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Japandroids
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Japandroids are a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting of Brian King and David Prowse. Formed in 2006, the rose to prominence following the release of their debut album Post-Nothing. Japandroids toured heavily in support of albums, gaining notoriety for their live performances and extensive international concert tours. Between 2009 and 2013, the band performed approximately 500 shows in 44 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Japandroids was formed in 2006 by Brian King and David Prowse. In 2003, Prowse moved to Vancouver, transferring to Simon Fraser University, eager to form their own band, King agreed to relocate to Vancouver following his graduation, doing so in 2005. Heavily influenced by the raw and energetic recordings of the Sonics, King and Prowse began writing and recording music in 2006, hoping to emulate the same style. While they originally intended to find a member to act as lead vocalist, they later decided to forego having a specific lead singer. The name Japandroids came from two other band name ideas, Japanese Scream and Pleasure Droids, occasionally they would spell it without vowels, as JPNDRDS. Frustrated by the lack of support for music in Vancouver, as well as the difficulty of breaking into the local music scene, King. Japandroids performed their first live show on December 30,2006, over the next 2 years, they would perform regularly in Vancouver, but managed only short, sporadic tours due to conflicts with Kings career in Geology. During this period, Japandroids self-released two EPs, 2007s All Lies, and 2008s Lullaby Death Jams, each EP was limited to 500 copies, and would later be re-released as a compilation titled No Singles. Japandroids recorded their first full-length album, Post-Nothing in the summer of 2008, however, by the fall of 2008, King and Prowse had become convinced that the band was going nowhere, and mutually decided to call it quits at the end of the year. It was agreed that their appearances at Pop Montreal in Montreal and it was also agreed that they would self-release the album early in 2009, but would not promote it. By December 2008, King was already attempting to assemble a new band, in January 2009, Japandroids signed to independent Canadian label Unfamiliar Records, who were eager to release the album, despite the bands reservations about continuing. Frustrated by label interest only after they had decided to break-up, King and Prowse reluctantly agreed to continue Japandroids temporarily, and began performing live again. In March 2009, taste-making website Pitchfork Media awarded the song Young Hearts Spark Fire a Best New Track designation and their debut album, Post-Nothing was released in Canada in April 2009, originally on vinyl only. Pitchfork immediately championed the album, awarding it a Best New Music designation, Japandroids were subsequently signed to Polyvinyl Record Co. in June 2009. Post-Nothing was released worldwide in August 2009 to widespread critical acclaim, named it the second best album of 2009
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Order of the British Empire
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There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most members are citizens of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth realms that use the Imperial system of honours and awards. Honorary knighthoods are appointed to citizens of nations where the Queen is not head of state, occasionally, honorary appointees are, incorrectly, referred to as Sir or Dame – Bill Gates or Bob Geldof, for example. In particular, King George V wished to create an Order to honour many thousands of those who had served in a variety of non-combatant roles during the First World War, when first established, the Order had only one division. However, in 1918, soon after its foundation, it was divided into Military. The Orders motto is For God and the Empire, at the foundation of the Order, the Medal of the Order of the British Empire was instituted, to serve as a lower award granting recipients affiliation but not membership. In 1922, this was renamed the British Empire Medal, in addition, the BEM is awarded by the Cook Islands and by some other Commonwealth nations. The British monarch is Sovereign of the Order, and appoints all members of the Order. The next most senior member is the Grand Master, of whom there have been three, Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, and the current Grand Master, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross,845 Knights and Dames Commander, and 8,960 Commanders. There are no limits applied to the number of members of the fourth and fifth classes. Foreign recipients, as members, do not contribute to the numbers restricted to the Order as full members do. Though men can be knighted separately from an order of chivalry, women cannot, and so the rank of Knight/Dame Commander of the Order is the lowest rank of damehood, and second-lowest of knighthood. Because of this, Dame Commander is awarded in circumstances in which a man would be created a Knight Bachelor, for example, by convention, female judges of the High Court of Justice are created Dames Commander after appointment, while male judges become Knights Bachelor. The Order has six officials, the Prelate, the Dean, the Secretary, the Registrar, the King of Arms, the Bishop of London, a senior bishop in the Church of England, serves as the Orders Prelate. The Dean of St Pauls is ex officio the Dean of the Order, the Orders King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms, as are many other heraldic officers. From time to time, individuals are appointed to a higher grade within the Order, thereby ceasing usage of the junior post-nominal letters
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Bristol
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Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 449,300 in 2016. The district has the 10th largest population in England, while the Bristol metropolitan area is the 12th largest in the United Kingdom, the city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts, Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham in the Industrial Revolution. Bristol was a place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, in 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, the Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. Bristols modern economy is built on the media, electronics and aerospace industries. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U. K. - the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air by the M5 and M4, Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations, and Bristol Airport. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, the most ancient recorded name for Bristol is the archaic Welsh Caer Odor, which is consistent with modern understanding that early Bristol developed between the River Frome and Avon Gorge. It is most commonly stated that the Saxon name Bricstow was a calque of the existing Celtic name, with Bric a literal translation of Odor. Alternative etymologies are supported with the numerous variations in Medieval documents with Samuel Seyer enumerating 47 alternative forms. The Old English form Brycgstow is commonly used to derive the meaning place at the bridge, utilizing another form, Brastuile, Rev. Dr. Shaw derived the name from the Celtic words bras, or braos and tuile. The poet Thomas Chatterton popularised a derivation from Brictricstow linking the town to Brictric and it appears that the form Bricstow prevailed until 1204, and the Bristolian L is what eventually changed the name to Bristol. Iron Age hill forts near the city are at Leigh Woods and Clifton Down, on the side of the Avon Gorge, a Roman settlement, Abona, existed at what is now Sea Mills, another was at the present-day Inns Court. Isolated Roman villas and small forts and settlements were scattered throughout the area. Bristol was founded by 1000, by about 1020, it was a centre with a mint producing silver pennies bearing its name
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Bristol Grammar School
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Bristol Grammar School is an independent day school located in Tyndalls Park, Bristol. Founded in 1532 by brothers Robert and Nicholas Thorne as an all-boys school, the headmaster is a member of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference. The school is in three sections, the Infant and Junior School, Senior School and Sixth Form, the school motto Ex Spinis Uvas, which translates as Grapes From Thorns, is a play upon the names of the school founders Robert and Nicholas Thorne. The school became a direct grant grammar school in 1946 as a result of the Education Act 1944, the Grammar School over the Frome Gate was in the care of its first schoolmaster, Thomas Moffat, when good fortune stepped in to secure its future. The Thorne family were wealthy Bristol merchants, friends of men like John Cabot and they wished to endow a school where the sons of Bristol merchants and tradesmen could receive an education. There the boys learnt Latin and Greek, Divinity and some Hebrew, by 1767, the buildings were cramped. This exchange was carried out, and Charles Lee proceeded to enjoy his new school by reducing the numbers of boys. The School was set to rights in 1812, but education was moving away from the classics and it received a new scheme in 1847 and re-opened in January 1848 with 300 pupils. By 1870 the headmaster told the Endowed Schools Commission that the school was full to overflowing with 240 boys, at that time, Bristol had substantial hospital endowments but these were mostly spent on charity rather than education. The assistant charity commissioner proposed a scheme that would reorganise the objectives of the schools and secure funding for the Grammar School. After several years of debate and negotiation the initiative was approved in 1875, the first buildings in Tyndalls Park were occupied in 1879, the Big School, with its Great Hall, and the Headmasters House, a modest dwelling which is now the Junior School. Further classrooms were added, a Gymnasium and a Fives Court and these have been rebuilt as art rooms and rehearsal rooms, but the Winterstoke wing still houses the laboratories which were added in 1914. The Preparatory School began in 1900, and in 1928 moved into its own building on Elton Road, the Prep Hall, which survived, is now the Mackay Theatre. The Elton Road ruin was rebuilt as classrooms under John Garrett, there are six Houses in the Senior School, each named after its Head of House. Each student is placed in one of the six House groups at the beginning of their time in the Senior School, House activities include plays, music competitions and inter-House sporting tournaments. The House names and colours are, Scotts Diamonds Edwardss Catchpoles Shorts Hilliards House colours are awarded, School colours are awarded to pupils typically in their final year, who perform exceptionally well in sport or any other school activity. They would be expected to compete in a team and show continued commitment. This was extended to include performing arts, awarding several students colours for their contribution to concerts, plays, the size of teaching groups ranges from 25 students per teacher in lower years to occasionally one per teacher
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Bodybuilding
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Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop ones musculature. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder, the winner of the annual IFBB Mr. Olympia contest is generally recognized as the worlds top male professional bodybuilder. The title is held by Phil Heath, who has won every year from 2011 to 2016. The winner of the Womens Physique portion of the competition is widely regarded as the top female professional bodybuilder. The title is held by Juliana Malacarne, who has won every year since 2014. Since 1950, the NABBA Universe Championships have been considered the top amateur bodybuilding contests, with notable winners such as Reg Park, Lee Priest, Steve Reeves, stone-lifting traditions were practised in ancient Egypt and Greece. Western weightlifting developed in Europe from 1880 to 1953, with strongmen displaying feats of strength for the public, the focus was not on their physique, and they often had large bellies and fatty limbs. Bodybuilding developed in the late 19th century, promoted in England by German Eugen Sandow, now called the Father of Modern Bodybuilding and he allowed audiences to enjoy viewing his physique in muscle display performances. Although audiences were thrilled to see a well-developed physique, the men simply displayed their bodies as part of demonstrations or wrestling matches. Sandow had a stage show built around these displays through his manager, the Oscar-winning 1936 musical film The Great Ziegfeld depicts this beginning of modern bodybuilding, when Sandow began to display his body for carnivals. Sandow was so successful at flexing and posing his physique that he created several businesses around his fame. He was credited with inventing and selling the first exercise equipment for the masses, machined dumbbells, spring pulleys, even his image was sold by the thousands in cabinet cards and other prints. Sandow was a perfect gracilian, a standard of ideal body proportions close to those of ancient Greek, men were judged by how closely they matched these proportions. Sandow organised the first bodybuilding contest on September 14,1901 and it was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Judged by Sandow, Sir Charles Lawes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the trophy presented to the winner was a gold statue of Sandow sculpted by Frederick Pomeroy. The winner was William L. Murray of Nottingham, the silver Sandow trophy was presented to second-place winner D. Cooper. The bronze Sandow trophy, now the most famous of all, was presented to third-place winner A. C. Smythe, in 1950, this same bronze trophy was presented to Steve Reeves for winning the inaugural NABBA Mr. Universe. It would not resurface again until 1977, when the winner of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, Frank Zane, was presented with the bronze trophy, since then, Mr. Olympia winners have been awarded a replica of the bronze trophy
