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Fantastic Fest
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Fantastic Fest is an annual film festival in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2005 by Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse, Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, the festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult. The festival takes place in September at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, filling eight screens for eight days and hosting many writers, directors and actors, a notable feature of this festival is the inclusion of secret screenings by Knowles. For these screenings, the audience often does not know what the film will be until seated and it also features many themed parties, outings, film-themed feasts, and other events that are hallmarks of the original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. In 2007, Variety publisher Charles Koones included Fantastic Fest as one of ten festivals we love, in 2008, Moviemaker named Fantastic Fest one of the 25 film festivals worth the entry fee. The 2005 festival was three days long, October 6–9. Screened films included Feast, Wolf Creek, and Zathura, the official sponsors of the 2005 festival were, Milkshake Media, KOOP Radio, The Austin Chronicle, Jackson Walker L. L. P. and Independence Brewery. US premieres Hakugei, Legend of the Moby Dick Texas premieres The Big White The Birthday Creep The Dark Hours G. O. R. A, legendary make-up and effects supervisor Howard Berger presided over a special effects Q&A. The 2006 festival was expanded to 8 days and held September 21–28. com, Edwin Neal of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Peter Martin of Twitch. com, and Chris Cargill of AintItCoolNews. com. com. com. Audience Awards 1st Place - Hatchet 2nd Place - Isolation 3rd Place - Firefly A notable highlight for the audience occurred when Mel Gibson walked into the theater. The official sponsors of the 2007 Fantastic Fest were, AMD, Stella Artois, AT&T, Twitch. com, B-Side, Rue Morgue, Fangoria, romero Flash Point Hells Fever La Hora Fria Inside Invisible Target Maiko Haaaan. The Genetic Opera Rule of Three South of Heaven Spine Tingler — The William Castle Story The Substitute Surveillance with Q&A by director Jennifer Lynch Terra Tokyo, hollow Director Nacho Vigalondo covering his face with honey and shooting himself with a confetti cannon following the screening of his short films. The shaky-face badge photos required attendees to submit a picture of themselves taken while violently shaking their heads back and this resulted in some very unusual portraits. The Fantastic Debates pitted film lovers against one another in spirited arguments about Horror Remakes — Reinvented Classics, or Modern Abominations, debators unable to resolve their differences with words then stepped into the boxing ring to settle things with fists. Closing party, sponsored by the film City of Ember was held at Longhorn Caverns and it was the first year of the Fantastic Fest Lifetime Achievement Award, given to director Jess Franco. The official sponsors of the 2009 Fantastic Fest were, Real D, G4, Dark Sky Films, Best Buy, Stella Artois, Jeremiah Weed, Aint It Cool News, and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. World premieres Zombieland, with a Q&A by director Ruben Fleischer and stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and it was the first year of the Fantastic Arcade, a showcase of independent video games. The presenting sponsors of the 2010 Fantastic Fest were, Dell, AMD, RealD, Ambhar Tequila, FearNet. com, Sony PlayStation and Qriocity
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Santa Monica, California
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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Dartmouth College
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Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, with a total student enrollment of about 6,400, Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League. Undergraduate admissions is highly competitive, with a rate of 10. 4% for the Class of 2021. Dartmouths 269-acre campus is in the rural Upper Valley region of New England, the university functions on a quarter system, operating year-round on four ten-week academic terms. Dartmouth is known for its focus, strong Greek culture. Its 34 varsity sports teams compete intercollegiately in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I, Dartmouth is consistently included among the highest-ranked universities in the United States by several institutional rankings. According to a Forbes study, despite its small size. In a New York Times corporate study, Dartmouths graduates were shown to be among the most sought-after and valued in the world. Dartmouth has produced prominent alumni, including 170 members of the U. S. Senate. Cabinet officials,3 Nobel Prize laureates,2 U. S. Supreme Court justices, diplomats, scholars in academia, literary and media figures, professional athletes, and Olympic medalists. Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Columbia, Connecticut, wheelocks ostensible inspiration for such an establishment resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian Samson Occom. Occom became a minister after studying under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747. Wheelock founded Moors Indian Charity School in 1755, the Charity School proved somewhat successful, but additional funding was necessary to continue schools operations, and Wheelock sought the help of friends to raise money. Occom, accompanied by the Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker, traveled to England in 1766 to raise money from churches, with these funds, they established a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named William Legge, in seeking to expand the school into a college, Wheelock relocated it to Hanover, in the Province of New Hampshire. The move from Connecticut followed a lengthy and sometimes frustrating effort to find resources, the reference to educating Native American youth was included to connect Dartmouth to the Charity School and enable use of the Charity Schools unspent trust funds. The College granted its first degrees in 1771, given the limited success of the Charity School, however, Wheelock intended his new college as one primarily for whites. An institution called Dartmouth University occupied the buildings and began operating in Hanover in 1817
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Rene Russo
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Rene Marie Russo is an American actress, producer and former model. Russo began her career in the 1970s as a fashion model, appearing several times on the covers of magazines like Vogue. In the late 1980s, she transitioned to an acting career and she became known for starring in a series of popular, big budget thrillers and action movies throughout the 1990s. She made her big debut in the 1989 comedy film Major League and later co-starred in Mr. Destiny. After she starred in the family comedy Yours, Mine and Ours in 2005, Russo appeared as Frigga, the mother of the titular hero in the superhero films Thor and Thor, The Dark World. In 2015, she appeared in the comedy film The Intern, and is set to star in the action comedy Villa Capri, which is scheduled for release on August 25,2017. Russo was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Shirley, a worker and barmaid, and Nino Russo. Her father was of Italian descent, and her mother was Italian in her fathers side and German, Russo grew up with her sister, Toni, and attended Burroughs High School, dropping out in the tenth grade. She began taking a variety of jobs to help her family, including working in an eyeglass factory. Russo started a career after allegedly being spotted at a 1972 Rolling Stones concert by John Crosby. With his encouragement, Russo applied to, and was signed by, Russo was one of the top models of the 1970s and early 80s, appearing on magazine covers for Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Cosmopolitan, as well as advertisements for perfume and cosmetics. As she entered her thirties, demand for her as a model began to dwindle and she did a few more commercials and then turned her back on modeling and show business for a while. She studied theater and acting, and began appearing in roles at small theaters in Los Angeles. At one point, she took acting lessons from veteran actor Allan Rich and they were interviewed on CNN in 1980. She made her debut in 1987 with a supporting role in the short-lived ABC television series Sable, based on the comic book, Jon Sable, Freelance. She made her film debut in 1989 as the girlfriend of the Tom Berenger character in Major League. In 1990 she played the role of Jim Belushis character wife in the comedy film Mr. Destiny. In 1991 she had the lead role alongside Michael Keaton in the crime drama One Good Cop
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Tony Gilroy
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Anthony Joseph Tony Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the first four films of the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films and he was nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. Gilroy wrote and directed Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen and he is the brother of screenwriter Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy. Through his father, he is of Italian, Irish and German descent, Gilroy was raised in Washingtonville, New York. He graduated from Washingtonville High School in 1974 at 16 years old, Gilroy has written many scripts for film, starting with the script for The Cutting Edge in 1992. This was followed by Dolores Claiborne in 1995 and The Devils Advocate in 1997 and he was one of five credited writers on Michael Bays Armageddon, the highest-grossing film of 1998. Gilroys next script was Proof of Life in 2000, also in 2007, he wrote and directed the film Michael Clayton, which won an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, and was nominated for several Academy Awards including screenplay. In 2009, Gilroy wrote and directed the romantic comedy spy film Duplicity, starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Tom Wilkinson. Gilroy is set, along with The Bourne Ultimatum co-screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, to write the script for the upcoming film Army of Two, in September 2013, Gilroy delivered a screenwriting lecture as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series. In 2016, Gilroy co-wrote the script to the war film Rogue One. It is a prequel to the 1977 classic Star Wars, Gilroy shared writing duties with fellow filmmaker Chris Weitz. Gilroys directorial debut was in 2007, when he directed the film Michael Clayton, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. In addition to its Edgar Award, the film won one Oscar, the film was a box-office success, grossing over $92 million worldwide. He also wrote and directed his film, Duplicity, released March 20,2009. He lives in Manhattan with his family, Tony Gilroy at the Internet Movie Database Profile in The New Yorker
