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Mooloolaba
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Mooloolaba is a suburb and tourist resort township on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located 97 kilometres north of the capital, Brisbane. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 7,333, Mooloolaba derives from the Aboriginal word mulu, meaning snapper fish, or mulla meaning Red-bellied Black Snake. Originally known as Mooloolah Heads, the name was changed to Mooloolaba by Thomas OConnor in 1919 when he subdivided land for sale there, lieutenant Heath surveyed and chartered the Mooloolah River mouth and harbour in 1861. The following year, Tome Petrie explored the region for timber resources, by 1864, the first land was purchased at the mouth of the Mooloolah River by William Pettigrew. Pettigrew dominated the trade in the Maroochy District for the next thirty years. He founded a timber depot and wharf to ship timber from Cotton Tree, in partnership with James Low, he also opened the first store in the district to serve the needs of the new settlers. Mooloolah Heads was the gateway to the Maroochy District between 1870 and 1884, due to the protection Point Cartwright offered, the port was preferred over the Maroochy River. Pettigrews steamers Tarshaw, Tadorna Radjah and Gneering operated along both rivers, the steamers carried produce, passengers and timber between Mooloolaba and Brisbane. In 1891, with the opening of the North Coast Railway to Yandina, Pettigrew transferred his activities to Maroochydore, establishing a sawmill there in 1891, leading to the further declination of the depot at Mooloolah Heads. Over the next decade little development occurred in the coastal areas, by the year 1919, Mooloolah Heads industry had grown to include fishing and fruit growing. Thomas OConnor bought Pettigrews land from Sylvester Murphy and surveyed the first allotments of what was to become Mooloolaba, on 1 January 1921, the first sale of allotments was held. These extended along the frontage from the surf beach to Tucker Creek. It was then that the name Mooloolaba was embraced to distinguish between this area and the Mooloolah township on the railway. Throughout the 1920s the population increased, the area had always been a desirable destination for Buderim settlers. Holiday cottages and houses were dotted along the river and the narrow spit, boat hire and fishing were also very popular. As the roads and public amenities improved, Mooloolaba continued to develop as both a residential and holiday location. Mooloolaba is bounded on the east by the Coral Sea, on the south by the Mooloolah River, on the north by Alexandra Headland and to the west by Buderim
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Queensland
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Queensland is the second-largest and third-most-populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west, to the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Queensland has a population of 4,750,500, concentrated along the coast, the state is the worlds sixth largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 km2. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australias third largest city, often referred to as the Sunshine State, Queensland is home to 10 of Australias 30 largest cities and is the nations third largest economy. Tourism in the state, fuelled largely by its tropical climate, is a major industry. Queensland was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, the first European to land in Queensland was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606, who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula near present-day Weipa. In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip at Sydney, New South Wales at that time included all of what is now Queensland, Queensland was explored in subsequent decades until the establishment of a penal colony at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. Penal transportation ceased in 1839 and free settlement was allowed from 1842, the state was named in honour of Queen Victoria, who on 6 June 1859 signed Letters Patent separating the colony from New South Wales. The 6th of June is now celebrated statewide as Queensland Day. Queensland achieved statehood with the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, the history of Queensland spans thousands of years, encompassing both a lengthy indigenous presence, as well as the eventful times of post-European settlement. The north-eastern Australian region was explored by Dutch, Spanish and French navigators before being encountered by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, the Australian Labor Party has its origin as a formal organisation in Queensland and the town of Barcaldine is the symbolic birthplace of the party. June 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of its creation as a colony from New South Wales. The Aboriginal occupation of Queensland is thought to predate 50,000 BC, likely via boat or land bridge across Torres Strait, during the last ice age Queenslands landscape became more arid and largely desolate, making food and other supplies scarce. This led to the worlds first seed-grinding technology, warming again made the land hospitable, which brought high rainfall along the eastern coast, stimulating the growth of the states tropical rainforests. In February 1606, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed near the site of what is now Weipa and this was the first recorded landing of a European in Australia, and it also marked the first reported contact between European and Aboriginal Australian people. The region was explored by French and Spanish explorers prior to the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of the United Kingdom on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming Eastern Australia, including Queensland, the Aboriginal population declined significantly after a smallpox epidemic during the late 18th century
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Cairns
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Cairns is a major city on the east coast of Far North Queensland in Australia. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland and ranks 14th overall in Australia, Cairns was founded in 1876 and named after William Wellington Cairns, Governor of Queensland from 1875 to 1877. It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield and it later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region. The estimated residential population of the Cairns urban area in 2015 was 147,993, based on 2015 data, the associated local government area has experienced an average annual growth rate of 2. 3% over the last 10 years. Cairns is a popular tourist destination because of its climate and access to the Great Barrier Reef. Prior to British settlement, the Cairns area was inhabited by the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people, the area is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy. In 1770, James Cook mapped the site of Cairns. Closer investigation by several official expeditions 100 years later established its potential for development into a port, Cairns was founded in 1876, hastened by the need to export gold discovered on the tablelands to the west of the inlet. The site was predominantly mangrove swamps and sand ridges, labourers gradually cleared the swamps, and the sand ridges were filled with dried mud, sawdust from local sawmills, and ballast from a quarry at Edge Hill. Debris from the construction of a railway to Herberton on the Atherton Tableland, the railway opened up land later used for agriculture on the lowlands, and for fruit and dairy production on the Tableland. The success of local agriculture helped establish Cairns as a port, on 25 April 1926, the Cairns Sailors and Soldiers War Memorial was unveiled by Alexander Frederick Draper, the mayor of the City of Cairns. Combat missions were flown out of Cairns in support of the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, Edmonton and White Rock south of Cairns were major military supply areas and US Paratroopers trained at Gordonvale and the Goldsborough Valley. A Special Forces training base was established at the old Fairview homestead on Munros Hill and this base was officially known as the Z Experimental Station, but referred to informally as The House on the Hill. After World War II, Cairns gradually developed into a centre for tourism, the opening of the Cairns International Airport in 1984 helped establish the city as a desirable destination for international tourism. Cairns is located on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula on a strip between the Coral Sea and the Great Dividing Range. The northern part of the city is located on Trinity Bay, to the south of the Trinity Inlet lies the Aboriginal community of Yarrabah. Some of the suburbs are located on flood plains. The Mulgrave River and Barron River flow within the greater Cairns area, the citys centre foreshore is located on a mud flat
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Author
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An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written work and can thus also be described as a writer. More broadly defined, an author is the person who originated or gave existence to anything, in the copyright laws of various jurisdictions, there is a necessity for little flexibility regarding what constitutes authorship. The United States Copyright Office, for example, defines copyright as a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to authors of works of authorship. After a fixed amount of time, the copyright expires on intellectual work and it enters the public domain, however, copyright is merely the legal reassurance that one owns his/her work. Technically, someone owns their work from the time its created, an interesting aspect of authorship emerges with copyright in that, in many jurisdictions, it can be passed down to another upon ones death. The person who inherits the copyright is not the author, questions arise as to the application of copyright law. How does it, for example, apply to the issue of fan fiction. If the media responsible for the authorized production allows material from fans, what is the limit before legal constraints from actors, music. Additionally, how does copyright apply to fan-generated stories for books, what powers do the original authors, as well as the publishers, have in regulating or even stopping the fan fiction. In literary theory, critics find complications in the term author beyond what constitutes authorship in a legal setting, in the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text. Barthes challenges the idea that a text can be attributed to any single author and he writes, in his essay Death of the Author, that it is language which speaks, not the author. The words and language of a text itself determine and expose meaning for Barthes, with this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed. The psyche, culture, fanaticism of an author can be disregarded when interpreting a text, because the words are rich enough themselves with all of the traditions of language. To expose meanings in a work without appealing to the celebrity of an author, their tastes, passions, vices, is, to Barthes, to allow language to speak. Michel Foucault argues in his essay What is an author and that all authors are writers, but not all writers are authors. He states that a letter may have a signatory—it does not have an author. For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to certain standards upon the text which. Foucaults author function is the idea that an author exists only as a function of a work, a part of its structure
