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Christopher Pyne
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Christopher Maurice Pyne is an Australian politician and Liberal member for the House of Representatives seat of Sturt since the 1993 election. Upon the ascendancy of the Turnbull Government at the 2015 Liberal leadership ballot, Pyne remained Leader of the House and became Minister for Industry, Innovation, with the reelection of the Government in 2016, Pyne became the Minister for Defence Industry. The fifth and youngest child of prominent ophthalmic surgeon, Remington Pyne and his wife Margaret, Pyne was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1967. Christopher Pyne was educated at the University of Adelaide, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and was President of Adelaide University Liberal Club from 1987 to 1988. He was an assistant to Senator Amanda Vanstone and later became President of the South Australian Young Liberals from 1988–1990. Pyne was pre-selected as the Liberal candidate for the safe Labor seat of Ross Smith at the 1989 state election but was defeated by the member and Premier of South Australia. He earned a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the University of South Australia, at the 1993 election, aged 25, Pyne was elected to the South Australian Division of Sturt in the House of Representatives. He had earlier defeated Sturt incumbent Ian Wilson in a Liberal pre-selection ballot for the seat, Wilson had held the seat for all but one term since the 1966 election. Between them, he and his father, Keith, had held the seat for all, Wilson was 35 years Pynes senior, indeed, he had won his first election a year before Pyne was born. Pyne is a republican and established himself as a member of the moderate, small-l liberal faction of the Liberal Party, Pyne remains a close ally of state Liberal Vickie Chapman. In 1994, after serving as a backbencher for a period and he retained this position after John Howard was elected as leader, and up to the 1996 election. After the 1996 Coalition victory Pyne sat as a backbencher, Pyne chaired the Australia Israel Parliamentary group from 1996 to 2004. As Parliamentary Secretary, he defended the governments War on drugs and established his strong support of drug prohibition. He founded the mental health initiative Headspace. Pyne served as a Parliamentary Secretary until 30 January 2007 when he was appointed Assistant Minister for Health and he held this portfolio until 21 March, when he was elevated to the outer ministry as Minister for Ageing, succeeding resigning Minister, Senator Santo Santoro. Julie Bishop prevailed with 44 votes, ahead of Andrew Robb who won 25 votes, following the election of Brendan Nelson as party leader, Pyne was appointed Shadow Minister for Justice and Border Protection. Following Malcolm Turnbulls ascension at the 2008 Liberal leadership ballot, Pyne was elevated to Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training. After Bishop stepped down from the portfolio of Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey took up the portfolio, Pyne was re-appointed as Manager of Opposition Business in the House and Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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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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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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University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Space Sciences Laboratory. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Lawrence Livermore Lab also discovered or co-discovered six chemical elements. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, third in the world overall, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus. Ten faculty members and almost 40 students made up the new University of California when it opened in Oakland in 1869, billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley. In 1870, Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, with the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students and held its first classes. In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, by the 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially, and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard. Robert Gordon Sproul served as president from 1930 to 1958, by 1942, the American Council on Education ranked UC Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments. During World War II, following Glenn Seaborgs then-secret discovery of plutonium, UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley is now a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally, military training was compulsory for male undergraduates, and Berkeley housed an armory for that purpose. In 1917, Berkeleys ROTC program was established, and its School of Military Aeronautics trained future pilots, including Jimmy Doolittle, both Robert McNamara and Frederick C. Weyand graduated from UC Berkeleys ROTC program, earning B. A. degrees in 1937 and 1938, in 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Berkeley. The Board of Regents ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962, during the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath. A number of faculty members objected and were dismissed, ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay, in 1952, the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus. Each campus was given autonomy and its own Chancellor. Then-president Sproul assumed presidency of the entire University of California system, Berkeley gained a reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the highly publicized Peoples Park protest in 1969, students and the school conflicted over use of a plot of land, then governor of California Ronald Reagan called the Berkeley campus a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants. Modern students at Berkeley are less active, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives
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Robert Pine
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Robert Pine is an American actor who is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the hit NBC television series CHiPs, Pine was born in New York City, New York, the son of Virginia and Granville Martin Pine, a patent attorney. He is married to Gwynne Gilford, who appeared on CHiPs as the wife of Pines character and they have two children, Chris and Katie. He appeared on NBCs Knight Rider, on Magnum, P. I. he appeared as Thomas Magnums father in a flashback episode. In the late 1980s, Pine guest-starred as Peter Morris, Zacks father, in an episode of Good Morning, for Star Trek, Voyager, he guest starred as the Akritirian Ambassador Liria in the Season 3 episode The Chute. For Star Trek, Enterprise, he guest-starred as Vulcan Captain Tavin in the Season 1 episode Fusion, among his other credits are Six Feet Under, Beverly Hills 90210, and Match Game. In early 1990s, Pine portrayed two villains, for California Dreams, he played a wealthy racist who sabotages his daughters friendship with drummer Tony, for the CBS Schoolbreak Special Big Boys Dont Cry, he played a pedophile who molests his two nephews. In January 1994, Pine guest-starred as Bart Tupelo on CBS Harts of the West comedy/western starring Beau Bridges and he reprised his role as Joe Getraer in the 1998 TNT TV movie CHiPs 99. In September 2013, he appeared as Grandpa Jack in Kaiser Permanentes television ad, in November 2013, he starred in a minor role in Frozen
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Gwynne Gilford
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Gloria Gwynne Gilford is an American actress. She appeared in television series in the 1970s and 1980s, including A New Kind of Family, The Young Lawyers and The Waverly Wonders. The Blob, Satans School for Girls, Fade to Black, Gilford was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Anne Gwynne and actor and producer Max Gilford. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was a Texan, of English, Welsh and she is married to actor Robert Pine. They are the parents of the actor Chris Pine and Katherine Pine, after retiring from acting, she and Katherine studied to become practicing psychotherapists. Gwynne Gilford at the Internet Movie Database
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Anne Gwynne
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Anne Gwynne was an American film actress of the 1940s. Known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films and she is actor Chris Pines maternal grandmother. Gwynne was born in Waco, Texas, the daughter of Pearl and Jefferson Benjamin Trice, after her family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, she attended Stephens College, where she studied drama. While accompanying her father to a convention in Los Angeles, Gwynne obtained a job modeling for Catalina Swimwear and she soon began acting in small theaters and appeared in a newsreel and a charity short. In June 1939, she signed a contract with Universal and was put to work in Unexpected Father. Universal cast her in a variety of genres including film noir and she made a number of Westerns at the studio, including two she numbered among her favorite projects, Men of Texas with Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford and Ride Em Cowboy with Abbott and Costello. She is remembered by fans of horror for her work in several pictures made in the 1940s and her first horror film was Black Friday in which she played Boris Karloffs daughter. House of Frankenstein was the last horror picture she did at Universal, Gwynne was a television pioneer, appearing in TVs first filmed series, Public Prosecutor, she was a member of the regular cast, playing Pat Kelly, the District Attorneys secretary. Gwynne married Max M. Gilford in 1945, the couple had two children, Gregory and Gwynne, an actress. Gwynne Gilfords children are actress Katherine Pine and actor Chris Pine, Gwynne died March 31,2003 of a stroke following surgery at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Anne Gwynne at the Internet Movie Database Anne Gwynne at Find a Grave
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James T. Kirk