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Olympic weightlifting
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The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors, a lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total, and therefore receives an incomplete entry for the competition. The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form, properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed. The sport is controlled by the International Weightlifting Federation, based in Budapest, it was founded in 1905. Athletes compete in a division determined by their body mass, there have been eight male divisions and eight female divisions since 2017. Prizes are usually given for the heaviest weights lifted in each, the order of the competition is up to the lifters—the competitor who chooses to attempt the lowest weight goes first. The barbell is loaded incrementally and progresses to a heavier weight throughout the course of competition, weights are set in 1 kilogram increments. When a tie occurs, the athlete with the lower bodyweight is declared the winner, if two athletes lift the same total weight and have the same bodyweight, the winner is the athlete who lifted the total weight first. During competition, the event takes place first, followed by a short intermission. Two successes are required for any attempt to pass, usually, the judges and referees results are registered via a lighting system with a white light indicating a successful lift and a red light indicating a failed lift. This is done for the benefit of all in attendance be they athlete, coach, in addition, one or two technical officials may be present to advise during a ruling. At local competitions, a Best Lifter title is commonly awarded and it is awarded to both the best mens and womens lifters. Competition to establish who can lift the heaviest weight has been recorded throughout civilization, with the earliest known recordings including those found in Egypt, China, today, the modern sport of weightlifting traces its origins to the European competitions of the 19th century. The first male champion was crowned in 1891, the weightlifters were not categorized by weight at this time. The first Olympic Games of 1896 included weightlifting in the Field event of the predecessor to todays track, during the 1900 Olympic Games, there was no weightlifting event. Weightlifting resumed as an event, again in athletics, in 1904 but was omitted from the Games of 1908 and 1912 and these were the last Games until after the First World War. In these early Games, a distinction was drawn between lifting with one only and lifting with two hands
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Character actor
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A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract, in a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play characters, but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role. In either case, character actor roles are more substantial than bit parts or non-speaking extras, the term is used primarily to describe television and film actors, and is less used to describe theater actors. An early use of the term was in the 1883 edition of The Stage, Actors with a long career history of playing character roles may be difficult for audiences to recognize as being the same actor, if they play such roles convincingly and memorably. Unlike leading actors, they are seen as less glamorous. Generally, the names of actors are not featured prominently in movie and television advertising on the marquee. Some character actors have distinctive voices or accents, or they develop memorable mannerisms, a character actor with a long career may not have a well-known name, yet may be instantly recognizable. During the course of a career, an actor can sometimes shift between leading roles and secondary roles. Some leading actors, as they get older, find that access to leading roles is limited by their increasing age, in the past, actors of color, who were often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited, found work performing ethnic stereotypes. Sometimes character actors have developed based on specific talents needed in genre films, such as dancing, horsemanship, acrobatics, swimming ability. Some character actors develop a following with a particular audience. Ed Lauter usually portrayed a menacing figure because of his long, angular face which was recognized in public. Character actors can play a variety of types, such as the femme fatale, gunslinger, sidekick, town drunk, villain, whore with a heart of gold, Character actors subsume themselves into the characters they portray, such that their off-screen acting persona is practically unrecognizable. According to one view, great actors are rarely out of work. They are also highly regarded by fellow actors. Stock character Commedia dellarte Quinlan, David, quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors. Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting
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Darth Vader
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Darth Vader, also known by his birth name Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. The character was created by George Lucas and has been portrayed by numerous actors and his appearances span the first six Star Wars films, as well as Rogue One, and his character is heavily referenced in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. He is also an important character in the Star Wars expanded universe of television series, video games, novels, literature and comic books. Originally a Jedi prophesied to bring balance to the Force, he falls to the side of the Force and serves the evil Galactic Empire at the right hand of his Sith master. He is also the father of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa, grandfather of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture, and has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever. The American Film Institute listed him as the third greatest movie villain in history on 100 Years. 100 Heroes and Villains, behind Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates, however, other critics consider him a tragic hero, citing his original motivations for the greater good before his fall to the dark side. After the success of the original Star Wars, series creator George Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write the sequel with him and they held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment. The treatment is similar to the film, except that Vader does not reveal he is Lukes father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Lukes father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke, Lucas was disappointed with the script, but Brackett died of cancer before he could discuss it with her. With no writer available, Lucas had to write the next draft himself, in this draft, he made use of a new plot twist, Vader claiming to be Lukes father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, the new plot element of Lukes parentage had drastic effects on the series. Anakin battled Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was badly wounded, meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. This change in character would provide a springboard to the Tragedy of Darth Vader storyline that underlies the prequel trilogy, after deciding to create the prequel trilogy, Lucas indicated the series would be a tragic one depicting Anakins fall to the dark side. He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one story that started with Anakins childhood. This was the step towards turning the film series into a saga. For the first prequel, Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vaders shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the characters eventual fate. The movie ultimately achieved a goal of introducing audiences to Anakin
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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones is an American actor. His career has spanned more than 60 years, and he has described as one of Americas most distinguished and versatile actors. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won awards, including a Tony Award. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the year in 1991, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disneys The Lion King as well as many other film, stage. As a child Jones had a stutter, in his episode of Biography, he said he overcame the affliction through poetry, public speaking, and acting, although it lasted for several years. A pre-med major in college, he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting, on November 12,2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award. On November 9,2015, Jones received the Voice Arts Icon Award, Jones and his father reconciled many years later. His parents were African-American, and Jones has learned they also had Irish, from the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly, who had moved from Mississippi and had a farm in Jackson, Michigan. Jones has described his grandmother, Maggie, as the most racist person I have ever known and his grandmother was of African-American, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. Jones found the transition to his grandparents in Michigan traumatic, when his family moved to Brethren, Michigan, a teacher helped him overcome his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years, until he entered high school and he credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence. Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak, so my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and excelled and he felt comfortable within the structure of the military environment, and enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Team and Scabbard and Blade Honor Society. During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a doctor, after four years of college, Jones graduated from the university in 1955. With the war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed as soon as he received his commission as a second lieutenant. As he waited for his orders, he worked as a stage crew hand at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan. Jones was commissioned in mid-1953 and reported to Fort Benning to attend Infantry Officers Basic Course and he then attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab
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I Am Your Father
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I Am Your Father is a 2015 Spanish documentary film written and directed by Marcos Cabotá. The film dealt with actor David Prowse many years after the role of Darth Vader, David Prowse was a bodybuilder and actor who famously portrayed the role of Darth Vader. However, unlike most Star Wars stars, he was relatively obscure since James Earl Jones dubbed Vaders voice, Prowse lives anonymously in Croydon, a suburb of London. The story begins when a young filmmaker travels to London to propose that Prowse reshoot scenes from the trilogy and their goal was to prove that Prowse could have played Darth Vader in that particular scene. In a symbolic way, the director, assisted by a group of enthusiastic fans, in this documentary, the directors will find some clues about the difficult relationship between Prowse and Lucasfilm. Apparently, the reason for their differences was an article published by a British newspaper during the shooting of Return of the Jedi, I Am Your Father was originally released in Spain on 20 November 2015. The film was released internationally through Netflix on September 2016. The film was featured at the 47th International Film Festival of India on November 2016. I Am Your Father at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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British culture
