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Phoenix Comicon
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Phoenix Comicon is a multigenre entertainment and comic book convention held annually in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded as the Phoenix Cactus Comicon in June 2002, PCC plays host to comic related panels, programming events, art contests, and autograph signings for all ages. It is an event held during the summer at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix. On Thursday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. In 2016, the set a attendance record of 106,096. Phoenix Comicon has also begun to expand programming into the hotels, including the Hyatt Regency, Marriott Renaissance. It was re-branded as Phoenix Fan Fest and moved to October in 2016 at the Phoenix Convention Center, the first Phoenix Comicon was held in June 2002 as Phoenix Cactus Comicon. It was a convention for six hours held at a Best Western in Ahwatukee. Admission was $3 per person and there were 432 attendees, along with a few local creators and exhibitors, the following three years, the convention was held at the Glendale Civic Center. The size of the convention and the attendance were doubled from the year. The convention began to bring out some guests from out of state including Spider-Man artist Todd Nauck, the programming was increased to include Q&As with guests, how-to workshops, and film trailer presentations. In 2006, the convention was held at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa and it also became a two-day convention, with Friday preview night, and had guests such as voice actors Johnny Young Bosche and Greg Ayres. The exhibitor room was expanded, as was the amount of programming offered. This was the first convention to expand beyond comic books into the pop culture community, including Anime, Manga, Sci-Fi, Fantasy. Attendance was over 2,600 people for the weekend, the convention was held in January from 2007 to 2009, at the Mesa Convention Center. 2007 was considered the conventions first foray into media guests, with Feedback, in 2009, the event was expanded to 3 days, with a Thursday preview night. Beginning in 2010 the convention was held on Memorial Day weekend, at the Phoenix Convention Center and this change was due to the large increase in attendance, and the availability of funds to hold the convention in a larger venue. Bigger names, such as Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, in 2014, due to a scheduling conflict, the convention was moved to the first week of June as opposed to Memorial Day weekend
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Dennis Crosby
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Dennis Michael Crosby was an American singer and occasional actor, the son of singer and actor Bing Crosby, and twin brother of Phillip Crosby. He was the father of actress Denise Crosby, Dennis was a son of Bing Crosby and his first wife Dixie Lee. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose with his brothers where he graduated in 1952. While a young man, Crosby performed military service in Germany, on May 4,1958, Crosby married Pat Sheehan, a Las Vegas showgirl and model who had once dated his father. She was also Miss San Francisco of 1950, Playmate of the month of October 1958, within days, Crosby was sued by another woman, Marilyn Miller Scott, over the paternity of her daughter, Denise Crosby. The sensational lawsuit lasted three years and ended with Dennis being ordered to pay Scott child support and legal fees and this and the marriage to Sheehan and other details caused deep embarrassment for both him and his famous father. Although Bing died when his granddaughter was 19, the two never met. Crosby and Sheehan had three sons, Gregory, Dennis Michael, Jr. and Patrick Anthony, in 1963, while working in Los Angeles for Bing Crosby Productions, he met Arleen Newman. On July 3,1964, Crosby and Sheehan were divorced, later that year, Crosby married Newman, with whom he had three daughters, including Kelly Lee Crosby and Erin Colleen Crosby. Additionally, Crosby adopted Newmans daughter, Catherine Denise Crosby, from her first marriage to Mike Buell, Dennis and Arleen divorced in 1991. On December 11,1989, Crosbys younger brother Lindsay committed suicide by gunshot, deeply distraught by his brothers death and his recent divorce, as well as grappling with alcoholism, Dennis Crosby committed suicide on May 4,1991 in Novato, California, aged 56. On January 14,2006, Denniss former wife, Pat Sheehan, died at the age of 74. Their son Dennis Michael Crosby, Jr. died on January 15,2010, brother of Phillip, Gary and Lindsay Crosby. Half-sibling of Harry Crosby, Nathaniel Crosby and Mary Crosby, nephew of the bandleader Bob Crosby. Cousin of Cathy Crosby and Chris Crosby, uncle of L. Chip Crosby Jr. Father of Denise Crosby, Gregory Crosby, father-in-law of Spice Williams-Crosby Dennis Crosby at the Internet Movie Database Dennis Crosby at Find a Grave
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Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
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Dixie Lee
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For the franchised restaurant chain, see Dixie Lee Fried Chicken. Dixie Lee was an American actress, dancer, and singer and she was the first wife of singer Bing Crosby. Born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, she adopted the professional name Dixie Carroll as a singer, winfield Sheehan of the Fox film studio changed the name to Dixie Lee, to avoid confusion with actresses Nancy Carroll and Sue Carol. She married Bing Crosby at the age of 18, and had four sons with him, crosbys biographer, Gary Giddins, describes Dixie Lee as a shy, private person with a sensible approach to life. Giddins recounts that Dixie and Bing, as young marrieds, were invited to parties where liquor was plentiful. She succeeded in curbing Bings alcohol consumption, but ironically her own alcoholism worsened and she had a brief film career, starring in a few features for Bings home studio Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, her most notable film is probably Love in Bloom. She died from cancer on November 1,1952, three days before her 41st birthday, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Harmony at Home Cheer Up and Smile Manhattan Love Song Redheads on Parade The 1947 film Smash-Up, Dixie Lee at the Internet Movie Database Dixie Lee at Find a Grave
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Tasha Yar
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Natasha Tasha Yar is a fictional character that mainly appeared in the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, The Next Generation. Portrayed by Denise Crosby, she is chief of security aboard the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise-D, the characters concept was originally based upon the character of Vasquez from the 1986 film Aliens. Following further development she became known first as Tanya, and then Tasha, Crosby had originally auditioned for the role of Deanna Troi, while Rosalind Chao became a favorite for Tasha. After Marina Sirtis auditioned for the role, the shows creator Gene Roddenberry decided to switch the roles for the actresses, with Sirtis becoming Troi, Chao would later appear on the series in a recurring role as Keiko OBrien. The character first appeared in the pilot episode, Encounter at Farpoint. After Crosby decided to leave the show, Yar was killed by the creature Armus in Skin of Evil, in events set prior to the pilot. Questions were raised over the sexuality of the character, and it was thought that the events in the episode The Naked Now were designed to establish her heterosexuality, the manner of her first death was received with mostly negative reviews. One critic called it typical of the death of a Star Trek security officer, inspired by Vasquez in Aliens, the character was initially named Macha Hernandez and was the tactical officer of the Enterprise. This had been changed by the first casting call—issued on December 10, the producers considered Jenette Goldstein, who had played Vasquez, for the role, but writer Dorothy Fontana pointed out that the actress is not Latina. The character was subsequently renamed Tanya around March 13, by the time that the writers and directors guide for the series was published, dated March 23,1987, the character was named Natasha Tasha Yar. Her surname was suggested by Robert Lewin, drawing inspiration from the Babi Yar atrocities in Ukraine during the Second World War and her biography stated that she was 28 years old, and confirmed her Ukrainian descent. She was planned to have a friendship with teenager Wesley Crusher, wes is the childhood friend that Tasha never had. In April 1987, Lianne Langland, Julia Nickson, Rosalind Chao, Leah Ayres, Chao was a favorite candidate, while Denise Crosby was described as the only possibility for the character of Troi. The production staff were not keen on having two actresses in the bridge crew roles with similar types and hair colors, and so the team took account of the casting of the two parts together. The writers and directors guide described Yar as having a muscular but very feminine body type, after Crosby and Marina Sirtis had each auditioned for Troi and Yar respectively, Gene Roddenberry decided to switch the actresses and cast Crosby as Tasha Yar. He felt that Sirtis appearance was better suited to the exotic Troi, before the end of the first season, Crosby asked to be released from her contract as she was unhappy that her character was not being developed. She later said I was miserable, I couldnt wait to get off that show. Roddenberry agreed to her request, and she left on good terms, the final episode she filmed was Symbiosis, which was completed after Yars death in Skin of Evil
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Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 1)
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Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Starfleet starship Enterprise-D. It was the first live-action television series in the franchise to be broadcast since Star Trek, The Original Series was cancelled in 1969, and the first to feature all new characters. Paramount Television eventually sought the advice of the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, the characters in the series gradually changed during preproduction, with adjustments made to the names, genders and ethnicity. When the cast was announced at first, LeVar Burton was the main actor highlighted because of his work on the Roots mini series, his character, Geordi La Forge was named for a disabled fan. Although the casting was managed by producers Rick Berman and Robert H. Justman, Roddenberry intervened to switch the characters assigned to Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby. Sirtis took over Crosbys role as Deanna Troi, and Crosby became Tasha Yar, behind the scenes, the writing team became chaotic. Eddie Milkis had quit prior to casting, with Berman taking over from him, Roddenberrys insistence on re-writing scripts and unusual behaviour alienated some staff. Fontana quit, filing a claim with the Writers Guild of America as she had been acting as editor but was unpaid in the role. Such were the troubles that the series had a problem recruiting potential writers halfway through the season, by the end of the second season, all the writing staff recruited during season one except for Rick Berman had quit. As the series was being launched directly into syndication, there were concerns that it could affect the ratings, while highly anticipated, initial reviews other than for Encounter at Farpoint were poor. The second episode, The Naked Now had fans and critics concerned that The Next Generation would re-hash plots of The Original Series and it was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning in makeup, costume design and sound editing. The Big Goodbye was awarded a Peabody Award, while cast member Wil Wheaton was nominated for an award at the 9th Youth in Film Awards, the season was first released on DVD on March 26,2002 on Region 1, and was subsequently released in other regions. The pilot episode of Phase II, entitled In Thy Image was changed to become the first Star Trek film, Star Trek, Paramount spoke to Leonard Nimoy, who was still portraying Spock in the film franchise, about the new series. They offered him the chance of producing the new series, Next, Paramount sought to consult franchise creator Gene Roddenberry. He turned down the idea of running the show, given the time production of The Original Series had distracted him from his family. Although they had not planned on it originally, Paramount hired Roddenberry to oversee the production, however, one of his ideas appeared in the premise of The Next Generation, that the Federation and the Klingons had become allies. The first announcement of a new series was made by Roddenberry publicly on October 10,1986, several stars of The Original Series and the film franchise stated that they did not like the premise of a new series set in the same universe that did not feature them. James Doohan, who played Montgomery Scotty Scott, said that Star Trek was about the characters and with a new cast the studio was trying to fool the public, and thats bad business
