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Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Sarah Michelle Prinze is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. After being spotted by an agent at the age of four in New York City, Gellar went on to appear in numerous television series and commercials. Her first leading part was in the 1992 miniseries Swans Crossing, the character was widely popular during the airing of the show and became recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in U. S. television. Gellar also gained significant attention for her appearances in the slasher movies I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and she appeared as Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo, her biggest live action commercial success. She subsequently appeared in smaller movies such as The Return and Southland Tales. Her later film credits include The Air I Breathe, Possession and she headlined the short lived television series Ringer and The Crazy Ones, which co-starred Robin Williams. In October 2015, Gellar co-founded Foodstirs, a food crafting brand, Gellar was born in New York City. She is the child of Rosellen, a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar. Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellars family also had a Christmas tree during her childhood, in 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother on the citys Upper East Side. Im not being deliberately evasive about him, its just that theres so little to say, besides being a working child at the time, Gellar was a competitive figure skater, finishing in third place at the New York State regional competition. She also placed fourth at a Tae Kwon Do competition at Madison Square Garden, Gellar was given a partial scholarship to study at the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, as her mother was not able to pay full tuition, for which she was constantly bullied. She said in an interview with The Independent, I was different and thats the one thing you cant be at school, I didnt have the money these kids had. I was telling them that I had back problems and had to go to the doctor the whole time, Gellar then briefly attended the Fiorello H. Gellar graduated from the Professional Childrens School, in 1994 as a straight A student with a 4.0 grade average. As Gellar spent significant time working on All My Children while trying to graduate, at the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Upper Manhattan. Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in the television film An Invasion of Privacy, with Valerie Harper, Carol Kane, at the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper, impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role. The film aired on CBS in January 1983 and she subsequently appeared in a controversial television commercial for Burger King, in which her character criticized McDonalds and claimed to eat only at Burger King. The ad led to a lawsuit by McDonalds, naming Gellar and banning her from eating at the chain, she recalled in a 2004 interview. It was tough because, when you’re a little kid, McDonald’s is where all your friends have their birthday parties, while growing up, Gellar also worked as a model for Wilhemina and acted in numerous television commercials
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Reese Witherspoon
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Her leading role of Tracy Flick in Election was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Witherspoons breakthrough role was playing Elle Woods in the 2001 film Legally Blonde, for which she received her second Golden Globe nomination. The following year, she starred in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, which emerged as her biggest live-action commercial success. In 2005, she portrayed June Carter in Walk the Line, which earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics Choice Award for Best Actress. Other notable films of hers include Legally Blonde 2, Red, White & Blonde, Monsters vs. Aliens, Water for Elephants, in 2017, she produced and starred in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies. Witherspoon owns a company, Pacific Standard, and she is actively involved in childrens and womens advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Childrens Defense Fund and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007 and she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Witherspoon was born on March 22,1976 in Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, while her father and her father was born in Georgia and served as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve. He was in practice as an otolaryngologist until 2012. In 1988, her mother began nursing babies back to health in the intensive care unit of Vanderbilt University Hospital until she retired. Her parents are legally married, although they separated in 1996, due to her fathers alcoholism, infidelity, overspending. Because Witherspoons father worked for the U. S. military in Wiesbaden, Germany, after returning to the U. S. she spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee in the suburb of Belle Meade. She was raised as an Episcopalian and her older brother, John Jr. is a real estate agent. She received high grades in school, loved reading, and considered herself a big dork who read loads of books, on mentioning her love for books, she said, I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything, Witherspoon attended middle school at Harding Academy and graduated from the all-girls Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, during which time she was a cheerleader. She attended Stanford University as an English literature major, after completing one year of studies, she left Stanford to pursue an acting career. Witherspoon is proud of the definitive Southern upbringing which she received, Witherspoon is described as a multi-achiever and was given the nickname Little Type A by her parents. On discussing her early achievements, she told Interview magazine, I just dont see any of it as that remarkable, maybe thats the attitude I choose to have to keep me sane and keep my feet on the ground