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The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture, and Humanism, Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture. British literature, music, cinema, art, theatre, comedy, media, television, philosophy, architecture, the United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology, producing world-leading scientists and inventions. Sport is an important part of British culture, numerous sports originated in the country, the UK has been described as a cultural superpower, and London has been described as a world cultural capital. The Industrial Revolution, which started in the UK, had an effect on the socio-economic. These states are collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britains closest allies. In turn the empire also influenced British culture, particularly British cuisine, the cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness. First spoken in early medieval England, the English language is the de facto language of the UK. Individual countries within the UK have frameworks for the promotion of their indigenous languages, Irish and Ulster Scots enjoy limited use alongside English in Northern Ireland, mainly in publicly commissioned translations. There is also a campaign under way to recognise Scots as a language in Scotland, the Cornish language enjoys neither official recognition nor promotion by the state in Cornwall. Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the UK Government has committed to the promotion of linguistic traditions. The United Kingdom has ratified the charter for, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Scots, Cornish, British Sign Language is also a recognised language. Owing to its history, dialects and regional accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom. Some cities in close proximity have a different dialect and accent, such as Scousers from Liverpool, notable Scouse speakers include John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles while Mancunians include Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis. Received Pronunciation is the accent of standard English in the UK, brummie is the dialect of natives of Birmingham in the west midlands of England – notable Brummies include rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Lynne, and Rob Halford. Geordie is the dialect of people from Tyneside in northeast England – musicians Brian Johnson, Mark Knopfler, notable exponents of the Scottish accent include Sean Connery, comedian Billy Connolly, and The Proclaimers. The West Country accent from southwest England is identified in film as pirate speech – cartoon-like Ooh arr, talk is very similar, while famous pirates hailed from this region, including Blackbeard, West Country native Robert Newtons performance as Long John Silver in films standardised the pirate voice. The Northern Irish accent includes golfer Rory McIlroy and actor Liam Neeson, the early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. From the late 18th century, the Romantic period showed a flowering of poetry comparable with the Renaissance 200 years earlier, in Scotland the poetry of Robert Burns revived interest in Scots literature, and the Weaver Poets of Ulster were influenced by literature from Scotland
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Green Cross Code
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The Green Cross Code is a brand created by the National Road Safety Committee to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the United Kingdom. The multimedia Green Cross Code campaign began in 1970 and continues today, the Green Cross Code replaced the earlier Kerb Drill pedestrian safety campaign, the Kerb Drills military style was deemed confusing to children by safety authorities. Tufty Fluffytail, a red squirrel character, was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills MBE to introduce clear. The success of the led to the creation in 1961 of the Tufty Club for children under five years of age. Under its auspices more than 30,000 Tufty books about road safety were issued to parents, at its peak there were nearly 25,000 branches of the Tufty Club throughout the UK, and by the early 1970s an estimated two million children were members. The movement continued into the 1980s, the Green Cross Code itself is a short step-by-step procedure designed to enable pedestrians to cross streets safely. While the Code has undergone changes over the years, the basic tenets have remained more or less the same. The 2005 version of the Green Cross Code reads as follows, find the safest place to cross, then stop. Stand on the pavement near the kerb, look all around for traffic, and listen. WAIT UNTIL ITS SAFE TO CROSS, if traffic is coming, let it pass. When its safe, walk straight across the road, keep looking and listening The Green Cross Man is a costumed superhero character created in 1970 as an aid to teaching young children the Green Cross Code, and for promoting general road safety. The light-hearted spots ran on UK television from 1975 to 1990, in the films, Green Cross Man has the power to teleport from his monitoring station at Green Cross Control to any location where children are in need of pedestrian safety instruction. He accomplishes this by use of a wristwatch-like dematerialiser device, on these missions he is sometimes accompanied by a whimsical robot companion. His signature exclamation of surprise or disbelief is Green Crosses. the Green Cross Code Man was revived with two short films produced for Road Safety Week 2014. David Prowse again took the role, at the age of 79. The new campaign aimed to adults the dangers of using smartphones, wearing headphones. The film was updated to cartoon form, voiced by Derek Griffiths. In 1983, the television adverts employed a Green Cross Code rap based on the hit The Message by Grandmaster Flash, the original lyrics of Dont push me cos Im close to the edge were replaced with Dont step out when youre close to the edge
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Southmead
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Southmead is a northern suburb and council ward of Bristol, in the southwest of England. The town of Filton, and the Bristol suburbs of Monks Park, Horfield, Henleaze, the River Trym rises in Southmead and flows southwest through Badocks Wood, a Local Nature Reserve. There is a barrow near the northern end of the wood. Southmead was a manor of the parish of Westbury on Trym, the manor house, mentioned in a document of 1319, was near the south end of what is now Southmead Road. Most of the estate of 313 acres was sold in the late 19th century, by 1888 Southmead was a small hamlet on Southmead Road. Southmead Hospital, formerly the Barton Regis Workhouse, was opened there in 1924, a further 1,100 houses were built after World War II. Since then, reference has often made to the pre-war estate of Southmead. The centre of Southmead is along Greystoke Avenue, a road with grassy areas some distance to the North of the original hamlet on Southmead Road. The area to the South and West, falls within Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze ward since the last boundary review, parts of Southmead to the South East of Southmead Road, including the hospital, are in Horfield ward. Efforts have been made to improve the social problems and implement environmental improvements. Social policies have led to a mixed housing offer and to some extent gentrification, with improved infrastructure. The right to buy has led to a transfer of housing provision from tenanted to owner-occupation. Major employment hubs at Filton, MOD Abbey Wood and the increase of services at Southmead Hospital have brought increased affluence, a greater selection of shops and facilities have come to the area, allowing those on limited incomes to access food more cheaply and readily. Whilst Southmead as an area looks and feels as though it is improving, the Central part of Southmead still sits within the most 10% deprived areas of England, and the South West of the Ward since 2015 now falls within the bottom 10-20% most deprived areas. Ongoing social policies and economic impacts are taking time to improve the area. There has however been a transfer of public services away from resources to more central, virtual. For example, the Southmead Police Station is due to close, council tenant services are to be reduced at Southmead House off Greystoke Avenue. Bus services, whilst sometimes locally critiqued, are accessible and more frequent as compared to other areas of the City
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Bouncer (doorman)
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A bouncer is a type of security guard, employed at venues such as bars, nightclubs, stripclubs or concerts. A bouncers duties are to provide security, check legal age, to entry for intoxicated persons. Bouncers are often required where crowd size, clientele or alcohol consumption may make arguments or fights a possibility, in many countries, federal or state governments have taken steps to professionalise the industry by requiring bouncers to have training, licensing, and a criminal records background check. However, the history of the occupation suggests that the stereotype of bouncers as rough, tough. Historical references also suggest that the function of guarding a place and selecting who can have entry to it could at times be an honorific. The significance of the doorman as the person allowing entry is found in a number of Mesopotamian myths, doormen or bouncers are usually larger persons who display great strength and size. The Romans had a known as the Ostiarius, initially a slave, who guarded the door. The term later become a low-ranking clergy title, plautus, in his play Bacchides, mentions a large and powerful doorman / bouncer as a threat to get an unwelcome visitor to leave. The word bouncer was first popularized in a novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. called The Young Outlaw, Alger was an immensely popular author in the 19th century, especially with young people and his books were widely quoted. When liberty verges on license and gaiety on wanton delirium, the Bouncer selects the gayest of the gay, 19th century In US Western towns in the 1870s, high-class brothels known as good houses or parlour houses hired bouncers for security and to prevent patrons from evading payment. Considered themselves the cream of the crop, and scorned those who worked in saloons, dance halls, the best bordellos looked like respectable mansions, with attractively decorated parlours, a game room and a dance hall. The protective presence of bouncers in high-class brothels was, one of the reasons the girls considered themselves superior to free-lancers, who lacked any such shepherds. In Wisconsins lumberjack days, bouncers would physically remove drinkers who were too drunk to keep buying drinks, in the late 19th century, until Prohibition, bouncers also had the unusual role of protecting the saloons buffet. To attract business. many saloons lured customers with offers of a free lunch—usually well salted to inspire drinking, in the late 19th century, bouncers at small town dances and bars physically resolved disputes and removed troublemakers, without worrying about lawsuits. In the main bar in one Iowa town. there were many quarrels, many fights, there were no court costs, only some aches and pains. Huge bouncers patrolled these venues of vice and roughly ejected anyone who violated the rules of decorum by engaging in pick-pocketing, jewellry thieving. During the 1890s, San Diego had a similarly rough waterfront area and redlight district called the Stingaree, prostitutes worked at the areas 120 bawdy houses in small rooms, paying a fee to the procurer who usually was the bouncer or protector of the brothel. The more expensive, higher-class brothels were called parlour houses, and they were run most decorously, to maintain the high-class atmosphere at these establishments, male patrons were expected to act like gentlemen
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Henleaze
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Henleaze is a northern suburb of the city of Bristol in South West England. It is an almost entirely residential inter-war development, with Edwardian streets on its southern fringes and its main neighbours are Westbury on Trym, Horfield, Bishopston and Redland. Henleaze is also the name of a ward for Bristol City Council, the name of Henleaze probably derives from a Robert Henley, who in 1659 bought a property which became known as Henleys House and later as Henleaze Park. The area was a part of the parish of Westbury on Trym until 1896. Most of the rest of the area was developed in the 1920s, Henleaze is in the Bristol North West constituency, and the MP for the area is Charlotte Leslie, a Conservative. There are two seats on Bristol City Council for Henleaze ward both held by Liberal Democrats. Up until the early 1990s, it was a solid Conservative area, however The Liberal Democrats established a solid position up until 2006. In the 2009 elections, when the Liberal Democrats took control of the City Council, Henleaze would have fallen to them if the swing had been just 1. 5% higher. Henleaze is one of the most affluent areas of the city, Henleaze Lake, a flooded former quarry on the northern edge of Henleaze near Southmead and Westbury on Trym, has been the home of Henleaze Swimming Club since 1919. The other former quarry was filled in and made into a park and it was recently renovated with the help of a grant from the National Lottery for the provision of play equipment, seating and flower beds. Henleaze also features newsagents, bakeries, supermarkets and charity-shops, as well as a library, the Orpheus cinema which is run by King Harold and Scott Cinemas, Henleaze Old Boys Cricket Club was formed in 2005 and play at the neighbouring Golden Hill Cricket ground. The membership of the club is primarily former Henleaze Junior School pupils, Henleaze parish church, St Peters, was designed and built in 1926 by A. V. Gough. Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church was built in 1907 and designed by Frank Wills, St Ursulas High School in Brecon Road dates from the mid 19th century and is grade II listed. 12 The Drive, Greystone House is grade II listed, the Old Lodge built circa 1810 is grade II listed. Shown under Listed Buildings and Structures 10 metres south of 14 Eastfield - Hand Pump - Mid C19 cast iron, round shaft and a long curved handle with a ball end is grade II listed. 20 Eastfield is grade II listed,10 Eastfield is grade II listed. The Henleaze Book The Henleaze Society Map of Henleaze circa 1900
