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County Wexford
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County Wexford is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the South-East Region and it is named after the town of Wexford and was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella, whose capital was Ferns. Wexford County Council is the authority for the county. The population of the county is 145,273 according to the 2011 census, the county is rich in evidence of early human habitation. Portal tombs exist at Ballybrittas and at Newbawn — and date from the Neolithic period or earlier, remains from the Bronze Age period are far more widespread. Early Irish tribes formed the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnsealaig, an area that was larger than the current County Wexford. County Wexford was one of the earliest areas of Ireland to be Christianised, later, from 819 onwards, the Vikings plundered many Christian sites in the county. Wexford town became a Viking settlement near the end of the 9th century, the native Irish began to regain some of their former territories in the 14th century, especially in the north of the county, principally under Art MacMurrough Kavanagh. Under Henry VIII the great houses were dissolved, 1536–41, in County Wexford this included Glascarrig Priory, Clonmines Priory, Tintern Abbey. On 23 October 1641, a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell and his English Parliamentarian Army arrived 1649 in the county, the lands of the Irish and Anglo-Normans were confiscated and given to Cromwells soldiers as payment for their service in the Parliamentarian Army. At Duncannon, in the south-west of the county, James II, after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, embarked for Kinsale, the famous ballad Boolavogue was written in remembrance of the Wexford Rising. At Easter 1916, a rebellion occurred at Enniscorthy town. During World War II, German planes bombed Campile, in 1963 John F. Kennedy, then President of the United States, visited the county and his ancestral home at Dunganstown, near New Ross. Wexford is the 13th largest of Irelands thirty-two counties in area and it is the largest of Leinsters 12 counties in size, and fourth largest in terms of population. The county is located in the south-east corner of the island of Ireland and it is bounded by the sea on two sides—on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by St. Georges Channel and the Irish Sea. The River Barrow forms its western boundary, the Blackstairs Mountains form part of the boundary to the north, as do the southern edges of the Wicklow Mountains. The adjoining counties are Waterford, Kilkenny, Carlow and Wicklow and this has resulted in Wexford becoming one of the most popular places in Ireland in which to reside
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Ireland
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, in 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland, the islands geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild, thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, there are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is moderate and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, however, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant, the earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE, the island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland, however, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, with the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s and this subsided following a political agreement in 1998. In 1973 the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community while the United Kingdom, Irish culture has had a significant influence on other cultures, especially in the fields of literature. Alongside mainstream Western culture, an indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music. The culture of the island shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing. The name Ireland derives from Old Irish Eriu and this in turn derives from Proto-Celtic *Iveriu, which is also the source of Latin Hibernia. Iveriu derives from a root meaning fat, prosperous, during the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time
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Malibu, California
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Malibu is a beach city in Los Angeles County, California, situated 30 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Known for its Mediterranean climate, a 21-mile strip of the Malibu coast incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu, the area is known for being the home of Hollywood movie stars, people in the entertainment industry, and other affluent residents. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,645, signs around the city proclaim 27 miles of scenic beauty, referring to the historical 27-mile Malibu coast spanning from Tuna Canyon west to Point Mugu in Ventura County. Most Malibu residents live within a few hundred yards of Pacific Coast Highway, for many residents of the unincorporated canyon areas, Malibu has the closest commercial centers and are included in the Malibu zip codes. The city is bounded by Topanga to the east, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south. Nicknamed the Bu by surfers and locals, beaches along the Malibu coast include Surfrider Beach, Zuma Beach, Malibu Beach, Topanga Beach, Point Dume Beach, County Line and they named it Humaliwo or the surf sounds loudly. The citys name derives from this, as the Hu syllable is not stressed, explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is believed to have moored at Malibu Lagoon, at the mouth of Malibu Creek, to obtain fresh water in 1542. The Spanish presence returned with the California mission system, and the area was part of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit—a 13 and that ranch passed intact to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891. Few roads even entered the area before 1929, when the state won another court case, by then May Rindge was forced to subdivide her property and begin selling and leasing lots. In 1926, in an effort to selling land to stave off insolvency. At its height, Malibu Potteries employed over 100 workers, and produced decorative tiles which furnish many Los Angeles-area public buildings, the factory, located one-half mile east of the pier, was ravaged by a fire in 1931. Although the factory reopened in 1932, it could not recover from the effects of the Great Depression. A distinct hybrid of Moorish and Arts and crafts designs, Malibu tile is considered highly collectible. Fine examples of the tiles may be seen at the Adamson House and Serra Retreat, the unfinished building was sold to the Franciscan Order in 1942 and is operated as a retreat facility, Serra Retreat. It burned in the 1970 fire and was using many of the original tiles. Most of the Big Rock Drive area was purchased in 1936 by William Randolph Hearst and he sold the lower half of his holdings there in 1944 to Art Jones. Jones was one of the prominent early realtors in Malibu, starting with the leases of Rindge land in Malibu Colony. He was also the owner/part-owner of the Malibu Inn, Malibu Trading Post, mcAnany Way is named after him
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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University College Dublin
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University College Dublin is a research university in Dublin, Ireland. It has over 1,482 faculty and 32,000 students, the university originates in a body founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman as the first rector known as the Catholic University of Ireland, re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908. Originally located in locations across Dublin city, all of the faculties have since been relocated to a 133-hectare campus at Belfield. University College Dublin is frequently ranked among the top universities in Europe, there are five Nobel Laureates amongst University College Dublins alumni and current and former staff. The 2016 QS World University Rankings ranks UCD #176 worldwide, and puts it in the 151-200 bracket, a report published in May 2015 showed that the total economic output generated by UCD and its students in Ireland amounted to €1.3 billion annually. In the 19th century, the question of education in Ireland was a contentious one. It had divided Daniel OConnell and the Young Ireland Movement for many years, the Catholic Hierarchy wanted to counteract the Godless Colleges established in Galway, Belfast and Cork and to provide a Catholic alternative to Trinity College, Dublin. In 1850 at the Synod of Thurles it was decided to open a Catholic University, as a result of these efforts a new Catholic University of Ireland was opened in 1854 and John Henry Newman was appointed as its first rector. Newman had been a figure in the Oxford Movement in the 19th Century. The Catholic University opened its doors on the feast of St Malachy,3 November 1854, to prepare students for entry to the new University, the Catholic University School was established as a feeder school under the guidance of Bartholomew Woodlock and Cardinal Newman. Among the first students enrolled were the grandson of Daniel O’Connell, OShea clashed with Newman and left to go to Trinity, however, after one year. Of the eight students in Newmans own home, two were Irish, two English, two Scottish and two French. Among them were a French viscount, and Irish baronet Sir Reginald Barnewall, the son of a French countess, the grandson of a Scottish marquis, later were added to his care two Belgian princes and a Polish count. Many were attracted to the University on the basis of the reputation of Newman, as a private university, the Catholic University was never given a royal charter, and so was unable to award recognized degrees and suffered from chronic financial difficulties. Newman left the university in 1857, after which the school went into a serious decline, Bartholomew Woodlock was appointed Rector and served until he became Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1879. In this period he attempted to secure a site of 34 acres at Clonliffe West and he then turned his attention to expanding along St Stephens Green and over these years bought from No.82 to 87. The decline was halted in 1880 with the establishment of the Royal University of Ireland, the Royal Universities charter entitled all Irish students to sit the Universities examinations and receive its degrees. In order to avail of the benefits of the Royal University of Ireland arrangement, the college rapidly attracted many of the best students and academics in Ireland including Fr
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Fail Safe (1964 film)