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999, Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables, Connery has been polled as The Greatest Living Scot and Scotlands Greatest Living National Treasure. In 1989, he was proclaimed Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on 25 August 1930. His mother, Euphemia McBain Effie, was a cleaning woman and his paternal grandfathers parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid-19th century. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and his father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a brother, Neil. He was generally referred to in his youth as Tommy, although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in at 18. He was known during his teen years as Big Tam, and has stated that he lost his virginity to a woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14. Connerys first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthberts Co-operative Society, one tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads Mum and Dad, and the other is self-explanatory, Scotland Forever. Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour, student artist Richard Demarco who painted several notable early pictures of Connery described him as very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis. Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife, while on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess, Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves, looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the Kings Theatre in late 1951. He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched, the production returned the following year out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, there Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together
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Jason Connery
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Jason Joseph Connery is a British actor and director. He is the son of Sean Connery, on screen, he is known for appearing in the third series of the ITV drama programme Robin of Sherwood in 1986, taking over the main role after Michael Praed left. Connery was born and raised in London and he is the son of Scottish actor Sean Connery and his first wife, the Australian actress Diane Cilento. He attended Millfield School, a independent school in the village of Street, in Somerset, England. He was later accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Connery performed many roles in theatre and subsequently had parts in several B-films. His film début was in The Lords of Discipline and he appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos in 1985, he also portrayed Robin Hood in the final season of the television series Robin of Sherwood in 1986. He later portrayed James Bond creator Ian Fleming in the 1990 television drama Spymaker, in 1997, he appeared in a fantasy film, playing the title role of Merlin in Merlin, The Quest Begins, directed by David Winning. He appeared in Faithful Dealing in London, an English Restoration Whodunit, in 2003, he toured with a stage production of The Blue Room. In 2004, he was a character in the childrens show Shoebox Zoo. Connery had starring roles in horror films, including Lightspeed, Night Skies. In 2014, he took part in BBC Ones Celebrity MasterChef, in 2008, he made his directorial début with the film Pandemic and in 2009 directed The Devils Tomb. Connery directed the 2011 After Dark Originals film 51, and The Philly Kid for the After Dark Action series, in 2016 Connery directed Tommys Honour, a film celebrating the lives of golf pioneers Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris. The film opened the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival on 15 June 2016, Connery was married to American actress Mia Sara in 1996, and in June 1997 they had a son named Dashiell Quinn. The couple met during the making of Bullet to Beijing in Russia and he is also the nephew of Neil Connery. Jason Connery at the Internet Movie Database
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Raphael Cilento
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Sir Raphael West Cilento, often known as Ray, was a notable Australian medical practitioner and public health administrator. Raphael Cilento was born in Jamestown, South Australia in 1893, son of Raphael Ambrose Cilento, a stationmaster and his younger brother Alan Watson West Cilento became General Manager of the Savings Bank of South Australia from 1961 to 1968. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, but although he was determined from an age to study medicine. Therefore, he trained first as a teacher, sponsored by the Education Department, from 1908. For the earlier part of his life, Cilentos interests were mainly in public health and, specifically. He served with the Australian Armys Tropical Force in New Guinea which superseded the German administration after the First World War, later he joined the British colonial service in Malaya. On his return to Australia he was Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine in Townsville, Queensland, following a further term in New Guinea, he became Director of the Commonwealth Governments Division of Tropical Hygiene in Brisbane. He held that role from 1928 to 1934, Cilento, despite his subsequent identification with the political right wing, never lost his belief in government-funded health care. To assist in his objectives, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1939. Cilento was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to public service and he achieved international fame after the Second World War for his work in aiding refugees with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. In July 1945 he was the first civilian doctor to enter Belsen concentration camp and he returned to Australia in 1951. His later life in his land was characterised by frustration at being unable to find appropriate employment in government service or academia. These ideas eventually would be discredited by the history as well as science unfolding from the 1920s, in a letter in The Courier-Mail on Australian clergys attitude to the Vietnam War he said I am not a practising Christian – I am sorry for it. I regret that I have not the gift of faith and he died on 15 April 1985 in the Brisbane suburb of Oxley and was survived by his wife and six children. Although he had married in a Church of England service. They briefly set up in practice in Tranmere before departing for Malaya in October. Together they had three sons and three daughters, the three sons and Ruth became medical practitioners, Margaret became an artist, and Diane became an actress. Raphael C. F. Cilento, February 1921 –29 May 2012 and he married Billie Solomon on 31 January 1947, and had four children, Adrienne, Julien, Vivienne and Raphael
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Phyllis Cilento
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Phyllis Dorothy Cilento, Lady Cilento was an Australian medical practitioner, prominent medical journalist and pioneering advocate of family planning in Queensland. Phyllis Dorothy McGlew was born on 13 March 1894 at Rockdale, Sydney and she grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at Tormore House School. She married Raphael Cilento, an administrator, eugenics advocate. They worked in a number of countries before settling in Brisbane, Queensland and they had six children, including actress Diane Cilento, and remained married until Raphaels death in 1985. She died on 26 July 1987 in Brisbane and was buried in Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery, Cilento studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1919. She was the woman in her graduating class. She worked for a time at the Adelaide Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Following her marriage, the moved to the Malay States where she worked as a lady medical officer in the British colonial service. In 1922, Cilento studied a course in health at the University of Sydney. From 1924 to 1927, she worked in practice in New Guinea. In 1967, she moved to Toowong, where she continued her practice until the early 1980s, Cilento became well-known through her active advocacy of health issues for women and children. From 1928 onwards she wrote both occasional articles and regular columns for magazines and newspapers under the nom de plume of Mother M. D. and she was particularly interested in promoting good nutrition and raising children. She expanded her outreach through books and radio, and was respected by women for her practical advice. She was an advocate of the benefit of vitamins. Dr. Cilento had used Alpha-Tocopherol to soften scar tissue in her patients, concerned over the increasing death rate from coronary blockages, she surveyed the scientific literature on vitamin E, including studies showing its benefits in preventing blood clots. In the early 1970s, Dr. Cilento decided to travel the world to investigate vitamin E therapy and her travels took her to Singapore, Germany, Britain and North America, where she interviewed doctors and veterinarians who used vitamin E in therapeutic doses. Taking detailed and voluminous notes, she published her findings in a series in Womans Day. I am convinced that the claims made for alpha-tocopherol are fully justified and she went on to detail 17 ways vitamin E works in the body — among them, its action in dilating capillaries, protecting the membrane envelopes of red blood cells, and regulating blood platelets
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Australians
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Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are people associated with Australia, sharing a common history, culture, and language. Present-day Australians are citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia, governed by its nationality law, the majority of Australians descend from the peoples of the British Isles. Many early settlements were penal colonies, and transported convicts made up a significant proportion of the population in most colonies, large-scale immigration did not occur until the 1850s, following a series of gold rushes. Prior to British settlement, Australia was inhabited by indigenous peoples – Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Tasmanians, and Torres Strait Islanders. A small percentage of present-day Australians descend from these peoples, the development of a separate Australian identity and national character is most often linked with the period surrounding the First World War, which gave rise to the concept of the Anzac spirit. The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 and various events of the Second World War, large-scale immigration occurred after the First and Second World Wars, with many post-World War II migrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe introducing a variety of elements. Immigration from the Middle East, south and east Asia, Australian culture has diverged significantly since British settlement. Australians are referred to as Aussie and Antipodean, Australians were historically referred to as Colonials, British and British subjects. Australian identity draws on a multicultural, European and British cultural heritage, today, Australians of Anglo and other European descent are the dominant majority in Australia, estimated at 85–92% of the total population. Historically, European immigrants had great influence over Australian history and society, since soon after the beginning of British settlement in 1788, people of European descent have formed the majority of the population in Australia. The majority of Australians are of British – English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, or Manx –, although some observers stress Australias convict history, the vast majority of early settlers came of their own free will. Far more Australians are descended from assisted immigrants than from convicts, about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts. Most of the first Australian settlers came from London, the Midlands and the North of England, anglo-Celtic Australians have been highly influential in shaping the nations culture. By the mid-1840s, the numbers of settlers had overtaken the convict population. In 1888,60 percent of the Australian population had been born in Australia, out of the remaining 40 percent,34 percent had been born in the British Isles, and 6 percent were of European origin, mainly from Germany and Scandinavia. In the 1840s, Scots-born immigrants constituted 12 percent of the Australian population, there were 1.3 million British migrants to Australia in the period from 1861–1914, of which 13.5 percent were Scots. 5.3 percent of the convicts transported to Eastern Australia between 1789 and 1852 were Scots, by 1850, there were 290,000 Aboriginal Australians. The European population grew from 0.3 percent of the population of the continent at 1800 to 58.6 percent at 1850, germans formed the largest non-British community for most of the 19th century