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James Tiberius Jim Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. Kirk first appears in Star Trek, The Original Series and has portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes. As the captain of the starship USS Enterprise, Kirk leads his crew as they explore where no man has gone before, often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. Kirk, played by William Shatner, first appears in the broadcast pilot episode, The Man Trap, Shatner continued in the role for the shows three seasons, and later provided the voice of the animated version of Kirk in Star Trek, The Animated Series. Shatner returned to the role for Star Trek, The Motion Picture, chris Pine portrays a young version of the character in the 2009 reboot Star Trek film, with Jimmy Bennett playing Kirk as a child. Pine reprised his role in Star Trek Into Darkness and in Star Trek Beyond, other actors have played the character in fan-created media, and the character has been the subject of multiple spoofs and satires. The character has been praised for his leadership traits and criticized for his relationships with women, James Tiberius Kirk was born in Riverside, Iowa, where he was raised by his parents, George and Winona Kirk. Although born on Earth, Kirk lived for a time on Tarsus IV, James Kirks brother, George Samuel Kirk, is first mentioned in What Are Little Girls Made Of. and introduced and killed in Operation, Annihilate. Kirk was granted a commission as an ensign and posted to advanced training aboard the USS Republic. He was then promoted to lieutenant junior grade and returned to Starfleet Academy as a student instructor, students could either think or sink in his class, and Kirk himself was a stack of books with legs. Upon graduating in the top five percent, Kirk was promoted to lieutenant and he received his first command, a spaceship roughly equivalent to a destroyer, while still quite young. Kirk became Starfleets youngest captain after receiving command of the USS Enterprise for a five-year mission, Kirks most significant relationships in the television series are with first officer Spock and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy. McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to Spock, robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrences The Myth of the American Superhero describes Kirk as a hard-driving leader who pushes himself and his crew beyond human limits. Terry J. Erdman and Paula M, although Kirk throughout the series becomes romantically involved with various women, when confronted with a choice between a woman and the Enterprise, his ship always won. Roddenberry wrote in a memo that Kirk is not afraid of being fallible. J. M. Dillards novel The Lost Years describes Kirks promotion to rear admiral, in Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Kirk is chief of Starfleet operations, and he takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Willard Decker. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberrys novelization of The Motion Picture depicts Kirk married to a Starfleet officer killed during a transporter accident. At the beginning of Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, Kirk takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Spock to pursue his enemy from Space Seed, the movie introduces Kirks son, David Marcus
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Star Trek (film series)
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Reruns of the series proved to be wildly successful in syndication during the 1970s, which persuaded the series then-owner, Paramount Pictures, to expand the franchise. Paramount originally began work on a Star Trek feature film in 1975 after lobbying by the creator of the franchise, the studio scrapped the project two years later in favor of creating a television series, Star Trek, Phase II, with the original cast. Five more films featuring the original cast followed. The cast of the 1987–1994 spin-off series Star Trek, The Next Generation starred in a further four films, a sequel to Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, was released in theaters on May 16,2013. A second sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released on July 22,2016, the Star Trek films have received 15 Academy Award nominations. Star Trek won for Best Makeup in 2010, and four of the films were nominated mainly in the areas of makeup, music, set design. The early Star Trek films, the first to film, were originally released on VHS. Later films were released on LaserDisc as well. For those films that did not receive an initial DVD release, later, the first ten films were released in two-disc collectors versions, with The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan branded as directors cuts, followed by later box set releases. All of the films are now available on Blu-ray, digital download, streaming media, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first suggested the idea of a Star Trek feature in 1969. When the original series was cancelled, he lobbied to continue the franchise through a film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to work on a feature film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, Paramount instead planned on returning the franchise to its roots with a new television series, Star Trek, Phase II. The massive worldwide box office success of Star Wars in mid-1977 sent Hollywood studios to their vaults in search of similar properties that could be adapted or re-launched to the big screen. Principal photography for Star Trek, The Motion Picture commenced August 7,1978 with director Robert Wise helming the feature, the production encountered difficulties and slipped behind schedule, with effects team Robert Abel and Associates proving unable to handle the films large amount of effects work. Douglas Trumbull was hired and given a check to complete the effects work in time and location. The film introduced an upgrade to the technology and starship designs, many of the set elements created for Phase II were adapted and enhanced for use in the first feature films. The film received mixed reviews critics, while it grossed $82,258,456
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Unstoppable (2010 film)
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Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott in his final film as director before his death in 2012. The film stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, the film, loosely based on the real life CSX8888 incident, tells the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it. The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 12,2010, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it was beaten by Inception. Initially believing the train to be a coaster, yardmaster Connie Hooper orders Dewey, Gilleece, when Oldham finds that the train has already passed where it was supposed to be, they realize that the train is running on full power and now poses a dangerous threat. Dewey and Gilleece manage to catch up to 777 using a high railing truck, Hooper alerts Oscar Galvin, director of operations for AWVR, and also instructs the local and state police and sheriffs to secure all the grade crossings to prevent injury. Triple 7 is also pulling around 5000 gallons of fuel which also poses a serious threat. News of the runaway train soon becomes a media event. S, marine Ryan Scott to descend via helicopter to 777s cab and stop the train manually. Though the lashing initially works, a hard bump knocked Scott out. Plans are made to derail the train outside the town of Arklow using a portable derailer. Barnes observes that 777 has an open knuckle, which if they could catch up to the engine, they could use to couple it to 777 and use their own brakes to slow the train before it reaches Stanton. Given that AWVR has already given him an early retirement notice, Barnes ignores Galvin. As 777 passes Arklow, police attempt to shoot the fuel shutoff switch on the engine, as Barnes predicts, the train barrels go through the derailers without slowing down. Hooper and Werner fully support Barnes plan and take control of the situation from Galvin. Barnes and Colson catch up to 777 and attempt to engage the coupling and their attempts to connect with 777 cause the grain car seal to break and leak grain at a blinding rate. Colson notices the locking pin on the coupler is not engaged and he attempts to kick it in but the couple again impacts 1206 and Colson gets his right foot crushed in the process. However, he is able to hold on enough to engage the locking pin. Colson jumps to Oldhams truck, and Oldham drives him up to the front of 777 allowing Colson to get into the cab,777 is safely stopped before it reaches the end of the line. Barnes, Colson, and Oldham are heralded as heroes, with Barnes retiring and Colson reuniting with his wife, Hooper is promoted to Galvins former position for her leadership, and Dewey goes to work into the fast food industry, indicating he was fired
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Prince Charming
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Prince Charming is a fairy tale character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress, and stereotypically, must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. The prominence of the character makes him an obvious target for revisionist fairy tales. Prince Charming is also used as a term to refer to the man some people dream of as a future spouse. Charles Perraults version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1697, includes the text at the point where the princess wakes up, Est-ce vous. Lui dit-elle, vous vous êtes bien fait attendre, Le Prince charmé de ces paroles. Ne savait comment lui témoigner sa joie and it has sometimes been suggested that this passage later inspired the term, Prince Charming, even though it is the prince who is charmed here, not who is being charming. In the 17th century, Madame dAulnoy wrote two fairy tales, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, where the hero was named Avenant, and The Blue Bird, where the hero was Le roi Charmant. When Andrew Lang retold the first for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the name as Charming. Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, then, Oscar Wildes 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray refers ironically to Prince Charming, perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actresss Prince Charming, but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide. In the early Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when Snow White tells the dwarfs about her prince, she says, Anyone could see that the prince was charming, however, he is never referred to specifically as Prince Charming. In other languages, like Spanish and Italian, he is called the Blue Prince, in Portuguese, a translation mistake occurred and he is called Charmed Prince, coincidentally closer to the sense in Perraults story mentioned atop this section. The Broadway musical Into the Woods explores the character as polygamous, and where there are not one, here, they are shown as brothers pursuing Cinderella and Rapunzel, then later, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, after they have married their first loves. Cinderellas Prince has an affair with the wife as well. As implied by the title, the 1991 fantasy novel Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny, Prince Charming is a prominent character in the Fables comic book. Polygamy is explored again, in version, he successively married Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. He himself comments, I always truly love a woman when I first pursue her. Im just no good at the happily-ever-after part. He parlays his charm into election as the mayor of Fabletown, the underground Fable community and he Died in the Battle for the Homelands by activating a Bomb to End the War
