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Dawson Creek
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Dawson Creek is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of 24.37 square kilometres had a population of 11,583 in 2011, Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer Dawson by a member of his survey team when they passed through the area in August 1879. Once a small farming community, Dawson Creek became a regional centre after the terminus of the Northern Alberta Railways was extended there in 1932. The community grew rapidly in 1942 as the US Army used the terminus as a transshipment point during construction of the Alaska Highway. In the 1950s, the city was connected to the interior of British Columbia via a highway and railway through the Rocky Mountains, since the 1960s, growth has slowed. Dawson Creek is located in the dry and windy prairie land of the Peace River Country, as the seat of the Peace River Regional District and a service centre for the rural areas south of the Peace River, the city has been called the Capital of the Peace. It is also known as the Mile 0 City, referring to its location at the end of the Alaska Highway. It also has a heritage village, an art gallery. Annual events include a fair and rodeo. The community that formed by the creek was one of many farming communities established by European-Canadian settlers moving west through the Peace River Country, when the Canadian government began issuing homestead grants to settlers in 1912, the pace of migration increased. With the opening of a few stores and hotels in 1919, after much speculation by land owners and investors, the Northern Alberta Railways built its western terminus 3 km from Dawson Creek. The golden spike was driven on 29 December 1930, and the first passenger train arrived on 15 January 1931, the arrival of the railway and the construction of grain elevators attracted more settlers and business to the settlement. The need to provide services for the growing community led Dawson Creek to incorporate as a village in May 1936. A small wave of refugees from the Sudetenland settled in the area in 1939 as World War II was beginning, the community exceeded 500 people in 1941. Upon entering the war, the United States decided to build a transportation corridor to connect the US mainland to Alaska, in 1942, thousands of US Army personnel, engineers, and contractors poured into the city – the terminal of rail transport – to construct the Alaska Highway. The highway was completed in less than a year, even after the workers involved in its construction departed, population, Dawson Creek became a RCAF station during WWII, in September 1944. The station disbanded in March 1946, by 1951, Dawson Creek had more than 3,500 residents
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Looking south into downtown Dawson Creek, with the Mile "0" post.
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Looking south past traffic circle down 8 Street, with the metal statue pointing the way northwest to Alaska.
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Dawson Creek Art Gallery in NAR Park.
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Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)
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Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known as the creator of the TV series Dawsons Creek, The Vampire Diaries, The Following and Stalker. He is also known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Williamson was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the younger son of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. He spent his years in Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi. Williamsons family returned to North Carolina for his school years. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and he told Entertainment Weekly interviewer Melissa Maerz, When I was growing up, my mom and dad took me to the Poe museum in Richmond, Virginia. It was a little house downtown, and The Raven was written on the walls and you had to move from room to room to read the whole story. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, after graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle which was bought by a company in 1995. Its characters had seen many classic movies and knew all the clichés. Miramax bought the script for $400,000 for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995, directed by Wes Craven, the film was renamed Scream, and released in The United States on December 20,1996. It became a blockbuster and critical success—ultimately drawing $173 million in ticket sales worldwide. Kevin Williamson earned the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1996 for his work on Scream, in 1997, Dimension Films released Scream 2, also written by Williamson. It, too, was a critical and box office hit, paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia TriStar Television, read Scream after the bidding war for the script and was convinced Williamson was just the man to create a television series for his company. The result was Dawsons Creek, a tale set in a small coastal community not unlike Oriental. Williamson was the model for the character, Dawson Leery. Joey Potter, the platonic girl-next-door, was based on a real friend of Williamsons when he was young. In December 1995, the show was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin had been an executive, Dawsons Creek premiered on The WB on January 20,1998, and was an immediate hit that helped launch the newly created television network
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Kevin Williamson in 2012
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James Van Der Beek
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James David Van Der Beek is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in the WB series Dawsons Creek. He played a version of himself on the short-lived ABC sitcom Dont Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. His film roles include Varsity Blues and The Rules of Attraction, at the age of 15, he asked his mother to take him into New York City to get an agent and try his hand in professional acting. He made his professional debut off-Broadway at age 16 in 1993 in the New York premiere of Edward Albees play Finding the Sun with the Signature Theatre Company and he played the role of Fergus. Both he and the production, which was directed by Albee. A decade later, in 2003, he appeared again off-Broadway, briefly and he attended Drew University, on an academic scholarship, where he participated in an all-male a cappella group, but dropped out to pursue acting. In early 1997, Van Der Beek auditioned for three television pilots, One of them was for the fledgling WB Network show Dawsons Creek. Van Der Beek won the role of Dawson Leery. The series ran for six seasons and was syndicated worldwide, in 1999, he starred in the teen football drama Varsity Blues, which held the number 1 spot at the U. S. box office for its first two weeks. He won an MTV Movie Award for his role, in 2002, he played Sean Bateman in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction, written and directed by Roger Avary. The film was a box office failure, but found a cult following on DVD. In 2006 he appeared on the Direct-to-DVD thriller The Plague, which was produced by Clive Barker and was panned by critics, after Dawsons Creek ended in 2003, he returned to off-Broadway, in Lanford Wilsons Rain Dance. He completed a screenplay titled Winning. Since then, he made a few appearances on television, including a role on Ugly Betty, in 2008, he made a guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother, in which he played Simon, one of Robin Scherbatskys early boyfriends, multiple times. In 2008, he began a role on One Tree Hill as a film maker who was largely the satirical opposite of Dawson Leery. He appeared in an episode of the season of Medium. In 2009, he portrayed real life kidnapper Anthony Steven Tony Zappa Wright in the Lifetime network television movie Taken In Broad Daylight, the film was distributed theatrically in the United States starting February 26,2010
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Van Der Beek at the Toronto Film Festival in 2013
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Michelle Williams (actress)
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Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. She began her career with television guest appearances, and made her film debut in Lassie. She gained wider recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the The WB series Dawsons Creek from 1998 to 2003 and she followed this with films such as Martin Scorseses Shutter Island. Her work in Blue Valentine garnered her nominations for the Golden Globe Award and she won a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, which also garnered her BAFTA, SAG, and Academy Award nominations. In 2016, she received acclaim for her performance in the drama Manchester by the Sea, earning her nominations from the BAFTA, SAG. On Broadway, Williams appeared in a revival of the musical Cabaret in 2014 and she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for the latter. Williams was born in Kalispell, Montana, the daughter of Carla Ingrid and her parents are separated, and she has one sister, Paige, and three half-siblings. Her mother is a homemaker, and her father is an author, stock and commodities trader and she has Norwegian, and smaller amounts of English, German, Danish, Swiss, Swedish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. As a child, Williams kept to herself and was self-sufficient, as she has said, I was really secretive with my parents, I found that by keeping to myself I got on OK. When Williams was nine, her moved to San Diego. She became interested in acting at an age when she saw a local production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Williams began her career in the early 1990s by making guest appearances in programs such as Step by Step. In 1993, she appeared as Bridget Bowers in Baywatch and she debuted in the adventure film Lassie. In Species, she portrayed the younger version of Sil, an alien-human who grows up to become the character played by Natasha Henstridge. At age 15, with her parents approval, she filed for emancipation from them, after completing ninth grade at Santa Fe Christian Schools, in Solana Beach, California, she left school because of severe bullying. Subsequently, Williams was home-tutored by her father and later graduated with a GED from a correspondence school and she moved to Los Angeles and quickly secured a role in Dawsons Creek. Williams said later that she thought she knew all she needed to know since age 15 and she said in 2011 that she chose emancipation as she was influenced by other young actors doing it. In 1997, unhappy with the roles they were being offered, Williams and it was sold, but nothing happened with it