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Tom Jones (1963 film)
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Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure-comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fieldings classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards, the film was directed by Tony Richardson and the screenplay was adapted by playwright John Osborne. Tom Jones was a success critically and at the box-office. At the 36th Academy Awards, It was nominated for nine Oscars, winning four, Best Picture, Best Director for Richardson, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. It also won two Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and three BAFTA Awards including Best Film and Best British Film, in 1999 the British Film Institute named it the 51st greatest British film of the 20th Century. The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy returns home after a stay in London. Tom grows up to be a young man whose good looks. However, he loves only one woman, the gentle Sophie Western. Sadly, Tom is stigmatized as a bastard and cannot wed a young lady of her high station. Sophie, too, must hide her feelings while her aunt and her father and this young man is Blifil, the son of the Squires widowed sister Bridget. Although he is of legitimate birth, he is a fellow with plenty of hypocritical virtue but none of Toms warmth, honesty. When Bridget dies unexpectedly, Blifil intercepts a letter, which his mother intended for her brothers eyes only, Allworthy gives Tom a small cash legacy and sorrowfully sends him out into the world to seek his fortune. In his road-travelling odyssey, Tom is knocked unconscious while defending the good name of his beloved Sophie and robbed of his legacy. In a celebrated scene, Tom and Mrs. Waters sit opposite each other in the room of the Upton Inn. Meanwhile, Sophie runs away from home soon after Toms banishment to escape the attentions of the loathed Blifil, after narrowly missing each other at the Upton Inn, Tom and Sophie arrive separately in London. There, Tom attracts the attention of Lady Bellaston, a promiscuous noblewoman over 40 years of age and she is rich, beautiful, and completely amoral, though it is worth noting that Tom goes to her bed willingly and is generously rewarded for his services. Eventually, Tom ends up at Tyburn Gaol, facing a boisterous hanging crowd after two agents of Blifil frame him for robbery and attempted murder. Allworthy learns the contents of the letter, Tom is not Jenny Joness child
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Charles Thomas McGlew
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Charles Thomas McGlew, a South Australian merchant and exporter, was the first to export barley from Australia. As a youth he was apprenticed as a shipbroker for the Orient Steam Navigation Company and he moved to South Australia in 1900 and commenced trading as a merchant and exporter. In 1911 he purchased the rights to salt deposits at Esperance and this company was amalgamated with the Australian Salt Company in 1930. In 1912, because of his export links, he was appointed Russian Consul for South Australia and he claimed that by volunteering his example secured 300 to 400 Russian recruits to the A. I. F. In France, a term of service with the transport details of the battalion was terminated by exposure to gas. Returning from the war, McGlew expanded his interests as a grain merchant, wool broker, and stock agent, opening branches in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane. A new company, McGlew & Co, limited, was incorporated at Adelaide on 16 February 1924, he being the chairman. In the mid-1920s barley growers on Yorke Peninsula became dissatisfied with the service provided by grain traders, together with the barley growers, in 1925 McGlew purchased and imported the 722-ton steamship Broadway. McGlew used this ship to export the growers’ barley, for which he became known as the first person to export barley from Australia, although uneconomical to continue beyond one season, this bold action was sufficient to bring about the market reforms desired by growers. With great promise, the company advertised “Liberty oils for use, Liberty Motor Oils, Liberty Agricultural Oils, Liberty Tractor Oils, Liberty Industrial Oils. He was interred at West Terrace Cemetery, oil stocks on hand were remaindered, mainly to Riverland motor dealers. His estate was valued for probate at £7,656, McGlew married Alice Walker, of Sydney, who survived him. Estranged in later life, they divorced in 1929 and their daughter was the prominent medical practitioner and journalist Dr Phyllis Cilento, mother of actress and author Diane Cilento, who married actor Sean Connery
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school in London, England. It is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, RADA is an affiliate school of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Its higher education awards are validated by Kings College London and its students graduate alongside members of the departments which form the Kings Faculty of Arts & Humanities and it is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senate House complex of the University of London. Undergraduate students are eligible for government student loan through the Conservatoire for Dance, RADA also has a significant scholarships and bursaries scheme, offering financial assistance to many students at the Academy. The current director of the academy is Edward Kemp, the president is Sir Kenneth Branagh, the chairman is Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen and its vice-chairman was Alan Rickman until his death in 2016. RADA was founded in 1904 by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, an actor manager, in 1905, RADA moved to 52 Gower Street, and a managing council was set up to oversee the school. Its members included George Bernard Shaw, who donated his royalties from his play Pygmalion to RADA. In 1920, RADA was granted a Royal Charter, and in 1921, the Prince of Wales opened the theatre. The Gower Street buildings were torn down in 1927, and replaced with a new building, financed by George Bernard Shaw, in 1923, John Gielgud studied at RADA for a year. He later became President of the academy, and its first honorary fellow, a number of famous actors took on leading roles at RADA, such as Richard Attenborough, Oliver Neville, Nicholas Barter, and Alan Rickman. Other 1924 saw RADAs first government subsidy, a grant of £500, in 2001, RADA joined forces with the London Contemporary dance School to create the UKs first Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance joined this Conservatoire in 2005, in 2000 the Academy founded RADA Enterprises Ltd, which includes RADA in Business, providing training in communications and teambuilding that uses drama training techniques in a business context. The profits are fed back into the Academy to fund students training, RADA is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London. The main RADA building is on Gower Street, with a second premises nearby in Chenies Street, the Goodge Street and Euston Square underground stations are both within walking distance. RADA has five theatres and a cinema, there is also a 150-seat cinema. In January 2012, RADA acquired the lease to the adjacent Drill Hall venue in Chenies Street, the Drill Hall is a Grade II listed building with a long performing arts history, and was where Nijinsky rehearsed with Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1911. This venue has a 200-seat space, the Studio Theatre, and a 50-seat space, the RADA library contains around 30,000 items. The collection was started in 1904 with donations from actors and writers of the such as Sir Squire Bancroft, William Archer, Arthur Wing Pinero
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Laurence Harvey
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Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born South African actor. In a career spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom. His performance in Room at the Top resulted in an Academy Award nomination and that success was followed by the role of the ill-fated Texan commander William Barret Travis in The Alamo, produced by John Wayne, and as the brainwashed Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. Harveys civil birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne and his Hebrew names were Zvi Mosheh. He was born in Joniškis, Lithuania, the youngest of three sons of Ella and Ber Skikne, Lithuanian Jewish parents, Harvey grew up in Johannesburg, and was in his teens when he served with the entertainment unit of the South African Army during the Second World War. After moving to London, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Harvey made his cinema debut in the British film House of Darkness, but its distributor British Lion thought someone named Larry Skikne was not commercially viable. Accounts vary as to how the actor acquired his name of Laurence Harvey. One version has it that it was the idea of talent agent Gordon Harbord who decided Laurence would be an appropriate first name, in choosing a British-sounding last name, Harbord thought of two British retail institutions, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Another is that Skikne was travelling on a London bus with Sid James who exclaimed during their journey, Harveys own account differed over time. Associated British Picture Corporation quickly offered him a contract, which Harvey accepted. He appeared in supporting roles in several of their films such as Man on the Run, Landfall. For International Motion Pictures he was in The Man from Yesterday, Harvey stayed in leading roles for two movies with Lewis Gilbert, Scarlet Thread and There Is Another Sun. For Ealing he made I Believe in You, then he starred in a low budget thriller, Harveys career gained a boost when he appeared in Women of Twilight, this was made by Romulus Films run by Jimmy and James Woolf, who signed Harvey to a long-term contract. James Woolf in particular was a big admirer of Harvey and he had an uncredited role in the comedy Innocents in Paris, and in a Hollywood film, Knights of the Round Table. Romulus have him a part in a thriller directed by Gilbert. He was given the male lead in another Hollywood spectacular, King Richard. It was a box office disappointment and that year he also played Romeo in Renato Castellanis adaptation of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, narrated by John Gielgud. He was now established as an emerging British star, according to a contemporary interview, he turned down an offer to appear in Helen of Troy to act at Stratford-upon-Avon
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The Alcoa Hour
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The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955 to 1957. The series was sponsored by Alcoa, the three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. The series alternated weeks in the time slot with the Goodyear Television Playhouse until both series ended in 1957. It was the only Alcoa Hour production to be granted an original cast album recording, the Stingiest Man in Town was remade in 1978 as a Rankin-Bass animated cartoon, featuring the voice of Walter Matthau as Scrooge. The series premiere episode, The Black Wings, marked the American TV debut of Ann Todd, the show garnered press in February 1956 for actor Lloyd Bridges emotional performance in an episode titled Tragedy in a Temporary Town, directed by Sidney Lumet. During the performance, Bridges inadvertently slipped some profanity in while ad-libbing, although the slip of the lip generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a Robert E. Sherwood Television Award, with Bridges slip being defended even by some members of the clergy. Actors appearing in the included, Alcoa Premiere Alcoa Theatre The Alcoa Hour at CVTA with episode list The Alcoa Hour at the Internet Movie Database The Alcoa Hour at TV. com