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Powerlifting
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Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts, squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximum weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. Powerlifting evolved from a known as odd lifts, which followed the same three-attempt format but used a wider variety of events. Eventually odd lifts became standardized to the current three, in competition, lifts may be performed equipped or un-equipped. Equipment in this context refers to a bench shirt or squat/deadlift suit or briefs. In some federations, knee wraps are permitted in the equipped but not un-equipped division, in others, Weight belts, knee sleeves, wrist wraps and special footwear may also be used, but are not considered when distinguishing equipped from un-equipped lifting. Powerlifting has been a Paralympic sport since 1984 and, under the IPF, is also a World Games sport, local, national and international competitions have also been sanctioned by other federations operating independently of the IPF. The roots of powerlifting are in traditions of strength training stretching back as far as Greek, the modern sport originated in the United States and the UK in the 1950s. Previously, the governing bodies in both countries had recognized various odd lifts for competition and record purposes. During the 1950s, Olympic weightlifting declined in the United States, in 1958, the AAUs National Weightlifting Committee decided to begin recognizing records for odd lifts. A national championship was scheduled for 1959, but it never happened. The first genuine national meet was held in September 1964 under the auspices of the York Barbell Company, ironically, Bob Hoffman, the owner of York Barbell, had been a long-time adversary of the sport. But his company was now making powerlifting equipment to make up for the sales it had lost on Olympic-style equipment, the magazines first Editor was the world-renowned John Grimek. During the late 1950s and early 1960s various odd lift events gradually developed into the specific lifts – the bench press, the squat, in 1965 the first named USA National Championships were held. During the same period, lifting in Britain also had factions, although at that time there were 42 recognized lifts, the Strength Set soon became the standard competition lifts, and both organizations held Championships on these lifts until 1965. In 1966, the Society of Amateur Weightlifters re-joined BAWLA and, in order to fall into line with the American lifts, the first British Championship was held in 1966. During the late 1960s and at the beginning of the 1970s, at the same time, in early November of each year and to commemorate Bob Hoffmans birthday, a prestige lifting contest was always held as part of Bob Hoffmans Birthday Party. In 1971, it was decided to make this event the World Weightlifting Championships, there was no such thing as teams and thus was predominantly a whole bunch of American lifters, plus four from Great Britain and one from the West Indies
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1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
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The 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Perth, Western Australia, Australia from 22 November to 1 December 1962. Athletic events were held at Perry Lakes Stadium in the suburb of Floreat and they were held after the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games for wheelchair athletes. Most venues other than the specifically constructed Beatty Park, and Perry Lakes Stadium, were existing facilities, note, The medals used at these Games were the first to have a neck chain. All previous games had their medals in presentation boxes
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Perth
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Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2.06 million living in Greater Perth. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the central business district. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status in 1856, and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city is named after Perth, Scotland, due to the influence of Sir George Murray, Member of Parliament for Perthshire and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The citys population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia. During Australias involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for operating in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of immigrants after the war, predominantly from Britain, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia, Aboriginal people have inhabited the Perth area for 38,000 years, as evidenced by archaeological remains at Upper Swan. The Noongar people occupied the southwest corner of Western Australia and lived as hunter-gatherers, the wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain were particularly important to them, both spiritually and as a source of food. The Noongar people know the area where Perth now stands as Boorloo, Boorloo formed part of Mooro, the tribal lands of Yellagongas group, one of several based around the Swan River and known collectively as the Whadjuk. The Whadjuk were part of a group of fourteen tribes that formed the south-west socio-linguistic block known as the Noongar. The judgment was overturned on appeal, the first documented sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697. The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, Captain James Stirling, aboard Parmelia, said that Perth was as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed. On 12 August that year, Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship, Sulphur. The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantles diary entry for 12 August, Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, and was in 1829 Secretary of State for the Colonies and Member for Perthshire in the British House of Commons. The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murrays honour, the racial relations between the Noongar people and the Europeans were strained due to these happenings. Because of the amount of building in and around Boorloo
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Christopher Reeve
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Christopher DOlier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, activist and former sportsman. He achieved stardom for his achievements, in particular. He is best known for his motion picture portrayal of the classic DC comic book superhero Superman, Reeve appeared in other critically acclaimed films such as Street Smart and The Remains of the Day. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the remake of Rear Window. On May 27,1995, Reeve became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse during a competition in Culpeper. He was confined to a wheelchair and required a ventilator for the rest of his life. He lobbied on behalf of people with spinal injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research, founding the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Christopher Reeve was born on September 25,1952, in New York City, the son of Barbara Pitney, a journalist, and Franklin DOlier Reeve, a teacher, novelist, poet, and scholar. Reeve was of almost entirely English ancestry, with family lines that had been in America since the early 1600s. Reeves mother was the granddaughter of Mahlon Pitney, a U. S. Supreme Court Justice, and a descendant of William Bradford, Reeves father was a Princeton University graduate studying for a masters degree in Russian at Columbia University prior to the birth of his son, Christopher. Despite being born wealthy, Franklin Reeve spent summers working at the docks with longshoremen, Reeves mother had been a student at Vassar College but transferred to Barnard College to be closer to Franklin, whom she had met through a family connection. They had another son, Benjamin, born on October 6,1953, Franklin and Barbara divorced in 1956, and she moved with her two sons to Princeton, New Jersey, where they attended Nassau Street School. Later that year, Franklin Reeve married Helen Schmidinger, a Columbia University graduate student, Barbara Pitney Lamb married Tristam B. Johnson enrolled Christopher and his brother, Benjamin, in Princeton Country Day School, Reeve excelled academically, athletically, and onstage, he was on the honor roll and played soccer, baseball, tennis, and hockey. The sportsmanship award at Princeton Day Schools invitational hockey tournament was named in Reeves honor, Reeve admitted that he put pressure on himself to act older than he actually was in order to gain his fathers approval. Reeve found his passion in 1962 at age nine when he was cast in a version of the play The Yeomen of the Guard. In mid-1968, at age fifteen, Reeve was accepted as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, the other apprentices were mostly college students, but Reeves older appearance and maturity helped him fit in with the others. In a workshop, he played a scene from A View from the Bridge that was chosen to be presented in front of an audience, after the performance, actress Olympia Dukakis said to him, Im surprised
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Superman
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Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school living in Cleveland, Ohio. They sold Superman to Detective Comics, the future DC Comics, Superman debuted in Action Comics #1 and subsequently appeared in various radio serials, newspaper strips, television programs, films, and video games. With this success, Superman helped to create the superhero archetype, the character is also referred to by such epithets as the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, and The Last Son of Krypton. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farm couple, the child is raised as Clark Kent, very early on he started to display various superhuman abilities, which, upon reaching maturity, he resolved to use for the benefit of humanity through a secret Superman identity. Superman resides and operates in the fictional American city of Metropolis, as Clark Kent, he is a journalist for the Daily Planet, a Metropolis newspaper. Supermans love interest is generally Lois Lane, and his archenemy is supervillain Lex Luthor and he is typically a member of the Justice League and close ally of Batman and Wonder Woman. Like other characters in the DC Universe, several versions of Superman have been depicted over the years. Supermans appearance is distinctive and iconic, he wears a blue costume with a red-and-yellow emblem on the chest, consisting of the letter S in a shield shape. This shield is used in media to symbolize the character. Superman is widely considered an American cultural icon and he has fascinated scholars, with cultural theorists, commentators, and critics alike exploring the characters impact and role in the United States and worldwide. The characters ownership has often been the subject of dispute, with Siegel, the character has been adapted extensively and portrayed in other forms of media as well, including films, television series, and video games. Several actors have portrayed Superman in motion pictures and TV series including Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill, Siegels fanzine did not sell well. Siegel and Shuster shifted to making comic strips, which they self-published in a book they called Popular Comics, the pair dreamed of becoming professional authors and believed that syndicated newspaper strips offered more lucrative and stable work than pulp magazines. The art quality standards were lower, making them more accessible to the inexperienced Shuster. In early 1933 or in 1934, Siegel developed a new character, also named Superman, but now a heroic character and this first prototype of Superman had no fantastic abilities and wore casual clothing. Siegel and Shuster often compared this version to Slam Bradley, a character they created in 1936. Siegel shared his idea with Shuster and they decided to turn it into a comic strip, the first publisher they solicited was Humor Publishing in Chicago, after having read one of their comic books, Detective Dan
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Cary Elwes