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Williams at the 2012
Comic-Con in San Diego
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Williams at the 84th Annual
Academy Awards Red Carpet 2012
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Williams at the 2010
Berlin International Film Festival for the premiere of
Shutter Island
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Joshua Jackson
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Joshua Browning Carter Jackson is a Canadian-American actor. He has appeared in television and in over 30 film roles. His well-known roles include Pacey Witter in Dawsons Creek, Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Peter Bishop in Fringe, Jackson won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the Canadian independent film One Week. Jackson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to John Carter Jackson and his wife and his mother is a casting director. Jacksons father is from Texas, and his mother is a native of Ballyfermot, Dublin, Ireland and he has a younger sister, Aisleagh. Jackson grew up in California until the age of 8 and he moved to Vancouver with his mother and younger sister. He attended Ideal Mini School and later switched to Kitsilano Secondary School, so Id just take the first couple of classes off, cause I wanted to be fresh when I got there. He claims that the first time was because of attitude problems, Jackson started acting in a small role in the film Crooked Hearts in 1991. The next year, he played the role of Charlie in a version of Willie Wonka. At this point, with the help of the casting director Laura Kennedy. Soon after, he landed the role of Charlie in The Mighty Ducks series, Joshua Jackson went on to appear as Pacey Witter on Dawsons Creek, which ran on the WB network from 1998–2003, and also starred James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes. In 2000, he also guest-starred in Season 12 of The Simpsons, voicing the character of Jesse Grass, shortly after Dawsons Creek ended in 2003, Jackson played the lead role in films alongside Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, and Donald Sutherland. In 2005, Jackson moved to the UK and made his debut on the London West End with Patrick Stewart in David Mamets two-man play. The play was a critical and popular success, and ran from February to April of that year, Jackson said that he would consider returning to the stage, to try his hand on Broadway. His next film role was in Bobby, directed by Emilio Estevez and he played a lead role in Shutter, a US remake of a Thai horror film of the same name. He starred and acted as producer in the Canadian independent film One Week. Jackson played Peter Bishop in the science-fiction series Fringe, created by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, the series appears on the Fox TV network and was the second-highest rated new show of the 2008–09 season after CBSs The Mentalist. BuddyTV ranked him #9 on its TVs 100 Sexiest Men of 2010 list, #19 in 2011, Jackson was nominated for Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film One Week
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Jackson at the
San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2012.
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Joshua Jackson at the premiere of
Bobby, Toronto Film Festival 2006
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Katie Holmes
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Kate Noelle Katie Holmes is an American actress, model, and filmmaker who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawsons Creek from 1998 to 2003. She appeared in 1998s Disturbing Behavior, a thriller, which won her an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, in 2000 Holmes featured in Wonder Boys which got positive attention from many leading critics. Holmes had a role in 2003s Pieces of April, a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. In the 2005 film Batman Begins, the most successful film of her career to date, she played Rachel Dawes, Gotham Citys assistant district attorney and Bruce Waynes childhood sweetheart. She also appeared in art films such as The Ice Storm, horror films such as Dont Be Afraid of the Dark. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Millers All My Sons and had numerous guest roles on programs such as How I Met Your Mother. In 2011, she starred as Jacqueline Kennedy in the The Kennedys miniseries and her marriage to actor Tom Cruise from 2006 to 2012 led to a great deal of media attention, with the pair being called a supercouple and given the nickname TomKat. Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio and she is the youngest of five children born to Kathleen, a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. an attorney. She has three sisters and one brother, Holmes was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Christ the King Church in Toledo. She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, where she was a 4.0 student. At St. Johns Jesuit and St. Francis de Sales, nearby high schools, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly. She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University, at age 14, she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo which led her to the International Modeling and Talent Association Competition held in New York City in 1996. Eventually, Holmes was signed to an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird, in January 1997, Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. The Toledo Blade reported she was offered the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was doing my school play, Damn Yankees. I even got to wear the feather boa, I thought, There is no way Im not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I couldnt let my school down and we had already sold a lot of tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, Im sorry, I just cant meet with you this week. The producers permitted her to audition on videotape, Holmes read for the part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title character Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother reading Dawsons lines
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Holmes at the National Memorial Day in Washington, D.C., May 24, 2009
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Holmes in May 2006
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Holmes in May 2009
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Holmes with Tom Cruise in May 2009
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John Wesley Shipp
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John Wesley Shipp is an American actor known for his various television roles. He played the lead Barry Allen on CBSs superhero series The Flash from 1990 to 1991, and Mitch Leery, the title characters father, on the drama series Dawsons Creek from 1998 to 2001. Shipp has also played roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984. He portrays both Barry Allens father, Henry, and Jay Garrick/Flash on the current The Flash series on The CW network, Shipp was born in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was a farmer who returned to school when Shipp was young, Shipp later gave a keynote speech to the graduating class of Wake Forest Rolesville High School Class of 1999 to recount the tale of his fathers attempts to integrate the community in the late 1960s. Shipp attended Butler High School in Louisville, Kentucky and then attended Indiana University, Shipp began his career with a regular role on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light, playing Dr. Kelly Nelson from 1980 to 1984. He also had guest appearances on series, such as playing a peeper on an episode of Fantasy Island in 1983. Shipp won the role of Barry Allen/The Flash in CBSs The Flash. He followed this with the role of Lucky on NBCs Sisters from 1994 to 1995. Shipp also appeared on stage in the 1990s, starring in Erik Jendresens The Killing of Michael Malloy in 1993. In November 2010, Shipp returned to daytime in the role of villainous Eddie Ford on One Life to Live. In the summer of 2011, he guest-starred on the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva, Shipp filmed three episodes of the MTV series Teen Wolf which aired during the summer of 2012. Also in 2012, he starred in the independent film Hell and Mr. Fudge, with Mackenzie Astin, Shipp returned to involvement with The Flash in the 2010s. He was cast in a role on The CWs The Flash series in early 2014, which was later revealed to be the recurring role of Henry Allen. In the second-season finale of The Flash, Shipp played Jay Garrick and he also provided the voice to the villain Professor Eobard Zoom Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, in a 2010 episode of the animated series Batman, The Brave and the Bold. At the 14th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 1987, Shipp won the Outstanding Guest Performer Award becoming the actor with consecutive wins from two different daytime dramas. John Wesley Shipp at the Internet Movie Database
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John Wesley Shipp in 2009.