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Star Trek, The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran between 1987 and 1994. Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor served as producers at different times throughout its production. The series involves a starship named Enterprise and is set in the regions of the Milky Way galaxy. The first episode takes place in the year 2364,100 years after the start of the mission described in the original series. It features a new cast and a new starship Enterprise, the fifth to bear the name within the franchises storyline and these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. TNG premiered the week of September 28,1987, drawing 27 million viewers, in total,176 episodes were made, ending with the two-hour finale All Good Things. The week of May 23,1994, the series was broadcast in first-run syndication with dates and times varying among individual television stations. Three additional Star Trek spin-offs followed The Next Generation, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek, Voyager, and Star Trek, Enterprise. The series formed the basis for the seventh through to the tenth of the Star Trek films, and is also the setting of novels, comic books. In its seventh season, Star Trek, The Next Generation became the first, the series received a number of accolades including 19 Emmy Awards, two Hugo Awards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award. The series follows the adventures of a crew on board the starship USS Enterprise, the fifth Federation vessel to bear the name and registry. The series is set about 70 years after the mission of the original Enterprise crew under the command of James T. Kirk. Beverly Crusher, conn officer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, and junior officer Lieutenant Worf, the death of Lieutenant Yar in the series first season prompts an internal shuffle of personnel, making Worf official chief of security. Geordi La Forge is promoted to engineer at the beginning of season 2. The series begins with the crew of the Enterprise-D put on trial by a nefarious, the god-like entity threatens the extinction of mankind for being a race of savages, forcing them to solve a mystery at nearby Farpoint Station to prove their worthiness to be spared. After successfully solving the mystery and avoiding disaster, the crew departs on its mission to explore strange new worlds. Subsequent stories focus on the discovery of new life and sociological and political relationships with alien cultures, several new species are introduced as recurring antagonists, including the Ferengi, the Cardassian, and the Borg
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Romulan
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The Romulans are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. In addition, they have appeared in various media. Throughout the series, they are depicted as antagonists, and are usually at war with or in a tenuous truce with the United Federation of Planets. On extremely rare occasions, they have allied with the Federation, the Romulans also act as a counterpoint to the logical Vulcan race, whom they resemble and with whom they share a common ancestry. As such, the Romulans are characterized as passionate, cunning, the Romulans are the dominant race of the Romulan Star Empire. Although Star Trek Star Charts place the Romulan Empires territory in the Beta Quadrant of the galaxy in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, the Romulans were created by Paul Schneider, who said it was a matter of developing a good Romanesque set of admirable antagonists. An extension of the Roman civilization to the point of space travel, the Romulans began as a group of Vulcan revolutionaries who refused to accept the Vulcan philosopher Suraks teachings of the complete suppression of emotions. At some point in their history, this group left the planet Vulcan. In the original series episode Balance of Terror, Spock notes that while the events during the period of Surak are well documented and he does state that he thinks them a likely offshoot of Vulcan. The Next Generation episode The Chase implies that Romulans, Vulcans, Cardassians, Klingons and humans share a common ancestry. Like Vulcans, Romulans have pointed ears, upswept eyebrows, and copper-based blood that is green when oxygenated in the arteries, like Vulcans, Romulans are almost always depicted as having dark or black hair. Romulans share the longevity common to their Vulcan cousins, in Unification, the Romulan Senator Pardek shared a friendship with Ambassador Spock lasting at least 80 years. Romulans also have in common with Vulcans physical strength superior to that of humans, however, the similarities end when it comes to Vulcans mental abilities, which the Romulans do not share, or perhaps lost after their arrival on Romulus. Romulan ale is a popular blue alcoholic beverage which was illegal because of a Federation trade embargo in the late 23rd century through the late 24th century. Despite this, it is traded and consumed openly. Other Romulan drinks include Kali-fal, a drink with an aroma that should forcibly open ones frontal sinuses before the first sip. Romulan fashion of the late 24th century had distinctive squared shoulders, hair is generally cut straight across the brow close to the eyebrows, with longer locks framing the face, cut following the cheekbones, a style reminiscent of a helmet. In Star Trek, The Original Series, Romulan military uniforms consisted of a tunic with varying kinds of decorative sashes
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Trekkies (film)
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Trekkies is a 1997 documentary film directed by Roger Nygard about the devoted fans of Gene Roddenberrys Star Trek. It is the first film released by Paramount Vantage, then known as Paramount Classics, the film contains interviews with Star Trek devotees, more commonly known as Trekkies. The fans range from people who dress as Klingons to members of Brent Spiner fan clubs, Trekkies includes many Star Trek actors and fans including Barbara Adams, the Whitewater scandal trial juror who arrived in court in her Starfleet uniform. Another prominent profilee was Gabriel Köerner, who attained minor celebrity status as a result of his role in the film, Nygard thought it was a good idea and was surprised that it had not been done before. The first filming session took place at the Fantasticon science fiction convention at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles organised by William Campbell, Nygard felt that the footage from this first convention was good enough to warrant continuing with the project. Trekkies received a release in the United States on May 21,1999. It was in competition with Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Colin Covert gave three and a half stars in his review for the Star Tribune, adding that it was likely to shake up the viewers opinions of Star Trek fans. He praised the structure of the film, with the shock value of each fan being followed up with further background to round out the portrait. Renee Graham at the Boston Globe gave an opinion, saying that despite the expectation of the reviewer. He added that the fans were amusing for about 15 minutes, tops, james Verniere for the Boston Herald gave three stars, suggesting that Nyland may have found his niche as the Michael Moore of weirdness with this and his following film, Six Days in Roswell. Verniere suggested that Trekkies wasnt as definitive as the documentary Free Enterprise but described it as an interesting, alicia Potter, also at the Boston Herald, described the film as surreally funny. In 2004, a sequel was released, titled Trekkies 2 and this documentary travels throughout the world, mainly in Europe, to show fans of Star Trek from outside the United States. It also revisits memorable fans featured in the previous film, Nygard sought to answer some of the criticism received from Trekkies in the sequel, in that he was accused of not showing normal fans. With this in mind, he attempted to include some degree of a description of what was normal fan behaviour, official website Trekkies at the Internet Movie Database Trekkies at Memory Alpha Trekkies at AllMovie Interview conducted by Slashdot with Roger Nygard
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Hollywood High School
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In September 1903, a two-room school was opened on the second floor of an empty storeroom at the Masonic Temple on Highland Avenue, north of Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in November 1903, the Hollywood High Organ Opus 481 was a gift from the class of 1924. After suffering severe damage from the Northridge earthquake in 1994. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 4,2012, the schools mascot was derived from the 1921 Rudolph Valentino film of the same name, The Sheik. In the 2015-2016 Fall Football Season the boys Varsity football team played in the schools 3rd championship game led by head coach Frank Galvan and they finished the season with a 12-2 overal record. Hollywood High has been the location for movies, television shows. Tony Hawks American Wasteland Grease In 2002, artist Eloy Torrez painted a mural of 13 famous entertainers, titled Portrait of Hollywood, across the entire east wall of the schools auditorium. In 2007, Torrez added a 50-foot tall mural of John Ritter, all but four of the entertainers, Cantinflas, Lee, Selena and Valentino, were students at Hollywood High School. The artist said the mural is a celebration of a diverse range of actors and entertainers. Hollywood High School is an excellent school for teenagers to find their calling, known for preparing its graduates for careers in teaching and the performing arts, it has also become a diverse and well-rounded school. Students have many opportunities in different fields of study, Hollywood High School offers four academies to its students, each of them with a different purpose. Teaching Career Academy Hollywood High school offers a Teaching Career Academy to students who seek to work with children as a career, potential careers range from becoming a teacher to being a social worker. In order to give a student an experience, the school works with other elementary schools to allow elementary students to receive tutoring by Hollywood High School students. Performing Arts Magnet For students seeking an entertainment career, Performing Arts Magnet is the best choice and this academy helps students develop their talents and personalities to become performing artist. The academy focuses on training students to develop their skills of actors, singers, New Media Technology If students prefer to go into the filmmaking industry, this academy offers the best opportunities. The New Media Technology academy helps students build their knowledge of technology and they are afforded hands-on experience with equipment usually found inside a film studio. The software used is the newest on the market and this academy also provides internships to permit graduates to immediately start working in that field. School for Advanced Studies This academy does not focus on a specific career, If a student likes to be challenged, this academy offers classes that are at the same level of difficulty as a college class
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Cabrillo College
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Cabrillo College is a public community college offering associate degrees and certificates in more than 70 fields of study. The college itself is named after the explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and its main campus is located in Aptos, California and is situated overlooking the Monterey Bay. It is one of 112 public community colleges in the state of California, Cabrillo College has an enrollment of more than 14,000 students. Classes are offered at two locations, the campus in Aptos at 6500 Soquel Drive and the Cabrillo College Watsonville Center. The main quad in Aptos features a bust honoring Martin Luther King, in 2007, Cabrillo received a $2. Now called the Solari Green Technology Center, the center hosts classes in technology, renewable/recycled building materials. The new building is LEED Platinum certified, the first for Cabrillo, in 2013, Cabrillo opened and dedicated the Baskin Engineering, Physics and Computing Center. Cabrillo focuses on student-centered learning and has a tradition of collegial, the college transfers many of its students to three nearby universities – the University of California at Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, and California State University at Monterey Bay. In fact, Cabrillo ranks #1 in transfers to UC Santa Cruz according to Chancellor George Blumenthal in his address to the Cabrillo College Governing Board in November 2007, Cabrillo offers hundreds of courses leading to four-year degrees in many majors. The majority of courses in the Cabrillo curriculum transfer to the University of California or the California State University systems, cabrillo’s career education is closely connected to the nearby Silicon Valley business environment as well as that of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Cabrillo College offers a variety of programs that lead to certificates, certificates of achievement. In addition, Cabrillo College offers basic courses and courses for business. A variety of classes are available on a fee basis through the Cabrillo College Extension program. Cabrillo College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools, the Library is named after the first president, Robert Swenson, who established Cabrillo and served for over 20 years as president. The ASCC Student Senate brings student voices into the Faculty Senate, the Administrative Committees and Councils, Staff Committees and they also like Marco Baltazar as their best player in Xbox One Brendan Ayanbadejo, NFL linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. Obafemi Ayanbadejo, NFL fullback for the Chicago Bears, sherman Cocroft, NFL defensive back for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mark Eichhorn, MLB pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, sharon Jordan, actress on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Dwight Lowery, starting NFL safety for the San Diego Chargers, camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning actress on the TV Series The Practice
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Playboy
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Playboy is an American mens lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. The magazine has a history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Haruki Murakami, the magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities. After a year-long removal of most nude photos in Playboy magazine and he formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors. Hefner eventually raised just over $8,000, including from his brother and mother. However, the publisher of a mens adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering Top Hat, Gentleman, Sir, Satyr, Pan, the first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen, the first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy. Hefner chose what he deemed the sexiest image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyns nudity on the calendar, together with the teasers in marketing. The first issue sold out in weeks, copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was serialized in the March, April, an urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979, the P in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing. From 1966 to 1976, Robie Macauley was the Fiction Editor at Playboy, P. Donleavy, as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Macauley also contributed all of the popular Ribald Classics series published between January 1978 and March 1984, christie Hefner, daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in 1975 and became head of the company in 1988
