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Phillip Noyce
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Phillip Noyce is an Australian film director. After graduating from Sydney University, he joined the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 1973, many of his films feature espionage, as Noyce grew up listening to his fathers stories of serving with the Australian Commando unit Z Force during World War II. Noyce worked on two miniseries for Australian television with fellow Australian filmmaker George Miller, The Dismissal and The Cowra Breakout, Miller also produced the film that brought Noyce to the attention of Hollywood studios – Dead Calm which launched the career of Nicole Kidman. Although independently financed, the film was a hit with Australian audiences. In Spring 2011, Noyce directed and executive produced the pilot for the ABC series Revenge, in 2013, Noyce directed and executive produced the NBC pilot Crisis, which went to series. Later that year, he returned to South Africa to film The Giver, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, and Brenton Thwaites, which opened in the US on August 15,2014 from The Weinstein Company. In 2015, Noyce directed the first night of the Emmy nominated miniseries Roots followed in 2016 by the feature Blood Mountain, starring Emilia Clarke, Noyce was an avid supporter of the Labor government of Gough Whitlam. He was married to film producer Jan Chapman 1971–1977, from 1979 to 2004 he was married to producer Jan Sharp, with whom he has two children. He is now married to designer Vuyo Dyasi, with whom he has two children, a son, Luvuyo and a daughter, Ayanda, Phillip Noyce Biography from Leonard Maltins Movie Encyclopedia, imdb. com. Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand, the Oxford companion to Australian film. Melbourne, Australia, New York, Oxford University Press, cS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list Petzke, Ingo, Backroads To Hollywood – Phillip Noyce. Great Directors – Phillip Noyce Senses of Cinema, contemporary North American Film Directors, A Wallflower Critical Guide By Yoram Allon, Hannah Patterson, Del Cullen. Entry on Phillip Noyce Look inside at Google Book search Phillip Noyce at the Internet Movie Database
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Tom Clancy
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print and his name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities, Clancys literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Clancy died on October 1,2013, of an undisclosed illness. Clancy was born on April 12,1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and he was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Clancy, who worked in a stores credit department. His mother worked to him to the private Catholic Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. He then attended Loyola College in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English literature, while at university, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, however, he was ineligible to serve due to his nearsightedness, after graduating, he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, in 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wifes grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the agency, he wrote his debut novel. Clancys literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October and she believed Clancy had an innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue. The publisher requested Clancy to cut numerous technical details, amounting to about 100 pages, Clancy, who had wanted to sell 5,000 copies, ended up selling over 45,000. The book was praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancys meeting several high-ranking officers in the U. S. military. All but two of Clancys solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark, the Cold War epic Red Storm Rising was co-written with fellow military-oriented author Larry Bond. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force, was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula, the first Op-Center novel was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars. Though the miniseries did not continue, the series did, but later had little in common with the first TV miniseries other than the title. Clancy wrote several books about various branches of the U. S. He also branded several lines of books and video games with his name that are written by other authors, by 1988, Clancy had earned $1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $3 million contract for his next three books
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Harrison Ford
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Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series. Six of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner. In 1997, Ford was ranked No.1 in Empires The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. As of 2016, the U. S. domestic box-office grosses of Fords films total over US$4.7 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, Ford is married to actress Calista Flockhart. Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Christopher Ford, an executive and former actor, and Dorothy. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945, Fords paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively. Fords maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, when asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded, Democrat, to be liberals of every stripe. Ford was active in the Boy Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank and he worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones, in 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His was the first student voice broadcast on his high schools new radio station, WMTH and he attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He took a class in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford, a late bloomer, became fascinated with acting. In 1964, after a season of stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin. He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program. His first known role was a role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. There is little record of his roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature
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Willem Dafoe
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William J. Willem Dafoe is an American actor. His other film appearances include The Last Temptation of Christ, The English Patient, American Psycho and he has also had voice roles in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, Fantastic Mr. Fox and the forthcoming adaptation of Death Note. Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, in high school, he acquired the nickname Willem. His fathers ancestry is French-Canadian, Swiss and English, and his mothers ancestry is German and he was once expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film. She, with her romantic partner Spalding Gray and others, edged out Schechner. Within a year Dafoe was part of the company, Dafoe, who would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s, began his film career in 1981, when he was cast in Heavens Gate only to see his role removed from the film during editing. As Dafoe recalled of his first film experience, I worked for Jeff Bridges character in the story, I was there for three months and I worked a lot. It was the kind of thing where you were hired to play an unscripted character, cimino turned around and said, Willem step out, and that was that. I was the lamb for sacrifice, in 1982, he starred as the leader of an Outlaw motorcycle club in The Loveless, and then played a similar role in Streets of Fire. In the mid-1980s, he was cast by William Friedkin to star in To Live, and, also, its fun to be bad and the only problem is often villain roles are devices and they lack a certain depth. Theyre signs, theyre signals and after a little while you want something to chew on, I think the best work comes when youre unsure, when youre terrified, when youre off balance. Dafoe would go on to gain his widest exposure up to that point playing the compassionate Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stones Platoon and he enjoyed the opportunity to play a heroic role, and said the film gave him a chance to display his versatility. I think all characters live in you and you just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. In 1988, Dafoe starred in another film set during the Vietnam War and he has since become a popular character actor. He is often cast as unstable or villainous characters, such as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, before that, he was briefly considered for the role of the Joker by Tim Burton and Sam Hamm for 1989s Batman. Hamm recalls We thought, Well, Willem Dafoe looks just like The Joker, the role eventually went to Jack Nicholson. Dafoe starred in the erotic drama Body of Evidence with Madonna, in 1991, he portrayed a Manhattan drug dealer in the Paul Schrader film Light Sleeper. Dafoe played an eccentric FBI agent in The Boondock Saints and an investigator in American Psycho
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Anne Archer