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Nightcrawler (film)
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Nightcrawler is a 2014 American thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles, rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton also star. A common theme in the film is the relationship between unethical journalism and consumer demand. Gilroy originally wanted to make a film about the life of Weegee and he wrote Bloom as an antihero, based on the ideas of unemployment and capitalism. Gyllenhaal played a role in the films production, from choosing members of the crew to watching audition tapes. Filming took place over the course of four weeks, and was a process that included over eighty locations. Nightcrawler premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and grossed $50.3 million on a budget of $8.5 million. The film was met with praise, with critics highlighting Gilroys screenplay. Several critics listed Nightcrawler as one of the best films of 2014 and it received various accolades, petty thief Louis Lou Bloom is caught stealing from a Los Angeles construction site by a security guard. He attacks the guard, steals his watch and leaves with the stolen material, after selling the material at a scrap yard, Lou asks for a job, but the foreman says he does not hire thieves. While driving home, Lou sees a car crash and pulls over, stringers—freelance photojournalists—arrive and record two police officers pulling a woman from the wreck. One of the stringers, Joe Loder, tells Lou that they sell their footage to local news stations, inspired, Lou steals a bicycle and trades it for a camcorder and a police radio scanner. After two unsuccessful attempts at recording incidents, Lou records the aftermath of a fatal carjacking and sells the footage to KWLA6, the morning news director Nina Romina tells him the station is especially interested in footage of violent incidents in affluent areas. Lou hires an assistant, Rick, a man desperate for money. To give his footage more impact, Lou begins tampering with crime scenes, as Lous work gains traction, he buys better equipment and a faster car. Lou coerces Nina into a date and threatens to end his business with her unless she has sex with him, knowing her job depends on his footage, she reluctantly agrees. The next day he turns down an offer from Loder. Nina berates Lou to get better footage and keep his end of their bargain, Lou sabotages Joes van, when it crashes, Joe is severely injured and Lou records the aftermath
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87th Academy Awards
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During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time. In related events, the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8,2014. On February 7,2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, Birdman or, and The Grand Budapest Hotel each won four awards, with the former film earning the Best Picture honor. The telecast garnered more than 37 million viewers in the United States, the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15,2015, at 5,30 a. m. PST, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, for the first time, nominations for all 24 competitive categories were announced. Birdman or and The Grand Budapest Hotel tied for the most nominations with nine each, the winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22,2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, Birdman was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since Ordinary People. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Directing after Cuarón who won for helming Gravity, at age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on Gravity the year before, Emmanuel Lubezki became the person to win two consecutive Best Cinematography awards. John Toll was the last one who accomplished this feat for his work on 1994s Legends of the Fall, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger. Hayao Miyazaki — A master storyteller whose animated artistry has inspired filmmakers, maureen OHara — One of Hollywood’s brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Harry Belafonte — For a lifetime of demonstrating how art is ennobled by ceaseless courage, the following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. Meron and Zadan explained their decision to hire the television and theatre star saying and we have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the storm, all of his resources. To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true. Nevertheless, both Meron and Zadan denied such allegations and insisted that Harris was their only choice saying, many names are discussed and sometimes even floated without there being any formal offers. At times, these casual discussions take on a life of their own, Neil Patrick Harris received the Academy’s formal offer
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Freejack
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Freejack is a 1992 science fiction action film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. Upon its release in the United States, the film received negative reviews. The screenplay was cowritten by Ronald Shusett and those who escape are known as freejacks and are considered less than human under the law. In this dystopian future, most people suffer from physical health as a result of rampant drug use and environmental pollution. When Furlongs captors are ambushed by a hit squad, Furlong escapes from Victor Vacendak, Alexs former fiancée Julie Redlund is now an executive at McCandless, handling high-stakes mineral negotiations with a rival Japanese firm. Alex spends much time escaping the clutches of Victor, a pursuer who nevertheless lives by a code of honor. Ian McCandless, Julies boss, is revealed to have died, besides evading Vacendaks army of mercenaries and McCandless police personnel, Alex and Julie also have to deal with fleeing from the private guards of McCandless corporate X. O. Mark Michellete, who is gunning for McCandless position, Alex finds he cannot trust his old friends from 1991, who are now eager to sell him out. After she slaps him in return for his mockery, the couple flees and they are thwarted when they encounter a gunfight in the lobby between two factions, now in opposition, McCandlesss security guards and Vacendaks mercenaries. In a virtual reality encounter with McCandlesss essence, he explains his goal, apologizing, he offers to die and let Alex run the company under the guise of being McCandless. As they consider the offer, Vacendak arrives, and McCandless reveals he was stalling for time. Alex fights the process as Michellette stumbles in, wounded from fighting Vacendaks soldiers, in the confusion, Julie grabs the gun of the soldier holding her and fires off a shot that disrupts the transfer process. The results are inconclusive as to whether or not it is McCandless or Furlong in Alexs body now, the scientists cannot determine the answer, but Vacendak can, as only Vacendak knows a secret code McCandless gave him. Alex reads the code, slowly, and Vacendak asks him to continue, Michellete tries to kill Alex but is gunned down by Vancendaks men. Alex remarks about how he feels in his new body, before telling Julie that she will be dressed more appropriately so that the two of them can take a drive. Hours later, after the coup is over, Julie and Alex get into one of McCandless favorite vehicles, Vacendak stops them as the car leaves the estate. It turns out that the transfer was not complete after all, Furlong got McCandless secret number wrong and he simply waited until Furlong made a mistake, McCandless did not know how to drive. Vacendak admonishes Julie that youll have to him better than that, then leaves while Furlong
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Two for the Money (film)
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Two for the Money is a 2005 American sports-drama film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante and Carly Pope. The film is about the world of sports gambling, Brandon Lang is a former college football star who, after sustaining a career-ending injury, takes a job handicapping football games. His success at choosing winners catches the eye of Walter Abrams, Walter takes Brandon under his wing, and soon they are making tremendous amounts of money. Langs in-depth knowledge of the game, leagues and players brings in big winnings, Langs total image is remade — new car, new wardrobe and a new look with the assistance of Walters wife, Toni, a hair stylist. Things suddenly go south, however, when Lang begins playing his hunches instead of doing his homework and he loses his touch and is even physically assaulted by the thugs of a gambler who lost a great deal of money following Langs advice. Lang and Abrams once-solid relationship sours, Langs new high-rolling lifestyle depends entirely on his ability to predict the outcomes of the games. Millions are at stake by the time he places his last bet and he secretly begins gambling all of his own money on Langs picks and becomes suspicious that Lang is having an affair with his wife. Al Pacino as Walter Abrams Matthew McConaughey as Brandon Lang Rene Russo as Toni Abrams Armand Assante as C. M and it scored only 22% overall rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Two for the Moneys North American receipts came to only $22,991,379 and $30,526,509 worldwide, official website Two for the Money at the Internet Movie Database Two for the Money at Rotten Tomatoes Two for the Money at Box Office Mojo