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Days of Our Lives
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Days of Our Lives is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the scripted television programs in the world. It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world and it rebroadcast same-day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p. m. until the networks closure in 2013. The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was an editor for Days of Our Lives. In February 2016, the received a one-year renewal through 2017. Due to the success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21,1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys, several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on February 3,2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on Days of Our Lives this year, Susan Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on Days of Our Lives in all five decades it has been on air. Days of Our Lives aired its 10, 000th episode on February 21,2005, the soap was given the title of most daring drama in the seventies due to covering topics other soaps would not dare to do. The shows executive producer is Ken Corday, and co-executive producers are Greg Meng, Days of Our Lives is the most widely distributed soap opera in the United States. The show has had high-profile fans such as actress Julia Roberts, the Cordays and Bell combined the hospital soap idea with the tradition of centering a series on a family, by making the show about a family of doctors, including one who worked in a mental hospital. Former executive producer Al Rabin took pride in the characters passion, critics originally praised the show for its non-reliance on nostalgia and its portrayal of real American contemporary families. The January 12,1976 cover of Time magazine featured Days of Our Lives Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes, Days of Our lives actors have also won awards, Macdonald Carey won Best Actor in 1974 and 1975. Susan Flannery and Eileen Davidson won Best Actress in 1975 and 2014, suzanne Rogers, Leann Hunley, and Tamara Braun won Best Supporting Actress for, respectively,1979,1986, and 2009 and Billy Warlock won Best Younger Actor for 1988. In January 2007 it was suggested by NBC that the show is unlikely to continue past 2009, in November 2008, in an eleventh-hour decision, it was announced the show had been renewed through September 2010. The 18-month renewal was down from its previous renewal, which was for five years, the show made somewhat of a comeback in 2009, with ratings increasing as the year progressed. The series received a renewal in January 2014 that is set to last until September 2016
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It stars Dean Cain as Clark Kent/Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, the series aired on ABC from September 12,1993 to June 14,1997. Developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine, the series loosely followed the modern origin of Superman, established by writer John Byrne—where Clark Kent is the true personality and Superman a disguise. As the shows title suggests, the focused on the relationship. The series spawned several tie-in young adults novels and a novel, Lois & Clark, A Superman Novel. The show was entirely in California. On May 17,1966, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness the crash-landing of a spaceship in Shusters Field outside of Smallville. When they investigate, they discover the baby Kal-El and decide to raise him as their own, throughout the series, Clark proudly states his mother made his Superman costume for him. He often consults Jonathan and Martha, either by telephone or in person after impromptu Superman flights to Smallville, about personal and moral concerns and dilemmas. The series opens twenty-seven years later, on the day Clark moves to Metropolis, Clark becomes acquainted with photographer Jimmy Olsen and gossip columnist Cat Grant. Soon after being hired, Clark is partnered with star reporter Lois Lane, Clark falls in love with Lois at first sight, but she considers him to be little more than a rookie slowing her down. When Superman saves her from a space shuttle disaster, Lois instantly becomes infatuated with Clarks alter-ego, Supermans first mission interferes with the illegal dealings of Lex Luthor, a Metropolis business giant and benefactor. After Luthors plot has been stopped, Clark lets him know he is watching him, however, Clark respects Luthors life, even surreptitiously using his superpowers to save Lex from bleeding to death. Luthor develops an interest in Lois Lane and through most of the first season tries to woo her, although Lois is receptive to his romantic advances, Lois also develops feelings for Clark, but represses or denies them. Luthor eventually proposes marriage to Lois, Clark, seeing he may lose Lois, attempts to convince her of Luthors true nature, but fails. In a last-ditch attempt, Clark tells Lois that he is in love with her, she replies that she not return his feelings. Later, Lois asks Superman if there is any chance of a romance between the two of them, Superman turns her down and Lois accepts Luthors proposal. Luthor decides to coincide his nuptials with the death of Superman, who he traps in a cage in the wine cellar of Luthor Tower
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. often referred to as just Brisco or Brisco County, is an American Western/science fiction television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on the Fox network starting in the 1993–94 season, while ostensibly a Western, the series routinely includes elements of the science fiction and steampunk genres. Humor is a part of the show, the writers attempted to keep the jokes. A large number of episodes involve the Orb, a device from the future. John Astin plays Professor Wickwire, an inventor who assists Brisco with anachronistic technology including diving suits, motorcycles, rockets, the search for new technology and progressive ideas, what the writers of the show called The Coming Thing, is a central theme throughout the series. Brisco was developed by Boam and Cuse at the request of Fox executive Bob Greenblatt, impressed by the duos work on the script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Greenblatt suggested they develop a series that bore the tone and style of vintage movie serials. The initial ideas and proposals from the writers were more often suited for film than television and had to be scaled down. Brisco was one of the last television shows to be filmed on the Warner Bros, randy Edelman composed the distinctive theme music, which has been reused by the National Broadcasting Company during its coverage of the Olympic Games. During its broadcast run, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. garnered a small, the series earned high ratings at the beginning of its season, but later episodes failed to attract a substantial number of viewers. Fox canceled the show at the end of its first and only season, in 2006, Warner Home Video released a DVD set containing all 27 episodes. The series has been remembered fondly by critics, who praise its humor, the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is set in a fictional American Old West of 1893. Robber barons control the financial and industrial interests of the West from the boardrooms of San Franciscos Westerfield Club, Marshal Brisco County, Sr. has apprehended a gang of outlaws and its leader, the notorious John Bly. While transporting them to trial, County is murdered and the gang escapes. Meanwhile, in a mine, a group of shackled Chinese workers unearths The Orb. A worker draws one of the rods out of the Orb. As each worker is touched with the rod he is imbued with superhuman strength which they use to break the chains binding them. The murder of Brisco County, Sr. and the discovery of the Orb set into motion the major plots of the series. Members of the Westerfield Club hire Brisco County, Jr. the son of the slain U. S. Marshal, to track and re-capture Bly, the Westerfield Clubs timid lawyer, Socrates Poole relays instructions and financial support to Brisco
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Key West (TV series)
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Key West is a 1993 hour long drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993 and it was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions, the main character is Seamus ONeill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics and he takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor, a local newspaper. In addition to Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the ensemble cast as the towns high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff. Seamus ONeill Chaucy Caldwell Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Jefferson Dr. com Mile 0, The KEY WEST Compendium
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Red Shoe Diaries
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Red Shoe Diaries is an erotic drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both, the story-lines usually have a thin plot revolving around some intrigue and the sexual awakening of a girl or woman who often also narrates. Sensuous love scenes with nudity as well as sultry, moody music are characteristic for most episodes, there is no story arc or characters connecting the different stories other than Jake Winters introducing each episode. The tested episodes always open with a montage of a newspaper personals section ad under Red Shoes seeking women to mail in their personal diaries with stories of love. The presenter and host Jake Winters is then walking on desolate train tracks with his dog Stella. He begins reading a letter from his post office box out loud that begins with Dear Red Shoes and he placed the ad in the newspaper in an effort to understand why it happened and learn his fiancées reasons for killing herself through the stories of women in similar situations. Red Shoe Diaries episodes were running on the Canadian television channel Showcase, early Saturday morning, from time to time, episodes can also be viewed on Showtime. A few episodes can be viewed on Amazon Video or hulu. com, on June 17,2014, Kino Lorber released Season One on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. On the same day they also released Red Shoe Diaries - The Movie. k. a, evans, Sharon Ferguson, Eric Fishman, H. P. Nineteen other direct to video Red Shoe movies were released throughout. Stars, David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako, Billy Wirth Red Shoe Diaries 2, Double Dare Red Shoe Diaries 3, Another Womans Lipstick Red Shoe Diaries 4, stars, Caron Bernstein, Arielle Dombasle Red Shoe Diaries 19, As She Wishes Red Shoes Diaries, Las Vegas. Stars, Domiziano Arcangeli, Lucas Babin, Lori Heuring Red Shoe Diaries at the Internet Movie Database Red Shoe Diaries at the Internet Movie Database Red Shoe Diaries at TV. com Epguides. com web page
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Aaron Spelling
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Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Some of his successes include the TV programs Charlies Angels, The Love Boat, Dynasty, forbes ranked him the 11th top-earning deceased celebrity in 2009. Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas and he was the son of Pearl and David Spelling, who were Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father worked as a tailor and changed his surname from Spurling to Spelling after immigrating to the United States, Spelling had three brothers, Sam, Max, and Daniel, and a sister, Becky. At the age of eight, Spelling psychosomatically lost the use of his legs due to trauma caused by constant bullying from his schoolmates, after attending Forest Avenue High School in Dallas, he served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Spelling later graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1949, where he was a cheerleader and he married actress Carolyn Jones in 1953, in California. Spelling married Candy Gene in 1968, the couple had daughter Tori in 1973 and son Randy in 1978. In 1988, Spelling bought the 6-acre property of Bing Crosbys former Los Angeles house and he demolished the property and built a 123-room home on the lot in 1991. Known as The Manor, it has 56,500 square feet of space and is the largest single-family home in Los Angeles. Spellings widow Candy listed the home for sale in 2008 for $150 million, Spelling made his first appearance as an actor in a film as Harry Williams in Vicki, directed by Harry Horner, in 1953. That same year, he appeared in the TV series I Led Three Lives, of the 149 episodes in that series, he wrote no fewer than twenty of the teleplays and produced a significant number of others. Spelling founded Spelling Entertainment in 1972 and he produced the unsuccessful situation comedy The San Pedro Beach Bums in 1977. In 2001, Spelling was diagnosed with oral cancer, on June 23,2006, Spelling died at The Manor, his estate in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, from complications of a stroke he suffered five days prior. A private funeral was held days later, and Spelling was entombed in a mausoleum in Culver Citys Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery. On April 4,2007, it was announced that 7th Heavens May 13,2007 the episode before the finale would be dedicated to Aaron Spelling. When 7th Heaven ended its run, it was touted by the network as being Spellings longest-running series, on September 15,1978, Spelling was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6667 Hollywood Blvd. In 1996, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, archived from the original on October 15,2012. Aaron Spelling at the Internet Movie Database Aaron Spelling interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Models Inc.