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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It portrays a fictional account of a nuclear crisis, the film features performances by actors Henry Fonda, Dan OHerlihy, Walter Matthau and Frank Overton. Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke appeared in film roles. Fail Safe describes how Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States lead to an accidental thermonuclear first strike after an error sends a group of US bombers to bomb Moscow. In 2000, the novel was adapted again as a play, starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Noah Wyle. Defense protocols dictate that SAC must keep several bomber groups airborne 24 hours a day in the event of an attack on the United States. Following the alert, bombers are ordered to proceed to predetermined aerial fail-safe points to await the final go-ahead before proceeding towards Soviet targets, shortly after they reach those points, the alert is canceled. The intruder is identified as a civilian airliner. However, an error results in a go code being sent to one bomber group, ordering them to attack their predetermined target. SAC headquarters begins trying to rescind the order and it fails because a new Soviet countermeasure has begun radio jamming communications between the bomber group and SAC. With his orders apparently confirmed, Colonel Jack Grady, the US bomber groups commander, with pressure mounting, the President of the United States and his advisers attempt to recall the group or shoot them down. Communications are initiated with the Soviet Chairman in which mistakes on both sides are acknowledged, the jamming ceases, but the crew follows their training and protocols and dismisses the counter-orders as a Soviet ruse. The President struggles to find a resolution that will stop the Soviet Union from launching a counterattack, if he fails and he offers to sacrifice an American target to appease the Soviets, and he orders an American bomber towards New York City. The Presidents advisers in the Pentagon discover that the President has sacrificed the First Lady, the lone surviving American bomber devastates Moscow. The President orders General Black, whose wife and children live in New York, to drop the same nuclear payload on that city, after releasing the bombs, Black, who is flying the bomber, commits suicide. The last moments of the film images of people in New York going about their daily lives. The film was shot in black and white, in a dramatic, theatrical style with claustrophobic close-ups, sharp shadows, there was no musical underscoring or any music played, except as radio background during a scene at an Air Force base in Alaska. With few exceptions, the takes place largely in the White House underground bunker, the Pentagon war conference room, the SAC war room
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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Halloween III, Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween, returned as producers. It, in fact, treats the first film as a fictional film and it also departs from the slasher genre which the first two installments were part of, instead featuring a witchcraft theme with science fiction aspects and parallels to old Celtic fairy tales. However, after the disappointing critical reception and box-office gross, Michael Myers was brought back six years later in Halloween 4. The frequency of violence and gore is less than that of Halloween II. As with other films in the series, suspense and dramatic tension is a key theme, the dramatic element of violence against young children, something often taboo even for horror films, is explored. Produced on a budget of $2.5 million, Halloween III grossed $14.4 million at the box office in the United States, in addition to weak box office returns, most critics gave the film negative reviews. One critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others. Some cultural and film historians have read significance into the plot, linking it to criticism of large corporations. On October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge runs along a road in Northern California. He makes it to a gas station clutching a Silver Shamrock jack-o-lantern mask and he is driven to the hospital by station attendant Walter Jones, all the while rambling, Theyre going to kill us. At the hospital, Grimbridge is placed in the care of Dr. Dan Challis and that night, another mysterious man in a suit enters Grimbridges hospital room, kills him, then goes to his car and immolates himself. The next morning, Grimbridges daughter Ellie arrives to identify her fathers remains, Ellie and Challis agree to investigate his murder, leading them to the small town of Santa Mira, California. The motel manager explains that Conal Cochran and his company, Silver Shamrock Novelties, while signing the motel register, Challis learns that Grimbridge stayed at the same motel. Other motel guests include shop owners Marge Guttman and Buddy Kupfer, Buddys wife Betty, and their son Little Buddy, Guttman finds a microchip on the back of a Silver Shamrock button, and is fatally electrocuted after poking it with a hairpin. Challis and Ellie learn of Guttmans accident, and Challis attempts to help but is forced away by a group of men dressed in lab coats who drive away in a van with Marges body. The next morning, Challis and Ellie tour the factory with the Kupfers and discover Grimbridges car there and they return to the motel but cannot contact anyone outside the town. While Challis attempts to phone for the authorities, Ellie is kidnapped by the men in suits, Challis pursues them, breaks into the factory, and discovers that the men in suits are androids created by Cochran
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RoboCop
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RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan OHerlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, themes that make up the basis of RoboCop include media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia, and human nature. The film was produced for a relatively modest $13 million, honors for the film include five Saturn Awards, two BAFTA Award nominations and the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, along with nominations for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing. In the near future, Detroit, Michigan is a dystopia and on the verge of collapse due to financial ruin. The mayor signs a deal with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products, in exchange, OCP will be allowed to turn the run-down sections of Detroit into a high-end utopia called Delta City, which will function as an independent city-state free of the United States. OCP senior president Dick Jones proposes replacing the police with the ED-209 enforcement droid, at its first demonstration, however, ED-209 malfunctions and gruesomely kills a board member. Bob Morton, an employee, uses the opportunity to introduce his own experimental cyborg design. To Joness anger, the company chairman approves Mortons plan, meanwhile, police officer Alex Murphy arrives at his new precinct following an OCP-directed transfer where he is introduced to his partner Anne Lewis. On their first patrol, they chase down a gang led by the ruthless criminal Clarence Boddicker, when he and Lewis get separated, Murphy is caught and fatally injured by Boddickers gang just before Boddicker himself executes the helpless cop. Morton selects Murphy for the RoboCop program and replaces most of his body with cybernetics, except for his brain and part of his digestive system. RoboCop is given three primary directives, Serve the public trust, Protect the innocent, and Uphold the law and he single-handedly and efficiently cleans Detroit of crime, earning Morton a promotion to vice president. Enraged, Jones hires Boddicker to murder Morton in his home, meanwhile, Lewis realizes that RoboCop is really Murphy, and tells him his real name. RoboCop remembers past events from his life and returns to his home, only to find that his wife. He connects to the database, looks up Murphys entry and discovers Boddickers gang. RoboCop tracks down Boddicker to a factory and after a battle. Panicked, Boddicker admits his affiliation with Jones, verbally triggering RoboCops law-abiding programming, RoboCop arrests Boddicker and turns him over to the police. He then confronts Jones and attempts to arrest him, but begins to shut down, Jones reveals that he planted the fourth directive, which prevents RoboCop from arresting any member of OCPs executive board. Jones explains his goal of taking over OCP, and confesses to Mortons murder before activating his personal ED-209 to destroy RoboCop
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Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by Mark Frost and David Lynch that premiered on April 8,1990, on ABC. It was one of the shows of 1990, but declining ratings led to its cancellation after its second season in 1991. It nonetheless captured a cult following and has been referenced in a variety of media. In subsequent years, Twin Peaks has often been ranked as one of the greatest television dramas ever made, the series follows an investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington. Like much of Lynchs work, it is distinguished by surrealism and offbeat humor, the shows acclaimed score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti in collaboration with Lynch. Twin Peaks was followed by a 1992 feature film, Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me, in October 2014, Showtime announced that the series would return as a limited event series, scheduled to premiere on May 21,2017. The limited series is written by Lynch and Frost and directed by Lynch, many original cast members, including MacLachlan, returned. In 1989, logger Pete Martell discovers a corpse wrapped in plastic on the bank of a river outside the town of Twin Peaks. When Sheriff Harry S. Truman, his deputies, and Dr. Will Hayward arrive, a badly injured second girl, Ronette Pulaski, is discovered in a fugue state. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate, Coopers initial examination of Lauras body reveals a tiny typed letter R inserted under her fingernail. The authorities discover that Laura has been living a double life and she was cheating on her boyfriend, football captain Bobby Briggs, with biker James Hurley, and prostituting herself with the help of truck driver Leo Johnson and drug dealer Jacques Renault. Laura was also addicted to cocaine, which she obtained by coercing Bobby into doing business with Jacques, Lauras father, attorney Leland Palmer, suffers a nervous breakdown. Her best friend, Donna Hayward, begins a relationship with James, with the help of Lauras cousin Maddy Ferguson, Donna and James discover that Lauras psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, was obsessed with Laura, but he is proven innocent of the murder. Hornes sultry, troubled daughter, Audrey, becomes infatuated with Cooper, Cooper has a dream in which he is approached by a one-armed otherworldly being who calls himself Mike. Mike says that Lauras murderer is an entity, Killer Bob. Cooper finds himself decades older with Laura and a dwarf in a red business suit, the next morning, Cooper tells Truman that, if he can decipher the dream, he will know who killed Laura. Cooper and the sheriffs department find the man from Coopers dream. Gerard knows a Bob, the veterinarian who treats Renaults pet bird, Cooper interprets these events to mean that Renault is the murderer and, with Trumans help, tracks Renault to One-Eyed Jacks, a brothel owned by Horne across the border in Canada
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Robinson Crusoe (1954 film)
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Robinson Crusoe is a 1954 Mexican film by director Luis Buñuel, based on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Both English and Spanish versions were produced, lead actor Dan OHerlihy, playing Crusoe, was nominated for the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor. Robinson Crusoe, a son with few prospects, goes to sea against his fathers wishes. On a voyage from Brazil to Africa to collect slaves, a storm forces him to abandon ship and he swims alone to a deserted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30,1659. To his delight, the ship turns up on an offshore rock, allowing him to salvage food, tools, firearms. He herds goats, hunts game, makes clothes, and builds a home, with only the company of a dog, Rex, Crusoe lets Sam and her kittens run wild. When Rex dies of old age in 1673, Crusoe nearly goes insane from loneliness, after 18 years, Crusoe discovers that cannibals are visiting his island with their victims. The next time he spots them with his telescope, he sees a prisoner make a break for it and he knocks out one and shoots the other, when the first one regains consciousness, the escapee kills him with Crusoes knife. Crusoe takes the man back to his stockade, Crusoe teaches him English and Western customs and turns Friday into a servant. Crusoe does not trust him at first, believing Friday to also be a cannibal who would kill him if given the chance and he builds a door to the cave in which he takes to sleeping. When Friday enters without permission late one night to get an axe, the next day, however, Crusoe relents and takes them off. He comes to trust his new companion completely, after 28 years, Friday saves Crusoe from a cannibal sneaking up behind him. Seeing a large group, they flee back to their stockade, the cannibals, however, are driven off by white men with guns. Captain Oberzo and his bosun are the victims of a mutiny, Crusoe and Friday rescue the men and get away undetected. Friday then goes to the leader of the mutiny, offering him a basket of fruit, Friday leads the greedy men to the stockade. There, Crusoe, Friday, Oberzo, and the bosun capture them, Oberzo regains control of his ship. At Crusoes suggestion, Oberzo agrees to let the mutineers remain on the island instead of being sentenced to die on the gallows, Crusoe leaves them his tools and instructions on how to survive. Crusoe leaves for home with Friday, having spent 28 years, mexican-Canadian Alex Phillips was hired as the cinematographer