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Selma Blair
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Selma Blair is an American film, television, and theater actress. Blair started her acting career in 1995. During her early years, she played a number of supporting roles in film and television. Blair was considered to have a breakthrough in 1999, first, for her role on The WB teen sitcom Zoe. Later, Blair starred in notable films including Down to You, Legally Blonde. She achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of the heroine Liz Sherman in the fantasy films Hellboy and Hellboy II, other notable films include The Fog, Purple Violets, The Poker House, Columbus Circle and Mothers and Daughters. Blair also portrayed the role in the American remake of Kath & Kim as Kim. In 2016, Blair returned to television portraying socialite Kris Jenner in the first season of FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story, in 2011, Blair lent her voice to narrate the Holocaust-related audio documentary The Diary of Anne Frank. Blair was born Selma Blair Beitner in Southfield, in the area of Detroit, Michigan. Blair had a Jewish upbringing – her Hebrew name is Bat-Sheva and her father was an attorney, active in the U. S. Democratic Party and labor arbitrator until his death in 2012 at the age of 82 and her parents divorced when Blair was 23, she subsequently legally changed her surname. She has three older sisters – Katherine, Elizabeth, and Marie Beitner, at that time, she wanted to be a ballerina and a horse trainer. Later, at the age of 20, Blair moved to New York City and she attended NYU, as well as acting classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Column Theatre, and the Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop, later, she returned to Michigan to finish her studies. After graduating from Michigan, Blair returned to New York City to pursue a career in the arts, in 1990, during her time at Cranbrook Kingswood, Blair was involved in a production of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. According to Blair, it was a failure, but her English teacher told her not to give up, in 1993, she began training at acting schools in New York. She was discovered by an agent in acting class, subsequently, after 75 auditions, she got her first advertising contract for a television spot ad for a theater in Virginia, for which she received her Screen Actors Guild membership. Blair began auditioning in the mid-1990s and her first audition was for a cereal commercial. She won her first professional role in 1995, in an episode of the television sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Jaguar XK140
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The Jaguar XK140 is a sports car manufactured by Jaguar between 1954 and 1957 as the successor to the XK120. Upgrades included more interior space, improved brakes, rack and pinion steering, increased suspension travel, the XK140 was introduced in late 1954 and sold as a 1955 model. Exterior changes that distinguished it from the XK120 included more substantial front and rear bumpers with overriders, the grille remained the same size but became a one-piece cast unit with fewer, and broader, vertical bars. The Jaguar badge was incorporated into the grille surround, a chrome trim strip ran along the centre of the bonnet and boot lid. An emblem on the boot lid contained the words Winner Le Mans 1951–3, the interior was made more comfortable for taller drivers by moving the engine, firewall and dash forward to give 3 inches more legroom. The XK140 was powered by the Jaguar XK engine with the Special Equipment modifications from the XK120, the C-Type cylinder head, carried over from the XK120 catalogue, and producing 210 bhp gross at 5750 rpm, was optional equipment. When fitted with the C-type head, 2-inch sand-cast H8 carburettors, heavier torsion bars and twin exhaust pipes, in 1956 the XK140 became the first Jaguar sports car to be offered with automatic transmission. As with the XK120, wire wheels and dual exhausts were options, Cars with the standard disc wheels had spats over the rear wheel opening. The Roadster had a canvas top that folded out of sight behind the seats. The interior was trimmed in leather and leatherette, including the dash, like the XK120 Roadster, the XK140 version had removable canvas and plastic side curtains on light alloy barchetta-type doors, and a tonneau cover. The door tops and scuttle panel were cut back by two inches compared to the XK120, to allow a more modern positioning of the steering wheel, the angle of the front face of the doors was changed from 45 degrees to 90 degrees, to make access easier. The Drophead Coupé had a bulkier lined canvas top that lowered onto the body behind the seats, a fixed windscreen integral with the body, wind-up side windows, and it also had a walnut-veneered dashboard and door cappings. The Fixed Head Coupé shared the DHCs interior trim and rear seat, the