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Ivan Simon Cary Elwes, known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and writer. He is best known for his roles in such as The Princess Bride, Glory, Robin Hood, Men in Tights, Days of Thunder, Bram Stokers Dracula. Twister, The Jungle Book, Liar, Liar, and Saw and he has also had recurring roles in series such as The X-Files and Psych, and currently stars in the Crackle series The Art of More. Ivan Simon Cary Elwes was born on 26 October 1962 in Westminster, London and he is the brother of artist Damian Elwes and film producer Cassian Elwes. His stepfather, Elliott Kastner, was an American film producer and his paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose own father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes. His other great-grandfathers include the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, Elwes has Croatian Jewish, Irish, Serbian, and Scottish ancestry. His Croatian and Serbian roots come from his grandmother, Daška McLean, whose second husband. One of Elwes ancestors is John Elwes, who is alleged in sources to have been the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Elwes himself played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel and his paternal relatives include such clerics as Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton, Abbott Columba Cary-Elwes, and Father Luke Cary-Elwes. He discussed this in an interview while he was filming the 2005 CBS television film Pope John Paul II, Elwes parents divorced when he was four years old, and in 1975, when Elwes was 13, his father committed suicide. For his education, Elwes attended Harrow School and he then attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1981, he moved to the United States to study acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, while living there, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute under the tutelage of Al Pacinos mentor, Charlie Laughton. As a teenager, he worked as a production assistant on the films Absolution, Octopussy, and Superman. When Elwes introduced himself to the actor, Brando insisted on calling him Rocky after Rocky Marciano. He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British historical drama film Lady Jane and he was then cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiners fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim, since being released on home video and television, however, the film has become a cult classic. Initially the studio didnt know how to market, in the end they sold it as a kids movie and it largely had to rely on word of mouth. People tell me they still have their VHS copy that has passed down from one generation to the next
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The Princess Bride
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The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance novel written by William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, romantic love, romance and it is presented as an abridgment of a longer work by S. Morgenstern, and Goldmans commentary asides are constant throughout. It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace, then later by Random House, while in the United Kingdom, the book was adapted into a 1987 feature film, whose screenplay was written by Goldman himself, that was directed by Rob Reiner. Adam Guettel attempted to adapt it into a musical, William Goldman said, Ive gotten more responses on The Princess Bride than on everything else Ive done put together—all kinds of strange outpouring letters. Something in The Princess Bride affects people, a segment of the book was published as Duel Scene in the anthology The Best of All Possible Worlds, which was edited by Spider Robinson. In 2015, a collection of essays on the novel and the adaptation was published entitled The Princess Bride. In a Renaissance-era world, a young woman named Buttercup lives on a farm in the country of Florin. She delights in verbally abusing the farm hand Westley, whom she addresses as farm boy, Westleys response to her demands is always As you wish. She eventually realizes that what he is saying is, I love you. After Buttercup realizes, as well, that she truly and strongly loves him and confesses her romantic feelings. Buttercup later receives word that the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for killing all those whose vessels he boards, believing Westley dead, Buttercup sinks into abject despair, declaring, I will never love again. Before the wedding, a trio of outlaws—the Sicilian criminal genius Vizzini, the Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya, a masked man in black follows them across the sea and up the Cliffs of Insanity, whereupon Vizzini orders Inigo to stop him. Before the man in black reaches the top of the cliff, when the man in black arrives, Inigo arranges a fair fight, allowing his opponent to rest before the duel. The man in black wins the duel, but out of respect, stunned, Vizzini orders Fezzik to kill the man in black. Another flashback occurs detailing Fezziks history of reluctant fighting matches since childhood and his conscience compelling him, Fezzik throws a rock as a warning and challenges the man to a wrestling match. The man in black accepts the challenge and chokes Fezzik until the giant blacks out and he then catches up with Vizzini and proposes a battle of wits, guessing which cup of wine is poisoned with iocaine powder. They drink, and the man in black reveals that both cups were poisoned, but he had cultivated an immunity to iocaine powder, with Prince Humperdincks rescue party in hot pursuit, the man in black flees with Buttercup. He taunts Buttercup, claiming that women cannot be trusted and that she must have felt nothing when her true love, enraged, she shoves him into a gorge, yelling, You can die, too, for all I care
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A Clockwork Orange (film)
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgesss 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, Alex, the main character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music, rape, and what is termed ultra-violence. He leads a gang of thugs, whom he calls his droogs. The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic, English, and Cockney rhyming slang. The soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange features mostly classical music selections, the artwork for the now-iconic poster of A Clockwork Orange was created by Philip Castle with the layout by designer Bill Gold. In a futuristic London, Alex DeLarge is the leader of his droogs, Georgie, Dim, one night, after getting intoxicated on drug-laden milk-plus, they engage in an evening of ultra-violence including a fight with a rival gang led by Billyboy. They drive to the home of writer F. Alexander. Alex then rapes his wife while singing Singin in the Rain, the next day, while truant from school, Alex is approached by his probation officer Mr. P. R. Deltoid, who is aware of Alexs activities and cautions him. Alexs droogs express discontent with petty crimes and want more equality and high yield thefts, later, Alex invades the home of a wealthy cat-lady and bludgeons her with a phallic statue while his droogs remain outside. On hearing sirens, Alex tries to flee but Dim smashes a bottle on his face, stunning him, with Alex in custody, Mr. Deltoid gloats that the woman he attacked died, making Alex a murderer. He is sentenced to 14 years in prison, Alex is strapped to a chair, injected with drugs, and forced to watch films of sex and violence with his eyes propped open. Alex becomes nauseated by the films, and then recognizes the films are set to music of his favorite composer, fearing the technique will make him sick upon hearing Beethoven, Alex begs for the end of the treatment. Two weeks later, the Minister demonstrates Alexs rehabilitation to a gathering of officials, Alex is unable to fight back against an actor that taunts and attacks him, and becomes ill at the sight of a topless woman. The prison chaplain complains Alex has been robbed of his freewill, Alex is let out as a free man, only to find his parents have sold his possessions as restitution to his victims, and have let out his room. Alex encounters an elderly vagrant that he had attacked earlier. Alex is saved by two policemen, but shocked to find they are his former droogs Dim and Georgie and they drive him to the countryside, beat him up, and nearly drown him before abandoning him. Alex barely makes it to the doorstep of a home before collapsing. Alex wakes up to himself in the home of Mr. Alexander and cared for by his manservant
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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas wrote and directed THX1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth, THX1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film, American Graffiti, inspired by his teen years in early 1960s Modesto, California, the film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Following the first Star Wars film, Lucas produced and co-wrote the following installments in the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, along with Steven Spielberg, Lucas co-created and wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Lucas also produced and/or wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucas also returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on the story for the Indiana Jones sequel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, five of Lucass seven features are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is one of the American film industrys most financially successful filmmakers, Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas and he is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. Growing up, Lucas had a passion for cars and motor racing, on June 12,1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology and he also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema, screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godards Breathless, François Truffauts Jules et Jim, thats when George really started exploring, Plummer said. Through his interest in racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast. Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas talent, George had a very good eye, and he thought visually, he recalled. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius and he also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg
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Vampire Circus
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Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Robert Young. It was written by Judson Kinberg, and produced by Wilbur Stark and it stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins. The story concerns a circus whose vampiric artists prey on the children of a 19th-century Serbian village. It was filmed at Pinewood Studios, the rumors prove true, as Anna, who has become Mitterhaus willing acolyte and mistress, hands the innocent Jenny over to him to be drained of her blood. Men from the village, led by Müller and including Jennys father Mr. Schilt, after the vampire kills several of them, Müller succeeds in driving a wooden stake through his heart. With his dying breath, Mitterhaus curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life. After laying out his body in the crypt, she escapes through a tunnel as the villagers blow the castle up with gunpowder. Fifteen years later, Stetl is now being ravaged by a plague and blockaded by the authorities of neighboring towns, with men ready to shoot any villager who tries to leave. The citizens fear that the pestilence may be due to the Counts curse, though the new physician Dr. Kersh scoffs at the notion, dismissing vampires as just a myth. Then a travelling circus calling itself the Circus of Night arrives at the village, led by a dwarf, the villagers, appreciative of the distraction from their troubles, do not press the matter. While his courageous son Anton distracts the armed men at the blockade, neither he nor anyone back in the village suspect that one of the circus artists, Emil, is a vampire and Count Mitterhauss cousin. At the Circus of Night, the villagers are amazed and delighted by the entertainment. That evening, Jon and his brother Gustav, two boys whose father Mr. Hauser helped instigate the killing of Mitterhaus, are invited by the gypsy woman to enter the hall of mirrors. While looking in the Mirror of Life, they are drawn in by Heinrich and Helga who whisk them to the Counts crypt. After the boys bodies are found near the castle, their grieving father, after an encounter with Emil, the Burgermeister dies of heart failure while his daughter runs off with the vampire who then bites and kills the girl. Dora and Anton, who are in love, are lured by the twins Heinrich and Helga into the hall of mirrors where they try to whisk Dora through the Mirror of Life, later, the vampires enter the school house where Dora and Anton have taken refuge. Emil, in form, kills the boarding students, diverting Anton while the gypsy woman tears the cross from Doras neck, enabling Heinrich. Dora, however, escapes into the chapel, where the twins are overwhelmed by a giant crucifix which she topples on them
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Minotaur
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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being part man and part bull. The Minotaur dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, the Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. The term Minotaur derives from the Ancient Greek Μῑνώταυρος, a compound of the name Μίνως, in Crete, the Minotaur was known by the name Asterion, a name shared with Minos foster-father. Minotaur was originally a noun in reference to this mythical figure. The use of minotaur as a noun to refer to members of a generic species of bull-headed creatures developed much later. After he ascended the throne of the island of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers to rule, Minos prayed to Poseidon, the sea god, to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support. He was to kill the bull to show honor to the deity and he thought Poseidon would not care if he kept the white bull and sacrificed one of his own. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Pasiphaë, Minoss wife, fall deeply in love with the bull, Pasiphaë had craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull. The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur, Pasiphaë nursed him, but he grew and became ferocious, being the unnatural offspring of a woman and a beast, he had no natural source of nourishment and thus devoured humans for sustenance. Minos, after getting advice from the oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. Its location was near Minos palace in Knossos, the Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. One of the figurations assumed by the river spirit Achelous in seducing Deianira is as a man with the head of a bull, from Classical times through the Renaissance, the Minotaur appears at the center of many depictions of the Labyrinth. This alternative tradition survived into the Renaissance, and still figures in modern depictions. Androgeus, son of Minos, had killed by the Athenians. Others say he was killed at Marathon by the Cretan bull, his mothers former taurine lover, the common tradition is that Minos waged war to avenge the death of his son and won. Catullus, in his account of the Minotaurs birth, refers to another version in which Athens was compelled by the plague to pay penalties for the killing of Androgeos. Aegeus had to avert the plague caused by his crime by sending young men at the time as the best of unwed girls as a feast to the Minotaur. Minos required that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, drawn by lots, when the third sacrifice approached, Theseus volunteered to slay the monster