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Mary Beth Peil
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Mary Beth Peil is an American actress and singer. Peil was born in 1940 in Davenport, Iowa and she trained as an opera singer at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann. There she became a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, in 1964 she won both the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. During the 1960s, Peil toured with Boris Goldovskys opera company and she also sang with the New York City Opera. In 1971, she originated the role of Alma in the opera Summer and Smoke, based on a Tennessee Williams play, Peil was persuaded to take a role in Kiss Me, Kate and soon found herself on Broadway. In May 1983 she was cast in a tour as the twelfth and final Anna Leonowens opposite Yul Brynners monarch of Siam in a revival of The King. The production toured the United States, closing on Broadway shortly before Brynners death in 1985, Peil was nominated for a 1985 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. She starred in the 1987 Off-Broadway musical Birds of Paradise and she made her film debut in 1992s Jersey Girl. She appeared on TVs Law & Order in 1994, Peil won an Obie Award in 1995 for her work in three non-musical plays, The Naked Truth, Missing Persons, and A Cheever Evening. In 1996 and 1997, Peil toured in A. R. Gurneys play, Sylvia with Charles Kimbrough and she played evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in a 1998 off-Broadway revival of the Irving Berlin - Moss Hart revue As Thousands Cheer. Between 1998 and 2003, Peil was introduced to an audience through her role as Evelyn Grams Ryan on teen television drama Dawsons Creek. Alongside the four main stars of that show, she was the only actress to appear as a credited regular throughout the shows six-season run. Peil was the love interest of Felix, played by Jack Lemmon, in May 1999, Peil appeared in the Yale Repertory Theatres production of the Noël Coward play Hay Fever. She played the woman in Sweeney Todd at the Kennedy Center in 2002. In the winter of 2003, she again appeared off-Broadway, starring in Frame 312, in 2008 she appeared as the Old Lady and Blair Daniels in the Roundabout Theatre Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheims musical Sunday in the Park with George. Peil portrayed Nancy Reagans mother, actress Edith Luckett, in the Showtime movie The Reagans and she also appeared in the thriller Mirrors, filmed in Romania. From 2009-2016, she played Jackie Florrick, the mother of Chris Noths character, the show had a limited run until January 2011. Peil appeared in Stephen Sondheims Follies on Broadway in the role of Solange LaFitte, alongside Bernadette Peters and Elaine Paige, in March 2012, she appeared as Erica Morini in Willy Holtzmans off-Broadway play The Morini Strad about the concert violinist
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Peil at the 2011
Peabody Award
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Busy Philipps
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Elizabeth Jean Busy Philipps is an American actress, known for her supporting roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Dawsons Creek. She played Laurie Keller in the TV series Cougar Town for which she won the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011, elizabeth Jean Philipps was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her parents gave her the nickname Busy because as an infant she was always moving and she attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. She attended Loyola Marymount University at the time as Freaks and Geeks costar Linda Cardellini. Philipps worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before making her show-business debut and her first major role was Kim Kelly in Freaks and Geeks, in which she appeared in all but one of its eighteen episodes. She later made her debut in comedy The Smokers in 2000. In 2001, Philipps was cast as Audrey Liddell in the teen drama Dawsons Creek and she was a series regular in seasons 5 and 6, appearing in 46 episodes, before the show finished in 2003. Her role of Audrey earned Philipps a Teen Choice Awards nomination in the category of TV - Choice Sidekick, Philipps later appeared in two films, Home Room and White Chicks. She was cast in the UPN sitcom Love, Inc. in a role intended for Shannen Doherty. The show lasted for one season before being cancelled, in 2006, she had a major recurring role as Hope Bobeck on ER, alongside her Freaks and Geeks co-star Linda Cardellini. During her second year on ER, her character headed to South America to fulfill her Christian mission, Philipps had a co-credit for the storyline of the 2007 comedy film Blades of Glory. A year later, Philipps returned to being in front of the camera with her role in Made of Honor. Philipps has also made appearances in Hes Just Not That Into You as the character of Kelli Ann, from 2009 to 2015, Philipps portrayed Laurie Keller in the television series Cougar Town. Philipps also routinely contributes to the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a live radio show. Her primary recurring character is the Red Plains Rider, Philipps stars on the HBO series Vice Principals, which premiered in 2016. In 2017, Philipps signed on as co-lead opposite Casey Wilson in Tina Feys comedy pilot The Sackett Sisters for NBC, Philipps dated Colin Hanks in the 1990s, while in college. Philipps married screenwriter Marc Silverstein in 2007 and they have two daughters, Birdie Leigh, whose godmother is actress Lizzy Caplan, and Cricket Pearl. Busy Philipps at the Internet Movie Database Busy Philipps on Twitter PopGurls Interview, Busy Philipps
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Philipps at the
New York Television Festival, 2009
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Paula Cole
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Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter. Her single Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and her song I Dont Want to Wait was used as the theme song of the television show Dawsons Creek. Cole was raised in Rockport, Massachusetts, her mother was a school art teacher, and her father was a professor of biology and ecology at Salem State College. She attended Rockport High School, where she was president of her senior class, Cole then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation. She was offered a deal by a jazz label. Cole got her first big break when she was invited to perform on Peter Gabriels 1993–94 Secret World Live tour. Shortly after this, she was signed on with her first record company Imago Records, through this record company, she released her first album Harbinger in 1994. Within that year of Harbingers release, Imago Records went out of business, in 1995, she was signed on to Warner Bros. The record company reissued Harbinger in the Autumn of 1995, to replace Sinead OConnor who left the tour, Cole joined the two last legs of Peter Gabriels 1993-94 Secret World tour. The film received the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, Cole was also the main female vocalist on Secret World Live, the audio album documenting the tour. The tour gave Cole international exposure as well as performing on a large stage. Cole released her album, Harbinger, in 1994 with Imago Records. She appeared with Melissa Etheridge to sing a duet on VH1 though she was not well known at the time, Harbinger featured songs dwelling on Coles personal thoughts on discrimination and unhappiness. The songs were musically lush but driven and bleak, the accompanying artwork featured photographs of Cole with a boyishly short haircut, wearing loose fitting black sweatclothes, combat boots and nose ring. The Imago label folded and promotion of Harbinger was limited, affecting its sales, a single, I Am So Ordinary, was released with a black and white video that reflected the albums artwork. In late 1996, Cole released her album on Warner Bros. Records, This Fire, which was entirely self-produced, the albums debut single, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. went to #8 on Billboard magazines pop chart. The follow-up single I Dont Want to Wait reached #11, its popularity bolstered by its use as the song for the hit teen drama series Dawsons Creek which debuted over a year after the album