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Wexford Town
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Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 National Primary Route, and it has a population of 19,913 according to the 2011 census. The town was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD and they named it Veisafjǫrðr, meaning inlet of the mud flats, and the name has changed only slightly into its present form. Veisa in modern Norwegian means Way, so Veisafjǫrðr could have meant inlet of the way or Way Fjord. The resulting loch was thus named Loch Garman, for about three hundred years it was a Viking town, a city state, largely independent and owing only token dues to the Irish kings of Leinster. However, in May 1169 Wexford was besieged by Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster and his Norman ally, the Norse inhabitants resisted fiercely, until the Bishop of Ferns persuaded them to accept a settlement with Dermot. Wexford was an Old English settlement in the Middle Ages, an old dialect of English, known as Yola, was spoken uniquely in Wexford up until the 19th century. The Yola name for Wexford was Weiseforthe, following the Crusades, the Knights Templar had a presence in Wexford. Up to the present, their name is perpetuated in the old Knights Templars chapel yard of St. Johns Cemetery, County Wexford produced strong support for Confederate Ireland during the 1640s. A fleet of Confederate privateers was based in Wexford town, consisting of sailors from Flanders and their vessels raided English Parliamentarian shipping, giving some of the proceeds to the Confederate government in Kilkenny. As a result, the town was sacked by the English Parliamentarians during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649, many of its inhabitants were killed and much of the town was burned. In 1659 Solomon Richards was appointed Governor, but he was dismissed and imprisoned following the Restoration the next year, County Wexford was the centre of the 1798 rebellion against British rule. Redmond Square, near the station, commemorates the elder John Edward Redmond who was Liberal MP for the city of Wexford. The inscription reads, My heart is with the city of Wexford, nothing can extinguish that love but the cold soil of the grave. His nephew William Archer Redmond sat as an MP in Isaac Butts Home Rule Party from 1872 until 1880, Willie Redmond sat as an MP for Wexford from 1883 until 1885. The younger John Redmond, was a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell. He is interred in the Redmond family vault, at the old Knights Templars chapel yard of St. Johns Cemetery, Upper St. Johns Street
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Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800, following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. Dublin is administered by a City Council, the city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy, the name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, dubh /d̪uβ/, alt. /d̪uw/, alt /d̪u, / meaning black, dark, and lind /lʲiɲ pool and this tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn /d̪ˠi, other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b and those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are found in traditionally Irish-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning town of the ford, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, there are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford. Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times and he called the settlement Eblana polis. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement centred on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay, the Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships, the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey. This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew, the Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle
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C.B.C. Monkstown
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Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park is a private fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. The school fees are approximately €4,450 per annum, the college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire via a short stint on Tivoli Road. It is in its 66th academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the school motto is Certa Bonum Certamen or fight the good fight and the school colours are red, black and yellow. Monkstown has a school in Cork, Christians also founded by the Christian Brothers. Recently Monkstown was twinned with St. Patricks College in Sri Lanka, on 1 January 1856, the Congregation of Christian Brothers opened a school at Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire. The site was provided by Charles Kennedy, a businessman, brother Alphonsus Hoope was appointed as superior of the school. This was just ten years after the Great Famine, and emigration was rife, the school was called St Michaels Christian Brothers School, and initially educated mainly poor boys from the area. Kingstown during the 19th century was rapidly expanding with the harbour town seeing the addition of the piers, Hoope arranged for two rooms for teaching, which had to be expanded after three weeks to three due to demand. Within two years, a building housing 400 students was built on the site, the school was financed from voluntary subscriptions, solicited and collected by the Brothers. The Brothers residence of the time was located behind the school building. There were 6 Brothers living on the grounds, a building separate from the main school block. The school premises was valued in 1859 at £60, the Brothers continued to have a major role in the education system when Ireland gained independence. The school at Eblana prospered to an extent that it impossible to accommodate both primary and secondary departments in the 19th century buildings. A new site was sought for part of the school, the Brothers sought a site for the new part of the school. Traditions were soon adopted from CBC Cork which had been existence since the early 20th century, in 1949 the Brothers purchased the nearby 22-acre estate of Monkstown Park, which had been most recently occupied by the Protestant Corrig School. In order to procure the grounds, the Brothers released lands at Rochestown Avenue to Dún Laoghaire Corporation which had previously used as the schools playing pitches. Many local people wanted a park to be maintained at the site. CBC abstained from joining the Free Education Scheme introduced by Donagh OMalley in 1969, in 1987 the school was further extended with a new administration building including new offices, a cafeteria, staff room and technology department
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Architecture
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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements, Architecture can mean, A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. The art and science of designing buildings and nonbuilding structures, the style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. A unifying or coherent form or structure Knowledge of art, science, technology, the design activity of the architect, from the macro-level to the micro-level. The practice of the architect, where architecture means offering or rendering services in connection with the design and construction of buildings. The earliest surviving work on the subject of architecture is De architectura. According to Vitruvius, a building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas, commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity. An equivalent in modern English would be, Durability – a building should stand up robustly, utility – it should be suitable for the purposes for which it is used. Beauty – it should be aesthetically pleasing, according to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, for Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was, therefore, an inherent part of an object, rather than something applied superficially, Gothic architecture, Pugin believed, was the only true Christian form of architecture. The 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, Architecture was the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men. That the sight of them contributes to his health, power. For Ruskin, the aesthetic was of overriding significance and his work goes on to state that a building is not truly a work of architecture unless it is in some way adorned. For Ruskin, a well-constructed, well-proportioned, functional building needed string courses or rustication, but suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say, This is beautiful, le Corbusiers contemporary Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. The notable 19th-century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design, function came to be seen as encompassing all criteria of the use, perception and enjoyment of a building, not only practical but also aesthetic, psychological and cultural
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Carol Reed
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Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol and The Third Man. He received the Academy Award for Best Director, Carol Reed was born in Putney, south-west London. He was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress. He was educated at The Kings School, Canterbury and he embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens. A period in the company of the thriller writer Edgar Wallace followed. Apart from acting in a few Wallace derived films himself, Reed became involved in adapting his work for the screen during the day while he was a manager in the evenings. The connection with Wallace ended with his death in Hollywood during February 1932, taken on by Basil Dean, Reed worked for his Associated Talking Pictures, successively for ATP as a dialogue director, second-unit director and then assistant director. His films in the later role working under Dean were Autumn Crocus, Lorna Doone and Loyalties and his earliest films as director were quota quickies. Of his experience making Midshipman Easy his first solo project he was harsh on himself. I was indefinite and indecisive, he said later, fortunately, I realised that this was the only way to learn – by making mistakes. Graham Greene, then reviewing films for The Spectator, was more forgiving, commenting that Reed has more sense of the cinema than most veteran British directors. Of Reeds comedy Laburnum Grove, he wrote, Here at last is an English film one can unreservedly praise, Reeds career began to develop with The Stars Look Down, from the A. J. Cronin novel, which features Michael Redgrave in the lead role. Greene wrote that Reed has at last had his chance and magnificently taken it and he observed that one forgets the casting altogether, he handles his players like a master, so that one remembers them only as people. The best known of these films are probably Night Train to Munich, with Rex Harrison, Kipps, again with Michael Redgrave, the later film, although historically inaccurate, is set during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. From 1942, Reed served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was granted the rank of Captain and placed with the film unit, for the latter body a training film, The New Lot, was made, recounting the experiences of five new recruits. It had a script by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, with contributions from Reed and it was remade as The Way Ahead. Reed made his three most highly regarded films just after the war, beginning with Odd Man Out, with James Mason in the lead and it is the tale of an injured terrorists last hours in an unidentified Northern Irish city. In fact, Belfast was used for the work