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Alexander Korda
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Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British film producer and director. He first worked in Hollywood during the transition to talkies, from 1926 to 1930, the change led to divorce from his first wife, popular Hungarian actress María Corda, who could not make the transition because of her strong accent in English. From 1930, Korda became a figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films. Korda was the first filmmaker to have been officially knighted, the elder brother of filmmakers Zoltan and Vincent, Korda was born Sándor László Kellner to a Jewish family in Pusztatúrpásztó in what is now Hungary, where he worked as a journalist. After the death of his father Korda began writing film reviews to support his family, Korda changed his family name from Kellner to Korda—from the Latin phrase sursum corda which means lift up your hearts. Korda became an important film figure through his film magazines Pesti Mozi, Mozihét and this led to invitations to write film screenplays. Kordas first film script was for Watchhouse in the Carpathians, when the First World War broke out, Korda was excused from military service in the Austrian Army because of his bad eyesight. Korda went to work at the Pedagogical Studio in Budapest and co-directed three films with Gyula Zilahy, Korda established a film company named Corvin Film, building it into one of the largest in Hungary. After his release, he left Hungary for Austria, and never returned to his country of birth, during the next eleven years, Korda made films in several countries, working in Vienna, Berlin, London and Paris before moving to Hollywood in 1940. He worked closely with artists on his films, including his Hungarian friend, painter. After leaving Hungary, Korda accepted an invitation from Count Alexander Kolowrat to work for his company Sascha-Film in the Austrian capital Vienna. Korda worked alongside Kolowrat, who had attracted several leading Hungarian and German directors into his employment, on the 1920 historical epic The Prince, the film was a major international success and inspired Korda with the idea of making international films with global box office appeal. Kordas next two films, Masters of the Sea and A Vanished World, were both nautical-set adventures based on Hungarian novels. By that stage, Korda had grown irritated with Kolowrats interference with his work and left Sascha to make an independent film, Samson and Delilah, the film was made on a lavish scale, with large crowd scenes. The lengthy shooting schedule lasted 160 working days, the film was not a success. Unable to find backing for his film projects, Korda left Vienna. Korda raised funding for the melodrama The Unknown Tomorrow, with backing from Germanys biggest film company, UFA, Korda returned to Vienna to make Everybodys Woman. While there, he work on his next film, the historical Tragedy in the House of Habsburg
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Passage Home
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Passage Home is a 1955 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Captain Lucky Ryland is about to retire, there is a flashback of several years to a voyage on a ship he was captaining from South America. He is forced to give a lift to a British governess, Ruth Elton, both Ryland and his first mate, Vosper, fall for Ruth. Ryland proposes to Ruth but when she turns down his offer he tries to rape her, there is a subplot about the dissatisfaction of the ships crew with the supply of potatoes. The potatoes are dumped overboard and Ryland is determined to find out who is responsible and it turns out this was done by Ike the bosun, who later dies at sea. Passage Home at the Internet Movie Database Passage Home at Britmovie
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Peter Finch
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Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English-born Australian actor. He was the first of two persons to win a posthumous Academy Award in a category, and coincidentally also the first of the two Australian actors to have done so, the other being Heath Ledger. Finch was born as Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch in London to Alicia Gladys Fisher, at the time, Alicia was married to George Finch. George Finch was born in New South Wales, Australia, but was educated in Paris and he was a research chemist when he moved to Britain in 1912 and later served during the First World War with the Royal Army Ordnance Depot and the Royal Field Artillery. In 1915, at Portsmouth, Hampshire, George married Alicia Fisher, however, George Finch was not Peter Finchs biological father. Alicia Finch married Jock Campbell in 1922, George gained custody of Peter and he was taken from his mother and brought up by his paternal grandmother Laura Finch in Vaucresson, France. In 1925 Laura took Peter with her to Adyar, a community near Madras, India, for a number of months. Undoubtedly as a result of his contact with Buddhism Finch always claimed to be a Buddhist. He is reported to have said, I think a man dying on a cross is a symbol for a religion. And I think a man sitting under a bo tree and becoming enlightened is a beautiful one, in 1926 he was sent to Australia to live with his great-uncle Edward Herbert Finch at Greenwich Point in Sydney. He attended the school until 1929, then North Sydney Intermediate High School for three years. A school friend was RAF pilot and author Paul Brickhill, after graduating, Finch went to work as a copy boy for the Sydney Sun and began writing. However he was interested in acting, and in late 1933 appeared in a play, Caprice. In 1934-35 he appeared in a number of productions for Doris Fitton at the Savoy Theatre and he also worked as a sideshow spruiker at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, in vaudeville with Joe Cody and as a foil to American comedian Bert le Blanc. At age 19 Finch toured Australia with George Sorlies travelling troupe and he did radio acting work with Hugh Denisons BSA Players. He came to the attention of Australian Broadcasting Commission radio drama producer Lawrence H. Cecil and he was Chris in the Childrens Session and the first Muddle-Headed Wombat. He later starred with Neva Carr Glyn in a popular series by Max Afford as husband-and-wife detectives Jeffery. Finchs first screen performance was in the film, The Magic Shoes, an adaptation of the Cinderella fairy tale
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Helen of Troy
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In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, or simply Helen, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was a sister of Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra. In Greek myths, she was considered the most beautiful woman in the world, by marriage she was Queen of Laconia, a province within Homeric Greece, the wife of King Menelaus. Her abduction by Prince Paris of Troy brought about the Trojan War, elements of her putative biography come from classical authors such as Aristophanes, Cicero, Euripides and Homer. In her youth, she was abducted by Theseus, a competition between her suitors for her hand in marriage sees Menelaus emerge victorious. An oath sworn beforehand by all the suitors requires them to military assistance in the case of her abduction. When she marries Menelaus she is very young, whether her subsequent involvement with Paris is an abduction or a seduction is ambiguous. The legends recounting Helens fate in Troy are contradictory, Homer depicts her as a wistful figure, even a sorrowful one, who comes to regret her choice and wishes to be reunited with Menelaus. Other accounts have a treacherous Helen who simulates Bacchic rites and rejoices in the carnage, ultimately, Paris was killed in action, and in Homers account Helen was reunited with Menelaus, though other versions of the legend recount her ascending to Olympus instead. A cult associated with her developed in Hellenistic Laconia, both at Sparta and elsewhere, at Therapne she shared a shrine with Menelaus and she was also worshiped in Attica and on Rhodes. Her beauty inspired artists of all time to represent her, frequently as the personification of ideal beauty, Christopher Marlowes lines from his tragedy Doctor Faustus are frequently cited, Was this the face that launchd a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium. However, in the play this meeting and the ensuing temptation are not unambiguously positive, closely preceding death, images of her start appearing in the 7th century BC. In classical Greece, her abduction by—or elopement with—Paris was a popular motif, in medieval illustrations, this event was frequently portrayed as a seduction, whereas in Renaissance painting it is usually depicted as a rape by Paris. The fact that rape and kidnapping were interchangeable terms lends additional ambiguity to the story, the etymology of Helens name continues to be a problem for scholars. Georg Curtius related Helen to the moon, Émile Boisacq considered Ἑλένη to derive from the noun ἑλένη meaning torch. It has also suggested that the λ of Ἑλένη arose from an original ν. Linda Lee Clader, however, says none of the above suggestions offers much satisfaction. Inversely, others have connected this etymology to a hypothetical proto-indo-european sun goddess, in particular, her marriage myth may be connected to a broader indo-european marriage drama of the sun goddess, and she is related to the divine twins, just as many of these goddesses are. The origins of Helens myth date back to the Mycenaean age, the first record of her name appears in the poems of Homer, but scholars assume that such myths invented or received by the Mycenaean Greeks made their way to Homer
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Jean Giraudoux
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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II and his work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudouxs dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal, Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport. Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and, upon graduation, after his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and he married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing. He first achieved success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin. An ongoing collaboration with actor and theater director Louis Jouvet, beginning in 1928 with Jouvets radical streamlining of Siegfried for the stage, but it is his plays that gained him international renown. He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry. Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal and he is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. Giraudouxs name is graffitied on a Parisian wall in François Truffauts 1959 film The 400 Blows as a reference to the writer, famous quotes by Giraudoux include Only the mediocre are always at their best. Another quote often misattributed to Giraudoux is, The secret of success is sincerity, once you can fake that youve got it made. A version of the saying was ascribed to Giraudoux in Murphy’s Law Book Two by Arthur Bloch published in 1980, but actor George Burns also put it in his own 1980 memoir. The joke has been traced to a 1962 newspaper column by Leonard Lyons, in which actress Celeste Holm quotes an unnamed actor saying, that’s the thing in the theater today. Honesty… and just as soon as I can learn to fake that, Giraudoux, Jean, Three Plays, Translated by Christopher Fry. 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Giraudoux, Jean, Four Plays, Adapted by Maurice Valency. New York, Hill and Wang, Inc, cohen, Robert, Giraudoux, Three Faces of Destiny, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ISBN 0-226-11248-9. Fletcher, John, Forces in Modern French Drama, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, fowlie, Wallace, Dionysus in Paris, A Guide to Contemporary French Theater, Meridian Books, Inc, New York, ISBN 0-452-00092-0. Grossvogel, David I. 20th Century French Drama, Columbia University Press, inskip, Donald, Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, Oxford University Press, New York