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Anne Archer is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1987 film Fatal Attraction and her other film appearances include Paradise Alley, Patriot Games, Short Cuts, Clear and Present Danger and Lullaby. On stage, she starred as Mrs. Robinson in the West End production of The Graduate in 2001, Archer was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors John Archer and Marjorie Lord. Archers first television appearance was in 1970 on the series Men at Law and she was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971. Her first feature film was The Honkers, which was followed by Lifeguard and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Beth Gallagher in the film Fatal Attraction. Her other prominent film roles include Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, in 2001, Archer portrayed Mrs. Robinson at the Gielgud Theatre in a West End production of The Graduate. She was a regular on the short-lived sitcom Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1973, in 2014, she played Jane Fonda in the premier production of the play The Trial of Jane Fonda, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Archer married William Davis in 1969, the couple divorced in 1977 and she married Terry Jastrow in 1979. Archer has two sons, one from each marriage and she was originally a Christian Scientist, but she and her husband have been members of the Church of Scientology since 1975. Between 1982 and 1986, she was a spokeswoman for Applied Scholastics and her son Tommy Davis was the head of the Church of Scientologys Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles. Official website Anne Archer at the Internet Movie Database Artists for Human Rights website Anne Archer at AllMovie Anne Archer at the TCM Movie Database Anne Archer Biography at filmreference. com
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James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones is an American actor. His career has spanned more than 60 years, and he has described as one of Americas most distinguished and versatile actors. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won awards, including a Tony Award. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the year in 1991, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disneys The Lion King as well as many other film, stage. As a child Jones had a stutter, in his episode of Biography, he said he overcame the affliction through poetry, public speaking, and acting, although it lasted for several years. A pre-med major in college, he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting, on November 12,2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award. On November 9,2015, Jones received the Voice Arts Icon Award, Jones and his father reconciled many years later. His parents were African-American, and Jones has learned they also had Irish, from the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly, who had moved from Mississippi and had a farm in Jackson, Michigan. Jones has described his grandmother, Maggie, as the most racist person I have ever known and his grandmother was of African-American, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. Jones found the transition to his grandparents in Michigan traumatic, when his family moved to Brethren, Michigan, a teacher helped him overcome his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years, until he entered high school and he credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence. Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak, so my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and excelled and he felt comfortable within the structure of the military environment, and enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Team and Scabbard and Blade Honor Society. During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a doctor, after four years of college, Jones graduated from the university in 1955. With the war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed as soon as he received his commission as a second lieutenant. As he waited for his orders, he worked as a stage crew hand at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan. Jones was commissioned in mid-1953 and reported to Fort Benning to attend Infantry Officers Basic Course and he then attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab
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James Horner
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James Roy Horner was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. His first major film score was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red, but did not establish himself as a mainstream composer until he worked on the 1982 film Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. Horner composed music for over 100 films, he won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. Horner was killed in a single-fatality crash of his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft at the age of 61, Horner was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, to Jewish immigrants. His father, Harry Horner, was born in Holíč, then a part of Austria-Hungary and he immigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked as a set designer and art director. His mother, Joan Ruth, was born into a prominent Canadian family, Horners brother Christopher is a writer and documentary filmmaker. James Horner started playing piano at the age of five and his early years were spent in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He returned to America, where he attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, after he earned a masters degree, he started work on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Paul Chihara, among others. After several scoring assignments with the American Film Institute in the 1970s, he finished teaching a course in theory at UCLA. Horner was also a pilot, and owned several small airplanes. Horner began his career scoring films by working for B film director, Horners first composer credit was for Cormans Battle Beyond the Stars. From there, his works gained notice in Hollywood, which enabled him to take on larger projects, One of his first major film scores was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red. Horners major breakthrough came in 1982, when he had the chance to score the music to Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, Horner continued composing music for high-profile releases during the 1980s, including 48 Hrs. Krull, Star Trek III, The Search for Spock, Commando, Cocoon, Aliens, *batteries not included, Willow, Glory and he frequently collaborated with film director Ron Howard, a partnership that began with Cocoon in 1985. Aliens earned Horner his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score in 1987, somewhere Out There, which he co-composed and co-wrote with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for An American Tail, was also nominated that year for Best Original Song. A Dinosaurs Story, The Pagemaster, and Casper, Jumanji, and Balto, Mighty Joe Young, Horners biggest financial and critical success would come with the score to the 1997 film Titanic. The album became the best-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack in history, selling over 27 million copies worldwide, at the 70th Academy Awards, Horner won Oscars for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for My Heart Will Go On
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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The Hunt for Red October (film)
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The film is based on Tom Clancys 1984 bestselling novel of the same name. An American CIA analyst correctly deduces his motive and must prove his theory to the U. S. Navy before a violent confrontation between the Soviet and the American navies spirals out of control. The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, and Nina Saxon Film Design, theatrically, it was commercially distributed by Paramount Pictures and by the Paramount Home Entertainment division for home media markets. Following its wide release, the film was nominated for and won a number of accolades. On June 12,1990, the soundtrack, composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris, was released by MCA Records. The film was the first in a series involving the fictional character Jack Ryan, played additionally by Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Ramius leaves port to conduct exercises with attack submarine V. K. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Captain Tupolev. Once at sea, Ramius secretly kills political officer Ivan Putin, the next morning, CIA analyst and ex-Marine, Jack Ryan, after consulting with Vice Admiral James Greer, briefs United States government officials on Red October and the threat it poses. Officials in the briefing learn that the bulk of the Soviet Navy has been deployed to sink Red October, Ryan, however, hypothesizes that Ramius instead plans to defect, and leaves to rendezvous with the American attack submarine USS Dallas to prove his theory. Meanwhile, Tupolev, though unable to track Red October, guesses his former mentors route, due to the actions of an unknown saboteur, Red Octobers caterpillar drive fails during risky maneuvers through a narrow undersea canyon. Petty Officer Jones, a sonar technician aboard Dallas, has discovered a way to detect Red October using underwater acoustics, Ryan arranges a hazardous mid-ocean rendezvous to board Dallas, where he attempts to persuade its captain, Commander Bart Mancuso, to contact Ramius and determine his intentions. The Soviet Ambassador informs the U. S. that Ramius is a renegade and that order is sent to the U. S. Fleet, including Dallas, which has found the Soviet submarine. Ryan, however, is convinced that Ramius plans to defect with his officers and convinces Mancuso to contact Ramius, Ramius, stunned that the Americans correctly guessed his plan, accepts. He then stages a nuclear emergency, ordering his crew to abandon ship. After a U. S. frigate is spotted, Ramius submerges, meanwhile, Ryan, Mancuso, and Jones come aboard via a rescue sub, at which point Ramius requests asylum in the United States for himself and his officers. Red October is suddenly attacked by Konovalov, which has tracked them across the Atlantic, as the two Soviet subs maneuver, one of Red Octobers cooks, Loginov, an undercover GRU agent and the secret saboteur, opens fire. He fatally wounds first officer Vasily Borodin before retreating to the nuclear missiles bay, pursued by Ryan, Loginov shoots Ramius, wounding him, but Ryan kills Loginov before he can detonate a missile. Meanwhile, Red October makes evasive maneuvers with a provided by Dallas. Ryan and Ramius, their complete, navigate Red October to the Penobscot River in Maine