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Doctor Who
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Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called The Doctor and he explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes, while working to save civilisations, the show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series, the programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot. The programme was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff, twelve actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The conceit is that this is a Time Lord trait through which the character of the Doctor takes on a new body, each actors portrayal differs, but all represent stages in the life of the same character and form a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet. The current lead, Peter Capaldi, took on the role after Matt Smiths exit in the 2013 Christmas special The Time of the Doctor, in 2017, Capaldi confirmed he would be leaving at the end of the tenth series. Doctor Who follows the adventures of the character, a rogue Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He fled from Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS – Time and Relative Dimension in Space – a machine which allows him to travel across time, the TARDIS has a chameleon circuit which normally allows the machine to take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. However, the Doctors TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box due to a malfunction in the chameleon circuit, the Doctor rarely travels alone and often brings one or more companions to share these adventures. His companions are usually humans, as he has found a fascination with planet Earth, as a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his body is mortally damaged, taking on a new appearance and personality. The Doctor has gained numerous reoccurring enemies during his travels, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Master, another renegade Time Lord. Doctor Who first appeared on BBC TV at 17,16,20 GMT, eighty seconds after the programme time,5,15 pm. It was to be a weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year, writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer Verity Lambert also heavily contributed to the development of the series
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The Time Monster
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The Master has adopted the alias of Professor Thascalos and is using this cover to tap into the resources of the Newton Research Unit at Cambridge University to conduct time experiments. His TOMTIT experiment, assisted by Ruth Ingram and Stuart Hyde, is focused around transmitting matter by breaking it down into light waves, having hypnotised Dr Percival, the Director of the Institute, into doing his bidding, the Master’s cover is maintained. He is particularly interested in examining a trident-shaped crystal in his possession, the Doctor and Jo Grant visit the Institute following a hunch of his that the Master is back on Earth with his TARDIS. He finds time moving slowly as the TOMTIT experiments disrupt the normal flow while Hyde, brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who also witnessed the TOMTIT experiment, has the project evacuated and begins to hunt for the Master, whose cover has now been blown. The Doctor suspects capturing the Chronovore is the Master’s aim too, meanwhile, the Atlantean High Priest of Kronos, Krasis, is transported through interstitial time by the Master and brought to Percival’s office. The Master seizes the Seal of Kronos from the priest and uses it to control the Chronovore, a white, feathered, male-like bird-like figure, Kronos exudes power and devours Percival without compunction. It is contained briefly by the Master, but breaks free, the Doctor and his allies have been alerted by the actions of the Master and he builds a time flow analogue to interrupt his rival’s experiments. The two Time Lords pit their TARDISes against one another, and the Doctor is ejected into the vortex, but survives thanks to Jo and his TARDIS. In ancient Atlantis the aged and wise King Dalios is troubled by the disappearance of Krasis and the threat to the crystal of Kronos. Dalios warns of the dangers of the time when Kronos served Atlantis, but his wife is not moved by his pleas or his suspicions of the Master, but the crystal cannot be destroyed, only splintered. Dalios also tells the Doctor that the Minotaur was once his friend, but grew eager for the strength of a bull, the Doctor then faces the Minotaur to rescue Jo, duped into the maze by Krasis, and the creature is destroyed. The crystal is now produced from the maze – but the Master’s plotting with Galleia has borne fruit and he has usurped the throne, Jo and the Doctor are soon detained too, and witness Dalios sad death after mistreatment and torture. When the Council of Atlantis meets, Galleia finds that Dalios is dead and, having loved and respected him, Krasis, however, is still in his thrall and uses the great crystal to summon Kronos to Atlantis once more. The enraged Chronovore begins to destroy Atlantis and to survive the Master flees in his TARDIS, the Doctor heads off in his TARDIS in pursuit while Kronos destroys the city and people of Atlantis. The two TARDISes are now in the vortex, where the Doctor threatens their mutual assured destruction by causing a Time Ram by which vehicles would occupy the same space/time co-ordinates. When he carries this threat out Kronos is set free and, thankful for this action, saves the Doctor and Jo, on the Doctor’s insistence, the Master is spared too, but he flees in his own TARDIS before he can be apprehended. The Doctor and Jo return to the Institute as Ingram and Hyde operate the TOMTIT machine one last time, thereby returning the UNIT men to normality, the machine then overloads, its time experiments at an end. This story provided the third of three different explanations for the sinking of Atlantis in Doctor Who, the others being in The Underwater Menace and The Dæmons
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The Tomorrow People
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The Tomorrow People is a British childrens science fiction television series, created by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 1973 to 1979, a remake appeared in 1992, with Roger Price acting as executive producer. This version used the basic premise as the original series with some changes. A series of audio using the original concept and characters was produced by Big Finish Productions between 2001 and 2007. In 2013, an American remake of the show premiered on The CW and it is shown on E4 in the UK. All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the stage of human evolution known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, a normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called breaking out and develop special paranormal abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, however, their psychological make-up prevents them from intentionally killing others. The original series was produced by Thames Television for ITV, the Tomorrow People operate out of a secret base, The lab, built in an abandoned London Underground station. The lab was revamped at the beginning of Series 6, the team constantly watches for new Tomorrow People breaking out to help them through the process as the youngsters endure mental agonies as their minds suddenly change. They sometimes deal with attention from extraterrestrial species as well as facing more earthbound dangers and they also have connections with the Galactic Federation which oversees the welfare of telepathic species throughout the galaxy. In addition to their powers, they use advanced technology such as the biological computer TIM, which is capable of original thought, telepathy. TIM also helps the Tomorrow People to teleport long distances, although they must be wearing a device installed into a belt or bracelet for this to work, teleportation is referred to as jaunting in the programme. The team used jaunting belts up to the end of Series 5, in the original series, the Tomorrow People are also referred to as both Homo Novis and Homo superior. The same term appeared in David Bowies 1971 song Oh. You Pretty Things, Let me make it plain and you gotta make way for the Homo Superior. This term came up as part of a conversation between Roger Price and David Bowie at a meeting at Granada studios in Manchester when Price was directing a programme in which Bowie was appearing. Price had been working on a script for his Tomorrow People project and during a conversation with Bowie, Bowie liked the term and soon afterwards wrote it into his song
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Space: 1999
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Space,1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. The series was the last production by the partnership of Gerry, the first series was co-produced by the British television ITC and the Italian television RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. Two series of the programme were produced, each comprising twenty-four episodes, Production of the first series was from November 1973 to February 1975, production of the second series was from January 1976 to December 1976. The premise of Space,1999 centres on the plight of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research centre on the Moon. The force of the blast propels the Moon like an enormous booster rocket, hurling it out of Earth orbit and into space at colossal speed. The runaway Moon, in effect, becomes the spacecraft on which the protagonists travel, not long after leaving Earths solar system, the wandering Moon passes through a black hole and later through a couple of space warps which push it even further out into the universe. During their interstellar journey, the Alphans encounter an array of alien civilizations, dystopian societies, several episodes of the first series hinted that the Moons journey was influenced by a mysterious unknown force, which was guiding the Alphans toward an ultimate destiny. The second series used more simplified action-oriented plots, the first series of Space,1999 used a teaser introduction, sometimes called a hook or cold open. This was followed by a sequence that managed to convey prestige for its two main stars, Landau and Bain, and to give the audience some thirty-plus fast cut shots of the forthcoming episode. The second series eliminated this montage, the programme would then offer four ten-to-twelve minute long acts and finished with a short epilogue scene. The headline stars of Space,1999 were American actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, also appearing as regular cast members were the Canadian-based British actor Barry Morse and Hungarian-born, US-raised Catherine Schell. Before moving into the role of Maya during the second series, the programme also brought Australian actor Nick Tate to public attention. The English actor Nicholas Young appeared in an episode of Year Two, Space,1999 owes much of the visual design to pre-production work for the never-made second series of UFO, which would have been set primarily on the Moon and featured a more extensive Moonbase. Space,1999 drew a great deal of inspiration from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001. The programmes special effects director Brian Johnson had previously worked on both Thunderbirds and 2001, in 1972, Sir Lew Grade, head of ITC Entertainment, proposed financing a second series of the Century 21 production UFO to show-runners Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. In the meantime, Production Designer Keith Wilson and the art department had made progress in envisioning the look. Their work was shelved for the foreseeable future. Mandell was amenable, but stated he did not want a set featuring people having tea in the Midlands
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Terry Gilliam
