond and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, costing thousands of lives, the conflict rapidly escalated into a succession of atrocities committed by both sides. Union troops often executed or tortured suspects without trial and burned the homes of suspected guerrillas, where credentials were suspect, the accused bushwhacker was often executed, as in the case of Lt. Col. Frisby McCullough after the Battle of Kirksville. Bushwhackers meanwhile, frequently went house to house, executing Unionist farmers, the James and Younger brothers belonged to slave-owning families with ties to the South. Zerelda Samuel, the mother of Frank and Jesse James, was a partisan of the South, though the Youngers father. Cole Youngers initial decision to fight as a bushwhacker, or Confederate, is attributed to the death of his father at the hands of Union forces. He and Frank James are both believed to have fought one of the most famous rebel leaders, William Clarke Quantrill. Jesse James began his career in 1864, at the age of sixteen, fighting alongside Frank under the leadership of Archie Clement. When Cole Younger returned from a mission to California, Quantrill, the James brothers, however, continued to associate with their old guerrilla comrades, who remained together under the leadership of Archie Clement. It was likely Clement who, amid the tumult of Reconstruction in Missouri, turned the guerrillas into outlaws. On February 13,1866, a group of gunmen carried out one of the earliest daylight, peacetime, armed robberies in U. S. history. The outlaws stole some $60,000 in cash and bonds, the state authorities suspected Archie Clement of leading the raid, and promptly issued a reward for his capture
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Jesse and Frank James, 1872
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John Younger
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Sitting left-to-right: Bob, Jim and Cole Younger, with their sister Henrietta
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Walter Hill (filmmaker)
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Walter Hill is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as The Warriors, Hard Times, The Driver, Southern Comfort,48 Hrs. Red Heat, Last Man Standing, Undisputed, and Bullet to the Head, as well as writing the Steve McQueen crime drama The Getaway. He has also directed episodes of television series such as Tales from the Crypt and Deadwood. Hill was born in Long Beach, California, the younger of two sons and his paternal grandfather was a wildcat oil driller, his father worked at Douglas Aircraft as a supervisor on the assembly line. Hill has said that his father and grandfather were smart, physical men who worked with their heads, Hills family had originally come from Tennessee and Mississippi, one of those fallen Southern families, shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. Growing up in southern California, Hill was asthmatic as a child and, as a result, what it did for me, despite the discomfort, it made you comfortable being alone with yourself. You werent as surrounded by peers as everybody else your age was. In my case it meant tremendous amount of reading at an early age, I became utterly besotted with daytime serials. In the later afternoon, when kids were meant to be home and it enabled me to live in an imaginary world where one is comfortable with abstract ideas, dominated by stories, narrative, and characters. Hill became a fan at an early age, and the first film he remembers seeing was Song of the South. He later described his taste as juvenile, stating, I liked adventure, westerns, but the general, I remember not liking kid movies. Still dont, I think thats hung on and his asthma receded when he was 15 and he began to think about becoming a writer. He worked in the oil fields as a roustabout on Signal Hill, California during high school, during one summer, he ran an asbestos pipe-cutting machine and worked as a spray painter. As a teenager, Hill contemplated being a book illustrator and studied art at the Universidad de las Américas. Mexico was as far away as I could get any money. He then transferred and majored in history at Michigan State University, upon graduation, Hill was called up for the army in 1964 but childhood asthma saw him ruled ineligible. This forced him to think about what he wanted to do for a career, when you are that age, you think you are going to be in the army two years, its a huge amount of time
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Walter Hill
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The Long Riders
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The Long Riders is a 1980 American western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann, Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack. The film was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, during the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, outlaws who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, a detective, Mr. Rixley from the Pinkertons agency, is assigned to capture the outlaws. Leading his own team of men, Rixley doggedly remains on their trail. The holdup goes wrong in every way, the banks vault has been set on a timer and cannot be opened. A cashier and another citizen are shot and killed, while trying to escape, the gang is fired upon by the townspeople, who, setting a trap, have barricaded both ends of the main street. Two outlaws, both recently recruited by Jesse, are killed, Clell is fatally gutshot, Frank is hit in the arm, finally escaping Northfield, the surviving gang members temporarily make camp in some woods. Jim Younger, sporting more than several wounds, cannot speak due to a bullet piercing his cheek, Bob Younger, flat on his back, moans pitifully, shot multiple times. Cole Younger, seeming the most mobile of his siblings, has been hit by no less than eleven bullets, Frank James has only one minor injury. Jesse James appears to have escaped unscathed, hard decisions have to be made. A posse will be coming for the outlaws. Miller is on his last breaths, the three Younger brothers are so injured that they are unable to continue. Only Jesse and Frank James are in any condition to ride further, even though it is his gang, and they follow his commands, Jesse elects to leave all the badly wounded behind. Cole objects, implying that it is disloyal to abandon them, the James brothers return home to Missouri. An attempt is made by Pinkerton Rixley to make the Youngers, Rixley states that the Youngers will face life in prison, but he offers them a more lenient sentence if they betray the James brothers. The Youngers, despite their abandonment, refuse to inform on the Jameses, Jesse, not terribly affected by the disastrous Northfield raid, chooses to recruit a new gang. Bob and Charlie Ford, previously spurned in their efforts to join Jesses outfit, are now invited to Jesses home for dinner, the expectation is that Jesse will ask the two brothers to join him in further robberies