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Patriot Games (film)
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Patriot Games is a 1992 American spy thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancys novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, James Earl Jones is the lone holdover, reprising his role as Admiral James Greer. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Patrick Bergin, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox, and Richard Harris. The film premiered in theaters in the United States on June 5,1992, the next installment in the film series, Clear and Present Danger, also starred Ford and Archer. Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan is on vacation with his family in London and they witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Ryan intervenes and is injured, but he kills one of the assailants, Patrick Miller, the remaining attackers flee, as Sean is apprehended by the police. While recovering, Ryan is called to testify in court against Miller, Miller is later convicted for his crimes. While being transferred to Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight, Millers escort convoy is ambushed by his comrades, including Kevin ODonnell, who execute the police officers, Miller and his companions flee to North Africa to plan another kidnapping attempt on Lord Holmes. Miller also persuades several members of the group to him to the U. S. to kill Ryan. Ryan survives an assassination orchestrated by Annette and an accomplice outside the U. S. Naval Academy. Later, Miller and a henchman attack Ryans wife and daughter on a busy highway, enraged over the attack on his family, Ryan decides to go back to work for the C. I. A. Having earlier rejected the appeal of his superior, Vice Admiral James Greer. Ryans work leads him to conclude that Miller has taken refuge in a camp in Libya. A Special Air Service team attacks and kills everyone in the camp while Ryan looks on through a satellite feed. Unbeknownst to Ryan, Miller and his companions had fled the camp and were on their way to the U. S. to stage their next attack. Lord Holmes decides to visit Ryan at his home to present his KCVO. With the aid of Lord Holmes traitorous assistant, Millers group tracks Holmes to Ryans house in Maryland, diplomatic Security Service agents and state troopers guarding the residence, and make an attempt to kidnap Lord Holmes. Ryan leads Holmes and his family to safety while he attempts to lure Miller, the FBIs Hostage Rescue Team scrambles to pick up Holmes
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Jack Ryan (character)
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Dr John Patrick Jack Ryan, Sr. KCVO, Ph. D. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations. Jack Ryan was born in Baltimore in 1950 and grew up there and he earned an NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically discharged at the rank of 2ndLt following a helicopter crash and he met and married Caroline Cathy Mueller, a medical student and later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he had four children. He returned to academia, eventually accepting a position at the U. S. Naval Academy and he was later recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there writing a position paper, as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism. He returned to the academy and, while on a research trip to London. After his return to the States, he accepted a position with the CIA. He rose rapidly through the ranks in a variety of operations against the USSR. As DDI, he had political battles that led to him becoming President of the United States, Ryan had his background established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. He was born in 1950, the son of Emmet William Ryan, a Baltimore Police Department homicide lieutenant, the elder Ryan had served with the U. S. Armys 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, was a nurse, without Remorse mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. S. While waiting for the Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant exam, after officer training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, he went on to serve as a platoon commander. The crash badly injured Ryans back, U. S. Navy surgeons, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, inadequately repaired his back. This led to a recovery process after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace. He passed his stockbrokers exam and took a position with Wall Street investment firm Merrill Lynchs Baltimore office and his parents died in a plane crash at Chicago Midway International Airport,19 months after his crash in Crete. He developed a fear of flying that persisted for years, the film version of The Hunt for Red October changed his education background to being a 1972 graduate of the US Naval Academy. Ryans story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit and he did so well that one of Merrill Lynchs senior vice presidents, Joe Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the firms New York City headquarters. Also present is Mullers daughter Caroline, nicknamed Cathy, then a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They immediately fall in love and get engaged, one night, while having dinner with his fiancée, Ryan throws out his back
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Central Intelligence Agency
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As one of the principal members of the U. S. Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is focused on providing intelligence for the President. Though it is not the only U. S. government agency specializing in HUMINT and it exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA has increasingly expanded its roles, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center, has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations, when the CIA was created, its purpose was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Today its primary purpose is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, warning/informing American leaders of important overseas events, with Pakistan described as an intractable target. Counterintelligence, with China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, the Executive Office also supports the U. S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperates on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, each branch of the military service has its own Director. The Directorate has four regional groups, six groups for transnational issues. There is a dedicated to Iraq, regional analytical offices covering the Near East and South Asia, Russia and Europe, and the Asian Pacific, Latin American. The Directorate of Operations is responsible for collecting intelligence. The name reflects its role as the coordinator of intelligence activities between other elements of the wider U. S. intelligence community with their own HUMINT operations. This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy, in spite of this, the Department of Defense recently organized its own global clandestine intelligence service, the Defense Clandestine Service, under the Defense Intelligence Agency. This Directorate is known to be organized by regions and issues. The Directorate of Science & Technology was established to research, create, many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. For example, the development of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was done in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union. It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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CIA activities in Colombia