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Odd Man Out
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Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film noir set in an unnamed Northern Irish city and directed by Carol Reed. It is based on the novel by F. L. Green and stars James Mason, the films opening intertitle reads, This story is told against a background of political unrest in a city of Northern Ireland. It is not concerned with the struggle between the law and an organisation, but only with the conflict in the hearts of the people when they become unexpectedly involved. The city and the organisation are never named, but the protagonist. Johnny has been hiding the past six months since his escape from prison in an occupied by Kathleen Sullivan - who loves him -. Johnny has been ordered to rob a mill to obtain funds, dennis offers to take his place, but Johnny turns him down. Johnny, Nolan and Murphy get the money, as they leave, Johnny is confronted by an armed cashier. Johnny is shot in the arm before he kills the cashier. Pat drives off at speed before Johnny is fully inside the getaway car. While his confederates argue about what to do, Johnny gets up, dennis orders the others to report to headquarters. Along the way, however, the trio arouse the suspicion of the police and they are pursued, but get away. Pat and Nolan stop off at Theresa OBriens place, Murphy does not trust her and she betrays the pair to the authorities. As they leave, they are gunned down after they start shooting, dennis finds Johnny, but the police show up nearby. Dennis is captured after drawing them away, Johnny makes his way toward Kathleens place, but collapses in the street. Passersby Maureen and Maudie take him home, thinking he has been struck by a passing lorry, when they discover who he is, Johnny departs and gets into a parked hansom cab. Gin Jimmy, the cabdriver, comes out and starts looking for a fare, unaware he already has a man for a passenger. When he finds out, he drops Johnny off as quickly as he can, Shell spots him dumping the now nearly unconscious fugitive. A poor man, he goes to Catholic priest Father Tom, by chance, Kathleen arrives shortly afterward, looking for help
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Macduff (Macbeth)
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Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character in William Shakespeares Macbeth. Macduff plays a role in the play, he suspects Macbeth of regicide. He can be seen as the hero who helps save Scotland from Macbeths tyranny in the play. The character is first known from Chronica Gentis Scotorum and Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, Shakespeare drew mostly from Holinsheds Chronicles. Although characterized sporadically throughout the play, Macduff serves as a foil to Macbeth and these served as the basis for the account given in Holinsheds Chronicles, on whose narratives of King Duff and King Duncan Shakespeare in part based Macbeth. Macduff first appears in Holinsheds narrative of King Duncan after Macbeth has killed the monarch, when Macbeth calls upon his nobles to contribute to the construction of Dunsinane castle, Macduff avoids the summons, arousing Macbeths suspicions. Macduff leaves Scotland for England to prod Duncans son, Malcolm III of Scotland, Malcolm, Macduff, and the English forces march on Macbeth, and Macduff kills him. Shakespeare follows Holinsheds account of Macduff closely, with his only deviations being Macduffs discovery of Duncans body in 2.3, historically, the Clan MacDuff was the most powerful family in Fife in the medieval ages. The ruins of Macduffs Castle lie in East Wemyss cemetery, Macduff first speaks in the play in act 2, scene 3 to the drunken porter to report to his duty of awaking King Duncan when he is sleeping for the night at Macbeths castle. When he discovers the corpse of King Duncan, he raises an alarm, Macduff begins to suspect Macbeth of regicide when Macbeth says, O, yet I do repent me of my fury / That I did kill them. Interestingly, Macduff’s name does not appear in this scene, rather, in 2.4 Macbeth has left for Scone, the ancient royal city where Scottish kings were crowned. Macduff, meanwhile, meets with Ross and an Old Man and he reveals that he will not be attending the coronation of Macbeth and will instead return to his home in Fife. However, Macduff flees to England to join Malcolm, the slain King Duncan’s elder son, Macbeth, meanwhile, visits the Three Witches again after the spectre of Banquo appears at the royal banquet. The Witches warn Macbeth to beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife, furthermore, they inform him that, The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth. Macduff, who is still in England, learns of his family’s deaths through Ross and he joins Malcolm, and they return to Scotland with their English allies to face Macbeth at Dunsinane Castle. After Macbeth slays the young Siward, Macduff charges into the main castle, although Macbeth believes that he cannot be killed by any man born of a woman, he soon learns that Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped. The two fight, and Macduff slays Macbeth offstage, Macduff ultimately presents Macbeth’s head to Malcolm, hailing him as king and calling on the other thanes to declare their allegiance with him. As a supporting character, Macduff serves as a foil to Macbeth, the play positions the characters of Macduff and Macbeth as holy versus evil The contrast between Macduff and Macbeth is accentuated by their approaches to death
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Orson Welles
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George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring, although some contemporary sources claim these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. His first film was Citizen Kane, which he co-wrote, produced, directed, Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. He has been praised as the ultimate auteur, Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 and Touch of Evil in 1958. Although these three are his most acclaimed films, critics have argued other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai and Chimes at Midnight, are underappreciated. Known for his voice, Welles was an actor in radio and film, a Shakespearean stage actor. George Orson Welles was born May 6,1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, son of Richard Head Welles and he was named after his paternal great-grandfather, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head. Despite his familys affluence, Welles encountered hardship in childhood and his parents separated and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a bicycle lamp, became an alcoholic. Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital May 10,1924, the Gordon String Quartet, which had made its first appearance at her home in 1921, played at Beatrices funeral. After his mothers death Welles ceased pursuing music and it was decided that he would spend the summer with the Watson family at a private art colony in Wyoming, New York, established by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. There he played and became friends with the children of the Aga Khan, Welles briefly attended public school before his alcoholic father left business altogether and took him along on his travels to Jamaica and the Far East. When they returned they settled in a hotel in Grand Detour, Illinois, when the hotel burned down, Welles and his father took to the road again. During the three years that Orson lived with his father, some observers wondered who took care of whom, in some ways, he was never really a young boy, you know, said Roger Hill, who became Welless teacher and lifelong friend. Welles briefly attended school in Madison, Wisconsin, enrolled in the fourth grade. At Todd School, Welles came under the influence of Roger Hill, Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to concentrate on subjects that interested him. Welles performed and staged theatrical experiments and productions there, Todd provided Welles with many valuable experiences, wrote critic Richard France
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Macbeth (1948 film)
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Macbeth is a 1948 American historical drama war film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeares tragedy Macbeth, with Welles in the lead role. Jeanette Nolan co-stars as Lady Macbeth, in 1947, Orson Welles began promoting the notion of bringing a Shakespeare drama to the motion picture screen. He initially attempted to pique Alexander Kordas interest in an adaptation of Othello, Welles switched to pushing for a film adaptation of Macbeth, which he visualized in its violent setting as a perfect cross between Wuthering Heights and Bride of Frankenstein. Teaming with producer Charles K. Feldman, Welles successfully convinced Herbert Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures, Yates was attempting to raise the level of his studio, which produced Roy Rogers Westerns and low-budget features, into that of a prestige studio. Republic had already tried to present off-beat features, including Gustav Machatýs Jealousy, however, Yates was not able to provide Welles with a large budget. Welles guaranteed to deliver a completed negative of Macbeth on a budget of $700,000, when some members of the Republic board of directors expressed misgivings on the project, Welles had a contract drawn in which he agreed to personally pay any amount over $700,000. Welles had previously staged the so-called Voodoo Macbeth in 1936 in New York City with an all-black cast and he borrowed aspects from both productions for his film adaptation. None of these films was commercially successful, but the commercial and critical prestige earned by Laurence Oliviers film version of Henry V helped to propel Welles Macbeth forward. Welles cast himself in the role, but was initially stymied in casting Lady Macbeth. His first choice was Vivien Leigh, but Welles never approached her since he believed her husband, Laurence Olivier, the role was offered to Tallulah Bankhead, who turned it down. At Welless request Anne Baxter, Mercedes McCambridge and Agnes Moorehead were approached, there is no evidence to suggest that these rejections were much of a blow to Welles, wrote biographer Frank Brady. Welles settled on Jeanette Nolan, one of the Mercury Theatres repertory players on radio, Welles brought in Irish actor Dan OHerlihy in his first U. S. film role as Macduff, and cast former child star Roddy McDowall as Malcolm. Welles also cast his daughter Christopher in the role of Macduffs son, the cast of Macbeth is listed in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films. In bringing Macbeth to the screen, Welles made several changes to Shakespeares original and he added sequences involving the witches to increase their significance. At the beginning of the film, they create a figurine of Macbeth. It collapses in a heap, seemingly of its own volition, the witches seem to cast a spell on the doll, and anything that happens to it seems to happen also to Macbeth, as in voodoo. Because of censorship, the Porters speech was shorn of all its double entendre, a major change is Welles introduction of a new character, the Holy Man. The priest recites the prayer of Saint Michael, Welles later explained that the characters presence was meant to confirm that the main point of that production is the struggle between the old and new religions