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Theatrical release poster
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The Fall Guy
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The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4,1981 to May 2,1986. It stars Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas, Lee Majors plays Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a bounty hunter. He uses his skills and knowledge of stunt effects to capture fugitives. He is accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training Howie Munson, whom Colt frequently calls Kid, and occasionally by fellow stunt performer Jody Banks. After the voice-over introduction, the crew is performing a stunt for a film or TV series when Seavers is then assigned to finding, for example. His case turns out to be more complicated than it first seemed, in the course of dealing with the villains, Seavers performs a stunt similar to the one shown at the beginning of the show. Colts voice-over narration was dropped from the second season onward, the series is known for its frequent cameos by Hollywood celebrities and the occasional in-joke referring to Majors previous starring role in the series The Six Million Dollar Man. As with a number of other TV shows of the era released on DVD, due to poor sales it is unknown if the remaining seasons will be released. Region 2 Season 1 was released on DVD in Region 2 in Germany, Season 2 has also been released in Region 2, in Germany on November 28,2008 and in the UK on February 16,2009. The highest rating is in bold text, colts truck was a Rounded-Line 1982 GMC K-2500 Wideside with the Sierra Grande equipment level package. A Rounded-Line 1980 GMC K-25 Wideside with the High Sierra equipment level package was also used and it had a 6-inch lift and 36x16. 5x15 inch Dick Cepek Fun Country off-road tires mounted on a 15x10-inch chrome wagon style wheel. The truck also had a custom-made chrome roll bar mounted with 4 off-road lights, and a chrome grille guard mounted with 2 off-road lights. One unusual characteristic was a compartment in the trucks bed. The vehicle was painted brown and tan two-tone, it had a painted on the hood with the phrase Fall Guy Stuntman Association underneath. The truck was often involved in high-speed chases and huge jumps. As a result, it very popular, especially with children. During the shows run, the stunts took their toll on the trucks, so several different years, make, as a result, there are some inconsistencies in the episodes. For instance, in the episode the truck has two square headlights and a light tan interior
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The Fall Guy opening title
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Mean Streets
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Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro and it was released by Warner Bros. on October 2,1973. De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Johnny Boy Civello. In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, Charlie works for his uncle Giovanni, the local caporegime, mostly collecting debts. He is also having an affair with Johnny Boys cousin Teresa. Charlies uncle, a man who takes his role as caporegime seriously, also wants Charlie not to be such close friends with Johnny. Charlie is torn between his devout Catholicism and his Mafia ambitions, as the film progresses, Johnny becomes increasingly self-destructive and disrespectful of his creditors. Failing to receive redemption in the church, Charlie seeks it through sacrificing himself on Johnnys behalf, at a bar, a local loan shark named Michael comes looking for Johnny to pay up, but to his surprise, Johnny insults him. Michael lunges at Johnny, who retaliates by pulling a gun on him, after a tense standoff, Michael walks away, and Charlie convinces Johnny that they should leave town for a brief period. Teresa insists on coming with them, Charlie borrows a car and they drive off, escaping the neighborhood without incident. But then a car that had been following them suddenly pulls up alongside, Michael at the wheel and his henchman, Jimmy Shorts, Jimmy fires several shots at Charlies car, hitting Johnny in the neck and Charlie in the hand, causing Charlie to crash the car. The film ends with an ambulance and police arriving at the scene, director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha, You’ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit. This inspired Scorsese to make a film about his own experiences, the screenplay for the movie initially began as a continuation of the characters in Whos That Knocking. Scorsese sent the script to Corman, who agreed to back the film if all the characters were black, taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $300,000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film. The blaxploitation suggestion was to come to nothing when funding from Warner Bros. allowed him to make the film as he intended with Italian-American characters, the film was well received by most critics, some even hailed it as one of the most original American films of all time. Pauline Kael was among the most enthusiastic critics, calling it an original. Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader said that the acting and editing have such original, time Out magazine called it one of the best American films of the decade. In 2013, the staff of Entertainment Weekly voted the film the seventh greatest of all time, in 2015, it was ranked 93rd on BBCs The 100 greatest American films list