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As part of transnational counterdrug activity, the CIA financed a military intelligence network in Colombia in 1991. Carey described that the drug trade could spill over into other areas. As criminal organizations grow in sophistication and expand their networks, they could become involved in supporting proliferation. Their networks and mechanisms for illicit financial deals could also make them greater players in international sanctions violations, dr. Bruce Michael Bagley, of the University of Miami, found that US counterdrug policy in Colombia was counterproductive. This essay examines the impact of U. S. and Colombian government drug control policies on the evolution of drug cultivation, drug trafficking, and political violence in Colombia during the 1990s. As a result, Colombia at the outset of 2000 faced more serious threats to its national security, but the new networks did little to stop drug traffickers. Instead, they incorporated illegal paramilitary groups into their ranks and fostered death squads and these death squads killed trade unionists, peasant leaders, human-rights monitors, journalists, and other suspected subversives. The evidence, including secret Colombian military documents, suggests that the CIA may be interested in fighting a leftist resistance movement than in combating drugs. Colombia, like many Latin American countries, has problems with violent groups on the left, mr. Perezs son Henry, who became acting leader, was killed two weeks later, and two other sons died in an October attack. The Perez family, with approval, helped create the organizations in the 1960s and 70s in the Magdalena Valley in central Colombia. In those days they were simple peasant bands, protecting each other from guerrillas who kidnapped land owners. The Times article continued. in the 1980s, drug traffickers began buying tracts of land in the region and poured money into these armed groups so that their interests, too. A Human Rights Watch article from 1994 does speak of very real abuses in Colombia, most individuals have few defenses against crime. Far from being seen as protectors, Colombian police are often viewed as hoodlums. Repeatedly, government investigators and human groups have found evidence tying police to crimes. In that HRW article, however, there is no mention of any non-Colombian participation, Smyth said, But the CIA remains a Cold War institution. Many officers, especially within the operations wing, still see communists behind every door. They maintain warm relationships with rightist military forces worldwide that are engaging in, U. S. officials including General Barry R. McCaffrey, the Clinton Administration drug czar who was then in charge of the U. S
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Drug cartel
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A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises, the term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution of cocaine. Since that agreement was broken up, drug cartels are no longer actually cartels, the basic structure of a drug cartel is as follows, Falcons, Considered the eyes and ears of the streets, the falcons are the lowest rank in any drug cartel. They are responsible for supervising and reporting the activities of the police, the military, lieutenants, The second highest position in the drug cartel organization, responsible for supervising the hitmen and falcons within their own territory. They are allowed to carry out low-profile executions without permission from their bosses, Drug lords, The highest position in any drug cartel, responsible for supervising the entire drug industry, appointing territorial leaders, making alliances, and planning high-profile executions. It is worth noting that there are other operating groups within the drug cartels, for example, the drug producers and suppliers, although not considered in the basic structure, are critical operators of any drug cartel, along with the financiers and money launderers. In addition, the arms suppliers operate in a completely different circle, nigerian mafia The United States of America is the worlds largest consumer of cocaine and other illegal drugs. S. According to the United Nations, there was an increase of trafficking through Venezuela since 2002. In 2005 Venezuela severed ties with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, following the departure of the DEA from Venezuela and the expansion of DEAs partnership with Colombia in 2005, Venezuela became more attractive to drug traffickers. Between 2008 and 2012, Venezuelas cocaine seizure ranking among other countries declined, Venezuela has its own Cosa Nostra family as if it is Sicilian territory, according to the Italian police. The structure and hierarchy of the Mafia has been reproduced in Venezuela. The Cuntrera-Caruana clan had direct links with the ruling Commission of the Sicilian Mafia, pasquale, Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera were expelled from Venezuela in 1992, almost secretly smuggled out of the country, as if it concerned one of their own drug transports. It was imperative they could not contact people on the outside who could have used their connections to stop the expulsion. Their expulsion was ordered by a commission of the Venezuelan Senate headed by Senator Cristobal Fernandez Dalo and they were arrested in September 1992 at Fiumicino airport, and in 1996 were sentence to 13–20 years. Norte del Valle Cartel, In 2008 the leader of the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel, in 2010 Venezuela arrested and deported to the United States Jaime Alberto Beto Marin, then head of the Norte del Valle Cartel. The Cartel of the Suns According to Jackson Diehl, deputy Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post, the Bolivarian government of Venezuela shelters one of the world’s biggest drug cartels. There have also been allegations that former president Hugo Chávez and Diosdado Cabello being involved with drug trafficking, blood, Death, Drugs and Sex in Old Mexico. Mexico, Drug Cartels a Growing Threat
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Colombia
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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and it shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, the territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, the Quimbaya and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 the Gran Colombia Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada, the new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation, and then the United States of Colombia, before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Since the 1960s the country has suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict, Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world, and thereby possesses a rich cultural heritage. Cultural diversity has also influenced by Colombias varied geography. The urban centres are located in the highlands of the Andes mountains. Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, ecologically, it is one of the worlds 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse of these per square kilometer. Colombia is a power and a regional actor with the fourth-largest economy in Latin America, is part of the CIVETS group of six leading emerging markets and is an accessing member to the OECD. Colombia has an economy with macroeconomic stability and favorable growth prospects in the long run. The name Colombia is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus and it was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish and Portuguese rule. The name was adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819. When Venezuela, Ecuador and Cundinamarca came to exist as independent states, New Granada officially changed its name in 1858 to the Granadine Confederation. In 1863 the name was changed, this time to United States of Colombia. To refer to country, the Colombian government uses the terms Colombia. Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human migration from Mesoamerica, the oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 km southwest of Bogotá. These sites date from the Paleoindian period, at Puerto Hormiga and other sites, traces from the Archaic Period have been found
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United States Coast Guard
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The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the countrys seven uniformed services. This has happened twice, in 1917, during World War I, created by Congress on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton as the Revenue Marine, it is the oldest continuous seagoing service of the United States. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton headed the Revenue Marine, by the 1860s, the service was known as the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service and the term Revenue Marine gradually fell into disuse, the modern Coast Guard was formed by a merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U. S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, under the U. S. Department of the Treasury. As one of the five armed services, the Coast Guard has been involved in every U. S. war from 1790 to the Iraq War. As of 2014 the Coast Guard had over 36,000 men and women on duty,7,350 reservists,29,620 auxiliarists. In terms of size, the U. S. Coast Guard by itself is the worlds 12th largest naval force. Because of its authority, the Coast Guard can conduct military operations under the U. S. Department of Defense or directly for the President in accordance with Title 14 USC 1–3. The Coast Guards enduring roles are maritime safety, security, to carry out those roles, it has 11 statutory missions as defined in 6 U. S. C. §468, which include enforcing U. S. law in the worlds largest exclusive economic zone of 3.4 million square miles, the Coast Guards motto is the Latin phrase, Semper Paratus. In a 2005 article in Time magazine following Hurricane Katrina, the author wrote, the Coast Guards most valuable contribution to may be as a model of flexibility, and most of all, spirit. Wil Milam, a swimmer from Alaska told the magazine, In the Navy. Practicing for war, training for war, in the Coast Guard, it was, take care of our people and the mission will take care of itself. The Coast Guard carries out three basic roles, which are subdivided into eleven statutory missions. Both agencies maintain rescue coordination centers to coordinate this effort, and have responsibility for military and civilian search and rescue. The two services jointly provide instructor staff for the National Search and Rescue School that trains SAR mission planners and coordinators, previously located on Governors Island, New York, the school is now located at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown at Yorktown, Virginia. The NRC also takes Maritime Suspicious Activity and Security Breach Reports, details on the NRC organization and specific responsibilities can be found in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan. The Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement database system is managed and used by the Coast Guard for tracking pollution, the five uniformed services that make up the U. S