prototype Fixed Head Coupe retained the XK120 Fixed Head roof-profile, with the front wings and doors the same as the Drophead. In production, the roof was lengthened with the screen being placed further forward, shorter front wings and this resulted in more interior space, and more legroom. A stock XK-140 SE could achieve a top speed of 120–125 mph, road & Tracks XK-140 MC test in June 1955 recorded a best two-way average of 120.3 mph. Best one-way run was 121.1 mph, Sports Cars Illustrateds test of the same model in Aug 1957 had a fastest two-way average of 121 mph. Their best one-way run was 124 mph, karl Ludvigsens test published in Sports Car World had the same results as the SCI test. Acceleration times from 0–60 mph were 8.4 seconds,9.1 seconds and 9.1 seconds respectively, only the R&T test tried 0–100 mph which took 26.5 seconds
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Cocaine
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Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug. It is commonly snorted, inhaled, or injected into the veins, mental effects may include loss of contact with reality, an intense feeling of happiness, or agitation. Physical symptoms may include a fast heart rate, sweating, high doses can result in very high blood pressure or body temperature. Effects begin within seconds to minutes of use and last between five and ninety minutes, Cocaine has a small number of accepted medical uses such as numbing and decreasing bleeding during nasal surgery. Cocaine is addictive due to its effect on the pathway in the brain. After a short period of use, there is a risk that dependence will occur. Its use also increases the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, lung problems in those who smoke it, blood infections, Cocaine sold on the street is commonly mixed with local anesthetics, cornstarch, quinine, or sugar which can result in additional toxicity. Following repeated doses a person may have decreased ability to feel pleasure, Cocaine acts by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This results in concentrations of these three neurotransmitters in the brain. It can easily cross the barrier and may lead to the breakdown of the barrier. Cocaine is made from the leaves of the plant which are mostly grown in South America. In 2013,419 kilograms were produced legally and it is estimated that the illegal market for cocaine is 100 to 500 billion USD each year. With further processing crack cocaine can be produced from cocaine, after cannabis, cocaine is the most frequently used illegal drug globally. Between 14 and 21 million people use the drug each year, use is highest in North America followed by Europe and South America. Between one and three percent of people in the world have used cocaine at some point in their life. In 2013 cocaine use resulted in 4,300 deaths. The leaves of the plant have been used by Peruvians since ancient times. Cocaine was first isolated from the leaves in 1860, since 1961 the international Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a crime
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Rosary
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The Rosary, usually in the form of the Dominican Rosary, is a form of prayer used especially in the Catholic Church named for the string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers. When used of the form of prayer, the word is capitalized, as is customary for other names of prayers, such as the Lords Prayer, the Hail Mary. When referring to the beads, it is written with a lower-case initial. The prayers that essentially compose the Rosary are arranged in sets of ten Hail Marys with each set preceded by one Lords Prayer and followed by one Glory Be. During recitation of each set, known as a decade, thought is given to one of the Mysteries of the Rosary, normally, five decades are recited in a session. Other prayers are added after each decade and before. The rosary as an object is an aid towards saying these prayers in the proper sequence. In 2002 Pope John Paul II said that it is fitting that a new set of five be added, called the Luminous Mysteries, for over four centuries, the rosary has been promoted by several popes as part of the veneration of Mary in Roman Catholicism. The rosary is part of Catholic veneration of Mary, which has been promoted by numerous popes, in the 16th century, Pope Pius V associated the rosary with the General Roman Calendar by instituting the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, which is celebrated on 7 October. Pope Leo XIII, known as The Rosary Pope, issued twelve encyclicals and five apostolic letters on the rosary and added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto. Pope Pius XII and his successors actively promoted veneration of the Virgin in Lourdes and Fatima, Pope John Paul II issued the Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae which built on the total Marian devotion. On 3 May 2008, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the Rosary was experiencing a new springtime, It is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for Jesus and his Mother. To Benedict XVI, the rosary is a meditation on all important moments of salvation history, the Congregation for Divine Worship also emphasizes the importance of the rosary as a formative component of spiritual life. The theologian Romano Guardini thus defined the Roman Catholic emphasis on the rosary as participation in the life of Mary and this view had been endorsed by Leo XIII who viewed the rosary as a vital means to participate in the life