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Cole performing in 2009
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Jann Arden
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Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She is famous for her ballads, Could I Be Your Girl and Insensitive. Jann Arden was born in Calgary and moved as a child to Springbank, Alberta, Arden was discovered in 1985 by Calgary manager Neil MacGonigill, who worked with her from 1985 to 1998, both managing her career and acting as executive producer of her earlier albums. Arden released her critically acclaimed album, Time for Mercy. in 1993. Her 1994 album Living Under June featured her biggest hit to date outside of Canada, Insensitive, 2000s Blood Red Cherry, and 2003s Love Is the Only Soldier. She also released a greatest hits album, Greatest Hurts, in 2001, in 2005, she released her eighth album, self-titled Jann Arden. In 1998, respondents to Chart magazines year-end readers poll named Arden the Canadian celebrity most deserving of her own talk show. As part of her public honesty about her life, she has revealed that one of her brothers is serving a life sentence in prison. Arden released her album, Uncover Me, on February 6,2007. This album was her first comprising cover songs exclusively, except for one original piece and this was followed by her Uncover Me Tour across Canada during the spring of 2007. She had a 2007 USA summer tour with Michael Bublé, in 2010, they also carried the Olympic torch. She co-wrote his 2013 song Close Your Eyes, in September 2009, Arden released her tenth album, Free, and its first single, A Million Miles Away, in June. She then undertook a cross-country Canadian tour, which began in November 2009 and she toured with proceeds going to the Raise-a-Reader Concert Series. In November 2010, Arden released her first ever live CD and DVD set and her latest autobiography, Falling Backwards, was released on November 1,2011, along with a second album of cover songs, Uncover Me 2. Ardens thirteenth album, Everything Almost, was released April 29,2014 through Universal Music Canada, in October 2015, Arden released her fourteenth and first ever Christmas album called A Jann Arden Christmas. Arden has received a total of 19 Juno Award nominations to date and she has won eight of them, including Songwriter of the Year in 1995 and 2002, and Female Artist of the Year in 1995 and 2001. She has also won awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards, the Prairie Music Awards and she has 17 top ten singles from eight albums. In March 2006, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canadas Walk of Fame and she was awarded the prize at a gala in Toronto
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Arden (left), being interviewed on television, 2006
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Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea. It is an archipelago that includes the island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller ones such as Mona, Culebra. The capital and most populous city is San Juan and its official languages are Spanish and English, though Spanish predominates. The islands population is approximately 3.4 million, Puerto Ricos rich history, tropical climate, diverse natural scenery, renowned traditional cuisine, and attractive tax incentives make it a popular destination for travelers from around the world. Four centuries of Spanish colonial government transformed the ethnic, cultural and physical landscapes primarily with waves of African captives, and Canarian. In the Spanish imperial imagination, Puerto Rico played a secondary, in 1898, following the Spanish–American War, the United States appropriated Puerto Rico together with most former Spanish colonies under the terms of the Treaty of Paris. Puerto Ricans are natural-born citizens of the United States, however, Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the United States Congress, which governs the territory with full jurisdiction under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950. As a U. S. territory, American citizens residing on the island are disenfranchised at the level and may not vote for president. However, Congress approved a constitution, allowing U. S. citizens on the territory to elect a governor. A fifth referendum will be held in June 2017, with only Statehood, in early 2017, the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis posed serious problems for the government. The outstanding bond debt that had climbed to $70 billion or $12,000 per capita at a time with 12. 4% unemployment, the debt had been increasing during a decade long recession. Puerto Ricans often call the island Borinquen – a derivation of Borikén, its indigenous Taíno name, the terms boricua and borincano derive from Borikén and Borinquen respectively, and are commonly used to identify someone of Puerto Rican heritage. The island is also known in Spanish as la isla del encanto. Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital city. The islands name was changed to Porto Rico by the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1898, the anglicized name was used by the US government and private enterprises. The name was changed back to Puerto Rico by a joint resolution in Congress introduced by Félix Córdova Dávila in 1931, the ancient history of the archipelago known today as Puerto Rico is not well known. The scarce archaeological findings and early Spanish scholarly accounts from the colonial era constitute the basis of knowledge about them. The first comprehensive book on the history of Puerto Rico was written by Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra in 1786, the first settlers were the Ortoiroid people, an Archaic Period culture of Amerindian hunters and fishermen who migrated from the South American mainland
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A Taíno Village at the
Tibes Ceremonial Center.
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Flag
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Juan Ponce de León (
Santervás de Campos,
Valladolid, Spain), was the first governor of Puerto Rico. His grandson
Juan Ponce de León II was the first criollo governor of Puerto Rico.