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McCarthyism
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It originated with President Trumans Executive Order 9835 of March 21,1947, McCarthyism soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts. The term is now used more generally to describe reckless, unsubstantiated accusations. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators, many people suffered loss of employment or destruction of their careers, some even suffered imprisonment. McCarthyism was a social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society and was the source of a great deal of debate. The historical period that came to be known as the McCarthy era began well before Joseph McCarthys own involvement in it, many factors contributed to McCarthyism, some of them extending back to the years of the First Red Scare, inspired by Communisms emergence as a recognized political force. While the United States was engaged in World War II and allied with the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb in 1949, earlier than many analysts had expected. That same year, Mao Zedongs Communist army gained control of mainland China despite heavy American financial support of the opposing Kuomintang, in 1950, the Korean War began, pitting U. S. U. N. and South Korean forces against Communists from North Korea and China. The following year saw several significant developments regarding Soviet Cold War espionage activities. In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a high-level State Department official, was convicted of perjury, in Great Britain, Klaus Fuchs confessed to committing espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union while working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the War. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and were executed in 1953, there were also more subtle forces encouraging the rise of McCarthyism. It had long been a practice of conservative politicians to refer to progressive reforms such as child labor laws. This tendency increased in the 1930s in reaction to the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in general, the vaguely defined danger of Communist influence was a more common theme in the rhetoric of anti-Communist politicians than was espionage or any other specific activity. He produced a piece of paper which he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department and this speech resulted in a flood of press attention to McCarthy and established the path that made him one of the most recognized politicians in the United States. The first recorded use of the term McCarthyism was in a cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Herbert Block. The cartoon depicted four leading Republicans trying to push an elephant to stand on a platform atop a stack of ten tar buckets. Block later wrote that there was nothing particularly ingenious about the term, if anyone has a prior claim on it, hes welcome to the word and to the junior senator from Wisconsin along with it. I will also throw in a set of dishes and a case of soap
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Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)
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Invasion, U. S. A. is a 1952 film based on a story by Robert Smith and Franz Spencer and directed by Alfred E. Green. The film stars Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle and Dan OHerlihy, Invasion, U. S. A. is set in the Cold War and portrays the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union. The film is unrelated to the 1985 Chuck Norris film of the same name, in a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is sitting and drinking from a very large brandy glass. International news is bad, but these Americans do not want to hear it, while they all dislike Communism and appreciate the material wealth they enjoy, they also want lower taxes and dont see the need for industrial support of government. As he swishes the brandy around his snifter, Ohman tells the others that many Americans want safety and security, the Enemy is staging air attacks over Seal Point, Alaska and then Nome. Paratroops have landed on Alaskan airfields and an American female communications operator is gunned down in mid-sentence, soon the enemys plan of attack becomes clear, civilian airfields are captured as staging areas while military airfields are A-bombed. The United States fights back and attacks the enemys homeland with Convair B-36 missions, shipyards in Puget Sound are A-bombed with large casualties. Meanwhile, the Americans at the bar scramble to return to their lives to do what they can against the enemy, Potter and Sanford fall for each other. He continues to broadcast, while she volunteers to run a blood drive. The President of the United States makes ineffectual broadcasts with inflated claims of counter-attacks to rally the morale of the people, the enemy continues to advance with stealth attacks by troops dressed in American uniforms, including a paratrooper attack on the Capitol that kills the Congressman. New York is A-bombed, and Potter is soon killed during a broadcast, Sanford, confronted by an enemy soldier, jumps from a balcony. The image of her body appears in Ohmans brandy snifter. All five suddenly find themselves back in the bar, having just emerged from a hypnotic state Ohman had induced, after reassuring themselves that the recent events havent happened, they hurry off to take measures to boost military preparedness. Potter and Sanford resume their romance, principal photography began in early April 1952 at Motion Picture Center Studios. Much of the running time is taken up with inconsistent. This is relatively aseptic, and sometimes humorous, American Fairchild C-82 Packet transports drop enemy paratroopers on Washington. Some of the encounters between the enemy and Americans are typical of Red Scare material of the time. Phyllis Coates, who will be a future Lois Lane actress, Noel Neill, also a future Lois Lane actress, and William Schallert, a B-movie stalwart, all have small parts in the film
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The Young Land
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The Young Land is a 1959 American Western drama film directed by Ted Tetzlaff starring Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper. The cinematography was by Technicolor developer Winton C, the film was distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. The film was scored by Dimitri Tiomkin who earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Song for Strange Are the Ways of Love with lyrics by Ned Washington and sung by Randy Sparks. In 1848, after the end of the Mexican–American War and with the advent of California statehood and he is arrested for the murder by Jim Ellison, a former United States marine and now sheriff with neither a gun nor a badge. Appointed by prominent local businessman and politico Don Roberto de la Madrid, Ellison has designs on de la Madrids spoiled daughter, by the book Judge Millard Isham arrives in town with Deputy Marshal Ben Stroud to conduct the trial. Wanted tough guy Lee Hearn has problems of his own with the law, Carnes is then placed on trial in the new Mexican Cession territory with the Hispanic populace waiting to learn if American justice will convict Carnes. Similarly, several DVD versions were released over the years, mainly as an inclusion in a multiple film western pack, presently, The Young Land is available on Region 0 DVD through VCI Entertainment and video on demand in standard non-widescreen format. Roberto de la Madrid, who appeared in the film as the father of Yvonne Craigs character, was elected governor of Baja California. List of American films of 1959 The Young Land at the Internet Movie Database The Young Land is available for download at the Internet Archive
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Alan Ladd
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Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast, Whispering Smith and his popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his accidental death due to a lethal combination of alcohol, a barbiturate, and two tranquilizers. Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on 3 September 1913 and he was the only child of Ina Raleigh, and Alan Ladd, a freelance accountant. His mother was English, from County Durham and had migrated to the USA in 1907 when she was nineteen and his father died of a heart attack when Ladd was six. On 3 July 1918 a young Alan accidentally burned down the home while playing with matches. His mother moved to Oklahoma City, where she married Jim Beavers, in the early 1920s an economic downturn led to Ladds family moving to California, a journey which took four months. They lived in a migrant camp in Pasadena at first before moving to the San Fernando Valley where Beavers went to work at FBO Studios as a painter, Ladd enrolled in North Hollywood High School on 18 February 1930. He became a school swimming and diving champion and participated in high school dramatics in his senior year. His diving skills led to his appearance in an aquatic show, Ladds performance in The Mikado was seen by a talent scout. In August 1933 Ladd was one of a group of young discoveries signed to a contract with Universal Pictures. The contract had options which could go for seven years, Ladd appeared unbilled in a film, Once in a Lifetime, but the studio eventually decided Ladd was too blond and too short and dropped him after six months. At 21, Ladd graduated from school on 1 February 1934. He worked in the department of the San Fernando Sun Valley Record. When the paper changed hands Ladd lost his job and he sold cash registers and borrowed $150 to open up his own hamburger and malt shop across from his old high school, which he called Tinys Patio. However he was unable to make a success of the shop. In another attempt to break into the industry, Ladd went to work at Warner Bros. as a grip. He was injured falling off a scaffold and decided to quit, Ladd managed to save and borrow enough money to attend an acting school run by Ben Bard, who had taught him when he was under contract at Universal. Ladd wound up appearing in stage productions for Bard
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One Foot in Hell (film)
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One Foot in Hell is a 1960 Western DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope film starring Alan Ladd, Don Murray and Dan OHerlihy, co-written by Aaron Spelling from a story by Spelling. Unhinged by Ellies death, he plots to get his revenge by robbing the bank of $100,000 deposited by a rich cattleman. He accepts the job of deputy sheriff, then murders the sheriff so that he can take his place, during the robbery, on Mitchs instructions, Ivers and Christian kill the store owner and the hotel keeper. Afterwards, Mitch sets out to eliminate the members of the gang in order to conceal his own part in the plot. He succeeds in killing Ivers and Christian but when he corners Dan and Julie, Dan and Julie then return the money, prepared to stand trial and spend some years in jail with the prospect of long-term happiness awaiting them after their release. The budget was over $1 million and Ladd got 10% of the profits, filming was interrupted when the Screen Actors Guild went on strike during the shoot on March 7. Alan Ladd injured his hand while working at his ranch during the layoff but was enough to resume filming. Dolores Michaels said that Playing westerns arent included among the things Ill settle for on screen, shes a bad girl who goes good and has a highly dramatic moment with a gun at the end. But a woman never wins in a Western and theres just so much you can do with this period piece. List of American films of 1960 One Foot in Hell at TCMDB One Foot in Hell at the Internet Movie Database One Foot in Hell at AllMovie One Foot in Hell at the American Film Institute Catalog