of Mary and to find the way to Christ. Devotion to the rosary is one of the most notable features of popular Catholic spirituality, Pope John Paul II placed the rosary at the very center of Christian spirituality and called it among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation. From the sixteenth century onwards, rosary recitations often involved picture texts that assisted meditation, such imagery continues to be used to depict the mysteries of the rosary. Saints have stressed the importance of meditation and contemplation, scriptural meditations on the rosary build on the Christian tradition of Lectio Divina, as a way of using the Gospel to start a conversation between the soul and Christ. Padre Pio, who was devoted to the rosary, said, Through the study of books one seeks God, references to the rosary have been part of a number of reported Marian Apparitions spanning two centuries
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Christine Baranski
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Christine Jane Baranski is an American stage and screen actress. She won Tony Awards for her work in the original Broadway productions of The Real Thing in 1984 and Rumors in 1989 and she went on to win the 1995 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill. She is currently starring in The Good Fight following seven years in the role of Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife. Baranskis other Broadway credits include her debut in Hide and Seek, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Baranski was born in Cheektowaga, Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. She is of Polish descent, and her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater, Baranski attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy in Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo. She then studied at New York Citys Juilliard School where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974, Baranski made her Broadway debut in Hide & Seek in 1980. For her next Broadway performance, in Tom Stoppards The Real Thing, other Broadway credits include, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Rumors, Regrets Only, Nick & Nora, and the Encores. At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C, Baranski starred as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in 2002 and as the title character in Mame in 2006. In her first Broadway production since 1991, she was featured as the maid Berthe in the 2008 revival of Boeing Boeing, the show garnered two Tony Awards, one for Best Revival of a Play and the other for Best Actor. The original cast was Bradley Whitford, Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Gina Gershon, the show closed on January 4,2009. She also appeared in a one night only benefit performance of Stephen Sondheims A Little Night Music for Roundabout Theatre Company as Countess Charlotte Malcolm on January 12,2009. The cast included Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber and she has won both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards twice. Baranski has also starred in roles in films and television. She also played Cinderellas stepmother in the adaptation of the musical. Earlier, she had appeared in roles on various daytime soap operas, including All My Children. During this, Baranski portrayed a librarian named Sonja Umdahl in the Dick, a few years later, Baranski received an Emmy nomination for a guest starring role as an intimidating radio psychiatrist on an episode of the NBC series Frasier. She had a role in the series Now and Again as the voice of Rogers overbearing wife Ruth. Baranski later appeared in the 2000–2001 sitcom Welcome to New York and, with John Laroquette and she co-starred with Bernadette Peters in a pilot for an ABC sitcom, Adopted, in 2005, which was not picked up
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Swoosie Kurtz
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Swoosie Kurtz is an American actress. She is an Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award winner, Kurtz made her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of Ah, Wilderness. She has received five Tony Award nominations, winning two, for Fifth of July in 1981 and The House of Blue Leaves in 1986 and her other nominations were for Tartuffe in 1988, Frozen in 2004 and Heartbreak House in 2007. For her television work, she has received eight Emmy Award nominations, with one win for Carol, other television credits include the NBC drama Sisters, Huff, Pushing Daisies, and the hit CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. Her films include, Wildcats, Dangerous Liaisons, Stanley and Iris, Citizen Ruth, Kurtz was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child of author Margaret Margo and Air Force Colonel Frank Allen Kurtz, Jr. a much-decorated World War II American bomber pilot. She got her first name Swoosie from her father, as a military brat, Kurtz moved frequently. Kurtz attended the University of Southern California where she majored in drama and she then attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Kurtzs first television appearance at age seventeen was on The Donna Reed Show 4th season episode The Golden Trap and she also appeared on To Tell the Truth at eighteen, identifying her father from two impostors. Kurtz began her career in theater, making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of Ah, Kurtz was soon awarded Broadways triple crown for her portrayal of Gwen in Lanford Wilsons Fifth of July. She won a second Tony for her performance as