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Models Inc. is an American prime time soap opera that aired on the Fox television network during the 1994–95 television season. It is the series in the Beverly Hills,90210 franchise. The series was created by Charles Pratt, Jr. and Frank South, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, Charles Pratt, Jr. Frank South, and E. Duke Vincent. The show revolved around a Los Angeles modeling agency, Models Inc. run by Hillary Michaels, David Michaels David is the son of Hillary Michaels and the Vice-President of Models Inc. and the half-brother of Amanda Woodward. He had an on-and-off again relationship with Julie Dante, one of the models at the agency and he came to like a newcomer to the agency, Sarah Owens, but that relationship fizzled. David left L. A. for Paris to form his own modeling company mid-way through the series after an argument with Hillary. Sarah Owens Sarah Owens came to L. A. from the Midwest to fulfill her dream of being a model. When she arrived at Models Inc. Hillary quickly took her under her wing, Sarah quickly became enemies with housemate Julie Dante, who felt threatened by her youth and fresh image. The character of Sarah Owens was first introduced on Melrose Place with Hillary Michaels, Julie Dante Julie Dante is an Australian-born model who came from the wrong side of the tracks. She grew up with a neglectful, alcoholic, adoptive mother and an abusive, alcoholic stepfather which gave her a cynical attitude. She was one of the worlds most popular supermodels, who also had a reputation of being a troublemaker and she was often known for her public drunkenness and being taken advantage of by many photographers, however, Julie always had the last laugh by getting her revenge. Her relationship with Sarah was fraught with jealously at first, Julie also caused friction between herself and Monique by trying to go after Adam, but eventually realized Craig had genuine feelings for her and began a relationship with him. Teri Spencer Teri was one of the worlds most famous supermodels and she was sister of the famous Carrie Spencer, a model who Hillary took in as a teenager. Teri followed in her sisters footsteps which led to her shadowing her sisters career. Teri lived in the house and was involved with photographer Brian Peterson. Teri was first glimpsed on an episode of Melrose Place, Monique Duran Monique came to Hillary and to Models Inc. for representation shortly after the murderer of Teri Spencer was revealed, signaling the beginning of Phase 2 for Models Inc. It was a shock to everyone, especially Teris sister Carrie, because of this, Carrie deeply resented her presence at first, but they later became friends. She ended up in a relationship with nightclub owner Adam Louder, Carrie Spencer Carrie Spencer was the older sister of Teri Spencer and a veteran at Models Inc. starting her career at the age of 17 when Hillary took her in
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Melrose Place
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Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8,1992 to May 24,1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of adults living in an apartment complex called Melrose Place, in West Hollywood. The show was created by Darren Star for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company and it is the second series in the Beverly Hills,90210 franchise. Season one and season two were broadcast on Wednesday at 9pm, after Beverly Hills,90210, in 1994, for its third season premiere, the show moved to Monday at 8pm. The show had many cast changes during the run, Thomas Calabro was the only original cast member to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed #51 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, filming for the series took place at a studio in Santa Clarita, California. The show is set in a small apartment courtyard complex located at 4616 Melrose Place in the city of West Hollywood, several young individuals reside in the apartments, each with their own dreams and drives. By the second season, the show had adopted a full-on soap opera format, williams was not brought back for the second season, her character having become engaged to a wealthy restaurant entrepreneur. The actor Johnny Drama Chase was also part of the show, a quote from the la times at the time stated, if you think the show lacks talent and entertainment, wait until you see Johnny Drama appear. That will indeed confirm that rather than watching this garbage you should have watched paint dry instead, although she was always billed as a special guest star, Locklear remained with the show for the rest of its run. Guest Laura Leighton, recurring as Janes trouble-making younger sister Sydney Andrews in the first two seasons, was upgraded to regular for season three. Marcia Cross, recurring as Dr. Kimberly Shaw in season 1, janet Carroll appeared in several episodes as Marion Shaw, Kimberlys domineering mother. Daviss character was killed off in the middle of the fourth season. Patrick Muldoon also arrived in the season as the villainous Richard Hart. Although Muldoon was not billed with the main cast, he appeared in most of the seasons episodes and is also Melrose Places longest recurring character in terms of number of episodes. The season finale featured the exits of series regulars Thorne-Smith, Show, charvet was written out in the middle of season 6, and the beginning of season seven saw the departure of Shue, Rinna, Langton, Milano, and Ashby. The shows seventh season introduced John Haymes Newton as Ryan McBride, Kyles younger brother, and Rena Sofer as Eve Cleary, Sofer was not billed with the main cast. Bissett reprised her role as Jane for the seventh season, category, List of Melrose Place charactersThis table includes only main cast characters, those who are listed in the intro title sequence
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The X-Files
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The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10,1993 to May 19,2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a film of the same name. Later in 2008, a film was made and preceded a tenth season revival. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files, early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a very few select people. The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep the existence of life a secret. They develop a relationship which begins as a platonic friendship. In addition to the story arc, Monster-of-the-Week episodes form roughly two-thirds of all episodes. When creating the characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson equally, in the last two seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced, FBI agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes, Mulder and Scullys boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, also became a main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files, I Want to Believe as well as the tenth season of the series. The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received positive reviews. Initially considered a series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, the series also spawned a franchise which includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise. The revival premiered on January 24,2016, the X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Mulder is a profiler and strong believer in the supernatural. He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and this set of beliefs earns him the nickname Spooky Mulder and an assignment to a little-known department that deals with unsolved cases, known as the X-Files. His belief in the springs from the claimed abduction of his sister Samantha Mulder by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12
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The Flash (1990 TV series)
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The Flash is a 1990 American television series developed by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo that aired on CBS. It is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen / Flash, the Flash starred John Wesley Shipp as Allen, along with Amanda Pays, Alex Désert, and Paula Marshall. It was the first-ever live-action portrayal of the DC superhero, development for the series began in 1988 when Warner Bros. Television tried to develop television films based on some DC Comics characters for CBS, Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo conceived one that featured several superheroes, including the Flash, though their project was not made. In January 1990, new CBS Entertainment president Jeff Sagansky expressed interest in creating a series featuring the Flash, Bilson and De Meo were tapped to write the pilot episode, which they completed in January 1990. Filming for the episode took six weeks, from May through June 1990, the final effects for the pilot were completed a week before airing in September 1990. Bilson said, There are 125 special effects and its done on a grand scale. The 2-hour pilot cost $6 million, and each subsequent episode of The Flash cost around $1.6 million to produce, the four Flash suits made for the series for John Wesley Shipp cost a total of $100,000. On the suit, De Meo said, John had to have his body cast. The suit is made out of latex and it was quite a process getting it. Bilson added, The suit was critical and you cant, after Batman, have a guy running around in tights. The Flashs costume was designed and created by Robert Short, bob Miller, costumer on the series, gave Amanda Pays unaggressive clothing though she is an aggressive career woman, with retro 1930s and 40s long tapered skirts, pleated slacks and vests. Danny Elfman composed the title theme, and Shirley Walker composed each episode score for a full orchestra. Shipp also portrayed the Flashs evil clone, Pollux, Amanda Pays as Christina Tina McGee, A scientist at S. T. A. R. Labs who provides the Flash with experimental inventions to adapt and overcome his enemies and she is also a love interest of Barry. Alex Désert as Julio Mendez, A Central City Police Department scientist who is Barry Allens co-worker, richard Belzer as Joe Kline, WCCN TV news reporter, known as the Voice of the City. Kline often does tabloid-style news stories about the Flash and his exploits, jason Bernard as Dr. Desmond Powell / Nightshade, 1950s vigilante who captured criminals using tranquilizer darts. Gave up being a vigilante after he stopped The Ghost in 1955, later became a Doctor, when the Ghost reappears in 1990, Powell becomes Nightshade once again and teams up with the Flash to apprehend the Ghost
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Dexter (TV series)
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Dexter is an American television crime drama mystery series that aired on Showtime from October 1,2006, to September 22,2013. The shows first season was derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter and it was adapted for television by screenwriter James Manos, Jr. who wrote the first episode. Subsequent seasons evolved independently of Lindsays works, in February 2008, reruns began to air on CBS, although the reruns on CBS ended after one run of the first season. The series has enjoyed positive reviews throughout its run and popularity. Season four aired its finale on December 13,2009, to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers. In April 2013, Showtime announced that season eight would be the season of Dexter. The season-eight premiere was the most watched Dexter episode with more than 3 million viewers total for all airings that night, the original broadcast of the series finale—shown at 9 pm on September 22, 2013—drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtimes history. For the seasonal plots, see Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, to satisfy his interest in blood and to facilitate his own crimes, Dexter works as a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis, for the Miami Metro Police Department. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he is able to simulate, Dexter, Early Cuts is an animated web series that premiered on October 25,2009. Michael C. Hall reprises his role as the voice of Dexter, the webisodes are animated with 2. 5D style, where flat two-dimensional illustrations are brought to life in three-dimensional space. The first season was created and written by Dexter producer/writer Lauren Gussis and she was nominated for a Webby for her writing on the first season. The first web series precedes the current narrative of the show, each victims story is split into four two-minute chapters. A second season of the web series titled Dexter, Early Cuts, Dark Echo, one story in six chapters and it was written by Tim Schlattmann and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz and David Mack. The story begins immediately following Dexters adoptive father Harrys death, although the series is set in Miami, Florida, many of the exterior scenes are filmed in Long Beach, California. Many landmark buildings and locations in Long Beach are featured throughout the series, the finale episodes airport scene takes place at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California. In preparation for the UK launch of the series, Fox experimented with an SMS-based viral marketing campaign, mobile phone owners received the following unsolicited SMS messages addressed to them by name with no identifying information other than being from Dexter, Hello. Im heading to the UK sooner than you might think, the SMS-message was followed by an email directing the user to an online video news report about a recent spree of killings. While the marketing campaign succeeded in raising the profile of the show, it proved unpopular with many mobile owners, in response to complaints about the SMS element of the campaign, Fox issued the following statement, The shows lead actor, Michael C
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Southland (TV series)