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National Security Advisor (United States)
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The APNSA also participates in the meetings of the National Security Council and usually chairs the Principals Committee meetings with the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs is appointed by the President without confirmation by the Senate. Ideally, the APNSA serves as an honest broker of policy options for the President in the field of national security, in 1949, the NSC became part of the presidents executive office. The National Security Act of 1947 did not create the position of the National Security Advisor per se, robert Cutler became the first National Security Advisor in 1953. The system has remained unchanged since then, particularly since Kennedys time, with powerful National Security Advisors and strong staff. This continuity persists despite the tendency of new president to replace the advisor and senior NSC staff. Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixons National Security Advisor, enhanced the importance of the role, controlling the flow of information to the President and meeting him multiple times per day. Henry Kissinger also holds the distinction of serving as National Security Advisor and United States Secretary of State at the time from September 22,1973. Robert Cutler also held the job twice, both times under Dwight D. Eisenhower, henry Kissinger holds the record for longest term of service. Michael Flynn holds the record for shortest term of service, three and Four-Star Generals require Senate confirmation due to the statutory nature requiring Congress to appoint their military rank. United States National Security Council Executive Office of the President Homeland Security Council Homeland Security Advisor 2009-02, The National Security Advisor and Staff
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Clear and present danger
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Before the 20th century, most free speech issues involved prior restraint. Starting in the early 1900s, the Supreme Court began to consider cases in which persons were punished after speaking or publishing, the primary legal test used in the United States to determine if speech could be criminalized was the bad tendency test. Rooted in English common law, the test permitted speech to be outlawed if it had a tendency to harm public welfare, antiwar protests during World War I gave rise to several important free speech cases related to sedition and inciting violence. In the 1919 case Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court held that an antiwar activist did not have a First Amendment right to draft resistance. Holmes later wrote that he intended the clear and present danger test to refine, not replace and it is a question of proximity and degree. In Abrams, Holmes and Justice Brandeis dissented and encouraged the use of the clear and present test, in 1925s Gitlow v. New York, the Court extended the First Amendment to the states, and upheld the conviction of Gitlow for publishing the Left Wing Manifesto. Brandeis and Holmes again promoted the clear and present danger test, after Whitney, the bad tendency test continued to be used by the Court in cases such 1931s Stromberg v. California, which held that a 1919 California statute banning red flags was unconstitutional. The clear and present danger test was invoked by the majority in the 1940 Thornhill v. Alabama decision in which a state antipicketing law was invalidated. In May 1950, one month before the court heard oral arguments in the Dennis v. United States case. In that case, the Court considered the clear and present danger test, the federal appeals court heard oral arguments in the CPUSA case on June 21–23,1950. Judge Learned Hand considered the clear and present danger test, the defendants appealed the Second Circuits decision to the Supreme Court in Dennis v. United States. The 6–2 decision was issued on June 4,1951, in his opinion, Vinson endorsed the balancing approach used by Judge Hand, Chief Judge Learned Hand. Interpreted the phrase as follows, In each case, must ask whether the gravity of the evil, discounted by its improbability and we adopt this statement of the rule. As articulated by Chief Judge Hand, it is as succinct and it takes into consideration those factors which we deem relevant, and relates their significances. More we cannot expect from words, V. Hicklin and incorporated into American jurisprudence in the 1904 Supreme Court case U. S. ex rel. United States and Debs v. United States decisions, United States just six months after Schenck. Significantly unlike Abrams, the cases of Schenck, Frohwerk, for two decades after the Dennis decision, free speech issues related to advocacy of violence were decided using balancing tests such as the one initially articulated in Dennis. Killian, Johnny H. Costello, George, Thomas, Kenneth R.48, boudin, Seditious Doctrines and the Clear and Present Danger Rule, Part I, Virginia Law Review, vol
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Black operation
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A black operation is a covert operation by a government, a government agency, or a military organization. This can include activities by private companies or groups, key features of a black operation are that it is secret and it is not attributable to the organization carrying it out. Such operations are known to have carried out by the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, Mossad, MI6, COMANF, DGFI, RAW, MSS, KGB. Black may be used as a term for any government activity that is hidden or secret. CIA Director General Michael Hayden explained why he released the documents, saying that they provided a glimpse of a different time
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Oval Office
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The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States. It is located in the West Wing of the White House Complex, the room features three large south-facing windows behind the presidents desk, and a fireplace at the north end. Presidents generally decorate the office to suit their taste, choosing new furniture, new drapery. Artwork is selected from the White Houses own collection, or borrowed from museums for the term in office. The Oval Office has become associated in Americans minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, several presidents have addressed the nation from the Oval Office on occasion. George Washington never occupied the White House and he spent most of his presidency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which served as the temporary national capital for 10 years, 1790–1800, while Washington, D. C. was under construction. In 1790, Washington built a large, two-story, semi-circular addition to the rear of the Presidents House in Philadelphia, Washington received his guests, standing between the windows in his back drawing-room. The company, entering a front room and passing through a door, made their salutations to the President. The apsidal end of a room was a site of honor, for a host. President John Adams occupied the Philadelphia mansion beginning in 1797, curved foundations of Washingtons Bow Window were uncovered during a 2007 archaeological excavation of the Presidents House site. Architect James Hoban visited President Washington in Philadelphia in June 1792, the following month, he was named winner of the design competition for The White House. The elliptic salon at the center of the White House was the feature of Hobans original plan. An oval interior space was a Baroque concept that was adapted by Neoclassicism, Oval rooms became popular in eighteenth century neoclassical architecture. In November 1800, John Adams became the first President to occupy the White House, during the 19th century, a number of presidents used the White Houses second-floor Yellow Oval Room as a private office or library. The one-story Executive Office Building was intended to be a temporary structure, Building it to the west of the White House allowed the removal of a vast, dilapidated set of pre-Civil War greenhouses that had been constructed by President James Buchanan. Roosevelt moved the offices of the branch to the newly constructed wing in 1902. His workspace was a suite of Executive Office and Cabinet Room. The furniture, including the desk, was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim and executed by A. H. Davenport and Company