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The Big Cube
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It is notable for its aggressive portrayal of LSD use and the 1960s youth counterculture as vicious evils. Adriana Roman, a stage actress, retires to marry Charles Winthrop. Winthrops daughter, Lisa, is distrustful of Adriana solely because she is the other woman taking her fathers affection. Charles is killed in an accident, which also leads to Adriana suffering from a concussion. Johnny conspires with Lisa to lace Adrianas prescribed sedatives with enough LSD to drive her insane, in addition, while Adriana is having LSD-induced hallucinations, they plan on playing pre-recorded subliminal messages to further drive her crazy. Johnny intends to kill Adriana by adding a recorded message to open the window, Lisa is unaware of his scheme. As Adriana is about to jump to her death, Lisa saves her. After their wedding, Johnny demonstrates that he doesnt really love Lisa by openly seducing other women, most notably Lisas free-spirited best friend, Johnny bribes Lisa to divorce him by providing a $100,000 settlement in return for keeping silent about what they did to Adriana. By this time, Adriana was suffering amnesia, still believing that Charles was alive. Frederick decides to write a play detailing Adrianas traumatic experiences and casts her in the lead role and he hopes that replaying her experience on stage will cure her. By the opening performance, Adriana has glimpses from her memory of what has happened and this brings Adriana back to reality. She recognizes the voices and the fact that Lisa and Johnny use her name as opposed to her characters name in the play. Lisa rushes onto the stage, admitting to Adriana what she, in a rage, Adriana slaps Lisa in the face. The play and Adrianas performance are a hit, Adriana and Frederick are about to be married. Meanwhile, Johnny has begun taking his own LSD while being shunned by his so-called friends and he is last seen on the floor in the midst of an LSD trip. List of American films of 1969 The Big Cube at the Internet Movie Database The Big Cube at Rotten Tomatoes
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100 Rifles
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100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries based on Robert MacLeods 1966 novel The Californio, and stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Fernando Lamas. The film was shot in Spain, the original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Lyedecker is not concerned with Joes cause of helping his tribe, the two men escape to the hills where they are joined by Sarita, a beautiful Indian revolutionary. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians, taking over the leadership of the Yaquis, Lyedecker ambushes Verdugos train while Sarita distracts the attention of the soldiers on board by taking a public shower. The train is derailed in a town and the culmination had a fierce gun battle. It was based on a novel by Robert McLeod, the script was originally written by Clair Huffaker. Tom Gries signed to following his successful feature debut with Will Penny. Gries wrote two drafts of the script himself. He says hes not a carpenter, reported the Los Angeles Times and he says he cant work with a script that he doesnt believe in himself. Huffaker later requested his name be taken off the credits and replaced with a pseudonym, Cecil Hanson, bears absolutely no resemblance to my original script. The leads were given to Raquel Welch, Jim Brown, Id like to bring a style to the screen that means something to the cats out on the street, said Brown. Its an image I want to portray of a black man in breaking down social taboos. Its a different thing for a man to be a lawman, get the woman. It was the fifth movie Burt Reynolds had made in a row, fade In, Impasse and Whiskey Renegades — had not been released when 100 Rifles was being shot. I was playing Yaqui Joe, supposedly an Indian with a moustache, Raquel had a Spanish accent that sounded like a cross between Carmen Miranda and Zasu Pitts. Jimmy Brown was afraid of only two things in the world, one was heights, the other was horses. And he was on a horse fighting me on a cliff, the film was shot in Almeria, Spain, in order to save money. Its a tough, physical picture, says Gries, who was hospitalised for three days during the shoot when he came down with typhus, I send it up, said Reynolds
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Waterloo (1970 film)
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Waterloo is a 1970 epic period war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It depicts the story of the events and the Battle of Waterloo. It stars Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France, other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Thomas Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan OHerlihy as Marshal Ney. Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls, in 1814 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, facing certain defeat at the hands of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, abdicates at the demand of his marshals. He is banished to Elba with 1,000 men, but escapes, Ney, now serving the monarchy of Louis XVIII of France, is tasked with recapturing him, but he and his army defect to Napoleon. King Louis flees, Napoleon triumphantly enters Paris, and the European powers declare war, the Prussian von Muffling interrupts the Duchess of Richmonds ball to warn the Duke of Wellington that Napoleon has invaded Belgium to defeat the Allied forces before they can unite. Realising that Napoleon has got himself and the Prussians, Wellington decides to halt the French at Waterloo. The French fight the British to a draw at Quatre-Bras, field Marshal Blücher rejects the advice of his Chief of Staff, General Gneisenau to retreat and instead moves north to Wavre to keep contact with Wellington. The battle of Waterloo, delayed to let the dry after the previous nights storm. Napoleon launches a diversionary attack on Wellingtons right flank, the Chateau of Hougoumont. Napoleon then attacks the allied left with dErlons infantry corps, General Picton successfully halts the attack but is killed. Napoleon realises that troops spotted emerging from the woods to the east are Prussians, not French and he then suffers stomach pain and withdraws temporarily, leaving Marshal Ney in command. Ney misinterprets a reorganisation of the Allied line as a retreat and leads a cavalry charge, Napoleon returns and rebukes his marshals for letting Ney attack without infantry support. However he hopes that Wellingtons line has been worn down, the British farmhouse of La Haye Sainte falls, and Napoleon sends the Imperial Guard for the decisive blow. As they advance they are repulsed by Maitlands Guards Division, who were lying unseen in the grass on the reverse of the slope, the repulse of the Guard devastates French morale, and the arrival of the Prussians makes matters certain. After refusing to surrender, the Imperial Guard squares are annihilated with close range artillery, after the battle, Wellington wanders among the piles of dead, lamenting the cost of victory. At the same time Napoleon, who had declared that he would die with his men, is dragged by his marshals from the field, columbia Pictures published a 28-page, full-colour pictorial guide when it released Waterloo in 1970. Final costs were over £12 million, making Waterloo, for its time, had the movie been filmed in the West, costs might have been as much as three times this
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Michel Ney
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Michel Ney, 1st Duc dElchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, popularly known as Marshal Ney, was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon and he was known as Le Rougeaud by his men and nicknamed le Brave des Braves by Napoleon. Michel Ney was born in the town of Sarrelouis, in the French province of the Three Bishoprics and he was the second son of Pierre Ney, a master barrel-cooper and veteran of the Seven Years War, and his wife Margarethe Grewelinger. He was the grandson of Matthias Ney and wife Margarethe Becker. His hometown at the time of his birth comprised a French enclave in a predominantly German region of Saarland and he was educated at the Collège des Augustins, became a notary in Saarlouis and then subsequently became an overseer of mines and forges. Life as a civil servant did not suit Ney, and he enlisted in the Colonel-General Hussar Regiment in 1787, under the Bourbon Monarchy entry to the officer corps of the French Army was restricted to those with four quarterings of nobility. However, Ney rapidly rose through the officer ranks. He served in the Army of the North from 1792 to 1794, with which he saw action at the Cannonade of Valmy, the Battle of Neerwinden, and other engagements. After the dissolution of the monarchy in September of 1792, Ney was commissioned as an officer in October, transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in June 1794, Ney was promoted to général de brigade in August 1796, and commanded cavalry on the German fronts. On 17 April 1797, during the Battle of Neuwied, Ney led a charge against Austrian lancers trying to seize French cannons. The lancers were beaten back, but Ney’s cavalry were counter-attacked by heavy cavalry, during the mêlée, Ney was thrown from his horse and captured in the vicinity of the municipality of Dierdorf, on 8 May he was exchanged for an Austrian general. Following the capture of Mannheim, Ney was promoted to géneral de division in March 1799, later in 1799, Ney commanded cavalry in the armies of Switzerland and the Danube. At Winterthur Ney received wounds in the thigh and wrist, after recovering he fought at Hohenlinden under General Moreau in December 1800. From September 1802, Ney commanded French troops in Switzerland and performed diplomatic duties, on 19 May 1804, Ney received his Marshals baton, emblematic of his status as a Marshal of the Empire, the Napoleonic eras equivalent of Marshal of France. In the 1805 campaign, Ney took command of VI Corps of the Grande Armée and was praised for his conduct at Elchingen, in November 1805, Ney invaded the Tyrol, capturing Innsbruck from Archduke John. In the 1806 campaign, Ney fought at Jena and then occupied Erfurt, later in the campaign, Ney successfully besieged Magdeburg. In the 1807 campaign, Ney arrived with reinforcements in time to save Napoleon from defeat at Eylau, later in the campaign, Ney fought at Güttstadt and commanded the right wing at Friedland. On 6 June 1808, Ney was created Duke of Elchingen, in August 1808, he was sent to Spain in command of VI Corps and won a number of minor actions
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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
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The Last Starfighter