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The Fall (2006 film)
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The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell. It is based on the screenplay of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov, the film was released to theaters in 2008 and earned $3.7 million worldwide. Los Angeles,1915, stuntman Roy Walker is hospitalized, as he is bedridden and he meets Alexandria, a young Romanian-born patient in the hospital who is recovering from a broken arm, and begins to tell her a story about her namesake. Alexandria is told she has to leave, but Roy promises to tell her an epic tale if she returns the next day, the next morning, as Roy spins his tale of fantasy, Alexandrias imagination brings his characters to life. An evil ruler named Governor Odious has committed an offense against each of the five, the heroes are later joined by a sixth hero, a mystic. Alexandria vividly imagines her friends and people around her appearing as the characters in Roys story, however, Alexandria returns with only three pills, having mistaken the E on the piece of paper Roy gave her for a 3. The stories become a tale to which Alexandria also contributes. Alexandria herself becomes a character, while Roy is the masked bandit, Roy talks Alexandria into stealing a bottle of morphine tablets locked in a fellow patients cabinet, and then downs it all. The next morning, Roy awakens from his sleep and realizes he is alive because his neighboring patient is receiving a placebo rather than actual morphine. Alexandria, desperate to help Roy, sneaks out of bed to the pharmacy and she climbs onto the cabinet but loses her footing, falls, and is badly injured. She receives surgery, after which she is visited by Roy and he encourages Alexandria to ask someone else to end the story, but she insists on hearing Roys ending. Roy reluctantly begins the rest of the story, the heroes die one by one, and it seems that Governor Odious will be triumphant. Alexandria becomes upset, and Roy insists, Its my story and she declares that it is hers too and exerts some influence on the course of the tale. Finally, the tale comes to an end with only the Bandit and his daughter remaining alive. Roy and Alexandria, along with the patients and staff of the hospital, with everyone laughing, only Roys smile is broken in confusion when he sees that his life-threatening jump has been edited out of the film as another stuntman jumps instead. Alexandria’s arm heals and she returns to the orchard where her family works. Her voice-over reveals that Roy had recovered and was now back at work again, as she talks, a montage of cuts from several of silent films greatest and most dangerous stunts plays, she imagines all the stuntmen to be Roy. The DVD supplementary features reveal that actor Lee Pace remained in a bed for most of the filming at the directors suggestion
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Real Steel
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Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction sports film starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo, co-produced and directed by Shawn Levy for DreamWorks Pictures. S. State fairs and other old-fashioned Americana settings, Real Steel was in development for several years before production began on June 24,2010. Filming took place primarily in the U. S. state of Michigan, animatronic robots were built for the film, and motion capture technology was used to depict the brawling of computer-generated robots and animatronics. Real Steel was theatrically released by Touchstone Pictures in Australia on October 6,2011, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards, but lost to Hugo. In 2020, human boxers are replaced by robots, having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now has a debt to Ricky—which he runs out on. After the fight, Charlie learns that his ex-girlfriend died and he must attend a hearing deciding the future of their son, Max to which Charlie has almost zero contact with since he was born. Thereupon, Charlie, Max, and Bailey Tallet, the daughter of Charlies former boxing coach, acquire the once-famous Noisy Boy, at Maxs behest, Charlie pits Atom against Metro, whom Atom overcomes. The fight starts with Atom on the attack, but Twin Cities easily takes the offensive and their opponent having no blind spot, Charlie notices a hitch whenever Twin Cities throws a right punch. Using this, Charlie is able to get Atom out of the corner, elated by their success, Max challenges global champion Zeus, with the audience squarely on their side. After the fight, Ricky and his two henchmen attack Charlie for bailing earlier and rob him of their winnings, prompting Charlie to return Max to Debra. This upsets Max, and when Charlie tries to him that living without him is better for Max, Max says he always wanted Charlie to fight for him. After Max leaves, Charlie returns to Tallets Gym, while talking with Bailey about the events, the two kiss, revealing their attraction to each other. Persuaded by Bailey, Charlie arranges the challenge offered by Max, Zeus starts the fight by knocking Atom down with its first punch, but Atom gets up, and Zeus continues its assault, knocking Atom down multiple times, but each time Atom gets back up. Late in the first round when Atom is cornered, Charlie is able to get Atom to land his first punch, Atom survives the first round, stunning the audience. Ricky, who had made a bet with a friend of Charlies of $100,000 that Atom would not last the first round, tries to slip away, but is cornered by the fights bookmarkers. The two opponents go back and forth through the fight, Atom landing multiple punches but also getting knocked down many times, late in the fourth round, Atoms vocal-respond controls are damaged, forcing Charlie to use its shadow function to make it mimic his boxing skills. Zeuss programmers are unable to compensate, forcing the designer to take control like Charlie has. Zeus is given a beating, once even hitting the ground and barely avoiding losing by knockout
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The Bourne Legacy (film)
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Although this film has the same title as Van Lustbaders first Bourne novel, The Bourne Legacy, the actual screenplay bears little resemblance to the novel. Unlike the novel, which features Jason Bourne as the character, the film centers on black ops agent Aaron Cross. In addition to Renner, the film stars Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton, the titular character Jason Bourne does not appear in The Bourne Legacy, because actor Matt Damon chose not to return for the fourth film. Bourne is shown in pictures and mentioned by several times throughout the film. In The Bourne Legacy, Aaron Cross is a member of a black ops program called Operation Outcome whose subjects are genetically enhanced and he must run for his life once former CIA Treadstone agent Jason Bournes actions lead to the public exposure of Operation Treadstone and its successor Operation Blackbriar. Filming was primarily in New York City, with scenes shot in the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan. The film was followed in 2016 by Jason Bourne, in which Damon and he is forced to survive weather extremes and traverse rugged terrain to arrive at a remote cabin as punishment for missing training and going off the grid for four days. The cabin is operated by an exiled Outcome operative, Number Three, as an Outcome operative, Aaron uses experimental pills known as chems which enhance the physical and mental abilities of their users. Reporter Simon Ross of The Guardian, who has been investigating the CIA programs Treadstone, eight months after the mayhem in New York City and Bournes escape, Kramer requests help from Mark Turso, a retired United States Navy admiral, who runs the National Research Assay Group. Turso informs Eric Byer, a retired Air Force colonel overseeing NRAGs research and development of various clandestine enhancement programs used by the CIA, Byer discovers a potentially scandalous video on the Internet showing Hirsch socializing with Dr. Dan Hillcott, Outcomes medical director. To prevent the Senate investigation from learning about Outcome, Byer orders everyone associated with the program to be killed and he sees the sacrifice as acceptable to protect NRAGs next-generation beta programs, including the supersoldier program LARX. Byer deploys a drone to eliminate Outcome agents Number Three and Five in Alaska, Aaron hears the drones approach and leaves moments before a missile destroys the cabin with Number Three inside. Aaron removes the radio-frequency identification implanted in his thigh and force-feeds it to a wolf which is blown up by a missile. Hirsch dies of an apparent heart attack before he can testify before the Senate, at Sterisyn-Morlanta, a biogenetics company supporting Outcome, researcher Dr. Donald Foite shoots and kills all but one of his colleagues in the research laboratory. Security guards break into the lab and shoot him, though he seemingly does not feel the pain of the gunshots, Foite turns his gun on himself, leaving biochemist Dr. Marta Shearing as the sole survivor. Meanwhile, other Outcome agents are eliminated when their handlers give them poisoned yellow pills disguised as new chems, four D-Track assassins disguised as federal agents visit Marta at her country house. After she states her belief of Foite having been brainwashed into an emotionless killer, the assassins attempt to fake her suicide. He saves her life as she is his last link to the chems so that he can retain his enhanced capabilities, Marta reveals that Cross has been genetically modified by a tailored virus to retain the physical benefits without needing the green chems anymore