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Terrence Vance Terry Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 12 feature films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King,12 Monkeys, the only Python not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British citizen in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice and his father was a travelling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter. Soon after, they moved to nearby Medicine Lake, Minnesota, the family moved to the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Panorama City in 1952. Gilliam attended Birmingham High School, where he was the president of his class and he was voted Most Likely to Succeed and achieved straight As. During high school, he began to avidly read Mad magazine, then edited by Harvey Kurtzman, Gilliam graduated from Occidental College in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. It was 66–67, it was the first police riot in Los Angeles, in college my major was political science, so my brain worked that way. And I drove around this little English Hillman Minx—top down—and every night Id be hauled over by the cops, up against the wall, and all this stuff. They had this monologue with me, it was never a dialogue and it was that I was a long-haired drug addict living off some rich guys foolish daughter. And I said, No, I work in advertising, I make twice as much as you do. Which is a thing to say to a cop. And it was like an epiphany, I suddenly felt what it was like to be a black or Mexican kid living in L. A. Before that, I thought I knew what the world was like, I thought I knew what people were. And I got more and more angry and I just felt, Thats why so much of the U. S. is still standing. Gilliam began his career as an animator and strip cartoonist, one of his early photographic strips for Help. Featured future Python cast member John Cleese, folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the very last issue that he was being transferred to the European branch of the magazine, which, of course, did not exist. Moving to England, he animated sequences for the childrens series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Gilliam was a part of Monty Pythons Flying Circus from its outset, credited at first as an animator and later as a full member. His cartoons linked the shows together and defined the groups visual language in other media
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Jabberwocky (film)
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Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Michael Palin as a cooper who is forced through clumsy. The films title is taken from the nonsense poem Jabberwocky from Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass, the film, Gilliams first as a solo director, received a mixed response from critics and audiences. After the death of his father, a peasant named Dennis Cooper goes to a town where he has several adventures. Eventually Cooper accidentally kills a monster called the Jabberwock threatening the kingdom. Michael Palin as Dennis Cooper Harry H. Corbett as The Squire John Le Mesurier as Passelewe Warren Mitchell as Mr, there are two castles in the film, Pembroke Castle and Chepstow Castle. The Jabberwocky battle scenes were filmed in an old Pembroke stone quarry, the film is close in setting and comic style to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, on which Gilliam had worked. As well as Palin, Python Terry Jones and Python contributor Neil Innes appeared in Jabberwocky, giving it a Python-esque feel, for its American premiere the film was advertised as Monty Pythons Jabberwocky despite protests from Gilliam. The Jabberwock is a man in similar to the classic Japanese Godzilla film effects. To recreate the illustrated monster of the 19th century storybook, the costume is designed to be worn by a man walking backwards, hip and knee joints are reversed giving it a bird-like gait. The actors head is hidden within the monsters torso — the large head on a serpentine neck is controlled by an offscreen pole and lines. Long bird-like claws extend out of his heels and his arms become the Jabberwocks wings. Film speed is altered in some scenes to slow the monsters movements, one of the most noticeable themes in the film is that of commerce. Dennis Cooper after being disowned by his dying father, is unable to continue his work as a cooper. Despite his having good ideas about raising productivity, the merchants, Cooper moves from his village to the enclosed town in search of business opportunity. Dennis discovers that the guilds and merchants control business and that outsiders are struggling to survive, while in the city he discovers Wat Dabney, a legendary cooper and inventor of the inverted firkin. Despite his skill, Wat is excluded by the guilds and has cut his foot off in an attempt to become a beggar — an act so successful that he ends up cutting off his foot by the films end. The unusual name is an reference to Wat Tyler
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two. The adaptation follows the radio series in 1978 and 1980, the first novel and double LP, in 1979. The series stars Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, David Dixon as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson as Trillian, the voice of the guide is by Peter Jones. Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Stephen Moore and Mark Wing-Davey had already provided the voices for their characters in the radio series in 1978/80. In addition, the features a number of notable cameo roles. A fully animated version was briefly discussed in the autumn of 1978, the script for the pilot was delivered in December 1979, and terms for the five remaining scripts were agreed upon in January 1980. While there was resistance to a project considered unfilmable, Alan J. W. Bell was given the duties to produce. John Lloyd was signed as associate producer, in early 1980, production on the pilot episode began on several fronts. Rod Lord of Pearce Animation Studios directed a 50-second pilot, hand-animated, Bell were both pleased with the animation, and Lord was given the go-ahead to do all of the animation for Episode 1, and subsequently the complete TV series. Narration for the first episode was recorded by Peter Jones in March 1980, the filming of two green-skinned aliens reacting to Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters was done on 8 May 1980. Further filming of crowd reactions to the Vogons, location filming of Arthurs house, scenes aboard the Vogon ship were recorded on 7 June 1980, in the BBCs TC1 studio. The final edit of the episode was completed on 2 July 1980. Further test screenings were held in August 1980, based on successful test screenings, the cast was reassembled to complete the six episodes of the series in September 1980. Production continued through the autumn, with filming and recording occurring out of order, recording and production of the final episode continued into January 1981. The gap in production made for some continuity problems between the episode and the remainder. Notably, Simon Joness hair was cut short for another role, conversely, David Dixons hair appears longer. One major change first appeared in the show and LP adaptations. Nearly all of the sequences from Fit the Fifth and Fit the Sixth in the first radio series that were originally co-written with John Lloyd were completely cut, Lloyd does receive a co-writers credit on Episode 5, for the material on the statistics about the universe
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The broad narrative follows the misadventures of the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, certain narrative details were changed between the various adaptations. The various versions follow the basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory. The first radio series comes from a proposal called The Ends of the Earth, six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earths being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide context. Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a remarkable book named The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episodes writing progressed, the Guide became the centre of his story, however, he later claimed that he had told this story so many times that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only remembered himself telling the story. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of hitch-hiking around the galaxy to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973. Adamss fictional Guide is a guidebook to the entire universe, originally published by Megadodo Publications. The narrative of the versions of the story are frequently punctuated with excerpts from the Guide. The voice of the Guide, also provides general narration, the first radio series of six episodes was broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. Despite a low-key launch of the series, it received good reviews. A one-off episode was broadcast later in the year and this episode was released as part of the second radio series and, later, The Secondary Phase on cassettes and CDs. The Primary and Secondary Phases were aired, in an edited version. The first series was repeated twice in 1978 alone and many times in the next few years. This led to an LP re-recording, produced independently of the BBC for sale, a second radio series, which consisted of a further six episodes, and bringing the total number of episodes to 12, was broadcast in 1980. The radio series greatly benefited from the narration of noted comedy actor Peter Jones as The Book and he was cast after it was decided that a Peter Jonesy sort of voice was required. The series was notable for its use of sound, being the first comedy series to be produced in stereo
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Callan (TV series)
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Callan is a British action/drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to those of the real-life MI5, in the storylines interrogation is by means of torture, while extrajudicial killings are so routine they have a colour-coded filing system. With the possible exception of La Femme Nikita, no TV series has presented a Western government agency in so sinister a light as Callan. The downbeat cover for the Sections headquarters was the metal business of Charlie Hunter. Produced by ABC Weekend Television and Thames Television, the programme proved extremely popular, the series pilot episode aired in February 1967, in a play entitled A Magnum for Schneider by James Mitchell. Mitchell was later responsible for creating the equally popular When the Boat Comes In, the haunted character of Callan caught the publics imagination to such an extent that a six-episode series was commissioned and broadcast, later in the same year. Overall, the series was popular with audiences, running between 1967 and 1972, the closing episode of the 1969 series saw a severely under-pressure Callan get shot, with a clever publicity campaign following to ensure that viewers cared whether the character survived or not. The last two series were in colour and proved as popular as ever, a cinema film simply entitled Callan followed in 1974, directed by Don Sharp. Callan was last seen in the 1981 feature-length television story made by ATV, though less satisfactory than the preceding series, it was a chance for viewers to see the main characters of Callan and Lonely one more time. Callan has been fired from a government agency known as The Section which is run by Colonel Hunter. The Section removes those who pose a danger to the innocent by persuasion, blackmail, David Callan had been the Sections top operator but he had become too curious about his targets and the rationale for their removal. The Section considered him vulnerable, volatile and dangerous and had laid him off to a dead-end book-keeping job for an ungrateful employer, ABC then commissioned a series of six episodes in 1967. In the first episode Callan rejoins the section in an unofficial capacity, the series was characterised by Callans stand-off, barely-respectful relationship between him and his boss. Hunter schemed to retain Callan on his side and would play him off in little divide-and-rule scenarios with or against his agents to keep control. It was not always apparent that it worked, Callans contact Lonely developed into an unofficial sidekick, whose shadowing qualities outshone his sense of personal hygiene, something Meres in particular took joy in pointing out. Lonely remained ignorant of Callans real work and believed him to be something of a gangland villain, by 1969, ABC Weekend Television had, via an enforced merger, become Thames Television. A second season of fifteen episodes that had already completed by ABC was therefore transmitted by its successor
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BBC Television Shakespeare