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The 16th century
Fort San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Mark Mothersbaugh
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Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author and visual artist. Mothersbaughs music career more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, the band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Mothersbaugh is one of the composers of Devos music and made major lyrical contributions to the bands songs. He is one of two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. He also has had a career which has included four studio albums, Muzik for Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato. In 2004, he was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his significant contributions to film, additionally, Mothersbaugh was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University in 2008. He has married twice and is the father of two adopted children, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh was born on May 18,1950, in Akron, Ohio. He is the son of Mary Margaret and Robert Mothersbaugh, Sr and he grew up with two younger brothers, Bob and Jim, and two sisters, Amy and Susan. His father appeared in early Devo films and fan events as the character General Boy and his brothers participated in the band, although Jims tenure was brief, Mothersbaugh attended Kent State University as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis. This association culminated in 1973, when the trio started to play music as Devo, following the commercial failure of their sixth studio album Shout, Warner Bros. dropped Devo. Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively unfulfilled, drummer Alan Myers left the band, causing the band members to abandon the plans for a Shout video LP. In 1987, Devo reformed with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks to replace Myers and their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil and they released the albums Total Devo and Smooth Noodle Maps, on Enigma. Devo had an out and played two shows in 1991 before breaking up. Around this time, members of Devo appeared in the film The Spirit of 76, following the split, Mark Mothersbaugh established Mutato Muzika, a commercial music production studio, along with Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale. Mothersbaugh meant to further a career as a composer, Mothersbaugh gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs, video games cartoons, and movies. In 2006, Devo worked on a project with Disney known as Devo 2.0, a band of child performers was assembled and re-recorded Devo songs. Their debut album, a two disc CD/DVD combo entitled DEV2.0, was released on March 14,2006
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Mothersbaugh performing in 2007
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Greg Berlanti
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Greg Berlanti is an American film and television writer, producer and director. He is well known for his work on the television series Dawsons Creek, Everwood, Political Animals, and for his vast contributions to DC Comics, including The CWs Arrowverse. He got his start in television as a writer and executive producer on Dawsons Creek before going on to two of The WBs most critically acclaimed dramas, Everwood and Jack & Bobby. He created and produced the ABC legal drama Eli Stone and the USA family drama Political Animals and he directed the 2010 film Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, and produced Pan for Warner Bros. under his Berlanti Productions banner. The film was released October 9,2015 and he also produces The Mysteries of Laura, an American adaptation of the Spanish television series, for NBC. Berlanti co-wrote and co-produced the DC Comics film Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds as the titular character, as the film was not critically nor financially successful, any further releases planned were cancelled. It has since announced that a rebooted version of the character is in development as a part of the DC Extended Universe. In May 2016, Berlanti discussed his involvement in a Booster Gold feature film that is currently in development, as producer, zack Stentz is signed to the project as screenwriter. In December 2011, it was announced that, along with Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim, Berlanti would create, write, in May 2012, it was picked up to series and premiered on October 10, of that year. Actor Grant Gustin was cast and made his debut in episode 8, The Scientist, to public, in November 2013, The CW officially ordered a pilot for The Flash. In May 2014, the network picked the project up to series to premiere in the autumn of that year and it premiered on October 7,2014, preceding the third season premiere of Arrow on October 8,2014. On September 4,2014, it was reported that Berlanti would executive produce a re-imagining of the origin of Supergirl, to be written by The New Normal, Flash co-creator Johns is also involved with development. On September 19,2014, it was reported that CBS had made a commitment to Supergirl. It was also announced that Berlanti would co-write the first episode, after its first season, the show moved from being shown on CBS to being shown on The CW. He was born in Rye, New York and his parents are Barbara Moller Berlanti and Eugene Berlanti. Greg has one sister, Dina, and is the uncle of two nieces and he has Italian and Irish ancestry. He described his life in an August 2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly, We were Italians in a town of WASPs. The Berlanti Television production logo, which each episode of shows he produces, features a family with their backs to the audience
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Berlanti in 2012
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Wilmington, North Carolina
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Wilmington is a port city and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. The population is 112,067, according to the 2010 Census it is the eighth most populous city in the state, Wilmington was settled by European Americans along the Cape Fear River. Its historic downtown has a one-mile-long Riverwalk, originally developed as a tourist attraction and it is minutes away from nearby beaches. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2003 the city was designated by the US Congress as a Coast Guard City. It is the port for the USCGC Diligence, a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. The World War II battleship USS North Carolina is held as a war memorial, located across from the port area. Other attractions include the Cape Fear Museum, the Wilmington Hammerheads United Soccer Leagues soccer team, Wilmington is the home of EUE Screen Gems Studios, the largest domestic television and movie production facility outside of California. Dream Stage 10, the facilitys newest sound stage, is the third-largest in the US and it houses the largest special-effects water tank in North America. After the studios opening in 1984, Wilmington became a center of American film. Numerous movies in a range of genres and several series, including Iron Man 3, Foxs Sleepy Hollow, One Tree Hill, Dawsons Creek. In recent years, however, the end of tax credits to the industry has severely impacted filmmaking in the entire area. The area had long inhabited by various cultures of indigenous peoples, at the time of European encounter. The ethnic European and African history of Wilmington spans more than two and a half centuries, giovanni da Verrazano is reportedly the first European to observe the area, including the citys present site, in the early 16th century. The first permanent European settlement in the area came in the 1720s when English colonists began settling the area, in September 1732, a community was founded on land owned by John Watson on the Cape Fear River, at the confluence of its northwest and northeast branches. The settlement, founded by the first royal governor, George Burrington, was called New Carthage, governor Gabriel Johnston soon after established his government there for the North Carolina colony. In 1739 or 1740, the town was incorporated with a new name, Wilmington, in honor of Spencer Compton, many of the settlers were indentured servants, mainly from the British Isles and northern Europe. As the indentured servants gained their freedom, the colonists imported a number of African slaves as laborers into the port city. By 1767, slaves accounted for more than 62% of the population of the Lower Cape Fear region, many worked in the port as laborers, and some in ship-related trades
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Downtown Wilmington from across the Cape Fear River
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The
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U.S. Courthouse in Wilmington, the backdrop of
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Across from the Bellamy Mansion is the First
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Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months, as defined by the Cape Cod Commissions enabling legislation, Cape Cod is conterminous with Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It extends from Provincetown in the northeast to Woods Hole in the southwest, since 1914, Cape Cod has been separated from the mainland by the Cape Cod Canal. The canal cuts 17.5 miles roughly across the base of the peninsula, though portions of the Cape Cod towns of Bourne. Two highway bridges cross the Cape Cod Canal, the Sagamore Bridge, in addition, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge carries railway freight and limited passenger services onto the Cape. Cape territory is divided into fifteen towns with many villages, like Cape Cod itself, the islands south of the Cape have evolved from whaling and trading areas to become resort destinations, attracting wealthy families, celebrities, and other tourists. Both islands are also famous summer tourist destinations, commonly accessed by ferry from several locations on the cape, the phrases Cape Cod and the Islands and the Cape and Islands are often used to describe the whole region of Barnstable County, Dukes County, and Nantucket County. Several small islands right off Cape Cod, including Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island, the Forbes family-owned Naushon Island was first purchased by John Murray Forbes. Naushon is one of the Elizabeth Islands, many of which are privately owned, one of the publicly accessible Elizabeths is the southernmost island in the chain, Cuttyhunk, with a year-round population of 52 people. Cape Cod in particular is a retirement area,27. 8% of the population of Barnstable County is 65 years old or older. And the average age of residents is the highest of any area in New England, by voter registration numbers, Democrats outnumber Republicans by less in the three counties than in the whole of Massachusetts, to varying degrees. The name Cape Cod, as it was first used in 1602 and it remained that way for 125 years, until the Precinct of Cape Cod was incorporated as the Town of Provincetown. No longer in use over the ensuing decades, the name came to mean all of the land east of the Manomet and Scusset rivers – essentially along the line that became the Cape Cod Canal. The creation of the canal separated the majority of the peninsula from the mainland, most agencies, including the Cape Cod Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, treat the Cape as an island with regard to disaster preparedness, groundwater management, and the like. Cape Cod Bay lies in between Cape Cod and the mainland – bounded on the north by a line between Provincetown and Marshfield. North of Cape Cod Bay is Massachusetts Bay, which contains the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, the Atlantic Ocean is to the east of Cape Cod, and to the southwest of the Cape is Buzzards Bay. The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod extends 65 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, with a breadth of between 1–20 miles, and covers more than 400 miles of shoreline. Its elevation ranges from 306 feet at its highest point, at the top of Pine Hill, in the Bourne portion of Joint Base Cape Cod, one of the biggest barrier islands in the world, Cape Cod shields much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves
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Cape Cod National Seashore
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The Cape and Islands
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The dunes on
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Barnstable County historical map, 1890
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Single camera setup
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The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. In this setup, each of the shots and camera angles is taken using the same camera. Choices can then be made during the editing process for when in the scene to use each shot. This also then allows parts of the scene to be removed if it is felt that the scene is too long, in practice, sometimes two cameras shooting from the same angle are used, one to capture a medium shot, the other a close-up during the same take. Unlike film producers, who almost always opt for single-camera shooting, single-camera is mostly reserved for prime-time dramas, made-for-TV movies, music videos and commercial advertisements. Soap operas, talk shows, game shows, most reality television series, Multiple-camera shooting is the only way that an ensemble of actors presenting a single performance before a live audience can be recorded from multiple perspectives. Also for standard, dialogue-driven domestic situation comedies, the multi-camera technique, situation comedies may potentially be shot in either multiple- or single-camera modes. Several comedy series of the era also use of feature film techniques. These effects were created using editing and optical printing techniques, in the case of Get Smart, the single-camera technique also allowed the series to present fast-paced and tightly-edited fight and action sequences reminiscent of the spy dramas that it parodied. Single-camera comedies were also prevalent into the early 1970s, with its large cast, varied locations, and seriocomic tone, the TV series M*A*S*H was shot using single-camera style. Happy Days began in 1974 as a series, before switching to the multi-camera setup in its second season. Unlike single-camera sitcoms of the past, nearly all contemporary comedies shot in this manner are produced without a laugh track, list of single-camera sitcoms Multiple-camera setup Tapeless camcorder
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Diagram showing a single-camera setup.