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Joaquim de Almeida
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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida is a Portuguese-American actor. He began his acting doing some theater, during the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller Desperado. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24, Almeida was born in Lisbon, on 15 November 1957, the son of João Baptista de Almeida and Maria Sara Portugal. He spent a year in Vienna, moving again, in 1976, to New York City where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, after doing some theater, Almeida started his film career in 1982 appearing in The Soldier. His first significant role came in a 1983 film, The Honorary Consul, being fluent in six languages, he continued his acting career in several countries such as Portugal, England, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, Argentina and Germany, working in numerous films. In 1994, de Almeida played Félix Cortez, a colonel of Cuban military intelligence in the Tom Clancy thriller, Clear and Present Danger, co-starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe. The film debuted at one in the box office, earning a reported $20.5 million in the United States. Clear and Present Danger was a success and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Later in 1994, Almeida starred in the romantic comedy Only You, according The New York Times, the film director and producer Norman Jewison said, I interviewed many actors for the role. There was one Italian actor, fairly prominent, that I met in L. A. and again in New York, and I wanted to meet several other Italian actors in Italy. After the interview with de Almeida, Jewison recalled, Howard Feuer, I said, But listen to his voice. Especially when he lowers it, whispers, leans across the table and he can be extremely intimate with his voice. In 1995, de Almeida co-starred with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in the Robert Rodriguezs action thriller Desperado and this film is the sequel to Rodriguezs independent film El Mariachi and the second entry in the Mexico Trilogy. Joaquim de Almeida portrays the main villain Bucho, a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin, Almeida replaced Raúl Juliá as Bucho, following Juliás death in 1994. Desperado was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and he won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Actor in his next film, the 1995 Portuguese drama Adão e Eva, where he played the main female character career rival Francisco. In 1997 he appeared in the miniseries Nostromo and starred in the Luís Galvão Teles drama Elles, the following year, he co-starred with Eric Roberts in the Jack Perez thriller La Cucaracha. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival where it won the Feature Film Award, in 2001, Joaquim de Almeida starred in the Brazilian comedy O Xangô de Baker Street, where he plays the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes
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Miguel Sandoval
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Miguel Sandoval is an American film and television actor. Sandoval was born in Washington, D. C and he began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full-time and continued his study of mime and he began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, after appearing in Clear and Present Danger in 1994, he began to take on larger roles, and appeared in Get Shorty, Up Close & Personal, and Blow. Having appeared briefly in Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, Sandoval has also played the roles of Treviranus, Bennie Reyes. In addition to film, Sandoval has acted in television shows. Though shows such as The Court and Kingpin failed, he found a success with Medium in 2005, sandovals other guest starring roles include appearances in popular series such as Frasier, ER, The X-Files, Seinfeld and Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. He was prominently featured in the first season of the ABC drama Murder One, Sandoval has recently moved into directing, taking the helm for the third season Medium episode Whatever Possessed You which aired in March 2007. He has since directed one episode in each of four through seven. He also co-starred as Judge Hernandez in the new comedy Bad Judge and it premiered on NBC on Oct 02,2014. Sandoval resides in Los Angeles, California, Miguel Sandoval at the Internet Movie Database Profile of Miguel Sandoval
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Henry Czerny
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Henry Czerny is a Canadian film, stage and television actor. He is known for his role as Conrad Grayson on the ABC primetime soap opera Revenge and he has received Theatre World Award and two Gemini Awards. Czerny was born on 8 February 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the word czerny means black in Polish. His father worked as a welder, and his mother, who resides in Toronto. Czerny attended college at York University Czerny received formal training at the National Theatre School in Montreal, after graduating in 1982, he went on to perform onstage across Canada, from Ottawas National Arts Centre to Edmontons Citadel Theatre and the Stratford Festival. By the late 1980s, he had established himself as a veteran of Canadian theatre—a long way from Lucky Larry. Czerny got his acting in musicals at Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto. Czerny is friends with Dana Delany and played the role of her husband on the film, Choices of the Heart, The Margaret Sanger Story and her brother in the made-for-television movie, For Hope. He had prominent roles in The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission, Impossible, Clear and Present Danger, The Ice Storm, in the 2006 comedy The Pink Panther, he plays the main antagonist Yuri the Trainer who Trains. He plays Lieutenant Brooks in Jackpot, a 2005 episode of CSI, in Conversations with God, about the true story of Neale Donald Walsch, Czerny plays Walsch. In 2007, Czerny appeared in the Showtime series The Tudors, Czerny also appeared in the Canadian television show Flashpoint in 2008 and the American science fiction drama Falling Skies in 2011. Czerny co-starred with Sigourney Weaver in the 2009 Lifetime movie Prayers for Bobby, in 2011, Czerny was cast opposite Madeleine Stowe, as the powerful patriarch Conrad Grayson, a series regular role, in ABC soap-type series Revenge. His character was stabbed at the end of season 3 and in the first episode of the season it was revealed he had died. He later returned to the series in flashback sequences in one season 4 episode. In 2016, Czerny was cast in the ABC thriller series Quantico for the role of CIA director Matthew Keyes. Czerny is married to Claudine Cassidy and they have a son, Cameron, before his marriage, he once dated Dana Delany, with whom he had worked on films. Besides acting, his interests include photography, travel, crafting, Henry Czerny at the Internet Movie Database Henry Czerny at the Internet Broadway Database
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Benjamin Bratt
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Benjamin George Bratt is an American actor. On television, Bratt portrayed NYPD Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order, Dr. Jake Reilly on ABCs Private Practice, and Steve Navarro on Foxs 24, Live Another Day. Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Eldy, a nurse and his mother is an Indigenous activist of the Quechua ethnic group, born in Peru, she moved to the United States at age 14. His father was American and had Austrian, English, and German ancestry and they married December 30,1960 in San Francisco, but divorced in September 1967. Bratts paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt, was a Broadway actor and he married Bratts paternal grandmother, Wiltrude Hildner, on August 6,1920 in Detroit, Michigan. Bratt attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society, Bratt earned a B. F. A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986, where he also joined the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Although accepted into the M. F. A. program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, as a child, Bratt went with his mother and siblings to participate in the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz. One of Bratts first television series was Nasty Boys, based on a film by the name in which he appeared. His best-known role has been that of Detective Reynaldo Curtis on the television show Law & Order, in 1999, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on the series. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood In Blood Out, on June 23,2009, Bratt appeared on The View to promote The Cleaner. On October 23,2009, it was announced that Bratt would return as Detective Curtis on Law & Order, Curtis reunited with his former boss, Lt. Anita van Buren, in the episode that aired on December 11,2009. He left the show that year to continue his film career. In 2012, Bratt was passionate about his opportunity to play a Tlicho Indian in the film The Lesser Blessed, a project dear to his heart because of his own Native background. He voiced El Macho, the main antagonist, in Despicable Me 2, Bratt has for years been a strong supporter and board member of San Francisco Bay Areas Friendship House Association of American Indians and Native American Health Center. In 1998, Bratt began dating actress Julia Roberts and he escorted her to the 2001 Academy Awards ceremony, at which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Four months later, they announced that they were no longer a couple, in 2002, he received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors. In 2002, he began dating and then married his pregnant girlfriend, actress Talisa Soto, the two met ten years earlier during the casting audition of Blood In Blood Out and afterward they saw each other on and off. It was not until the filming of Piñero that they began to develop a relationship and their first child, daughter Sophia Rosalinda Bratt, was born on December 6,2002, their second child, son Mateo Bravery Bratt, was born on October 3,2005