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Into the Woods (film)
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Into the Woods is a 2014 American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall, and adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheims Broadway musical of the same name. Ultimately, the characters are forced to rectify the consequences of their actions, principal photography commenced in September 2013, and took place entirely in the United Kingdom, including at Shepperton Studios in London. Into the Woods held its premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 8,2014. A Baker and his Wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the Bakers family by a Witch who found the Bakers father robbing her garden when his mother was pregnant. The Bakers father also stole some beans which caused the Witchs mother to punish her with the curse of ugliness, the Witch later tells the Baker that she asked him to do this task for her because she is not allowed to touch any of the objects. After a series of failed attempts and misadventures, the Baker, the characters debate the morality of handing Jack over. In the process, Red Riding Hoods Mother and Grandmother, Jacks Mother, the characters blame each other for their individual actions that lead to the tragedy, ultimately blaming the Witch for raising the beans in the first place. She curses them for their inability to accept their individual responsibilities and disappears into the ground, the characters lure the Giants Wife into stepping in the tar pit where she ultimately trips and falls to her death. The Giants Wife is killed, and the move forward with their ruined lives. The Baker, thinking of his Wife, is determined to be a good father, Cinderella decides to leave the Prince and help the Baker, and Jack and Red Riding Hood, now orphans, are living with the Baker and Cinderella. The Baker comforts his son after he begins to cry by telling a story as the ends with the Witchs moral, meaning that children can change due to the parents actions. Thus, the film does slightly differ from the stage production, meanwhile, many of the songs in the film have slightly different lyrics than their stage counterparts due to the slight tweaking of storylines. Other changes include a reduction of the significant role of the Mysterious Man. Also, the character of the Narrator is deleted, and the film is narrated by the Baker. The minor role of Cinderellas Father was cut, and he is mentioned as deceased. Due to the films compressed storyline, Rapunzels pregnancy is eliminated, Rapunzels ultimate fate is also changed, rather than being killed by the giant, she refuses to cooperate with her mother and flees with her prince. Similarly, much of the violence and sexual content is slightly toned down from the original musical. The death of Jacks Mother is less violent in the film, on stage, early attempts of adapting Into the Woods to film occurred in the early 1990s, with a script written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
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Hell or High Water (film)
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Hell or High Water is a 2016 American neo-Western crime thriller film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan. The script was on the 2012 Black List, the film follows two brothers who carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family ranch, and stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster. The film premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 16,2016 and it received critical acclaim and grossed $37 million. It received four Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, in West Texas, divorced father Toby Howard and his ex-con brother Tanner carry out early morning robberies of two branches of the Texas Midlands Bank. Though the robberies are well-planned, Tanners wild nature leads to him taking unnecessary risks, two Texas Rangers, Marcus Hamilton and Alberto Parker, are on the case. Hamilton, who is close to retirement, quickly determines the brothers methods, meanwhile, Tanner robs another bank while Toby unknowingly waits at a nearby diner. They take the money to an Indian casino in Oklahoma to be laundered. They exchange the stolen bills for chips, some of which Tanner uses to gamble, Toby then has the casino convert them into a check made out to the Texas Midlands Bank – the same bank they robbed. With untraceable funds and gambling as a cover for how they were acquired and it is revealed that the brothers mother died recently, leaving their ranch in debt due to a reverse mortgage provided by the Texas Midlands Bank. If the debt is not paid off in a few days, Toby is determined to pay off the mortgage to ensure a comfortable life for his estranged sons because oil has recently been discovered on their land. They rob Texas Midlands as a form of frontier justice and it is also revealed that Tanner shot and killed their abusive father. Hamilton stakes out another branch of the Texas Midlands Bank, Hamilton figures a pattern to the robberies and determines their next target. Hamilton and Parker are en route when the final robbery indeed occurs there, pressed for time, the brothers proceed with the heist even though the bank is full of customers. A shoot-out ensues when a security guard and a civilian fire at the brothers and Tanner kills the guard and the civilian. The brothers race out of town, with a posse of armed townspeople in pursuit, after gaining some distance, Tanner stops and fires an automatic rifle at the posse, forcing them to retreat. The brothers then split, with Toby taking the money using another vehicle, while Tanner creates a diversion and he draws the lawmen off the trail to a desert mountain ridge where he takes potshots with a sniper rifle, killing Parker. Hamilton uses a local knowledge of the area to circle behind Tanner. During the standoff, Toby passes through a checkpoint without incident, then successfully launders the stolen cash at the casino
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Wonder Woman (2017 film)
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Wonder Woman is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros. It is intended to be the fourth installment in the DC Extended Universe. In Wonder Woman, after American pilot Steve Trevor crashes on the island of Themyscira and tells Diana Prince about World War I, Diana leaves her home to try to stop the war, principal photography began in late November 2015 and wrapped in May 2016. Wonder Woman is scheduled to be released on June 2,2017, in 2D, 3D, in the early 20th century, the Amazon princess Diana, who is living on the island of Themyscira, meets American military pilot Steve Trevor when he is washed ashore. After learning from him about the events of World War I. Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, The Amazon princess, daughter of Zeus, Gadot described her character as having many strengths and powers, but at the end of the day shes a woman with a lot of emotional intelligence. Very different to the experienced, super-confident, grown-up woman youve seen, Gadot underwent a diet and training regimen, practiced different martial arts and gained 17 pounds of muscle for the role. Élodie Yung and Olga Kurylenko had also auditioned for the role, Gadot was previously offered the role as Faora Hu-Ul in Man of Steel but declined because she was pregnant at that time, this allowed her to be later cast as Wonder Woman in the films sequel. Gadot signed a deal and debuted in Batman v Superman. Emily Carey portrays the young Diana, chris Pine as Steve Trevor, A captain from the United States Army Air Service and love interest of Diana Prince. Pine described his character as a rogue-ish, cynical realist whos seen the awful nature of modern civilization and added he is a worldly guy. Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, The Amazon queen of Themyscira, Nicole Kidman was in negotiations for the role but was forced to drop due to scheduling conflicts with Big Little Lies. Nielsen had previously considered for the role of Supermans mother, Lara Lor-Van. Robin Wright as General Antiope, The sister of Hippolyta and Dianas aunt, david Thewlis as Ares, The treacherous Greek god of war, and son of Zeus who poses as Sir Patrick Morgan, an advocate for peace on the war council. Danny Huston as General Erich Ludendorff, An ambitious general of the German Army during World War I, elena Anaya as Maru / Doctor Poison, A mad scientist who specializes in chemistry such as poisons. Lucy Davis as Etta Candy, Steve Trevors comical but loyal, Saïd Taghmaoui as Sameer, A secret agent who is a master of disguise, an ally of Steve Trevor. Ewen Bremner as Charlie, A heavy-drinking sharpshooter, who’s already had a tour of duty and has post-traumatic stress disorder, mayling Ng, Florence Kasumba, Madeleine Vall, and boxer Ann Wolfe play the Amazons Orana, Senator Acantha, Egeria, and Artemis, respectively. Dutch model Doutzen Kroes will also portray an Amazon, samantha Jo, who played Car-Vex in Man of Steel, was cast as Euboea
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Bar Association