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Theatrical release poster
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Lizzie McGuire
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Lizzie McGuire is an American live-action scripted teen sitcom, which features an animated version of the title character performing soliloquy. The animated sequences were interspersed with the shows live-action sequences and it premiered on the Disney Channel on January 12,2001, following the premiere of Zenon, The Zequel, and ended February 14,2004. A total of 65 episodes were produced and aired and its target demographic was preteens and adolescents. The series won Favorite TV Show at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards in 2002 and 2003. The series follows 13-year-old Lizzie McGuire, a shy, compassionate, episodes center on Lizzies life, dealing with her family, mostly her parents Jo and Sam and her younger brother Matt, and normal teenage life issues. Lizzie has an animated alter-ego that represents her feelings, the series was created by Terri Minsky. The shows working title was Whats Lizzie Thinking, before being changed to Lizzie McGuire. The shows producer Stan Rogow says the visual look of the show was inspired by the film Run Lola Run. Though production wrapped in June 2002, the show did not end its run on Disney Channel until 2004. In 2014, Hilary Duff announced that she would be open to a Lizzie McGuire reunion, elizabeth Lizzie Brooke McGuire is portrayed as a shy, compassionate, and clumsy teen who dreams to fit in and be popular, although her animated alter ego often tells her true feelings. Lizzie constantly gets into arguments with her brother, Matt. Shes a Straight B student and is good at rhythmic gymnastics. Always the first to apologize and incredibly loyal, Lizzie sometimes loses herself in her nature and impulsiveness. Lizzies allergic to strawberries and oysters, Miranda Isabella Sanchez is Lizzies best friend. Despite showcasing great confidence, she is the most self-conscious of the three friends and her family is Mexican American, but she speaks very little Spanish. Like Lizzie, Miranda struggles with being a girl and growing up. She did not appear in the last six episodes, nor in The Lizzie McGuire Movie, during this time, her character was said to be sick, visiting her aunt, and vacationing with her family in Mexico City. During the events of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Miranda is still on vacation in Mexico with her family, Miranda sings and in Season 2 its shown that she plays the violin
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The Volume One DVD set of Lizzie McGuire. The only full-length DVD release to date, in the U.S.
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Kwai Chang Caine
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Kwai Chang Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC 1972–1975 action-adventure western television series Kung Fu. He has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a younger Caine and Radames Pera as the child Caine, in the late 19th century China, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin Monastery in Hunan Province, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master, Kung Fu follows his adventures as he travels to the American Old West as he seeks his half-brother, Danny Caine. He would then leave his new surroundings in a search for anonymity and security. In the Shaolin arts, monks live in temples and most stay their entire life, once they become masters and leave the temple, they are referred to as Priests. In real world Shaolin, both monks and priests shave their heads and remain celibate, orphaned after his maternal grandfathers death, Caine eventually found himself outside the local Shaolin temple along with other hopeful candidates. After waiting patiently for several days, Caine and the few other remaining candidates were taken inside the temple where only Caine passed a subtle test in manners. Although taking a student of mixed parentage into the order was unprecedented, the head monk Master Kan sagely noted, There is a first for everything, and welcomed Caine. Following his induction into the order, Caine then lived in the temple until adulthood, mastering many of the fighting forms and lessons taught by the Shaolin monks. At one point during his training he was shown the various forms, later, while in America, when asked by a student which forms he teaches, Caines response was, All of them. One of his first instructors was the blind master named Po, Po considered Caine his favorite pupil and behaved more like an elderly grandfather. Caine was given the nickname Grasshopper by Master Po, the reference was from an exchange where the still ignorant young Caine asked the old blind master how he could function without seeing, Po asked Caine to close his eyes and describe what he could hear. Caine explained that he could hear the water flowing in a nearby fountain, Po then asked if Caine could hear his own heartbeat or the grasshopper at his feet. Incredulous, Caine asked Po, Old man – how is it that you hear these things, pos reply was, Young man, how is it that you do not. From that point on, Po affectionately called Caine Grasshopper, while defending himself from the other guards, Master Po was shot by the Emperors nephew. Before the nephew could reload his pistol, the enraged Caine seized a guards fallen spear and killed the Imperial nephew. With his dying words, Po gave Caine his pouch containing his few worldly possessions, at first, Caine tried to flee to Tibet but was unsuccessful. He then escaped to the American Old West and in the first season episode Dark Angel discovered from his grandfather Henry Caine that he had a half-brother named Daniel
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Master Po (left) and Kwai Chang Caine (right) in a flashback from the episode "Dark Angel", written by
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History (U.S. TV channel)