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Columbia TriStar Television
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Columbia TriStar Television was an American television studio that was active from 1994 to 2002. After the merger, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution was renamed as Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, expanding its television library in 1994, SPE acquired Stewart Television. Its global subsidiary, Columbia TriStar International Television, distributed Sonys programs across the globe and it was created in 1992 by merging Columbia Pictures International Television with TriStar Television. This was also the launch of the Columbia TriStar Television Group a year later, in 1996, CTT launched their own animation division, Columbia TriStar Childrens Television. The name was changed in 1997 to Adelaide Productions, within dismantling of Columbia Pictures Television in 2001 and TriStar Television in 1999, these studios were folded into Columbia TriStar Television. In 1998, it made a partnership with Global Maritime Group to create the company called Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co, medien KG used for copyright purposes. In 1999, they went back to the old way and ELP, on October 25,2001, CTT and CTTD merged to form Columbia TriStar Domestic Television. Some shows continued using the CTDT name, many stopped using it in November 2002, while Hollywood Squares continued using it until early 2003
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Columbia TriStar Television logo used from 1997 until 2002.
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Outerbanks Entertainment
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Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known as the creator of the TV series Dawsons Creek, The Vampire Diaries, The Following and Stalker. He is also known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Williamson was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the younger son of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. He spent his years in Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi. Williamsons family returned to North Carolina for his school years. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and he told Entertainment Weekly interviewer Melissa Maerz, When I was growing up, my mom and dad took me to the Poe museum in Richmond, Virginia. It was a little house downtown, and The Raven was written on the walls and you had to move from room to room to read the whole story. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, after graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle which was bought by a company in 1995. Its characters had seen many classic movies and knew all the clichés. Miramax bought the script for $400,000 for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995, directed by Wes Craven, the film was renamed Scream, and released in The United States on December 20,1996. It became a blockbuster and critical success—ultimately drawing $173 million in ticket sales worldwide. Kevin Williamson earned the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1996 for his work on Scream, in 1997, Dimension Films released Scream 2, also written by Williamson. It, too, was a critical and box office hit, paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia TriStar Television, read Scream after the bidding war for the script and was convinced Williamson was just the man to create a television series for his company. The result was Dawsons Creek, a tale set in a small coastal community not unlike Oriental. Williamson was the model for the character, Dawson Leery. Joey Potter, the platonic girl-next-door, was based on a real friend of Williamsons when he was young. In December 1995, the show was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin had been an executive, Dawsons Creek premiered on The WB on January 20,1998, and was an immediate hit that helped launch the newly created television network
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Kevin Williamson in 2012
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Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures, with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, in 2009, SPT collaborated with Jeff Arnold and Dr. Additional co-founders in Sharecare include Harpo Productions, Discovery Communications, as of 2015, its the worlds largest television production and distribution company measured by library and revenue. SPTs history goes back to 1947, when Pioneer Telefilms was founded by Ralph Cohn, whose father Jack, the present name was given to reflect the Sony brand on September 16,2002. On November 24,2004, Sony Pictures Television International formed a joint venture called Huaso with Hua Long Film Digital Production Co. Ltd. of the China Film Group in Beijing. From 2005 to 2006, SPT was the distributor of MGMs TV and film library, in 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle advertising sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U. S. mostly shows produced in Canada. The same year, SPT signed Embassy Row a three-year deal for new shows, game show revivals. In summer 2007, SPT introduced The Minisode Network, a channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes. In winter 2007, The Minisode Network was also added to a few more sites like AOL TV, YouTube, and its sister site Crackle. On March 27,2008, SPT International acquired a minority stake in the new production company Gogglebox Entertainment, on June 4,2008, SPT bought Hilversum, Netherlands-based production company 2waytraffic, international holders of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On January 14,2009, SPT acquired Embassy Row, a television, fourteen days later, SPTI acquired a 50% stake in Colombian independent TV production company Teleset. Three months later on April 1, Sony Pictures Entertainment consolidated its US, Sony Pictures Television International now operates in-name-only. On September 25,2011, Andrea Wong was tapped to head the international television production division of Sony Pictures Television to oversee all international businesses for the studio. On January 19,2012, SPT acquired Dolphin Broadcast Services Ltd. SPT also took a majority stake in Dolphins advertising sales business. On March 1,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in UK independent production company Silver River Productions, on May 31, SPT launched Sony Movie Channel and AXN in Canada in partnership with Hollywood Suite. Two of Hollywood Suites networks, Hollywood Festival re-launched as Sony Movie Channel, on August 23,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in Left Bank Pictures, a UK production company founded by Andy Harries, Francis Hopkinson, and Marigo Kehoe. On August 22,2013, Sony Pictures Television acquired a majority stake in Simon Andraes new production company Scarlet Media, however, two months later, Andrae dropped his plans for Scarlet and was tapped to become executive vice-president of alternative entertainment for Fox
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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Logo for Daytime WB.