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Southland is an American television crime drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. It originally aired on NBC for one season from April 9 to May 21,2009, and then on TNT for four additional seasons from March 2,2010, to April 17,2013. On August 27,2009, shortly before its premiere, NBC moved the opening of its second season to October 23,2009. On October 8,2009, NBC announced that the series had been canceled, on November 2,2009, TNT announced it had purchased the rights to Southlands original seven episodes, as well as six completed episodes from its second season. Southland began airing on TNT on January 12,2010, on April 26,2010, TNT announced it had picked up Southland for a ten-episode third season to begin airing on January 4,2011. TNTs renewal of the show included a budget cut and corresponding cast reduction. Southland was renewed for a fourth season on March 22,2011. The series was renewed for a fifth season which began airing February 13,2013. On May 10,2013, TNT announced that Southland had been canceled after five seasons, Southland takes a raw and authentic look at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. The shows first season centers on the experiences and interactions of LAPD patrol officers and detectives, after its first season on NBC, Southland moved to TNT network. The second season placed less emphasis on the ensemble cast, instead focusing more on the Adams, Sherman, Cooper and Bryant characters, also, the weekly stories centered more on how crimes came together, with fewer serialized story lines. The series was created by Emmy Award-winning writer Ann Biderman, who began her writing career on the first season of police drama NYPD Blue. The series executive producers are Biderman, Christopher Chulack, and John Wells, Wells and Chulack, both also Emmy Award winners, had previously worked together on critically acclaimed medical drama ER and emergency services drama Third Watch. Many other crew members had worked with Wells and Chulack on these series. Wells and Biderman also write for the series and Chulack is a regular director, Biderman left her executive producer position after the second season but continued to write for the series third season. Ex-police officer Angela Amato Velez served as a producer and writer for the first season. Dee Johnson also served as a producer and writer for the first season, she had previously worked with Wells. Diana Son served as a producer and writer for the second season, she had previously worked on the crime drama Law & Order
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Nick Nolte
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Nicholas King Nick Nolte is an American actor and former model. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and he went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Affliction and Warrior. His other film appearances include The Deep,48 Hrs, down and Out in Beverly Hills, Another 48 Hrs. Everybody Wins, Cape Fear, Lorenzos Oil, The Thin Red Line, Hulk, The Good Thief, Hotel Rwanda, Tropic Thunder, A Walk in the Woods and The Ridiculous 6. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves, Nolte was born February 8,1941 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Franklin Arthur Nolte, was a son who ran away from home. His mother, Helen, was a department store buyer and his ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish and Swiss-German. Noltes maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation and his maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University. He has a sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross. Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa and he studied at Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High, but was expelled for fighting and hiding beer before practice, at Eastern Arizona, Nolte lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end in basketball with forward, and as a catcher on the baseball team. Poor grades eventually ended his studies, at which point his career in began in earnest. While in college, Nolte worked for the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha, Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1992, Nolte was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Nolte first starred in the television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man, based on Irwin Shaws 1970 best-selling novel. Later he appeared in forty films, playing a wide variety of characters. Diversity of character, and his athleticism, and gravelly voice are signatures of his career. In 1973, he guest-starred in the Griff episode, Who Framed Billy the Kid. as Billy Randolph, a football player accused of murder. He co-starred with Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake
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Eddie Murphy
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Edward Regan Eddie Murphy is an American comedian, actor, writer, singer, and producer. Murphy was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and he has worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked #10 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In films, Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs. the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. Murphys work as an actor in films includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in DreamWorks Shrek series. In some films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers. He has played roles in Coming to America, Wes Cravens Vampire in Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Norbit. As of 2014, Murphys films have grossed over $3.8 billion in the United States and Canada box office, in 2015, his films made him the 6th-highest grossing actor in the United States. Murphy was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in the boroughs Bushwick neighborhood. His mother, Lillian, was an operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer. His father died when he was young and my mother and father broke up when I was three, and he died when I was eight, so I have very dim memories… He was a victim of the Murphy charm. I never got all the logistics and it was supposed to be one of those crimes of passion, If I cant have you, no one else will-kind of deal. Someone said to me one day, Thats why you dont trust women, what are you, a fucking psychiatrist. – Eddie Murphy When Murphys single mother became ill, the eight-year-old, in interviews, Murphy has said that his time in foster care was influential in developing his sense of humor. Later, he and his older brother Charlie were raised in Roosevelt, New York by his mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, around the age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines, which were heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. His early comedy was characterized by frequent swearing and sketches lampooning a diverse group of people, Eddie Murphy was his first album, released in 1982. In Rolling Stones February 2015 appraisal of all 141 SNL cast members to date and it is customary to say that Eddie Murphy is the only reason SNL survived the five-year wilderness without Lorne Michaels, they noted. In 1982, Murphy made his big debut in the film 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte. 48 Hrs. proved to be a hit when it was released in the Christmas season of 1982, Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11,1982, Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over
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48 Hrs.
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48 Hrs. is a 1982 American action comedy film directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime and it is Joel Silvers first film as a film producer. The screenplay was written by Hill, Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and it is often credited as being the first film in the buddy cop genre, which included the subsequent films Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, and Rush Hour. A sequel, Another 48 Hrs. was released on June 8,1990, two days later, Ganz and Billy kill Henry Wong, an associate of theirs. P. Polson, who is in room 27, Jack waits downstairs while Algren and Van Zant head to room 27, where it turns out that G. P. He kills Van Zant and Algren, and escapes with Billy, Jack manages to work alone in the search for Ganz and then visits Reggie at the prison. Jack gets Reggie a 48-hour leave from the prison so Reggie can help Jack find Ganz, Reggie leads Jack to an apartment where Ganzs last remaining associate Luther lives. When Jack looks around, Luther shoots at him and refuses to be interrogated and that night, Reggie leads Jack to Torchys, a redneck hangout where Billy used to be a bartender. Reggie, on a challenge from Jack, shakes the bar down and they get a lead on Billys old girlfriend, but this also leads nowhere, as the girlfriend says she threw Billy out. Instead of splitting the money, Ganz sold Reggie out, resulting in his incarceration and it was also the reason why Ganz and Billy took Luthers girlfriend Rosalie, they wanted Luther to get Reggies money in exchange for her safe return. However, Luther goes and gets the car, and Jack, Luther, however, recognizes Jack, and Ganz and Billy escape, while Reggie chases after Luther. Left with nothing, Jack ends up going back to the police station, Jack goes to Vromans, in the Fillmore district, to find Reggie, who has tracked Luther to a hotel across the street. Jack, humbled, apologizes for continuously berating and insulting Reggie and he lends Reggie some money to pay for a hotel room to have sex with a girl hes met, but as he leaves the club with her, he sees Luther leave the hotel. Luther gets onto a bus driven by Billy and hands over the money to Ganz. Ganz spots Jack and Reggie following them, and a car chase/gunfight ensues, at this point following a heated verbal thrashing from Jacks boss Haden, Jack and Reggie are ready to resign themselves to the fact that they failed to catch Ganz. At a local bar, Jack wonders if Billy might go back to see his girl, Jack and Reggie force their way inside and after a brief confrontation Reggie shoots Billy. Ganz escapes into a maze of alleyways, capturing Reggie, before being killed by Jack, finally, Jack takes Reggie to go see the girl he had met earlier at Vromans. Jack leaves the money in Reggies car, but asks for a loan on another Cadillac when he gets out a changed man, Jack disapproves and takes Reggie back to prison
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Trail of the Pink Panther
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Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers for the sixth and final time. It was the film in The Pink Panther series, the first film in the series following Sellers death. His performance consists only of deleted scenes from previous films, when the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia, Clouseau first goes to London to interrogate Sir Charles Lytton. He then is led to an introduction to the Scotland Yard detectives at Heathrow. Meanwhile, Dreyfus learns from Scotland Yard that Libyan terrorists have marked Clouseau for assassination, heretofore at the hotel, Clouseau has a miscommunication with the hotel clerk and even finds gets knocked out a window several times, trying to get his message from Dreyfus. Clouseaus plane disappears en route to Lugash, and Marie Jouvet, among the people she interviews are Dreyfus, Hercule Lajoy, Cato Fong, and former jewel thief Sir Charles Litton who is married to Clouseaus ex-wife Lady Simone. The film ends with Marie hoping that Clouseau might be alive somewhere as she states, Did Inspector Clouseau really perish in the sea, as reported. Or for reasons as yet unknown, is he out there somewhere, plotting his next move, I am reluctant to believe that misfortune has really struck down such a great man. Clouseau is seen glancing over a cliff, when a seagull flies over. The words Swine seagull. are heard in the distinctive over French accent of Clouseau, Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouveat David Niven as Sir Charles Litton Herbert Lom as Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong Capucine as Lady Simone Litton Robert Loggia as Bruno Langois André Maranne as Sgt, David Niven appears in the film, reprising a role he first played in the original The Pink Panther of 1963. Niven was in the stages of ALS, and his voice subsequently proved too weak to loop his own dialogue during post-production. He was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little during post-production, returning series regulars include Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Graham Stark as Hercule LaJoy, Burt Kwouk as Clouseaus faithful man servant Cato and André Maranne as Sgt. Also featured Joanna Lumley as a reporter on the trail of the missing Clouseau. Trail featured animated opening and closing credits, animated by Marvel Productions and written, director Blake Edwards dedicated the film to Sellers, the one and only Inspector Clouseau. Despite this, however, there was a reason behind Fredericks suing of Edwards. The reason the question of outtakes being used had come up in Sellers lifetime was that Edwards had shot a three-hour version of Strikes Again
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Curse of the Pink Panther