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Raymond Cruz
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He currently stars on the series Major Crimes, a spinoff of The Closer, reprising the role of Sanchez. Cruz was raised in East Los Angeles, California, and is of Mexican ancestry and he attended East Los Angeles College and is fully literate and fluent in both Spanish and English. He grew up in a neighborhood that regularly saw gang activity, a reality he brings to his roles, particularly as Sanchez and he has said that becoming interested in American literature early in life is how he avoided the gangs himself. He appeared as Chuey, a member from the Vatos Locos. In 2005, he played Chino in Havoc and he appeared in Gremlins 2, The New Batch, credited as The Messenger, and in Training Day as a gang member named Sniper. He played a Los Angeles firefighter in Collateral Damage and he had guest roles in the Star Trek, Deep Space Nine episode The Siege of AR-558, the X-Files episode El Mundo Gira, and the second season of 24. He also made an appearance as the father of a girl in CSI. He played a short-lived but well-known role as Tuco Salamanca, a violent and he later reprised the role of Tuco in the Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul. He had a role as Paco on My Name Is Earl. Raymond Cruz at the Internet Movie Database
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Ann Magnuson
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Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist and nightclub performer. A founding member of the band Bongwater, she starred in the ABC sitcom Anything and her film appearances include The Hunger, Making Mr. Right, Clear and Present Danger and Panic Room. The New York Times described her as An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does, Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to a journalist mother and a lawyer father. She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS and she attended Holz Elementary and George Washington High School in Charleston. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City and was a DJ and performer at Club 57, later, in the 1990s, Magnuson fronted the satirical faux-heavy metal band Vulcan Death Grip. In an interview for the 2002 WETA-TV-PBS special Lance Loud, I immediately started hanging out at all the clubs that he hung out in, and I wanted to go to the places that Id seen on television. I met him in 1978 when I got to New York City and was hanging out at CBGB, I honestly cant remember the exact moment but I know I was dazzled. I was just this little hick from West Virginia and I was meeting a celebrity, Magnuson made her film debut in the 1982 film Vortex. In the late 70s and early 80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, the club was located in the basement of the Polish National church. It became a center of a world that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Club 57 was known for its theme nights such as Reggae Miniature Golf and Model World of Glue Night. Magnuson went on to star in Seidelmans Making Mr. Right, concurrently, Magnuson developed an underground following as lead vocalist of the band Bongwater, formed in 1985 with producer-musician Mark Kramer. Her 15-minute video performance piece Made for Television, self-produced in 1981 and her satiric featurette found her playing close to 50 roles in a channel-hopping series of visual bites parodying television programming game shows to TV-films to televangelists. Magnuson also co-hosted Alive from Off Center during its 1988 season, taking over from fellow performance artist Laurie Anderson, who had hosted the series the year before. Her 1995 CD The Luv Show, her debut, was commercially unsuccessful. As Salon writer John Paczowski described her in 1997, celebrated icon in the more transgressive margins of culture, Ann Magnuson has been at once unknown, in the 1996 telefilm The Munsters Scary Little Christmas, Magnuson played Lily Munster from the original 1960s TV series The Munsters. She appeared in the 1990 Redd Kross music video for the song Annies Gone, in 2003, Magnuson began touring a one-woman stage show, Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories, which she mounted through at least July 2006. She played Sister Elizabeth Donderstock in the play The Book of Liz, written by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris, in May 2005 at the 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood, California. Magnuson has a thoroughly charming presence her stories of celebrity-studded Oscar parties, kid-filled raves, a wealthy dotcom suitor and she appeared in Whats My Line
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Dean Jones (actor)
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Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney films between 1965 and 1977, such as The Love Bug. Jones also originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheims Company, Jones was born in Decatur, near the larger neighboring city of Huntsville, Alabama, to Andrew Guy Jones, a traveling construction worker, and the former Nolia Elizabeth Wilhite. His parents are interred at Roselawn Gardens Of Memory in Decatur, as a student at Riverside High School in Decatur, Jones had his own local radio show, Dean Jones Sings. Jones served in the United States Navy during the Korean War, Jones attended Asbury University in Wilmore near Lexington, Kentucky. A member of its Class of 1953, he did not graduate, on March 4,2011, he later addressed the ceremony for the dedication of Asburys Andrew S. Miller Center for Communications Arts. After appearing in film and television roles, Jones made his Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl. He stepped into the role in Boston, Massachusetts, at one days notice. In 1960 he also played Dave Manning in the Broadway comedy Under the Yum-Yum Tree, after achieving success in film and television, Jones was set to return to Broadway as the star of Stephen Sondheims musical Company in 1970. Shortly after opening night, Jones withdrew from the show, due to stress that he was undergoing from ongoing divorce proceedings, Director Harold Prince agreed to replace him with Larry Kert if Jones would open the show and record the cast album. Jones agreed, and his performance is preserved on the original cast album, in 1986, Jones, by then having become a Christian, starred in Into the Light, a musical about scientists and the Shroud of Turin, which closed four days after it opened. He had far more success touring in the one-man show St. John in Exile as the last surviving Apostle of Jesus Christ, a performance was filmed in 1986. He made one more Broadway appearance, in 1993, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and he portrayed a soldier in both Imitation General with Glenn Ford and Never So Few with Frank Sinatra. Jones had a role in an episode of ABCs Stagecoach West. He portrayed Joe Brady, one of two outlaws, with Harold J. Stone as Tanner and they are trapped during a sandstorm in a frontier house with series stars Robert Bray and Richard Eyer as Simon and Davey Kane, respectively. The outlaws are sought by the United States Army for armed robbery, the young woman of the house, Martha Whitlock, played by Diana Millay, was recently deserted by her husband. She becomes attracted to Jones character, who considers himself a failure since he had been orphaned at an early age. In the story line, it is determined that Brady is not guilty of the robbery and shooting of the guards, but is culpable as an accessory after the fact. Jones subsequently starred in the NBC television sitcom Ensign OToole, produced by Four Star Television, portraying an easy-going and his co-stars included Jack Mullaney, Jack Albertson, Jay C
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Thora Birch