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985, development began in 1975 when Messina saw that the grounds of Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeares As You Like It for the Play of the Month series. Upon returning to London, however, he had come to envision an entire series devoted exclusively to the works of Shakespeare. Experiencing financial, logistical and creative problems in the days of production. By the end of its run, the series had proved both a ratings and a financial success, several episodes are now held in high esteem, particularly some of the traditionally lesser known and less frequently staged plays. The complete set is a collection, and several episodes represent the only non-theatrical production of the particular play currently available on DVD. M. Barries The Little Minister for the BBCs Play of the Month series, during his time on set, Messina realised that the castle grounds would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeares As You Like It. Almost immediately upon pitching the idea to his colleagues, however and he had anticipated that everyone in the BBC would be excited about the concept, but this did not prove so. In particular, the Drama/Plays division felt the series could not possibly be a success without international sales. Writing several months into production, journalist Henry Fenwick wrote the project was gloriously British, however, despite this level of experience, they had never produced anything on the scale of the Shakespeare Series. Later that evening, the scene from Henry V was broadcast, directed by George More OFerrall. 1937 also saw the broadcast of the scene from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas. The following year saw the first feature length made-for-TV production, The Tempest, also directed by Bower, the vast majority of these transmissions were broadcast live, and they came to an end with the onset of war in 1939. After the war, Shakespearean adaptations were screened much less frequently, in 1947, for example, OFerrall directed a two-part adaptation of Hamlet, starring John Byron as Hamlet, Sebastian Shaw as Claudius and Margaret Rawlings as Gertrude. There were also four multi-part made-for-TV Shakespearean adaptations shown during the 1950s and 1960s, the first was The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff. Produced and directed by Ronald Eyre, and starring Roger Livesey as Falstaff, the second was An Age of Kings. Produced by Peter Dews and directed by Michael Hayes, the show comprised fifteen episodes between sixty and eighty minutes each, which adapted all eight of Shakespeares sequential history plays, the third was The Spread of the Eagle, directed and produced by Dews. Featuring nine sixty-minute episodes, the series adapted the Roman plays, in order of the real life events depicted, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony
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As You Like It
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As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio,1623. The plays first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncles court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, Jaques provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country. Historically, critical response has varied, with critics finding the work of lesser quality than other Shakespearean works. The play remains a favourite among audiences and has adapted for radio, film. The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the takes place in a location called the Forest of Arden. Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his brother, Duke Senior. Duke Seniors daughter, Rosalind, has permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Fredericks only child. Orlando, a gentleman of the kingdom who at first sight has fallen in love with Rosalind, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Frederick becomes angry and banishes Rosalind from court, Celia and Rosalind decide to flee together accompanied by the court fool, Touchstone, with Rosalind disguised as a young man and Celia disguised as a poor lady. Ganymede and Aliena do not immediately encounter the Duke and his companions, instead, they meet Corin, an impoverished tenant, and offer to buy his masters crude cottage. Orlando and his servant Adam, meanwhile, find the Duke and his men and are living with them. Rosalind, also in love with Orlando, meets him as Ganymede, Ganymede says that he will take Rosalinds place and that he and Orlando can act out their relationship. The shepherdess, Phoebe, with whom Silvius is in love, has fallen in love with Ganymede, Touchstone, meanwhile, has fallen in love with the dull-witted shepherdess, Audrey, and tries to woo her, but eventually is forced to be married first. William, another shepherd, attempts to marry Audrey as well, but is stopped by Touchstone, finally, Silvius, Phoebe, Ganymede, and Orlando are brought together in an argument with each other over who will get whom. Ganymede says he will solve the problem, having Orlando promise to marry Rosalind, Orlando sees Oliver in the forest and rescues him from a lioness, causing Oliver to repent for mistreating Orlando. Oliver meets Aliena and falls in love with her, and they agree to marry, Jaques, ever melancholic, declines their invitation to return to the court preferring to stay in the forest and to adopt a religious life as well
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Frankenstein's monster
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Frankensteins monster, sometimes known as Frankenstein, is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelleys 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelleys title thus compares the monsters creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, although nameless in Shelleys novel, the creature is often referred to by his creators surname, Frankenstein. In Shelleys Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry, Shelley describes the monster as 8-foot-tall, hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into society but is shunned. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies a territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists. Mary Shelleys original novel never ascribes an actual name to the monster, although when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, Victor refers to the monster as creature, fiend, spectre, the demon, wretch, devil, thing, being, and ogre. It has become common vernacular to refer to the creature by the name Frankenstein, as in Shelleys story, the monsters namelessness became a central part of the stage adaptations in London and Paris during the decades after the novels first appearance. In 1823, Shelley herself attended a performance of Presumption, the first successful adaptation of her novel. The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatis personae came _________, by Mr T. Cooke and this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. Within a decade of publication, the name of the used to refer to the monster. The story was adapted for the stage in 1927 by Peggy Webling, however, the monster has no name in the Universal film series starring Boris Karloff during the 1930s, which was largely based upon Weblings play. The 1931 Universal film treated the monsters identity in a way as Shelleys novel, in the opening credits. Nevertheless, the creature soon enough became best known in the imagination as Frankenstein. This usage is considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of Frankenstein as well-established. Thumbing through a book of the works of William Shakespeare, the monster chooses Proteus from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, as told by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguously described scientific method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror, frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness. He finds brief solace beside a remote cottage inhabited by a family of peasants, eavesdropping, the creature familiarizes himself with their lives and learns to speak, whereby he becomes eloquent, educated, and well-mannered. The creature eventually introduces himself to the blind father, who treats him with kindness
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Casino Royale (1967 film)
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Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is loosely based on Ian Flemings first James Bond novel, the film stars David Niven as the original Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of international spies, he battles the mysterious Dr. Noah. The films slogan, Casino Royale is too much, Charles K. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, failed to come to terms. Believing that he could not compete with the Eon series, Feldman resolved to produce the film as a satire, the budget escalated as various directors and writers got involved in the production, and actors expressed dissatisfaction with the project. Casino Royale was released on 13 April 1967, two prior to Eons fifth Bond movie, You Only Live Twice. The film was a success, grossing over $41.7 million worldwide. Critical reception to Casino Royale, however, was negative, some critics regarded it as a baffling. Since 1999, the rights have been held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. All implore Bond to come out of retirement to deal with SMERSH who have been eliminating agents, when Bond continues to stand firm, his mansion is destroyed by a mortar attack at the orders of M, who is, however, killed in the explosion. Bond travels to Scotland to return Ms remains to the grieving widow, however, the real Lady Fiona has been replaced by SMERSHs Agent Mimi. The rest of the household have been replaced, with SMERSH’s aim to discredit Bond by destroying his celibate image. Attempts by a bevy of beauties to seduce Bond fail, but Mimi/Lady Fiona becomes so impressed with Bond that she changes loyalties, on his way back to London, Bond survives another attempt on his life. Bond is promoted to the head of MI6 and he learns that many British agents around the world have been eliminated by enemy spies because of their inability to resist sex. Bond is also told that the sex maniac who was given the name of James Bond when the original Bond retired has gone to work in television and he then orders that all remaining MI6 agents will be named James Bond 007, to confuse SMERSH. He also creates a programme to train male agents to ignore the charms of women. Moneypenny recruits Coop, an expert who begins training to resist seductive women. Bond then hires Vesper Lynd, a retired agent turned millionaire, to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble, having embezzled SMERSHs money, Le Chiffre is desperate for money to cover up his theft before he is executed
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The Horror of Frankenstein
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The Horror of Frankenstein is a 1970 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions that is both a semi-parody and remake of the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein. It was produced and directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Ralph Bates, Kate OMara, Veronica Carlson, the original music score was composed by Malcolm Williamson. Victor Frankenstein, a cold, arrogant and womanizing genius, is angry when his father forbids him to continue his anatomy experiments and he ruthlessly murders his father by sabotaging the old mans shotgun, consequently inheriting the title of Baron von Frankenstein and the family fortune. He uses the money to enter school in Vienna, but is forced to return home when he impregnates the daughter of the Dean. Returning to his own castle, he sets up a laboratory and he eventually builds a composite body from human parts, which he then brings to life. The creature goes on a rampage until it is accidentally destroyed when a vat where it has been hidden is flooded with acid. Soon afterwards, he did a take on Dr. Jekyll in the Hammer film Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and he also appeared briefly in the traditional Frankensteins monster make-up and costume in a gag appearance in Casino Royale. Through Turner Entertainment only in UK
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell is a 1974 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It stars Peter Cushing, Shane Briant and David Prowse, filmed at Elstree Studios in 1972 but not released until 1974, it was the final chapter in the Hammer Frankenstein saga of films as well as director Fishers last film. The film was released on UK DVD+Blu-ray on 28 April 2014, the Baron, under the alias of Dr. Carl Victor, uses his position to continue his experiments in the creation of man. When Simon Helder, a doctor and an admirer of the Barons work, arrives as an inmate for bodysnatching. Together they work on the design for a new creature, unknown to Simon, however, Frankenstein is acquiring body parts by murdering his patients. Since Frankensteins hands were burned in the name of science, the shabby stitch-work was done by Sarah, a beautiful mute girl who assists the surgeon. Simon tells the Baron that he is a surgeon and the problem is solved, the Baron reveals that Sarah is the daughter of the director and has been mute ever since he tried to rape her. Soon new eyes and a new brain are given to the creature, when the creature – lumbering, hirsute and dumb – is complete, it becomes bitter and intent on revenge. It ultimately runs mad on a spree in the asylum, killing several individuals. Eventually, it is fully overpowered and destroyed by a mob of inmates, the three start tidying up the laboratory whilst Frankenstein ponders who should be first to donate. This was the sixth and last time that Peter Cushing portrayed the role of the obsessively driven Baron Frankenstein, Cushing had long been known throughout his career for his meticulous attention to detail, even in the planned handling and usage of props. For this film, he helped to design the wig that he wore, but years afterward regretted the outcome, David Prowse makes his second appearance as a Frankenstein laboratory creation in this film, his first having been in The Horror of Frankenstein. He is the actor to have played a Hammer Frankensteins monster more than once. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell has received a reception from critics. Of the film, The Hammer Story, The Authorised History of Hammer Films wrote, Terence Fishers haunting, time Out wrote, Fishers last film is a disappointment. The film itself performed poorly at the box office. But despite this and it was released in certain markets with another Hammer film, Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter. Frankenstein in popular culture List of films featuring Frankensteins monster Sources Hallenbeck, Bruce G