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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry with the title Tiger at the Gates, the play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The play takes place the day before the outbreak of the Trojan War inside the gates of the city of Troy and it follows the struggle of the disillusioned Trojan military commander Hector, supported by the women of Troy, as he tries to avoid war with the Greeks. Hectors wife Andromache is pregnant, and this reinforces his desire for peace, along with his worldly-wise mother Hecuba, Hector leads the anti-war argument and tries to persuade his brother Paris to return Pariss beautiful but vapid captive Helen to Greece. Giraudoux presents Helen as not only an object of desire, and she claims that she can see the future by seeing what is coloured in her mind, and she sees war. For Hector, Helen means only war and destruction, but for the other Trojan men, led by the poet Demokos, she represents an opportunity for glory, and they are eager to have others fight a war in her name. La guerre de Troie naura pas lieu was translated into English as Tiger at the Gates by Christopher Fry, in The Drama of Jean Giraudoux, in 1956 this production was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. It also won the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Play, adapted by William Bast, Tiger at the Gates was an ITV Play of the Week in Britain, airing 25 October 1960. A Broadway revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1968, starring Philip Bosco as Hector, list of plays with anti-war themes Tiger at the Gates at the Internet Broadway Database La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu
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The Third Secret (film)
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The Third Secret is a 1964 British drama film directed by Charles Crichton. The screenplay by Robert L. Joseph focuses on an American newscaster who investigates the death of his psychoanalyst. According to the film there are three kinds of secrets, the First Secret you keep from others, the Second Secret you keep from yourself, and the Third Secret is the truth. Prominent London psychoanalyst Dr. Leo Whitset is discovered injured from a wound in his home by his housekeeper. The dead mans fourteen-year-old daughter Catherine is certain he was murdered, Catherine provides Alex with the names of three other patients. Sir Frederick Belline is a judge, Alfred Price-Gorham runs a prestigious art gallery with his assistant Miss Humphries. As Alex investigates their backgrounds, he discovers each of the three, like himself, harbours a secret known only by the murdered man, hoping to find more clues, Alex goes to the doctors country home to search his files. There he learns Catherine was under her fathers care, and when he confronts her she admits she killed the doctor when he threatened to send her to an institution to be treated for schizophrenia. While re-enacting the crime, Catherine stabs Alex and consequently is confined to a psychiatric hospital, recovered from his wound, Alex visits her and promises to stay in touch. The Third Secret the doctor had hidden from himself was the seriousness of his daughters illness, for in probing Freudian motivations and behavior to solve a crime, the picture obliquely strings out like a strand of loose spaghetti. He added, uncoils and meanders so deviously and pretentiously, the music, telegraphing dire things to come, is an atonal teaser. He concluded, presses so hard for conversational effect and mood that simple suspense occurs only toward the end, the denouement is a good, logical shocker – unsurprising if you study the smoothest talker of the lot. Variety called the film an engrossing, if not altogether convincing, franklin is particularly good, however, as the troubled young girl. The film was released on DVD in Region 1 on 22 May 2007 and it is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks and subtitles in English and Spanish. Bonus features include the trailer, a stills gallery. The Third Secret at the Internet Movie Database
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The Hill (film)
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The Hill is a 1965 film directed by Sidney Lumet, set in a British army prison in North Africa in the Second World War. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, the arrival of five new prisoners slowly leads to a clash with the camp authorities. One new NCO guard who has also just arrived employs excessive punishments, Roberts openly scorns Williamss brutality and serves as challenge to his authority. The RSM is a soldier who sees his vital task as breaking down failed soldiers, then building them back up again, in his words. Staff Sergeant Williams is new to the prison, and his ambition is matched only by his treatment of the prisoners. And what are you supposed to be, Roberts asks him when he is accused of cowardice in battle, a brave man in a permanent base job. The RSM seems to agree, in another scene, he mentions the fact that the Germans were bombing the UK just as Williams was volunteering for prison duty in Africa. Staff Sergeant Harris is the conscience of the prison who sympathises with the men, too closely, the officers, both the CO and the Medical Officer, take their duties casually and, as Roberts points out, everyone is doing time here, even the screws. In the finale, the camps Medical Officer and Staff Sergeant Harris decide to report the abuses at the camp, the film was based on a screenplay by Ray Rigby, who wrote for TV and had spent time in military prison. Movie rights were bought by Seven Arts Productions who had a deal with MGM. Producer Kenneth Hyman arranged for Rigbys script to be rewritten by other people but when Sidney Lumet came on board as director and he and Rigby did cut out around 100 pages of material before filming. There really isnt a lot of story, said Lumet and its all character - a group of men, prisoners and jailers alike, driven by the same motive force, fear. Sean Connery agreed to play the lead because it represented such a change of pace from James Bond and it is only because of my reputation as Bond that the backers put up the money for The Hill, he said. Lumet says he told Connery before filming began that, Im going to make demands of you, physically and emotionally. The result is beyond my hopes and he is real and tough and not at all smooth or nice. In a way hes a heavy but the real heavy is the Army, filming took place in Almeria, Spain starting 8 September 1964. An old Spanish fort in Málaga was used for the prison, the Hill did not perform well in movie theatres, although it received excellent reviews. Ray Rigby published a novel of the story in 1965, the Hill at the Internet Movie Database The Hill at Rotten Tomatoes The Hill at the TCM Movie Database The Hill at AllMovie The Hill at the American Film Institute Catalog
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James Bond
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The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. The latest novel is Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, published in September 2015, additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character has also adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games. As of 2017, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series, the most recent Bond film, Spectre, stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond, he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. In 2015, the franchise was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion, the Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bonds cars, his guns, the films are also noted for Bonds relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as Bond girls. Ian Fleming created the character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is known by his number,007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway. Aside from Flemings brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bonds make up, including Conrad OBrien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill Biffy Dunderdale. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. He further explained that, When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be a dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened. When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, is the dullest name I ever heard. On another occasion, Fleming said, I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting, like Peregrine Carruthers. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is certainly good-looking. Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way and that black hair falling down over the right eyebrow
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You Only Live Twice (film)
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You Only Live Twice is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The films screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Flemings 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Flemings plot, using only a few characters, in the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld, who was previously an unseen character. SPECTRE is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be the Peoples Republic of China, during the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond. But after a hiatus, he returned in 1971s Diamonds Are Forever and later 1983s non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who directed the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me. You Only Live Twice was a success, receiving positive reviews. An American NASA spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spacecraft, the US suspect it to be the work of the Soviets, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond is sent to Tokyo after faking his own death in Hong Kong and being buried at sea from the HMS Tenby, upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki, assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka while watching sumo. Aki introduces Bond to local MI6 operative Dikko Henderson, Henderson claims to have critical evidence about the rogue craft, but is killed before he can elaborate. Bond chases and kills the assailant, taking the assailants clothing as a disguise and escapes in the getaway car, once there, Bond subdues the driver and breaks into the office safe of president Mr. Osato. After stealing documents, Bond is pursued by armed security, but is rescued by Aki, Bond chases her, but falls down a trap door leading to Tanakas office. The stolen documents are examined and found to include a photograph of the cargo ship Ning-Po with a message saying the tourist who took the photo was killed as a security precaution. Bond goes to Osato Chemicals to meet Mr. Osato himself, Osato humours Bond but, after their meeting, orders his secretary, Helga Brandt, to have him killed. Outside the building, assassins open fire on Bond before Aki rescues him again, Bond and Aki drive to Kobe, where the Ning-Po is docked. They investigate the companys facilities and discover that the ship was delivering elements for rocket fuel. They are discovered, but Bond eludes the henchmen until Aki gets away, however and he wakes, tied up in SPECTRE operative Helga Brandts cabin on the Ning-Po
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Charlton Heston