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Thora Birch is an American actress. She had early roles in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day and in Purple People Eater and she also starred in other films, such as All I Want for Christmas, Patriot Games, Hocus Pocus, Monkey Trouble, Now and Then and Alaska. Her breakthrough role came in 1999 with the Academy Award winning film American Beauty and her performance was well received by both critics and audiences and brought Birch to international recognition. She later played the role in Ghost World for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared in independent films, such as Dark Corners, Train, Birch was born in Los Angeles, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors. Her parents, who have been her business managers throughout her career, are former adult film actors. Birch is of German Jewish, Scandinavian and Italian ancestry, the familys original surname was Biersch. Her name, Thora, is derived from the name of the Norse god of thunder and lightning, Thor, Birch appeared in commercials in the late 1980s for Burger King, California Raisins, Quaker Oats and Vlasic Pickles. Also in 1988, she guest-starred in an episode of Doogie Howser, M. D. and was cast as Molly in the NBC television series Day By Day, the show aired for two seasons on NBC and earned her two Young Artist Award nominations. In 1990, Birch had one of the roles in the sitcom Parenthood. It aired on NBC and was cancalled after one season, in the next year, she starred in the drama Paradise, with Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Elijah Wood. She won her role more than 4,000 other young hopefuls who auditioned for it. Roger Ebert felt she played her part with strong, simple charm, for the rest of the 1990s, Birch continued to find steady recognition as a child and teen actress through leading parts in numerous comedy and family feature films. She starred in the romantic comedy All I Want for Christmas, as a girl who plans to get her parents back together for Christmas. The film received reviews and moderate attention from audiences upon its theatrical premiere. In 1992, she played the daughter of Jack Ryan in the spy thriller Patriot Games, Birch appeared in the fantasy comedy Hocus Pocus, opposite Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. The film saw her play the younger sister of a boy who inadvertently ressurects a villainous trio of witches. Hocus Pocus rated average with reviewers and made a modest US$39 million in the US, in the 1994 comedy Monkey Trouble, Birch portrayed a girl who adopts a Capuchin monkey trained to pick pockets and burglarize houses
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Ellen Geer
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Ellen Ware Geer is an American actress, professor, and theatre director. Geer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer and she is married to childrens musician Peter Alsop, and was previously married to actor Ed Flanders. Her daughters are Megan and Willow, her son is Ian Flanders, Geer began her film career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. She followed this with an appearance in 1969s The Reivers with her father, in 1971, Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch, appearing throughout the movie in flashbacks. That same year, she became a regular on The Jimmy Stewart Show and had a role in the acclaimed comedy Harold. In 1974, she starred in two films which she wrote, Silence and Memory of Us. The remainder of Geers 1970s career consisted primarily of guest appearances, television series on which she appeared during this time included Police Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlies Angels, CHiPs and two episodes of Fantasy Island. Her television movie credits during this time included Babe, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, the only theatrical film on which she worked in the late 1970s was Jonathan Kaplans Over the Edge in 1979. She also had recurring roles on Falcon Crest and Beauty and the Beast and she played elderly Piper Halliwell on the WB series Charmed in the series finale. In October 2007, the actress returned briefly to Desperate Housewives which she appeared in before. She appeared in the season of Castle in the episode called The Blue Butterfly. Geer has served since 1978 as Artistic Director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Geer has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor, teaching acting, at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater for 12 years. Ellen Geer at the Internet Movie Database Ellen Geer at AllMovie
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Hope Lange
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Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lange was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. In 1969 and 1970, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange, was a cellist and the arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen, her mother. They had three daughters, Minelda, Joy, and Hope, and a son, David, John worked in New York City and the family moved to Greenwich Village when Hope was a young child. Lange sang with other children in the play Life, Laughter and Tears, at age 9, Lange had a speaking part in the award-winning Broadway play The Patriots, which opened in January 1943. John Lange died in September 1942 but the family stayed in New York City, Minette ran a restaurant on Macdougal Street near Washington Square Park from 1944 to 1956. The name was Minettes of Washington Square, although some sources confuse it with Minetta Tavern, the entire family worked in the restaurant, the oldest daughter, Minelda, ran the cash register while Joy and Hope waited on tables. While attending high school, Lange studied dance, modeled, and she sometimes walked the dog of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a nearby apartment. When her photo appeared in the newspaper, she received an offer to work as a New York City advertising model and she appeared on the June 1949 cover of Radio-Electronics magazine wearing the Man from Mars Radio Hat. This portable radio built into a helmet was a sensation in 1949. Lange attended college for two years at Reed College in Oregon and at Barmore Junior College in New York and she met her first husband, Don Murray, at Barmore. She began working in television in the 1950s with appearances on Kraft Television Theatre, Lange came to prominence in her first film role in Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray, whom she married on April 14,1956. Murray later said that Monroe grew jealous of another blonde being hired for the movie, as a result of favorable reviews, Lange landed a major role in the then-risqué1957 film Peyton Place. Her strong performance earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and she would become a rather well-recognized supporting actress of ingénue roles. Lange later said that she became somewhat typecast in her film appearances. She went on to appear in Nicholas Rays 1957 film, The True Story of Jesse James as James wife and she appeared in The Young Lions alongside Montgomery Clift. She starred as the wife of Jeffrey Hunters character in Anton Myrers wartime drama In Love and these roles eventually led to Lange earning top billing in 1959s The Best of Everything, with Suzy Parker and Joan Crawford
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Sport utility vehicle
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A sport utility vehicle or suburban utility vehicle is a vehicle classified as a light truck, but operated as a family vehicle. They are similar to a station wagon or estate car. Some SUVs include the capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or large sedan. Popular in the late-1990s and early–mid-2000s, SUVs sales temporarily declined due to oil prices. The traditional truck-based SUV is gradually being supplanted by the crossover SUV, by 2010, SUV sales around the world were growing, in spite of high gas prices. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a utility vehicle is a rugged automotive vehicle similar to a station wagon. The SUV term is defined as a vehicle that is designed to be used on rough surfaces. The SUV acronym is used to describe nearly anything with available all-wheel drive. There is no one definition for an SUV, Most government regulations simply have categories for off-highway vehicles, which in turn are lumped in with pickup trucks and minivans as light trucks. The auto industry has not settled on one definition, starting in 2004, the United States Environmental Protection Agency began to hold sport utility vehicles to the same tailpipe emissions standards as cars. Many people question how can an SUV be called a truck, for industry production statistics, SUVs are counted in the light truck product segment. Not all SUVs have four-wheel drive capabilities, and not all passenger vehicles are SUVs. While automakers tout an SUVs off-road prowess with advertising and naming, in India, all SUVs are classified in the Utility Vehicle category per the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers definitions and carry a 27% excise tax. Those that are 4 metres long, have a 1,500 cc engine or larger, although designs vary, SUVs have historically been mid-size passenger vehicles with a body-on-frame chassis similar to that found on light trucks. Early SUVs were mostly two-door models, and were available with removable tops, however, consumer demand pushed the SUV market towards four doors, by 2002 all full-size two-door SUVs were gone from the market. Two-door SUVs were mostly carry-over models, and their sales were not viable enough to warrant a redesign at the end of their design cycle. The Jeep Wrangler remained as a compact two-door body style, although it was joined by a four-door variant starting with the 2007 model year. The number of two-door SUV models increased in the 2010s with the release of the Range Rover Evoque, Most SUVs are designed with an engine compartment, a combined passenger and cargo compartment, and no dedicated trunk such as in a station wagon body
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