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The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan, a teenage boy recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war. It also features Robert Preston, Dan OHerlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Norman Snow and it is one of the first films to use CGI to represent real-life objects instead of digital graphics. The Last Starfighter was Prestons final film role and his character, a lovable con-man, was a nod to his most famous role as Harold Hill in The Music Man. There was a subsequent novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, in 2004, it was also adapted as an off-Broadway musical. Alex Rogan is a living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother. Alex often plays Starfighter, a game in which the player defends the Frontier from Xur. He becomes the games highest-scoring player, and is approached by the inventor, Centauri. Alex does so, discovering the car is a spacecraft, Centauri is an alien who takes him to the planet Rylos. An android duplicate named Beta takes Alexs place during his absence, the game was designed as a test to find those with the gift, Alex is expected to be the gunner for a Starfighter spacecraft called the Gunstar. He also learns that the Frontier is an array of satellites creating a forcefield protecting Rylos, Xur has given the Ko-Dan the means to breach the forcefield. A holographic projection of Xur reveals he has discovered an infiltrator in his ranks, Xur proclaims that once Ryloss moon is in eclipse the Ko-Dan Armada will begin their invasion. Scared by everything he has seen, Alex asks to be taken home, on Earth, Centauri gives Alex a communications device to contact him should Alex change his mind. A saboteur eliminates the Starfighter bases defenses, causing heavy damage, the Gunstars are destroyed except for an advanced prototype that Grig was servicing in a different hangar. Alex discovers Beta and contacts Centauri to retrieve him, as Centauri arrives, Alex and Beta are attacked by an alien assassin, a Zando-Zan, in Xurs service. Centauri shoots off its right arm, Centauri and Beta explain to Alex that the only way to protect his family is to embrace his ability as a Starfighter. Centauri also explains that there will be more Zando-Zan dispatched, before Alex can reply, the assassin, mentally controlling its severed arm, attempts to shoot Alex, but Centauri jumps in the way and returns fire, incinerating the alien. Alex and Centauri fly back to the Starfighter base, Alex finds Grig, but Centauri dies from his injuries
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The Whoopee Boys
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The Whoopee Boys is a 1986 comedy film starring Michael OKeefe and Paul Rodriguez. The movie was made by the writers and the producers of the 1984 hit film Revenge of the Nerds, two dim-witted New York street peddlers, Jake Bateman and Barney Bonar, have grown tired of the frozen cold. They head to a car place where drivers are hired to transport vehicles, when they are denied driving a Cadillac to Palm Beach, Florida, Jake flirts with the car place owner and threatens to eat her goldfish until she agrees, to which she does. Upon arriving in Palm Beach, the duo find themselves accidentally crashing a party held by an elderly couple who lost their dog. Barneys attempt at befriending a Navy admiral and his wife doesnt go too well while Jake meets Olivia, when Jake and Barney leave to find the Cadillac had been towed, Olivia offers to take them in in exchange for help at the orphanage. Olivia and Jake begin to get a close when she drops a bomb on Jake. She is to be married to someone her uncle approves and her uncle will only accept those whom he considers perfect gentlemen. If she cannot marry in 30 days, she will lose her orphanage to a real estate developer, Strobe, when Jake offers to marry Olivia, she is convinced that Jake is not going to be good enough for her uncle. Upset, Jake turns to Barney, who suggests they go to a school run by Henrietta Phelps. At first, things dont bode well for anyone in the group, one night, Jake and Barney sneak off to a local bar where they find Henriettas husband Colonel Phelps. The Colonel reveals he is part of a society similar to the Illuminati in terms of learning how to be a perfect gentleman. Having finished both courses, Jake intends to win back Olivia, however, he must deal with the likes of Strobe and his two right hand men, Whitey and Tipper. To impress Olivias uncle, Judge Sternhill, Barney brings in some of his friends from the school to help Jake. For instance, Officer White gives Barney a machine gun to help Jake shoot skeet successfully with Barney actually pulling the trigger. When at a party, Jake manages to make Strobe look foolish, however, when Eddie unwittingly confesses to Whitey about charm school, the ruse is up and Olivia is forced to marry Strobe. At the wedding ceremony, Jake and Barney sneak in while Claudia comes in as a guest, Officer White distracts the priest and arrests him. Roy disguises himself as the priest with Eddie posing as an altar boy, when Strobe unveils the bride, it is actually Barney in a wig and totally embarrassing Strobe. Jake and Olivia finally get Sternhills approval and Strobe is arrested by Officer White, Jake and Olivia drive off while Barney meets two women coming out of the church
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John Huston
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John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand. Most of Hustons films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a heroic quest, as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a goal, would become doomed, forming destructive alliances, giving the films a dramatic. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, Huston has been referred to as a titan, a rebel, and a renaissance man in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as cinemas Ernest Hemingway—a filmmaker who was never afraid to tackle tough issues head on, John Huston was born on August 5,1906, in Nevada, Missouri. He was the child of Rhea and Canadian-born Walter Huston. His father was an actor, initially in vaudeville, and later in films and his mother initially worked as a sports editor for various publications but gave it up after Huston was born. Similarly, his father gave up his acting career for steady employment as a civil engineer. He would later become successful on both Broadway and then in motion pictures. He had Scottish, Scots-Irish, English and Welsh ancestry, Hustons parents divorced in 1913, when he was 6, and as a result much of his childhood was spent living in boarding schools. During summer vacations, he traveled with each of his parents separately — with his father on vaudeville tours, the young Huston benefited greatly from seeing his father act on stage, as he was later drawn to the world of acting. Some critics, such as Lawrence Grobel, surmise that his relationship with his mother may have been the cause of his five marriages, and why few of his relationships lasted. Grobel wrote, When I interviewed some of the women who had loved him, according to actress Olivia de Havilland, she was the central character. I always felt that John was ridden by witches and he seemed pursued by something destructive. If it wasnt his mother, it was his idea of his mother, as a child he was often ill and was treated for an enlarged heart and kidney ailments. He recovered after an extended stay in Arizona, and moved with his mother to Los Angeles
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The Dead (1987 film)
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The Dead is a 1987 feature film directed by John Huston, starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. The Dead was the last film that Huston directed, and it was released posthumously, the story focuses attention on the academic Gabriel Conroy and his discovery of his wife Grettas memory of a deceased lover. The Dead was nominated for two Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay and for Costume Design and this film adaptation by John Hustons son Tony Huston can be considered a close adaptation of Joyces short story, with some alterations made to the dialogue to aid the narrative for cinema audiences. The most significant change to the story was the inclusion of a new character, a Mr Grace, the effect of this is to act as catalyst for the Distant Music that provokes the memories Gretta and Gabriel discuss at the end of the film. Screen rights to the story were purchased from the Joyce estate for $60,000, yet he went into dramatic areas that hed never gone into before - funny, warm family scenes that might be thought completely out of his range. Huston never before blended his actors so intuitively, so musically, the Dead was initially released on DVD by Lionsgate on November 3,2009. However, the DVD had nearly ten minutes of the film missing, when word of this was posted on various websites, Lionsgate eventually released a complete version
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RoboCop 2
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RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American cyberpunk action film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan OHerlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. Set in the future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, it is the sequel to the 1987 film. The film received mixed reviews critics and fans. In 2013, the film received attention from news media due to its plot predicting Detroit filing for bankruptcy in the future and it was the final film directed by Irvin Kershner. After the success of the RoboCop program, Omni Consumer Products has a new scheme to have Detroit completely under their control and they plan to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on the entire city, taking over its government. They will then replace the old neighborhoods with Delta City, a new planned city center independent of the United States government, to rally public opinion behind urban redevelopment and Delta City construction, OCP sparks an increase in street crime. As Detroit Police Department is owned by OCP, they terminate police pension plans and cut salaries, RoboCop, due to his directives, is unable to strike and remains on duty with his partner, Anne Lewis. The two raid a manufacturing plant of Nuke, a new drug that has been plaguing the streets of Detroit. RoboCop kills all the criminals, except for a criminal named Hob. Meanwhile, OCP struggles to develop RoboCop 2, which is expected to be mass-produced, to their frustration, all the newly resurrected officers immediately commit suicide. Dr. Faxx convinces the Old Man to let her control the project, despite other executives objection, Faxx is allowed to proceed. Nukes distributor, the power-hungry Cain, feels threatened by the Delta City plan and he fears that he will lose his market if the city is redeveloped into a capitalistic utopia. He is assisted by his girlfriend Angie, his apprentice Hob, and Duffy, RoboCop tracks down Duffy and beats Cains location out of him. He confronts Cains gang at a construction site, but is overwhelmed. The criminals cut apart his body and dump the pieces in front of his precinct, Cain has Duffy tortured to death for revealing their location, and forces Hob to watch. RoboCop is repaired, but Faxx reprograms him with over 300 new directives, one of his original technicians suggests that a massive electrical charge might reboot his system. RoboCop shocks himself with a voltage transformer. The charge erases all of his directives, including the original ones, murphy motivates the officers to aid him in raiding Cains hideout
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Anthology series