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Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years and he played Moses in the epic film, The Ten Commandments, for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He also starred in Touch of Evil with Orson Welles, Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid and he also starred in the films The Greatest Show on Earth, Secret of the Incas, and The Big Country. A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a political action committee. Hestons most famous role in politics came as the president of the National Rifle Association. After being diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2003, he retired from acting and the NRA presidency. Heston died on April 5,2008, aged 84, from pneumonia, Charlton Heston was born on October 4,1923, to Russell Whitford Carter, a sawmill operator and Lilla. Many sources indicate he was born in Evanston, Illinois, Hestons autobiography, however, and some other sources, place his birth in No Mans Land, Illinois, which usually refers to a then-unincorporated area now part of Wilmette, a wealthy Chicago suburb. Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood, Heston was partially of Scottish descent, including from the Clan Fraser, but the majority of his ancestry was English. His earliest immigrant ancestors arrived in America from England in the 1600s and his maternal great-grandparents, William Charlton and Mary Drysdale Charlton, were English. They emigrated to Canada, where his grandmother, Marian Emily Charlton, was born in 1872, in his autobiography, Heston refers to his father participating in his familys construction business. When Heston was an infant, his fathers work moved the family to St. Helen and it was a rural, heavily forested part of the state, and Heston lived an isolated yet idyllic existence, spending much time hunting and fishing in the backwoods of the area. When Heston was 10 years old, his parents divorced, shortly thereafter, his mother remarried and the new family moved back to Wilmette. Heston attended New Trier High School and he recalled living there, All kids play pretend games, but I did it more than most. Even when we moved to Chicago, I was more or less a loner and we lived in a North Shore suburb, where I was a skinny hick from the woods, and all the other kids seemed to be rich and know about girls. Contradictions on paper and in an interview surround when Charlton became Hestons first name, the 1930 United States Census record for Richfield, Michigan, in Roscommon County, shows his name as being Charlton J. Carter at age six. Later accounts by sources and movie studio biographies say he was born John Charles Carter, interestingly, Charlton was his maternal grandmother Marians maiden name, not his mother Lillas. This is contrary to how 20th century references read and what Heston said, when Hestons maternal grandmother and his true maternal grandfather Charles Baines separated or divorced in the early 1900s, Marian Baines married William Henry Lawton in 1907
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
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The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 American film directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. The film was based on Irving Stones biographical novel of the same name. This film deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II during the painting of the Sistine Chapels ceiling and it also features a soundtrack co-written by prolific composers Alex North and Jerry Goldsmith. The film was shot in Todd-AO and Cinemascope versions, the Todd-AO version was used for the DVD release because of its superior picture quality. Michelangelo Buonarroti is a sculptor of the Republic of Florence in the early 16th century. When Pope Julius II commissions him to paint the Sistine Chapel, nonetheless, he is forced into taking the job. During the initial attempt, Michelangelo is discontent with the results and he flees to Carrara and then into the mountains, where he finds inspiration from nature. Michelangelo returns and is allowed to paint the vault in a variety of newly designed biblical scenes. The work proceeds nonstop, even with mass in session, as months turn to years, Michelangelos work is threatened when he collapses due to fatigue. He is nursed back to health by Contessina de Medici, daughter of his old friend Lorenzo de Medici, after recovering, Michelangelo returns to work after learning he is at risk of being replaced by Raphael. Meanwhile, the Papal States are threatened during the War of the League of Cambrai, preparing for battle and having reached the limits of his patience, the Pope terminates Michelangelos contract. Raphael, impressed with the work in progress, asks Michelangelo to show humility, when the injured and weakened Pope returns, Michelangelo pleads for him to restore the patronage. Though the Pope believes an invasion of Rome is inevitable, he raises the money needed to work on the ceiling. One night, Michelangelo finds the ailing Pope inspecting the portrait of God in The Creation of Adam and he then collapses and becomes bedridden. Though everyone assumes that the Pope will die, Michelangelo goads him into having the will to live, the tide of war turns in favor of the Papal States, as allies pledge to assist the Pope. A mass is held in which the congregation is shown the completed ceiling, after the ceremony, Michelangelo asks to begin carving the Popes tomb. Realizing he has a time to live, the Pope agrees. Together, the men admire the masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel, philip Dunne wrote the screenplay for the film in 1959, around the time the original book by Irving Stone was published
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Paul Newman
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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor. Newmans other films include The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Butch Cassidy, The Sting, and The Verdict. Despite being colorblind, Newman won several championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing. He was a co-founder of Newmans Own, a company from which he donated all post-tax profits. As of 2016, these donations have totaled over US$460 million and he was also a co-founder of Safe Water Network, a nonprofit that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for those in need. In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Childrens Network, a family of summer camps. Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the son of Theresa and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Newmans father was Jewish, and was the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, immigrants from Hungary, Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying its more of a challenge. Newmans mother worked in his fathers store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur. Newman showed an early interest in the theater, his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater, initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner, qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He later flew as a gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the USS Bunker Hill along with other replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, the pilot of his aircraft had an ear infection which kept their plane grounded. The rest of their squadron flew to the Bunker Hill, days later, a kamikaze attack on the vessel killed a number of service members, including the other members of his unit. After the war, Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, shortly after earning his degree, he joined several summer stock companies, most notably the Belfry Players in Wisconsin and the Woodstock Players in Illinois. He toured with them for three months and developed his talents as a part of Woodstock Players and he later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year, before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
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Hombre (film)
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Newmans amount of dialogue in the film is minimal and much of the role is conveyed through mannerism and action. This was the sixth and final time Ritt directed Newman, they had worked together on The Long Hot Summer, Paris Blues, Hemingways Adventures of a Young Man, Hud. In late 19th-century Arizona, an Apache-raised white man, John Russell, three others ride with them, Indian agent Professor Alexander Favor, his aristocratic wife Audra and the crude Cicero Grimes. Upon discovering that John Russell is of Apache background, Professor Favor requests that Russell ride up top with driver Henry Mendez. The stagecoach is robbed by a led by Grimes, who knew that Dr. Favor had been carrying money that he stole from the very Apaches whom Russell grew up with. Grimes rides off, taking Mrs. Favor as a hostage, Russell shoots two of the outlaws—one of whom is Jessies former lover, sheriff-gone-bad Frank—who have the stolen money in their saddle bags. He insists that Dr. Favor give the money to him. The bigots he rode with now appeal to Russell to lead them to safety, after Russell scouts ahead, Dr. Favor disarms Mendez. Russell returns as Favor is about to leave with the money and supplies, Russells instincts to protect the group clash with their morality and desire to save the Favors, especially when Grimes and his remaining gang offer to trade Mrs. Favor for the money. Their pity for Mrs. Favors life eventually outweighs the knowledge that Grimes is using her to bait a trap, Russell gives the money to Billy Lee and asks him to take it back to the Indians from whom it was stolen. Russell descends from the hideout with saddle bags that he pretends are full of the money, while Billy Lee stays in the hideout. In the ensuing firefight, although Russell is able to kill Grimes, he, as his last words, the Mexican outlaw asks What was his name. Paul Newman as John Russell Fredric March as Dr. Racism against Indians, and their exploitation, are depicted. The movie was filmed on location in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, at the Helvetia Mine in Pima County, Arizona, at Old Tucson, Arizona, stage station scenes filmed at Jean Dry Lake, Las Vegas, Nevada. The film earned $6.5 million in rentals in North America, most reviews of the film are positive. Critics praise the performance of Newman and the writing of Elmore Leonard, film critic Roger Ebert, in a 1967 review, notes, The performances are uniformly excellent. Ritt directs with a hand, and the dialog by Irving Ravetch. Its intelligent, and has a certain grace as well, last year, Richard Brooks The Professionals was the best-directed film out of Hollywood, and this year it looks as if the honors may rest with Martin Ritt and Hombre
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The Wicker Man
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The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film written by Anthony Shaffer and directed by Robin Hardy. The film stars Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, the story, inspired by David Pinners 1967 novel Ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity, the Wicker Man is generally well-regarded by critics. Film magazine Cinefantastique described it as The Citizen Kane of horror movies, in 2013, a copy of the original U. S. theatrical version was digitally restored and released. In 1989, Shaffer wrote a treatment for The Loathsome Lambton Worm. Hardy had no interest in the project, and it was never produced, in 2006, an ill-received American remake was released, from which Hardy and others involved with the original have dissociated themselves. In 2011, a sequel entitled The Wicker Tree was released to mixed reviews. This film was directed by Hardy, and featured Lee in a cameo appearance. Hardy was working on his film, The Wrath of the Gods. Sergeant Howie journeys to the remote Hebridean island Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a girl, Rowan Morrison. Howie, a devout Christian, is disturbed to find the islanders paying homage to the pagan Celtic gods of their ancestors, the Islanders, including Rowans mother, appear to be attempting to thwart his investigation by claiming that Rowan never existed. While staying at the Green Man Inn, Howie notices a series of photographs celebrating the annual harvest, the photograph of the most recent celebration is suspiciously missing, the landlord tells him it was broken. The landlords beautiful daughter, Willow, attempts to seduce Howie, after seeing Rowans burial plot, Howie meets the islands leader, Lord Summerisle, grandson of a Victorian agronomist, to obtain permission for an exhumation. Over the next generations, the islands inhabitants fully embraced the pagan religion. Howie finds the missing harvest photograph, showing Rowan standing amidst empty boxes and his research reveals that when there is a poor harvest, the islanders make a human sacrifice to ensure that the next will be bountiful. He comes to the conclusion that Rowan is alive and has chosen for sacrifice. During the May Day celebration, Howie knocks out and ties up the innkeeper so he can steal his costume and mask, when it seems the villagers are about to sacrifice Rowan, he cuts her free and flees with her into a cave. On exiting it, they are intercepted by the islanders, to whom Rowan happily returns, Lord Summerisle tells Howie that Rowan is not the intended sacrifice — Howie himself is