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Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 British comedy film and a continuation of The Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series star Peter Sellers, the film features a cameo by Roger Moore—as Clouseau himself—at the end of the film, This was David Nivens final film appearance, and he died shortly before its release. This film marked Herbert Loms 6th outing as Chief Inspector Dreyfus and he would reprise the role one last time in Son of the Pink Panther. The prized Pink Panther jewel would not return until The Pink Panther reboot in 2006 and this film featured the sixth Panther appearance of Clouseaus trusty manservant Cato. Cato and Dreyfus debuted in A Shot in the Dark, the film was a box office bomb and got negative reviews. In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen, a mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tete-a-tete with a man regarding price. The woman shoots the man, then points the gun at Clouseau, anxious never to see or hear from his nemesis again, Dreyfus sabotages the computer to select the worlds worst detective. This turns out to be Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, an incompetent officer of the New York Police Department, Sleigh, who is descended from a long line of cops, sees the case as an opportunity to prove his worth. Sleigh visits Dreyfus in the hospital to apologize, but accidentally ends up hurting Dreyfus more by falling over the hospital equipment holding Dreyfuss leg, Langlois orders several assassination attempts on Sleigh, but the detectives bumbling nature allows him to survive. Ultimately, Langlois, along with his henchmen have a showdown with Sleigh in a dark alley in Valencia, Spain. Juleta Shayne, an employee of the enigmatic Countess Chandra, comes to Sleighs rescue, Sleigh also meets Sir Charles Lytton, who is now married to Clouseaus former wife Simone, and is accompanied by his nephew George. Sir Charles was the jewel thief known as the Phantom. The Phantom would steal items of jewelery and leave behind a white glove. Eventually, Sleighs trail leads to a health spa run by Countess Chandra, there he meets famous British film star Roger Moore, who speaks with a rather odd French accent and falls about all over the place. Seeing a photograph of the Inspector, Countess Chandra tells Sleigh that Clouseau visited her several months ago and she recalls he was looking for a good plastic surgeon and she recommended one. Sleigh concludes, erroneously, that Clouseau stole the Pink Panther diamond, underwent plastic surgery, the real jewel thiefs body was found washed up on shore after he was shot to death. It is believed that Clouseau was killed for the diamond, anxious to be rid of Sleigh, Dreyfus announces that Sleigh has solved the mystery and officially closes the case, though it is clear that Dreyfus does not believe that this is what happened. In a final irony, as Dreyfus sets fire to Gino Rossis photograph — happy to be rid of Clouseau once, film star Roger Moore was, in fact, Clouseau after very extensive plastic surgery
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Chris Isaak
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Christopher Joseph Chris Isaak is an American rock musician and occasional actor. He is best known for his hit Wicked Game, as well as the hit songs Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing. He is renowned for his signature 1950s rock & roll style and crooner sound, as well as his soaring falsetto and reverb-laden music. He is closely associated with film director David Lynch, who has used his music in films and gave him a large role in the film Twin Peaks. His songs generally focus on the themes of love, loss, with a career spanning four decades, he has amassed a total of twelve studio albums, and has accumulated numerous award nominations and tours. He has been called the Roy Orbison of the 1990s, and is also compared to Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson. Isaak was born in Stockton, California, at St. Josephs Medical Center, the son of Dorothy, a potato chip factory worker, and Joe Isaak and his fathers family is Catholic Black Sea German from North Dakota. Isaaks mother is Italian American, from Genoa, Isaak attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in north Stockton, graduating in 1974. He also was in a program which allowed him to study in Japan. After graduating from college, Isaak put together his first band and this rockabilly outfit consisted of James Calvin Wilsey, Rowland Salley and Kenney Dale Johnson, who remained with Isaak as his permanent backing band. Isaak signed a contract to Warner Bros, Records, and released his first album in 1985, Silvertone. to critical acclaim including from John Fogerty. The name was taken from the band he formed after graduating college, the albums sound was raw and diverse, mingling country blues with conventional folk ballads. Although the album was a success, it failed to sell respectably. The track Dancin was the first music video featured on MTV. Two other tracks from the album, Gone Ridin and Livin for Your Lover, Isaaks self-titled follow-up album was released in 1986, and managed to scrape into the Billboard Top 200. The album saw Isaak hone his style to sophisticated R&B, the artwork for Chris Isaak, was photographed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Isaaks contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label, suspicion of Love appears in the 1988 hit movie Married to the Mob starring Matthew Modine, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dean Stockwell. Isaaks best known song is Wicked Game, though released on the 1989 album Heart Shaped World, an instrumental version of the song was later featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart
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Black Sabbath
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The band experienced multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Originally formed as a rock band, the group soon adopted the Black Sabbath moniker and began incorporating occult themes with horror-inspired lyrics. They also composed songs about social instability, political corruption and drugs, Osbournes regular use of alcohol and other drugs led to his dismissal from the band in 1979. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, in 1992, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer. The original line-up reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album Reunion, Black Sabbaths final studio album and nineteenth overall,13, features all of the original members but Ward. A year after embarking on a tour, the band played their final concert in their home city of Birmingham on 4 February 2017. Iommi has stated, however, that he has not ruled out the possibility of new material or one-off shows under the Black Sabbath name, Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid and they were ranked by MTV as the Greatest Metal Band of all time, and placed second in VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and they have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and they have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance. Following the break-up of their previous band Mythology in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward sought to form a blues rock band in Aston. The new group was named the Polka Tulk Blues Band, the name taken either from a brand of talcum powder or an Indian/Pakistani clothing shop. The Polka Tulk Blues Band featured slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips, a friend of Osbournes. After shortening the name to Polka Tulk, the band changed their name to Earth and continued as a four-piece without Phillips. Iommi became concerned that Phillips and Clarke lacked the dedication and were not taking the band seriously. Rather than asking them to leave, they decided to break up. While the band was performing under the Earth title, they recorded several demos written by Norman Haines such as The Rebel, Song for Jim, the demo titled Song for Jim was in reference to Jim Simpson. Jim Simpson was a manager for the bands Bakerloo Blues Line, Simpson was also a trumpet player for the group Locomotive
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Eliminators (1986 film)
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Eliminators is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by directed by Peter Manoogian, starring Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby and Patrick Reynolds. After returning from a mission in a time machine, the Mandroid gives a Roman centurion shield to his master Abbot Reeves. Reeves orders the Mandroid to be dismantled, but Reeves assistant Takada tries to help the Mandroid to escape, although Takada dies in the escape attempt, he tells the Mandroid to seek scientist Col. Nora Hunter for help in stopping Reeves from enacting an evil plan. In the U. S. the Mandroid finds Hunter and reveals himself to her and she believed Reeves to be dead and recognizes her designs for a Mars probe in the Mandroid. She repairs damage done to the Mandroid in his escape, the Mandroid plans to return to stop Reeves evil plans and Hunter insists on accompanying him as his mechanic. A small flying scout robot of her own design, arriving in South America, Hunter hires the best river boat captain she can find in a seedy bar, one Harry Fontana, and they head down a river. They also meet Kuji, the son of Doctor Takada. The Mandroid informs him that his father is dead, killed by Reeves. He joins the group, which then storms Reeves headquarters, only to be captured by Reeves, now a cyborg himself, more advanced than the Mandroid, Reeves plans to travel back to ancient Rome and become the new Caesar. The Mandroid fights Reeves and is quickly defeated, badly damaged, the Mandroid sacrifices his life to free the rest of the group. They pursue Reeves to his laboratory just in time to him escape to ancient Rome in his time machine. In frustration, Fontana smashes the control panel, causing the time machine to overshoot its target date. Andrew Prine as Harry Fontana, riverboat captain, Denise Crosby as Colonel Nora Hunter, scientist. Patrick Reynolds as Mandroid/John, a pilot who crashed in South America, conan Lee as Kuji, ninja son of Doctor Takada. Roy Dotrice as Abbott Reeves, evil scientist, Peter Schrum as Ray Peggy Mannix as Bayou Betty, the evil rival riverboat captain to Harry. Fausto Bara as Luis Tad Horino as Takada, the good scientist assistant to Reeves. Luis Lorenzo as Maurice José Moreno as Neanderthal Shaman Charly Bravo as Bartender Miguel de Grandy as Chief Guard Gabino Diego as Young Guard Released in January 1986, the film grossed $4,601,256. After the films release, it was released on videocassette by Playhouse Video
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Dolly Dearest
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Dolly Dearest is an American 1991 horror film starring Denise Crosby and Rip Torn. The movie was supposed to be direct-to-video, but did get a limited theatrical release in the Midwestern United States. American father, Elliot Wade, obtains ownership of the Dolly Dearest factory in Mexico, not far from the factory lies the underground, Mayan tomb of Sanzia, or Satan on Earth. Upon its escape Sanzia takes refuge in the porcelain moppets of Dolly Dearest, despite the demise of the archaeologist, the sale is finalized and the unsuspecting Wade family travels from Los Angeles to Mexico to see their new home. Upon arrival, the family meets their realtor, Mr. Jimmy decides to tag along as well, during the conversation, Jessica goes exploring. On a high shelf she discovers many well-preserved dolls covered by a sheet and she asks her father if she may have one and he acquiesces. Outside, Jimmy finds the entrance to the cave which is blocked by a wire fence, unaware of recent events, Jimmy inquires about that area, but his father warns him to never go back there again. That night, Marilyn tucks Jessica in bed and wishes her good night, as she falls asleep, Dolly slowly turns her head to stare at the sleeping child. The next day, when Jessica goes outside to play with Dolly, although curious, Marilyn does not confront her. As the day progresses, Marilyn begins to experience unusual activities, in the beginning, she hears phantom footsteps. As time progresses Camilla sends a priest to bless the house, during the session, the Wade family is driving back to their house, and Jessica throws a tantrum in the car. Upon reaching their home, the Priest is seen walking away, Jessica demands that she be given her Dolly immediately, and as the family walks into the house, she looks back and glares at Camilla. That night, Marilyn recounts the events to Elliot. However, Jessica becomes progressively more violent and obsessive with Dolly, to not arouse her fathers suspicion, Jessica acts normal when he is around, but resumes her evil and threatening behavior around her mother. Camilla believes the doll is controlling Jessica, when the daughter speaks harshly in Sanzian tongue, Camillas suspicions are proven correct and she tries to warn Marilyn of the evil but is killed by the spirit. The mayhem continues as Jimmy sneaks out the one night. He finds the night watchman Luis, dead on the floor and it appears as if Luis died from a heart attack but in truth, the dolls had come to life and toyed with him for a while. Struggling to escape, his hand got caught in a sewing machine
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Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American director, writer, and actor. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friends Birthday and its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction, a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by Entertainment Weekly, many critics, for his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch. Tarantino directed Death Proof as part of a feature with friend Robert Rodriguez. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds, which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germanys political leadership, was released in 2009 to positive reviews, after that came 2012s critically acclaimed Django Unchained, a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the film of his career so far, making over $425 million at the box office. Tarantinos films have garnered critical and commercial success. He has received industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme dOr, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005, Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him the single most influential director of his generation. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry, Tarantino was born on March 27,1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has English and Irish ancestry, Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentins mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles and she married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, in 1966, Tarantinos mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three-year-old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the part of the city. Tarantinos mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the moved to Torrance. Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied him to film screenings. Tarantinos mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge, after his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for six months to a year, before returning to California