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A bar association is a professional body of lawyers. In many Commonwealth jurisdictions, the bar association comprises lawyers who are qualified as barristers or advocates in particular, membership in bar associations may be mandatory or optional for practicing attorneys, depending on jurisdiction. The use of the bar to mean the whole body of lawyers. In the early 16th century, a railing divided the hall in the Inns of Court, with students occupying the body of the hall, students who officially became lawyers crossed the symbolic physical barrier and were admitted to the bar. Later, this was assumed to mean the wooden railing marking off the area around the judges seat in a courtroom, where prisoners stood for arraignment. In many Commonwealth jurisdictions, including in England and Wales, the bar association comprises lawyers who are qualified as barristers or advocates, while the law society comprises solicitors. These bodies are sometimes mutually exclusive, while in other jurisdictions, in Canada, one is called to the bar after undertaking a post-law-school training in a provincial law society program, and undergoing an apprenticeship or taking articles. Legal communities are called provincial law societies, except for Nova Scotia, where it is called the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, and Quebec and it does not play a part in the regulation of the profession, however. In India under the framework set established under the Advocates Act,1961. The process of enrollment is delegated by the Bar Council of India to the state Bar Councils wherein almost each state has a Bar Council of its own. Once enrolled with a State Bar Council, the law graduate is recognized as an Advocate, once advocate clears the test, then they are entitled to appear and practice before any court within that Bar councils area. There is no requirement for further membership of any Bar Association. However Advocates do become members of local or national bar associations for reasons of recognition. Besides the Bar Council of India, other known Bar Associations in India are National Bar Association of India, All India Bar Association and Supreme Court Bar Association. Each State and local court generally also has a Bar Association of its own, in Pakistan, a person becomes a licensee of a Provincial Bar Council after fulfilling certain requirements. They must have a law degree LL. B from a recognized university, must offer certain undertakings. Further he may join any bar association as member, Bar associations work under Provincial Bar councils, such as khyber pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, Punjab Bar Council, Sindh Bar Council etc. To become an advocate, one must first complete six months pupillage with an advocate of High Court
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History of the Jews in Russia
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Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora, the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE, in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471, during the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States, before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917, thousands joined after the Revolution, the chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922,125,000 of them in Ukraine,25,000 in Belarus and these were probably the largest-scale European massacres of Jews to date. The pogroms were perpetrated by anti-communist forces, sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals, the Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, the Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned. Zionists were persecuted harshly, with Jewish communists leading the attacks, following the civil war, however, the new Bolshevik governments policies produced a flourishing of secular Jewish culture in Belarus and western Ukraine in the 1920s. At the beginning of the 1930s, the Jews were 1.8 percent of the Soviet population, in 1934 the Soviet state established the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian Far East, but the region never came to have a majority Jewish population. Today, the JAO is Russias only autonomous oblast and, aside of Israel, the observance of the Sabbath was banned in 1929, foreshadowing the dissolution of the Communist Partys Yiddish-language Yevsektsia in 1930 and worse repression to come. Numerous Jews were victimized in Stalins purges as counterrevolutionaries and reactionary nationalists, the share of Jews in the Soviet ruling elite declined during the 1930s, but was still more than double their proportion in the general Soviet population. According to Israeli historian Benjamin Pinkus, We can say that the Jews in the Soviet Union took over the privileged position, in the 1930s, many Jews held high rank in the Red Army High Command, Generals Iona Yakir, Yan Gamarnik, Yakov Smushkevich and Grigori Shtern. During World War Two, an estimated 500,000 soldiers in the Red Army were Jewish, about 160,000 were decorated, and more than a hundred achieved the rank of Red Army general. Over 150 were designated Heroes of the Soviet Union, the highest award in the country, more than two million Soviet Jews are believed to have died during the Holocaust in warfare and in Nazi-occupied territories. For many years during this period, Russia had a rate of immigration to Israel than any other country
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B.A.
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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Zellerbach Hall
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Zellerbach Hall is a multi-venue performance facility on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, west of Lower Sproul Plaza. It was designed by architect and professor Vernon DeMars and completed in 1968, the facility consists of two primary performance spaces, the 1, 984-seat Zellerbach Auditorium, and the 500-seat Zellerbach Playhouse. Zellerbach Auditorium is the performance venue for Cal Performances, a presenting and producing arts organization. The facility is suitable for dance, theater, and opera, the Playhouse is primarily used by the UC Berkeley Department of Theater and Dance. It features flexible seating sections to allow for different configurations of the seating, Zellerbach Hall was named in honor of Isadore and Jennie Zellerbach, after a $1 million gift was given toward completion of the facility. Christine McVie of the band, Fleetwood Mac recorded her song Songbird here in 1976, in May 1998, the game show Jeopardy. Held their annual College Championship at Zellerbach Hall
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University of Leeds
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The University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, established in 1831. In 1904, a charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII. The Leeds University Business School hold the Triple Crown accreditations from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, the university has 31,790 students, the seventh largest university in the UK. From 2006 to present, the university has consistently ranked within the top 5 in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received. Leeds had an income of £634.9 million in 2015/16. The university has financial endowments of £67.7 million, ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment, for 2016-17, Leeds is ranked nationally between 13th and 16th. Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe, Leeds was ranked top three in the UK and top 20 in the world for graduate employability, also ranked as the 5th most targeted British university by the UKs top graduate employers in 2016-17. Leeds was ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the best result in the Yorkshire, the university was named the 2017 Sunday Times University of the Year, having been runner-up in 2016. Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers and six Nobel laureates. The universitys history is linked to the development of Leeds as a centre for the textile industry. The universitys roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public, prior to 1900, only five universities had been established in England and one in Wales. These consisted of the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of London, Durham University, and the federal Victoria University, Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884, in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the university. In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants, financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the College and aiding the students. The university continues to recognise these elements of its history, for example, the religious qualification ceased in the 1850s but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, in 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London, Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by charter in 1880
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
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The theatre festival was conceived as a way to use the Adams Memorial Theatre on the Williams campus for a resident summer theatre company. At the request of Renzi and Bryant, established Actress and Broadway Theatre World Award winner Marcia Henderson, nikos Psacharopoulos, a professor at Yale Drama School and a co-founder, became the executive artistic director and guided the company for over thirty years. He mentored his associates and assistant directors, such as Tom Brennan, Arvin Brown, Keith Fowler, Peter H. Hunt, Paul Weidner and he attracted well-known actors including E. G. Marshall, Frank Langella, Rosemary Harris, Blythe Danner, and he has managed to achieve a national theater. Following a 35th season run by a troika of Peter H. Hunt, Austin Pendleton and George Morfogen, Hunt was named Artistic Director for the 36th season, ritchie was succeeded in 2005 by Roger Rees. Former WTF resident director Nicholas Martin served as Artistic Director from 2008-2010, former Associate Producer Jenny Gersten led the Festival from 2011-2014 and Mandy Greenfield assumed the role of Artistic Director in September 2014. In 2002, the American Theater Wing awarded WTF Americas highest theatrical honor, the festival transferred several successful shows to Broadway, including One Mo Time, Hedda Gabler, The Man Who Had All the Luck, and The Bridges of Madison County. Williamstown Theatre Festival official website Williamstown Theatre Festival at the Internet Broadway Database
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American Conservatory Theater