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Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prize /ˈpʊlᵻtsər/ is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each receives a certificate. The winner in the service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also only be entered in a maximum of two categories, regardless of their properties, each year,102 jurors are selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board to serve on 20 separate juries for the 21 award categories, one jury makes recommendations for both photography awards. For each award category, a jury makes three nominations, the board selects the winner by majority vote from the nominations or bypasses the nominations and selects a different entry following a 75% majority vote. The board can also vote to issue no award, the board and journalism jurors are not paid for their work, however, the jurors in letters, music, and drama receive a $2,000 honorarium for the year, and each chair receives $2,500. Anyone whose work has been submitted is called an entrant, the jury selects a group of nominated finalists and announces them, together with the winner for each category. However, some journalists who were submitted, but not nominated as finalists. For example, Bill Dedman of msnbc, Dedman wrote, To call that submission a Pulitzer nomination is like saying that Adam Sandler is an Oscar nominee if Columbia Pictures enters Thats My Boy in the Academy Awards. Many readers realize that the Oscars dont work that way—the studios dont pick the nominees and its just a way of slipping Academy Awards into a bio. The Pulitzers also dont work that way, but fewer people know that, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships and he specified four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships. After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4,1917, many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the person to have won a Prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. Four prizes Robert Frost, Poetry Eugene ONeill, Drama Robert E, in rare instances, contributors to the entry are singled out in the citation in a manner analogous to individual winners. Journalism awards may be awarded to individuals or newspapers or newspaper staffs, infrequently, Awards are made in categories relating to journalism, arts, letters and fiction
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Playwright
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A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes plays. The term is not a variant spelling of playwrite, but something quite distinct, hence the prefix and the suffix combine to indicate someone who has wrought words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form - someone who crafts plays. The homophone with write is in this case entirely coincidental, the term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson described himself as a poet, not a playwright, since plays during that time were written in meter and this view was held as late as the early 19th century. The term playwright later lost this negative connotation, the earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. These early plays were written for annual Athenian competitions among playwrights held around the 5th century BC, such notables as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes established forms still relied on by their modern counterparts. For the ancient Greeks, playwriting involved poïesis, the act of making and this is the source of the English word poet. In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, the first play-writing manual, in this famous text, Aristotle established the principle of action or praxis as the basis for all drama. He then included a hierarchy of elements for the beginning with plot, character, thought, diction, music. The ends of drama were plot, character, and thought, the means of drama were language and music, since the myths, upon which Greek tragedy were based, were widely known, plot had to do with the arrangement and selection of existing material. Character was equated with choice as rather than psychology, so that character was determined by action, in tragedy, the notion of ethical choice determined the character of the individual. Thought had more to do and the imitation of an action that is serious, thus, he developed his notion of hamartia, or tragic flaw, an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist. It provides the basis for the play, a term still held as the sine qua non of dramaturgy. The Poetics, while very brief and highly condensed, is studied today. Perhaps the most Aristotelian of contemporary playwrights is David Mamet, who embraces the idea of character as agent of the action, and emphasizes causality in the structure of his plays. His recently revived, Speed-the-Plow, is quintessentially Aristotelian, in that it observes the unities and builds its plot through a causal stream of discoveries and reversals. The Italian Renaissance brought about a stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century. The neoclassical ideal, which was to reach its apogee in France during the 17th century, dwelled upon the unities, of action, place, and time
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Sculpture
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Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts, a wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast. However, most ancient sculpture was painted, and this has been lost. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, the Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith, the revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelos David. Relief is often classified by the degree of projection from the wall into low or bas-relief, high relief, sunk-relief is a technique restricted to ancient Egypt. Relief sculpture may also decorate steles, upright slabs, usually of stone, techniques such as casting, stamping and moulding use an intermediate matrix containing the design to produce the work, many of these allow the production of several copies. The term sculpture is used mainly to describe large works. The very large or colossal statue has had an enduring appeal since antiquity, another grand form of portrait sculpture is the equestrian statue of a rider on horse, which has become rare in recent decades. The smallest forms of life-size portrait sculpture are the head, showing just that, or the bust, small forms of sculpture include the figurine, normally a statue that is no more than 18 inches tall, and for reliefs the plaquette, medal or coin. Sculpture is an important form of public art, a collection of sculpture in a garden setting can be called a sculpture garden. One of the most common purposes of sculpture is in form of association with religion. Cult images are common in cultures, though they are often not the colossal statues of deities which characterized ancient Greek art. The actual cult images in the innermost sanctuaries of Egyptian temples, of which none have survived, were rather small. The same is true in Hinduism, where the very simple. Some undoubtedly advanced cultures, such as the Indus Valley civilization, appear to have had no monumental sculpture at all, though producing very sophisticated figurines, the Mississippian culture seems to have been progressing towards its use, with small stone figures, when it collapsed. Other cultures, such as ancient Egypt and the Easter Island culture, from the 20th century the relatively restricted range of subjects found in large sculpture expanded greatly, with abstract subjects and the use or representation of any type of subject now common. Today much sculpture is made for intermittent display in galleries and museums, small sculpted fittings for furniture and other objects go well back into antiquity, as in the Nimrud ivories, Begram ivories and finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun
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Washingtonville, New York
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Washingtonville is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 5,899 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The village is named in honor of George Washington, the Village of Washingtonville is within the Town of Blooming Grove. Washingtonville was first settled in 1731, the village maintained a slow but steady growth during the second half of the 18th century. In 1809, John Jaques, a boot and shoemaker, set up his shop in this settlement of nine houses. Jaques would later establish Brotherhood Winery, the oldest continuously operating winery in the United States, in its earlier years, Washingtonville was called Matthews Field, even before it became known as Little York. A part of the Rip Van Dam patent, it was sold to Vincent Matthews in 1721, Matthews was the second settler of the region, although the first white settler. Its earliest known inhabitant was an Indian by the name of Moringamus, Samuel Moffat built a trading post on the village square in 1811 at the junction of the New Windsor and Blooming Grove Turnpike with the Goshen Road. The hamlet began to prosper with a tannery, grist and plaster mills, a hotel was needed and Samuel Moffat built his Washington Tavern in 1818. Washingtonville grew after the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway built its branch through the village in 1850, even though the railway tracks have been removed, the remains of the railroad building are located behind the present day Agway Store. Its greatest growth in that time occurred in the seventh and eighth decades, C. R. Shons opened up a cooperative on Depot Street, where the old red building still stands, and also had a large orchard on Goshen Avenue. Thomas Fultons grist mill, now the site of Agway, was destroyed by fire in the early 1900s, bordens Creamery maintained a bottling plant and its refrigerator cars, loaded with milk, were shipped to Greycourt on either the Erie freight or passenger runs. This firm cut its ice from the small pond south of its creamery, from the evening of Sunday, April 15 until Tuesday, April 17,2007, the nearby Moodna Creek overflowed into downtown Washingtonville. Nearby Mays Field resembled a lake with 3–4 feet of water, a similar flooding occurred in 1955. These floodings were the results of a powerful Noreaster that slammed the Northeastern U. S, videos of the flooding were featured on the websites of WCBS-TV, Cable 6 News, and the Times Herald Record. Pictures were posted on the schools website. On Sunday, August 28,2011, Washingtonville was ravaged by a Category 1 hurricane, despite being just a Category 1 storm, the hurricane caused widespread flooding in the town, initiating a mandatory evacuation. The flooding was due to the town being situated in a basin of the Moodna Creek
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Washingtonville High School