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The channel originally broadcast documentary programs and historical fiction series. More recently, it has mostly broadcast various reality series such as Pawn Stars, Ax Men. As of February 2015, approximately 96,149,000 American households receive History, International localized versions of History are available, in various forms, in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The first European version was launched in Scandinavia in 1997 by Viasat which now operates their own channel, History was launched on January 1,1995 as The History Channel, its original format focused entirely on historical series and specials. On February 16,2008, a new logo was launched on the U. S. network as part of a rebranding effort, while the trademark H was kept, the triangle shape on the left acts as a play button for animation and flyouts during commercials and shows. On March 20,2008, as part of that same rebranding effort, The History Channel dropped The, on June 1,2015, the History logo was slightly updated, completely removing the triangle shape on the left. Programming on History has covered a range of historical periods and topics. Programming also includes mainstream reality television-style shows involving truck drivers, alligator hunters, pawn stores, antique and collectible pickers, car restorers, photography, occasionally some programs compare contemporary culture and technology with that of the past. On March 3,2013, History channel premiered its first original series, during the 1990s, History was jokingly referred to as The Hitler Channel for its extensive coverage of World War II. Much of its programming has been shifted to its sister network Military History. The network has also criticized for having a bias towards US history. The network was criticized by Stanley Kutner for airing the series The Men Who Killed Kennedy in 2003. Kutner was one of three historians commissioned to review the documentary, which the channel disavowed and never aired again, programs such as Modern Marvels have been praised for their presentation of detailed information in an entertaining format. Some of the series, including Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men. Senator Chuck Grassley is a critic of the channel and its lack of historical or educational programming, showing disdain for Ax Men. In his book 2012, Its Not the End of the World, Peter Lemesurier describes the channels Nostradamus series, in which he was invited to participate, as largely fiction, the History Channel was also singled out for ridicule by Smithsonian magazine. The article took issue with the show Ancient Aliens for postulating the idea that caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. The online magazine Cracked also lampooned the channel for its definition of history
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Wild West Tech
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Wild West Tech is a program that aired on The History Channel in the United States that aired from 2003 to 2005. The show was hosted by Keith Carradine, but his half-brother, David Carradine took over hosting duties for season 2. The show illustrates a variety of used in the Wild West. The series was created by Dolores Gavin and supervising producer Louis Tarantino, each episode is dedicated to some broader aspect of Wild West life. Once the context is established in brief by the host, more elements are developed. Throughout the program, professors, writers, and other experts explain finer points while historical reenactments, the production aims to put the viewer into the spirit of the Old West with its host inhabiting an unnamed frontier town delivering commentary. A new spin on the typical technology fact program, this program covers subjects from the American Old West that are not generally discussed in more traditional settings. It was used for relief and, ironically, as a cure for opium or alcohol addiction. Its extensive use during the American Civil War resulted in over 400,000 sufferers from the soldiers disease. The same episode informs the viewers that heroin, along with drugs, was only criminalized in the United States by the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 decades after it was derived. Other topics include the histories of various alcoholic beverages, saloons, weapons. Two pilot episodes were produced, hosted by Keith Carradine, to sell the History Channel on the concept of the series. Seasons 2 and 3 were hosted by David Carradine, the History Channel sometimes airs re-edited versions of the episodes to fill odd bits of time on the schedule, these 30 minute versions feature no new content. There is a video that documents how Keith lost the show to David in a game that appears at the beginning of episode 2–1. Shortly before leaving the show, Keith Carradine grew a mustache for his role in the TNT production of Monte Walsh, episode guides Wild West Tech at the Internet Movie Database Wild West Tech at TV. com
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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
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This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27,1993 to January 1,1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations, like his grandfather and namesake from the original TV series, Kwai Chang Caine is a Shaolin priest who walked out of the past. The series begins when Caine comes to fictional Sloanville and ends up in a Chinatown section, where Peters precinct is, david Carradine - Kwai Chang Caine, Matthew Caine Chris Potter - Det. Peter Caine Kim Chan - Lo Si / Ping Hai Robert Lansing - Capt. Paul Blaisdell Kate Trotter - Capt, karen Simms Scott Wentworth - Det. Kermit Griffin Nathaniel Moreau - Young Peter Caine Robert Bednarski - Younger Peter Caine Belinda Metz - Det, kira Blakemore Richard Anderson - Narrator Rob Moses - Master Khan Sandey Grinn - Thomas Jefferson T. J. Kincaid Kung Fu, The Legend Continues lasted four seasons with a total of 88 episodes, the pilot episode, Initiation, was presented as a two-parter. It established the characters and introduced many of the concepts that are seen throughout the series. As with the rest of the series, much of the storytelling was done through flashbacks, season 2 was released on August 18,2015. com Kung Fu, The Legend Continues Online FAQ
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Internet Movie Database
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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