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American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions, as well as being an acting school. A. C. T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University by theatre, San Francisco Chronicle critic Paine Knickerbocker acclaimed Balls opening performance of Molières Tartuffe as a screaming, bellowing unbelievable triumph. In the mid-1980s, Ball, suffering from exhaustion and under accusations of mismanagement, was forced to relinquish his post as artistic director. Founding member and stage director Edward Hastings, who revived the companys fortunes until the Geary Theatre was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the company continued performing in a variety of San Francisco venues while laying the groundwork for its restoration. Since 1992, Carey Perloff has served as A. C. T. s Artistic Director, a. C. T. is now financially secure and has achieved continued acclaim for its work. Released a cast album of Perloffs production of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical Happy End and it includes the full score and is the first English language recording of this musical. A. C. T. s home in San Francisco is the eponymous American Conservatory Theater, previously known as the Columbia Theater, the American Conservatory Theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27,1975. A. C. T. s founders vision was for it to be both a company and acting school. The conservatory currently offers a range of classes and is accredited to grant Master of Fine Arts degrees for actors. Its MFA program is competitive, admitting only eight students per year among hundreds who audition. It was ranked by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top five graduate acting training programs in the U. S. along with schools like Juilliard, Yale, the current director of the conservatory is Melissa Smith. Tom OBrien, Harry Hamlin, Anna Deavere Smith, Omar Metwally, Steven W. Bailey, in addition to the MFA program, A. C. T. offers training through the Studio A. C. T. The Summer Training Congress, and Young Conservatory programs, alumni of these programs include Nicolas Cage, Teri Hatcher, Delroy Lindo, Milo Ventimiglia, Winona Ryder, Camryn Manheim, Marcus Orelias, Darren Criss, and Chris Pine. A. C. T. s Young Conservatory is a recognized professional theater training program for youth through the ages of 19. It was founded by Luanne and Ross Graham in 1971, successive YC directors include, Candace Birk, Sharon Newman, Linda Aldrich, and Susan Stauter. The program has led since 1988 by the acclaimed Craig Slaight. The Young Conservatory is geared at performing new works specifically for young actors, the conservatory members are also offered roles in the mainstage productions, most frequently A Christmas Carol, which is performed every winter. The first person to be given the sound designer in regional theatre was Dan Dugan at A. C. T. in the late 1960s
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San Francisco
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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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Kuwait
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Kuwait /kuːˈweɪt/, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in Western Asia. Situated in the edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq. As of 2016, Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people,1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates, expatriates account for 70% of the population. Oil reserves were discovered in 1938, from 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization. In the 1980s, Kuwait experienced a period of geopolitical instability, in 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Iraqi occupation came to an end in 1991 after military intervention by coalition forces, at the end of the war, there were extensive efforts to revive the economy and rebuild national infrastructure. Kuwait is a constitutional emirate with a political system. It has an income economy backed by the worlds sixth largest oil reserves. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest valued currency in the world, according to the World Bank, the country has the fourth highest per capita income in the world. The Constitution was promulgated in 1962, making Kuwait the most democratic country in the region, in the Arab world, Kuwait is frequently dubbed the Hollywood of the Gulf due to the popularity of its soap operas and theatre. During the Ubaid period, Kuwait was the site of interaction between the peoples of Mesopotamia and Neolithic Eastern Arabia, mainly centered in As-Subiya in northern Kuwait. The earliest evidence of habitation in Kuwait dates back 8000 B. C. where Mesolithic tools were found in Burgan. As-Subiya in northern Kuwait is the earliest evidence of urbanization in the whole Persian Gulf basin area, mesopotamians first settled in the Kuwaiti island of Failaka in 2000 B. C. Traders from the Sumerian city of Ur inhabited Failaka and ran a mercantile business, the island had many Mesopotamian-style buildings typical of those found in Iraq dating from around 2000 B. C. The Neolithic inhabitants of Kuwait were among the worlds earliest maritime traders, one of the worlds earliest reed-boats was discovered in northern Kuwait dating back to the Ubaid period. In 3rd century BC, the ancient Greeks colonized the bay of Kuwait under Alexander the Great, according to Strabo and Arrian, Alexander the Great named Failaka Ikaros because it resembled the Aegean island of that name in size and shape. Remains of Greek colonization include a large Hellenistic fort and Greek temples, in 224 AD, Kuwait became part of the Sassanid Empire. At the time of the Sassanid Empire, Kuwait was known as Meshan, Akkaz was a Partho-Sassanian site, the Sassanid religions tower of silence was discovered in northern Akkaz
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Star Trek (film)
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Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction adventure film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Kirk and Spock aboard USS Enterprise as they combat Nero, a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets, the story takes place in an alternate reality because of time travel by both Nero and the original Spock. The alternate timeline was created in an attempt to free the film, the idea for a prequel film which would follow the Star Trek characters during their time in Starfleet Academy was discussed by series creator Gene Roddenberry in 1968. After the separation between Viacom and CBS Corporation, former Paramount president Gail Berman convinced CBS to allow Paramount to produce a feature film, Orci and Kurtzman, both fans of the Star Trek series, were approached to write the film and Abrams was approached to direct it. Kurtzman and Orci used inspiration from novels and graduate school dissertations as well as the series itself, principal photography commenced on November 7,2007 and ended on March 27,2008. The film was shot in locations around California and Utah. Abrams wanted to avoid using bluescreen and greenscreen, opting to use sets, heavy secrecy surrounded the films production and was under the fake working title Corporate Headquarters. Industrial Light & Magic used digital ships for the film, as opposed to the films in the franchise. Production for the film concluded by the end of 2008 and it was released in the United States and Canada on May 8,2009, to critical acclaim. Critics praised the development as well as the storyline in the film. Star Trek became a box office success, grossing over $385.7 million worldwide against its budget of $150 million. The DVD and Blu-ray for the film were released on October 19,2010, the film is followed by two sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond with a fourth having been announced. In the 23rd century, the Federation starship USS Kelvin is investigating a storm in space. A Romulan ship, Narada, emerges from the storm and attacks Kelvin, naradas first officer, Ayel, demands that Kelvins Captain Robau come aboard to negotiate a truce. Robau is questioned about the current stardate and an Ambassador Spock, naradas commander, Nero, kills him, and resumes attacking Kelvin. George Kirk, Kelvins first officer, orders the ships personnel, including his pregnant wife Winona, Kirk sacrifices his life to ensure Winonas survival as she gives birth to James T. Kirk. Seventeen years later on the planet Vulcan, a young Spock is accepted to join the Vulcan Science Academy, realizing that the Academy views his human mother Amanda as a disadvantage, he joins Starfleet instead. On Earth, Kirk becomes a reckless but intelligent young adult, three years later, Commander Spock accuses Kirk of cheating during the Kobayashi Maru simulation
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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The Guardian (TV series)
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The Guardian is an American drama series which aired on CBS from September 25,2001 to May 4,2004. In the United States, as of 2012, it is being broadcast in re-runs on the Sleuth Channel, the Guardian has aired in the United Kingdom on the Hallmark Channel, ABC1 and, more recently,5 USA and Five. In India and Pakistan the show airs on Animax from June 2010 and AXN, in Singapore, the show airs on AXN through Starhub Cable Television. In New Zealand, the show airs on Vibe, channel 7, in Latin America, the series will premiere in October on the Sony Spin channel. The show stars Simon Baker and Dabney Coleman and it includes guest stars, such as Farrah Fawcett, and featured scenes with the Pittsburgh Police in multiple episodes. Series protagonist Nick Fallin is a corporate attorney sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service with Legal Services of Pittsburgh as the result of a drug conviction, Simon Baker as Nicholas Nick Fallin, a lawyer sentenced to community service for drug-related crimes. The central protagonist, he is an individual whose work. Dabney Coleman as Burton Fallin, Nicks father and senior partner at the law firm where Nick works, another central protagonist, they do not have a close relationship. Alan Rosenberg as Alvin Masterson, the head of Legal Services of Pittsburgh, Alvin dates Laurie Solt, a social worker, and is arrested with a prostitute. Wendy Moniz as Louisa Lulu Archer, Nicks de facto boss from mid-season one and she marries another man, but Nicks feelings still run deep. Raphael Sbarge as Jake Straka, Nicks closest friend and a law colleague, charles Malik Whitfield as James Mooney, an attorney at Legal Services of Pittsburgh and a friend of Nick. He has a gang and drug background and he is shot and killed in the second season finale. Amanda Michalka as Shannon Gressler, a troubled child, shannons mother dies in the Season 1 finale, and her grandmother in Season 2, Burton Fallin comes to care for her. Erica Leerhsen as Amanda Bowles, an ambitious but caring associate and she leaves midway through the first season. Kathleen Chalfant as Laurie Solt, a social worker who provides guidance for Nick. Farrah Fawcett as Mary Gressler, a grandmother and love interest of Burton Fallin. Appeared in four episodes in Season 2, rita Moreno as Caroline Novak, mother of Lulu, for three episodes in 2003. Lolita Davidovich as Victoria Little, a welfare advocate and love interest of Alvin Masterson