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Washingtonville Senior High School is located on NY94 in the village of Washingtonville, New York. It is the school for the Washingtonville Central School District. The adjacent middle school was once the high school, WHS has received accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In athletics, some of the rivals are Monroe-Woodbury in football and Warwick Valley in cross country and track. Perhaps Washingtonvilles biggest rivalry is with the John Jay Patriots in club ice hockey, games between the two can attract up to 150 people from each school at Ice Time in Newburgh or the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie. The school recently completed an addition to the school, steve Cahillane, Class of 1983, Executive President and President of Coca-Cola Americas. Keith Connolly, Class of 1993, former San Francisco Giants minor leaguer & Rutgers University baseball pitcher, current Major League scout for the Kansas City Royals. Tony DeVito, Class of 1990, professional wrestler, wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation, ECW and numerous smaller federations. Was in the tag team The Baldies, dan Gilroy, screenwriter and director best known for Nightcrawler. Tony Gilroy, Class of 1974, screenwriter, producer and director best known for The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Identity, Proof of Life, The Devils Advocate, rich Lee, Class of 1996, Director. Lee directed music videos for Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé, james Mangold, Class of 1981, screenwriter and director best known for Walk the Line,3,10 to Yuma and Cop Land. Roughhouse, wrestled for the WWF and is actively involved with and now promotes the WWE developmental league in Tampa. Scott Pioli, Class of 1983, executive with several National Football League teams, naomi Sewell Richardson, Class of 1910, the first African-American graduate of the school and one of the founding members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Brittany Taylor, Class of 2005, American soccer player
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David Thomson (film critic)
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David Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books. His reference works in particular — Have You Seen, a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film — have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity. Benjamin Schwarz, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, called him probably the greatest living film critic and historian who writes the most fun, john Banville called him “the greatest living writer on the movies”. He taught film studies at Dartmouth College and has been a contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic. Thomson has served on the committee for the New York Film Festival and scripted an award-winning documentary, The Making of a Legend. Thomson has written several biographies, novels and unproduced screenplays, including Fierce Heat and he has confessed that he prefers writing books to film writing. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons, on April 1,2014, the San Francisco International Film Festival announced that Thomson would receive the Mel Novikoff Award at the 57th annual SFIFF
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Victorian literature
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While in the preceding Romantic period poetry had been the dominant genre, it was the novel that was most important in the Victorian period. Charles Dickens dominated the first part of Victorias reign, his first novel, Pickwick Papers, was published in 1836, and his last Our Mutual Friend between 1864–5. William Thackerays most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, algernon Charles Swinburne is also considered an important literary figure of the period, especially his poems and critical writings. Yeats was also published in Victorias reign, with regard to the theatre it was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century that any significant works were produced. This began with Gilbert and Sullivans comic operas, from the 1870s, various plays of George Bernard Shaw in the 1890s, Charles Dickens is the most famous Victorian novelist. Extraordinarily popular in his day with his characters taking on a life of their own beyond the page, Dickens is still one of the most popular and read authors of the world. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers written when he was twenty-five, was an overnight success, the comedy of his first novel has a satirical edge and this pervades his writing. Dickens worked diligently and prolifically to produce the entertaining writing that the wanted, but also to offer commentary on social problems. William Thackeray was Dickens great rival in the first half of Queen Victorias reign, with a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel Vanity Fair, subtitled A Novel without a Hero, which is an example of a popular in Victorian literature. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, wuthering Heights, Emilys only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a womans point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. Jane Eyre, by her sister Charlotte, is another major nineteenth century novel that has gothic themes, annes second novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, written in realistic rather than romantic style, is mainly considered to be the first sustained feminist novel. Later in this period George Eliot, published The Mill on the Floss in 1860, like the Brontës she published under a masculine pseudonym. In the later decades of the Victorian era Thomas Hardy was the most important novelist and his works include Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the dUrbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Other significant novelists of this era were Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, George Meredith, the husband and wife team of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning conducted their love affair through verse and produced many tender and passionate poems. Both Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems which sit somewhere in between the exultation of nature of the romantic Poetry and the Georgian Poetry of the early 20th century, however Hopkinss poetry was not published until 1918. Arnolds works anticipate some of the themes of later poets. The reclaiming of the past was a part of Victorian literature with an interest in both classical literature but also the medieval literature of England
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Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the worlds best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era and his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity, born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors prison. Dickenss literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the publication of narrative fiction. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audiences reaction, and he modified his plot. For example, when his wifes chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities and his plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the poor chipped in hapennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age and his 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also adapted, and, like many of his novels. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London, Dickens has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of depth, loose writing. The term Dickensian is used to something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport in Portsea Island and his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majestys Navy, gentleman, Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickenss eponymous Dombey and Son. In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, when Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he himself a very small. Charles spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, including the novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe
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Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, Trollopes literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he had regained the esteem of critics by the mid-20th century. Thomas Anthony Trollope, Anthonys father, was a barrister, though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, he failed at the bar due to his bad temper. In addition, his ventures into farming proved unprofitable, and he lost an expected inheritance when an elderly childless uncle remarried and had children, as a son of landed gentry, he wanted his sons to be raised as gentlemen and to attend Oxford or Cambridge. Anthony Trollope suffered much misery in his boyhood owing to the disparity between the background of his parents and their comparatively small means. Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his fathers farm, acquired for that reason. After a spell at a school at Sunbury, he followed his father. He returned to Harrow as a day-boy to reduce the cost of his education, Trollope had some very miserable experiences at these two public schools. They ranked as two of the most élite schools in England, but Trollope had no money and no friends, at the age of twelve, he fantasised about suicide. However, he also daydreamed, constructing elaborate imaginary worlds, in 1827, his mother Frances Trollope moved to America with Trollopes three younger siblings, to Nashoba Commune. After that failed, she opened a bazaar in Cincinnati, which proved unsuccessful, thomas Trollope joined them for a short time before returning to the farm at Harrow, but Anthony stayed in England throughout. His mother returned in 1831 and rapidly made a name for herself as a writer and his fathers affairs, however, went from bad to worse. He gave up his practice entirely and failed to make enough income from farming to pay rents to his landlord, Lord Northwick. In 1834, he fled to Belgium to avoid arrest for debt, the whole family moved to a house near Bruges, where they lived entirely on Francess earnings. In Belgium, Anthony was offered a commission in an Austrian cavalry regiment, to accept it, he needed to learn French and German, he had a year in which to acquire these languages. To learn them without expense to himself and his family, he took a position as an usher in a school in Brussels, after six weeks of this, however, he received an offer of a clerkship in the General Post Office, obtained through a family friend. He returned to London in the autumn of 1834 to take up this post, thomas Trollope died the following year