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Mossman, Queensland
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Mossman is a town and a locality in Far North Queensland, Australia, on the Mossman River. It is within the government area of Shire of Douglas. In the 2011 census, Mossman had a population of 1,732 people, Mossman is located on the Captain Cook Highway 75 kilometres north of the regional city of Cairns, and 15 kilometres east of the Mount Carbine Tableland. Mossman Gorge, an attraction within Daintree National Park, is located west of town. The district was known as Mossman River after the river which flows through it. The Mossman River, in turn, was named by the explorer George Dalrymple on 6 December 1873 after Hugh Mosman who discovered gold in Charters Towers. Dalrymple wrote I named this river the Mossman River, after Mossman, the town was also known for a brief time as Hartsville after Daniel Hart, an early settler. Later the name was simplified to Mossman, Mossman River Post Office opened by 1895 and was renamed Mossman in 1899. Mossman State School opened in January 1898 under head teacher Thomas Garland, the establishment of the sugar mill at Mossman formed the nucleus of the town, which grew at the expense of Port Douglas. The district was served by two separate 2-foot gauge tramway systems, both at one time handled passengers and general goods, as well as sugar cane. Mossman district owes its present prosperity to these tramways which pioneered the first reasonable transport in the neighbourhood, during World War II, Mossman was attacked in a Japanese air raid on 31 July 1942. A single flying boat dropped a bomb fell near a house, Mossman Central Mill Company Limited started life as a grower owned co-operative sugar mill back in 1894. In 1897, Mrs Annie Rose fed the first sugarcane into the mill, in 1906, Mossman Mill became the first Queensland mill to crush over 100,000 tonnes of cane. That season lasted just under 8 months, extending from June 1906 to late January 1907, initially, sugar was shipped from Port Douglas, however road transport eventually came to the forefront and became the preferred mode of transport for sugar to the bulk sugar terminal in Cairns. Prince pioneered the use of computers for cane payment accounting and, in 1971, prior to 2008, Mossman was the seat of the Shire of Douglas. In 2008, the Shire of Douglas was amalgamated into the Cairns Region, in 2014, the Shire of Douglas was de-amalgamated from Cairns Region and reinstated as Shire of Douglas. A young 9 year old Jermaine Ryan broke the record for the fastest 9 year old 100m track. Jove Thompson an 11 year who has broken the record for catching the worlds biggest jungle perch and also the fastest time for a 100m, 200m and 800m track
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Centenary Medal
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The Centenary Medal is an award created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the Centenary of Federation of Australia and it was also awarded to centenarians, Australian citizens born on or before 31 December 1901 who lived to celebrate the centenary of federation on 1 January 2001. Nominations were assessed by a panel chaired by Professor Geoffrey Blainey, the obverse of the medal features a seven-pointed Commonwealth Star representing the six Australian states, with the seventh point representing Australias territories. At the centre of the star is an Indigenous styling of Aboriginal traditions at the heart of the continent, around the rim are 100 dots depicting 100 years of federation. The reverse features a seven pointed star, with the words For Contribution Made to Australian Society around the rim, the colours in the ribbon are crimson, which represents federation, and blue and gold for the beginning of the 21st Century. The seven gold and red lines signify the states pathways to federation, the bar and ribbon are the same so that a recipient can be identified as such
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Queensland University of Technology
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The Queensland University of Technology, abbreviated as QUT, is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on three campuses in the Brisbane area, Gardens Point, Kelvin Grove, and Caboolture, QUT is a member of the Australian Technology Network of universities. The university had a total of 4,700 Full-time equivalent staff members in 2014, Queensland University of Technology has a history that dates back to 1849 when the Brisbane School of Arts was established. Queensland Institute of Technology succeeded the Central Technical College and was formed in 1965, as a result, QIT was granted university status and was operational as Queensland University of Technology from January 1989 onwards. Later, the Brisbane College of Advanced Education had joined with QUT in 1990, the Gardens Point campus was once solely occupied by the 19th Century building, the former Government House of Queensland. In 1909, during the relocation of the Governors residence, Old Government House, the first university on the site was the University of Queensland which was moved to St Lucia in 1945, where it remains today. QUT has three campuses, each is a micro-community, with academic, recreational, and support facilities. Gardens Point campus is located in Brisbane’s city centre, beside the Brisbane River and adjacent to the City Botanic Gardens, at the centre of the campus is the Old Government House which was built in 1862 and re-opened in 2009. The faculties of Business, Law, and Science and Engineering are based at this campus, Gardens Cultural Precinct Gardens Point campus hosts the Gardens Cultural Precinct, comprising the Gardens Theatre and QUT Art Museum, which offer a full theatre and exhibition program. The QUT Art Museum houses the art collection, which focuses on contemporary Australian art, including painting, sculpture, decorative art. The Museum opened in 2000 and attracted about 350,000 people in its first decade of operations, the building is a 1930s neo-classical revivalist building, and the QUT Art Museum was designed by Peddle Thorpe Architects, Brisbane. The Gardens Theatre features professional theatre, childrens theatre, and student showcases, the Gardens Point Precinct also comprises a cafe, bar, and free parking. The Gardens Theatre is a venue, formerly known as the Basil Jones Theatre. It was reopened as the Gardens Theatre in 1999 by the then Premier of Queensland and it provides space for QUT productions and visiting performers, and is the only theatre complex in Brisbanes central business district. Science and Engineering Centre The Science and Engineering Centre was completed in November 2012 and it brings together teaching and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. QUT has received gifts, and federal government funding to support the project’s $230 million budget. Kelvin Grove campus hosts the faculties of Creative Industries, Education, and Health as well as the QUT International College, Kelvin Grove campus is connected to the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, a development comprising private residences, education, retail, health, and business in one precinct. QUT Kelvin Grove Health Clinics offer services for free or low-cost to staff, students, the Caboolture campus, located 45 kilometres north of Brisbane, shares its campus with the Brisbane North Institute of TAFE
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
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The film is based on three of C. S. Foresters Horatio Hornblower novels, The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours. Forester is credited with the adaptation, as a result. In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself El Supremo, in his rebellion against Spain, as Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush, War breeds strange allies. Upon his arrival, Hornblower is told that a larger, much more powerful Spanish warship, when it anchors nearby, Hornblower and his crew board and capture it in a surprise nighttime attack. He then reluctantly hands the ship over to Alvarado to appease the madman, later, he encounters a small Spanish vessel and learns that Spain has switched sides, so the Lydia will have to attack the Natividad again. Two passengers transfer to the Lydia, Lady Barbara Wellesley and her maid, as Lady Barbara is the sister of the Duke of Wellington, Hornblower is in no position to refuse her request for passage to England. When she later falls ill, Hornblower nurses her back to health. On the voyage back to England, they fall in love, however, when she makes advances, Hornblower informs her he is married. After arriving home, Hornblower learns that his wife has died in childbirth and he is given command of the Sutherland, a 74-gun ship of the line captured from the French, and is assigned to a squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Leighton, Lady Barbaras new husband. The squadrons mission is to enforce the British blockade against Napoleonic France. At a conference on Leightons flagship, Hornblower learns that four French ships of the line have broken the blockade, Leighton assumes they will make for the Mediterranean, but Hornblower suggests that they mean to support Napoleons campaign on the Iberian Peninsula. Leighton decides to cover both possibilities by detaching one ship to patrol the French coast, when he learns that Hornblowers Sutherland is best suited for this task, having the shallowest draught, he becomes suspicious that Hornblower is after glory and prize money. Leighton therefore expressly forbids Hornblower from taking any independent action if he sights the French, Hornblowers French-built ship is subsequently mistaken for a friendly vessel by a small French brig, which flies the enemys recognition signal for the day. After capturing the vessel, Hornblower learns from interrogating its captain that he was transporting army supplies to the four warships for use in Spain, rather than return to the squadron, Hornblower sends the brig back with a prize crew and the news. He enters the harbour where the French ships are anchored and guarded by a well-armed fort. By flying a French flag and the signal and taking advantage of the appearance of his ships French design. His gun crews dismast all four ships before French cannon fire forces the British to abandon the Sutherland
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Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