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CSI: Miami
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CSI, Miami is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23,2002, on CBS. CSI, Miami is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, the series ended on April 8,2012, after 10 seasons and 232 episodes. In 2006, BBC News published an article stating that CSI, Miami was the worlds most popular television series, the team is led by Lieutenant Horatio Caine, who, through his history as a bomb-disposal expert, has gained specialized knowledge in explosive forensics. Horatio believes that evil is and lives between the perpetrators of this evil and the people who try and come between that evil and the citizen. On April 17,2002, CBS Television Studios announced plans to launch a series originally titled CSI, Miami-Dade, on the location choice, co-creator Carol Mendelsohn stated that felt Miami was the most happening place Miami is so rich as a character. There are so many different cultures here all colliding, all that gives Miami an edge. Kim Delaney joined the following the pilot episodes broadcast. The series is produced by creators Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker. Jerry Bruckheimer also executive-produces the series, in 2002, CSI executive producer Anthony Zuiker began casting for the then-unnamed Miami based spin-off. First cast was Emily Procter, as Calleigh Duquesne, regarding her decision to leave The West Wing and join Miami, Procter stated that It was like choosing between a boyfriend that wants to be with you casually or a man that says I love you. She described her character as a weird girl bright and very nerdy and she wears a lot of boot-cut corduroy pants and turquoise necklaces and looks like a hippie. I just like to pretend Im Velma in Scooby-Doo, adam Rodriguez, Rory Cochrane, and Khandi Alexander were cast alongside Procter, completing the supporting ensemble. For the lead, CBS suggested David Caruso, Zuiker, who stated that he had heard about the NYPD Blue thing, was initially hesitant. Elaborating, Zuiker stated that he sort of jumped in and said, Naw, the shows tough enough to get off the ground and I dont want to walk into any problems. And said, Yeah, well have him out for dinner. Caruso was later cast as Caine and he was the last pilot cast member to be contracted to series. Following the back-door pilot, Zuiker stated that he believed the series needed a more balance in terms of a leading woman. Executives offered Sela Ward the part of Megan Donner, a Lieutenant, Ward turned down the role, and producers later cast Kim Delaney
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
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The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement is a 2004 American romantic comedy film and the sequel to 2001s The Princess Diaries. Unlike the first film, this film is not based on any of the books, most of the cast returned from the first film, including Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Héctor Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, and Larry Miller. Garry Marshall returned to direct and Debra Martin Chase to produce, new characters include Viscount Mabrey, Lord Nicholas Devereaux, and Andrew Jacoby. Despite generally negative reviews critics, the film had a worldwide box office of $122 million. There, she will await her reign once her grandmother, Queen Clarisse, during Mias 21st birthday party, she dances with all the eligible bachelors in hope of finding a husband. She becomes attracted to a gentleman named Nicholas. During the course of the night, Mias tiara falls off and is caught by a Member of Parliament, Viscount Mabrey who secretly plans to steal Mias crown. While the Parliament is in-session the next morning, Mia stumbles upon a room that allows her to secretly listen in. Viscount Mabrey reveals his nephew, Lord Devereaux, is heir to the Genovian throne. Despite Queen Clarisses objection, the only way Mia can assume her duties as Queen is if she marries within the month, Clarisse invites Lord Devereaux to stay at the palace, while Mia is shocked to discover Lord Devereaux is Nicholas. Mias best friend Lilly Moscovitz surprises her by visiting, together, they pick through potential husbands. Mia eventually chooses Andrew Jacoby, Duke of Kenilworth and days later they are engaged, Mabrey plans to have Nicholas woo Mia and dissolve the engagement. For a ceremony, Mia is to ride sidesaddle but does not know how, Queen Clarisse provides an ancestral wooden leg decoy to make it look like shes riding sidesaddle. Mabrey spooks Mias horse with a snake and Joe rushes to Mias aide. Humiliated, Mia flees to the stables, where Nicholas fails to comfort her, at a garden party, Mia and Nicholas quarrel about Mias relationship with Andrew, Nicholas tricks Mia into admitting she doesnt love him. Angered, she argues but instead gets bombarded by a kiss, at first, she kisses him back but then backs away. Nicholas pursues her even more, which both of them to fall into a fountain. Queen Clarisse finally tells Mia that her behavior with Nicholas needs to stop, during the Genovian Independence Day parade, Mia sees some boys picking on a little girl, and abruptly halts the parade to comfort the girl
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Anne Hathaway
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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress and singer. Hathaway went on to become a widely praised role model for children for her roles in Nicholas Nickleby, Ella Enchanted, The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement, and Hoodwinked. In 2011, Hathaway voiced Jewel in the animated film Rio and hosted the 83rd Academy Awards with James Franco, in 2012, she portrayed Catwoman in Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she starred as Fantine in Tom Hoopers Les Misérables, which earned her acclaim and she won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA. Hathaway has since gone on to appear in Rio 2, Interstellar, The Intern, People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001, and she appeared on its list of the worlds 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006. Following a four-year relationship with real estate developer Raffaello Follieri, Hathaway married Adam Shulman in 2012, with whom she has one son, Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Gerald Thomas Hathaway, is a lawyer, and her mother, Kathleen played Fantine in the first U. S. tour of Les Misérables. When Hathaway was six years old, her moved to Millburn, New Jersey. Hathaway is the middle of three children with her brother, Michael and younger brother, Thomas. Kathleen is of Irish descent, and Gerald is of Irish, French, English, at the age of fifteen, her relationship with the Catholic Church changed, after learning that Michael was gay. She said, I realized my older brother was gay, and I couldnt support a religion that didnt support my brother, now I call myself a non-denominational Christian, because I havent found the religion for me. In 2009, she stated that her religious beliefs are a work in progress, Hathaway attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn. Later, she appeared in plays, including Jane Eyre and Gigi at New Jerseys Paper Mill Playhouse, Hathaway studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was the first teenager admitted into The Barrow Group Theater Companys acting program. Between 1998 and 1999, she sang soprano with the All-Eastern U. S, high School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and in plays at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. She is a stage actress and stated that she prefers performing from stage to film roles. Her acting style has been compared to those of Judy Garland and she cites Garland as one of her favorite actresses and Meryl Streep as her idol. At the age of sixteen, three days after her performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real. She made her film debut The Princess Diaries, which is based on Meg Cabots 2000 novel of the same name, Hathaway auditioned for the role of a princess-to-be during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand and was cast on the strength of this one audition
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Six Feet Under (TV series)
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Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on June 3,2001 and ended on August 21,2005. The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run a home in Los Angeles. The series traces these characters lives over the course of five years, the ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, the series was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. Six Feet Under received widespread acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting. Regarded by many as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time, it has since included on TIME magazines All-TIME100 TV Shows. It has also described as having one of the finest series finales in the history of television. It won numerous awards, including nine Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Peabody Award. The show stars Peter Krause as Nathaniel Samuel Nate Fisher, Jr. whose funeral director father dies and bequeaths to him and his brother, David, the Fisher clan also includes widow, Ruth, and daughter, Claire. Other regulars include mortician and family friend, Federico Diaz, Nates on-again/off-again girlfriend, Brenda Chenowith, on one level, the show is a conventional family drama, dealing with such issues as interpersonal relationships, infidelity, and religion. At the same time, the show is distinguished by its focus on the topic of death. The show also utilises dark humor and surrealism running throughout, sometimes, the characters converse with other, recurring deceased characters, most notably Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. The shows creator, Alan Ball, avers that this represents the characters internal dialogues expressed in the form of external conversations. Although overall plots and characters were created by Alan Ball, there are conflicting reports on how the series was conceived, in one instance, Ball stated that he came up with the premise of the show after the deaths of his sister and father. However, in an interview, he intimates that HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss proposed the idea to him. Ball stated in an interview, The show focuses on human mortality, the nature of life and death feeding off of each other. Throughout its five-season, 63-episode run, major characters experience crises which are in relation to their environment