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George Eliot
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Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She used a pen name, she said, to ensure that her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliots life and she also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Eliots Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language, Mary Ann Evans was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was the child of Robert Evans and Christiana Evans. Mary Anns name was shortened to Marian. Her full siblings were Christiana, known as Chrissey, Isaac and she also had a half-brother, Robert, and half-sister, Fanny, from her fathers previous marriage to Harriet Poynton. Robert Evans, of Welsh ancestry, was the manager of the Arbury Hall Estate for the Newdigate family in Warwickshire, in early 1820 the family moved to a house named Griff House, between Nuneaton and Bedworth. The young Evans was obviously intelligent, a voracious reader, at Mrs. Wallingtons school, she was taught by the evangelical Maria Lewis — to whom her earliest surviving letters are addressed. In the religious atmosphere of the Miss Franklins school, Evans was exposed to a quiet, after age sixteen, Evans had little formal education. Thanks to her fathers important role on the estate, she was allowed access to the library of Arbury Hall and her classical education left its mark, Christopher Stray has observed that George Eliots novels draw heavily on Greek literature, and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy. The other important early influence in her life was religion and she was brought up within a low church Anglican family, but at that time the Midlands was an area with a growing number of religious dissenters. In 1836 her mother died and Evans returned home to act as housekeeper, when she was 21, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry. The closeness to Coventry society brought new influences, most notably those of Charles, Charles Bray had become rich as a ribbon manufacturer and had used his wealth in the building of schools and in other philanthropic causes. The people whom the woman met at the Brays house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau. Through this society Evans was introduced to more liberal theologies and to such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach. As a product of their friendship, Bray published some of Evanss earliest writing, such as reviews, in his newspaper the Coventry Herald and Observer. When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out of the house, instead, she respectfully attended church and continued to keep house for him until his death in 1849, when she was 30
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Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield is an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943, while his father was stationed there and he graduated from Duke University in 1965 and in 1966 joined the Marine Corps. His struggles to make a living as an author, including the period when he was homeless and living out of the back of his car, are detailed in his book The War of Art. His first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was published in 1995, and made into a film of the name, starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. His second novel, Gates of Fire, is about the Spartans, military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico. In 2012, he launched the publishing house Black Irish Books with his agent Shawn Coyne, pressfields first book set in the future, where military force is for hire everywhere. Oil companies, multinational corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos, the War of Art, Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating art and how writers block can be cured. What It Takes A journal by Shawn Coyne and Callie Oettinger, the Warrior Ethos Its the Tribes, Stupid a blog about the tribes in Afghanistan War Stories a blog dealing with issues of honor and virtue and courage in the face of adversity. The Creative Process A Q&A with a range of creative people—from writers to business entrepreneurs. Joshua Tree was directed by Academy Award and Bafta winning stuntman Vic Armstrong and his novel The Legend of Bagger Vance was made into a 2000 film starring Matt Damon as the golf pro and Will Smith as his spiritual guide. New York/Los Angeles, Black Irish Books, new York/Los Angeles, Black Irish Books
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Robert Sheckley
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Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist. Sheckley was nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction, Sheckley was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. In 1931 the family moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, Sheckley attended Columbia High School, where he discovered science fiction. Finally, still in 1946, he joined the U. S. Army and was sent to Korea, during his time in the army he served as a guard, an army newspaper editor, a payroll clerk, and guitarist in an army band. He left the service in 1948, Sheckley graduated from New York University in 1951. The same year he married, for the first time, to Barbara Scadron, the couple had one son, Jason. He quickly gained prominence as a writer, publishing stories in Imagination, Galaxy, the 1950s saw the publication of Sheckleys first four books, short story collections Untouched by Human Hands, Citizen in Space, and Pilgrimage to Earth, and a novel, Immortality, Inc. Sheckley and Scadron divorced in 1956, the writer married journalist Ziva Kwitney in 1957. The newly married couple lived in Greenwich Village and their daughter, Alisa Kwitney, born in 1964, would herself become a successful writer. Applauded by critic Kingsley Amis, Sheckley was now selling many of his deft, in addition to his science fiction stories, in the 1960s Sheckley started writing suspense fiction. More short story collections and novels appeared in the 1960s, Sheckley spent much of 1970s living on Ibiza. He and Kwitney divorced in 1972 and the same year Sheckley married Abby Schulman, the couple had two children, Anya and Jed. The couple separated while living in London, in 1980, the writer returned to the United States and became fiction editor of the newly established OMNI magazine. Sheckley left OMNI in 1981 with his wife, writer Jay Rothbell, they subsequently traveled widely in Europe, finally ending up in Portland, Oregon. He married Gail Dana of Portland in 1990, Sheckley continued publishing further science fiction and espionage or mystery stories, and collaborated with other writers such as Roger Zelazny and Harry Harrison. During an April 2005 visit to Ukraine for the Ukrainian Sci-Fi Computer Week and his condition was very serious for a week, but he appeared to be slowly recovering. Sheckleys official website ran a campaign to help cover his treatment
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Chasers
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Chasers is a 1994 comedy film directed by Dennis Hopper, his last directorial effort before his death in 2010. It is about a pair of United States Navy shore patrollers who must escort a prisoner. Eddie Devane is a sailor who has carried out a number of inventory-related scams along with his partner-in-crime Howard. A day before his discharge, Eddie is assigned to escort a prisoner from the base at Camp Lejeune along with the authoritarian. Eddie is of course not pleased with this development, when Howard sees a grumpy-looking Eddie being escorted from his superiors office by a couple of other seaman, he thinks Eddie has been found out and arrested for his scams. In order to destroy evidence, he goes to Eddies desk and finds the money, Eddie and Rocks personalities clash many times during the trip to Camp Lejeune. When they reach their destination, they discover that the prisoner they are transporting is a pretty young woman, however, they soon discover that taking her back is no easy job when she attempts to escape disguised as a waitress at a diner but is caught. Later, she feigns the onset of her period and puts tampons inside the gas tank which leads to the van being stalled in the road. While walking, the come across an abandoned mine and accidentally fall down the shaft. They try to get out standing on each others shoulders, Toni gets out first, ditches them and runs away but has a change of heart later and comes back for them. They stay for the night in a motel while their van is being repaired and they converse and bond in a diner where it is revealed that Toni had first gone AWOL to visit her delinquent, drug-addicted brother in a hospital. When the authorities attempted to arrest her, she resisted and made attempts to escape. Her brother died while she was in prison and this makes them see her in anew light and understand the motivations behind her actions. Later in the night, Eddie finds out that Howard has taken all the money as well as the new car Eddie was planning to buy. He calls Howard, who says he was tired of being used and she seduces him and the two have sex. Next morning, Eddie wakes up and sees Toni run away and she steals the car of the man who picked her up. While giving her chase, Eddie and Rocks van accidentally climbs up an artificial volcano in an amusement park and falls down and they catch up with Toni only to discover that her brothers funeral is soon and she is running away with the intention of being present there. Frustrated with the situation, Rock and Eddie have a fistfight, then they journey to their base and hand Toni over
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year
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Shawn Levy