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Young Americans (TV series)
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Young Americans is an American television drama created by Steven Antin. The show debuted on July 12,2000 on The WB network as a replacement for. The series was ordered for the fall 1999-2000 season but was delayed due to unresolved matters between the ColumbiaTriStar and The WB. The main character, Will Krudski, was introduced late in three of Dawsons Creek as a childhood friend of the group who has kept in contact with Pacey Witter. The show explores themes of love, morality, social classes. Young Americans is set in the town of New Rawley at a boarding school. Will Krudski, a working class New Englander, earns a scholarship to his hometowns posh boarding school, starting with the summer session, in a moment of carelessness he confesses to his roommate, Scout, that he cheated on the entrance exam. Their professor, Finn, overhears Will and Scout discussing what to do, before making a final decision about expelling him, Finn has Will write an essay on who he is. Throughout the series Will continues to face moral dilemmas as he struggles to find his place at school while not alienating his friends in town, there is also the forbidden love of Scout and Bella, who may have the same father. Jacqueline, in an attempt to see if her mother notices her, enrolls at Rawley Academy, things get complicated when she develops feelings for Hamilton, the deans son. Hamilton begins to wonder if he is gay as he realizes he has feelings for Jake, the story lines do not converge until the final two episodes of the show as Bella seeks the truth about her biological father. Rodney Scott as William Will Krudski, a poor but brilliant young man who cheated on the exam to ensure his admission and has a complicated relationship to his father. Mark Famiglietti as Scout Calhoun, Wills roommate at Rawley Academy, Scout meets, and dates, Wills old friend Bella until her step-father explains his reasons why he disapproves. Katherine Moennig as Jacqueline Jake Pratt, a girl who disguises herself as a boy to get the attention of her absent mother. Ian Somerhalder as Hamilton Fleming, a student at the school, Hamilton finds himself confused by his attraction to Jake. Kate Bosworth as Bella Banks, Wills childhood friend – a pretty townie torn between Scout and fellow New Rawleyian, Sean, ed Quinn as Finn, coach of the rowing team and also a teacher. Matt Czuchry as Sean McGrail, Wills long-time best friend and baseball team mate as well as a friend of Bellas. Deborah Hazlett as Susan Krudski, Wills mother, works at a New Rawley beauty salon named Glamorama
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Young Americans title
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One Tree Hill (TV series)
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One Tree Hill is an American television drama series created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23,2003 on The WB. After the series season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW, and since September 27,2006. Most of the filming took place in and around Wilmington, North Carolina, many of the scenes were shot near the battleship USS North Carolina and on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus. The first four seasons of the focus on the main characters lives through their high school years. The opening credits were accompanied by the song I Dont Want to Be by Gavin DeGraw. The credits then consisted only of the title written on a black background, the theme was restored for season 8, in response to audience demand, and was sung by different artists each week. The series premiered to 2.5 million viewers and rose to 3.3 million in its second week, becoming one of only three shows to rise in their second episode during the 2003–2004 television season. Season one went on to average 3.5 million viewers, and the season was the highest rated in the series, averaging 4.3 million viewers weekly. The series received numerous nominations, winning two Teen Choice Awards. The show is notable for being one of the occasions for a teen drama where no episodes dipped below one million viewes. On May 12,2009, it was confirmed that Murray and Hilarie Burton had declined to return for the seventh season and their characters had been two of the five main protagonists, and had provided one of its central love stories, throughout the show. On May 17,2011, The CW renewed One Tree Hill for a ninth and final season, bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush were signed as full-time regulars for one final season, and Lafferty appeared as a part-time regular. Murray returned for an appearance during the final season, which premiered on January 11,2012. The show is the fourth longest running series on The CW network, or the networks that came together to make it up, only behind Smallville, Supernatural, the series concluded on April 4,2012. The main storyline in the seasons is the relationship between two half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who start out as enemies but bond as the show progresses. In the pilot episode, Lucas obtains a place in the Tree Hill Ravens with the help of his uncle Keith, Nathan, the head of the team, takes a dislike to Lucas, and this becomes the basis of their rivalry. Lucass romantic interest in Nathans girlfriend Peyton Sawyer also strengthens their feud, Peytons best friend Brooke Davis tries to date Lucas, and Nathan attempts to date Lucass best friend Haley James. He had a high school romance with Karen, resulting in Lucass birth, leaving Karen, he married Deb, and the couple bore Nathan
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Series intertitle, seasons 1–4 and 8
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Original main five: Lucas and Peyton (center), Nathan and Haley (left), and Brooke (right).
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Lucas and Nathan during the basketball game at the climax of the
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Dawson Leery
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Dawson Wade Leery is the central character from the WB television drama Dawsons Creek, portrayed by James Van Der Beek, and appeared in 122 episodes and cameo in Scary Movie. Dawson is the first child and only son of Mitch Leery and his college sweetheart and he was born on March 14,1983. His three best friends are Joey Potter, the girl across the creek, whom he considers his soulmate, Pacey Witter, Capeside Highs class clown, and Jen Lindley, the new girl in town. When the McPhee family arrive in town at the beginning of Season 2, Dawson is joined by a sister, Lily, who is born when he is 18. An eternal optimist, Dawson believes in the old fashioned values of romance and honesty. He was a filmmaker and made several low cost and amateur films, which were entered into film festivals across the country. He and long-time friend Joey Potter spend much of their time together, however, their relationship complicates as they age and especially with the arrival of New York exile Jen Lindley, who moves in next door to Dawson. He enters into his first relationship with her, but after her ex visits, she dumps him, after this, a series of events causes him to see lifelong friend Joey in a whole new light. First, his wise-cracking best friend Pacey Witter asks for Dawsons permission to ask Joey out, later, he sees Joey looking sophisticated and mature for a Beauty Pageant, which opens his eyes to her beauty. Finally, he joins Joey on a visit to her father in prison. While Joey wrestles with the idea of spending a year in France, the season ends with Dawson and Joey kissing in front of his bedroom window. Although initially Dawson and Joey have smooth sailing, newcomer Jack McPhee comes to town and develops feelings for Joey, the kiss confuses Joey, who is struggling to find a passion in life. She dumps Dawson in an effort to find herself, but ends up quickly dating Jack and this sends Dawson back into the arms of Jen, who has been flirting with her old rebellious ways, and helps Dawson cut loose. All along, Dawson mopes over the loss of Joey, even making a movie recounting their breakup, when Joeys relationship with Jack crumbles due to the revelation that he is homosexual, she comes literally crying to Dawson. For his sixteenth birthday, Dawson feels depressed that he hasnt grown and wasnt able to keep Joey and this results in him insulting nearly all of his friends, including Pacey, of whom Dawson is envious for his newly together life. Soon Dawson and Joey end up back together, however, their reconciliation is short-lived, as Dawson soon learns that Joeys father, who has gotten paroled from jail, is selling drugs again. Dawson urges Joey to wear a wire to bust her father, after this, Joey vows that she will never forgive Dawson for the position he put her in. After a summer spent with his mom in Philadelphia, Dawson returns to Capeside still reeling from his split with Joey, on the bus ride home, he meets Eve, a mysterious, blonde femme fatale that seems intent upon luring Dawson with her sex appeal
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James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery
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Romantic interest