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Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British drama film directed by John Huston, produced by John and James Woolf for their Romulus Films company and released by United Artists. The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the citys bohemian sub-culture in and around the burlesque palace, the screenplay is by Huston, based on the novel by Pierre La Mure. The cinematography was by Oswald Morris and this movie was screened at Venice Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion. In 1890 Paris, as crowds pour into the Moulin Rouge nightclub, young artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec finishes a bottle of cognac, at closing time, Henri waits for the crowds to disperse before standing to reveal his four-foot six-inch body. As he walks to his Montmartre apartment, he recalls the events led to his disfigurement. It is learned Lautrec falls down a flight of stairs, where his legs fail to heal due to a genetic weakness resulting from his parents being first cousins. His legs stunted and pained, Henri loses himself in his art, while his father leaves his mother, Henri is a bright, happy child, revered by his father, the Count de Toulouse-Lautrec. As a young adult he proposes to the woman he loves, back in the present, street walker Marie Charlet begs Henri to rescue her from police sergeant Patou. Henri wards off the policeman by pretending to be her guardian, there, she addresses his small stature, and although he is at first angry, he allows her to stay out of his desperate loneliness and is charmed when she claims not to care about his legs. Within days, he is buying her gifts and singing as he paints, until Marie takes his money, Henri waits in agony for her return, but when she finally does he tells her to leave at once. Realizing he loves her, Marie vows to stay and love him back, though she continues to fight petulantly with him, he tells himself her crassness stems from her poverty and lets her stay. During one fight Marie tells Henri he can never attract a real woman, by morning, she begs him to take her back, but he refuses. He begins drinking and does not stop until his landlady calls his mother, Henri searches Maries working-class neighborhood, finally discovering her at a café, where she drunkenly reveals she stayed with him only to procure money for her boyfriend. When she adds that his touch made her sick, Henri returns to his apartment, as he sits waiting to die, he is suddenly inspired to finish his Moulin Rouge poster, and, brush in hand, distractedly turns the vents off again. The next day, Henri brings the poster to the dance hall, Henri works for days at the lithographers, blending his own inks to perfect the vivid colors. When he finishes the poster, which shows a woman dancing with her legs exposed, it becomes an instant sensation and his father denounces Henri for the pornographic work. Over the next ten years, Henri records Parisian life in countless brilliant paintings, by 1900, he is famous but still terribly lonely. One day, he sees Myriamme Hyam standing at the edge of Pont Alexandre III over the Seine River, thinking she may jump, he stops to talk to her
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The Woman for Joe
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The Woman for Joe is a 1955 British drama film starring Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi and David Kossoff. The owner of a sideshow and his prize attraction become romantically involved with the same woman. The film was made at Pinewood Studios, midget George Wilson pulls strings to obtain a job in the circus for Mary, a Hungarian lady hes fallen madly in love with. Mary is happy to have the job, singing to the lions, the jealousy and tensions caused affect the running of the circus. What could have been an exercise in tawdriness is redeemed by the colorful camerawork of Georges Perinal, the Woman for Joe at the Internet Movie Database
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The Passionate Stranger
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The Passionate Stranger is a 1957 British drama film, directed by Muriel Box and starring Margaret Leighton and Ralph Richardson. It uses the film within a device, with the real part of the plot shot in black-and-white. The interior scenes were shot at Shepperton Studios, with filming taking place at Chilworth. Box stated that the film was intended to debunk the sentimental novel. a mild satire on romance as opposed to reality, and the unhappy consequences of confusing the two. Judith Wynter is a novelist who pens torrid escapist romantic fiction for the womens market, although in real life she is a respectable, unassuming woman. She uses people she knows and situations she encounters as the raw material for her flights of fancy. The husband dismisses the chauffeur, who vows revenge, and matters escalate melodramatically towards a deadly conclusion, the Wynters new chauffeur Carlo stumbles on the manuscript, reads it, and jumps to the conclusion that it is wish fulfilment on Judiths part. Assuming that she harbours a repressed passion for him, he trying to signal to her that he knows. To Judiths bewilderment and horror, he starts to attempt to recreate situations and conversations from the novel, feeling extremely uncomfortable, she brushes off his attentions and he becomes confused and angry. Meanwhile, Roger, fully aware of the situation, revels in the amusement of his wifes excruciating embarrassment, allmovie described the film as something of a comic precursor to The French Lieutenants Woman, while Sky Movies noted, Ralph Richardson delivers more than the script can reasonably expect. The Passionate Stranger at the Internet Movie Database The Passionate Stranger at the British Film Institutes Film and TV Database The Passionate Stranger at AllMovie
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The Admirable Crichton (1957 film)
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The Admirable Crichton is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, and Sally Ann Howes. The film was based on J. M. Barries 1902 stage comedy of the same name, in 1905 William Crichton is the efficient butler in the London household of the Earl of Loam and his family. Crichton knows his place in the highly class-conscious English society, the Earl insists that all men are equal, and to prove it, he orders his daughters to treat the staff as guests during an uncomfortable afternoon tea. Lady Brocklehurst arrives and strongly disapproves of the arrangement, as does Crichton, when the yachts motors explode during a storm, all are forced to abandon ship. By the time Crichton rescues the still sleeping tweeny maid Eliza and they jump into the water and are picked up by the wrong boat, the one reserved for the upper class. Crichton, Eliza, the Earl, his daughters Mary, Catherine and Agatha, clergyman John Treherne, the aristocrats prove to be helpless in their strange new surroundings. It is up to Crichton to start a fire, provide shelter, when the abandoned yacht appears and drifts into an offshore rock formation, Crichton swims out to salvage what he can. Upon his return, however, the others order him to pick up unnecessary luxuries rather than vital supplies on his next trip and he reluctantly complies, but at dinner, he insists he must take charge. Eliza throws in her lot with Crichton, and the two depart, the Earl and his party soon realise that they cannot do without Crichton and capitulate, Mary being the sole holdout. She is eventually forced to give in as well, after two years, the social order has been completely upended, Crichton, now affectionately known as the Guv, is in charge, while his former betters are his servants. In fact, the aristocrats have toughened up admirably and are content with their lot. Romantically, however, the situation is in disarray, as everyone waits to see whether Crichton will choose Mary or Tweeny, all three of the other men are smitten with Tweeny. However, just as they are exchanging wedding vows, a ship is sighted, Mary begs the others not to light a signal fire, reminding them how happy they have been on the island, but in the end, Crichton does so. When a rescue party lands, he has put on his butlers uniform and resumed his servile duties, Woolley writes a book of their experiences, one that portrays him as the saviour of the group. Lady Brocklehurst, suspecting that the work is full of lies, Crichton tells the truth, but in such a way as to conceal everything. After the Duchess leaves, he tenders his resignation, when the Earl offers financial assistance for his plan to start a business, Crichton shows him a bag of valuable pearls acquired while on the island. Mary begs him to return there with her, but Crichton tells her they cannot fight civilisation, in the end, Tweeny is ecstatic when he accepts her offer to go with him. The movie was a co production between Alexander Kordas old company and Colubmia, Lewis Gilbert said the film, Was freely adapted from the Barrie play to suit Kenny, and it was a very successful film
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The Truth About Women
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The Truth About Women is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento. When his son-in-law comes to him with a tale of an unhappy relationship. Tavistock regales him with anecdotes of found lovers and lost love. We meet in flashback the free-thinking Ambrosine Viney, an independent woman ahead of her time, and the sophisticated Louise Tiere, there are others as well, including one whom Tavistock adores and marries, only to lose her forever during childbirth. The New York Times, an erratic but basically good-natured color pacing written, directed and produced by Muriel, with Laurence Harvey heading a large, impressive cast. Visually, the picture is luscious. The five episodes that carry the well-born hero from young manhood to the spread out over beautifully tinted, lavish period. The small army of ladies engulfing the poor bloke have been dressed to kill by an expert and her meeting with Mr. Harvey, in a stranded elevator, is a gem of a scene. The last section, as Mr. Harvey almost attains happiness with a wise, unselfish nurse, movingly played by Miss Zetterling, slides appropriately into a bittersweet but lighthearted fade-out. Of the large cast, such people as Michael Denison, Derek Farr, Marius Goring, Roland Culver and Wilfred Hyde-White bolster the opulent tapestry with effective bits. As for why it should take an intelligent, red-blooded Englishman more than fifty years to discover the truth, as Mr. Harvey finally states it, we thought they learned that at Eton
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Jet Storm
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Jet Storm is a 1959 British thriller film directed and co-written by Cy Endfield. Richard Attenborough stars with Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley and Diane Cilento, the film has many of the characteristics of the later aviation disaster film genre such as Airport. Tilley threatens to blow himself up and everyone on board as an act of vengeance, when Captain Bardow and the passengers realize that he is serious, and they cannot find the bomb, they begin to panic. Some want to pressure him into revealing the location of the bomb, mulliner, a terrified passenger, attempts to kill Brock to get Tilley to not set off the bomb. Acting out of fear, Brock is killed when he smashes a window and is sucked out of the airliner, Tilley, coming to his senses when a young boy passenger soothes him, disconnects the remote control for the bomb, then commits suicide by poison. As the airliner approaches New York, the passengers realize that they will survive, the type of aircraft depicted is a Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-104. This twin-jet airliner was never flown by any airline outside the Soviet bloc, a medium-range airliner, the Tu-104 also could not have been used on transatlantic routes. In the Time Out review, John Pym saw Jet Storm as, like its later supersonic counterparts, Endfields film is naive and contrived, but not without interest as the alarmed passengers soon divide into groups, reactionary and liberal. Thanks to an outstanding cast, this film manages to limp to a landing with its thriller status intact. A star turn for Attenborough, who brings a convincing complexity to the role of bomber, notes Citations Bibliography Jet Storm at the Internet Movie Database