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Shawn Adam Levy is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which resulted in him receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Levy was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec. As a teenager, he attended St. Georges High School, Levy graduated from Yale University in 1989 majoring in Performing Arts. Levy has a deal with 20th Century Fox. He produced the 2012 Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill comedy The Watch and his television company,21 Laps/Adelstein, produced the ABC hit Last Man Standing with Tim Allen and Stranger Things on Netflix. He was initially announced as the director of the version of Minecraft. On October 25, it was announced that Levy will direct the upcoming Uncharted movie, levys acting debut was in Zombie Nightmare, a low-budget horror film in which he portrayed the character Jim Bratten, the leader of a group of teenagers. The film is best known for being featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and he appeared in the 1988 Liberace, Behind the Music, as a post-Scott Thorson acquaintance of Liberace. His television acting resume consists of a guest spot on 21 Jump Street, a role on Beverly Hills,90210. Levy is the latest director attached to the adaptation of the Uncharted video game series, following on from David O. Russell. Joe Carnahan will be working with Levy to produce the script for the movie, Levy is married to Serena, with whom he has four children. Shawn Levy at the Internet Movie Database Shawn Levy on Twitter
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Richard Matheson
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Richard Burton Matheson was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and he adapted his 1971 short story Duel as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as motion pictures — The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels — Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, to Norwegian immigrants Bertolf and Fanny, who divorced when he was 8. Matheson subsequently was raised in Brooklyn, New York by his mother and his early writing influences were the film Dracula, novels by Kenneth Roberts, and a poem he saw in the newspaper The Brooklyn Eagle, where at age 8 he would publish his first short story. After returning home, he attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and it is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, cast as the creatures diary in poignantly non-idiomatic English. Later that year he placed stories in the first and third numbers of Galaxy Science Fiction and his first anthology of work was published in 1954. Between 1950 and 1971, he produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the fiction, horror. He was a member of the Southern California Sorcerers in the 1950s and 1960s, which included Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Jerry Sohl, Duel was adapted into the 1971 TV movie of the same name. Mathesons first novel to be published, Someone Is Bleeding, appeared from Lion Books in 1953, in 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. It was filmed in 1967 as The Young Warriors though most of Mathesons plot was jettisoned and his other early novels include The Shrinking Man and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend. Matheson wrote screenplays for television programs including the Westerns Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel. His Death Ship episode was a metaphysical statement that went well beyond pure television entertainment. For all of Mathesons Twilight Zone scripts, he wrote the introductory. He adapted five works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Cormans Poe series, including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum and he wrote the Star Trek episode The Enemy Within. Three of his stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror. Other Matheson novels turned into films in the seventies include Bid Time Return. In the 1980s Matheson published the novel Earthbound, wrote several screenplays for the TV series Amazing Stories, Matheson published four western novels in this decade, plus the suspense novel Seven Steps to Midnight and the blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It
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Robert Ludlum
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Robert Ludlum was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 290 million and 500 million and they have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd, Ludlum was born in New York City, the son of Margaret and George Hartford Ludlum. He was educated at The Rectory School then Cheshire Academy and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, while at Wesleyan, Ludlum joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. After becoming an author later in life, Ludlum would set his mystery novel Matlock Paper at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, prior to becoming an author, he had been a United States Marine, a theatrical actor and producer. In the 1950s, he produced shows at the Grant Lee theater in Fort Lee, from 1960 to 1970, he managed and produced shows at the Playhouse on the Mall at Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey. His theatrical experience may have contributed to his understanding of the energy, escapism and he once remarked, I equate suspense and good theater in a very similar way. I think its all suspense and what-happens-next, from that point of view, yes, I guess, I am theatrical. Covert One, The Hades Factor, a book co-written with Gayle Lynds, was conceived as a mini-series. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the role, have been commercially and critically successful. During the 1970s, Ludlum lived in Leonia, New Jersey, Ludlum died on March 12,2001, at his home in Naples, Florida, while recovering from severe burns caused by a mysterious fire which occurred on February 10. The world in his writings is one where global corporations, shadowy military forces, Ludlums novels were often inspired by conspiracy theories, both historical and contemporary. He wrote that The Matarese Circle was inspired by rumors about the Trilateral Commission, some of Ludlums novels have been made into films and mini-series, although the story lines might depart significantly from the source material. In general, a miniseries is more faithful to the novel on which it is based. Adaptations of Ludlums works are published under the trademark Treadstone, which is held by The Executor Of The Robert Ludlum Estate
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Toronto Star
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The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. a division of Star Media Group, the Star was first printed on Toronto World presses, and at its formation The World owned a 51% interest in it as a silent partner. That arrangement only lasted for two months, during time it was rumoured that William Findlay Billy Maclean, the Worlds proprietor, was considering selling the Star to the Riordon family. After an extensive fundraising campaign among the Star staff, Maclean agreed to sell his interest to Hocken, the paper did poorly in its first few years. Hocken sold out within the year, and several owners followed in succession until Sir William Mackenzie bought it in 1896 and its new editors, Edmund E. Sheppard and Frederic Nicholls, moved the entire Star operation into the same building used by the magazine Saturday Night. This would continue until Joseph E, holy Joe Atkinson, backed by funds raised by supporters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, bought the paper. The supporters included Senator George Cox, William Mulock, Peter Charles Larkin, Atkinson was the Stars editor from 1899 until his death in 1948. Its early opposition and criticism of the Nazi regime saw the paper one of the first North American papers to be banned in Germany. He championed many causes that would come to be associated with the welfare state, old age pensions, unemployment insurance. The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as a radical in the best sense of that term, the Star was unique among North American newspapers in its consistent, ongoing advocacy of the interests of ordinary people. The friendship of Atkinson, the publisher, with Mackenzie King, Atkinson became the controlling shareholder of the Star. The Star was frequently criticized for practising the yellow journalism of its era, for decades, the paper included heavy doses of crime and sensationalism, along with advocating social change. From 1910 to 1973, the Star published a weekend supplement, shortly before his death in 1948, Joseph E. Atkinson transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the papers liberal tradition. In 1949, the Province of Ontario passed the Charitable Gifts Act, barring charitable organizations from owning parts of profit-making businesses. It would continue to supply sponsored content to the CRBCs station CRCT, in 1971, the newspaper was renamed The Toronto Star and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay. The original Star Building at 80 King Street West was demolished to make room for First Canadian Place, the new building originally housed the papers presses. In 1992, the plant was moved to the Toronto Star Press Centre at the Highway 407 &400 interchange in Vaughan. In September 2002, the logo was changed, and The was dropped from the papers, during the 2003 blackout, the Star printed the paper at a press in Welland, Ontario