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Just My Luck (2006 film)
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Just My Luck is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and written by I. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine as the main characters, Lohan stars as Ashley, the luckiest girl in Manhattan, New York. She loses her luck after kissing Jake, portrayed by Pine, the film features supporting roles by Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Missi Pyle, and McFly, the English band whom Jake discovers in the film and tries to help by finding them a producer. Persistent in her effort to hold onto a client, Ashley manages to sell Damon Phillips on the idea of a masquerade party. Meanwhile, Jake tries to get a music businessman to sign up a band he leads, when Ashleys boss, Peggy, learns of the plan, she is, to Ashleys surprise, impressed with the idea, leaving her with the task of organizing the party independently. Jake, hearing of the party and of the number of sponsors who could be there, hatches a plan to attend, in order to meet a very famous man who could rehire him. He poses as a dancer for the party and gains entry. During the party, Ashley is confronted by a teller who warns her she will soon be struck by bad luck. As Jake wanders around the party, he is taken with Ashleys beauty and asks her to him in a dance. Neither can see the face, as they are both wearing masks. During the kiss, their luck is switched, Jake gets Ashleys good luck, Jake spots Phillips and saves him from a taxi cab that nearly hit him. As a way of thanking him, Phillips, who is in charge of a record company, signs up McFly. Jake is surprised that something actually happened to him. Meanwhile, Ashleys new bad luck kicks in and not only does she break her shoe, tear her dress, and nearly choke on an olive, even in jail, Ashley experiences more bad luck. After she gets out, she has more bad luck, such as a flood in her house, a zit on her face. Fed up and wanting to know why these bad things are happening to her, Ashley goes to the fortune teller, who tells her someone else has her lost good luck and he needed it more. Desperate to regain her luck, Ashley asks more of the fortune teller, Ashley begins hunting down all the dancers from the company who had supplied the dancers at the party. While on her search, Ashley tries to get food from a cafe but is rejected because she doesnt have enough money
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Lindsay Lohan
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Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress and singer. Lohan began her career as a fashion model when she was three, and was later featured on the soap opera Another World for a year when she was 10. At age 11, Lohan made her motion picture debut in Disneys commercially and critically successful 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and her next major motion picture, Disneys 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, was also a critical and commercial success. However, Lohans next starring role in the romantic comedy Just My Luck, following Just My Luck, Lohan focused on smaller, more mature roles in independent movies, receiving positive comments on her work, including A Prairie Home Companion, Bobby and Chapter 27. After recording several songs for her movie soundtracks, Lohan signed with Casablanca Records, though the album received mostly lukewarm reviews, it was certified platinum and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Lohans second album, titled A Little More Personal, was released in December 2005 and that album received mixed reviews, and it was certified gold. In 2007, two driving under the influence led to Lohan being put on probation, and together with three visits to rehabilitation facilities caused the loss of several movie deals. In 2008 and 2009, Lohan worked as a fashion model and she resumed her acting career with TV work in 2008, and starred in the TV film Labor Pains. She appeared in Robert Rodriguezs feature film Machete, between 2010 and 2013, Lohan went into rehabilitation three times, and spent much of her time entangled in legal problems stemming from misdemeanors and probation violations. In 2012 and 2013, she did television work, including starring as Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical TV film Liz & Dick. In 2013, she starred in Paul Schraders independent film The Canyons, in 2014, the docu-series Lindsay aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Lohan made her stage debut in the London West End production of Speed-the-Plow. Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2,1986, in The Bronx, New York City and she is the eldest child of Dina and Michael Lohan. Her father, a former Wall Street trader, has been in trouble with the law on several occasions, while her mother is a former singer and dancer. Lohan has three siblings, all of whom have been models or actors, Michael, Jr. who appeared with Lohan in The Parent Trap, Aliana, known as Ali. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage, and she was reared as a Catholic and her maternal antecedents were well known Irish Catholic stalwarts and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School and Sanford H. Calhoun High School, where she did well in science and mathematics, until grade 11, Lohan is a natural red head. Lohans parents have a turbulent history and they married in 1985, separated when she was three, and later reunited. They separated again in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2007, Lohan began her career as a child model with Ford Models at the age of three
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Smokin' Aces
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Smokin Aces is a 2007 American crime film, written and directed by Joe Carnahan. It stars Jeremy Piven as a Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant, the film is set in Lake Tahoe and was mainly filmed at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa, called the Nomad Casino. Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster, Buddy Aces Israel is hiding out in a Lake Tahoe hotel penthouse with his entourage and his agent, Morris Mecklen, discusses a potential immunity deal with FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. Locke dispatches Messner and Carruthers to take Israel into custody when the deal is struck, meanwhile, a team of bail bondsmen, Jack Dupree and his partners, Pistol Pete Deeks and Hollis Elmore have been hired by the firm that posted Israels bail to bring him into custody. The bondsmen are attacked by the Tremors, and only Elmore escapes alive, Messner is dispatched to the murder scene while Carruthers proceeds to Israel. At the same time, each of the assassins gain access to the hotel in their own various ways, Carruthers encounters Acosta, disguised as a security officer, in an elevator at the hotel. Carruthers senses something is wrong and both are wounded in a gunfight. Meanwhile, Soot gains access to the penthouse by posing as one of Israels henchmen, Georgia finds Carruthers and Acosta in the elevator, but assumes Acosta is Soot. In Los Angeles, Locke abruptly withdraws from the deal with Israel and orders that Messner, the Tremor brothers reach the penthouse floor, where they engage in a shootout with the security team and Ivy, who manages to kill Jeeves and Lester. Israel, learning of the FBIs new position, attempts suicide, Messner arrives at the hotel and sets up a position around Georgias elevator. Sharice provides cover from another hotel with a. 50-caliber, M82 sniper rifle, Acosta, still alive, shoots Georgia, but is shot by Carruthers. Sharice, thinking Georgia is dead, refuses to escape and keeps shooting at the FBI team, Georgia escapes to the penthouse, where she stops Darwin Tremor before he can kill Ivy. Tremor escapes, and Messner, distraught over the death of Carruthers, stops Ivy and Georgia on the stairwell, Sharice, after seeing the pair alive and free through her rifle scope, is gunned down by the FBI. Locke and a team of FBI agents descend on the penthouse and take Israel to the hospital, Acosta, carted away on a gurney, is also shown to be alive. Darwin Tremor tries to escape, but is gunned down by Hollis Elmore, Messner arrives at the hospital and learns the truth about the days events from Locke. It transpires that the mysterious Swede is a prominent heart surgeon, Sparazza is further revealed to be Freeman Heller, an FBI agent who went undercover and was thought to have been killed by the mob. The FBI had attempted to kill Heller, after they thought his assignment had blurred the lines between being a mobster or an FBI agent, but Heller survived and ended up taking on the role as Sparazza full time. The mobster has agreed to expose the mobs operations in exchange for Israels heart as he is Sparazzas love child and, thus, the most compatible donor
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The Atheist (play)