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Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person often associated with sexual attraction. It is eros rather than agape, philia, or storge, historically, the term romance originates with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in its chivalric romance literature. Humans have an inclination to form bonds with one another through social interactions. The debate over an exact definition of love may be found in literature as well as in the works of psychologists, philosophers, biochemists and other professionals. The addition of drama to relationships of close, deep and strong love, psychologist Charles Lindholm defined love to be. an intense attraction that involves the idealization of the other, within an erotic context, with expectation of enduring sometime into the future. The word was originally an adverb of the Latin origin Romanicus, the connecting notion is that European medieval vernacular tales were usually about chivalric adventure, not combining the idea of love until late into the seventeenth century. In primitive societies, tension existed between marriage and the erotic, but this was expressed in taboo regarding the menstrual cycle. Anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss show that there were forms of courtship in ancient as well as contemporary primitive societies. There may not be evidence, however, that members of such societies formed loving relationships distinct from their established customs in a way that would parallel modern romance, before the 18th century, many marriages were not arranged, but rather developed out of more or less spontaneous relationships. After the 18th century, illicit relationships took on an independent role. In bourgeois marriage, illicitness may have become more formidable and likely to cause tension, in Ladies of the Leisure Class, Rutgers University professor Bonnie G. Smith depicts courtship and marriage rituals that may be viewed as oppressive to modern people. She writes When the young women of the Nord married, they did so without illusions of love and they acted within a framework of concern for the reproduction of bloodlines according to financial, professional, and sometimes political interests. Subsequent sexual revolution has lessened the conflicts arising out of liberalism, anthony Giddens, in his book The Transformation of Intimacy, Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society, states that romantic love introduced the idea of a narrative into an individuals life. He adds that telling a story was one of the meanings of romance, according to Giddens, the rise of romantic love more or less coincided with the emergence of the novel. It was then that romantic love, associated with freedom and therefore the ideals of romantic love, for the discourse of intimacy emotional closeness was much more important than passion. This does not mean by any means that intimacy is to replace romance, on the contrary, intimacy and romance coexist. The 21st century has seen the growth of globalization and people now live in a world of transformations that affect almost every aspect of our lives, one example of the changes experienced in relationships was explored by Giddens regarding homosexual relationships. According to Giddens since homosexuals were not able to marry they were forced to more open
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The Stolen Kiss by
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1786)
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Bernger von Horheim in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century)
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"La Belle Dame sans Merci" 1893, by
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
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Romeo and Juliet parting on the balcony in Act III.
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Joey Potter
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Josephine Lynn Joey Potter is a fictional character and de facto lead role from the WB television drama Dawsons Creek, portrayed by Katie Holmes, and appeared in all episodes. Joey has been friends with Dawson Leery since they were very young and she lives with her older sister, Bessie, Bessies son Alexander and boyfriend, Bodie. Her father, Mike, is in and out of prison for drug trafficking and her mother, Lillian, died of breast cancer when Joey was thirteen. Joey is also the character to appear in every episode of the series. In season one, Joey is the next door. She is confused by her growth into a teenager and her feelings for her longtime best friend Dawson. She immediately becomes jealous when Jen Lindley arrives and steals Dawson away from her and she is intimidated by Jen, who grew up in New York and does not know how to compete. She lives with her pregnant sister Bessie, and she works for her at the Ice House and she is frustrated with having to deal with work and taking care of her sister along with significant helpings of teenage angst. Nonetheless, Joey manages to be helpful with the birth of Bessies son, Alexander, as does their critical neighbor, one day she is convinced to compete in the beauty pageant, which she does so that she can win the cash prize. But instead of winning the contest, she wins Dawsons heart, as he sees past his best friend image. At the end of the season, she finds herself with the opportunity of going to Paris for a year, but rejects it in favor of staying in Capeside with Dawson after she and Dawson kiss. At the start of the season, she and Dawson are a couple and things start out well, during a full moon, the new guy in town, Jack McPhee, kisses her. Dawson finds out during a school dance, after a huge argument, Joey decides to break up with him, even though for the first time they both say that they love each other. She says that she wants to find herself, and so she breaks up with him, Joey and Jack begin dating afterward but the relationship ends just as quickly when Jack realizes that hes gay. Joeys father is released from prison and comes back into her life, at first this change is uneasy, but they heal the rift between them and she gets back together with Dawson. However, Dawson finds out that Joeys father is dealing cocaine, after a fire at the restaurant which was started by rivals of Joeys father, Dawson tells his parents who advise him he needs to go to the police. He convinces her to wear a wire, and get a confession from her father so that nothing like the fire will happen again and she gets the confession from her father and shows him the wire. Knowing that she had betrayed her father, she is understandably heartbroken and she breaks up with him and tells him she doesnt even want to know him and that she will never forgive him
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Katie Holmes as Josephine Potter
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Katie Holmes received high acclaim during second season and has since been referred to as the series' central character by the media.
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Massachusetts
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It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which inhabited the area. The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston, over 80% of Massachusetts population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, during the 20th century, Massachusetts economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance. Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, in 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of Americas most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In 1777, General Henry Knox founded the Springfield Armory, which during the Industrial Revolution catalyzed numerous important technological advances, in 1786, Shays Rebellion, a populist revolt led by disaffected American Revolutionary War veterans, influenced the United States Constitutional Convention. In the 18th century, the Protestant First Great Awakening, which swept the Atlantic World, in the late 18th century, Boston became known as the Cradle of Liberty for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts has played a commercial and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, in the late 19th century, the sports of basketball and volleyball were invented in the western Massachusetts cities of Springfield and Holyoke, respectively. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the state, including the Adams, both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world. Massachusetts public school students place among the top nations in the world in academic performance, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While this designation is part of the official name, it has no practical implications. Massachusetts has the position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as longhouses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems. Between 1617 and 1619, smallpox killed approximately 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans, the first English settlers in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, arrived via the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, and developed friendly relations with the native Wampanoag people. This was the second successful permanent English colony in the part of North America that later became the United States, the event known as the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World which lasted for three days
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A portion of the north-central
Pioneer Valley in
Sunderland
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Flag
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Many coastal areas in Massachusetts provide breeding areas for species such as the
piping plover
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The
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by
William Halsall (1882). The
Pilgrims were a group of
Puritans who founded
Plymouth in 1620.
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Volume 1, Number 1 (February 16, 1990), cover featuring singer
k.d. lang
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