Bananas in a 1986 revival of The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare and she starred as playwright Lillian Hellman in the 2002 Nora Ephron play Imaginary Friends. In 1978, Kurtz was part of the ensemble cast of Mary Tyler Moores short-lived variety series Mary, in 1981, Kurtz began two seasons alongside Tony Randall in the sitcom Love, Sidney, in a role that earned her the first of her 10 Emmy Award nominations. In 1990, she won her first Emmy for a role on Carol Burnetts comedy series Carol & Company. From 1991 to 1996, Kurtz had her television role, starring as wealthy divorcee Alex Reed Halsey on the NBC drama Sisters. She also starred in the ABC television series Pushing Daisies as Lily Charles, in 2010, Kurtz began starring in the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly as Joyce Flynn. She also has no children. com Interview with Swoosie Kurtz
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Tara Reid
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Tara Donna Reid is an American actress. She is known for playing Vicky in the films American Pie, American Pie 2, in 2013, she starred as April Wexler in the television film Sharknado, and went on to reprise the role in four sequels. Reid made her debut in A Return to Salems Lot in 1987. Her other film appearances include The Big Lebowski, Urban Legend, Dr. T & the Women, Josie and the Pussycats, Van Wilder, My Bosss Daughter, and Alone in the Dark. She had her own reality show on the E. network called Taradise in 2005. Tara Donna Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey and her father also worked on Wall Street. She also attended Professional Childrens School, in Manhattan, along with fellow actors Christina Ricci, Jerry OConnell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reid has twin younger siblings, Colleen and Patrick, and another brother, Tom. Reid began acting at age six, becoming a regular on the game show Childs Play, as a teenager, she was on Saved by the Bell, The New Class. After moving to Hollywood in 1997, Reid transitioned to movies, though the film disappointed at the box office, grossing only $17 million in the US, it has gone on to become a cult favorite. Reid found her first taste of mainstream success when she portrayed the role of the virginal Vickie in American Pie. The film also marked her first film to reach #1 at the box office, in 2001, she reprised the role in American Pie 2, which opened to $45 million and grossed over $145 million in the US, almost 50% more than its predecessor. Reid did not return for American Wedding, but did reprise the character in the theatrical film in the series. Following the success of American Pie 2, Reid starred in a number of commercial and critical misfires including Josie and she also starred as the youngest daughter of a Texas gynecologist in Robert Altmans Dr. T & the Women, alongside Richard Gere. She returned to the screen as a recurring character on the NBC sitcom, Scrubs. In 2005, she co-starred in infamous German filmmaker Uwe Bolls Alone in the Dark with Christian Slater and her mispronunciation of Newfoundland became a popular internet catchphrase. The film was panned by critics and Reid received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress, Reid signed on to host the E. s Wild On Tara Reid, a program that showcased high-society vacations and hot spots. The show premiered on August 10,2005, but it was canceled in September, with Ted Harbert, networks president, saying it was incredibly difficult to produce with someone well-known. In January 2007, Reid filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, between 2007 and 2008, she starred in a number of direct-to-video films, including 7-10 Split/Strike, If I Had Known I Was a Genius, and Clean Break/Unnatural Causes
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Old Westbury Gardens
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Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of John Shaffer Phipps, heir to a U. S. Steel fortune, in Nassau County, New York. Located at 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, the property was converted into a home in 1959 and is open for tours April through October for a fee. Work on the began in 1903, when John Shaffer Phipps promised his British fiancée Margarita he would build her a home in the United States that resembled her family estate in Battle Abbey. The estate was ready for Phipps, his wife and their children in 1906, Westbury House, the Charles II-style mansion designed by George A. Crawley, contains 23 rooms. The painting Mrs. Henry Phipps and Her Grandson Winston by John Singer Sargent hangs in the dining room, Winston Churchill was the childs godfather. It has been open to the public for tours since 1959 and it is open to the public daily except Tuesdays from late April through October. Scenes of the driveway and some of the ground floor interiors were used in the 1970 film Love Story to depict the home of Oliver Barrett IV. Scenes from the television series Royal Pains and Gossip Girl also used the location in filming and it served as the inspiration for the Buchanan Estate featured in Baz Luhrmanns 2013 film adaption of The Great Gatsby by his wife and production designer Catherine Martin. Media related to Old Westbury Gardens at Wikimedia Commons Official Site Pictures of Westbury House & Old Westbury Gardens Dobrin, Old Westbury Gardens — Long Island, New York. Flower & Garden Magazine Westbury House, Old Westbury, NY sample page in a coffee-table book
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