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The Atheist is written by Irish born playwright, Ronan Noone. His previous plays include The Lepers of Baile Baiste and The Blowin of Baile Gall which had its Off-Broadway debut, produced by Gabriel Byrne, at the Irish arts Center in New York in 2005. The Blowin of Baile Gall was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award, in 2003, Noone was chosen by Boston Magazine as the Best Young Playwright of the Year. The subject of The Atheist is not God, but the religion of tabloid journalism, the Atheist is a satirical play about catching the perfect front-page headline, whatever the cost. The play follows the story of a cynical US news reporter, central character Augustine Early drinks Bourbon and recounts his story like a how to get famous quick help book. He is both revolting and charismatic – a cartoon take on the tabloid journalist, Augustine Early self-divulges his story of how he perverted the justice system and preyed on a vulnerable politician in his amoral quest for fame. His dark-hearted monologue is a filthy, but more importantly, in places its laugh-out-loud funny, the writing is sharp and novelistic. Earlys quest for journalistic gold sees him encounter a wannabe actress whose tastes in the bedroom tend towards the energetic, a society wife, a rapist. Campbell Scott performed as Augustine Early in The Atheist between 25 June –6 July 2008, the play was directed by Justin Waldman with sets by Cristina Todesco and lights by Ben Stanton. The Atheist was first performed in December at Center Stage, New York, the protagonist Augustine Early was played by Chris Pine. It was directed by David Sullivan, who directed the Off-broadway The Blowin of Baile Gall at the Irish Arts Center. The Atheists European premiere was at Theatre 503 on 16 January 2007, the show was performed by Ben Porter and directed by Ari Edelson
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Scott Wolf
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Scott Richard Wolf is an American actor. He is known for the television series Party of Five as Bailey Salinger, as Jake Hartman in Everwood and Chad Decker in V. Wolf was born in Boston and his mother, Susan, is retired, and his father, Steven Wolf, is a health care executive. Wolf was raised in a Reform Jewish family and he grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and he also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Wolf was engaged to Alyssa Milano in 1993, but they separated after a year, in 2002, he began dating Kelley Marie Limp, an alumna of MTVs The Real World, New Orleans, after meeting her through mutual friend Joel Goldman in New York City. They married on May 29,2004, before living in Santa Monica. They have three children, Jackson Kayse, Miller William and Lucy Marie, and the family resides in Park City, Wolf is known for his role as Bailey Salinger on Party of Five. On both Everwood and the short-lived The Nine, he portrayed a doctor, and he currently portrays Dr. Scott Clemmens on NBCs The Night Shift and his own maternal grandfather was an anesthesiologist. He also made guest appearances as himself on Action and Kids Inc and his sole Broadway theatre credit to date is Side Man. Scott Wolf at the Internet Movie Database Scott Wolf cast bio on The WB
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Fat Pig
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Fat Pig is an American play by Neil LaBute. The play premiered Off-Broadway in 2004 and won the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the play had its London premiere in 2008 and was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. The play involves a relationship between a plus-size woman and a young professional man, whose friend denigrates the woman as being fat. Fat Pig tells the story of Tom, a professional businessman in a large city. They meet in a restaurant at lunchtime and get to talking. Tom is taken with her acceptance of the way people see her and her in-your-face honesty. He asks her for her number and they start to date. A couple of later, Carter, Tom’s best friend. He obnoxiously pesters him for information about the new girl and in order to get it mentions it in front of a woman from accounting, Jeannie and she gets very upset which gets Tom to admit that he is “sort of” seeing this new woman in his life. Carter asks Tom what he is doing that night, and Tom says he is busy, Carter knows then that he is meeting Helen at a restaurant Tom frequents, Tom denies it and says it is a business dinner with people from the Chicago branch of their firm. Carter, not believing him, stops by the restaurant and sees them together and he approaches them and introduces himself to Helen, and she excuses herself to go to the restroom. While she is gone Carter thoroughly insults her weight and calling her a lot of horrible things, not knowing that this is Tom’s new girlfriend. He assumes then that Tom was telling the truth about the coming in from Chicago. Later that week, Jeannie pays a visit to Tom in his office and she has found out that no people from Chicago came to visit. She demands to know what is going on with him and her and he says that he is not interested in her, earlier, she and Carter had been gossiping about the “fat cow from Chicago, ” which is how Jeannie found out about the whole thing. So once Tom says that it wasn’t a business dinner, she flips out and smacks him, Carter looks on and sort of apologizes for being rude about Helen, saying that he didn’t know she was his girlfriend. He asks to see a picture and after a lot of pestering gets one from Tom and he then proceeds to run down the hall and show everyone who laughs behind Toms back about the fat pig that he is dating. Throughout the rest of the play, Carter tries to convince Tom that he should “stick to his own kind. ”Meanwhile, Tom, one day, Helen informs Tom that she has been offered a better job in another town but she doesn’t want to leave him
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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Zachary Quinto
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Zachary John Quinto is an American actor and film producer. He also appeared in roles on television series such as So NoTORIous, The Slap. Quinto was born in Pittsburgh, and grew up in Green Tree and he attended Saints Simon and Jude Catholic School. His mother, Margaret J. Margo, worked at an investment firm and his father, Joseph John Joe Quinto, a barber, died of cancer when Quinto was seven years old. Quinto and his brother, Joe, were raised by their mother. His father was of Italian descent, while his mother is of Irish ancestry. A, in 2006, Quinto played the role of Sasan, the haughty, gay Iranian-American best friend of Tori Spelling on her VH1 series So NoTORIous. Later that year, he joined the cast of Heroes as Gabriel Gray and he worked on the series until its cancellation in 2010 after four seasons. His casting as a young Spock in the J. J, abrams-directed reboot of the Star Trek film franchise was officially announced at the 2007 Comic-Con. Speaking alongside Leonard Nimoy at a conference to promote the new Star Trek film. For me Leonards involvement was only liberating, frankly, says Quinto, I knew that he had approval over the actor that would play young Spock, so when I got the role I knew from the beginning it was with his blessing. The revelation for me watching the movie, when I finally got to watch the whole thing after working on sequences, was that he is extraordinary and he was doing things I didnt even realize while we were shooting – these amazing things to track his story. After Star Trek, he appeared in the comedy short Boutonniere and it. was a movie written and directed by my former landlady and friend. She called up and said, Would you do me a favor, in 2008, Quinto joined with Corey Moosa and Neal Dodson to form Before the Door Pictures. The company has projects in film, television, new media, Quinto also starred in several comedy shorts. He played a strangely lovable kidnapper in Hostage, A Love Story, written by the comedy duo HoltandSteele, for Before the Door and FunnyorDie. He also played a prospective dog adopter in Dog Eat Dog, written and directed by Sian Heder, and premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2012. From October 2010 to February 2011, Quinto played the role of Louis Ironson in an Off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushners Angels in America at the Signature Theatre. For this role, Quinto received the Theatreworld Outstanding Debut Performance award, in 2013, Quinto played the role of Tom Wingfield in the American Repertory Theatres production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Leonard Nimoy
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Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. He was known for his role as Spock of the Star Trek franchise, foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders, in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. The character has had a significant cultural impact and garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations, TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission, narrated Civilization IV, and made several well-received stage appearances. He also had a role in the science fiction series Fringe. Nimoys public profile as Spock was so strong that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock, were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character, in 2015 an asteroid was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor. In September 2016, For the Love of Spock, a documentary that covered his life. Leonard Simon Nimoy was born on March 26,1931, in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts and they reunited after arriving in the United States. His mother, Dora, was a homemaker, and his father, Max Nimoy and he had an elder brother, Melvin. He also began acting at the age of eight in a childrens, Nimoy also realized he had an aptitude for singing, which he developed while a member of his synagogues choir. His singing during his bar mitzvah at age 13 was so good that he was asked to repeat his performance the week at another synagogue. He is still the only man I know whose voice was two bar mitzvahs good and his first major role was at 17, as Ralphie in an amateur production of Clifford Odets Awake and Sing. Which dealt with the struggles of a matriarchal Jewish family similar to his during the Great Depression, playing this teenage kid in this Jewish family that was so much like mine was amazing, he said. The same dynamics, the tensions in the household. The role lit a passion that led him to pursue an acting career, I never wanted to do anything else. Shatner notes that Nimoy also worked on radio shows for children, often voice acting Bible stories, adding, Obviously. Many years later as Captain Kirk, I would be busy rescuing civilizations in distress on distant planets while Leonards Mr. Spock would be examining the morality of man– and alienkind. Nimoy took drama classes at Boston College, and after moving to Los Angeles and he took method actor Marlon Brando as a role model, and like him, wore jeans and T-shirt