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Jackie Brown
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Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film, Tarantinos third feature-length production, is an adaptation of Elmore Leonards 1992 novel Rum Punch and it is the first film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work, and stars Pam Grier in the title role. The film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy and Foxy Brown, the films supporting cast includes Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton. It was Tarantinos third film following Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Grier and Forster were both veteran actors but neither had performed a leading role in many years. Jackie Brown revitalized both actors careers, the film garnered Forster an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. Jackie Brown is an attendant for a small Mexican airline. Ordell learns that another of his couriers, Beaumont Livingston, has been arrested, assuming that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for bail with bondsman Max Cherry, then coaxes Livingston into a car trunk and murders him. Initially refusing to cut a deal, she is sent to jail which alerts Ordell that she also be a threat to inform. Having received payment from Ordell, Max picks up Jackie from the jail, Ordell arrives at Jackies house intending to murder her but she surprises him by pulling a gun surreptitiously taken from the glove compartment of Maxs car. Jackie negotiates a deal with Ordell to pretend to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of Ordells money, enough to allow him to retire. To carry out this plan, Ordell is counting on Melanie Ralston, an unambitious, stoned surfer girl with whom he lives, and Louis Gara, a friend and former cellmate. Unaware of Jackie and Ordells plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette, unbeknownst to all, Jackie plans to double-cross everyone and keep $500,000 for herself. She recruits Max to assist with her plan and offers him a cut, in the Del Amo Mall on the day of the transfer, Jackie enters a dressing room to try on a new suit. Instead, the bag she gives Melanie contains only $50,000, Jackie then feigns despair as she calls Nicolette and Dargus out from hiding, claiming Melanie took all the money and ran. In the parking lot, Melanie mocks Louis until he loses his temper, Ordell is livid when he discovers that most of the money is gone, and he realizes that Jackie is to blame. When Louis mentions that during the hand-off he saw Max Cherry in the stores department and thought nothing of it, Ordell kills Louis. Ordell turns his anger toward Max, who informs him that Jackie is frightened for her life and is waiting in Maxs office to hand over the money, a menacing Ordell holds Max at gunpoint as they enter the darkened office. Jackie suddenly yells that Ordell has a gun, and Nicolette jumps from a hiding place and shoots him dead
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Deep Impact (film)
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Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures in the United States on May 8,1998, the film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. Both films were received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 39%. Nonetheless, Deep Impact grossed over $349 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget and this is the final film of cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann. On May 10,1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a party in Richmond. His teacher alerts astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes that the object is a comet, Wolf dies in a car accident trying to alert the world. One year later, MSNBC journalist Jenny Lerner investigates the sudden resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Alan Rittenhouse and his connection to Ellie, after interviewing Rittenhouse, she is intercepted by the FBI and brought before President Tom Beck. Lerner realizes that Ellie is not a mistress but an acronym, due to Lerners investigation, President Beck makes an announcement earlier than planned, the comet named Wolf-Biederman is headed for Earth. It is 7 miles long, large enough to cause a mass extinction, after his name is mentioned on TV, Leo speaks to the town about the discovery and how the White House thought he died alongside Wolf. After landing on the comet, the crew members plant nuclear bombs beneath the surface, when the bombs detonate, the ship is damaged from the blast and the team loses contact with Earth. President Beck announces the crews failure, the nukes did not divert the comet, after President Beck announces the Messiah crews failure, he declares martial law and reveals that governments worldwide have been building underground shelters. The United States shelter is in the caves of Missouri. Lerner and the Biederman family are pre-selected, but Leos girlfriend Sarah Hotchner and her family are not, Leo marries Sarah to save her family, but they are left off the evacuee list. Sarah refuses to leave without her parents, a last-ditch effort to use Earths ICBMs to deflect the comets fails. President Beck reports on this and reveals the final trajectories of the two comets, the Biederman fragment will impact the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, which will generate megatsunamis up to 3,500 feet high. The people who would be in its way are immediately advised to evacuate, Leo returns home looking for Sarah, but her family has left for the Appalachian Mountains and is caught in a traffic jam. Leo catches up to the using a motorcycle from their garage. Sarahs parents instruct Leo to take Sarah and her brother to high ground
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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Tobe Hooper
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For instance, Stuart Heritage of The Guardian described The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as one of the most influential films ever made. Hooper was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Lois Belle and Norman William Ray Hooper and he first became interested in filmmaking when he used his fathers 8 mm camera at age 9. Hooper took Radio-Television-Film classes at the University of Texas at Austin, Hooper spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. His short film The Heisters was invited to be entered in the subject category for an Academy Award. He directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974 and he later directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 in 1986. In 1982, Hooper directed Poltergeist, which was based on a story by Steven Spielberg, in October 2009, Twisted Pictures, the company behind the Saw films, bought the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and made a new Chainsaw film in 3D, Texas Chainsaw 3D. In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed the director for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, hooper’s first novel, Midnight Movie, was published on Three Rivers Press in 2011. His supernatural thriller film Djinn premiered at the 2013 Abu Dhabi Film Festival, filmmakers who have been influenced by Hooper include Hideo Nakata, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, Alexandre Aja, and Jack Thomas Smith. Director Ridley Scott has stated that his work on Alien was influenced by Hoopers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre more than any other B-level genre product
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Mortuary (2005 film)
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Mortuary is a 2005 American zombie film directed by Tobe Hooper. It stars Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi and Denise Crosby and this film has no connection to the 1983 film of the same name. After the loss of their father, the Doyle family – Leslie, Jonathan, Jonathan goes to the local diner where he meets Cal and his two girlfriends, Tina and Sara. Cal tells Jonathan about the legend of Bobby Fowler, an abused and deformed boy who lived in the mortuary, Jonathan also meets Liz, a local girl, Grady, Lizs best friend, and Rita, Lizs aunt, who employed her to work at the diner. Jonathan, Liz, and Grady become friends quickly and that night, Cal, Sara and Tina go to the graveyard outside the mortuary and vandalize it, they then go into one of the crypts, where they are attacked by Bobby Fowler. The next day, Jonathan, Liz and Grady go back to Jonathans house, shortly afterwards, Sheriff Howell shows up to welcome Leslie to the town. He informs her about his attempt to stop graveyard babies and he also is looking for Cal, Sara, and Tina. Sheriff Howell investigates the crypts, where Bobby Fowler infects him, the next day at the diner, Jonathan and Liz are working, when Cal and Sara arrive messy. Cal has an attack and Sara begins vomiting black ooze. Rita comes in to calm her down but is infected in the process, at the mortuary, Leslie performs her first embalming. While doing so, she makes a mess of the embalming fluids, while going to clean it up, one of the bodies gets up and infects Leslie. Jonathan, Jamie, Liz, and Grady return to Jonathans house for dinner, the four notice a black fungus growing on the wall. Liz pours salt in her soup which makes it bubble and sends Leslie into a rage in which she attacks Jonathan, shortly afterwards, Jonathan fights off his mother and saves Jamie. The four escape outside but are forced to retreat into a crypt, the four make the shocking discovery that Bobby lives in the crypt and dug tunnels under the cemetery. They find Tina, who is alive, but are attacked by the mother. They find a ladder which leads back into the house, where they barricade themselves and they question Tina and eventually cut her hand to see if her blood has turned into the black ooze, a sign of the infection. Sheriff Howell assaults the house a shotgun, Tina goes into the kitchen to clean the wound but is infected by contaminated water. Grady accidentally pours salt on her, burning her, the group now knows the weakness of the infected, but their victory is short-lived after they find that Jamie, who Jonathan had left in her room to keep her safe, has been captured
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Star Trek
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and it followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, an exploration vessel. The Star Trek canon of the franchise include The Original Series, a series, four spin-off television series, its film franchise. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gullivers Travels and these adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek, The Animated Series and six feature films. The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four feature films. In 2009, the franchise underwent a reboot set in an alternate timeline, or Kelvin Timeline. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the show, their adventures were continued in the sequel film. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released to coincide with the franchises 50th anniversary, a new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek, Discovery, will premiere in May 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access. Star Trek has been a phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers, the franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had an attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world, the series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek, in addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of televisions first multiracial casts, Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the series that would become Star Trek
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Deanna Troi