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jacob Benjamin Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor. He subsequently appeared in indie film, The Good Girl. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony Swoff Swofford in Jarhead, Gwyneth Paltrows love interest in Proof, Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, his sister, appeared with him in the film Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaals father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent, jakes last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. Jakes mother is Jewish, she was born in New York City, to a family from Russia, Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself Jewish. His parents insisted that he have summer jobs to support himself and he worked as a lifeguard. Gyllenhaal said his parents encouraged artistic expression, I do have parents who supported me in certain ways. In other ways, they were lacking, definitely, its in expression and creativity where my family has always been best at. As a child, Gyllenhaal was regularly exposed to filmmaking due to his familys ties to the industry. He made his debut as Billy Crystals son in the 1991 comedy film City Slickers. His parents did not allow him to appear in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks because it would have required his leaving home for two months, in subsequent years, his parents allowed him to audition for roles but regularly forbade him to take them if he were chosen. He was allowed to appear in his fathers films several times, Gyllenhaal appeared in the 1993 film A Dangerous Woman, in Bop Gun, a 1994 episode of Homicide, Life on the Street, and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. Along with their mother, Jake and Maggie appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. Prior to his year in high school, the only other film not directed by his father, in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform, was the 1993 film Josh. Gyllenhaal dropped out two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree. The film earned $32 million and was described in the Sacramento News, Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals second film, was not a box office success upon its initial 2001 release but eventually became a cult favorite. After the critical success of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals next role was as Pilot Kelston in 2002s Highway alongside Jared Leto and his performance was described by one critic as silly, cliched and straight to video
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Riz Ahmed
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Rizwan Riz Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, is an English actor and rapper. As an actor, he was known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Four Lions, Trishna. Since then, he has appeared in the films Una, Jason Bourne, and he also starred in the HBO miniseries The Night Of as Nasir Khan, the show and his performance were critically lauded, earning him Golden Globe and SAG nominations. As a rapper, he is a member of the Swet Shop Boys, Ahmed was born in Wembley, London, into a Muslim British Pakistani family. His parents moved to England from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan during the 1970s, Ahmed attended Merchant Taylors School, Northwood through a scholarship programme. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University, with a degree in PPE and he later studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Ahmeds film career began in the Michael Winterbottom film The Road to Guantanamo, in which he played the part of Shafiq Rasul, a member of the Tipton Three. He and another involved in the film were detained at Luton Airport upon their return from the Berlin Film Festival where the film won a Silver Bear Award. In 2007, he portrayed Sohail Waheed in the Channel 4 drama, Ahmed then portrayed Riq in the five-part horror thriller Dead Set for E4 and Manesh Kunzru in ITV1s Wired in 2008. In July 2009 he appeared in Freefall alongside Sarah Harding and he featured in the title role of the 2009 independent film Shifty, directed by Eran Creevy. Ahmed plays a young drug dealer in the film which sees a life in the day of this character. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 2008 British Independent Film Awards for this role, alongside Colin Farrell, Ahmed also had a supporting role in Neil Marshalls historical thriller Centurion. In 2012, he starred as one of the roles in the London-based film Ill Manors. Ahmed received his third British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Actor, in 2014, Ahmed appeared in Dan Gilroys directorial debut film Nightcrawler where he played role of Rick, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Ahmed received acclaim for his portrayal in the film and gained numerous awards nominations during awards season. In 2016, Ahmed played the role of Nasir Naz Khan in the HBO miniseries The Night Of, also that year, he appeared in Rogue One, the first film in the new Star Wars anthology films as Bodhi Rook, a defected imperial pilot. In 2006, Ahmed released a satirical social-commentary rap track entitled Post 9/11 Blues, the song was initially banned from British airplay because the lyrics were deemed politically sensitive. Other tracks he has released include Sour Times which was accompanied by a video featuring Scroobius Pip, Plan B and he was selected as a BBC Introducing artist in 2007, playing the Glastonbury Festival and the BBC Electric Proms
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Weegee
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Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of life, crime, injury. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue. Weegee was born Usher Fellig in Złoczów, near Lemberg in Austrian Galicia and his given name was changed to Arthur when he emigrated with his family to New York in 1909. There he took odd jobs, including working as an street photographer of children on his pony. In 1924 he was hired as a technician by Acme Newspictures. He left, however, in 1935 to become a freelance photographer, describing his beginnings, Weegee stated, In my particular case I didnt wait til somebody gave me a job or something, I went and created a job for myself—freelance photographer. And what I did, anybody else can do, what I did simply was this, I went down to Manhattan Police Headquarters and for two years I worked without a police card or any kind of credentials. When a story came over a police teletype, I would go to it, the idea was I sold the pictures to the newspapers. And naturally, I picked a story that meant something and he worked at night and competed with the police to be first at the scene of a crime, selling his photographs to tabloids and photographic agencies. His photographs, centered around Manhattan police headquarters, were published by the Herald Tribune, World-Telegram, Daily News, New York Post, New York Journal American, Sun. In 1957, after developing diabetes, he moved in with Wilma Wilcox, a Quaker social worker whom he had known since the 1940s, and who cared for him and then cared for his work. He traveled extensively in Europe until 1968, working for the Daily Mirror and on a variety of photography, film, lecture, on December 26,1968, Weegee died in New York at the age of 69. He is variously said to have named himself Weegee or to have been named by either the staff at Acme Newspictures or by a police officer, another version claims that the nickname originates from his work as a darkroom assistant, also known as a squeegee boy. He was a photographer with no formal photographic training. Weegee developed his photographs in a darkroom in the rear of his car. This provided an instantaneous result to his work that emphasized the nature of the tabloid industry, while Fellig would shoot a variety of subjects and individuals, he also had a sense of what sold best, names make news. Theres a fight between a couple on Third Avenue or Ninth Avenue in Hells Kitchen, nobody cares
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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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Superhero film
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Most superhero movies are based on superhero comics. Almost immediately after superheroes rose to prominence in comic books, they were adapted into Saturday film serials aimed at children, serials such as Adventures of Captain Marvel, Batman, The Phantom, Captain America, and Superman followed. Another early superhero film was Ōgon Bat, a Japanese film starring Sonny Chiba based on the 1930 Kamishibai superhero Ōgon Bat, other successful entries emerged throughout the 1980s, from Richard Lesters Superman II and Paul Verhoevens Robocop to Tim Burtons Batman. Marvel Comics Captain America did not have a release and Roger Cormans The Fantastic Four was released neither theatrically nor on home video. Alex Proyas The Crow became the first independent comics superhero film that established a franchise, the success of The Crow catalyzed the release of a film version of Spawn, Image Comics leading character. The success of the darker Image Comics characters shifted the direction of comic book movies, Marvel soon released their films to become franchises, Men in Black and Blade. After Marvel bought Malibu Comics, Marvel and Columbia Pictures released the Men in Black film, the film became the first Marvel property to win an Oscar and the then highest-grossing comic book adaptation until the release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002. Blade was also a mix of a traditional action film as well as darker superhero film with the title character having superpowers as well as carrying an arsenal of weaponry. The success of Blade began Marvels film success, and set the stage for further comic film adaptations. The success of the X-Men TV series had made 20th Century Fox license the rights in 1994. After the success of Men in Black in 1997, Columbia Pictures licensed the rights of Spider-Man in 1999. 20th Century Foxs X-Men became a franchise by its surprise hit. Later, one of the largest blockbusters of all time was released with Sam Raimis Spider-Man. One, Krrish 3, several non-action film oriented superhero films were released in the 2000s with varying ranges of success. Brad Birds The Incredibles for Pixar was a critically acclaimed digitally-animated family oriented superhero film, other hybrids include Sky High and Zoom which were fusions of the superhero and family film genres, My Super Ex-Girlfriend a combination of superhero film and a romantic comedy. Some series from the current and previous decades were also re-released, such as Superman II, bryan Singers Superman Returns is unique due to the fact that it is a sequel to the first two Superman films, yet also a reboot to the third and fourth films. The 2010s has generally continued the success of superhero films seen in the previous decade. In 2010, Matthew Vaughns adaption of Kick-Ass was released, followed by Iron Man 2 a month later,2011 releases included The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, and X-Men, First Class. Following references to the Avengers Initiative in the Iron Man films and The Incredible Hulk, Marvel released Thor on May 6,2011, followed by Captain America, the Avengers broke the box office record as the highest-grossing superhero film of all time