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An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season/series. Some anthology series, such as Studio One, began on radio, many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the constant was the host. One of the earliest such programs was The Collier Hour, broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932, as radios first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Colliers Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post. Weird The Haunting Hour The Sealed Book Mystery in the Air The Weird Circle Quiet, the stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for the program to feature himself, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, when Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star, CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos n Andy and it was successful enough to be renewed and became a weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots. Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. k. a. Billy Roses Playbill Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre The Bold Ones Broadway Television Theatre Buick-Electra Playhouse Cameo Theatre Camera Three The Campbell Playhouse, Campbell Soundstage and Campbell Summer Soundstage Cavalcade of America CBS Playhouse CBS Summer Playhouse CBS Television Workshop CBS Workshop, a. k. a. CBS Repertoire Workshop Celanese Theatre Celebrity Playhouse Center Stage Cheer Television Theatre The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre a. k. a, Chevrolet on Broadway Chevron Hall of Stars Chevron Theatre Climax. Gruen Guild Theatre The Gulf Playhouse Hallmark Hall of Fame Hollywood Opening Night Hollywood Premiere Theatre, Hollywood Theatre Time International Playhouse John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You The Joseph Cotten Show, a. k. a. k. a. Max Liebman Presents Medallion Theatre, a. k. a, grimms Fairy Tale Classics Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales for Every Child The Harveytoons Show KaBlam. Late Night, Black and White Legends of Bikini Bottom Liquid Television The Looney Tunes Show Mickey Mouse Works Mickeys Mouse Tracks O Canada Off the Air Oh Yeah. Cartoons The Pink Panther Show The Popeye Show The Porky Pig Show Princes et princesses Random. M. k. a. Terribles House of Horrible The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre El Chapulín Colorado Ripping Yarns George Burns Comedy Week Good Heavens Human Remains Inside No. k. a. k. a. k. a. k. a, orson Welles Great Mysteries Out of the Fog Panic. Way of Life Family Theater Insight Lamp Unto My Feet Look Up, the Fisher Family Alcoa Presents, One Step Beyond Amazing Stories American Horror Story Are You Afraid of the Dark. L. k. a
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Rawhide (TV series)
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Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, set in the 1860s, Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by the drovers of a cattle drive. Most episodes are introduced with a monologue by Gil Favor, the trail boss, in a typical Rawhide story, the drovers come upon people on the trail and are drawn into solving whatever problem they present or confront. Sometimes, one or more of the venture into a nearby town. Rowdy Yates was young and at times impetuous in the earliest episodes, Favor was a savvy and strong leader who always played square with his fellow men - a tough customer who could handle the challenges and get the job done. Favor had to fight at times and usually won, some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms, but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth. A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, in some ways, the show was similar to the TV series Wagon Train, which had debuted on NBC on September 18,1957. The series was not afraid to face tough issues, robert Culp played an ex-soldier on the drive who had become dangerously addicted to morphine. Mexican drover Jesús faced racism at times, trail boss Favor had been a Confederate captain in the war. Some American Indians demanded cattle as payment for going through their land, rough characters were in the shows, and in one episode Gil Favor was tortured by having his face held near a fire. In another episode, one titled Incident of the Town in Terror, people thought a sick Rowdy Yates had the plague, also, cattle rustlers were around, including Commancheros. The show could on occasions be eerily atmospheric, in episode 67, Incident Near the Promised Land, the cattle drive finally reached Sedalia. Unusually, episode 68 continues on from that, where the cattle have been sold, instead of the usual ending, wherein Gil Favor gives the command Head em up. And the cattle move off, this episode had the end titles over a view of a Sedalia street, episode 69 has Gil Favor visiting his two daughters, Gillian and Maggie, who live with their aunt Eleanor Bradley in Philadelphia. In episode 70, a number of the men are together and heading back to San Antonio about 650 miles away. These five episodes made up one storyline instead of the usual single-episode stories which could have been set anywhere in the West. Favor had many bad moments in the series, but none worse than the Lost Herd episode wherein, close to drives finish, he wants to beat another herd to town to get the best prices
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The DuPont Show with June Allyson
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The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21,1959 to April 3,1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12,1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson and was a Four Star-Pamric Production, Allyson was the third woman in network history to host such a series, her predecessors having been Loretta Young and Jane Wyman. Like Young and Wyman, she not only hosted the series, some of the best known actors appeared on the series, including then husband and studio boss Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Harpo Marx, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan. The Delaware-based DuPont Company also sponsored the DuPont Show of the Month, allysons series was filmed at Four Star Television Studios, a creation of Dick Powell as well as Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer, and David Niven. In the 1959-1960 season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson aired at 10,30 p. m. Eastern on Mondays after Jackie Coopers sitcom, Hennesey, ABC aired Charles Bronsons Man with a Camera in this same time slot. NBC ran the half of The Steve Allen Show, a variety program. In the second season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ran at 10,30 p. m. on Thursday after Edward R. Murrows Person to Person CBS interview program, there was little effective competition from the other networks in the Thursday slot. ABC aired Take a Good Look, a program starring Ernie Kovacs. The DuPont Show with June Allyson at the Internet Movie Database The DuPont Show with June Allyson at TV. com at CVTA with episode list
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Adventures in Paradise (TV series)
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USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective adventures of Korean War veteran Troy, the supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson. It has been recorded by artists, including Arthur Lyman, Santo & Johnny. The Atlantics, and Johnny Spence and his Orchestra, Newman was a senior music director for Twentieth Century Fox Films and was conductor and music supervisor for the Adventures in Paradise series. Lyrics to the theme were written by Dorcas Cochran, and are heard on the version recorded by Bing Crosby, Cochran is also credited as writer alongside Newman on some instrumental recordings
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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared
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Target: The Corruptors!
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Target, The Corruptors. is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29,1961 to June 8,1962. The series was produced by Dick Powells Four Star Television, the program was created by Lester Velie, who was also a co-producer. Velie had written articles about the New York City slums and the infiltration of organized crime into the garment industry and he also wrote about Teamsters President James Hoffa. Aired on Friday evenings after 77 Sunset Strip, then at the height of its six seasons on the air. The competition was Rod Serlings The Twilight Zone on CBS and the half of The Dinah Shore Show. There were also a number of Target, The Corruptors. McNally stars as newspaper reporter Paul Marino, the character of Jack Flood, Marinos undercover agent, was portrayed by Robert Harland. The pair infiltrated the mob and reported on different crimes in New York City, Stephen McNally Robert Harland Harold J. Stone Target, The Corruptors
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. The book was made into a film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet. A powerful, dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a crime series. This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty, Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was an episode entitled The Untouchables originally aired on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27,1959. CBS, which had broadcast most of Desilus television output since 1951 beginning with I Love Lucy, was offered the new series following the success of the pilot film, chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC agreed to air the series, and The Untouchables premiered on October 15,1959, in the pilot movie, the mobsters generally spoke with unrealistic pseudo-Italian accents, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series debuted. The weekly series first followed the premise of a struggle to establish a new boss in Capones absence. The show drew criticism from some Italian-Americans, including Frank Sinatra. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued CBS, Desilu Productions, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for their depiction of the Capone family. In the first episode of the first season, the character of Agent Rossi and they expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio, there will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of Rico Rossi, Nesss right-hand man on the show. The second episode of the series, for example, depicted Ness and his crew involved in the capture of the Ma Barker gang, the producers agreed to insert a spoken disclaimer on future broadcasts of the episode stating that the FBI had primary responsibility for the Barker case. The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each, the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle, quinn Martin produced the shows first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin. ** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as Youngblood. The Untouchables was notable for the number of past and future motion picture and television stars, and cult actors. Johnsons wife and manager rejected the deal, and demanded double the salary offer, Arnaz refused and signed Stack, instead
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Checkmate (TV series)
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Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Bennys production company, guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Lee Marvin, Mickey Rooney and many other prominent performers. The series chronicled the adventures of a detective agency set in San Francisco. Created by Eric Ambler, the program involves the cases of the agency called Checkmate. Dr. Hyatts dachshund Bismarck also appears occasionally, Ken Lynch is frequently seen as police dept. contact Lt. Thomas Brand. The series was a critical favorite, many exterior scenes were shot in San Francisco. In 1961 John J. Lloyd won the shows sole Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, the icon for this series is swirling liquid shapes at the opening and closing of each episode with theme music. Series star Anthony George left his role as Federal Agent Cam Allison on The Untouchables, to front his own series. In 1962, Gold Key Comics published a comic book based on the series. The series aired on CBS on Saturday in the 8, 30-9,30 PM time slot from its début on September 17,1960 until June 24,1961, the series was a hit that season, finishing at #21 among all series. It was then reprogrammed to Wednesday in the time slot from October 4,1961 to June 20,1962. CBS replaced it with The Beverly Hillbillies, the series was also seen in Canada from 1961 on CTV during that networks initial season. Carl Hyatt Doug McClure. Jed Sills Ken Lynch. Lt, collections on DVD in Region 1. Checkmate, The Best of Season 1 was released on October 30,2009 and Checkmate, club article on Checkmate episode The Paper Killer
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