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Commander Deanna Troi /diːˈænə/ is a main character in the science-fiction television series Star Trek, The Next Generation and related TV series and films, portrayed by actress Marina Sirtis. Troi is half-human, half-Betazoid and has the ability to sense emotions. She serves as the counselor on USS Enterprise-D. Throughout most of the series, she holds the rank of lieutenant commander, in the seventh season, however, Troi takes the bridge officers examination and is promoted to the rank of commander, but continues as counselor. As of Star Trek, Nemesis she is credited as Deanna Troi-Riker because of her marriage to William Riker, Deanna Troi was born on March 29,2336, near Lake El-Nar, Betazed. Deannas parents are Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, and deceased human Starfleet officer Lt. Ian Andrew Troi, an older sister, Kestra, was accidentally drowned during Deannas infancy. Although Deanna Troi has little exposure to Earth culture, she attended Starfleet Academy from 2355 to 2359, as well as the University on Betazed, Deanna Troi serves as the ships counselor aboard the Starfleet starships USS Enterprise and Enterprise-E under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The Betazoid race has telepathic abilities, due to her half-human heritage, Deanna Troi has only partial telepathic abilities and as a result is more of an empath with clairsentience. In Star Trek, Nemesis, Troi has expanded her empathic abilities as she is able to connect to another psychic, in this instance, her ability enables Enterprise-E to target and hit the Romulan vessel Scimitar, despite the fact that it is cloaked. She is also able to communicate telepathically with her mother and other telepathic Betazoids or races with sufficient aptitude, there are several species who are resistant to the telepathy and empathy of Betazoids, however, such as the Ferengi, the Breen and the Ulians. Early in the series, Troi finds herself working with a former lover, in later episodes, Troi has romantic involvements with several others, including a brief relationship with Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Worf. She is addressed in various ways by fellow officers, Captain Picard calls her Counselor, but when he is concerned about her, or in emergencies, he calls her Deanna. Picard also refers to her as Commander in the pilot episode, Riker addresses her as Lieutenant a single time in the pilot episode, her service rank is not referred to again for several seasons. Doctor Crusher usually calls her Troi, data very rarely calls her by her first name, usually calling her Counselor Troi. Depending on the situation, Commander Riker will call her Deanna, or Imzadi, in several episodes, Deanna Troi falls victim to aliens. She is usually targeted by aliens that can take control of her mind then talk through her body, in a key episode of Season 4 the Enterprise’s crew lose a days memory. As events unfold, Deanna is taken over by an entity in order to communicate with the crew and she temporarily gains super-human strength and effortlessly tosses Worf across the bridge, breaking his wrist. In the season 5 episode Violations, Enterprise encounters a species who are telepathic
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Gene Roddenberry
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Eugene Wesley Gene Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television series, born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, later, he followed in his fathers footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television. As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun–Will Travel, in 1964, Roddenberry created Star Trek, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons before being canceled. He then worked on projects, including a string of failed television pilots. The syndication of Star Trek led to its popularity, this, in turn, resulted in the Star Trek feature films, on which Roddenberry continued to produce. He continued to consult on the series until his death in 1991, years after his death, Roddenberry was one of the first humans to have his ashes carried into earth orbit. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films has inspired films, books, comic books, video games, and fan films set in the Star Trek universe. Roddenberry was born on August 19,1921, in his parents rented home in El Paso, Texas, the family moved to Los Angeles in 1923 after Genes father passed the Civil Service test and was given a police commission there. During his childhood, Roddenberry was interested in reading, especially magazines, and was a fan of stories such as John Carter of Mars, Tarzan. Roddenberry majored in science at Los Angeles City College, where he began dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat. He obtained a license through the United States Army Air Corps-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program. He enlisted with the USAAC on December 18,1941, and he graduated from the USAAC on August 5,1942, when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He was posted to Bellows Field, Oahu, to join the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, of the Thirteenth Air Force, which flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. On August 2,1943, while flying out of Espiritu Santo, the plane Roddenberry was piloting overshot the runway by 500 feet and impacted trees, crushing the nose, the official report absolved Roddenberry of any responsibility. Roddenberry spent the remainder of his career in the United States. He was involved in a plane crash, this time as a passenger. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, in 1945, Roddenberry began flying for Pan American World Airways, including routes from New York to Johannesburg or Calcutta, the two longest Pan Am routes at the time
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Marina Sirtis
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Marina Sirtis is a British-American actress. Marina Sirtis was born in the East End of London, the daughter of working-class Greek parents Despina, a tailors assistant and she was brought up in Harringay, North London. While still in school, Sirtis secretly auditioned for drama school, against her parents wishes, ultimately being accepted to the Guildhall School of Music. In 1976, at the age of 21, Sirtis graduated from Guildhall, in 1986, at the age of 31, Sirtis emigrated to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, to boost her career. She later became a naturalized US citizen, Sirtis started her career as a member of the repertory company at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing, West Sussex, in 1976. Directed by Nic Young, she appeared in Joe Ortons What the Butler Saw, before her role in Star Trek, Sirtis was featured in supporting roles in several films. In the 1983 Faye Dunaway film The Wicked Lady, she engaged in a fight with Dunaway. In the Charles Bronson sequel Death Wish 3, Sirtis character is a rape victim, in the film Blind Date, she appears as a prostitute who is murdered by a madman. Other early works include numerous guest-starring roles on British television series, Sirtis appeared in Raffles, Who Pays the Ferryman, Hazell, Minder, the Jim Davidson sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. She also played the stewardess in a 1979 Cinzano Bianco television commercial starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, in 1986, Sirtis relocated to the US. Sirtis and Denise Crosby initially tried out for each others eventual roles on The Next Generation, Sirtis character was going to be named Lt. Macha Hernandez, the Security Chief. Gene Roddenberry decided to switch them, and Macha Hernandez became Natasha Yar, Sirtis recalls that on the day she received the call offering her the role of Deanna Troi, she was actually packing to return to Britain, because her six-month visa had expired. Deanna Troi is a half-human, half-Betazoid and her Betazoid abilities allow her to read the emotions of others. Her position on the Enterprise-D is ships counselor, looking after the crews well-being and serving as trusted advisor to Captain Picard, initially, the writers found it difficult to write for Troi and even left her out of four of the first-season episodes. Sirtis appeared in all seven seasons of Star Trek, The Next Generation and she has stated her favourite episode is season sixs Face of the Enemy, in which Troi is kidnapped and surgically altered to pose as a Romulan. So I got all my brains back and I was allowed to do things that I hadnt been allowed to do for five or six years. I went on away teams, I was in charge of staff, I had my pips back, I had phasers, I had all the equipment again, and it was fabulous. During her time on the show, she became friends with her co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn
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Uhura
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Nyota Uhura /niːˈoʊtə ʊˈhʊrə/ is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. The character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols through the sixth Star Trek film, since 2009, a younger Uhura has been portrayed by actress Zoe Saldana. Uhura is a translator and communications officer who specializes in linguistics, cryptography and she was an important part of the original series multicultural crew and one of the first characters of African descent to be featured in a non-menial role on an American television series. Gene Roddenberry had intended his new female officer to be called Lieutenant Sulu. Herb Solow pointed out how similar this was to Zulu and thought it might act against the plan for racial diversity in the show, Uhura comes from the Swahili word uhuru, meaning freedom. Nichols states in her book Beyond Uhura that the name was inspired by Robert Ruarks book Uhuru, when producer Robert Justman explained to Roddenberry what the word uhuru meant, he changed it to Uhura and adopted that as the characters name. Coincidentally, the end credits of the film Star Trek VI, Uhuras first name was not used in Star Trek canon until Abramss 2009 film, in a scene where the young Spock calls her Nyota in a moment of intimacy. Although other non-canon names had existed, Nyota had been the most common. Author William Rotsler created the name Nyota for his 1982 licensed tie-in book, seeking approval for the name he contacted Gene Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols. Gene Roddenberry approved of the name, Nichelle Nichols also approved and was very excited when Rotsler informed her that Nyota means star in Swahili. After originating in Star Trek II Biographies Nyota started appearing in Star Trek novels, while guest-starring on the game show Super Password on January 7,1987, Nichols stated that Uhuras first name was Nyota. That Nyota is the Swahili word for star is mentioned by William Shatner in his book Star Trek Memories, startrek. com uses the name Nyota on its character biography page for the Animated Series but not on the TOS biography page. Nyota was also used as Uhuras first name when Nichols reprised the character in the fan film Star Trek, Of Gods and Men. The non-canon book The Best of Trek suggests that Uhuras first name is Penda, in the 2009 film, the mystery regarding Uhuras first name is the subject of a running joke as Kirk repeatedly tries to find out what it is before finally hearing Spock call her Nyota. Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967 after its first season and she changed her mind after talking to Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a fan of the show. King explained that her character signified a future of greater racial harmony, King told Nichols, You are our image of where were going, youre 300 years from now, and that means thats where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what youre doing, you are our inspiration, as Nichols recounted, Star Trek was one of the only shows that and his wife Coretta would allow their little children to watch. And I thanked him and I told him I was leaving the show, all the smile came off his face
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Skin of Evil
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Skin of Evil is the 23rd episode of the first season of the science fiction television series Star Trek, The Next Generation, and originally aired on April 25,1988, in broadcast syndication. The story premise was written by Joseph Stefano, and the screenplay was re-written by Hannah Louise Shearer, the episode was directed by Joseph L. Scanlan. The series follows the adventures of the crew of the Starfleet starship Enterprise-D, in this episode, the Enterprise races to rescue Deanna Troi from a crashed shuttle, which is being held captive by an alien life form called Armus. In investigating the crash, Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed by Armus, Yars death in the episode was the result of Crosby asking to be released from her contract, although her last filmed episode was actually Symbiosis as it was filmed subsequent to Skin of Evil. The manner of her death was intended to be typical of the posed to a security officer. The reception of the episode was poor overall from critics, especially the manner of Yars death, the Enterprise receives a distress signal from a shuttlecraft returning Deanna Troi from a conference. They find that the shuttle has crashed on a planet, Vagra II, and while they can find the life signs of Troi. An away team beams down and discovers a pool of a tar-like substance. When Lt. Yar attempts to approach the shuttle, Armus hurls her back with a psychokinetic blast, the away team is brought back to the Enterprise but the damage to Yar is too great for Dr. Crusher to repair, and they are unable to resuscitate her. A second away team is sent to the planet, Armus taunts the crew members and maintains his grasp of the shuttle. During this time, Troi has communicated with Armus and learned that it is a manifestation of evil from the bodies of an ancient race. After Armus toys with Troi by completely engulfing Commander Riker, Captain Picard beams down to speak to Armus directly, Picard engages Armus in a heated discussion to discover its motive, which is to seek revenge on those that abandoned it on Vagra II. Armus is riled to a point where the field is dissipated enough, allowing for Picard, Troi. After destroying the shuttlecraft from orbit, Picard orders a quarantine on Vagra II, after the service, Data, who had previously become close to Yar, tells Picard that he is confused as to the purpose of the service. He says that his thoughts are for himself, because he can think of how empty his life will be without Tasha. He asks if he has missed the point, but Picard assures him he got it, the original story, then titled The Shroud, was written by Joseph Stefano, who had previously worked on The Outer Limits. Hannah Louise Shearer was given the task of re-writing the original take, the first draft had Yars death occur earlier in the episode with the main focus of the episode being the Armus creature rather than her death. It was the creator, Gene Roddenberry who argued in favor of her sudden demise as he felt it was suitable for a security officer
